Is Your Focus on Feelings?

God's top priority for you is more about chasing holiness than pursuing happiness!!

God desires you to turn the focus from the way you feel to what you should do. Too often, people abandon good work that pleases God - a marriage, a career, a ministry - because they don't feel like doing it anymore. They don't feel like they are in love. They don't feel fulfilled. They don't feel like they are making a difference.

If you tend to act hastily based on the way you feel, it may be time to examine the ways your emotions influence your decision-making. Ask God to arrange your actions today according to His will rather than according to your feelings.

CHALLENGE: Pray that God will give you strength to carry out His purpose in your life, even if you don't feel like doing the tasks required!

Be purpose-FULL in all you do! Tonia

(From:101 Ways to Find God's Purpose For Your Life by Natalie Gillespie)

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.  - Helen Keller



 

WHERE are you headed?

If a young whale were to lose its sense of direction, it might end up on the dry, sandy beach.

If migrating flocks of birds were to lose their instinctive sense of direction, they might end up in harsh Alaska instead of sunny Florida.

When people lose their sense of spiritual direction, they often reach a lonely dead end - in their jobs, relationships and families.

My husband and I just returned from a weekend trip to an area of our state that we were unfamiliar with. Half way to our destination my husband realized (and slightly paniced) that he had left his GPS in our other car. He has become quite dependent on this little device to keep him headed in the right direction.Yes, our i-phones would have helped us if we needed, but my stubborness wanted to get to our friend's cabin just fine using old-fashion, hand-written directions - and that we did!

How is your sense of direction? Are you depending on your own map or are you using God's GPS in order to uncover God's purpose for your life? We can spend a lot of time following what we think is the right road and eventually find out it was leading us in a totally different path than what God had planned for us. Ask God to get your life pointed toward Him!

CHALLENGE: Picture yourself navigating an unfamiliar city without maps or directions. Imagine hitting dead end after dead end. Thank God for the direction He gives us and ask Him to lead your ways.

From 101 Ways to Find God's Purpose for Your Life by Natalie Gillespie

What's NEW with You?

As a child, do you remember the joy you felt when you tried something new and accomplished it for the first time? Whether it was as simple as learning to snap your fingers or as complex as riding a bike or tying your shoe, the joy and satisfaction felt in the first-time victories were unsurpassed!

As an adult, have you felt that thrill of discovery lately? Or have you packed your life full of the familiar and the routine? Trying something new can re-energize your life and reveal an aspect of God's unique purpose!

What have you always wanted to do but never took the first step? Don't spend your life "wishing" you had, go out and do it!!

CHALLENGE: Make time to pursue something you've always been interested in! Sign up for a class, join a group, learn something new! Then....

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