Real Spirit of Christmas Every Day

To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. --Calvin Coolidge

To Act:
Remember that sometimes the smallest gesture can change the world.
To Pray:
Lord, let me never miss an opportunity to give.

Impossible Situations Create Miraculous Opportunities

My impossible situations Create miraculous opportunities to grow and have victory.

Reflect: We are all faced with magnificent opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.-Charles R. Swindoll

Act: Focus on your goals and chase away excuses.

Pray: Lord, help me to take the opportunities You give me and work with them, not against them.
From Daily Guideposts Mar 18,2006

Mark 11:22-24
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, €œHave faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, €˜Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Our Deeds

A Time to Think:
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. -George Elliot
To Act:
Remember that faith will lead you through unsteady times. From Daily Guideposts

Your Affirmation: I am faithful through rough moments and see the solutions ahead.

How to Stop Worry...

Everyone faces the monster of worry everyday. How do you counter that monster?


Refuse to worry!

Today's Scripture

"Who of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?" (Matthew 6:27)

Today's Word from Joel and Victoria

Worrying gives the devil the opportunity to move, just like worship gives God the opportunity to move. Worrying means to play the enemy's lies in your mind, over and over again. God promises in Isaiah 26:3 that He will keep us in perfect peace when we keep our minds stayed on Him. So when the opportunity to worry comes, use it as a reminder to worship the Lord and thank Him for His good and precious promises! Cast all of your cares on the Lord, because He cares for you!

A Prayer for Today

God, I am weary from worrying. Please help me to stop the soundtrack of needless worry that plays over and over again in my head. I want to place my fears and concerns in Your hands and live in peace knowing that You will fulfill all of your precious promises to me. In Jesus' name - Amen.

Today's Word from Joel and Victoria

Hope and Faith

Positive Affirmations

When there is no hope there is no faith...faith is the substance of hope

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. - Samuel Johnson


Hebrews 11

1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Affirm your abilities to do good

Positive Affirmations

Every day, remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind, and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life. -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Power Affirmations - Day 1

Positive Affirmations

Richard Wiseman, the head of a psychology research department at
the University of Hertfordshire in England, and author of the
book, "The Luck Factor," did in-depth studies with his colleagues
at the university's Perrott-Warrick Research Unit focusing on
what makes some people lucky and others not. After conducting
hundreds of experiments and thousands of interviews, he
discovered that lucky people think and behave in ways that create
good fortune in their lives. They are 1) particularly open to
possibility; and 2) they expect good fortune to come their way.

These 2 cornerstones are the basis of the following power
affirmations that maximize your mind's potential for bringing
God's favor into your life:

1. I am always in the right place at the right time.
2. I expect the best and I get it NOW!
3. I always get everything that is for my highest good.
4. Everything good is coming to me easily and effortlessly.
5. I am divinely guided in all I do.
6. I expect life to give me what is best for me.
7. I deserve the best and it comes to me NOW!
8. This is a rich universe and there is plenty for all of us.
9. I now eagerly await my greatest good.
10. I expect good fortune every moment of my life.
11. I am open to receive the abundant good that God has for me.
12. God is the source of all my good, I look only to Him for my supply.
13. I envision only that which is for my highest good.
14. My highest good is manifesting in my life right now.

15. God's wealth is circulating in my life. His wealth flows to me
in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are
met instantaneously because I am one with God, and God is
everything.

Note that many of the above affirmations call upon your "highest
good." That's because when you summon your highest good, amazing
things can happen.

The last in the above list is the word-for-word affirmation
Anthony Robbins personally used. He went from being in a state of
poverty, living in a tiny one-bedroom apartment (where he used to
wash dishes in the bath tub), being clinically obese and having
no girlfriend - to becoming a millionaire, achieving his ideal
weight and becoming physically fit, living in a real-life castle
(with turrets) by the ocean with his dream woman -- all within a
year's time.