Sept 19: God Gave You a Dream…get in the game.
Affirmation: I am blessed, grateful and loved.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.”Jeremiah 17:7 NIV❤️❤️❤️Hey! I love using YouVersion, and I think you will, too. You can study God’s Word, read and watch daily devotionals, pray with friends, and more! Get it here:
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“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.”Jeremiah 17:7 NIV❤️❤️❤️Hey! I love using YouVersion, and I think you will, too. You can study God’s Word, read and watch daily devotionals, pray with friends, and more! Get it here:
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Ponder, Personalize, Practice: Begin to personalize Nahum 1:7. Keep pondering and praying but make it personal: “Lord You are good, You are a refuge for me in times of trouble. (Imagine the safe place of refuge you are in.) You care for me…I trust in You.” Repeat frequently.❤️
“The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,”
Nahum 1:7 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/nam.1.7.NIV
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Wholehearted Guidepost from Brené Brown
Guidepost 8: Cultivating Calm and Stillness and Letting Go of Anxiety as a Lifestyle
“Imagine you have a pot of boiling water on the stove, and you want to cool it down. So you add a block of ice to the water. This cools it down briefly, but soon enough, the heat is back and the water is boiling. So you add more ice, and the process repeats. Soon enough, you’re out of ice, and the water is boiling over.
But what if you slowed down enough to turn down the heat on the stove? Or better yet, turned it off entirely?
This is the approach many people take with anxiety. They think “Anxiety has always been around in the past, I just need a better way to manage it.”
Which is like looking for bigger ice cubes instead of figuring out how to turn off the stove.
And understanding how to turn off that stove requires space in your life for calm and stillness. This is time for emotional processing and self-regulation. To feel what’s going on in your life, question, dream, and explore possibilities.”
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Mastering the 7 Decisions from Andy Andrews
The Responsible Decision
The Buck Stops Here!
Each of you must be responsible to do your creative best with your life. Gal. 6:4
If decisions are choices…and our thinking dictates our decisions—then I am where I am because of my thinking.
The Responsible Decision for Personal Success represents the beginning. Taking responsibility for your past will segue you into an extraordinary future of your choosing.
My thoughts will be constructive---NEVER destructive.
Responsibility is about HOPE and Control. Make better choices.
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Reading for Today
Walk in Grace. Live in Love by Bob Goff
September 19
God didn’t give you a dream to keep you benched the whole game. He’s calling you onto the field.
To each one the manifestation of the spirit is given for the common good. 1 Corinthians 12:7
To each one the manifestation of the spirit is given for the common good. 1 Corinthians 12:7
If you played sports when you were younger, you knew your rules. If you were a parent, you were there to help those young stars become better in practice, and you were there to lift the teams morale. A parent’s responsibility includes cheerleading, grabbing water for timeouts, and buying pizza afterwards. If you were a kid on the team and were not very good, you probably got to know the bench well, like I did. You knew also you would occasionally get in the game when the team had a big lead.
Sitting on the bench gives you a lot of time to fear what might happen. You fear this will be another night of no playing time, where you suited up and warmed up and then end up shivering on the sidelines. You fear you’re letting down the people who came to watch you and who you wanted so badly to impress. You fear you’re wasting your time devoting yourself to something you’re obviously not very good at. You see your failure. These are things that go through your mind on the bench.
Most of us still feel like the kid sitting on the sidelines even though it’s years later and we’ve grown up. We remember our dreams to change the world, and now we’re just left with doubts. Or we messed up, and we wonder if we’ve been benched again.
Remember this: fear calls out our doubts, but God calls out our names. The dreams He puts in your heart are dreams He still wants to fulfill through you today. He didn’t create any of us just to be practice buddies or water boys – there’s no sideline in God‘s story of redemption, there is no bench.
What would change if you got off the bench today?
Sitting on the bench gives you a lot of time to fear what might happen. You fear this will be another night of no playing time, where you suited up and warmed up and then end up shivering on the sidelines. You fear you’re letting down the people who came to watch you and who you wanted so badly to impress. You fear you’re wasting your time devoting yourself to something you’re obviously not very good at. You see your failure. These are things that go through your mind on the bench.
Most of us still feel like the kid sitting on the sidelines even though it’s years later and we’ve grown up. We remember our dreams to change the world, and now we’re just left with doubts. Or we messed up, and we wonder if we’ve been benched again.
Remember this: fear calls out our doubts, but God calls out our names. The dreams He puts in your heart are dreams He still wants to fulfill through you today. He didn’t create any of us just to be practice buddies or water boys – there’s no sideline in God‘s story of redemption, there is no bench.
What would change if you got off the bench today?
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