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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.

Mental Wellness -- Be Intentional | Well with God | 10-22-23

Your mental health is going to suffer greatly when you aren’t living out the life God intended you to live.
The key to this is looking at who He created you to be and see what He made you to do and intentionally live it.
God was intentional when He made you; AND you need to be intentional living out your life.

Take God at His Word | Well with God | 10/15/23

One tangible decision you can make for your Spiritual health today is to Take God at His Word. 
The old saying goes, If God said it, I believe it, and that settles it.
The person who lives by those words will grow to be very well with God.

God Wants to Eat with You | 10/8/23

All throughout Scripture, we find God involved with people eating. If you are paying attention as you read, you will see that eating with people is one of those parts of His character, what He desires, that is enjoyable for Him.
When you sit down and begin reading His word, you are dining at the table of God. And God begins to teach you, converse with you and enjoy a moment with you. God wants to eat with you.

 

Happy are the Persecuted | Happiness | 10/1/23

Jesus was a realist and was very honest about the consequences of following Him. 
He said if you follow Him, there are many people who aren't going to approve of your decision, they're not going to like it. If you live by these beatitudes we've been looking at now for eight weeks you can expect some people to be upset with you. 
But He also said, "Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!" (Matt. 5:10)