Eliminate Negative Self-Talk

Long before psychology came around, God said your thoughts determine your feelings and your feelings determine your actions. If you want to change your life, you've got to control the way you think.

Our minds are really an amazing creation. It would take a computer the size of a small city just to carry out the basic functions of your brain. Your brain contains over one hundred billion nerve cells. Each individual cell is connected with ten thousand other neurons.

In addition, you're constantly talking to yourself--all the time. Your mind is talking to you! You're talking to yourself right now. Research indicates that most people speak at a rate of 150 to 200 words per minute, but the mind can listen to about 500-600 words a minute. That's why you can listen to me and plan today's dinner at the same time.

In fact, our internal dialogue--the conversation we have with ourselves--is at a rate of 1,300 words per minute. How? Because our mind sees in pictures, and you can see a thought in a nano-second!

The problem is a lot of us are like Job, who says, "Everything I say seems to condemn me" (Job 9:20 GN). He is saying, in effect, "Everything I say puts me down." If you are typical to the human race, you are your own worst critic.

We're always putting ourselves down. We walk into a room smiling, but inside we're thinking, "I’m fat. I'm dumb. I'm ugly. And I'm always late!"

God wants us to stop putting ourselves down. When you put yourself down, who are you really putting down? When you say, "I'm fat. I'm dumb. I'm ugly. I'm no good. I have no talent," you're really pointing to the Creator who made you. When you say, "God, I'm worthless. I'm no good. I can't do anything," you're saying, "God, you blew it with me." That's why God says it's wrong to put yourself down.

How do you eliminate negative self-talk so you can become a more confident person?

The Bible teaches the principle of replacement:

"Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right . . . Think about all you can thank God for and be glad about" (Philippians 4:8 TLB).

In other words, don't think about all those weaknesses in your life. Focus on who God wants you want to be and on what God wants to do in your life. I don't know any better antidote to low self-esteem (or to facing your hurts, habits, and hang-ups) than to read God's word every day: study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it in your life.
There isn't a better thing you can do to raise your confidence level than to start believing what God says about you. As I read through the Bible, chapter by chapter, I find a verse that speaks to me. I write it down on a card, memorize it, and then I start affirming it back to God. "Father, thank you that I am valuable; I am significant; I am forgivable; I am capable." Let God renew your mind because "your life is shaped by your thoughts" 


(Adapted from Purpose Driven Connection"

The Best Investment

"The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends." - Donald J. Trump


Oftentimes people ask me what is a good investment? How to invest in real estate? What business makes is profitable? I always answered back that I do not give investment and business advice because we do not have any relationships yet. I only mentor those in the core team.

In the core team we do not give cheap advice. The information we got and the system we are using can make any ordinary person wealthy and achieve time and financial freedom from zero to 3 years. We give mentoring because we have done it and succeeded.

OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE

OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE

Quotes to keep you going:-)

“Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.” -- Victor Hugo

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them." -- George Bernard Shaw

"We were not created to be eaten by anxiety, but to walk erect, free, unafraid in a world where there is work to do, truth to seek, love to give and win." -- Joseph Ford Newton

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." -- Lucille Ball

Bringing Pleasure to God

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men" (Colossians 3:23 NIV).

When I first fell in love with my wife, I thought of her constantly: while eating breakfast, driving to school, attending class, waiting in line at the market, pumping gas—I could not stop thinking about this woman! I often talked to myself about her and thought about all the things I loved about her. I felt close to Kay even though we lived several hundred miles apart and attended different colleges!

Just like my love for Kay transformed everything I did, love for God can transform every activity of our daily lives.

Martin Luther once said, "A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God." Does that strike you as a strange thing to say? How can an "un-sacred" chore like milking a cow be an act of worshiping God?

Worship is far more than church services with singing, praying, and listening to a sermon. Worship is anything you do that brings pleasure to God. The Bible says, "The Lord is pleased with those who worship him and trust his love" (Psalm 147:11 CEV).

