The crazy part about the whole thing is how so many people don't understand what the body does when it's battling something that's non-native to your system.
When your body heats up and you get a fever, that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's your body saying it's rejecting whatever is going on.
We need to learn how to do that with the people we interact with.
Satan's tactic is simple: have you defend yourself for so long that you're distracted. You're not moving forward. You're just explaining. Again. And again.
Let me be clear.
If you're speaking truthfully on a subject, or if you're just a passionate person and you're animated in your presentation—if you give your heart to everything you put your hands to the plow to do—you have to understand something.
When you have onlookers standing by, often, when someone else covets what you can do, they have to make you appear broken.
And what most people don't get is this: if you sit there and spend the entire time defending that you're not broken, that's Satan's tactic.
Because when you're distracted talking, you're not moving forward in the things God has called you to do.
The world says
stand your ground and defend your character. But what if defending yourself is just another cage?
You need to understand something. Often, you're taking the opinions of others as if it's sound truth when they're basing it on their worldview.
Stop and think about that for a second.
When God made us, He said, "This is good" (Genesis 1:31). He doesn't make any mistakes. He knew you were spirited. He knew you were animated. He knew you'd be a truth-teller.
Truth has become so offensive in today's society that people are just allergic to it.
And anyone who dares to speak it will always have the naysayers and the enablers around who will push forward a narrative to keep it going.
We always say you've always got to have a PR person and a flunky. And there are people who band together with insecure individuals who are not firmly established in their soul esteem. They build alliances in hopes of keeping you in a place of, "How dare you want to pull yourself out of this crab bucket?"
You know the story of the crabs. One tries to climb out, and there's another one pulling it back in.
Those people exert their influence on other individuals who try to challenge others who have the audacity to think different.
Now, in past times, those things would get me fired up. I would just want to tell the world.
But actually, I get excited now. I know that probably sounds crazy, but I get super excited. And the reason I get excited is because if I wasn't doing something impactful, they wouldn't be trying to rally their troops.
And rallying their troops—let me reiterate this again—rallying their troops is never going to be blazing into battle. It's those friendly lunches. The people who say they care about you.
The people who, if you could sit there and say you found a way to serve 10,000 homeless people, they'll tell you, "You know what? It's just such a shame you haven't found Mrs. Right yet or Mr. Right yet."
Because that's their ceiling.
And for visionaries like yourself and myself? That's our floor.
The world says
you need to prove yourself. But proving yourself to people who've already decided what they think about you is just wasted energy.
I challenge you to walk in the boldness God has called you to walk in. Dare to be different.
And when questions or statements insinuate otherwise, gently point out to them that their ceiling is your floor. And you know what? That's fine.
They can go sit in the cheap seats. But you know what? There are too many other things that God has for me to do to even entertain this conversation.
The Soul Trap Discovery System helps you identify these patterns—the voices, the distractions, the crab-bucket mentality—and break free from them.
Because your healing, your purpose, and your future depend on it.
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