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14 Days of Love – Day 7
God IS love. Allow His love to be an ever-flowing river, with cascades of the highest levels of joy in your life.
14 Days of Love – Day 5
Love brings joyful satisfaction!
14 Days of Love – Day 1
Love is demonstrative and takes action on behalf of others.
14 Days of Love Coming in February
Sometimes we need a reminder of what love REALLY is.
If you listen to popular music, no matter if it’s R&B, country, hip-hop, rock, or pop, you’re likely to hear lyrics about how love let someone down:
- “thank you for the love, thank you for the heartaches, thank you for the tears I’ve cried, thank you for all those lies”
- “can’t believe that love would hurt again”
- “she’s my love gone wrong”
- “love done gone”
- “good lovin’ gone bad”
A lot of times, people will label something as being “love” when it’s really not. So for the next 14 days, as we look forward to celebrating Valentine’s Day, I want to give you a different perspective about love.
After all, if God is love (1 John 4:16), how can there be anything bad or hurtful about it?
Infertility Encouragement
Today, I’m sharing an excerpt from my book, Infertility Sucks!How to Maintain Hope in Your Marriage During Infertility.
Infertility is stressful. No doubt about that! When you look for articles with helpful information, most articles about the impact of infertility on marriage are full of doom and gloom. They tell you to expect breakdown in communication, permanent loss of joy in sex, etc. As predictors of what can happen, they fall short of supplying any hope for a loving, long-lasting, and strong marriage after this struggle has “run its course.”
BUT, THERE IS HOPE!!!
Here are three of the 7 tips I share in Infertility Sucks! that will help you manage the stress of infertility:
- Discuss how you can help each other feel safe in sharing difficult and emotional thoughts. This may take time to achieve, depending on how you’ve dealt with them so far and how open your lines of communication are right now.
- Pray together. If you’ve not done this before, it may feel awkward at first. To help reduce the awkwardness, write out the prayer you want to pray and use it as a starter. Consider scheduling the time and then be sure to respect your spouse and keep the appointment. Husbands, I encourage you, as the spiritual leader of your family, to be open to initiating these prayers. The side benefit of doing so is that your wife will find it VERY sexy!
- Be proactive. Take some time to think and then discuss with your spouse what your response will be to troubling circumstances. Define and put in writing your “will do’s” and your “will not’s”. For example, decide now that divorce is not an option. Infertility can begin to put a squeeze on your finances as well and that adds another level of pressure that must be addressed with open and honest communication. Seek God for direction as you make decisions about managing your money wisely as you continue to have doctors visits, procedures and treatments. Setbacks from these things can bring about an enormous amount of stress. Be proactive and secure your relationship on a foundation of commitment to each other and to Jesus.
Of course you’ll find lots of other tips, activities, practical examples, and encouragement in Infertility Sucks!
I’m honored to give you another opportunity to hear some words of encouragement tonight (1/23/14). Sonja Sells will interview me on Blog Talk Radio’s Breath Inspired broadcast. You can listen on your computer or mobile device. Here’s the link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/breathinspiredradio/2014/01/24/inspiration-for-today-w-hope-coach-evangeline-colbert-advocate-sheryl-tate
Join us tonight at 8pm EST.
Thanks for your support!
Focus Friday
This is the last Focus Friday post of 2013. My prayer is that 2014 will prove to be a year where you focus and meditate on God’s promises to you and that you will bear fruit in every season, prospering in all that you do!
Focus on the following scripture throughout the day. It’s God’s Word and it’s what He desires us to believe. Believe it is true for you because God’s Word is Truth. Use it as an affirmation. Speak this Word to yourself throughout the day. Personalize it by putting your name in it!
“But they delight in the law of the LORD, meditating on it day and night.They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do.” Psalm 1: 2, 3 (NLT)