The Lie That Keeps Me Stuck

• By candidasullivan
• June 26, 2026
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What lie is causing you the most pain and causing you to sabotage yourself?

For me, it is the lie that I am not good enough. And when I don’t feel good enough, I don’t feel that I deserve God’s blessings. So I live in a form of prison and self-punishment. 

God blesses me, but instead of enjoying the blessing, I overthink it and worry that my blessing might be taken away, so I ruin it for myself. 

God gave me the gift to write. I’ve been writing for twenty-three years, but every time I sit down to write, my insecurities swirl in my mind. I feel as if I’m not good enough. I don’t know enough. So I block the flow. Then, when my writing doesn’t do as well as I thought it should, I gather evidence of my unworthiness. 

But here’s the truth. Gifts are not earned. They are not based on experience or intelligence. True gifts are given by grace. God doesn’t give us a gift and expect us to know how to use it. He gives us things beyond our capabilities so we will rely on Him. We are supposed to work with God. 

The enemy tells us we are supposed to do it on our own and impress God with our greatness. 

But God tells us it takes His greatness for us to do it. 

As long as I believe the lie that I am not good enough, I will not be able to do this work with the Lord. Before I got saved, I was lost and incomplete. I needed a savior. But Jesus died for me and offered His blood to complete me.

Colossians 2:10 KJV

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

I am complete in Him. His blood covers my sins, flaws, insecurities, and every lack that I may have. 

John 15:5 KJV

5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

We need Jesus. We need to depend on Him. We need to walk with Him. God created us to be connected to Him. Connected to God, we have everything we need. Therefore, we are enough because we are connected to the One who created it all. 

The enemy wants us to become discouraged and to quit. If we were truly not good enough, he wouldn’t tell us that. He would do the opposite and tell us how amazing we are. The fact that the enemy uses unworthiness against us speaks volumes. It shows something so beautiful inside of us that he fears. 

Sweet friends, he can’t defeat us. We are connected to God. So instead of believing the lies, I want to grow even closer to my Lord. I want to use my story for God’s glory. 

Today, I want to bury the lie that I am not good enough once and for all. I am writing these verses in my journal to remind me. I want to memorize them all and let them heal the old wounds the enemy caused with his lies. Reprogramming old beliefs takes time. It takes dedication. And prayer. God can show us through His word how to replace the lies with the truth. 

Every lie deserves a truth.

Every time the enemy whispers, “You’re not enough,” I’m going to answer him with God’s Word.

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Galatians 2:20 KJV

20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 1:4 KJV

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

John 15:16 KJV

16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Galatians 4:7 KJV

7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Psalm 139:14 KJV

14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Reading these verses and allowing them to sink into my mind, dispels the lie of the enemy. I cannot read and believe these verses and still believe that I am not good enough. While it might take daily reading of them for months to finally stick, I am committed to reading them every time the lie of unworthiness pops into my mind.