Finding your Inner Sass
I have heard all my life that I am Sassy, but recently I have really been pondering what it really means to find our Sass as women. The last past three months in my life have been truly filled with a inner struggle, anger, and frustration. I could go on for days about the last three months and the impact it has had on my life, but bottom line it came down to I could not find my Inner Sass.
The past month my pastor spoke a series on your identity in Christ. I was reminded in one of his sermons of your Identify in Christ is everything to you in winning a battle. It was not until he said that the battle is won in the "high grounds" did I realize what the enemy was doing to me, and discovered what Cancer I allowed the enemy to plant into me and what I believed I was. The enemy was stealing my inner Sass one lie at a time. I was buying into those lies so fast. The only way I can put it is that even The Best Labor Day Sale does not see as many credit card slide and buys that were happening in my mind. The enemy was slowly selling me on every lie and I was starting to believe them. I was buying into what others thought of me, and my inner Sass that always bubbled out of me was slowly slipping away.
The past month my pastor spoke a series on your identity in Christ. I was reminded in one of his sermons of your Identify in Christ is everything to you in winning a battle. It was not until he said that the battle is won in the "high grounds" did I realize what the enemy was doing to me, and discovered what Cancer I allowed the enemy to plant into me and what I believed I was. The enemy was stealing my inner Sass one lie at a time. I was buying into those lies so fast. The only way I can put it is that even The Best Labor Day Sale does not see as many credit card slide and buys that were happening in my mind. The enemy was slowly selling me on every lie and I was starting to believe them. I was buying into what others thought of me, and my inner Sass that always bubbled out of me was slowly slipping away.
Most of us women wear multiple hats in our day to day walks. I personally wear employee, wife, taxi-cab driver, homework enforcer/tutor, merry maids, and on occasion Chef. With those hats come multiple challenges for us to face and overcome so that we can reach our full potential as women. The big question we girls have to ask ourselves is how do we reach our full potential and get that Inner Sass shining through.
I think we have to identify the challenges that are standing in the way of us reaching our full potential. It does not matter how many charts, to do list, and other new techniques and ideas we come up with to organized our day to day task. Unless we juggle all our task by using our inner sass, we will never soar as the women we were created to be. So let’s dive in and figure out what we need in life to be happy and get that Sass back.
1. We can not look back and waste time focusing on the losses in our lives or allow for the past to paralyze us. We must take each day and keep putting one foot in front of the other holding on to the only truth and only unchanging thing in our lives-- OUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST.
2. We must believe in our abilities, talents and who we are in Christ. You might be saying. Tiffany, Why is it important to know our identity in Christ. Well I would answer that question by saying. "We need to know who we are in Christ so that we can have that Inner Sass. The more we agree with God about who we are in Christ the more our behavior will reflect our God given identity."
As women we must learn to see ourselves as God see us, and accept what God says about us. How many times do we say to our kids? It is MY OPINION that counts here. Well, in this situation it is God’s opinion that counts not ours or others. Keep in mind our Sass and our identity in Christ does not depend on what we have done or what we will do. Our true Sass is who we are in Christ.
As women we must learn to see ourselves as God see us, and accept what God says about us. How many times do we say to our kids? It is MY OPINION that counts here. Well, in this situation it is God’s opinion that counts not ours or others. Keep in mind our Sass and our identity in Christ does not depend on what we have done or what we will do. Our true Sass is who we are in Christ.
For three months I allowed a gentleman at work to paralyze me and rob me of my Sass by buying into what he said about me, and living out of what he said I was and was not. About 3 weeks ago, I started realizing that I had believed the lies of the enemy, and I was allowing someone to push me out and give up and steal my sass on me. I have listed some of the verses I am using to get my Inner Sass back. I hope these will help some of my chicks out there to overcome and get that Sass back on. Basically, I take the “I am” part of the verse and change it to “Tiffany is” and pray it out loud.
- I am complete in Jesus Christ Colossians 2:10
- I am free from condemnation Romans 8:1
- I am a new creation because I am in Christ 2Corinthians 5:17
- I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved Colossians 3:12
- I am established, anointed, and sealed by God 2Corinthians 1:21
- I do not have a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind 2Timothy 1:7
- I am God's co-worker 2Corinthians 6:1
- I am seated in heavenly places with Christ Eph 2:6
- I have direct access to God Ephesians 2:18
- I am chosen to bear fruit John 15:16
- I am one of God's living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house 1 Peter 2:5
- I have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by which I share His nature 2 Peter 1:4
- I can always know the presence of God because He never leaves me Hebrews 13:5
- God works in me to help me do the things He wants me to do Philippians 2:13
- I can ask God for wisdom and He will give me what I need James 1:5
To truly find our Inner Sass we need to know and believe who we are in Christ. Understanding our identity in Christ is crucial to our success and finding our Inner Sass.
The best way to renew your mind and experience transformation
is by knowing, thinking and speaking who we are in Christ
is by knowing, thinking and speaking who we are in Christ
Let’s challenge each other to Train ourselves to say the same things that God says in His word. Become who you are in Christ. God wants to do more in your life than you imagine.
So my two cents of the day is: If we can stop playing mind games and buying into the junk and negative thoughts of others we truly can find our Inner Sass.
YOU GO GIRLS! Get that Sass On! J
-Tiffany Bethmann
