Episode 16: Overcoming Resistance in Faith

In this episode, Lindsay Oehmen discusses the challenges of pursuing a calling for the Kingdom of God, emphasizing the resistance faced from the enemy. She shares her commitment to exposing lies and limiting beliefs that hinder personal growth and encourages listeners to walk boldly in their faith. The episode aims to provide hope and practical insights from the Bible to help individuals recognize and overcome obstacles in their spiritual journey.

Takeaways:

• The devil will resist any effort to grow God's kingdom.
• Busyness can be a tactic used by the enemy to distract us.
• Identifying limiting beliefs is crucial for personal growth.
• The truth of God's Word can help reframe our thoughts.
• We are called to walk boldly in our identity in Christ.
• Resistance often indicates that we are on the right path.
• Recognizing the voice of the enemy is essential for overcoming doubt.
• God has a purpose for each individual, and we must pursue it.
• Encouragement is vital when facing challenges in our faith journey.
• Sharing hope and truth can impact others positively.

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Transcript

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Well, hello and welcome back to today's episode of From Doubt to Full Doubt. I am your host, Lindsay Omen, and I am so excited to be back with you here because here's the thing, you guys, I'm gonna tell you the honest to goodness truth because that's what I do here on this podcast. It's all about walking in truth. And there have been several starts and stops with this podcast. And here's the truth, guys.

When we are meant to do something big and bold for the Kingdom of God, the devil doesn't like it. He doesn't like it. He doesn't want it. He wants to stop us before we even get started. He wants to put as much resistance as possible to block your reach, your impact, God's Word. What God is going to do in and through you for other people, he doesn't like it.

So he's going to come against it in every way. Many times this looks like just busyness, right? I've heard a saying years and years ago that if the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy. And in our minds, we're like, okay, well, I can put this off and I can do this later. And let's, let's speak just to this podcast alone. You're, I'm going to have doubts. Okay. The devil is going to fill me with doubts of like, well, I mean,

Just put the podcast on the back burner, because who's really listening anyway? Are you even helping people? Are you even impacting people? Are you even reaching people? So you know what? If there's one thing you can let go of, let go of the podcast, because the devil knows if even one person is listening and even one person gains hope or gets closer to Jesus because of one sentence that I may say that God is speaking through me.

then that is moving the power of Christ that is building the kingdom of God on earth. And he doesn't like it and he's going to come against it in every way possible. So, yes, I have had several starts and stops, but I am so committed to bringing this podcast to you on a regular basis because the Lord God has absolutely spoken to me and shown me

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that I am here and meant to bring you his word. I am meant to bring you his hope, his positivity, and really truly at the end of the day, my goal is to share hope. Hope in Jesus, hope in his word. And I have been diving very, very deep over the last several months in his word. I have actually learned better.

I would say deeper ways to hear God's Word, hear God speak through His Word. And so I want to share that with you guys. And first, I'm just going to reframe the purpose of this podcast. If you're brand new or if you haven't listened in a while and it's popped back into your feed from doubt to fool out, it's not just about limiting beliefs. It's truly about exposing the lies from the enemy.

the lies that the enemy captures us in and the chains that he wants to put us in.

I want to expose those. want to help you expose those limiting beliefs, those lies, those chains in your life so that you can walk boldly in who God says you are and who what the truth, which is the word of God, says that you are. So my hope and my goal for every episode is that the lies that we believe about ourselves, the lives that

the lies that we don't even know that we believe about ourselves because they're so ingrained in our, in the background record player of our mind that I can help you bring them to the forefront because that's the goal to expose them. Because if you don't know you're thinking them, then you can't take back control and have power over them. So I wanna help you identify them. I wanna help you bring them from the back of this record player that's subconsciously playing in your mind over and over and over every single day.

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I want to help you realize that, bring it to the forefront of your mind so that you can grab it, capture it, pull it out, rebuke it, cancel it in Jesus name and reframe those lies for truth. want to help you reframe your mind, reframe the beliefs that you believe about yourself to be actual truth that God knows about you and that God says you are.

from his word in the Bible. So I wanna help you identify the voice of the enemy that's in your mind and take those thoughts captive, okay, so that we can reframe them with the identity in Christ with confidence, purpose, healing, truth, and your calling on your life that God has for you. I am gonna be bringing you lessons.

from the Bible, directly from Bible study that apply to our lives, to ways that you can actually apply them to your life daily. That's my hope and that's my goal for you and that is my heart for you. And I'm gonna be sharing episodes that are just specifically about Bible study, just specific things that I have dived.

dived, divin, dove, dove! That I have dove. Diven's not even a word, you guys. That I have dove. Deep, deep, deep. And I hope that it will be a blessing for you, and I hope that it will be true application for you. So, I'm gonna be sharing episodes that are just me with the Bible, episodes that are with me and a guest who will share her walk, her walk through self-doubt,

and fear and letting the enemy stop her from doing more and how she overcame that. And so my goal and my hope for you is that you will see yourself and those stories as well. And you can say, well, if she can do it, I can do it. And I am not going to let the devil hold me back. I am not going to let the devil stop me from what God has for me. And I'll tell you another little story. This podcast is not about my business.

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It's not about what I do day in and day out in my regular business life, but I'll tell you, I'll give you an example. I recently started a new business a couple months ago, two months ago to be exact. In my first two weeks of launching my new business, the devil came at me so hard. He threw everything he had at me, absolutely everything in the form of people and sickness.

