When insecurity builds the framework for your primary way of thinking, you are constantly in survival mode without even realizing it. You look for rejection that hasn’t even happened yet. You assume that people will assume the worst about you before they even meet you or get to know you.

You jump to the conclusion that it is necessary for you to perform in order to earn approval, accolades, acceptance, affirmation, and admiration, all in a desperate yet vain attempt to fill a hole in your heart that should only be occupied by true love. You shift all your efforts toward pleasing people, even if it means sacrificing purpose.

You weren’t designed to sustain like this. Truth is, rejection hurts, but sometimes, it’s for your own good.

Music: “Safe” by Naomi Raine

They say, “It’s better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. Love is a beautiful exchange and it doesn’t leave just because a person does.” Grief is proof of that love.
Grief allows you to process the pain and find the peace of God that surpasses your emotions in situations you could never understand. Jesus is the Prince of Peace, the Holy Spirit is the best comforter and God who IS love promises to never leave or forsake you, even when people leave this earth. I’m living proof His joy can sustain you even in the toughest of times.
I know the loss was bad, but I’m here to tell you the grief is good.

Music: “Safe” by Naomi Raine

What do you have in your hand? No, seriously what are you holding onto right now? Ok, maybe not literally but think for a moment.

What gifts and talents and skills do you have?

What business idea have you been sitting on? What is that thing that you diminished to being just a hobby that might actually be a whole ministry outreach in seed form?

God didn’t create houses and furniture. He created trees to give us wood so that we could build these things. It’s time to use what He gave us and build.

In this episode, we’re gonna learn how to take inventory!

Music: “Safe” by Naomi Raine