Monday Minute: No Need for Comparisons
Jana Spicka calls out how Jesus is our benchmark instead of us looking to each other for warm fuzzies spiritually.
Monday Minute: Real Forgiveness
100% blood payment by Jesus impacts every relationship we have. Here is why.
Just Get It Done
Work Ethic. God has been talking to me a lot about the self-discipline and tenacity required to complete in life. At the Yes and Amen retreat we discussed that a work ethic is a “set of guiding principles that we live by,” a set of beliefs, if you will. This can be a good thing or a bad thing.
If you believe you are 100% responsible for your choices and actions, your work ethic is good. If you think believe that someone else will take care of you and rescue you from your own laziness or lack of boundaries, or lack or desire, your work ethic is not so good.
Before you spiral out of control in a complaint that life is not supposed to be “performance based,” hear me out. Your beliefs determine your actions. Therefore, your “work” ethic effects your job but it also parallels how you do relationships, emotions, personal physical care, and even your God life.
What are you “willing” to do to invest and impact your own future? If you are waiting for “feeling” like it, you are waiting on the wrong motivator. Your feelings are not in charge. Your Will is the engine of your life.
“Self discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” Elbert Hubbard
Don’t think that life with God is devoid of work and effort. He is always happily, creatively working and wants us to join in what He is doing. He created us to create, produce and yield a harvest in many different ways. We ourselves are fortified when we put effort and energy into a task. Whether that is family, work, or friend related, our creative power matters to others and it matters to our own heart.
Ask anyone who has been out of work for a long time. There is this slow leak of of dignity because we innately know we were made to be working and contributing to the world and God’s Kingdom. Proverbs 28:19 says, “He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.”
Are you talking or are you doing your life? Are you completing and fulfilling and what you have been told to do, what you yourself have promised to do? Or are you chasing the fantasy that someone else will pick up the slack?
Stop the drama. The excuses. The blame. The chatter.
Just get it done…
Monday Minute:Who Do You Say That I Am?
Jana talks about how answering that question affects every area of our lives.
In The Words of Satan by The Arrows
This is the video Jana referenced in yesterday’s vlog. Powerful stuff about lies vs. truth.
Do You Want Transformation?
Jana asks if you really, really want to be different? God wants to be the transforming power in our lives.
What’s Your Excuse?
I love how Seth Godin just cuts through the crap to ask serious questions. Here is an excerpt from his blog.
WHICH OF THE FOUR ARE GETTING IN THE WAY?
You don’t know what to do
You don’t know how to do it
You don’t have the authority or the resources to do it
You’re afraid
Once you figure out what’s getting in the way, it’s far easier to find the answer (or decide to work on a different problem).
Stuck is a state of mind, and it’s curable.
All I can add to this is AMEN and AMEN!!! When you evaluate these statements honestly without the drama and B.S. it enables you to live and move differently. And secondly, when you present any or all of these questions to the Lord, He is able to speak truth and lead in power.
You know, God is not stuck. Ever. Ever. Ev-er. So we can find our shelter, our direction, our provision and our hope in Him. Do the hard work. Identify which one of these stops you and then press in to the truth. You will find more and more over time that being stuck is curable. And Jesus is the healer…
Sweetly Broken – Abortion Healing
Sweetly Broken
Finally find freedom with yourself, God and others about your abortion.
Play One Woman's Story
“I thought I was over it.”
“I’ve never told anyone.”
“I’m afraid God is punishing me.”
“How can I make this right?”
“How can I forgive….?”
We know how you feel. We have been there too. Through the fear, nightmares, denial, anger and regrets.
But we have passed through to a new place called peace, and true forgiveness. We are still sad about the fact of our past, but we are no longer held captive by it.
God has shown us there is beauty in our brokenness.
We invite you to a tender, honest and safe weekend to hear about how to walk forward in freedom.
What you can expect:
Time to process, time to worship, time to hear truth, time to be honest, time to sort out what’s next?
Teaching and materials by Jana Spicka. Assisted by Alexa Stephenson.
2 night’s lodging in a large spacious chalet.
Check in at 3pm. Check out at 11am.
Heated pool on site.
Four meals and snacks. Breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday morning. (Friday night dinner is on your own before first session.)
This is an intimate gathering limited to 12 women. Click here to register now or become a donor.
$40 per Woman Attending Retreat
$100 Donor/Prayer Partner
We want every woman who needs to come, to be able to come but they need your help spiritually and financially. We want every women who comes to have a prayer warrior standing with her in spirit, and to help her bear the burden of the cost. Will you invest your prayers and your funds in another woman’s freedom?
Join us for this unique retreat held at Smoky Mountain Christian Village, a beautiful complex out of the traffic zone of Pigeon Forge, TN.
Monday Minute: The Abundant, Giving God
Jana talks about how receiving the abundance of God is a process and one that requires our hearts to look and respond to God.