Understanding our make up as a human being is what helped me in the beginning to be able to make changes that had a positive impact on my life. Once I was able to understand myself better I was equipped with the knowledge that I needed to fight against myself for a better self and …
Category: increase happiness
tips on how to have more joy in everyday life
Take control of your feelings
I woke up this morning on the wrong side of the bed as people say. I felt irritable and short tempered as soon as I opened my eyes. Nothing had happened to make me feel that way. I had not had a bad dream or anything. It amazes me how our feelings work. If I …
Fight for your life
The way to fight the enemy for our life is to do the exact opposite of the way that he is trying to attack you. Everything about the enemy is a lie, wrong, and/or bad. It is what will keep us from a happy, peaceful, and satisfying life if we do it. We have to …
It’s time to move forward
Deuteronomy 1:6 The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have dwelt long enough on this mountain. As I pondered this scripture it spoke to me in several ways. We think that the Israelites were crazy for what they did but we do the very same things. We stay in vicious cycles of …
Complain and remain
As I was watching a teaching by Joyce Meyer this morning I realized that what I had read in a book that I am reading, a devotional that I am reading, the bible verses that I read this morning and now this teaching, are all on complaining and how it affects us. I believe that …
Thoughts part 5 /relationships
As our thoughts affect every part of our being, they also affect our relationships. Because of the way that our thoughts affect our actions and our words, we could lose friendships, partnerships, and close connections with others. Our thoughts also affect the relationship that we have with ourselves and the Lord. Because our relationship with …
Our thoughts part 2 /feelings
Continuing from my last post on our thoughts, we will talk about how they affect our feelings and emotions. Remember that after a thought comes a feeling or an emotion. Lets say that you are thinking about how you do not feel like getting up out of bed and facing the day ahead of you. …
The Abundant Life 