• Numbers 13:26-33
  
  
  Grasshopper mentality: A self-defeating and self-limiting perception we carry of ourselves and our abilities. It’s characterized by self-condemning thoughts of being inferior, unworthy and incapable. At its root, it’s an identity issue.

Crippling effects of a Grasshopper Mentality

1) Causes you to focus on:

• Your weaknesses instead of your strengths.
  

• Your inabilities instead of God’s abilities through you.
  

• Your problems instead of God’s promises.
  
  
  2) A grasshopper mentality will cause you to be negative of yourself
  even in the midst of positive facts.
  
  
  3) A grasshopper mentality will cause you to limit your chance of
  success due to a fear of failure.
  
  
  4) A grasshopper mentality will cause you to live with regret over what
  you could’ve had, but what you missed out on because you didn’t
  embrace your opportunity.
  

Overcoming a grasshopper mentality:

• Identify the root of your poor self-image.
• Renounce every lie you’ve believed about yourself.
• Feed your faith daily with God’s promises.
• Replace negative self-talk with positive self-talk.
• Fill your cup with what fills you up.