Have you ever felt that you are not ready to do a certain thing? Others believe in you and motivate you, but you still don't see yourself achieving it? Do you feel that you lack this or that before taking the step? Self-doubt is canceling your purpose.
I know people with great potential who have not activated it due to their doubts regarding themselves. They are their worst enemy. When we entertain doubts for longer than necessary, we begin to cancel God's plans for our lives, and we miss great opportunities that come our way. When God gives you a calling, it does not mean that you are ready to exercise it. It is your responsibility to prepare according to what God expects of you. God knows what He has put into you, and He knows your potential. He knows that the abilities are within you to exercise your purpose.
People fall into three categories when it comes to activate their calling. Some receive the call but do not prepare and never take a step in the right direction. Some welcome the word and work towards that call only to get to the point where they have to act and take the big step. At that point, they fill their minds with doubts that stop them in the middle of the road, while some are more daring and courageous, and even with doubts and fears, they go after the word that God deposited in them. Those who walks towards their purpose and then suddenly stop at the fork of uncertainty are those who have positioned themselves in the most dangerous place. They trusted God at one point and launched into preparation, but at the moment of truth, they hesitated and became an easy target for the enemy. John 8:44 says: The enemy is the father of lies! When you question your ability to carry out your call, you have fallen into the enemy's trap.
God was not wrong when He called you; the enemy is the one who convinces you otherwise. And holding that doubt too long can cancel your purpose. Someone always comes with more desire to achieve what God has placed in you, and they will go where you have not gone out of fear.
The enemy is an expert canceling purposes. That is his primary strategy. If he can convince you that you don't have what it takes to achieve your purpose, he has won the battle. It is normal to have doubts. It is normal to be afraid. But those who trust in God know that if God called us, he will equip us and support us. God is not wrong, He doesn’t lie. Numbers 23:19 says: God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? When we doubt the word deposited on our life, we doubt God. We make him look like a liar.
Doubting is a human reaction to uncertainty. We can question our ability of been able to achieve it. If He calls you to be a preacher, you will wonder if you are eloquent enough for others to pay attention to you. Maybe you wonder if your grammar is good enough to write etc. those fears are normal and part of the process. Only the brave ones take the big step even with fear. It is okay doubting yourself but it is never okay to doubt what God has said about you.
I know that it is not easy to get out of that vicious circle that is doubting yourself when it comes to your calling, but the price of staying there is too high. Everything I have done in obedience to that word that God placed in me, I have done with doubts and fears. My legs have trembled, and I have thought of scenarios where people make fun of me. But you know what? Doubt has failed to stop me. I believed God, and I threw myself into it despite of fear. My reward is not in what people think of me but in what God thinks of me. If to win heaven, I have to overcome my doubts and my fears, I will overcome them.
Do not allow the doubts created in your mind due to your past, personality, or the fear that sometimes paralyzes us, stops God's purpose in your life. If you have just received a calling, it is necessary to prepare yourself. Read the word, pray, study. Be ready to walk through the doors that God will open for you. If you're ready, go ahead. I am sure that God has already opened doors and windows in your favor. It must be a great sadness for God to see you prepared but, at the same time, paralyzed by your doubts and fears.
Hop up! God believes in you, and so do I!
