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Silencing the Voice that Sabotages
August 26, 2025 · 21 min
Silencing the Voice that Sabotages Life in the Overflow with Michele Jackson Michele returns this week to expose another enemy of hope and healing: the voice that sabatoages. She highlights a simple three-step process to countering lies activate biblical truth to walk in the freedom Christ promised. ✨ If this episode resonated with you, don't forget to rate and review the show. It helps more people find healing and hope. 📲 Share it with someone who's ready to walk in freedom. #LifeInTheOverflow #VictoriousLiving #ChristianPodcast #LivingInFreedom
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Silencing the Voice that Sabotages Life in the Overflow with Michele Jackson Michele returns this week to expose another enemy of hope and healing: the voice that sabatoages. She highlights a simple three-step process to countering lies activate biblical truth to walk in the freedom Christ promised. ✨ If this episode resonated with you, don't forget to rate and review the show. It helps more people find healing and hope. 📲 Share it with someone who's ready to walk in freedom. #LifeInTheOverflow #VictoriousLiving #ChristianPodcast #LivingInFreedom ...more Show the full description Show less Silencing the Voice that Sabotages Life in the Overflow with Michele Jackson Michele returns this week to expose another enemy of hope and healing: the voice that sabatoages. She highlights a simple three-step process to countering lies activate biblical truth to walk in the freedom Christ promised. ✨ If this episode resonated with you, don't forget to rate and review the show. It helps more people find healing and hope. 📲 Share it with someone who's ready to walk in freedom. #LifeInTheOverflow #VictoriousLiving #ChristianPodcast #LivingInFreedom
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0:02 Hey everybody. My name is Michelle Jackson and this is my podcast, Life in the Overflow. I'm so glad that you're here and I wanna dive right into what we're gonna be talking about today. We're going to be talking about0:14 silencing the voice that sabotages. I know, I know, it hits us all at some point, right, where we are0:25 grappling with that inner voice that sabotages our progress, our identity, our relationships, and sometimes our God given calling. We all wrestle with it, whether it's0:36 fear, comparison, perfectionism, self hatred. But today, I want to help us recognize it, learn how to reject it, and replace it0:48 because we were made to live in the overflow. So the first thing we have to do is recognize that God's Word is true, that John 10 10 says the thief1:00 comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Right? So the first thing we've got to do is recognize the voice of sabotage. Who is the saboteur? Right? And it's really interesting because1:12 a lot of times when we have crisis of confidence, sometimes there can be an external voice that reinforces what we already thought to be true. And1:24 I know that imposter syndrome is a big thing that people talk about these days, but I I wanna kind of simplify it in that there is a voice, sometimes in our head and sometimes in1:36 our heart, that undermines our confidence, that undermines our peace and our purpose. And the bottom line is that's not from God. And sometimes it can sound like our own1:48 voice. It can sound like voices of people in our past, whether it was authority figures, teachers, our parents, coaches, people in our life that had a role in
2:00 shaping us. It can also be people that are around us now. But I wanna highlight that the fact of the matter is we live a spiritual life and a natural life. And so
2:11 we wanna recognize the voice of the enemy and recognize that some of the dynamics that we're dealing with are simply not just natural things, but they're also spiritual things. And there can be a spiritual component to
2:23 it. So I want to be asking, you know, is this voice that I'm hearing stealing from me or bringing life to me? Right? Is this voice a voice of death
2:35 that's come to bring destruction and decay? Or is this a voice that's building me up, that's calling forth my purpose, that's bringing me into a in a good place that God has for me?
2:47 And the way that we can discern how he's moving in our life, the enemy's trying to move in our life, is thinking about some of the common lies that play on repeat in our
2:59 mind. Right? Like imagine you're going into a new environment, right? You're going be meeting new people. You're going to a conference for your job. Maybe you're presenting, right? And you're going to see people that you
3:11 don't see all the time. What are those things that come up in your mind as you prepare for that? Are you expecting to do well? Are you expecting to
3:23 complete the task satisfactorily? Are you expecting to get the big client? What are those expectations? Right? Because sometimes there can be lies rooted in that that are coming in to
3:35 undermine our confidence. And they start in the everyday aspects of life, And they affect how we show up and how we behave with others. And so the first place we have to
3:47 combat this is in recognition. You know, I learned this from a mentor. Whenever we don't recognize and celebrate in our life, we don't value. Right? And so sometimes there are good things, there
3:59 are strengths that we have, there are opportunities that have been provided to us, even by way of relationship, that we don't always recognize. And when we don't recognize them, we don't place value on them.
