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WANTING MORE IN ’24 | GUEST SPEAKER Harvie Neatherlin | 12/31/23

This time of the year is a time when we get to put all of this past year’s success and failures behind us. 
It’s a time when we get to start with a clean slate. 
When you look at things through that lens, its like God is saying, “Take a deep breath, I’m giving you a fresh start”. 
So right now, take a deep breath and say to yourself, “This is going to be my best year ever”. 
Because no matter what this coming year throws at you, God has a formula for you to be successful. 

Make Room for the Baby | Making Room for Jesus | 12/24/23

God wanted to experience true love—so He became a baby. 
The whole point of your entire existence is that God wants to know what it is to be loved by you. Do you care about Him? Do you care about what He likes and doesn’t like? What He wants and doesn’t want?
Or are you so caught up in your own desires, your own needs and wants? Demanding your own way?

When You’re Overwhelmed | Making Room for Jesus | 12/17/23

“Lord, I am overwhelmed.  Please come to my help” (Isaiah 38:14b).
Have you ever felt like Isaiah? What can you do when you are overwhelmed? 
Here’s a little hint: Start by doing the exact opposite of what you feel like doing.  

Making Jesus Your Lord | Making Room for Jesus | 12/10/23

It’s one thing to say Jesus is your Savior, but an entirely different thing to make Him your Lord.
Have you made room for Him to tell you what to do?
Have you made room for Him to guide you?
Have you made room for Jesus to give you His vision? His plans?
God made you because He needs you. With that comes purpose and meaning for your life. And as long as you are still breathing and have blood pumping in your veins, God still has need for you in this life that you can begin to do.

From Fear to Faith | Making Room for Jesus | 12/3/23

Fear is your opportunity for faith.
There are two doorways at the threshold of fear. One is failure, and the other is faith. You have a choice to make every time God brings you to the threshold of fear— “Am I going to walk in failure or faith?”

Discipline Your Brain | Well with God | 11/26/23

Intellectual wellness begins when a human recognizes that God is God, and I am not. Without THAT at the core of your thinking, everything else gets out of whack.
Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of the Lord is the BEGINNING of wisdom….” Without God, #1, at the core of your life, you will be scrambling to find what or who is #1. Nothing will make sense until you put Him in that place. And until you do, you’ll use and abuse His creation and your body, making yourself more and more hopeless, insecure, addicted, changing your God-given identity, and confused.

 

Think Thankful | Well with God | 11/19/23

This one decision could change your entire life. 
Thoughts of appreciation, cultivated over a period of time can be far reaching in changing everything in your life.
Your happiness. Your peace. Your ability to let go of negativity that keeps you stuck in your past. Your stress levels will go down. You’ll sleep better. You’ll have more creativity. Better relationships. Better health. This one decision can greatly improve everything in your life: Think Thankful.

Your Finances | Well with God | 11/12/23

One of the most tangible ways to know where your heart is, is to look and see where you put your valuable resources.
Jesus talked about your treasure and heart going hand in hand: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” (Matthew 6:21).
The context of this passage is Jesus saying that if you aren’t storing up treasures in heaven, your heart isn’t going to be set on heaven.

 

Choosing Contentment | Well with God | 11/5/23

The key to balance in your life is to choose contentment. 
And this quality of contentment, staying within the boundaries of good and not crossing over to indulgence, will not only make you Well with God physically, but it will make your life better in every area.
Contentment means you have accepted God and His ways as being enough.

 

Social Wellness—Build Your Life-Support | Well with God | 10/29/23

One of the most destructive things you can do in your life is to go it alone. We want to be autonomous; we want to be self-sufficient, self-made, independent, self-reliant, self-contained, self-supporting, self-financing…. But even the guy or woman that has a billion dollars stuffed in mattresses all over their home would need a support system.
You Need to Build Your Life-Support.