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Encourage Yourself
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Encourage Yourself

I was talking to my mother this morning, hadn’t spoken to her since last week. This is odd for us both because usually I’m on the phone with her daily. We have this thing that we do because usually when I call she’s at work and she has to put people on hold often. Well, sometimes she’d put me on hold and she’ll get busy and won’t come back, so I would end up hanging up. So now when I call, the first thing that I say to her is “I love you, Bye-Bye…” and she says it back to me. Then we start our conversation and if I have to hang up then we’ve technically already ended our call and we’ll part knowing that we Love each another. Ok, I said all of this to say… that I spoke to my mom this morning (lol).

She was telling me about her weekend and about this song that she’d heard, that I must say is appropriate for all of our lives. The song is called ‘Encourage Yourself”. Now how AWESOME is this concept? We look for others to encourage us in many things that we do or go through, but the true encouragement lies within us.

Donald Lawrence says, “Sometimes you have to encourage yourself. Sometimes you have to speak victory during the test. And no matter how you feel, speak the word and you will be healed; speak over yourself… Sometimes you have to speak the word over yourself, the pressure is all around, but God is present help. The enemy created walls, but remember giants, they do fall; speak over yourself, encourage yourself in the Lord.…life can hurt you so, 'til you feel there's nothing left. (No matter how you feel), (speak the word and you will be healed).”

Encouraging you…This is such a hard task to do, especially when you are going through something that just will not let up, not even a little. I do it however, sometimes on shaky ground and at times I do have my moments when the ground shakes a little too much and I fall. Thank God for strength and the knowledge of knowing where my help comes from and because of that I get back up to continue.

So, how do you start encouraging you?

First start to be aware of what encourages you. When others encourage you, what are they saying to you?Praise yourself. You won’t be self centered if you give yourself A LOT of praise. We are our worst “everything”, change this perception in you.Write yourself “Notes of Power” or speak to yourself with your “Inner Voice of Power”…packed with lots of positive outcomes, just as you’re about to tackle something Big or small. Do this daily and this will keep your mind on a positive track.Celebrate your victories.Tell yourself “I am important”, “I am special”, and “I am Powerful!”

It’s amazing our minds and thoughts and how much we call the shots in our own outcomes. Be Encouraged!Peace