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		<title>Power in Positive Thinking!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life has dealt me a few lemons and I&#8217;ve definitely had my ups and downs.  However, now when I&#8217;m feeling down or a situation comes up to cause me stress, anxiety, or depression, I don&#8217;t stay there as long as I once did.  I now try to have positive thoughts.  There truly is power in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Life has dealt me a few lemons and I&#8217;ve definitely had my ups and downs.  However, now when I&#8217;m feeling down or a situation comes up to cause me stress, anxiety, or depression, I don&#8217;t stay there as long as I once did.  I now try to have positive thoughts.  There truly is power in positive thinking.  Our thoughts control our entire life.  &#8220;Our thoughts shape our actions; our actions shape our habits; our habits shape our character; and our character shapes our destiny (<a title="Gregory Dickow" href="http://www.changinglives.org/" target="_blank">Gregory Dickow)</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thinking positive thoughts will help us have changed lives!  It will help us to see the good in life not always the bad.  When situations arise that cause you to have negative thoughts, replace those thoughts with thoughts such as, &#8220;I am a child God, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, I am the righteousness of Christ, I&#8217;m more than a conqueror in Jesus Christ, I have God&#8217;s power in my life, God is in control of my life and all things work together for His good.&#8221;</p>
<p>Proverbs 23:7 tells us, &#8220;as a man thinks within himself, so is he.&#8221;  We need to fill our thought life with what God tells us about ourselves and our lives.  By doing this, we can make positive choices for ourselves.  Life is all about making choices.  We can choose sadness, depression, anxiety or we can choose life; the life that God has given to us.  His life for us is filled with joy, happiness and prosperity!</p>
<p>I challenge you to watch this 6 minute video clip!  It is a great prayer and meditation for everyday positive living!</p>
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<p>&#8220;I choose to have a great, prosperous, joyful, and wonderful day!&#8221; I choose life!  I ask you today, what do you choose and what changes do you need to make to get it?</p>
<p>God bless,</p>
<h1><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Kristen</em></span></h1>
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		<title>God&#8217;s View of You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ For most of my life I experienced low self-esteem issues.  I was always the one withdrawn in the crowd for fear I would say something stupid. If I said something I thought others believed was stupid, then I internalized that as I am stupid.  I always held back in conversations with others in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-694" title="gods-love-300x233" src="http://www.inspiration4u.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/gods-love-300x233.jpg" alt="gods-love-300x233" width="300" height="233" /> For most of my life I experienced low self-esteem issues.  I was always the one withdrawn in the crowd for fear I would say something stupid. If I said something I <em>thought </em>others believed was stupid, then I internalized that as I <strong><em>am </em></strong>stupid.  I always held back in conversations with others in fear that they would not like me and they would reject me. My negative thinking was killing my self-esteem and I was in need of a solution.</p>
<p>Thank God, He became my solution! He began to teach me that I must line up my way of thinking with His way of thinking.  I must believe what His word tells me about myself.  I accomplished this by meditating on His word daily.  When I began meditating on His word, I began renewing my mind and having a new outlook of myself.  I began speaking His truths about myself and slowly began restoring my self-esteem. I spoke truths such as I am His masterpiece and He knew me before He even created me!  Wow, that&#8217;s powerful!</p>
<p>Friend, you are God&#8217;s masterpiece, beautifully, and wonderfully made!  I encourage you to speak these words out loud daily.  Your words have power.  God&#8217;s word says, &#8220;Life and death are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.&#8221; So if you speak words of life over yourself, you will gain life.  If you speak death, you will gain death.  God&#8217;s word is life, the world&#8217;s words are death. You have a choice which types of words you are going to speak into your life.</p>
<p><strong>Speak this over yourself daily and begin renewing your mind (Romans 12:2):</strong></p>
<p>I am God&#8217;s masterpiece  (Ephesians 2:10).</p>
<p>You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.  Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!  Your workmanship is marvelous &#8211; and how well I know it! You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in Your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.  How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They can not be numbered! (Psalm 139:13-17)</p>
<p>By the grace of God I am what I am, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. (1 Cor. 15:10)</p>
<p>I am deeply loved, fully pleasing, totally forgiven, accepted, and complete in Christ!</p>
<p>To God be the glory! I pray as you read these verses, they will begin to take root in your heart and you will begin to fully understand how wide, how long, how high, and how deep God&#8217;s love truly is! (Eph. 3:18)</p>
<p>God Bless,</p>
<h1><em>Kristen</em></h1>
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		<title>Dealing with Self-Esteem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have struggled with self-esteem issues for most of my life.  I was always that girl who was looking over her shoulder in fear that someone was looking at her with critizing eyes.  With this fear came the belief that someone didn&#8217;t like my hair, or they didn&#8217;t like my clothes, or they just didn&#8217;t like [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have struggled with self-esteem issues for most of my life.  I was always that girl who was looking over her shoulder in fear that someone was looking at her with critizing eyes.  With this fear came the belief that someone didn&#8217;t like my hair, or they didn&#8217;t like my clothes, or they just didn&#8217;t like me.  I would think thoughts such as I wasn&#8217;t pretty, or I was a dumb, or I was worthless.  These thoughts haunted me for years until I chose to believe God&#8230; I chose to believe His word.</p>
<p>Life is all about choices.  We can choose to love, we can choose to trust, we can choose to believe.  We can choose to either believe the lie of the devil or we can choose to believe God&#8217;s word.  For me, I choose God&#8217;s word.  God&#8217;s word tells us that we are His children, He loves us and He created us.  His word states, &#8220;He created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God he created him (Genesis 1:27).&#8221;  God created us in His image.  Did you get that?  He created us like Him. We have His genes and His fingerprints are in us.  His words tells us, &#8220;One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD, all the days of my life, <strong><em>to behold the beauty of the LORD</em></strong>, and to inquire in His temple (Psalm 27:4).&#8221; </p>
<p>So friends, if God is beauty, and God created us in His image, what does that make you?  Beautiful.  You must be beautifully and wonderfully made because God made you!  He knit you together in your mother&#8217;s womb.  You are beauty, everything about you is beautiful and you shouldn&#8217;t let the devil tell you otherwise.</p>
<p>When the devil comes knocking on your door and tries to tell you that you are worthless, simply state, &#8220;I am fearfully and wonderfully made; God&#8217;s work is marvelous (Psalm 139:14).&#8221;  You are marvelous!  Watch the video below, it states it all!</p>
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<p><strong>Scripture of the day</strong>:  I have written your name in the palm of my hand.  You are always in my thoughts! (Isaiah 49:16) </p>
<p>I challenge you to memorize this verse today.  Speak these words and you will begin to know them as truth.  I hope that these words are healing to you.  Feel free to share your testimonies with us!</p>
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