God has placed a passion in you to do something special. Do you know what it is? It’s easy to dismiss our dreams and passions and aspirations as things that aren’t really that important. We can lose heart when things seem totally out of our reach, we doubt ourselves, or when we face other types of opposition. But God has already done something about that!
Today I’m so happy to share a guest post by author Kelly Balarie. She has written a book called Battle Ready. Friends, this is a book you need to read. It’s a hands-on type of book with a Scriptural plan that teaches you confidence-building mind-sets designed to transform your thoughts. We need this kind of transformed thinking because we have an enemy who is working diligently to defeat us. He wants us to believe lies. He wants us to have the wrong ideas about God. He wants to distract us and disarm us. He wants to keep us living in our fears and insecurities.
Let’s change that right now. Let’s work on being prepared for the battles we will face. This book will help point you in the right direction if you want to overcome doubt and insecurity. You’ll find thought provoking questions, real life examples, Scriptures and more that will help you live victoriously. Click below to read Kelly’s post!
Are you struggling through a difficult task? Is it hard to persevere? This is a common thread for many of us as we walk through a calling, a difficult situation, or a particular season in life.
My post today was written for other writers like myself who are facing the massive task of persevering through something hard. Even if you are not a writer, I think you could take the points made in this article and apply them to places in your life that seem difficult for you right now.
As writers, we sometimes share our numbers and statistics, but real success isn’t in the numbers. True success is marked by what happens inside of the journey. The 5 anchors that are mentioned in this article are things I learned because the writing journey was difficult for me. It’s these inner changes and these kinds of qualities that God highlights in each of us as we walk through life that are marks of a successful journey. And to me, this means every journey, even the most difficult ones, are successful because they change us from the inside out.
As we learn to persevere through the hard things, we learn to look in the right places. If we keep our eyes focused, we know God will make a way.
Today’s post can be found at my friend, Frank McKinley’s website. He’s an author, writer, and encourager. I’ve found his articles (at www.frankmckinleyauthor.com) very helpful as I embark on my own writing journey and I count Frank as one of my writing mentors.
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We’ve been talking about grace for the past few weeks.
• We’ve talked about how God’s grace was available for us before the foundation of the world.
• We’ve talked about how God gives us grace each day in just the right amount for what we need for that particular day.
• And we’ve talked about how grace sets us free.
Today we’ll continue or conversations about grace by looking at an insight that might help us, especially if we struggle with perfectionism.
A huge issue in perfectionism is understanding God’s grace. Our perfectionism can make it hard to receive His grace, and this issue holds us back in ways we often don’t see. Even if we do not struggle with perfectionism, this grace issue is one that many of us face at one time or another in our lives.
There can be many reasons why we find it hard to receive God’s grace, but one particular hindrance to receiving grace is the issue of our own expectations.
Freedom. It’s a powerful word. It is a gift given through the most costly of circumstances.
When I think of freedom, I think of God’s grace. It’s a deep, deep love, wrapped up in a gift created for each one of us. If we will reach out and take that gift and experience the freedoms wrapped up inside it, we can move forward into a better place.
Here is what grace can do.
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I see you.
• I see you when you wear a bright smile, but you feel a strain of sadness inside.
• I see you when your life is full of good things, but you feel empty.
• I see you when your activities paint a picture of confidence, but insecurity fills you inside.
• I see you when you feel like you never measure up and when you feel invisible and inadequate.
These things are hidden in the fast pace of your everyday life. Sometimes you can ignore them because you always keep going. You always keep giving. You always keep doing more.
But other times, it wells up and you feel overwhelmed. It leaves you feeling utterly exhausted.
Yet, in the midst of all of that, there are truths that you know.
• You know that God is kind and merciful and full of love.
• You know the Bible contains the truth, and you believe what it says.
• You love Jesus, and you know God as your Father. Most importantly, you know that because of all Jesus has done for you there is forgiveness and new life.
But sometimes it’s hard to feel the security those things should to bring you. To understand this sort of love deep down inside takes something you just haven’t quite been able to grab on to yet.
I see these things because I’ve been there, too. Even in a life surrounded by people that loved and cared for me, a life full of good things and God’s provisions, I still felt all of the things I just described to you.
So I want you to know I see you, and grace does too.
And because of His grace, there are answers for you.
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A walk in the woods left me with an unexpected gift. Join me today as we talk about new perspectives and how to begin finding them.
Join me again this week as we take a look at what the word “perfect” really means according to several very special Bible verses! Inside them, you’ll find insights that can change the way you think!
Have you ever wondered about that verse in the Bible that asks us to be perfect just like God is perfect? It’s Matthew 5:48 and it is often misunderstood. Join me today as we discuss the intent and meaning behind the word “perfect” in this verse.
What we think about ourselves is so very important! It is absolutely essential that we realize the truth about who we are. And because of that, the enemy is going to try to feed us lies and attack us in many different ways to mislead us about our identity, value and worth. But friends, we are so very, very loved and valuable to God. If we can get that truth deep into our hearts where we can begin to believe it, that changes everything! Read more to find out how He feels about YOU! {Free Printables!}