Top o’ the Mornin’ to Ya!
TLDR:
Transform your inner dialogue by speaking affirmations daily, acknowledging your broken past while claiming your redeemed future.
What?
Every three months or so, I update my affirmations in these little books I keep. I journal in them daily, and on the back page, I keep my latest affirmations – some get strengthened and continue, others get replaced and updated. Today I’m sharing my beliefs and affirmations with you. My core beliefs: I am getting better every day, we are better together, and God knows better than I do. My affirmations include declaring I’m a loving, caring, Christ-like man, husband, father, and leader. I affirm I’m sexually pure, creative, attractive, abundant, and give generously. My mission statement declares I live with integrity, loving, learning, and sharing to humbly glorify God, thank Jesus, and follow the Holy Spirit. But here’s the vulnerable part – I also affirm “I am a man with a broken past and a redeemed future. I have impure thoughts, and I am worthy of success. I made terrible choices, and I am capable of creating value, and I deserve win-win.”
Why?
I share these personal affirmations because underneath all our success and achievements, many of us carry shame from who we were and the terrible choices we’ve made. That shame still peeks out its ugly head sometimes, trying to sabotage our progress. I’ve developed an interrupt phrase I’m working on lately: “That’s shame talking. I see you. You’re not in charge anymore. I’m choosing win-win and Christ.” This is my conscious mind speaking directly to my unconscious, taking back control from the shame that used to run the show. We need to speak these truths into existence with faith, out loud, not just think them quietly.
Lesson:
Daily affirmations aren’t just positive thinking – they’re a battlefield strategy against the shame and lies that try to control us from our past. When we speak our affirmations out loud, we’re literally reprogramming our unconscious mind, replacing shame’s narrative with God’s truth about who we are. The key is acknowledging both realities: yes, we have a broken past, AND we have a redeemed future. Yes, we made terrible choices, AND we’re capable of creating value. This isn’t denial – it’s the full gospel truth that we’re simultaneously sinners and saints, broken and redeemed. By reading or reciting affirmations daily, speaking them into existence with faith, we train our conscious mind to recognize and interrupt shame when it tries to take control. This practice, recommended in books like “The Miracle Morning,” becomes one of our morning savers that sets the trajectory for each day.
Apply:
Write three personal affirmations that acknowledge both your struggle and your redemption. Include one “I have/I made” statement paired with “AND I am” statement (example: “I have failed AND I am capable of success”). Add an interrupt phrase for when shame speaks up. Read these out loud every morning for the next seven days, speaking them with faith and conviction.
You be blessed!
