There will always be roadblocks to keep us from enjoying the wonderful
life God has provided for us. With all the stress and pressures of
everyday life, we must make a decision that we’re going to enjoy life
regardless of our circumstances.
So even if today your circumstances may not be what you would like them to be
don't be discouraged and let your circumstances determine your words.
God's help and your determination you can enjoy your day and you can say:
"This is the day the Lord has made.
I will rejoice and be glad in it."
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We are God's created beauty-
yet how many times we forgot that and we wish we
looked like someone else...or had darker hair, skinnier legs,
smaller lips, bigger eyes on and on goes our list...
But watch this eye-opening video about photoshopping real women
to cover models.
On the video one of the woman says:
“Once they’ve taken away your imperfections, there’s not much of who you really are left …
This is how I’ve always wanted to see myself.
Now I’m questioning why I ever wanted to look like that.“
So maybe this video can help us to remember that
we really are God's created beauty!
Let’s just go
ahead and be what we were made to be,
without enviously or pridefully
comparing ourselves with each other,
or trying to be something we
aren’t.
-Romans 12:6
Remember: YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!
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Worship is a powerful strategy
– a force for good, changing the environment around us.
Take your everyday, ordinary
life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and
place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is
the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your
culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your
attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily
recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the
culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity,
God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
-Romans 12:1 MSG
I love how this passage says:
"Fix your
attention on God.
You’ll be changed from the inside out."
So let's worship our powerful God, because:
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The Bible is overflowing with promises God has made and kept.
And He has made some promises for you too!
God is committed to helping you lay hold of His promises
because He knows they will give you strength
and encouragement...and He is faithful!
and encouragement...and He is faithful!
God
also bound himself with an oath, so that those he promised to help
would be perfectly sure and never need to wonder whether he might change
his plans.
He
has given us both his promise and his oath, two things we can
completely count on, for it is impossible for God to tell a lie. Now all
those who flee to him to save them can take new courage when they hear
such assurances from God; now they can know without doubt that he will
give them the salvation he has promised them.
- Hebrews 6:17-18
God says to you: "I promise!"
Have faith!
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