Encouraging Word

Hi, this is Dorette with an encouraging word for kids today. I hope you know how much love God has for you. He has your life in the palm of His hand. He loved you enough to die so that you could have a relationship with Him. He wants you to grow in Him and experience your very best life. Here is your encouraging word for kids today.
Sometimes we get stuck in a bad attitude, and we can mope around all day, or even be snappy to those around us. Do you know that just as quickly as we can get into a bad attitude, we can make a choice to get out of one? I know that sounds super easy. It isn’t complicated, it is just plain old hard! We have to put our flesh under and make a decision to change! Let me give you a good example. You can come home from school and be all tired, and maybe disappointed because you didn’t do as well as you would have liked on a test. You’re lying on the couch in a grumpy mood and your dad calls home to tell you he got tickets to go to a game that night. In 2 seconds you can go from a grumpy, tired, sad mood, to being excited, joyful and jumping up and down. Did your circumstances change? No, you still didn’t do as well as you wanted on your test, you still may be tired, but because of a new option, your emotions changed. So you can make that choice moment by moment! You can determine your mood. So why not choose joy today!

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You can move mountains. What is beyond the mountain that is in your way? Have you ever thought about giving up and then kept on going only to find that the miracle you needed was right around the corner? Don’t give up too soon. If you give up, you often forfeit your victory. Even in the deepest darkest moments, or the driest wasteland, God has a plan to get you to the place of victory and bring fresh and cleansing streams to your life, if we give Him the opportunity. We have to get out of the rut that we are in. Whether it is changing our thinking, or changing our actions, we have to let go of the past and move forward. You can’t grab a hold of your future if you are clinging to your past. Even Paul realized that his past of persecuting God’s people didn’t disqualify him from making the right choices today, so he could experience God’s blessing. He knew that the only way to reach his destiny was to let go what was behind him and strive for and push toward that which was ahead. So no matter what your past looks like, it is not beyond God’s forgiveness. We can forgive ourselves, and live in the blessings that God has for us today.

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Get rid of bitterness and let emotional baggage go. We have the awesome ability to forgive, and God is right there helping us. We have been forgiven much so we can forgive much. It begins with a choice. We can choose not to dwell on what has happened. We can turn off the echo in our minds, push delete instead of rewind on the dvd player in your mind. We can begin to pray for those who have hurt us. We can then make the choice to watch our words. We can speak kindly, with love to and about the people you have been a source of pain for us. Perhaps those relationships can be restored, and perhaps they won’t. Either way, we can be released from the pain. Forgiveness brings healing to us. We can show mercy. Mercy means undeserving favor, and we have received that from God, so we can be a conduit of mercy to others. God can heal our brokenness as we choose to be forgivers, blessers, and restorers. When we let go we give God the space to bring more blessing into our life. God can turn it all around! What once was toxic fumes or offense, can now be a sweet smelling savor of forgiveness. That is the best way to live life!

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Live free from offenses. It is possible to live free of offenses. The Bible says that offenses can and will come. We have opportuntites to be offended all the time. People let us down. Things don’t go as we expect. Circumstances take a turn for the worse. The options we have are to be offended, and hold on to it, or not to be offended, and let it go. We can live an unoffenable life. The word offense can be divided this way…..Off ended. When we get out of balance, we can easily be offended! We can daily choose to walk in love and cover everything in love. That doesn’t mean we brush things under the rug, or ignore problems, it just means that we believe the best, and pray for those who might offend us. We pray that circumstances can change for the better. I cor 13:7 says that love believes the best in every person. That means know matter what, we can still believe that the little things that have brought strife before in your relationships can be turned around. They don’t have to have the same affect on our emotions. Being unoffendable is really an awesome way to live. It is like being washed clean and letting nothing stick to you, on a daily basis. That is a great way to live!

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Live free! He whom the Son sets free is really, really free. So right now is the best time to just let go! Let go of guilt. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, because we don’t live according to the flesh any longer, we live according to the Spirit. We can never please everyone, but we don’t have too. The One we need to please is God. Our lives are designed to glorify and honor God, and we can’t do that when we live in the past, with our lives consumed by guilt. There is a time to let go, and it is now. Today is the day to live free. Don’t go another day living in bondage.
We don’t have to hold onto childhood hurts and wounds, or regrets of the past. There is nothing we can do to change what has happened in the past. It is water under the bridge. The only thing we can do now is to forgive and let it go. Paul tells us in the book of Philippians to let the past go of the past. He had an awful past to let go of. He had to let go of the good, the bad and the ugly. We have to do the same. We cannot be stuck in the muck and mire of the past, and we cannot be stuck in the glory of the past.. Live fresh today. Live free! It is time to walk on…. In freedom. Be free to let go.

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I hope you are beginning to see how much more God has for you during this series I am calling Limitless Living. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. This week, we will see how to move forward and be the person God created you to be. You are an overcomer. You can let go of the past and move forward Here is your daily eword.

Sometimes it is okay to ask “what if” questions. What if I didn’t retaliate? What if I didn’t have the last word? What if I kept my opinion to myself? What if I chose to say nothing instead of saying something damaging? What if I apologized first? What if I said something sweet instead of something negative? What if I asked, “how we can solve this?” What if we talked it out instead of leaving mad? Those “what if” questions can get us way down the road of life. We don’t have to live selfishly. We can make love a way of life, and live in harmony and peace with those around us. “What if” you give it a try? You might be pleasantly surprised at what you discover!
So, why not start at home? Let someone else go first. Say yes instead of whining and complaining. Prefer others above yourself. You can move forward! When we begin acting like who we really are, all the time, our environments become more inviting. So quit asking the “if only” questions, because they leave you in the past. Move forward and begin asking what if, and then make the changes necessary to live differently.

