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There is a narrative we are told and sold about what our lives are supposed to look like and then there is what Godās word says. I donāt know about you, but I recommend actively pursuing more of what matters - specifically what it looks like to be making disciples. This is a topic that once you gain that clarity, you can and should operate your days with more peace and confidence.
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God often gives us the dream first to help prepare us with hope for the future.
The dreams are what sustained Joseph during extremely difficult circumstances.
And your God-given dreams will sustain you too, no matter what your future holds. How do we stay devoted to our dreams, our family, and our faith when we are in the midst of our holding cell, like the one Joseph experienced?
First, when we doubt God, we must be honest about our feelings and questions. Being honest lets us move toward our relationship with God. Hiding our doubts and questions will keep us stuck and powerless. We will not reach our dreams by accident. We will not end up with a stronger faith after times of trial by default. This is an active stanceāa battle.
Second, identify and deal with thoughts that are contrary to what we know to be true about God and His plan for our life. While Joseph was in prison for a crime he didnāt commit, he continued to believe God was in control. When the cupbearer talked about his dream to Joseph, Joseph replied, āDo not interpretations belong to God?ā (Gen. 40:8). Abandoned by his family, alone in a foreign country, and wrongfully sentenced to prison, Joseph certainly had an excuse to wonder if God was present.
God has every right to remedy our situation or to let our worst fear come to be. Even if He doesnāt answer the way we want, God is still good and on His throne. Our responsibility is with our faith and actions.
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Puuttuva jakso?
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Have you ever wondered if there is more to this life?
Have you ever considered that you were created for influence and to multiply?
Do you consider yourself a person of infuence?
What would it look like if you got abundantly clear on what you were put on this earth to do?
Let's work through what this could look like for you!
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We are created to be fruit bearers. We are created for influence. We are created to multiply our efforts. So what does the activity look like with those outcomes?
Let me also tell you that in this process, never trust your feelings. They are not worthy of your trust.
You need to trust the ONE who guided you to this path and stay on the path with the steps that it takes to remain on the path.
I promise you, that you will gain traction and you will encounter people who will find you and what you are offering that lines up with where they are at and they will value the connection. You most likely will need to continue to broaden your influence and what I mean by that is you have to grow your connections with people.
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You are good. But can you be great?!
I am not referring to a life of being content with what you have. Contentment is a mindset.
I believe, as people whose lives are rooted in faith, we walk a fine line between desiring more for this life and having a spirit of contentment. What I will be sharing with you is a perspective around what God is capable of doing through you. When we look at our lives as holy and belonging to HIM, we have a higher understanding that we are His vessels and we need to always be in communication with Him for what He desires we do with our lives for more impact.
We are also called to be living sacrifices. We should be willing to do hard things. Our job is not to arrive safely at the end. Our job is to run this race like it's the one chance we get to run and in the end, God is at the finish line. My desire for you is that you see yourself as a person on-mission to consider yourself LESS and to consider more how God can be glorified in your workplace and with the monetary resources He can generate through you for His kingdom.
Over 20 years ago God opened up space for one of my lifeās challenges - a 10 year battle with autoimmunity to be a place that stung, a place that hurt, a place that would render me not present physically, emotionally and sometimes spiritually. I prayed for healing for what seemed like a selfish prayer. And God heard me. But he didnāt just hear me, he prepared me to walk in new freedom both physically, emotionally and spiritually but also to lead others.
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Other peopleās opinions:
None of your business
If those opinions prevent you from doing what you are called to do, they become an idol for you
When you are on mission for meaningful things, you should have one person who you are looking to for validation or approval, and that is YOUR creator.
So unless those people loved you enough to die for you, they should NOT be who you are considering as part of the equation for your ability to impact people in this world.
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In case you struggle with having value with your life.
In case you frequently wonder what this life is about anyway.
You are not alone. Most people undervalue who they are.
Once we realize WHOSE we are, we can better understand Who we are.
Then have the audacity to actually believe it!
You are made for more.
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Get clear on who God is. Get clear on who you are as a result of who God is and then have the audacity to believe that He desires to do meaningful work through you - the kind of impact that is MORE THAN you can think, ask or imagine.
I actually have the audacity to believe that God desires to do BIG things through me.
Buuuuut, I also have these very conflicting thoughts that accompany that same belief. Its a very confusing mixed message I navigate.
How can you move from doubt to belief in any area of your life?
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Maybe you are like me?
Maybe you put attention and priority towards things that have no earthly value?Maybe you struggle with the desire to see and do things that matter most for all of eternity?
God is growing my thought process around doing everything I do as if for the Lord.
He is teaching me that when my heart aligns more with His, that doors open to more of the things that matter most, including the least of these.
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Our behaviors leave us clues.
Sometimes our behaviors are not just about the behavior. Many times there is a root cause to our behaviors that we can connect the dots to point to a direction that indicate where our faith, hope and love reside.
Its important to realize and know that there are behaviors that happen as a result of those root fears and lack of trust that can lead us down paths that render us feeling powerless and out of control.
We grab the steering wheel and course correct ourselves into a fetal, helpless inadequate space where we are lacking the fruit we are designed to have.We have a loving creator that taps into our GPS and says, is this thing on?
When we let his love in, love wins all day.
