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Self-Esteem – How Can You Jump Start Your Image by Expressing the Good in Others?
Self-Esteem – How Can You Jump Start Your Image by Expressing the Good in Others?
Express the Positive Qualities of Others and Jump Start Your Own Self-Confidence!
Self-esteem and the image you carry of yourself plays a vital role in your personal success. Do you move through life feeling worthless as if nothing you do is good enough, or that you’ll never amount to anything? Obviously, those are not encouraging thoughts and feelings to make you successful.
Which just goes to prove; we should give great importance to increasing our confidence and self-esteem.
There are a multitude of things which assist our personal self image. Keeping our minds in a positive condition; keeping ourselves physically healthy; maintaining a cheerful, happy mental attitude by 
keeping our minds free from worry and anxiety, all of these things are great aids to our self-confidence.
Another trick to give your own image a boost is to take notice and express the good in others. Learning to see and acknowledge the positive qualities in others is excellent practice for learning to acknowledge your own positive qualities.
And don’t forget, you reap what you sow. As you are generous in your compliments to others, others will be generous in their compliments to you. A great self-esteem booster!
Planting seeds of confidence in others is like planting seeds of self-confidence in you. It is also an act of love. And when you learn to love and appreciate the good in those around you, you’ll find it easier to love and appreciate the good in yourself. This also helps drop barriers and resistance that may be hindering your self-esteem.
So be generous in your encouragement to others. A generous man will prosper and he who refreshes others will he himself be refreshed. (Proverbs 11:25) Again, a reminder that what goes around, comes around and it is better to give than to receive.
The bottom line: Begin to see others the way God sees them, and you’ll begin to see yourself the way God sees you. You are a child of God and He did not create you for failure. You have the ability to do what the Almighty Creator sent you here to do. Now go encourage someone else and enjoy a boost to your own self-esteem.
May your confidence increase and your life be filled with growing prosperity!
God bless you –
Cheers,
Brenda
Chris Tomlin – I Will Rise – Music Video
Chris Tomlin – “I Will Rise” Christian Music Video
Our Victory is in Our Risen Lord Jesus Christ
There is an anchor for our soul and we can say that it is well because Jesus has overcome!
“Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:57
This is a beautiful song that helps us keep an eternal perspective. Everytime it comes on I have to stop what I’m doing and take time to give God some thanks & praise.
Enjoy & be blessed!
Brenda
P.S. “I Will Rise” from the “Hello Love” album and other Chris Tomlin songs are available in digital and physical versions at Amazon.
Abundant Living – Top 10 Reasons Why a Partnership with God is Critical!
Abundant Living – Top 10 Reasons Why a Partnership with God is Critical!
Partner with God and Discover How to Manifest the Abundant Life
Abundant living is possible. Is your life currently a far cry from abundance? Are you experiencing unemployment, job loss, debt, sickness, anxiety, marriage troubles, depression, and similar hardships, and ready to through in the towel?
Hear this: Do NOT quit!
Regardless of your situation, there is One who has the ability to move you from the painful pit of poverty and despair to the highest mountain top of prosperous living.
Living a full prosperous life in spirit, mind, and body requires partnership with God, the creator and source of all. Life takes on a whole new meaning and a higher power when we live in constant realization of our at-one-ment with our Creator, our partnership with the loving, good God.
