Daily Devotional Podcast

Let's continue our conversation on your God-given gift. Remember it's ok to make money in your gift, but answer this question: are you using your gift to help yourself and to help others? Do you have your eye on God's vision for your life? If so, great, keep walking towards it. If not, that's ok, but it's time to start walking towards it. Yes, it's time to stop being afraid. It's time to go forth and multiply. Use your gift for good and God will see to it that you are even more blessed in your life and your business. God will see to it that you will continue to be blessed when you are serving people using our gift. He will do that for everyone of us. Yes, He will. 

Don't be afraid to do something everyday to build your gift. You will grow better and stronger each day. Then your online business will eventually come as a result. You can do it. You really can. YOU.

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Reminder: you have no competition. Got it? Great.

As I said during yesterday's podcast episode (Protecting My Peace - Day 80), we have no competition, so continue to build your business going full steam ahead. We can't worry about the social media and internet Joneses. All we can do is stay in our lane and when the Lord God tells us to change course, we do just that. As long as we're in tune with what He is saying, then growth will happen even if it's later than sooner.

There was a time in my life when I was afraid of rejection, afraid of judgment, afraid of failure, and afraid of success. As a result I didn't move on my deepest desires. One of those desires was to speak publicly, which is what I'm doing today. I will speak more about this on tomorrow's episode (Protecting My Peace - Day 82).

Just know that you can do what you want and be what you want. Just give yourself time and be open to embracing people. Greater will happen when we are stronger, focused and determined more than ever to get all that God has for us.

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When it comes to protecting your inner peace and the peace of your business, do you know you have no competition? Nope, you don't. There are people doing what you do, but they are no threat or competition, so run your own race.  Run the race God has set for you and you. Hebrews 12:1 says, "therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us" (NIV) and another version is, "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." (NLT).

Bottom line, stay focused on what you're doing in your life and business and you will make it, because you will be more narrow and targeted in where you're going. Remember, you have no competition. 

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How are you doing with your God-given gifts? Are you using them to the best of your ability? Your gifts will still make room for you (Proverbs 18:16), remember that. And also remember that our gifts are not only for us, they're for us to be a blessing in order to bless others. They're not for selfish gain or to say 'look at me, look at me.'  Our gifts are to expand the things God wants us to expand regarding His kingdom of light, love, justice, equal rights, peace, joy, and things similar to those. If our gift is not promoting any relating to those things, then there's a problem and perhaps we may not be using our gifts properly. 

So if you're using and living your gift every day, continue to do that as you improve your life and the lives of others around you. Nothing is too small when we're grinding every day. Keep using those gifts.

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How are you doing today? Are you encouraging yourself in the Lord God? I certainly hope so and I've come to remind you that you will do what God said you would do -- yes, you will do the special things that live in your heart that God put there. Don't you give up, because of what things seem like in the natural scheme of things -- don't you give up, because it seems everyone else is living your dream. No, you WILL survive and you WILL thrive. Do you believe how much God has for you? Do you believe the vision hasn't moved? Well, believe it, because it's true. God still has the best for you and He wants the best for you. The vision is still there.

If God brought me out from a dark place I was going through a hard time years ago, He will do the same for you. Yes, you can live every ounce of the dream He has for you. Yes, you can live the gift that has been deliberately placed in your heart. God will do it. Yes, He will. Stay encouraged always.

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This is a continuation of our discussion on the importance of doing more. And when we commit to something, doing more may simply mean showing up. Do you show up for yourself? Do you show up for others? Who do you show up for? 

I remember a time when I didn't want to show up -- I didn't want to get up for a commitment I made. I was to be at a walking event and it included networking. Yet when the morning of the event came I didn't want to get up and get going, but I thought about the event organizer and decided that going was the right thing to do no matter how I felt. I ended up going and I made a great friend with a person who also showed up. We were of two different ethnic background (me, black and she, white). We immediately made a fast business connection  -- diversity at work once again when we are willing to go outside our comfort zones by showing up and doing more, right? At any rate, we can do more by showing up for people. When we show up for people. we show up for ourselves. When we show up for ourselves, we show up for people. 

Do more.

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Are you doing more in your personal life and business? Doing more may mean being inconvenienced, which can also mean going out our way in order to get blessings for our lives. When someone conducts training, workshops, or other functions, do we sign up, enroll, or register, but don't show up? Do we make excuses as the days and hours come upon us? Do we convince ourselves that we have something more important to do when we don't? If that's the case, then we're probably missing out on important information and key resources that will help us go forward. 

Consider this: the people who show up -- who do more -- are the ones who will get more abundance. 

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What are you doing to continue showing up for yourself? Are you striving and thriving? That's what we have to do in order to continue going forward. It doesn't matter what we are going through, if we want to get ahead -- if we want to get to the vision we have for our lives, we must trudge on. You can have what you want, you can have a better life, and you can get what Proverbs 13:22 says, which is, "a good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children,  but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous."  That means you can help your family and friends. You can leave something for them.

And you can also be the first in your family to get the abundance and prosperity God promises any of us. Bottom line: keep going, keep grinding, and keep your head lifted towards heaven. God's got you.

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Regarding protecting our peace, we have to keep on keeping on, on what we need to do as we continue protecting our peace and setting boundaries in our lives. Yes, we are still talking about those boundaries of protection, because they help maintain our joy and peace. Boundaries also help us get clearer in our minds in where we are going, as well as, enable us to get around the right people. Be around the people who are positive and helpful who can serve as mentors, coaches, and consultants and give us feedback in love with our best interest at heart. Be around the people who care about us and want to steer us in the right direction. We can also be that same type of person as we help encourage people, as well. Win - win - win.  

Continue to set those boundaries. 

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In this sub-series on boundaries, we are still talking about protecting your peace by staying around positive and productive people. Weed out the negative and toxic,  because we must be around the things that will make us grow, not die in spirit. Setting boundaries allows us to focus and prosper in what God has for our lives. We are doing nothing wrong when we set boundaries in a polite, respectful, and considerate way. We do not have to say or do anything negative or ugly in the process. Being the stronger person is about displaying the traits Jesus had and continues to bestow on us. Jesus always took the higher road and He always maintained a position of love and strength. We can be more like Jesus too as we set boundaries in our lives. Remember that. 

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