God’s Purpose Will Always Prevail

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.

This verse confirms God’s plan for your life which is to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future.

I tell you from my personal experience I believe this is true. I was a depressed, lonely, pitiful human being, and God has brought me to a happy, successful, fulfilled woman.

You are here to fulfill a purpose, not just any purpose but your God given purpose.

In proverbs 19:21 Jesus says “many are the plans in a persons heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”

Gods plans for us will always prevail.

The Lord has sworn “surely, as I have purposed, so it will happen.” Isaiah 14:24

I thought is was an interesting fact. Many people say Amen after something the is Prayed or spoken that you agree with. But do they even realize what Amen really means it’s “so let it be.”

God’s power is limitless,only a sovereign a God could promise that in all things He would work together for good for those who love him, to those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

What this verse means is that God in his mercy and grace will use all that the enemy used for bad to harm you and turn it around to work out for your own good, to prosper you. This included trials, temptations, and past mistakes. Amen

God is faithful and he will do it.

I sometimes think after all I’ve been through, all the horrible things I’ve done along with the craziness that was in my life. How could have possibly come out of that alive. Well I know that God had plans for me, a purpose to allow me to prosper. God will always prevail.

Tips For Managing Stress During The COVID

  • Take time away from media. Focus n the things in your life that are going well and that you can control.
  • Talk to family and friends. Stay connected, give hugs when the other person allows it.
  • Pay attention to your body. Recognize the early warning signs of stress, take times to renew your spirit through prayer, meditation and helping others in need.

Take time to exercise. Do some deep breathing. Write down what you are thankful for. Take a nap you deserve it. Play with your pet. Listen to some upbeat music. Take a walk.

The Beauty, Purpose And Necessity Of Pain.

I love this verse from the Bible in Reference to our suffering. Paul says in Romans 8:18, I am sure what we are suffering now cannot compare with the Glory that will be shown to us.

There’s a natural inclination to avoid pain. We protect ourselves from physical and emotional hurt usually at all costs. But pain can be a gift if we look at it the right perspective.

Have you ever loved someone or something dearly, only to have it taken away? Of course we all have. Some endings are like a death to the soul. It’s heartbreaking. We grieve a loss of once was and will never be again. When my father passed away I was devastated at the thought of losing him. It took me 9 years to even think about going through his things. They sat in my basement in boxes.

When I could finally go through his things, it was still hard. But then I realized I would see him again. And the reunion would be great.

The lose can be a job or throwing in the town on a dream you knew wouldn’t ever happen, giving up on an idea, and often times the most painful… the ending of a personal relationship due to a break up or death.

We can often become depressed varying from person to person. In cases some people never find acceptance. Or suppress their anger. (which is unhealthy) or deny the ending altogether like I did with my father. Both are doing whatever they can avoid emotional pain.

Physical pain can be easier to process for society. A cut, a scratch, a broken are is tangible. We now how the body works in healing itself. But emotional pain doesn’t sit on the surface- it exists in the heart. The ache someone feels is at times unbearable. And since the majority of people aren’t those who actively seek pain for enjoyment, it’s natural to turn from it given a choice

Pain is beautiful, purposeful and necessary.

I’m not the kind of lady who goes running around looking for situations that will break my heart. Pain can be a teacher of the highest caliber. And the go do Lord knows I’ve had my fair share. If we are willing to live in the moment with it, listen to it and experience it.

Some of the most impactful life lessons I’ve acquired over 50 years are from moments with in the grief I have grieved my childhood that was taken from me, having no friends most of my school years, the lose of 2 brothers in rather unfortunate deaths. I’ve grieved a troubled marriage for my years. Depression and anxiety most of my life and the list goes on. But I am not complaining. I know now it all happen to teach me very valuable lessons along the way.

Feeling aren’t like a fuse box where you can pick and choose the emotional rooms we turn on and off. Our emotions are like a single light switch. Turn in on and you feel everything-the good, the bad and the ugly. Turn it off and you no longer feel the pain, but you also miss out on the gratitude, joy, love and beauty. The problem is we sometimes leave the light switch off, to long then when you finally turn on the switch all the pain comes flooding out like a gushing river.

Pain is beautiful because it is unique for each one of us like a fingerprint.

Pain is purposeful because it can teach us things that we would not be able to see other wise.

Pain is necessary because without it, we would not be able to experience the joys in life.

Some people like myself shut off everything, by using drugs or alcohol, sports and exercise are addicting too, I used drugs preferably prescription drugs. Every time I didn’t want to feel anything I took an extra one or two pain pills. I was not only shutting off my pain, I was shutting off my life too. The thing is I could only do that for so long. I became an angry depressed person most of my life and that’s not who I wanted to be. I thank the Lord I was able with his strength stop taking the pills and begin healing and feeling everything inside.

