You were made on purpose for a purpose.
You were intimately and specifically hand-made by God...
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You were made on purpose for a purpose. There's no such thing as a person who is a mistake. People make mistakes. But we are not mistakes. In Psalm 139. David proclaims this about God. He says that for you formed my inward parts, you knitted me together in my mother's womb. Every single one of us was handmade by God. We were made intentionally. We were made specifically, and we were made intimately by our Creator, as bearers of his image. You need to remember that he knit us together, each one of us in our mother's womb, that's how well that he knows you. So you always need to remember that God loves you, that He created you, he saved you, and He made you his masterpiece in Christ Jesus, whenever you believed in Jesus as your Savior. So never forget that no matter what you're dealing with in life, remember, okay, God has made you on purpose for a purpose.

A simple way to encourage yourself and stir your faith...
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One of the greatest ways that you can encourage yourself and stir up your faith is to remember all the things that God has done. And not just the things that are in the Bible. Those are great things to remember and think about. But also remember all the many wonderful things that God has done for you, in your own life. Recently, a situation came up that troubled me pretty deeply. But because of the things that God had already done, in my life, and in the life of my family, I also had great comfort that God was going to take care of us and see through these things. While we were at a conference this past week, I heard one of the speakers say that faith isn't just believing in the things that God will do in the future, but also believing in the things that God has done in the past. And I thought, wow, that is such a great thing. So often we're thinking about faith in terms of what God promises to do and what he will do. And that's that's a wonderful thought to think. But it's also important for us to remember and believe all the things that God has already done. God's been a miracle working God since the beginning of time. He's worked so many miracles and done so many good things in the lives of his people. And in your life. He's done so many wonderful things. How could you not trust him? How could you not believe that he's going to continue to do good things for you. So whenever you're going through a hard time or a challenging time, or a discouraging time, I encourage you to remember all of the wonderful things that God has done for you and in your life already. Remember those things, dwell on those things, and worship Him. Let that encourage you and stir up your faith.

Comparison is the thief of joy, here is what you should do instead…
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They say Comparison is the thief of joy. And one of the surefire ways for you to have a bad day is to walk around comparing yourself to everyone and everything. Or even worse, complaining after comparing yourself. I don't know about you, but anytime I look at someone or something and compare myself to them or see something that they have, that I don't have, that I wish I had, or that I won, or that I think it's unfair, it never helps me to have a better day, it never puts me in a better mood. In fact, it makes things worse. But here's the answer to that, instead of comparing and complaining, being thankful and grateful for all of the many, many, many blessings that you have always makes you feel a lot better. This is something I was talking to Carter about on the way here, you're talking about comparing ourselves, if we look at others, and all the things that they have, that we want. If we think about those things all the time, or we think it's unfair, or it's not right, it's gonna bring us down. But on the flip side, when we sit around and think about all the wonderful things that we have, all the blessings that we have in our life that God has given to us, that puts us in a much better mood. That helps us out to have a much better day. So instead of comparing and complaining, Let's be thankful and grateful. And see if that doesn't help you have a much, much better day.

You were made to be creative!
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You were made to be creative. Our imagination and creativity are important parts of our lives that we all embraced at one point. When I was his age, I imagined and created all the time. And think about a daylight today, especially when we're going to have kids going through our neighborhoods, trick or treat and dressed up as their favorite heroes are their favorite characters from TV shows. Luna is going to be Spider Girl, for instance, and Carter, who you're going to be been Ironman card is going to be dressed up as Iron Man, we all love to do that. At one point, we, as children, we'd love to create and imagine and we weren't concerned whether it was good or bad, we just like to create and make new things and try things. Somewhere along the way, a lot of us lose them. A lot of us think it's no longer okay to do those things as if, as we grow up, we need to set those creative things aside. But I think that that's a shame because I believe that we were all made to be incredibly creative. God gave each one of us specific gifts and tastes, he made you to create things that are a lot different than the things I create. So I think it's important for us to pick up the our creativity, to use our imagination, to use those things that God has laid into our hearts and our minds and our spirits. So I encourage each of you today and every day to use your imagination, creativity to do things in your own life.

