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3 P's to Get You Through Tough Faith: 

Topic: Live Your Best Life - The God Girl Edition

Living your best life - it’s common phrase these days. There’s FOMO - Fear of Missing Out! YOLO - you only live once, right?!

We say these things, but we don’t really follow them, do we? How fun is it to take a selfie, add a filter, and post it on social media for all of our friends, our people to see us living our best lives. We’ve all done it once or twice, or like a million times, right? It’s tempting for us to paint a picture of a life filled with of love, peace, joy, growth, fulfillment, contentment, and confidence for the digital friends.

Everybody is out here living, what looks like, their best life! And because what we see is often times perceived as reality, we are now put in the position to try to keep up! Now our lives have to be perfect, too! We have a false perception of what a happy, full life looks like. BUT, If their lives are SO great, we ought to at least present like ours is, too, right?

Because the life we have available to us from the Lord, when lived out purposefully and intentionally, is totally one you’ll have FOMO of if you choose not to take advantage of it! YOLO, right?! So we may as well live the abundant life God promised us in His word while we can! God wants us to live our BEST life…but it looks so much differently than the superficial one the enemy magnifies to us everyday through society and social media. Instead of painting a picture, or creating a facade that mimics love, peace, joy, growth, fulfillment, contentment, and purpose, we get to actually live it! We GET to walk in the truth of a life that IS love, peace, joy, growth, fulfillment, contentment, and purpose! Here is what it looks like:

ROMANS:

Pop Quiz Answer

Pop Quiz Date: March 4, 2020

Question: Fill in the Blank - "With God's power working in us, ____ can do much, much more than we can ask or imagine." Eph 3:20 NCV

Answer: God

Here’s the thing - It’s not about you, sis.

It’s not about me, and it’s not about you. It’s all about HIM , capital H I M. When we make the decision to be a God Girl, it’s so important we make the mental shift to understanding we’re no longer required to operate in our own power. 

What I want to talk to you about today is the mental transition of allowing God to work THROUGH us versus working at everything in our own might as we did before accepting Jesus into our hearts and lives. This mental transition is one we MUST make sooner than later, because once we are able to do this, we become supernaturally empowered to tackle (and accomplish) the purpose and calling on our lives.

Here are 3 ways to let God work His power through you:

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Pop Quiz Answer

Pop Quiz Date: 2/26/2020

Question: Which Translation? "But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right - the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also."

Answer: Amplified (AMP)

Different translations of the Bible share different inflections of the same story - It’s like the same story being told my different people!

Popular Bible Translations:

KJV vs NIV: The KJV is a more direct, word-for-word translation; the NIV more "dynamic equivalent" (idea-for-idea translation of the words)

KJV vs NKJV: many of those who follow the KJV are more literal in their interpretations of text. NKJV makes it more amenable to more modern thoughts and interpretations. This is not to insinuate that the KJV is wrong

NIV vs NLT: The main difference is that the NIV is a word-for-word translation. The NLT is a paraphrase; for context and quick reading. If you’re an English reader the NLT is probably the more readable, but the NIV gives a closer idea of the underlying text.

AMP: The Amplified Bible attempts to take both word meaning and context into account in order to accurately translate the original text from one language into another. By using synonyms and definitions, it both explains and expands the meaning of words in the text by placing amplification in parentheses, brackets, and after key words

NASB: considered the most accurate , contrary to popular belief of KJV (1611)

TPT: The passion translation - scripture in poetic form!

Generally, it’s suggest that, for non-Greek-and-Hebrew scholars (like the majority of us), a good rule of thumb is “the more translations the better.” If you take the time to compare and contrast a variety of modern versions, you’ll have a much better chance of grasping the sense of the original text than if you stick with one “favorite” translation.

Matt 6:33

AMP: But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right - the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also.

TPT: So above all, constantly chase after the realm of God’s kingdom and the righteousness that proceeds from him. Then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly

NASB: But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you

KJV: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you

NIV: But seek first His kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well

NLT: Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need

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Matthew 6:1-4

When trying to remain faithful with our pursuing our God given goals, staying focused by keeping your eye and mind on pleasing God, not men is SO important.

What we need to keep going in achieving our goals:

If we go to people for these things, we are setting ourselves up for all sorts of disappointments and setbacks. Here’s why:

Scripture is;

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When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that's higher than I, O' Lord.

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Healing is messy business, by the Bible is very clear about what we can and should do from our moments, or sometimes seasons, of weakness as we heal. I like to look at these as opportunities to further develop Spiritual G.R.I.T. 

In this week's episode, I break down G.R.I.T. 

to help us see how we can grow in the midst of our healing processes, instead of giving up and walking away, which is JUST the thing the enemy would like us to do.

In my weakness, He is

What is God in your weakness?

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Pop Quiz Answer

Pop Quiz Date: 2/12/2020

Question: Fill in the Blank: "But I say, walk [              ] in the Spirit, and then you will certainly not carry out the desire of the sinful nature." Gal 5:16

Answer: Habitually

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Choosing to respond to the guidance of God's Word and the Holy Spirit isn't always the easy step the take - especially when past traumas have triggered and pulled on your heart strings - but it is absolutely necessary if we are to heal so we can stretch, grow, and strengthen in our faith.

How to do this:

Praying for you all always, as we grow in faith together! I LOVE doing faith with you!

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We've seen the term 'level up' attached to so many areas of our life, and I thought - why leave faith out of the equation?! We must be careful not to avoid this critical part of our lives, but be intentional about strengthening and growing in our faith, for it's the sustaining power and growth factor for all of the rest!

I hope that more than enjoying this episode, you'll also apply it to your faith walk!

Let's Level Up, Ladies!

My Bible is a priceless treasure to me. In its pages I've gotten through the toughest, darkest, most confusing seasons of my life! Here's what I've come to know - there isn't any need or question I have my Bible doesn't cover in one way or another.  And there no higher level of peace and comfort anywhere else.

I've discovered countless jewels, so personal and timely to my heart, and I want you to know - so can you!

So, here are my top 5 reasons you should go ahead and dust off your Bible in 2020:

Don't forget to take a picture of you holding/reading your Bible and post it on FB/IG tagging @belovedempowers so I can see how many God Girls are with me! Let's dust those Bibles off, shall we?!