One thing I learned first was that the beginning of love was to let those we love to be themselves, we cannot twist them to fit our own image. We cannot change people into a reflection of who we want them to be.

That is acceptance, we hit that necessary phase when we give up our perceptions and see others through soul-centered eyes.

A break up or an ending of any sort teaches us how to allow our pain to move higher in your consciousness.

I have learned that when pain comes into my life. I ask myself what is this pain or situation here to teach me.

Replace your Critical Attitude

A continuously critical attitude toward those around me will consume all that is healthy and joy producing in my life.

A farmer standing by the road one day and seen a vehicle filled with household goods moving toward him.

The farmer shouted where are you moving from. We’re moving from Brownsville. How much further it Jonestown? The farmer said why are you moving from your home. The people in the truck said “we’re moving away from the negativity and ungratefulness that was in that town.”

The farmer said well you are moving has the same kind of people you left.

Far more often than we care to admit, outlook determines outcome. The way that we look at a matter, the attitude that we choose, has direct bearing on how we experience reality. Two people can look at the very same circumstances and experience it entirely different based upon the attitude the choose-the patterns of thinking that they have formed over a long period of time.

I was at church this morning and we were singing worship songs. A lady was dancing and moving her arms in a way that I’d never seen before. But that was her way of worshipping. Another lady behind me went to the isle where the dancing lady was. She looked up and grabbed something from above and threw it down and stomped on it. Where ever your attitude was you could have thought she was being disrespectful to the lady that was dancing. Or you could see it as a act of grabbing the devil and stomping on him. What ever you thought would change your attitude toward both of the ladies. It turned out that she had seen a spider hanging from the web and she looked up to see the spider, grabbed the spider in her hands threw it on the ground and stomped on it. What was my eyes were telling me. What was a pattern of thinking telling me was she being. Was she being disrespectful to the lady that was dancing. My pastor thought she was grabbing the devil and stomping on him. The reality was she was killing a spider. There’s three different ways that circumstance and experience was seen based on your pattern of thinking.

In Matthew 7: 3 Jesus says “ Why do look at the speck in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?”

We choose our attitudes. I focus on this because it is true and because until we accept responsibility for our attitudes, we will never be able to change. Although the concept of personal responsibility is in no way intended to ignore the role of background on our attitude. Some of us struggle more with certain attitudes because of the cultures we are from, the kind of homes we grew up in, or the kind of churches we attended during our younger years. Those factors have certainly influenced our tendency toward certain attitudes.

Maybe you grew up in a home that was forever picking out your imperfections or finding fault with everything you did. Maybe you were endlessly criticized yourself and hear that same attitude in the way you talk to or about someone else. Possibly you struggle in many public settings to simply relax and enjoy what is going on. Because all you have known how to do is inspect and examine and form opinions about what you see and experience.

If you grew up learning to criticize the speck in others’ eyes while a log formed in yours.

We all have a choice to change our attitudes. If I had kept the same attitude that I had learned growing up, that there was only bad in the world, and everyone was going to stab you in the back every chance they got. Where would I be today. I made the choice to see good in everyone and everything in the world. I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Make that choice to change your attitude and move forward, not backward.

The Strongest Hearts Have The Most Scars

I’m not sure about you, but I haven’t met a strong person that does not have a rough past, where they feel the have many scars in their hearts.

Depending on the experiences you may have along that, they can teach you a lot of lessons, leaving you with scars in your heart.

Learning a life lesson doesn’t usually happen overnight if you know what I mean. A life lesson takes some time to learn and some experiences are pleasurable and some are awful, to the point you may not know what to do next in your life.

Life is really a learning experience where you have to be awake in order to learn the lessons the correct way. Once you do, you will avoid more scars in your heart. It doesn’t mean you will not get them, but you can reduce the amount of scars coming your way.

Nothing is written in stone and all you can do is your best and you will figure things out along the way. It is wise to listen to people with the most scars. We can learn from them and their mistakes.

Remember:

You are already amazing, don’t try to be so perfect.

You can go through Fire and still not get burned.

Become someone legendary achieve your dreams.

Clear your mind, body and soul it shows what your really made of.

Be there for your love ones when it rains, and they’ll know you’ll stand with them when it shines.

The power of your words depends on the power of your actions.

Save yourself, your life is 100% your responsibility.

Make your future bigger than your past.

Take care of your dreams today, so your dreams will take care of you tomorrow.

Your kindness will always return to you in any way, shape or form.

Love everyone the same way you love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, you have no one to love

You change the world by changing yourself and providing a little bit of kindness everyday.

Never look down on someone unless your helping them up.

Take care of your body, so your body takes care of you.

You can’t give others what you don’t have , if you do your giving a part of yourself.