This little light of mine, I’m gunna let…
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You were made to shine. In Matthew chapter five, Jesus tells the Jewish people at the time to let their light shine before men so that people would see their good works and praise God. And if that's true about the Jews and shining God's light, how much more true? Is it about Christians, those who have been born again, those who have the life of Christ living inside of them, those who have the Holy Spirit, that life and that light? How much more should we let that shine for people? And this isn't about us being selfish or self promoting or anything like that? No, in fact, it's the quite the opposite. It's to let God's light shine. If you think about it like this, in the beginning of the book of John, John says, In the beginning was the Word the Word was with God, the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God, all things were made through Him. And without Him was not anything made that was made. I might have messed that up a little bit. But interesting, in a couple of verses, it says in him talking about Jesus was life, and the life was the light of men. So those of us who have Christ living within us have the light living inside of us. How much more should we let our light shine? You were made to shine as one who's an image bearer of God, first of all, but number two, as one who has been born again in Christ, you have that light, let it shine so the whole world sees your father and glorifies Him. Have a wonderful day, shine on

It’s your choice, will you encourage people or discourage people? (Including yourself!)
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You have incredible power to affect the way a person feels including yourself. You have the power to encourage a person and lift them up and inspire them. You also have the power to discourage someone to bring them down to harm them to make things more difficult on them. You get to make that choice every single day are the words that you speak going to encourage others and lift them up, or they're going to stir up life within people. Or the words that you speak going to drag them down, cause harm, cause hurt. The choice is up to you. The Bible even tells us in the Book of Proverbs, that life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Basically, what that means is your words have the ability to bring life or bring death and whichever one that you choose to walk in. That's the fruit that you'll get to enjoy in your life. Whether it's encouragement and good things towards life, or it's discouragement and bad things towards death. You get to choose every single day. Are you going to encourage or discourage? The choice is yours. And I hope you'll choose to encourage others and yourself

How to stop negative things from DERAILING your entire day…
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So how do we keep little disruptions or distractions from derailing our entire day, if you're anything like me, if something goes wrong in the morning, or when you're getting ready, especially if you're behind on time, it can just mess with your entire day, then you're just kind of mad at the world because something went wrong or something unexpected happened. You're mad driving around while you're going to work or getting your kids to school. I don't know if that happens to y'all, but happens to me all the time. It's something today actually happen as I was getting ready, I go, I grabbed my favorite shirt out of the closet. And I think Man, it's gonna be a good day. I absolutely love this shirt, that shirt that makes you feel good. Put it on, I get halfway down, buttoning it up, and there's a button missing. Okay, number one, I'm already behind on the day number two, I'm mad that I can't wear the shirt today. And I'm mad that it's messed up. And I could have let that kind of mess with my entire day. But you know what I decided instead, instead of focusing on all the negative things, I was like, I'm gonna put a spin on it. Let's focus on all the good things. Do I know anybody who can fix this shirt? Yep, problem solved. Then number two, I went in, grabbed my closet, opened it up, looked at it. I have a closet full of clothes. I'm blessed to have a closet full of clothes. So I was like today is gonna be a good day. I don't care about that distraction that happened. I'm not going to let something so trivial. Set the the the mood for my entire day. Instead of focusing on the negative instead of focusing on the bad I decided let's focus on the positive. Let's focus on the good. So why don't you try that out? The next time it happens, something goes wrong, something distracts you tries to derail you, instead of focusing on the bad. Take a moment and focus on the good and see how that affects the rest of your day.

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Have a Good morning on this cold and windy Tuesday, we get to bust out the jackets and the scarves get to keep ourselves warm because it actually feels like fall is in the air. I wanted to share a brief word of motivation and inspiration with you today, I want to share something that happened this morning to me as I woke up, I was getting ready, I hopped on the scale to check my bodyweight and saw that I was down 25 pounds, which is a huge milestone of towards a goal that I had set several months ago. And several months ago, I found myself in a place that I was pretty unhappy with physically. I saw where I was, and I knew where I wanted to be. And the two just weren't connecting, I lacked all the drive the motivation, the discipline, I just thought, man that's so far outside of my reach. Maybe that's just not for me anymore. Maybe the time has passed me by. And I could have stayed in that mindset. But instead what I decided to do was set the goal and make little decisions, small steps every day toward that goal, no matter how big or how small it was, whether it was just getting to the gym, making a good choice that day, or whatever. And as those good choices built up, I gained some momentum. And small victories came which made me excited which made me keep going and going. And I want to share that with you today. If you've got a goal, a vision, a dream, something you want to see accomplished, but he feels outside your reach. Don't worry about getting everything done right now as fast as you can. Instead take small steps towards that goal every single day, no matter how big or how small, and you'll be amazed where you find yourself in a couple of months. So go walk in faith and go see those dreams come to reality.