Priscilla Shirer, the author of Fervent: A Woman’s Battle Plan for Serious, Specific, and Strategic Prayer, asked women to tell her the ways that the enemy attacks them. She collated the responses and came up with a list of ten of Satan’s favorite strategies and recommended that we write prayers to counter his attacks.

Strategy 3 – Against Your Identity

If I were your enemy, I’d devalue your strength and magnify your insecurities until they dominate how you see yourself, disabling and disarming you from fighting back, from being free, from being who God has created you to be. I’d word hard to ensure that you never realize what God has given you so you’ll doubt the power of God within you.

PRISCILLA SHIRER

A PRAYER FOR MY IDENTITY

Heavenly Father, I praise you because I am amazingly and miraculously made. You have searched me and You know me. You know my thoughts. You know my words before I say them. You know me better than I know myself.

Lord, I truly marvel at the way you create human beings with unique aptitudes and personalities. You knitted me together in my mother’s womb through genetic recombination and other wonderful processes that are too incredible for me to grasp. Your eyes saw my unformed substance and You knew who I would become. All the days of my life were written in Your book.

Father, for years, I bought the lie that there was something wrong with me because I didn’t have the gifts of gab and gregariousness. I am awkward in social situations, too quiet to suit other people. I just couldn’t express myself as freely as extroverts. So I withdrew into my shell and felt invisible and inferior. But You saw me and You loved me just as I am, just as You created me to be.

Lord Jesus, I know I am not alone in the struggle for identity. Many people battle voices that say we are not enough. We compare ourselves to others and underestimate our own strengths and abilities.

I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough
Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up
Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low?
Remind me once again just who I am, because I need to know
-  Lauren Daigle, You Say

Lord, when I am troubled by feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt, remind me who I am. Remind me that I am a child of the Almighty God, the one true king! I have been redeemed. If You are for me, who or what can be against me? No one and nothing can separate me from Your love!

Amen

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Inspired by Psalm 139