Beginning Tomorrow…Untangle your Season with Hope for the Holidays.

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Congratulations! You have just crossed the finish line……….
The past 30 days we have challenged ourselves to Praise God through the Psalms and dare to line up to Truth by engaging in practical application…every day for 30 days. I don’t know about you, but honestly somewhere around day 18 my attitude about everything seemed to mellow and soften. Something happened in me by re-arranging my focus.

But, life is not just a 30 day Truth Dare. It is a day by day, moment by moment, breath by breath experience that requires a power greater than just our own. When left to ourselves, we handle life according to “just” our human reasoning. And, as smart as we might like to think we are, we are no match to the wisdom of God. We need Him. And, We need TRUTH. He is the Truth, and His Word is Truth. So, my friend, this is not the end, but really only the beginning of the challenge of lining our lives up to truth. Each day the finish line is when our head hits the pillow at night. And, each morning brings a new day and a new challenge to dare to trust God and to dare to live by the application of what His word says. Each day we have the fresh choice of relationship with the Father. His mercy, love, and invitation to us is new every single day.
Will you join me in saying…”This is just the beginning”

Here are our 10 WILD Life Principles

1. To lead well, we must learn to follow well.
2. To lead well, we must learn to love well.
3. To lead well, we must submit to a renewed mind.
4. To lead well, we must die daily to our own dreams and trust that God has a plan for us.
5. To lead well, we must learn to Praise God in all things
6. To lead well, we must learn to focus on things above not cave in to things around us.
7. To lead well we must learn to give others courage, through the gift of encouragement.
8. To lead well, we must look for the good in all things, circumstances, and people.
9. To lead well, we must sow generously, because we will reap what we sow.
10. To lead well, we must choose an undivided heart, living by the truth of God’s word, not human understanding.

Let’s Cross that 30 Day Finish Line…….
Praise Prayer/ Psalm 111:2-6, Psalm 34:17-19. Psalm 111:10

Great are the works of the Lord;
they are pondered by all who delight in them.
Glorious and majestic are his deeds,
and his righteousness endures forever.
He has caused his wonders to be remembered;
the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
He provides food for those who fear him;
He remembers his covenant forever.

The righteous cry out
and the LORD hears them.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
The righteous man may have many troubles,
But the LORD delivers him from them all

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom
all who follow his precepts have good understanding.
To Him belongs eternal praise.

Truth Dare
Proverbs 3:3-12,27,29-30
Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man.

Trust int he Lord will all your heart
Lean not on your own understanding
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.

Do not be wise in your own eyes,
fear the Lord and shun evil.
This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.

Honor the Lord with your wealth,
with the first fruits of all your crops,
then your barns will be overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.

My son, do not despises the Lord’s discipline
Because the LORD disciplines those he loves.

Do not withhold good from those who deserve it.
Do not plot harm against your neighbor
Do not accuse a man for no reason

The Challenge Steps

• Read This Proverb
• Digest It’s Words
• Ask yourself What God is speaking to your heart through it
• Pray for understanding
• Ask God to teach you how to walk it out.

Daily Prayer
Lord, Thank you for the past 30 days. They have proved to me once again that your Word is alive and works in us. Even though I usually did not “feel” a thing when I read and applied the truth dare, something was happening, because your word has worked in me. Now, Father may I not cross a 30 day finish line and stop, but continue to digest your word daily, daring myself to believe it and challenging myself to find life application in it. Lord may there be less of me and more of thee!

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The Lord gave each of us a heart to know Him. He inscribed His desires and thoughts on our new heart. He will cleanse our hearts and keep them clean.

But our minds have become clogged with negative self-talk, lies of the culture, bitterness and the many other things we insist on holding on to. It’s much like a dirty pitcher of water, with debris floating around, contaminating the entire pitcher.

Imagine putting a glass of dirty water under a faucet. Turn on the water and watch what happens. The continual flow of fresh clean water begins to push out the dirty water. Eventually, the water in the glass will be clean…spilling over the edges.

This is what God desires to do in us…give us a clean heart. Remember out of the heart the mouth speaks, so a clean heart is pretty important. Also, take courage, if you have tried and tried to purify your own heart, you can not do this heart cleansing on your own.

This cleanse takes the Power of the Almighty.

Praise Prayer/ Psalm 51:7
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me and I will be whiter than snow.

Truth Dare John 7:37-38
“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink…streams of living water will flow from him.”

Ezekiel 36:26
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from your your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws…you will be my people and I will be your God.”

Jeremiah 24:7
“I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.”

Challenge Steps

• Take time to recognize and yield to God’s work in you.
• Ask Him to fill you with Living Water, a water that has a dual purpose. It quenches the thirst of our hearts and cleanses at the same time.
• What dirt particles have been recently floating around in your glass?
• How has your thinking either helped or refused the flow of new fresh water?
• Decide today what cup you want…dirty water or clean water brimming over.

The Choice is Ours. The power to cleanse and change is His.

Daily Prayer
Lord, It’s Wild to think I can be cleansed from all the icky me by your power. Wilder still to think that you desire to give me a new heart and be my God. I know these things, but often forget them in the hustle and bustle of real life. Help me God to settle down today with a glass of fresh clean water…your living water. Cleanse Me, Purify Me and Teach me how to Challenge the Dirt that keeps trying to fill up my glass!

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