1. Developing Shame Resilience

2. ➀ Self-Awareness – Discern your shame triggers and responses.
Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.
Proverbs 15:14 The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
Proverbs 18:15 The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.

3. ➀ Self-Awareness – Discern your shame triggers and responses.
Psalm 119:59 I have considered my ways and have turned my steps to your statutes.
1 Timothy 4:16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves
➀ Self-Awareness – Discern your shame triggers and responses.

4. Physically, where in my body am I feeling shame?
Emotionally, what emotions am I feeling?
Mentally, what are the shame voices telling me?
Socially, how am I reacting to shame?

5. ➁ Find & Replace – Find the lie and replace it with God’s truth!

6. ❣ I am a delightful creation, because God made me very good!
Genesis 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
Psalm 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

7. ❣ I experience God’s presence, because the Holy Spirit lives inside me!
1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

8. ❣ I have a significant identity, because the Lord calls me by name!
Isaiah 43:1 (ESV) But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.”

9. ❣ I feel a welcome acceptance, because I belong to Jesus!
John 10: I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
❣ I feel a welcome acceptance, because I belong to Jesus!

10. ❣ I am gladly included, because I have been declared clean!
Acts 10:15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”

11. ❣ I am deeply loved by God, and he is pleased with me!
Luke 3:22 And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

12. God thinks of me as a person of value and I need to agree with him!