Day 7 of our 40 Day Fast and Focus- BREAK YOUR OWN EGG

Beloved, begin within. Don't look to be built up and sustained from outside happenings or happiness. Quit allowing people, situations and circumstances to determine the level of your happiness and productivity.  Pour life, encouragement and inspiration into yourself! Let God pour His love and acceptance into you. He is faithful and you are accepted. Receive it and walk in it.

Application: BREAK YOUR OWN EGG
1. BE, there is no try. My Dad always said "stay soldier ready and you won't have to get ready." I finally learned the meaning of that statement went way beyond preparedness. BE a soldier and you won't need someone to make a soldier out of you. God never tells us to try anything He always says BE. So...BE and do whatever it takes to BE so if you have to do it alone, by yourself you are able.

2. ENCOURAGE YOURSELF.  Do you know what inspires you and makes you happy? What lights your match and burns your flame? If you do, then do more of that daily, hourly, or minute to minute if needed. If not, learn today what builds you up and gets you moving. I need prayer, worship, reading the word and a hug from my husband and the world is alright no matter what the day may bring. I get strength from all of those things, which keeps me ten toes in my square and lit all day. What does that for you? Make a list and then plan to incorporate it daily, especially first thing in the morning. That tends to set the course for your entire day.

Beloved, I am praying with and for you.


Resources to help:
1. This series changed my life in many ways in 2011!
https://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/life/events/the-blessed-life-2011
2. One of the most important Books I've ever read: 
 http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Am-Words-Change-ebook/dp/B00T3E78NG/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
3. The second most important book I've ever read & principle of first that I live by:
http://www.the1thing.com/

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Day 6 of our 40 Day Fast and Focus- Maximize Before More!

If all your needs are met (warm, pillow, food, love) and yet you "can't get no satisfaction" in your life perhaps you need to determine if you're needy or "wanty." A disconnect between what you already have and what you really want is where most of us unhappily live. Today I want you to become as sure about what you already have as you are about what you really want.

Application: Want What You Have

1. Get Godly. 1 Timothy 6:6- But godliness with contentment is great gain. Most don't read or apply this scripture correctly. They try to be content before they try to be godly. You won't get to true contentment until you get godly. A godly behavior is to want what you already have before you ask for more. Luke 16:10 tells us when we are faithful in little God progresses us to more. Quit wanting more until you gratefully want and receive joyfully what you already possess.

2.  Accept little.  It's easy to think you'll do more when you have more. You won't. Until you accept God disguises big opportunities in little responsibilities you will continue to think incorrectly. You won't do well with the millions (even if the lottery "blesses" you with it) until you do well with your $50. The principle of firsts is as real as gravity. Learn to first maximize the little and you'll get the more. It's an irrefutable law.

Beloved, I am praying with and for you.

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Day 5 of our 40 Day Fast and Focus- MAKE MOVES, NOT ANNOUNCEMENTS!

The proliferation of social media has made room for an illusion and mirage based society. We can post our life "as if" and announce to the world our every move in order to make it seem like something instead of what it really is. We have lost touch with real life, and things don't exist unless and until we post on social media. As we begin our ridiculously amazing 2016 I want to encourage you to abandon making announcements and any use of social media to perpetuate fraud or to share intensely personal information that titillates the masses and doesn't help you personally in any way. I am not telling you to do something I didn't do myself. I got off of Facebook for 2 years and highly recommend this to anyone seeking to engage in their real life in a greater capacity. 

Application: BE who you really are in real life.

 1. BE. Don't live an imaginary life. Don't waste one moment on image building over reality. Keep your business and personal life off of social media in a great way. It's okay to use it as an occasional outlet but so/me serves you best when it's use is reality based and you only talk about your problems to real people who love and can help you. Everyone doesn't need to know every detail of your life. While I wasn't bad about using so/me, I admire and am learning how to use so/me best from my husband Navy. He uses social media judiciously, for business, and hardly ever any personal. I am following his lead and finding it's a great way to use a tool well that is capable of taking over your life and mind if you allow it.

2.  Get a journal and/or a vision board and use that to document, plan and execute your resolutions, goals, and achievements. The written word has great power. Use these tools instead of the Book, IG or Twitter. Pinterest is a great vision board app and you can make your board private so no one sees it.

Beloved, I am praying with and for you. 

Resources to help:

1. http://thesocialmediafast.com/

2. http://calebstorkey.com/do-you-need-a-social-media-fast/

James 2:14    What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? 

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40 Day Fast and Focus # 4 LET GO! GOODBYE IS A NECESSARY LIFE SKILL

Goodbye is a necessary life skill few possess. 

Many of us drag yesterday into our today, and will bring today into our tomorrow. We laughingly call that baggage, but the truth is we have no intention of unpacking, processing and letting go of people, places and things regardless of if they were good or bad to us. We refuse to take compliments as a congratulatory formality and we let criticism(s) take away our power. Today I want to encourage you in two ways; to let go, forgive and move past that/those that hurt you and to release/maintain freedom to grow past that which helped you. No longer let compliments go to your head nor let criticisms go to your heart. I want to introduce these truths and hopefully this last day of 2015 you will accept you are able to walk in freedom and deliverance from the past-good or bad.