Top 10 Reasons Why Your Partnership with God is Critical for Living the Abundant Life:
1) STRENGTH – The nearer you are to God the greater your strength. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. (Isaiah 40:31)
2) POWER to CREATE and INVENT – A closer relationship and consciousness with God, provides more power to create and invent because you draw upon the limitless resources of an unlimited God. His power works through us to glorify His name. (Romans 9:17)
3) WISDOM – Your partnership, with the God of infinite wisdom, allows you to tap into His wisdom. He says if we lack wisdom to ask and He will give it to us generously. (James 1:5)
4) HOPE – Realization of your divine partnership with God will enlarge your life and multiply your effectiveness with hope in Him. It will take away feelings of hopelessness, uncertainty and inability to overcome the storms of life. God’s plans are to give us hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)
5) NO FEAR – When you take God into full, complete partnership, you will not fear. Your life’s ventures cannot end in disappointment. With God we are led into abundant pastures, beside still waters, and He says we will fear no evil. (Psalm 23)
6) MIRACLES – As God’s partner, He is able to perform miracles through us. Every great artist, writer, inventor, or healer that has done a miraculous thing, is conscious of the greater divine source of God working through them. God can make your tongue as the pen of a skilled writer. (Psalm 45:1)
7) SUCCESS & HAPPINESS – To have real success requires taking God into partnership and lining up your purpose and ambitions with His will. When your career and life does not run counter to God’s plan, but is in tune and contributes and benefits society, your cooperation will bring true happiness and success. In Him we live and move and have our being. (Acts 17:28)
8 ) HONESTY – Taking God into partnership means that you must not only be honest, but that you must be robustly honest. You cannot lie, cheat, steal, or take advantage of anyone. It is impossible for God to lie. (Hebrews 6:18)
9) LOVE – Partnership with God requires walking in love and loving Him. God is a god of love and what is life without love? God tells us to do all things in love and that love never fails. We are told that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord. (Romans 8:28)
10) PEACE – When you take God into partnership, and you are conscious of doing His work, you have a life of peace and security. With God’s great light in your life you can feel safe and reassured that you will not lose your way. We are told the Lord will bless his people with peace. (Psalm 29:11)
I could go on and on. The fact is, with God as your partner you will have a new zest in life to attain the higher things that are worthwhile and of eternal value. Working in harmony with God allows you to inherit the best from the King of kings and enjoy a prosperous and abundant life.
May your partnership with God increase your growing prosperity!
Be blessed to be a blessing,
Brenda
Now What? After Your Child Graduates and Starts a New Season of Life
Now What? After Your Child Graduates and Starts a New Season of Life
My Little Girl Is Growing Up
Within the last few months I celebrated my oldest daughter’s 18th birthday and her high school graduation. 
She is very smart, talented, and beautiful. I’ve always been proud of her in many ways. Especially her ability to stand for what is right and make smart decisions.
Within the last six months or so, though – I’ve seen her decision making waver.
My heart has always gone out to other parents who have a child or children that stray from what they know is right and get wrapped up in the dark things of the world. I can now relate to what those parents are going through in a much deeper way. My daughter this year got hooked up with a bad group of friends and overnight turned into someone I hardly recognize. It broke my heart.
Thanks to a praying pastor, friends, and family, she is coming back around and I believe she will prosper in the good plans God has prepared for her.
Earlier this year I had a friend remind me that as much as I love my daughter – she is also a child of God and He loves her and cares for her way more than I do. I don’t know how to even explain how much that comforted me, but it still does . . .
I picture God watching over her and holding her at all times. Something I can’t do. So I continue to pray and trust God to take care of her.
Some Powerful, Encouraging Scripture Confessions to Pray Over Your Child in Accordance With The Word of God:
I pray that in all things my child is more than a conqueror through Jesus who loves her.
Romans 8:37I pray, God, that You have put a new song in my child’s mouth – praise to her God.
Psalm 40:3I pray that my child has the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:16I pray that my child is confident that You, God, who have begun a good work in her, will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:6I pray that, Lord, Your faithfulness will establish my child and guard her from the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3I pray, God, that You have sent Your word and healed my child and delivered her from destruction.
Psalm 107:20I pray that my child will be strong in You, Lord, and in the power of Your might. I pray that she will put on Your whole armor, that she may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For she does not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of the age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:10-12I pray that my child realizes that You, Lord, know how to deliver her out of temptations.
2 Peter 2:9I pray that You, God, will heal my child’s broken heart and bind up her wounds.
Psalm 147:3I pray that my child loves You, God, because You first loved her.
1 John 4:19
Go ahead and personalize these with your child’s name.
In good times or bad, we need to continue praying God’s will for our children. Then we’ll see growth take place in their lives to become all that God intends them to be!
God bless you & your children,
Brenda
P.S. Is there a verse not listed above that has helped you? Please feel free to share . . . Thanks!
Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
To the best mom in the whole world. Here’s Celebrating You Today!! :0)
Here is a fun video that all moms are sure to enjoy. They showed it at church today and I wanted to share it…
I Love You Mom,
Brenda
Stop the Enemy from Attacking the Prosperity of Your Teenager
Stop the Enemy from Attacking the Prosperity of Your Teenager
How to Get Your Teenager Back on the Path to Prosperity
When you are on the path to a prosperous life, you quickly discover there is resistance. Attacks of all sorts pop up along the way to prevent your success. This is common to everyone seeking prosperity. It also seems that the closer you get to your desired result the greater the challenges.
