I clicked on the submit button and a huge grin spread across my face. I had just paid off a credit card bill. Unexpected pay cuts and bad decisions had become like a spiritual noose around my neck. With the simple click of the mouse, I experienced a sense of freedom that seemed impossible just a few short months ago and loosened that spiritual noose of the bondage of debt. Merriam Webster defines ...
The Abundant Life – 7 Keys to Living Your Best Life #7: Social Abundance
Social abundance lies in creating vital, life-giving relationships with people and is a key to happiness. The world authority on happiness and well-being research, Dr. Ed Diener has studied 155 countries (99 percent of the world) and has come up with some very telling conclusions. Strong, healthy social relationships are the one common denominator of all the happiest places on earth. For example, ...
The Abundant Life – 7 Keys to Living Your Best Life: #6 Occupational Abundance
Occupational abundance lies in a what Positive Psychologists call “flow.” Proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD D, the concept of flow has been widely referenced in the field positive psychology where researchers measure things like states of happiness, values, strengths, virtues, and talents. For no apparent reason other than the fact that they thoroughly enjoyed what they were doing, ...
The Abundant Life – 7 Keys to Living Your Best Life #5 Financial Abundance
Arguably the most controversial subject in the Christian church today, financial abundance means many different things to different people. Studying ancient Israel, however, offers clues to how God designed financial abundance and the abundant life associated with being God’s “chosen people.” The land of “milk and honey” After calling them out of slavery in Egypt, God sent the Israelites to ...
Cancer and the Fight for Your Life
How do you balance your day to day life and fight for your life? This is a great question and a big struggle with many people who are facing a life threatening illness. It can be so overwhelming at times that you can’t even face the day. Some days you may decide to just "not do today.” I have been there at my lowest and at my highest. Last month was Breast Cancer Awareness month and it is ...
The Abundant Life Series – 7 Keys to Living Your Best Life: #4 Emotional Abundance
'You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.’ - Acts 2:28 So what is “emotional abundance?” Happiness, of course! When people were referred to as “blessed” in the Old and New Testaments they were, in effect, saying that they were enviable, fortunate, and most importantly happy. That is why the Hebrew word 'esher and the Greek term makarios meaning ...
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