Good morning, everyone. And welcome back to another morning with the Masters

where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. We are

picking up in another day of our live on-purpose devotional. And then tomorrow we'll be picking

up in a new Bible app devotional plan. Thank you. I'm very excited. You ready to just

hop on in? Let's hop on in. Let's do it, you guys. Today's devotional is titled Don't

Shut Yourself Down. And the verse is Psalms 139 verse 14. It says, I praise you because

I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Do you ever make a mistake and say to yourself, I'm

so stupid. I've got to say nothing annoys me more than to hear someone say something

so terrible about themselves. Yet so many of us do exactly that. Or maybe we look at

someone else, someone we think is smarter, more attractive, or more together than we are

and say, I'll never have what he or she has. This kind of negative self-talk is so easy

to do, but it's not innocent. It can be dangerous because words are powerful and believe me

the enemy knows it. He's tricky and a liar. And he'll try to get us to believe that our

words have no power, that they don't affect our thoughts and moods and actions, but they

do. I see it all the time. If we truly believe our words have the power of life and death,

we will be careful about the way we speak not only to others, but also to ourselves. Let

me encourage you to start saying truthful and positive things about yourself. Notice I

didn't just say positive. You can give yourself a positive self-talk all day long, but still

feel insecure if it isn't authentic. Truthful talk is what will lift your shoulders up and reset

the joy on your face. You can even use Bible verses to talk to yourself. Based on Philippians

413, I can do anything with Christ's help. He strengthens me. That is positive and truthful.

Or you can use Jeremiah 2911 and say, things may be a little tough for me right now, but God knows

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