I mean, if I could recount the ways daily, multiple times a day, things that came against me and I knew, I knew that it was the devil every single time. And the reason I knew this was because...

I have done the work in the past to identify what's truth and what is the voice of the enemy. And at the root, the root of it all is that the devil wants to stop. Wants to stop.

the root of it all is that the devil wants to stop kingdom growth. And so anything that we are going to do for God to grow his kingdom on earth, we are going to experience resistance. Anything. Even if it's a conversation, if it's a new business launch, if it's a new podcast, if it's a podcast episode, if it is literally just a phone call that's going to

further someone's walk with Jesus or grow the kingdom in any way, the devil is going to fight as hard as he can to bring resistance. He wants to stop you before you even get started. And that is what I experienced in my business the first two weeks of launch. And I was like, I identified it. I knew what was happening and I was said, no, absolutely not. You will not win. You do not get to win. You do not get to stop me before I even get started. You do not get to have

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power at all because I walk in the power and authority of Jesus Christ and you have no power. And so if you can identify whatever it may be going on in your life, maybe it's new, maybe it's something that is not new, but you are stepping into it more. You're stepping into a bolder than you ever have. And the Satan recognizes that you are a threat. He recognizes like, my goodness, she is moving with the power and authority of the Holy Spirit and I don't like it.

So he's gonna come against you and he's gonna bring resistance. And I'll tell you what, I've also experienced it with every single person who has joined me in my business, who was meant to do really big, bold things. He's done the same thing. I've had a lot of women come into my business and partner with me over the last two months because I've just launched something brand new and it's exciting and it's fun and it's a brand new product category in holistic health to get all together. And so many women,

are dabblers and hobbyists and so not everyone has experienced this, but those women who are meant to do big, huge, bold things in business and for the kingdom of God, every single one of them has experienced resistance and I've watched it and I've seen it and I've seen the devil try to come against her and say, no, no, I'm gonna try to stop you. I'm gonna do everything in my power to stop you before you even get started.

But they have helped them and they have seen as well the power of like, nope, I see what the devil is trying to do here. He's trying to make me busy. He's trying to, he's trying to bring everything against me in order to put this on the back burner because he knows if I get started, if I help other women, I'm going to grow the kingdom and the impact of God. And so let this be an encouragement to you that if you

are trying to walk deeper, further, or impact others in the name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and you're encountering resistance, you're encountering busyness, you're encountering that phone ringing, that email's coming in where you're like, where, you know, I had one person who literally everything was coming against her about having to have real estate showings and having, you know, her lawyer sent her an email that they missed and said they were

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delinquent in bringing all the paperwork that they needed to the closing table. And so all of these things were coming in the form of busyness and stress. And she knew that, hold on, this is a smoke screen from the devil. This is him trying to say, what are you doing? You don't have time for this right now. Like, why are you stepping into this? You were way too busy. You were way too stretched then you were too stressed. You don't need to add one more thing to your plate. But she recognized too many of us don't realize

that that's the voice of the devil trying to stop you before you even get started. But she recognized, no, no, no, I'm not going to let you try and tell me that I am too busy or that I have too much on my plate because I know what I am stepping into. I know that I am meant for more. I know that God is going to use this opportunity to do big, huge, massive things, not only in my life, but in the life of everyone that I am meant to impact.

So let this be an encouragement to you that if you were encountering that, if you're trying to do something, start something, build something, step into something that you know has kingdom impact and you know the emails are coming at you, the phone calls are coming at you, you've got to do this field trip with this kid and you've got to do your taxes and you've got all these things and you're like, goodness gracious, maybe now is not the right time. Maybe I should do this later. Maybe I shouldn't, maybe I shouldn't take on one new thing. Stop for a moment.

Stop for a moment and ask yourself.

Is this from the devil? Is he trying to tell me I'm too busy because I'm going to make massive kingdom impact? Recognize. I want you to recognize the lie and the truth. Recognize the lie from the devil that you're too busy, that it's not the right timing and recognize the truth that you are about to be used by God himself.

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to make massive kingdom impact for others. And remind yourself, you're not too busy. There's not too much on your plate. That you can do this with the power and strength of God and the Holy Spirit that lives within you.

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for God is able to do immeasurably more than all you can ask or imagine with his mighty strength at work within you. Ephesians 3 20. It's one of my favorite verses. So I myself am guilty of allowing resistance in my life, allowing the devil to stop me from making that kingdom impact.

And I say no more, absolutely no more. I shake off the chains of delay and I rebuke and cancel the chains of resistance and delay and declare on God's truth that I am walking forward in every aspect of my life for kingdom impact. So I'm going to be stepping forward and sharing with you very short, very quick episodes, except for probably the

interview episodes. Those are probably going to be a little bit longer, but I am committed because I know that this is God's work and I will not let the devil stop me from sharing his truth, his hope to grow the kingdom and grow hope and hopefully help you walk a little deeper and a little closer with Jesus and hopefully let you identify

the lies that are holding you back so that you can personally walk in truth, walk in God's truth for your life. Because He has a calling for you. He has a purpose for you. And I wanna help you see it, live it, and walk it. So thank you for joining me. I hope to see you on the next episode where I'm gonna dive deep.

into a book of the Bible called Ephesians. And I'm going to start just in chapter one and I want to share with you what I have learned that I hope will help you as well. So I look forward to seeing you on the next episode.