DROWN OUT THE VOICES

“They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”

Jonah 2:8 (KJV)

Not every voice deserves your attention,

Not every opinion carries weight,

Not every thought is truth.

In the journey toward purpose, the hardest battle is not always external

It’s internal, It’s the noise.

The doubts that speak in silence, the fear dressed up as logic,

The comments from people who don’t carry your call,

The memories of failure, the pressure of comparison,

and worst of all, the lie that nothing is working.

This is what Jonah called “lying vanities”

They look real, they feel valid, but they are false,

And if you give them your focus, you will miss the grace that is meant to advantage you.

You will miss the open door, you will miss His voice.

You will miss the strength that only comes when you block everything else out.

Elijah faced this too, after calling down fire from heaven, he ran, not from swords, but from words. A single threat from Jezebel drove him into the wilderness.

1 Kings 19:2-4

That’s how powerful voices can be. If you don’t drown them out, they’ll drown you.

To protect your future, you must protect your focus.

To hear God clearly, you must silence what contradicts Him.

That means turning off what doesn’t edify, cutting out what feeds fear, and learning to speak truth when no one else will.

You are not crazy for dreaming big. You are not late. You are not behind. You are not unworthy.

Those are lying vanities

Let them go, turn to the truth,

Let your spirit rise above the noise.

Because when you drown out the voices, you begin to hear what really matters, and that’s when the shift happens.