The Lies Are Losing Their Grip
There is something quietly happening in the lives of women who have chosen to surrender.
It is not loud. It does not announce itself with drama or fanfare. But it is real, and it is powerful — a slow, steady dissolving of everything that was never meant to define you.
For many of us, the lies arrived early. Before we had the language to name them, they were already settling into the walls of our inner world — shaping how we saw ourselves, how we moved through relationships, how we experienced God. You are too much. You are not enough. You have to earn love. You will be abandoned. You are broken beyond restoration.
Religion, in its most distorted form, sometimes helped those lies feel holy. It dressed them in obligation. It gave them a spiritual accent. And for a long time, many of us walked in a kind of impotence — earnest, sincere, but quietly bound.
But here is what I have come to know:
The One who lives within you is not bound.
In Colossians 1:27, Paul calls it a mystery — Christ in you, the hope of glory. Not Christ watching you from a distance. Not Christ disappointed and keeping score. Christ in you. Embedded. Present. Flooding you with expectation of glory.
This is not a motivational phrase. It is the most destabilising, liberating truth a woman can receive.
Because when this reality moves from theology in your head into settled knowing in your heart — when you actually begin to believe it — everything that has been holding you into a lesser version of yourself begins to lose its grip.
Surrendering is the most powerful thing you will ever do. Not surrendering as defeat. Not surrendering as giving up. But surrendering as agreement — quietly, honestly, saying to God: I believe You. You are within me. The Creator is within me. Divine nature is my nature now.
That kind of surrender is not weakness. It dismantles strongholds.
We are in a season where the untangling is real.
Many of us are untangling from religion that stunted our walk. From performance-based faith that left us exhausted and empty. From the belief that God’s presence in our lives is conditional on our consistency, our tidiness, and our spiritual output.
We are untangling from the lies we absorbed about ourselves — about our worth, our womanhood, our capacity to be loved without earning it.
And as the Spirit of Christ moves into those spaces — as His light simply hits those places like beams of power — something dissolves. Not through striving. Not through willpower alone. But through the weight of His presence making darkness unsustainable.
This is formation. This is what healing actually looks like, most of the time — not a dramatic moment, but a slow, steady coming-apart of what was never true.
You are not in a holding pattern waiting to become someone worth something.
You are the location of glory right now, in this season, in this imperfect, still-healing, tender life. Living within you is the Christ who floods you with expectation — not the anxiety of performing better, but the quiet certainty of who you already are in Him.
The lies are losing their grip.
Let them go.
“Living within you is the Christ who floods you with the expectation of glory! This mystery of Christ, embedded within us, becomes a heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for his people…” — Colossians 1:27-29 (TPT)
If something in this stirred something in you — that quiet ache that recognises truth — I would love for you to sit with this question today: What lie about yourself has quietly shaped the way you walk? And what would it mean to actually believe that the Creator is within you?
