Self-esteem, self-confidence, self-assured...These are all buzz words that we use to 'try' (key word) to encourage ourselves. But what happens when those are the same words that get in our way? What do we do when the image we have of our 'self' is not enough? There are times, in the middle of believing in our 'self'' that we begin to let 'reality' set in. (We call it reality - because we've been trained to, but its really vain imaginations). When that reality sets in and we remember that we are not qualified, that we are still fat, that we are still unemployed, that we still don't have enough money, that we are still sick, that we are (you fill in the blank)...what is your 'self-esteem' doing when you are dealing with all those thoughts?
Its sitting right there - taunting you. Calling you a fake, a phony, a charlatan. What do you do then? Well, what should be done, should have been done EARLIER. All that 'self' business should have been couched properly. (I said couched - but coached could work here too). See - we can't expect the faith in our 'self' to accomplish what faith in 'God' can accomplish unless it is 'couched/coached' properly! (I just realized I use a lot of exclamation points - I get excited so easily!!!! - in case you didn't realize it, that was a little ADHD for ya:) Anyway - we put our faith in the wrong basket. We have to put our FAITH in GOD.
Some of you may be asking - well, I'm supposed to have high self-esteem aren't I? YES but of course you except NOT BY YOUR 'SELF'. The scriptures say, 'I can do all things.....' RIGHT? WRONG!!! It says, 'I can do all things - THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!' We take it out of context because we have been taught to 'believe in yourself' (how many songs written on this) and 'if you don't believe in yourself - who will' (how many books are written on this) and my favorite 'you can do anything you put your mind to' (ala 'Little engine that could'). All of this is only PARTIALLY true. The critical component is CHRIST/GOD.
When we 'try' to do it without Him we FAIL and we SIN! Dag...a two-fer for your face! How do we fail? Well, we usually quit - we say things like, 'I guess I really can't do a., b., c., I'd be happier if I just accepted that as a fact.' or we have pity parties, and invite the whole world so they can make us feel better, 'Oh...its ok - you tried. You gave it your best. (look at all those 'you's' and note them). We fail when we do it in our own might and our own strength.
So you say...ok, ok, I guess I get that...but how did I SIN? You SINned because YOU put YOU before and/or in the place of GOD! What? Huh? No I didn't! Yeah - you did. You said, 'I got this', I can do this' I, I, I, I, me, me, me and when things were rolling along well you were taking all the credit for it. That is SIN. We have to get in our positions, behind God. (Thou shall have no other gods before me. Italic emphasis mine).
Do it today. Dream your dream. Its a great day for it. Work your Faith. Faith with out works is dead. PLACE your faith. Faith in GOD not man (ourselves included). For with God NOTHING shall be impossible! (exclamation point MINE for emphasis!!! I told ya'll I was excited!!!) - Luke 1:37
I'm heading to the gym - what are YOU doing?
Monday, January 21, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
One Step at a Time is Enough for Me
One Step at a Time is Enough for Me
Step-by-step, i have the power to change all that is not working in my life. With each step I take, I am on the pathway to the best of who I am. Somettimes I go a bit off-course, but I always find my way back again. Peace comes from realizing that all that needs to be done will be done. I just start from the place where I am right now and take it one step at a time. In so doing, I pull myself out of the rut of inaction. I trust the wisdom within my being to show me what needs to be done. And I will do it...one step at a time. I take a deep breath and relax. Yes...
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
(Copyright (c) 2006 Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.)
How many times have you resolved to start bettering yourself only to get discouraged by your PAST results? Why do we allow ourselves to do that? We have to LOOK AHEAD! Well, then when we look ahead, things look so far away, they don't look attainable. We are looking too far. Take ONE STEP toward your goal. Just one. And right after you take that first step...take ONE STEP more. All of the goals look unattainable when we try to take it all in at once.
If you showed up in kindergarten and the teacher put on the board the entire syllabus you would need to graduate from college we would have either stood there in total shock and awe (or our parents would have for us) and then quit believing that there would be no way we could complete all of that in our ability (or our own finite perception of our abilities). But they started you out playing, scribbling with a crayon, making shapes, chanting numbers that made no sense to you and spelling words you didn't know the meaning of and one day...it made sense!
New Year Challenge!!
1. Form a local team of like minded individuals with common goals (no more than 5 people but at least 3). 2. Choose a start date (I suggest within the next 48hrs) and weigh in
3. Choose a commitment (I suggest $5/week)
4. Choose a end date (I suggest no more than 2 weeks).
5. COLLECT THE MONEY AND GET STARTED!
Compete and encourage one another at the same time. To lose the most pounds or inches or both. At the end of the prescribed time period whomever has made the most progress takes the pot.
Rinse and repeat:)
You don't have to look like a size 5 when you are done. You don't have to fit into those skinny jeans. You just have to be one step closer to the healthier you that you deserve to be!