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Find someone else to bless when you feel discouraged. One of the best therapies any counselor will tell you to get over discouragement or depression is to find someone who is in worse shape than you and bless them. All it takes really is walking into a cancer ward in a children’s hospital, where kids are receiving chemotherapy, and you will leave there (probably in tears), thinking you are the most blessed person in the world. II Cor 1:3,4 says it so beautifully that in the area that God has comforted you, you will have the grace and the privilege to comfort others. That is the awesome way God turns situations around. He takes what the enemy meant for evil and turns it around for good. One of my good friends says this….if it isn’t good yet, God isn’t done yet! So take a moment and count some of your blessings. Do you have a car to drive? A bed to sleep in? Covers to keep you warm? A phone to connect with friends? You are more fortunate than probably 80% of the world. You are blessed. In Genesis 12:2, God told Abraham that He was blessed, to be a blessing. The good things that we have received are to be shared. Have you ever notice in I Corinthians where it says that God gives seed to the sower? The sower is the blesser, the giver. God will give you some seed to give, if you show Him you will sow it. So bless someone today, with your words, your actions, or your service. It will lift your spirit, and you will keep the circle of blessing going

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Find someone else to bless when you feel discouraged. One of the best therapies any counselor will tell you to get over discouragement or depression is to find someone who is in worse shape than you and bless them. All it takes really is walking into a cancer ward in a children’s hospital, where kids are receiving chemotherapy, and you will leave there (probably in tears), thinking you are the most blessed person in the world. II Cor 1:3,4 says it so beautifully that in the area that God has comforted you, you will have the grace and the privilege to comfort others. That is the awesome way God turns situations around. He takes what the enemy meant for evil and turns it around for good. One of my good friends says this….if it isn’t good yet, God isn’t done yet! So take a moment and count some of your blessings. Do you have a car to drive? A bed to sleep in? Covers to keep you warm? A phone to connect with friends? You are more fortunate than probably 80% of the world. You are blessed. In Genesis 12:2, God told Abraham that He was blessed, to be a blessing. The good things that we have received are to be shared. Have you ever notice in I Corinthians where it says that God gives seed to the sower? The sower is the blesser, the giver. God will give you some seed to give, if you show Him you will sow it. So bless someone today, with your words, your actions, or your service. It will lift your spirit, and you will keep the circle of blessing going

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Comparing yourself to others leads to disappointments. God made only one you. Hallelujah, one is enough! Why does it seem so hard to shake off those thoughts of comparison? Part of the reason is we don’t put enough value who God created us to be. We are intricately designed by the Master and he is a perfect designer. We can’t expect and should never desire to be like someone else, because you are an original. If we concentrate on being our very best self, and would treat everyone around us with the same kind of respect and dignity that we would like, we can get rid of comparisons all together, and really be proud of who we are in Christ.
Another way we will surely be disappointed is when we try to change someone else. We cannot change others, but we can change ourselves. It is important that we get that settled. The only person we can change is me. We are in charge of ourselves. We have to do the work that is required to make the change. What are some things in your own life that are changeable? A lot of time we can get buried, in debt, in frustration about our weight, our relationships, our job situations. If we want to make each of those areas better, we have to do something different than we are doing now. Because we all know that you will keep getting the results you are getting if you keep doing what you are doing. So what one change could make each of those areas better? For finances, how about making a choice to budget? For weight, how about making healthy food choices? For relationship, how about sowing seeds of love and forgiveness? For your career, how about taking a class in your field of study to get better, and maybe get that promotion you are longing for? Make a change in you. Then you can live that totally contented, satisfied life, because you are giving it your all.

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What is the best way to feel settled inside when you are struggling with discontentment or comparing your situation to someone else’s? It may mean doing some natural things….as our bodies change, we need rest, vitamins, healthy food, exercise and mental clarity. That means discipline, and a disciple of Jesus is disciplined! In fact, that is what disciple means, a disciplined one. We need to just decide to do what we know is right.
A spiritual thing we can do is put positive pressure on our own mind to think about what is good and perfect (Phil 4:8). We can put pressure on our mouth to speak the right thing. And we can put pressure on our life, to act the right way. The easy thing to do is to act on what you feel. But as believers, we are not to be moved by what we see or feel. We are to respond to what God’s Word says. If we want to change from discontentment to contentment and peace, we must put a guard on our mind and our thoughts, and our mouth. Words are so powerful, in fact, in James chapter 3, a whole chapter is dedicated to talking about the power of the tongue. Romans 12: 1,2 says for us to completely change the way we think. We have the mind of Christ, so we can think like He would think. When negative thoughts do come, we have to immediately make the choice to capture and set aside those that disagree with the Word of God. When we want to speak words that are contrary to God’s Word, we immediately have to shut our lips, and put pressure on our mouth to speak what is true and right.
Are you feeling like a spirit of discontentment is on you? I want to see it broken off of you in Jesus’ name. I want you to experience joy and freedom, and it starts with the power of God helping you control your thoughts, and by beginning to speak words of life. Contentment and satisfaction can come back to you! I pray and believe for peace to your mind, and grace for your lips!

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