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    Love Me With The Lights On

    I LOVE love!  Love makes my world spin on its axis…it is where it all begins and ends.  If no one has told you today or even if you’ve had 100 people give you a big smooch…Happy Valentines Day!

    Sometime’s the hardest person to give love to is you!

    Sunday, I shared a message from my heart and every ounce of it from my experience.  I want you to know YOU ARE LOVED.

    As a society we relate intimacy with darkness, which is the exact opposite of how God intended intimacy. Truth revealed leads to greater levels of intimacy, greater levels of light.  One of the first things we tend to do in an intimate setting is turn the lights down. It covers, hides our flaws, makes us more comfortable.  I would venture to say that when we turn the lights off, this is not just to keep the other person from seeing our flaws, but more importantly because we are so self-aware of them.

    One of the scariest things any of us can do is allow ourselves to be seen.

    • If you struggle with loving yourself…
    • If you have a hard time being friends with yourself…
    • If being mean to yourself is easier than being kind…
    • If when you make mistakes you continue to make yourself pay for them over and over…

    I pray that as you watch and listen, God begins to turn on the Light of Love in your heart.  I truly believe if God could teach us how to love ourselves we would change the WORLD!  Invest in you today…you are worth it!

    Xoxo,

    Steph

    P.S.  I love your comments and shares!

    4 Comments

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    Sharayah
    February 14, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    This message was so powerful. I have problems reliving, overthinking, and rehashing even the tiniest little errors on my part. Trying to over-achieve, to what end, to fill voids, to live up to expectations, to build myself up, when I should just accept myself, how I am, because God does. It’s hard, and I am working on it with God’s help, but this message totally spoke to me.

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      Stephanie Harrison
      February 14, 2017 at 3:44 pm

      I love you Rayah…and I have done these same things too…sometimes to self-detriment. Instead of doing that, when your instinct begins to self deprocate…begin declaring TRUTH over your life. I am a living witness that His love is more adequate in our weaknesses than in our strengths, yet we are so quick to want to bring Him all of our accomplishments and achievements…i know you are a teacher, so think of it like your students (i so many times have to look at how i love my kids and remind myself that’s how God loves me)..there isn’t any one of them that i would want to make suffer, or see themselves inflict internal hurt upon. They are exactly enough – flaws and all. Let’s unbecome together 🙂

      Xoxo – Steph

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    Karen Paverd
    February 14, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    My value has always been tied to my “performance” on one end and my “weight” on another. I remember as a kid how much I hated myself. As an adult, I do not hate myself anymore but I do feel inferior, worthless, pathetic, etc, when I do not achieve goals or perform to my ability. It hounds me and makes my life miserable and sometimes terrifying. God did do a miracle in my life recently regarding this topic but your message on Sunday further drove into my soul the fact that I am loved period, have value period, have worth period! Thank you so much for sharing from your heart. Your ministry is profound and life changing! Love you and everything about you!

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      Stephanie Harrison
      February 14, 2017 at 3:39 pm

      You aren’t alone Karen…and the sad thing is that so many of us when we battle with these things do feel like we are. The root things that drive us to feel this way may all be very different and i know first hand that they are difficult to overcome, but with God so possible. He is teaching me this every single day. Self-criticism isolates us, makes us feel alone, because after all – if we don’t love us…WHO would? Jesus has been so real to me in my life in so many different ways, but in this way – HE is MINE…He is real. I love the way he loves…its exceptional, over the top, extravagant…and i am learning more and more every day that in order to truly give love away i can’t do that without receiving. Let Him continue to Love you, let Him embrace the areas you think are ugly and fall short…He desperately wants us to let Him in to the messy areas. Learn to speak His truth about you until it is so second nature that you believe it wholeheartedly!

      I love you and more importantly – so does HE!!!

      Xoxo – Steph

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