If you want the world to change, just look in the mirror and you will know where to start.

Stay Blessed

How To Beat Hurry Sickness

You get to work and your day ahead looks hectic. So while your on the phone you reply to emails, check your calendar are reply to several instant messages.

There’s no slowing down when you arrive at home. Just have to juggle cooking a meal, put the kids to bed, and do some housework.

And you do it all over tomorrow.

Does this frantic sense of being on the go seem familiar? If so you may be suffering from hurry sickness.

What is hurry sickness? What is it’s consequences and how to avoid it.

People with hurry sickness think fast, talk fast, and act fast. They multitask and rush against the clock, feeling pressured to get things done and getting frustrated by any sign of a problem.

You’ll never find a hurry-sick person with an empty diary. Hurry-sick people are conscientious and work hard, but they struggle to acknowledge the limits of what they can take on. They habitually commit to more than they have time for.

Also our twenty four hour state on connectedness means we increasingly suffer from fear of missing out. We’re so reluctant to disconnect and slow down. We worry about how it might look to take time off or say no to a task. This need to stay available means that hurry-sick people remain constantly switched on.

Once this cycle of panic has begun, it’s easy to get used to it, and even to accept it, even though it can damage us.

The Consequences Of Hurry Sickness.

Being busy is usually seen as a virtue but when busyness tips over into hurry sickness the consequences can be severe. You lose the ability to stop and think, and you become less effective.

Hurry sickness increases your body’s output of the stress hormone cortisol, which can cause long term health problems such as depression. It can affect your personal relationships.

Go-fast working habits can come home with you too and can make it difficult to give your best to family and friends. Your mind stays locked in a state of overstimulation, making you tired, anxious and prone to irrationally, unable to relax.

Overcoming Hurry Sickness.

It can be difficult to find a way out of the chaos of hurry sickness, but it is possible. Make a goal to work smarter- not harder, find strategies that will create lasting change.

There are three sets of strategies that you can combine to overcome hurry sickness. Some are just common sense but are easy to overlook when you’re living in a state of constant rush.

  • Question why you’re being asked to do something. If someone asked you to jump what would you say? How high or why. Your hurry sickness might be due to saying yes to people’s requests too often and taking on too much.
  • Be more assertive if your hurriedness is caused by other people not doing their jobs properly. Learn how to give clear feedback and to avoid taking on tasks that should be done by other’s.
  • Stop multitasking. The danger of juggling multiple tasks is that you spread yourself too thinly. Either you won’t work to the best of your ability, or you won’t ever complete anything. Calmly focus on one thing at a time. You’ll do a better job and be in less of a rush.
  • Prioritize everything. Prioritization is a critical survival skill for getting through pressured times. It brings order to chaos, creates calmness and space, and reduces stress. Plan an order for work. Focus on the essential and quietly drop the trivial.
  • Improve your time management. There are only twenty four hours in a day. Good time management allows you to get the important things done in less time. Switch your focus from activities to results, from hurriedness to effectiveness, and give dedicated uninterrupted time to tasks that matter. You can then target your attention where it’s most needed.

Where Do Values Come From

Have you thought about how you got your values? You need to investigate where your values come from for these important reasons.

  • Values influence your motivations to lead ultimately the legacy we leave.
  • Every decision you make is based on a value, whether you realize it our not. Your decisions are based on the cognitive standards of what you consider better or best verses good or not good.
  • Problems attributed to miscommunication are often just the opposite. Most problems arise from clearly communicated differences in values.

A value is an enduring belief that a particular end or means in more society or individually preferable than another end or means.

All of your values come from your underlying beliefs.

To understand where your values come from, begin with your beliefs.

For example, when your beliefs are tied to an authority figure, your parents, you church leader, the media, your beliefs are only as solid as that authority. When doubt is cast down on the source of your beliefs, you derived beliefs are cast in doubt with any associated figures often with shaken values. If you listen to a new station that tells you should fear a illness but your value system is God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind. You should be able to use common sense, the illness is here, but I do not have to fear it. Live your life as normal as possible and keep you and your family safe. Let other people live by their values, don’t attack them for it.

Examine where your beliefs that shape your value system.

What are my key values? What beliefs underlie these values? Where, when and how did these beliefs arise?

Are the based on your experience?

Did they come from your parents? Family members? Friends? Social or church groups? The military?

Did they come from another source of authority?

Have my beliefs been validated by others? Or have my beliefs violated others? Have you ever challenged my beliefs?

What might you believe if you let go of this belief and adopt another? Would your values shift you were to consider a different belief! If yes, then how?

You owe it to the people who depend on you to validate your values by first exploring the beliefs that spawned them. Remember not all beliefs are values, but all values are beliefs.

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