Often times, we find ourselves successful and prospering is several areas. Our diligence and determination begins to produce results. However, the enemy likes to play dirty and if he can’t get to us personally he will go for our children.
Teenagers already experience a great set of challenges of their own. New changes are constantly happening in their lives. They experience physical changes in their bodies, they get jobs, learn how to drive, begin new classes and activities at school, struggle with peer pressures of all sorts, have to make decisions for the future, and begin acquiring new responsibilities, just to name a few.
As parents we want the best for our children and to see them prosper. We invest in them to the best of our ability regardless of how demanding it can be at times. Anyone that has raised a teenager knows that many a time your mental, emotional, and physical reserves will be zapped. Yet, we continue to get up each day and give them the unconditional love they need.
Yet, what do you do after you’ve taught and instructed them in the way that will prosper them and then the enemy takes over? Through temptations, addictions, and rebellion they are on a path to destruction. This is a great turmoil in life to see a child that you love go through. It creates an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness and helplessness in a parent.
There is hope, however, regardless of your situation. Our children are a blessing from God. And God has power over the enemy and we need to stand on His Word to activate this power.
Meditate, confess, and stand on the following verses from God’s Word in faith daily:
“Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping;
Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears;
for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.”
Jeremiah 31:15-17
Stop your weeping. Keep serving the Lord. Refuse to let the enemy have your children. Don’t give up. Put your trust in God and His Word. If He says there is hope, then believe there is hope and that your children will come back from the land of the enemy. God’s plan is for you and your children to prosper.
May you and your children experience growing prosperity as you serve the Lord!
God bless you with hope & encouragement,
Brenda
P.S. If you have a personal testimony of getting your child back out of the hands of the enemy or any advise in this area … please comment and share. I’d love to hear from you as I’m standing on the above scriptures for my daughter to come back!
How to Prosper by Overcoming Anxiety with Abundant Favor!
How to Prosper by Overcoming Anxiety with Abundant Favor!
God Gives an Abundance of Favor for Your Confidence to Prosper
Our minds often get conditioned to accept a low level of confidence because of past experiences we’ve had as far back as our childhood. The stresses, pressures and daily attacks on our minds can have us living in fear, anxiety and depression. However, that does not have to be the case.
God’s love and favor heals insecurities and anxieties!
Begin to realize the divine favor you have with God and man and learn how to put it to work in your life. God’s blessing of favor flowing in your life is not based on your background, talents, or anything you have learned. Ephesians 6:24 says that grace is with all those that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Grace means favor you do not deserve.
Start the favor of God flowing in your life by daily confessing what God promises. Then you will see yourself walking in His favor in every area of your life. Speak words of favor over and over during the day until your spirit is revived. When the truth of God’s love and favor get planted into your spirit, it will replace the insecurities and anxieties you have.
Many people confess doubt and failure over and over during their lifetime until their spirit is depressed and broken. Do not be one of those people! Within just a few days you can experience a very dramatic change with God’s abundant favor.
Get started right now with these confessions on favor and confidence:
I am blessed with God’s grace. God pours out on me a river of favor with God and with those around me.
You, Lord bless me with favor and You surround me as with a shield. (Psalm 5:12)
I have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16)
The Greater One lives in me. Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world. (1 John 4:4)
I am being filled with God’s fullness. I am being rooted and grounded in love. God is doing exceeding and abundantly above all that I ask or think. His mighty power is taking over in me. (Eph. 3:17-20)
I grow strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace and favor of God is upon me. (Luke 2:40)
The truth of God’s Word makes me free. (John 8:32)
Thank You, Lord, that I have favor with You and man and people go out of their way to bless me and do good to me today.
Favor flows by standing on the living Word of God in faith. Reject the negative things you have been feeding into your mind. Accept only what the Lord has told you. Repeat the above confessions until doubt disappears.
Learn to walk in God’s favor. It is for you today. Speak favor. Live favor. Be prosperous. Live life expecting something great to happen daily and it will. Remember, with God nothing is impossible. Let His truth take root in you. Favor is God’s promise to every believer from His Word. All you have to do is receive it and prosper.
Enjoy growing prosperity as the favor of God flows in your life!
God bless you,
Brenda