Keeping Encouraged
Posted by Joy M at 11/5/2009 11:18 PM 
Categories: Motivation,Mental Health,Inspiration
Tags: Transformation Health Blessings
Categories: Motivation,Mental Health,Inspiration
Tags: Transformation Health Blessings
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
I woke up one day very encouraged. Nothing in particular happened. I may have lost a pound or two. Somehow, the world of possibility seemed incredibly positive. My good feeling was not just with my Divine Health plan, but with everything. The day was great.
Somehow, a couple of days later, my feeling had changed. I think it was something simple that caused the change. I stepped onto the scale and my couple of pounds lost had now found there way back. what discouragement. I let that feeling change the thoughts of so many other things. Work got on my nerves, cleaning up my home was more than I wanted and short-term tasks felt more pressing.
In the first moment of discouragement, I needed to take stock of the goal and the blessings and know that my positive attitude helps make the positive outcome come so much sooner. I've known this to be true. I stated the year with Encourage Yourself that supplied the words and a link to a song to help anyone along the way. Yet, I find that I can sometimes be less than 100% encouraged.
When I take a moment to step back and look at this, I know that I need to build on my mustard seed faith. It is not simply the faith alone. The faith causes me to take the actions that demonstrate that I have the faith to help me realize the future that I want and that God wants for me. Some days are easier than others and I know that I need to lean more on God when I'm not encouraged enough by myself. After this little talking to myself, I'm feeling more on the right track. We'll have to see the results of my faith in action.
I woke up one day very encouraged. Nothing in particular happened. I may have lost a pound or two. Somehow, the world of possibility seemed incredibly positive. My good feeling was not just with my Divine Health plan, but with everything. The day was great.
Somehow, a couple of days later, my feeling had changed. I think it was something simple that caused the change. I stepped onto the scale and my couple of pounds lost had now found there way back. what discouragement. I let that feeling change the thoughts of so many other things. Work got on my nerves, cleaning up my home was more than I wanted and short-term tasks felt more pressing. In the first moment of discouragement, I needed to take stock of the goal and the blessings and know that my positive attitude helps make the positive outcome come so much sooner. I've known this to be true. I stated the year with Encourage Yourself that supplied the words and a link to a song to help anyone along the way. Yet, I find that I can sometimes be less than 100% encouraged.
When I take a moment to step back and look at this, I know that I need to build on my mustard seed faith. It is not simply the faith alone. The faith causes me to take the actions that demonstrate that I have the faith to help me realize the future that I want and that God wants for me. Some days are easier than others and I know that I need to lean more on God when I'm not encouraged enough by myself. After this little talking to myself, I'm feeling more on the right track. We'll have to see the results of my faith in action.
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