Application: HOW TO SAY GOODBYE

1. Process pain and focus on your own crazy.  Processing pain requires you don't stuff or deny what happened. Quit looking for closure and an apology that may never come. Close your own doors. Stop knocking on doors God closed. Tell yourself the truth. Remove fantasy and fabrications about someone or something. Call it what it is/was and let the pain be stark so you recognize it and then finally release it. You may need counseling to do this. Get it. You're crazy not to get counseling, not because you do, and truth is we're all crazy in our own way! As someone who coaches I can tell you it's very difficult to get someone to see their own crazy because they're too focused on the crazy of someone else.  Life hurts. Let go of it.

2. Press past yesterday or even today's success. Don't live in the past, or rest on laurels. Many of us are so stuck in the "good old days" and the "good old ways" we cannot and do not move forward due to clutching onto what worked then or felt good back then. We so want to plagiarize and replicate what was good to or for us we attempt to make things happen just like they did back then. We rinse and repeat yesterdays goals, objectives and tasks hoping for the same success. Our hands are so full of yesterday we can't receive today. Beloved, God is a creator and a designer, not a replicator! God has new manna, fresh water and new beginnings for you if you stop hanging around yesterday and wishing for what was. Leave that back there. Resolutely and intentionally turn to today and take no thought of yesterday like this scripture tells us to: Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. 

Beloved, I am praying with and for you.

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40 Day Fast and Focus # 3 CUT YOUR WORDS IN HALF

Would you be wise and in control of your whole body? Control your tongue.  

We are told in the scriptures (James 3:2) that "Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way." If you want to change your life for the better immediately begin with learning to shut up or speak up appropriately.

Application: How to Tame your Tongue
1. Cut your words in half. Take a three second pause before you say one word. Cutting your words by 50% will reduce your sins of speech by 90%!  I have learned that words and sin are not an arithmetic, but a geometric, relationship. Any words added beyond necessary speech contain verbal sin(s) that increase rapidly the more and longer we talk (Eccl 10:13). 

2. Say what you need to say. If you happen to be a person who hardly ever speaks, this proverb does not apply. Perhaps your need is to use your words in order to be gracious. Saying what needs to be said brings value to others and not saying right words at the right time produces a regular source of disappointment and frustration to others. Speak up but speak up wisely and succinctly.

Resources to help tame your tongue:
1. http://www.amazon.com/Days-Taming-Your-Tongue-Relationships/dp/0736915605
2. http://www.amazon.com/Me-My-Big-Mouth-Answer-ebook/dp/B001J2UVOI
3. http://www.theblessedlife.com/series/products/power-your-words-book

Beloved, I'm praying with and for you.

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40 Day Fast and Focus # 2 THINK BEST NOT BETTER

What do you believe “thinking” to be?  Think about that. What is thinking?

Having carefully researched thinking as a term and activity of the brain I submit to you that I have learned thinking is inner speech. How we talk to ourselves inside about what it is we see, hear, and feel is what thinking really is. We talk deep within ourselves when we think, and more importantly GOD SEES EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR THOUGHTS. How we think, our inner speech is so very important to the quality of our lives and yet it something we place on autopilot. Rarely do we examine how we think, and even less of the time do we bother to correct incorrect, flawed thinking. Take some time today to examine your thinking/inner speech. I guarantee you whatever good or bad is going on IN you will come OUT of you. If you want to finish 2015 strong and if you want to have a ridiculously amazing 2016 begin with making sure you’re only and always thinking Philippians 4:8-And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

Application: How to Think BEST or correct poor inner speech

1.       Spend time thinking about how you think, the language and words you tell yourself in your mind.

2.       Use the list in Philippians 4:8 to compare your actual thoughts against (true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and worthy of praise). If it isn’t, you must learn to stop thinking against that list.

3.       STOP (cease all motion) any thoughts that aren’t the best way to think... take any thought against Phil. 4:8 captive (2 Corinthians 10:5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ).

4.       Accept: You get to tell your mind how to think and what language words you will use. It is a privilege and a blessing to think and God requires us to use our righteous minds well.

5.       Practice doing this daily. I have learned when any thoughts against Phil. 4:8 start in my mind I apply this process 7 times and at times ALL day long. I even sometimes SPEAK out loud to that thought...”Thought, you’re not true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent or worthy of praise.” I then speak only what is. Amazingly my thoughts correct and become BEST.

Beloved, I am praying with and for you.

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40 Day Fast and Focus #1: GET RID OF I CAN'T

My Dad always said can't is a word for the weak. Whenever I feel I can't believe/do/change something here is what Iearned to do to change that thinking. 

1. Take a deep breath, adjust my thinking and tell myself the truth. OK, so things are a mess and I am surrounded by obstacles, but what can I do right now? What do I have control over?
2. If I rearranged my plan and focused on the things I can do now, would some of those obstacles go away, or at least lessen, over time?
3. Face the impossible with what's possible. Do what I can do right now, right there no matter how hard it may be.

Try this today in all areas of I can't. While it's not helpful to be Pollyanna about life's problems, trying a little attitude adjustment can go a long way and maybe turn some of your "I can'ts" into "I cans."

Scripture Focus: Mark 11:23
"Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.

Beloved, I am praying with and for you.

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