I’ve been a self-proclaimed scaredy-cat my whole life.

I can remember all the way back to Kindergarten when our parents took a big group of us to Bragg Road – IYKYK. I refused to get out of the car for the first four miles, but eventually I got out and walked with everyone else.

And although I’ve carried this title with me for 42 years now, I think I’ve decided to flip the script.

Yes, I do get scared.

Yes, I can be a nervous-nelly.

No doubt.

But I don’t let that stop me. I still do the things. And I mean all the things.

So, if you think about it I’m actually pretty darn brave. I overcome fears on the daily. I pray through, and I press through.

Fear doesn’t stop me.

I said all of that to ask you this – what are you speaking over your life? What self-proclaimed labels are you strapping on your shoulders and carrying around with you?

Words of affirmation or defamation?

Are they God’s words? Or someone else’s?

I promise God isn’t calling you demeaning names – names that weigh you down or describe you in a negative way.

No ma’am – that’s not God.

Here are a few words from God to you:

In Ephesians 2:10 He says that you are a masterpiece created by Him to do good works.

In 1 Peter 2:9 He says that you are chosen – royal.

In Ephesians 1:4 He says you are holy.

Listen, I don’t know what script you’ve been speaking over yourself, but I’ve read the one that God is speaking over you every single day.

That’s the script.

Read that one.

Believe that one.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9