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A Prayer for Today
Celebration Time
I’m learning how to celebrate the little things in life.
I’m learning how to pause and enjoy the moment of an accomplishment.
The accomplishment I’m celebrating today is, drum roll please… having posted 200 times on this blog site! Woo Hoo!
Thank you for being here. I’m thankful for all your comments, votes, prayers, and suggestions over the past two years. I hope you have enjoyed reading my thoughts, gotten encouraged, gleaned much from the Word of God, and seen how life can be positively transformed when you’re focused on Jesus.
Over the next 200+ posts, I pray that you’ll continue to be inspired to live life with a hope-filled focus. Tell a friend to join you here so you can share encouragement with one another.
How do you take time to celebrate the small successes of life?
Which eBook Cover Do You Like Best?
I have written a new ebook titled, “Infertility Sucks!” It focuses on how to manage stress during infertility. It also contains tips about keeping your marriage strong in the midst of such a tough challenge. It will be available in a just a few weeks.
I’ve had a few cover designs done and would like your help in choosing one of them. Get a FREE excerpt from “Infertility Sucks” at www.EvangelineColbert.com.
Please choose the cover you like the most of the three shown below and let me know in the poll that follows. If there’s something else you’d like to see in the design, feel free to share your ideas in the comment box.
Please vote now and I’ll let you know soon which cover won the contest.
Your input will help determine what my next book will look like!
Thanks,
Evangeline
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Infertility and Your Mind
Infertility can play tricks on your mind.
It can make you entertain thoughts and feelings that reduce your confidence in God and your self-esteem to nearly nothing. Here’s a tip to help you avoid or get out of that pit of despair:
Practice—on purpose—replacing those negative thoughts with positive thoughts.
(See Philippians 4:8 and 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
Here’s a wonderful reminder that in Christ you are deeply loved, fully accepted, highly valued, and not forgotten.
Focus Friday
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. Speak this Word to yourself throughout the day. Personalize it by putting your name in it!
“Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced.
Therefore, I have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will.
And I know that I will not be put to shame.” Isaiah 50:7 (NLT)
Day 7 of 7 Days of Joy
Life gives you many opportunities to choose between blessing and cursing, life and death, good and bad, hope and despair (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Be intentional. Every morning start your day choosing to have an attitude of joy.
Today, you’ll have lots of choices to make throughout the day. Make a decision right now to choose JOY as often as you can.
Related articles
- Day 1 of 7 Days of Joy (makeroomformommy.wordpress.com)
- Day 6 of 7 Days of Joy (makeroomformommy.wordpress.com)
- Choosing Joy (allthespacebetween.wordpress.com)
Yes, No, Maybe, Wait
Do you have confidence in anyone who tells you to have faith in them to do something for you and then they tell you, “No.”? I find it hard to trust people who have been that way with me.
What about you? Do you trust people who seem to be hesitant in following through on what they’ve promised?
I’ve heard many people say that “Yes, No, Maybe, and Wait” are the answers God gives to His promises and our prayers. I respectfully disagree. I think that way of thinking opens the door to being in a position of doubt. If we are praying/asking for and believing the promises of God, then we should not make room for doubt or any wavering in our faith.
I know that doing so can be difficult when we are faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges. But that is why we are instructed to “look to Jesus.” To look to His love. To look to His complete and perfect once-and-for-all sacrificial work on the cross. To look to His life-source—His word.
God’s promises and His will are His Word. His word is His bond. He sticks to it and does not “flip-flop” in His position of faithfulness. That’s why we can be encouraged to not “flip-flop” in our faith and trust in Him and His answers.
We are reassured that God’s Word is trustworthy and that the answers to His promises to us are “Yes” in 2Corinthians 1:19-20 (ESV) — “For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him (Jesus). That is why it is through Him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory,” (emphasis mine).
First John 5:14-15 tells us we can have confidence in God if we know His will and ask accordingly. Again, His will is his Word.
14- “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. ” (NIV)
15- “And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.” (ESV)
How do you boost and maintain your confidence that God will answer your prayers which are based on His Word/His promises? Do you have a firm belief that He hears you and answers His promises with “Yes”?
Here’s a book that I found very helpful on this topic:
What to Do When Faith Seems Weak and Victory Lost by Kenneth E. Hagin 
Day 1 of 7 Days of Joy
Sometimes we just need a simple reminder to find JOY in life.
Here’s the first of seven simple reminders I’d like to give to you.
Grace & Peace,
Evangeline