Send us your achievements and your success stories. We want to see how you conquered the world ONE STEP AT A TIME and WON!!
Romans 8:37-39
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For information on Back to Eden - A Christian Approach to Weight Loss email me directly at thatchl@yahoo.com or call 704-493-2035. I look forward to supporting you. Remember, its really NOT about the weight.
Meanwhile...keep walking on water.
Step-by-step, i have the power to change all that is not working in my life. With each step I take, I am on the pathway to the best of who I am. Somettimes I go a bit off-course, but I always find my way back again. Peace comes from realizing that all that needs to be done will be done. I just start from the place where I am right now and take it one step at a time. In so doing, I pull myself out of the rut of inaction. I trust the wisdom within my being to show me what needs to be done. And I will do it...one step at a time. I take a deep breath and relax. Yes...
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
ONE STEP AT A TIME IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
(Copyright (c) 2006 Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.)
How many times have you resolved to start bettering yourself only to get discouraged by your PAST results? Why do we allow ourselves to do that? We have to LOOK AHEAD! Well, then when we look ahead, things look so far away, they don't look attainable. We are looking too far. Take ONE STEP toward your goal. Just one. And right after you take that first step...take ONE STEP more. All of the goals look unattainable when we try to take it all in at once.
If you showed up in kindergarten and the teacher put on the board the entire syllabus you would need to graduate from college we would have either stood there in total shock and awe (or our parents would have for us) and then quit believing that there would be no way we could complete all of that in our ability (or our own finite perception of our abilities). But they started you out playing, scribbling with a crayon, making shapes, chanting numbers that made no sense to you and spelling words you didn't know the meaning of and one day...it made sense!
New Year Challenge!!
1. Form a local team of like minded individuals with common goals (no more than 5 people but at least 3). 2. Choose a start date (I suggest within the next 48hrs) and weigh in
3. Choose a commitment (I suggest $5/week)
4. Choose a end date (I suggest no more than 2 weeks).
5. COLLECT THE MONEY AND GET STARTED!
Compete and encourage one another at the same time. To lose the most pounds or inches or both. At the end of the prescribed time period whomever has made the most progress takes the pot.
Rinse and repeat:)
You don't have to look like a size 5 when you are done. You don't have to fit into those skinny jeans. You just have to be one step closer to the healthier you that you deserve to be!
Send us your achievements and your success stories. We want to see how you conquered the world ONE STEP AT A TIME and WON!!
Romans 8:37-39
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For information on Back to Eden - A Christian Approach to Weight Loss email me directly at thatchl@yahoo.com or call 704-493-2035. I look forward to supporting you. Remember, its really NOT about the weight.
Meanwhile...keep walking on water.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Exposed - Part II
Exposed Part II
Meanwhile...Keep walking on water!
Rev. Lisa Thatch - A Caring Professional
704-493-2035
Ladies, join us for prayer on the ladies prayer line - Mon-Fri at 6am and Saturday at 8am712-432-0232 passcode 813766#
Back to Eden - A Christian Approach to Weight Loss
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This is a new stage. Things are going 'well' but you still can't be happy, you still refuse to 'relax'. Looking over your shoulder at yourself thinking, I could be happy here....but it won't last. Or hmmm, this is too good to be true, so it must not be. Or even, who am I kidding, I've never been able to (fill in your own blank here) for long, so I'm only setting myself up for a bigger let down if I get used to this.
Every change, every 'success' is also going to reveal a crack. A crack in the facade, the facade or image you are creating for yourself. Especially if we are only doing 'surface' work. Remember the roads they re-did in front of my house? I would have had them simply slap some 'new' asphalt on top of the old and make it pretty and smooth looking and be done with it. But now we realize, had they done that, it might have been completed more quickly, it may have looked good, it may have even lasted...for a little while, but eventually the breaches below, the weaknesses and imperfections that were left unattended to would cause the new, smooth, pretty upper layer to crack.
The new year has brought with it a tremendous amount of pressure to 'get fit', 'lose weight', 'get healthy'. The one that is the closest to where our focus ought to be is 'get healthy' but not just 'physically fit' that's only the surface. It takes a larger commitment to get fully fit. To delve into understanding (and repairing) all that lies under the surface. Then and only then can we be 'whole'.
James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.Rev. Lisa Thatch - A Caring Professional
704-493-2035
Ladies, join us for prayer on the ladies prayer line - Mon-Fri at 6am and Saturday at 8am712-432-0232 passcode 813766#
Back to Eden - A Christian Approach to Weight Loss
Call for a consultation!! $50. Facebook friends: $35 Facebook: Lisa Indyatalks ThatchYoutube: http://youtube.com/indyatalksTwitter: http://twitter.com.indyatalksBlog: http://indyatalks.blogspot.com
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