In the Bible, people praised God at work, at home, in battle, in jail, and even in bed! Anything you do can be an act of worship when you do it for the praise, glory, and pleasure of God.

How is that possible? By doing everything as if you were doing it for Jesus and by carrying on a continual conversation with him while you do it! The Bible says, "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV). And then: "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men" (Colossians 3:23 NIV).

The Message paraphrase says, "Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering" (Romans 12:1).

Worship is not a part of your life, it is your life.

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All the glory and praises are due to JESUS who gave me wisdom, strenghts and faith to believe in the power of my dreams. I am now a step higher...

Praise GOD!!

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Playing Second Fiddle

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy,

to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God

– this is your spiritual act of worship.” (Romans 12:1 NIV)

Next time you bite into a hamburger, I want you to think about

how your trip to the fast-food-burger-barn can become a

“spiritual act of worship.”

Yes, really.

The Apostle Paul calls us to be living sacrifices, alive in Christ –

moment-by-moment being conformed by the Holy Spirit into

]the image of Christ. Our spiritual act of worship includes grate

fully acknowledging that our heavenly Father is still on the throne

of grace and that he has the right to guide us, lead us, and prompt

us about any particular thing we do or any specific decision we

make throughout the day, no matter how insignificant it may seem.

Eugene Peterson, in The Message, paraphrases Paul’s words this

way: “So here's what I want you to do, God helping you:

Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping,

eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life –

and place it before God as an offering ….” (Romans 12:1a MSG)

In other words, your whole life becomes an act of

constant worship when you live, work, and breathe

as unto the Lord. (Colossians 3:23)

Paul’s language in Romans 12 refers to the

work required by priests to prepare the temple

for worship; he’s suggesting that the mundane

tasks of the temple are acts of worship equal to

the seemingly more spiritual moments of community worship.

Time warp into the present and think of it like this

: God can be worshiped as well when you vacuum the carpet

in the worship center as when you stand in the same

place during a worship service.

Paul continues in his letter to outline specific

and practical behaviors that can be offered to

God as acts of worship as we, living sacrifices,

move from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.

By giving up our own choices and preferences in

deference to others, we please and worship God.

Now, you may be thinking, What does this have to

do with ordering a burger and fries at the fast-food-burger-barn?

Let’s step into that answer with a confession about myself:

You could say I’m in recovery for impatience, a sin I took

my sweet time to confess before God. (Meaning God showed

patience at my impatience!) When you get honest about it,

impatience is a form of pride. It says: “I require immediate

attention (because I’m too childish to wait).” “My time is mor

important than the time of others.” “I know better than

anyone else what must be done.” “My need is urgent;

everyone else, get in the slow line.”

Yet Paul says that when we sacrifice our own choices

and preferences in deference to others – when we honor

others over ourselves – we please and worship God.

(Romans 12:1, 10) Eugene Peterson suggests Paul is saying,

“Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing

second fiddle.”(Romans 12:10 MSG)

As I read this passage, I felt the Holy Spirit’s nudging – you

know how that goes – “Hey, this passage is about you

and your impatience; now what are you going to do about it?”

My immediate answer was ... to head off to the

fast-food-burger-barn for some “comfort food.”

It was lunch time, and as I was walking into the burger barn,

I started jockeying for position, trying to get through the door

before any slow looking people got in front of me. As I grabbed

for the door, the words “Practice playing second fiddle” lit up my

French fry-deprived mind like neon sign

energized by the Holy Spirit. And in that moment,

God spoke into my thoughts: “What does it matter

in eternity if I get my Big Burger Deluxe 35 seconds

later than someone else?” I stopped and opened the

door so the people behind me could go through in front of me.

Here’s my point: Allowing others to go before me when I was in such

a rush went against my natural inclinations, but God was

telling me to sacrifice my natural tendencies, to lay

them on the altar before him so the Holy Spirit could

energize my actions. As Ian Thomas teaches, God

replaces our instincts with the Holy Spirit.

By practicing at playing second fiddle, this mundane

moment became an act of worship: “God, I have failed so

often to honor others over myself, but I want to start now.

