Positioned for Purpose Conversations with Colette Marie
Positioned for Purpose Conversations is about where you are now and where God has always been.
It’s easy to focus on the pain, heartache, brokenness , loss and wonder where God is. Our podcast is to encourage you to see God in the midst of your story and be reminded, “And we know all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose “ Romans 8:28
As you listen to each episode ,I hope you pause, reflect on your journey, and see God's handprint and know there is purpose in the pain and if you allow Him to, God will produce His divine purpose in you.
Be empowered and encouraged to find out what you were created to do and do it.
I pray you will use your voice to share your story to impact other women to experience God's presence at each step of her walk.
Positioned for Purpose Conversations with Colette Marie
Breaking Free from Shame & Accepting God's Forgiveness
Colette’s Bio
Colette Lawrence is an author, dynamic motivator, life coach, and personal development Trainer. She is the author of the book Positioned for Purpose: The Journey and its accompanying devotional and Journal.
She dived headfirst into her passion and purpose of impacting women's lives through
motivation, empowerment, and encouragement. She believes in using the gifts God has given her to help women be who God has called them to be, to see God in their story, and to live their life's purpose.
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Hey, my friends, this is Colette from colettemarieonline, and you're listening to the Positioned for Purpose Conversations with Colette Marie podcast, the show that shares real life issues that women of faith face as we live out our life's purpose. It is for women who desire motivation, empowerment and encouragement to move into the call that God has placed on their lives. Romans 8 28 says for we know that all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to his purpose. Welcome. On today's episode we will be talking about the shame we carry and the forgiveness that God gives. I don't know about you, but we know that God forgives us of our sins. Right, we know that once we acknowledge the sin, once we confess, the word of God states that he is faithful and just to forgive us of all our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Speaker 1:Recently, I did a YouTube live and on it I shared a part of my past, something that I know that God had forgiven me of, and can I tell you that immediately as I released that episode, do you know what happened? Yes, you guessed it right. I felt a wave of shame and I had to say hold up. What's happening here? The reality is if we know that God has forgiven us of something, we know that if we're in a place where we're feeling condemned, that's not the Lord, that's not his work, that's not how he operates based on his worth, that's the enemy that would just come in right at this point to make us feel as if we've not been forgiven and we operate in that space. What I'm thankful for is that, immediately that wave of shame came, I stopped it in its track because I said to myself if the word of God says that he has forgiven me and I know he has why will I not allow the enemy to cause me to feel this way? And I know it's because I went into a little bit more detail than I did in the book and know that this is out and the whole world that is, if the whole world listens is now hearing this part of the story, and so that now it is out, you know how that feels and surprisingly or shouldn't say surprisingly there are others who felt the same way.
Speaker 1:Something that we know that God has forgiven us about, this wave of shame, comes back, and that only happens once we take it out of our own space and decide to share it with others, then this shame is coming upon us. That would cause us to doubt what God has done. So as we go through this holy week, as we remember what Christ did on Calvary's cross for us, let's not hold on to shame. Let's not hold on to shame. Let's not hold on to shame any at all.
Speaker 1:That's what the enemy wants, especially when we have acknowledged and confessed that sin and we have moved on from that, then we know that this is what the enemy wants us to do to remain where we are, in a place of shame, in a place of condemnation, when that's not what the Lord has for either of us, for any of us for that matter. What he has in store for us is that he convicts us of sin, and when he convicts us, then we acknowledge that we have sinned and then we confess it to him. And I know this is sounding repetitive, and it is for a good reason, because we need to be reminded that because we have confessed, because we have asked God for forgiveness, there is no need for us to walk around holding our heads down because of shame and feeling condemned, because that's not what God does for us. No, he doesn't. He convicts. That leads to repentance. And so once we've repented, once we have moved on from that, then we know that we have all right to share our stories, the parts that are really messy, the parts that will cause people to say did she do that? Yes, yes, without feeling condemned because it's a part of our story.
Speaker 1:So, if we're talking about positioned for purpose conversations, it involves the places, the hard spaces that we've been at.
Speaker 1:It involves the things that we did that were not pleasing to God, and even the things that we still do, but we acknowledge them, we bring them to God and we decide that we are going to move on. We decide that this is not the place for us, this is not where we want to be. So, as I mentioned before, it is holy week. It is the week when christ walked that road for us, hung on calvary's cross for us bear our sin and shame so that we did not have to. He died so that we are able to access that forgiveness once we come to him, so we will no longer walk in shame. We come to him, so we will no longer walk in shame. We will not allow the enemy to make us feel as if we've not been forgiven, because we know that god forgives, and his word tells us, as far as the east is from the west, so is our sins then remembered no more. Thank you for joining me today on our Positioned for Purpose conversations with Colette Marie podcast. Have an amazing day.