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When youāre in the depths of pain, whether itās separation from loved ones, financial crisis, marital discord, and the challenges of raising a family, God is not the one who moves. We are the ones who move. We are the ones who remain less faithful. We lose our focus and we become self reliant on how to move through.
Our position is not faithful
God is always faithful to us so why canāt we be faithful to him?
Why do we lose our focus?
Why do we lose our fervency
Since the beginning of time, humanity has always encountered pain, chaos and discord.
When sin entered our world and opened up space for us to always navigate challenge
In the Bible. Godās word says that we are to consider it joy to have a trial and challenge. And we are in fact, promised to have trial,
I think deep down ultimately no one wants to acknowledge the fact the common denominator we all face is to be in a world that is filled with sinful people.
We are those sinful people.
We have thoughts we have feelings we have emotions that all open up the capacity for us to succumb to arson for nature, but as we grow spiritually, pray and talk to our creator, read Godās word we can strengthen our position to how we navigate these challenges.
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Pride keeps us from doing what we can still do.
Shame keeps us in regret.
Pride closes the door to spiritual growth, but humility opens the door of your life to more of God's grace.
In the end,it is because of Jesusās humility that we can be forgiven of our pride. This life is not about us and we only deserve the wrath of God for our sin. Jesus took the punishment of our pride upon himself at the cross so we are renewed amd made humble like our savior.
Being humbled is not smooth or painless, but itās our rescue.
Jesus is our rescue from Pride
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I want to encourage you to advocate today.
Advocate for your best self. Advocate for your belief that you are worthy of being set free. Advocate that your life matters and that there is more to your life than just existing. That you are made to thrive. You are made for purpose and your body is designed to carry you to that life purpose.
You can take all the dream vacations and live in the dream home and have the dream this and dream that, but if you are not walking out the plans that God has intended for you to live because you donāt sleep great, you donāt have the energy your body is weighed down it's not your calling that is weighing you down, it's your resistance to it.
You have a calling. You should be on mission. You should be making a difference in the lives of others and if there is anything about your body and the state that its in that is not conducive to you getting up each and every day asking yourself whose life can you make better today because you were in it, than I urge you to consider a conversation with me or someone you trust what that looks like for you.
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All these areas of our lives are all avenues that God desires to use you, to deliver you from, to give you healing from, to give you hope for the future from and as you allow him to use these things for his Glory, you become more set free. And the more set free you become, the more your life looks and feels like it is made to. Its made to matter.
The narrative in our heads can be flipped like a switch. Remember to acknowledge and ask yourself when you have those limiting thoughts of you, where they are rooted in. Are they true? Are they from God?
A good barometer to ask yourself is whether or not your thought will produce fruit or whether it will produce death and decline.
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There are a lot of things that we can delineate for our time in life
I like to think of it in 2 categories
We either invest our time or we spend it
When I think about investing my time in things like my health and fitness or my walk with God, those yield a return. A high rate of return.
And my investment in my body - that is Gods vessel, allows me to yield a higher return on my desires to seek Him, to seek first His kingdom, to do more of the things that matter in this life and to have a conversation one day that yields a return
When I hear those words I long to hear, well done good and faithful servant
We all have things before us we can say yes and no to.
Some will yield a return and others will not.
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When you tell other people what you have a decided heart for, you are less likely to have failure find you in that area of life.
You will seek to find solutions in the challenge and you can give permission to those people who you told to help keep you accountable.
With any successful outcome, it will always be preceded by a decision first.
When we decideā¦
When we have a decided heart vs a divided heart, success will follow.
Why?
Because once the decision is made, the consistent action will follow.
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In our humanity
In our very existence
We crave validation - we want to be known and loved
When we move in our calling to impact the lives around us, we will use a source of energy to continue to fuel our desire and thatās based on the energy and validation we get back.
I donāt know a single soul who wouldnāt desire this.
The challenge then becomes how do we continue to choose to be a person, an agent of change, a source of love and light when there is no validation back?
Emotional maturity is when we choose to plug in to the ONE power source that never fails, never leaves & never forsakes us. And that is our creator, God.
You cannot let your feelings be your TRUTH
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So my question for you today is
Can you dream bigger?
Should you dream bigger?
Where are you dreaming small?
What lies are you believing and can you make them obedient to what God says of you instead of what you believe of you or what you believe the world believes of you.Don't just pray for the fruit.
Pray for the capacity to hold what you receive.
Pray for the courage and boldness to make big moves.
Pray for a committed heart and conviction when you're operating out of integrity.
Pray for the forgiveness of your past mistakes and when you operate from your flesh.
Pray for the strength in the surrender.
Pray for each investment to become a seed.
Pray for each challenge to stretch you, grow you and heal you.
Pray for those who weren't meant to be in your space to quietly let themselves out.
Pray for the humility and a servant heart.
Don't just pray for the fruit...pray for who you're becoming in the process.
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Our thoughts of worry can become feelings that leave us unsettled and uncertain.
So how do we merge thoughts of hope with thoughts of worry?
First we have to ask ourselves: What can we be certain of?
The bible says that God will never leave us or forsake us.
So no matter how bleak it may seem, the truth is we belong to Him and he has us in the palm of his hands.
And while circumstances may not be ideal, or within our desires and hopes, we still belong to God and we are cared for by Him.
Ultimately I believe at the root of these worrisome thoughts we have that can become feelings of anxiousness, is our pride.
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