4:11 And When we don't place value on them, they don't have a space in our life to grow. And so part of what we need to do is recognize that, you know, we need to place
4:23 value on the people that God has placed in our life for this season that we're in. I've had so many mentors and so many mothers and fathers throughout my life, and I'm grateful for that.
4:35 And the reason being is that each had a component for me for the developmental stage that I was in. And I remember being a young woman in administration, and 1 of my mentors,
4:47 you know, I was having some challenges, I wasn't sure if I should stay in the job, if I should stay put. And I could have spiritualized it, right? But 1 of my mentors, she said, you know what? You've gotta
4:58 determine how you're gonna handle adversity. And, you know, Jesus, he was in the boat with the disciples when the storm came and the water was getting in the
5:10 boat. That was adversity, right? And so I felt like they felt in that moment, Jesus, are you awake? What's happening? You sent me to this job and I feel like I'm drowning in this job.
5:22 And her advice to me was, you know, just stay put, stay where God has placed you and he's gonna see you through it. Right? And so I had to push out all the lies about putting my resume
5:34 out, quitting my job, letting the thoughts and feelings I was having overwhelm me because there was an inner story, there was an inner narrative that was playing constantly that didn't
5:46 always match my exterior environment. And so that brings us to point number 2, right? Exposing the root. Sabotaging voices often grow in the soil
5:58 of unhealed wounds, shame and trauma, right? We know this. We know that Mark chapter 4 talks to us about the soil of our hearts because the sower in the
6:09 parable is the 1 that sows the word of God into our life. And so the word that is sown on stony ground, the birds come and they immediately devour it
6:21 before it has a chance to penetrate the soil and produce anything. So you have to think about your spiritual life as like a garden. Right? You know, I had a black thumb forever, but I've learned to keep some house
6:33 plants, so I'm I'm learning how to be like Father God, right, who is a great gardener. And, it's a process. Right? So the word of God is meant to come into our
6:45 heart and to begin to penetrate our heart and then to begin to produce the kingdom. So the point is is that our heart has to be ready to receive what God has to say. And
6:57 sometimes what's choking out the life of the word in our heart can be lust, but it also can be other things, unhealed areas in our heart that causes us to hear things a certain
7:08 way or to process things a certain way and to reject the truth. And so what we want to position ourselves to do is to hear the truth and accept the truth and begin to live in
7:20 the truth. And the challenge is is that we've been a part of the world and the father of the kingdom of the world is the father of lies. Right? And so a lot of times, especially in our walk when we
7:32 begin to get into uncharted territory, there are areas where the truth comes in to begin to shine a light on areas that we didn't even know we believed these things. It's like, wait, what? How
7:44 did this how did this come in? How did this start? And I wanna just say that that's totally normal in our walk with the Lord as we continue to grow up into the fullness of who he's called us to be.
7:56 And that's why second Corinthians 10 5 is so important. It says we demolish we demolish arguments and every pretense that sets itself up against the knowledge of
8:08 God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. So what we're talking about right now is exposing the roots of the
8:19 arguments or the thought ways we think that set themselves up against the knowledge of Christ. Now we know that another name for the Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth. Right?
