Hi, I'm Havela Kennington and this is the Havela Kennington Podcast.

I'm excited that you're joining me today and we have some things to talk about.

You may recognize me from Jesus Culture or Bethel TV or you may have done an online study,

Good Step, Radical Growth, I Do Hard Things and I hope you're signed up for our new upcoming

study Eat, Pray, Hustle.

But today we're going to jump into the topic of overcoming self-doubt.

I was not always a competent person.

I grew up in a great family.

I have a great mom and dad who gave me the gift of a great childhood, the gift of knowing

Jesus at a young age and you think sometimes one plus one equals two but that is not always

the case.

And at an early age I began to struggle with self-doubt because I struggled with my academics.

I struggled with learning disabilities and I was not good at reading and writing.

I was not good at communicating and really communicating things in school so I just assumed

I was not good at much in life.

And when the Lord began to speak to my life about being used by Him, touching the world

around me, I very much struggled with the reality that I didn't feel like I had much to offer

Him and really the world around me.

And so I had to go after self-doubt.

I had to go after the part of me that was confident that Jesus could do a lot but not

a lot through me.

And now I really could say I don't struggle with much self-doubt but it has been a 20-year

...