I acknowledge you are my God, and I am submitted to you.

You are a great and gracious God, and you will take care of me,

so it does not matter when I get to the front of the line,

or if I even miss this one meal.”

This thought of worshiping God in all we do, think, and say is a

difficult truth to handle, and I am way at the back of the line in

understanding it and living it out. In fact, it seems quite impossible.

I can’t, but God can.

So what?

· Honor God in all you do – “So here's what I want you to do,

God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life –

your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life –

and place it before God as an offering ….” (Romans 12:1a MSG)

· Go with faith, not fear – As God guides you to places in your

life where you’re still not living in sacrifice (that is, being a

living sacrifice), ask him to show you what specific fear is

keeping you from the faith of your living your everyday,

ordinary life before God as an offering.

· I can’t or I won’t – When God confronts you with a natural

instinct – a portion of your life where you tend to be self-

centered instead of other-centered – ask him to show you

the difference between “I can’t change ….” and “I won’t change ….”

· Pick one behavior – Read through Romans 12:6-17 and

pick one behavior that you need to offer before God as part

of your living sacrifice. Chose an area where you are weak

but willing to submit to God’s great and gracious strength.

Don't Fear Authentic Relationships "But if we live in the light, as God is in the light, we can share fellowship with each other. Then the blood of Jesus, God's Son, cleanses us from every sin. If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (1 John 1:7-8 NCV).
Authentic fellowship is not superficial, surface-level chit-chat. It's genuine, heart-to-heart, sometimes gut-level sharing. It happens when people get honest about who they are and what is happening in their lives. They share their hurts, reveal their feelings, confess their failures, disclose their doubts, admit their fears, acknowledge their weaknesses, and ask for help and prayer. Authenticity is the exact opposite of what you find in many churches. Instead of an atmosphere of honesty and humility, there is pretending, role-playing, politicking, and superficial politeness, but shallow conversation. People wear masks, keep their guard up, and act as if everything is rosy in their lives. These attitudes are the death of real friendship. It's only as we become open about our lives that we experience authentic fellowship. The Bible says, "If we live in the light, as God is in the light, we can share fellowship with each other . . . If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves" (1 John 1:7-8 NCV). The world thinks intimacy occurs in the dark, but God says it happens in the light. We tend to use darkness to hide our hurts, faults, fears, failures, and flaws. But in the light, we bring them all out into the open and admit who we really are. Of course, being authentic requires both courage and humility. It means facing our fear of exposure, rejection, and being hurt again. Why would anyone take such a risk? Because it's the only way to grow spiritually and be emotionally healthy. The Bible says, "Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed" (James 5:16 MSG).

We Know God's Truth Through Creation

We Know God's Truth Through Creation "But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is!" (Romans 1:19 MSG)
About thirty-five years ago, I was at a camp in the mountains. Alone in a room, I prayed, "God, if there is a God, I'm open. If You're real, I want to know You're real. And, Jesus Christ, if You can change my life, if there is a purpose for my life, I want to know it." You know what happened? I didn't get goose bumps. I didn't cry. No bright lights shown down. Nothing like that. Yet, still, it was the turning point in my life—because I was no longer biasing myself against God. I wanted to know the truth, even if it was inconvenient. Truth can be discovered, but first we have to have an attitude of openness that says, "I want the truth more than anything else." Once you choose that attitude, you can discover the truth. How? First, through creation. We learn a lot about God, a lot about truth, just by looking at nature. This is why science is so important. It helps us understand God and His universe. For instance, by knowing that there are 60,000 varieties of beetles, we learn God likes variety. By seeing a volcano, a tidal wave, or an earthquake, we learn God is powerful. From the delicately balanced ecosystem, we can observe God is incredibly organized. The Bible says, "The basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of His divine being. So nobody has a good excuse" (Romans 1:19-20 MSG). In the coming days, we'll look at how God also leads us to the truth through conscience, careful consideration, His commandments, and through Jesus Christ.

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