8:32 And so with that, the Lord and the Bible is gonna teach us the truth. Right? The truth about ourselves, the truth to look at certain situations, and it's a
8:43 higher truth. It's not that it negates what's happened to us in our path, it just brings us into the principles and the ways of his kingdom, right? And so a narrative that we could have learned in childhood, very
8:55 simply, right, is I'm not good enough. Right? That can be rooted in a childhood experience or a failure that we had haven't released, right, to the Lord. So in
9:07 that root of I'm not good enough, remember we were talking about going into new spaces, presenting, being in front of people that we don't know, maybe that there's a sense of confidence that we need in that
9:19 moment, right, that lie can then come up in that moment. And it can undermine where we're supposed to be today in feeling I'm not good enough
9:31 to be where I'm called to be now, right? And so 1 of the ways we can begin to pray is ask the Lord to to show us where we've agreed with a lie that's not from
9:43 him. Right? And in doing that, then we can begin to expose the pretenses and the lies of the enemy that try to come in and choke out the life of the word.
9:54 We know that Mark chapter 4 tells us that there is a harvest from the word dependent on the quality of the soil or the heart receiver of the of the word that's sown. 30,
10:06 60, a hundredfold return upon the word. So the word of God will always have a harvest in the heart of the person who is able to receive
10:18 the word, accept it as the truth, and allow it to begin to grow. So the other the other way that we can deal with this, because we all deal with it, is to begin to speak back the truth
10:30 to situations. Remember, after Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River, he was led by the spirit of the Lord into the wilderness where he fasted for 40
10:41 days and he was tempted by the devil. And in that time when the enemy came to tempt him, he combated the temptation with the word of God. He didn't think about it silently.
10:54 He didn't say a quiet prayer. He actually defended his position with the word. He spoke the word. Right? And the way that the Bible writes it is that there was a conversation. Right? And
11:06 that really is helpful because a lot of times we're having conversations in our head and we're amusing. We're like, What if this is true? What if that is true? I wonder if they're thinking this. I wonder if they're
11:16 thinking that. And so the enemy can come in, and he's hoping that we're gonna be quiet, that we're gonna be passive, that we're gonna agree with the lies that he is
11:28 implanting into our thoughts, maybe as our own thoughts, and giving them power or place in our life. So I want to encourage you. 1 of the ways that we can sow the truth into our
11:40 heart and confront the lies that we hear most often and most readily is to write down some scriptures, right? And to speak them out loud daily.
11:52 This is so key to any area that we have in our life. I had the opportunity to just do some coaching with a young lady in our church, and, I was showing
12:03 her the concordance in her bible. And I was like, okay, cool, like what are you believing God for? Right? And we began to look at scriptures and began to look at what the word of God teaches us
12:15 about the topic that she wanted to pray about. And once we understood what the word of God declared about it, then we could then begin to pray into it that she would begin to receive what the Lord had for her
12:27 concerning that. What am I saying? We want to take the simplest things that we're dealing with and find scripture, find the word of God, to begin to
12:40 build upon it. So the lie that we've been talking about for purpose of this example is that I'm not good enough, right? Well, we know we can we can always quote Isaiah 5four
12:51 17, no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and every tongue that rises up and rises up, I will condemn it. Right? We can quote it that way. But the issue becomes Jesus fought
13:03 with the word, and the word combated the lies. So the question is when you're thinking about I'm not good enough, Psalm 1 39 could be
13:15 some verses that would be really good for you. Right? I am fearfully and wonderfully made, right? We can also go to Ephesians 2 and look at I am
13:27 God's workmanship, I am his poema, I am his masterpiece, Right? So there are different things that we can begin to quote from the scripture on a daily basis and begin to speak them out
13:39 loud to combat the lies of the enemy. Now, we do this all the time with our ministry receivers and our clients and stuff because a lot of the things that we
13:51 believe to be true about ourselves go back like so far. I remember when I was receiving ministry, the Lord back brought back a memory to me from high school
14:02 that was about, like, a leadership club. I was in leadership in a club in school. And, you know, we had diversity in our high school and all that, but it was still very much a
14:14 minority. Right? It was a small cadre, let's say it like that, of minority students. And in this situation, there were a few of us that were kind of pitted against each
14:26 other. But I think in looking at how the Lord brought his truth to me, what I realized is that they were in their best effort trying to
14:38 prepare us for the future and knowing that we would need to be sharpened in our leadership gifts. But unfortunately, 1 young lady and I were pit against each other. It eroded our friendship and it eroded my
14:50 confidence. And when I asked the Lord why certain things were affecting me today, he took me back to high school. Now I would have never thought that those things
15:02 were connected had I not asked the Lord. So I think that's also really important when we think about putting the steps together, right? First we said we need to recognize the voice of sabotage,
15:13 sabotage. Right? We've got to recognize how he's moving in our life, the things that the kind of things that come up that undermine our confidence or to make us have a large reaction, right?
