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How To Become The Best Version of Yourself – Personality and Body
by Mark Maulding
Have you ever wondered how you can become the best version of yourself? Most of us have, but we seem to fall short of our expectations over and over. So, maybe there is an alternative to what you have tried before.
First, let’s think about the primary way most have attempted to improve. If you are honest and self-aware, you have made a list of your positives and negatives. Next, you may have tried to make your positives stronger and get rid of your negatives. If you have had some success, that’s great. Yet the majority either give up or find themselves in a vicious cycle of trying harder, getting discouraged, giving up, feeling like a failure, then repeating…
Jesus Mends Our Shattered Hearts
~ by Wild At Heart
To be a human being is to be stained glass—beautiful in our brokenness, but a collection of many parts nonetheless. Someone once wrote, “You are every age you have ever been.” They were speaking poetically but also naming something literal. You are six, eight, twelve, seventeen, and also your current age…
The New You
~ By Renée Berry
Galatians 2:20, TPT – “My old identity has been co-crucified with Christ and no longer lives. And now the essence of this new life is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives his life through me—we live in union as one! My new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave himself for me, dispensing his life into mine!”</blockquote
To be forgiven by God through the shed blood of Jesus is one of the cornerstones of Christianity. Because of His sacrifice, we will never be held accountable before God for our sins—though we are still responsible for our actions here on earth. This truth forms the basis for the freedom we experience in our relationship with Him.
Yet, there is even more…
Let’s kill our ANTS!
by Mark Maulding
Dr. Daniel Amen is a psychiatrist and a Christian who created the acronym ANTS. He had observed these in his patients years ago. ANTS stands for Automatic Negative Thoughts that are Spontaneous.
These thoughts occur so often that we accept them without realizing it. Then, before we know it, we are not only agreeing with them but are coming to conclusions about ourselves that are the opposite of what our Heavenly Father says about us…
Deep and Lasting Change
~ by Wild At Heart
You do know what God is after in your own life, don’t you? Maybe that’s why we stay so busy — to avoid knowing, so we can avoid dealing with it.
And you do know that the “quick fix” doesn’t ever work. Simply telling myself, “You are too busy, John. You’ve got to slow down,” is about as effective as telling an addict to quit. (Has it worked for you?)…
God’s Opinion of You is Stunning
by Mark Maulding
One of the greatest surprises many Christians are discovering is just how stunning God’s opinion is of them. In our discipleship counseling, we’ve seen thousands of people’s lives completely transformed by this simple but often misunderstood truth…
What God Sees in You
~ by Wild At Heart
Your sin has been dealt with. Your Father has removed it from you “as far as the east is from the west” (Ps. 103:12). Your sins have been washed away (1 Cor. 6:11). When God looks at you he does not see your sin. He has not one condemning thought toward you (Rom. 8:1). But that’s not all. You have a new heart…
United to Him
~ by Wild At Heart
But there’s something deeper that calls to me, something richer I have tasted which compels me to let go of the life I keep rebuilding in order to learn how to love…
Unmask Satan’s Lies about Your God-Given Identity
by Mark Maulding
Do you know how to unmask the lies you believe about who you are so you can step into the real you? Let’s jump into this.
In our culture, the word “identity ” has been used as a diversion by Satan to keep us from focusing on our true identity. For example, when I taught on this topic to over 50 men recently, I asked them to share some ways the idea of identity is commonly used. They answered, “Gender Identity”, “Identity Politics”, and more. Yet, the concept of identity in God’s culture is this. Our first birth identity made us a sinner in Adam. We had no choice in that identity…