Sticks & Stones | Negative Self-Talk

Verve City Church: Weekly Messages

"I can't." "I should." "Nobody likes me." "I'm such an idiot." "I'm a dumpster fire." For many of us, the negative talk in our lives is focused less on other people and more on ourselves. While it's healthy to understand our strengths and weaknesses, constantly disparaging ourselves can become a self-fulfilling indictment and a confidence killer. How can we be humble without being humiliated? How can we think of ourselves less without thinking less of ourselves?

Series overview: Remember the time that person said that thing to you and that was twelve years ago and you occasionally think about it and it still makes you feel bad? That's the power of words. What we say to one another, what we say about one another, and what we say to ourselves have the power to build, destroy, or overly inflate our egos.