15:26 And then also expose the root. Holy Spirit, Father God, where did this lie come from, right? And then begin to speak the truth in that place where the lie lived, right? And begin
15:38 to believe that and agree with that every day. Here's the deal. Romans 8 15 tells us that we did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but the spirit of
15:49 adoption. Right? So the more that we're coming into our identity in Christ, what the enemy tries to do is get us to fall back into the trap of
16:01 fear and to become a slave to keeping up appearances, to try to control the narrative of how people view us versus standing in the fact that we are made
16:12 worthy through salvation. We've been given grace. There's nothing we could do to earn it. There's nothing we could do to deserve it. In fact, we are all undeserving of God's grace. And yet and still, he gave it to us.
16:25 He went to the cross for us. He shed his blood so that we could have it. And it's free. It's a gift, and we have to accept it. And so, you know, the the more that we can understand
16:37 that that's some of what we deal with in the battle of our mindset and in our thoughts and moving into the life that God has for us, the more that we can say no to fear, we can
16:48 reject the bondages that we used to be in, and say, you know what? I don't have to earn being worthy. God gave it to me. I just receive it. Right? I don't have to earn being a son or a daughter in Christ. He just did it
17:00 for me, I receive it. And the more that we receive it, the less the opinions of others and even the voice of the enemy can erode that place. Right? But it's every day.
17:12 Right? And the more that you're walking in it and believing in it and it becomes a part of who you are, the more that you know the voice of your father and what
17:24 his voice sounds like, and the less you are led by counterfeit voices. Right? That is so important because a lot of times what happens, and I see this all the time,
17:36 is that when we come out of high moments in God, the enemy comes under to try to pull us down. Right? And try to get us to fall back into old patterns. And if we're
17:48 not clear about whose voice we're listening to, right, and we aren't really in the word as much as we should be, reading our bible every day and really digesting the scripture, reading it
18:00 for the purpose of adopting it into our lives and applying it, the more susceptible we are to voices that don't agree with the things that God said he's doing
18:12 in our life. So the point is is that we want to continue to abide with him. John 15 5 says that those who abide in him will be fruitful, will bear much fruit. And I don't know about you,
18:24 but I definitely want a fruitful life. Right? We can all say that, and abiding is 1 of the keys to that. And so what happens is that sabotage pushes us into a place
18:35 of being disconnected or picking up old habits that will cause us to be spiritually dry. And we already talked about what the soil looks like that
18:47 receives the word and produces the word, right? So we have to keep our hearts tender, free from the thorns of life, free from the stony places, the things that harden our
18:59 hearts. But the soil that receives the word is is able to receive the word, produce the word in our life. So I say all that to say that I want to
19:11 challenge you for the next week to start your day with devotion. Start your day focusing on the voice of the Lord, right?
19:23 With time in worship, time in your Bible, time in prayer, and find 3 scriptures to stand on over the next week. And let's see how it goes.
19:35 Because the voice of sabotage loses power the moment you start agreeing with God about who you are. So let's pray together. Father, I thank you that everybody who's listening and watching, you've given them the mind
19:47 of Christ. You've given them the authority to silence every time that rises up against them. And you've given them the ability to walk in your word. And so I thank you that
19:58 the Holy Spirit is coming alongside of them. The presence of Jesus is coming to comfort them and to help them to walk this walk in authenticity. God, I thank you that you are
20:10 not giving us more than we can handle, but with every temptation, you're giving away of escape. So I just pray that even as they pick up their Bible to get those scriptures this week, that there will be a
20:22 flood of light, a flood of truth that extinguishes the darts of the enemy. We thank you for it now in Jesus' name. Amen. Listen, don't forget that you can
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