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3 Things to do When Faith Gets Tough

3 P's to Get You Through Tough Faith: Pick a Side Position Yourself Posture Yourself

YOLO, right?!

Topic: Live Your Best Life - The God Girl Edition Living your best life - it’s common phrase these days. There’s FOMO - Fear of Missing Out! YOLO - you only live once, right?! We say these things, but we don’t really follow them, do we? How fun is it to take a selfie, add a filter, and post it on social media for all of our friends, our people to see us living our best lives. We’ve all done it once or twice, or like a million times, right? It’s tempting for us to paint a picture of a life filled with of love, peace, joy, growth, fulfillment, contentment, and confidence for the digital friends. Everybody is out here living, what looks like, their best life! And because what we see is often times perceived as reality, we are now put in the position to try to keep up! Now our lives have to be perfect, too! We have a false perception of what a happy, full life looks like. BUT, If their lives are SO great, we ought to at least present like ours is, too, right? Because the life we have available to us from the Lord, when lived out purposefully and intentionally, is totally one you’ll have FOMO of if you choose not to take advantage of it! YOLO, right?! So we may as well live the abundant life God promised us in His word while we can! God wants us to live our BEST life…but it looks so much differently than the superficial one the enemy magnifies to us everyday through society and social media. Instead of painting a picture, or creating a facade that mimics love, peace, joy, growth, fulfillment, contentment, and purpose, we get to actually live it! We GET to walk in the truth of a life that IS love, peace, joy, growth, fulfillment, contentment, and purpose! Here is what it looks like: ROMANS: Love - Ephesians 3, Romans 8:38-39 Peace - Romans 8:26 Joy - Romans 15:13 Growth - Romans 8:37 Fulfillment/Contentment - Romans 12:2 -Our contentment in life comes from presenting our whole selves to God for His use Purpose - Romans 8:28 -God works through ALL situations to fulfill His purpose in your life

Much, Much More

Pop Quiz Answer Pop Quiz Date: March 4, 2020 Question: Fill in the Blank - "With God's power working in us, ____ can do much, much more than we can ask or imagine." Eph 3:20 NCV Answer: God Here’s the thing - It’s not about you, sis. It’s not about me, and it’s not about you. It’s all about HIM , capital H I M. When we make the decision to be a God Girl, it’s so important we make the mental shift to understanding we’re no longer required to operate in our own power. What I want to talk to you about today is the mental transition of allowing God to work THROUGH us versus working at everything in our own might as we did before accepting Jesus into our hearts and lives. This mental transition is one we MUST make sooner than later, because once we are able to do this, we become supernaturally empowered to tackle (and accomplish) the purpose and calling on our lives. Here are 3 ways to let God work His power through you: Submit your will to His every single day - determine that you will do things His way no matter what, from this moment forward Read your Bible as often as possible (which is as least once a day, girls) Pray…spend time talking to God and listening to what He speaks to your heart Looking for a huddle of God Girls to do faith with? Join me in the Simply Faithfull Group of FB! We're waiting for you...See you soon! I LOVE doing faith with you!

The More the Better

Pop Quiz Answer Pop Quiz Date: 2/26/2020 Question: Which Translation? "But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right - the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also." Answer: Amplified (AMP) Different translations of the Bible share different inflections of the same story - It’s like the same story being told my different people! Popular Bible Translations: KJV - King James Version NKJV - New King James Version NIV - New International Version NLT - New Living Translation AMP - Amplified TPT - The Passion Translation NASB - New American Standard Bible ESV - English Standard Version HCSB - Hollman Christian Standard Bible KJV vs NIV: The KJV is a more direct, word-for-word translation; the NIV more "dynamic equivalent" (idea-for-idea translation of the words) KJV vs NKJV: many of those who follow the KJV are more literal in their interpretations of text. NKJV makes it more amenable to more modern thoughts and interpretations. This is not to insinuate that the KJV is wrong NIV vs NLT: The main difference is that the NIV is a word-for-word translation. The NLT is a paraphrase; for context and quick reading. If you’re an English reader the NLT is probably the more readable, but the NIV gives a closer idea of the underlying text. AMP: The Amplified Bible attempts to take both word meaning and context into account in order to accurately translate the original text from one language into another. By using synonyms and definitions, it both explains and expands the meaning of words in the text by placing amplification in parentheses, brackets, and after key words NASB: considered the most accurate , contrary to popular belief of KJV (1611) TPT: The passion translation - scripture in poetic form! Generally, it’s suggest that, for non-Greek-and-Hebrew scholars (like the majority of us), a good rule of thumb is “the more translations the better.” If you take the time to compare and contrast a variety of modern versions, you’ll have a much better chance of grasping the sense of the original text than if you stick with one “favorite” translation. Matt 6:33 AMP: But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right - the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also. TPT: So above all, constantly chase after the realm of God’s kingdom and the righteousness that proceeds from him. Then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly NASB: But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you KJV: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you NIV: But seek first His kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well NLT: Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need Looking for a huddle of God Girls to do faith with? Join me in the Simply Faithfull Group of FB! We're waiting for you...See you soon! I LOVE doing faith with you!

Confidence is Quiet

Looking for a huddle of God Girls to do faith with? Join me in the Simply Faithfull Group of FB! We're waiting for you...See you soon! Matthew 6:1-4 When trying to remain faithful with our pursuing our God given goals, staying focused by keeping your eye and mind on pleasing God, not men is SO important. What we need to keep going in achieving our goals: Consistency Confidence Corroboration (validation. The Spirit will corroborate with your purpose and calling) Clarity (Your gift is specific to YOU, and what you do with it is peculiar to your unique makeup, in such a way as no one can do what you do exactly the way you do it) Confirmation (acceptance) - identification If we go to people for these things, we are setting ourselves up for all sorts of disappointments and setbacks. Here’s why: People are conditional and emotional People are obligated and distracted People are limited in sight and knowledge Scripture is; clear/concise crisp (refreshing; timeless) convicting - rooted in love, not judgement Looking for a huddle of God Girls to do faith with? Join me in the Simply Faithfull Group of FB! We're waiting for you...See you soon! I LOVE doing faith with you!