The problem with being a people-pleaser is that you’re constantly in bondage to caring what people think. It can influence your every move and leave you stuck in your thoughts; wondering what people are thinking and assuming that you’re always watching you. My normal response is one of generality, wondering how I can overcome this tendency on the whole. The problem is that the little, specific situations are the ones that make up who we are on a larger scale. So to combat a mindset, we must begin in the day-to-day. Immersed in this context, the Lord begins to remind me of something. Isaiah 58: 9 reminds that we can call upon the Lord and that He answers us. His Spirit strikes me with the thought that this is applicable in the midst of situations, not just going into them or coming out of them. I think about how often I care so much what people think and wonder what it would look like to cry out to God in that moment and ask for His thoughts. Rather than making ch