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Prayerful Expectancy

STEP 🦶

How are you at waiting? ✋

Culture answers that question for us. 📦

Not good. ☹️

Delayed gratification seems to be something of the past. 🙈

2️⃣ words to shift our focus while we wait.

Wait for anything. ‼️

Big or Small. 👊

“Prayerful Expectancy” 🙏

When you wait: Pray. 🙇‍♂️

In other words. ✍️

When you wait. ☺️

Prepare. (That is what prayer is) 😉

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🤔 What are you waiting for this Christmas season?

🙏 “Jesus, help me to wait by choosing to prepare. By choosing to pray. Amen.”

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““You can’t spell testimony without the word test.”

~ Mark Batterson ~

STEP 🦶

What trials have you faced in your life? ⚠️

What has your perspective been like in the midst of those trials? 🧠

Looking back how has those trials shaped you? 🏋️‍♂️

Pits and Prisons aren’t the end. 🕳

Continue to trust God. 🙏

Continue to persevere. 💪

Continue to prepare. 😓

Trust the plan. 📖

God redeems. ❤️‍🩹

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🤔 Do you believe God has a plan to redeem your story? The worlds? Do you trust the plan?

🙏 “Jesus, help me to trust the plan for my life and the worlds. Amen.”

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"The mature human being goes about doing what needs to be done regardless of whether that person feels great or terrible."

~ David Reynolds ~

STEP 🦶

Feel great. 💪

Feel terrible. 🤒

Choose to live heroically. 🦸‍♂️

Choose to put the work in no matter what. 💼

Regardless of how you feel. 🥴

Will you choose to prepare❓

GROW 💪

🤔 Will you choose to honor your commitments instead of giving into your emotions?

🙏 “Jesus, no matter how I feel grant me the self-discipline to do what needs to be done. Amen.”

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“Look up at the sky.”

~ Genesis 15:5 ~

STEP 🦶

God wants you to do something today. 📝

Look at the sky. 🌌

Remember who is in control. 💡

The one True God. ☝️

Who has and always will show up. ‼️

At the perfect time. ⌚️

My hope for us. 🙏

That we will prepare for what God is already doing and is about to do with our stories and the story of this world. 🌎

That we will choose to believe. 🤞

To not be afraid. 🥊

For God is our shield. 🛡

We just have to look up at the sky. 👀

Will you choose to prepare❓

GROW 💪

🤔 Will you look up today. Will you believe.

🙏 “Jesus, today I choose to trust you no matter what. I choose to look up and believe. To not be afraid for you are my helper. Amen.”

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“God came down.”

~ Genesis 11:5 ~

STEP 🦶

God came down. ⬇️

To make things right for His creation even if we didn’t fully understand His reasoning. 🚧

Let me change one word in that sentence for us today. 1️⃣

God comes down. ‼️

To set things right. 🤚

“If we are in the light as you are in the light; we can find our way together.” ~ Sacred Ordinary Days ~ 🕯

This Advent season let’s choose to be in His light. 💡

To find our way together WITH God who comes down to make things right. 🗺

Always has. Always will. 💪

Let’s choose to make this season about making God famous instead of worrying about getting what we want. 🏆

Will you choose to prepare❓

GROW 💪

🤔 Will you choose His way. The way. Today. This season?

🙏 “Jesus, Today let us choose to find our way together with YOU. Thank you of constantly coming down to make things right. For me and this world. Amen.

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“He walked closely with God.”

~ Genesis 6:9 ~

STEP 🦶

God intervenes for us. 💪

God shows up. 🪄

He did for Adam. He did for Noah. ❤️

He did in a manger. 🍼

God has and always will intervene for us and His creation. 🌎

Our job. 💼

Walk closely with Him in this season. 🦶

To stay hopeful. 🙏

To prepare by staying close. 🤟

To trust God no matter what. 🦯

He has a plan. 📖

Will you choose to prepare❓

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🤔 How can you walk closely to God during this Advent season?

🙏 “Jesus, Today I will walk closely to you and choose to trust you no matter what. Amen.”

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“At Last!”

~ Genesis 2:23 ~

STEP 🦶

Choose to prepare by being people of hope and people who prepare by doing the work with anticipation that God will show up. 💪

God will arrive just at the right moment in our lives just like he did so long ago when he provided Eve to Adam as the ultimate helper.⌚️

The same way God provided the messiah in Jesus at the perfect time in history for us to be saved and be complete thousands of years ago. ⌛️

Take this time to prepare with a heart of Hope. 💜

With a heart that believes Jesus is not done with us yet. ❤️‍🩹

That Jesus is not done with this world and he never will be. 🌎

He is coming. 🌤

Are you ready? ⁉️

Will you choose to prepare❓

GROW 💪

🤔 What are you waiting for this advent and Christmas season?

What are you preparing for?

How can you prepare?

🙏 “Jesus, this Advent season help us to prepare the way for you. Help us to prepare with a heart of hope that believes you are far from done working in our own stories and that you will never be done with this world. Amen.”

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“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can be and should be and he will BECOME as he can be or should be.”

~ Johann Wolfgang ~

STEP 🦶

What if we treated those we find ourselves around not for who they are but instead who they could become. 🥀

In others words. ✍️

See value in everyone. 🌹

When we entered into this world we were all born with value. 🤟

As time goes on culture has a way of devaluing us based on a lot things. 😟

Lets choose to be different. ❤️‍🩹

See Value in Everybody. 🤟

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🤔 Will you see and treat those around you for who they can become?

🙏 “Jesus, help me to see and treat others for who they can become instead of who they are. Amen.”

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“He had Compassion on them.”

STEP 🦶

Irritating. 😡

Isn’t that how we would describe most everybody? 🤬

Especially where we find ourselves right now? 🤨

So much division. 😤

So much disagreement. 😠

In the midst of one of Jesus toughest moments. 😢

The crowd found Jesus when he was trying to escape. 🤨

In this moment Jesus was not irritated. (Like we would be and are mostly) 🤷‍♂️

Jesus did not feel interrupted. 😖

Instead…‼️

He had compassion on them. 😜

He healed them. ❤️‍🩹

See Value in Everybody. 🤟

GROW 💪

🤔 Will you choose to see value in everybody by not seeing people as irritating or interrupting you?

🙏 “Jesus, help me to see value in everybody. Help me to not feel interrupted or irritated. Amen.

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“We all need to hold on to something. Hold on to me.”

~ Jesus ~

STEP 🦶

Forgive yourself. ❤️‍🩹

Then use this GRACE to spread my spirit. ❤️

Find another soul in despair. 💔

Help them. 🤕

We all need to hold on to something. 🙋‍♂️

Hold on to Jesus. ✝️

See Value in Everybody. 🤟

GROW 💪

🤔 Who can you find in despair today? How can you help them?

🙏 “Jesus, today help us forgive ourselves. To choose to hold on to you. Our hope. Then help us find those around us who need this same freedom. Amen.”

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