The number 1 Tip to Live LIGHT Above Discouragement

We all have bad days. We’ll all go through troubling seasons. Learn how to Live LIGHT Above Discouragement.

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Verse

Ephesians 4:20-23 But that isn’t what you learned about Christ. Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.

Thought

All of us are going to have times of discouragement. It’s part of living in a fallen world.

Jesus promised that “in this world you will have trouble.” (John 16:33) Paul insisted that, “those who get married at this time will have troubles” (1 Corinthians 7:28).

It’s not a matter of avoiding trouble, it’s how are you going to go through it.

The number 1 Tip to Live LIGHT Above Discouragement

1. Strengthen yourself in the Lord.

You can do this yourself through:

praise and joy;

the Word;

waiting expectantly on the Lord and

praying in the Spirit.

You can get encouragement from others through life-giving relationships.

How do you strengthen yourself in the Lord? Do you have a go-to Rhythm?

Next Step

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4 Tips to Live LIGHT Above a Negative Environment

Today I have 4 Tips to Live LIGHT Above a Negative Environment. Are you in a place that drags you down? There’s help for that.

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Verse

Ephesians 4:18-19 Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him. They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity.

Thoughts about Negative Environments

You’re in the world, even though you’re not of it, so you need to know what you do when you’re in a negative environment. What do you do in a negative environment?

I know a toxic person may be in your home. I’m certain you have a few in your work or church.

If you’re not safe, and can’t put up boundaries, remove yourself from an unsafe situation.

But you can be in a safe situation and still be in a negative one.

4 Tips to Live LIGHT Above a Negative Environment

1. Realize you are the light.

2. Stay connected to THE LIGHT - practice the presence Brother Lawerence

3. Work as unto the Lord. Colossians 3:23-24

In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live 1 Peter 3:1

4. Change what you can change when you can change it…until then, change the atmosphere. It’s what you were made for.

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2 Tips to Live LIGHT Above Self-Condemnation

We can’t believe every thought in our head. Today I share 2 tips to Live LIGHT Above Self-Condemnation. Signing up for the daily emails can help.

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Verse

Ephesians 4:17 With the Lord’s authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused.

2 Tips to Live LIGHT Above Self-Condemnation

1. The Word of God - know the Bible
2. The word of God - Hear what He says

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Tips to Live LIGHT Above the Negativity

Learn the why and how of the Live Casts with Tips to Live LIGHT Above the Negativity.

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You were created to walk with God in the garden in the cool of the day, sin came into the world and you bore the consequences, Jesus came and took your place and reversed the curse and offered you His yoke that is easy and His burden that is light. You're a child of God creation longs to be revealed. You are a living light, will you Live LIGHT?

What if?

What if you're surrounded by negativity?

What if you can't control the thoughts in your head?

What if you seem more and more on the boiling point of anger?

Since 2006 I’ve been helping people through daily emails to think God’s thoughts about themselves and their circumstances. I’ve backed away from that for a while, but have taken the time to update the emails and get them ready for anyone who wants to Live LIGHT Above the Negativity.

There are 3 truths you need to agree with so that you can live LIGHT above the negativity.

3 Truths I need to agree with so I can Live LIGHT Above the Negativity

1. Negativity is any thought, word or action that is not in agreement with the will of God expressed in the Bible

2. I can’t control other people’s thoughts words or actions. I can only control mine - with Holy Spirit’s help.

3. Bringing my thoughts, words and actions more into agreement with the will of God expressed in the Bible - with Holy Spirit’s help can change the atmosphere in my everyday world - no matter how negative it is.

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How

I’ll be doing Live Casts 8:00 AM Monday - Friday starting Monday June 8. This will be an instruction from the Word, maybe some commentary from me, and a prayer for all of us.

I’ll be unpacking Ephesians 4:15-32 and look at

Tips to Live LIGHT Above Self-Condemnation
Tips to Live LIGHT Above a Negative Environment
Tips to Live LIGHT Above Discouragement
Tips to Live LIGHT Above Negative Words
Tips to Live LIGHT Above Judging others
Tips to Live LIGHT Above Being Offended at God
Tips to Live LIGHT Above UnForgiveness

They will be short. They will be interactive. If you can’t watch them live, you can still comment when you see them and I’ll do my best to respond. In the meantime, I WILL respond to any email you send when you sign up at https://revtrev.com/fast

ASK

If you’ve done a negativity fast, can you let me know in the comments if you’re willing to shoot a video to tell others about your experience? I have an app that makes it simple for you to do on your phone or computer. I’d be happy to send you a link.

Oh...here it is https://app.videopeel.com/kb18p9ri

Stay tuned for more!

#LiveHopeful

#LiveHopeful. Anytime our situation, or health or relationship hits an impossible set of circumstances we need to know how to #LiveHopeful.

#LiveHopeful with God

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13

God is the God of hope. He fills us with all peace and joy as we trust in Him so that we’ll overflow with hope by the power of Holy Spirit. It’s not pie-in-the-sky-in-the-sweet-bye-and-bye. It’s real hope. We know we have it when we have real peace.

#LiveHopeful is not an option

Everything not done in faith is sin. Everything not done in love is useless. Everything not done in hope is impossible to endure.

Hope is essential for endurance and persistence is essential for hope.

Remember what the Bible is for…

Everything in the Bible was written to teach us that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Do you read the Bible or do you the Bible read you?

Do you have hope?

Brother Lawrence sums up the three virtues - Faith, Hope and Love - with this thought:

“Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.”

Faith, Hope and Love are great virtues that reflect the nature of our great God.

Where is your hope?

The battle for hope is not an easy road, but it’s one we all will walk. That’s because the battle for hope is the battle for our identity and one side wants that identity destroyed and the Other wants it to mature into its destiny through the trials of life.

Can I help?

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Hope Right and Give back

Hope right and give back when get back more than you lost, it’s so natural to give back. Let’s look at what happened when David did that.

Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Ravine. They came out to meet David and the people with him. As David and his men approached, he greeted them. But all the evil men and troublemakers among David's followers said, "Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go." David replied, "No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and handed over to us the forces that came against us. Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike." David made this a statute and ordinance for Israel from that day to this. When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends, saying, "Here is a present for you from the plunder of the LORD's enemies." He sent it to those who were in Bethel, Ramoth Negev and Jattir; to those in Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa and Racal; to those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites and the Kenites; to those in Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athach and Hebron; and to those in all the other places where David and his men had roamed. v21-31

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Hope Right and Give Back

David got back more than he lost. He gave to those who did what they could. He also spread the wealth of the extra he took back to the Elders of Judah.

In a short while Saul and his line would be killed in battle. Guess who was the first to welcome David into his destiny as king?

The Elders from Judah were the ones to recognize his anointing first. It took seven years for the rest of the tribes agree he was the man to lead them. It took more bloodshed and time before his full destiny was realized. But would it have happened at all if he wasn’t generous with what he was given?

Have you been generous?

Are you generous with what God has been entrusting to you? I’m talking time and finances yes, but also talent and passion and skills. Are you generous and ready to bless others with that.

The other day Facebook was asking me to set up automatic responses to frequently asked questions. I don't get FAQ's often. The questions I usually get are RNTQ's - Randomly Non-linear Theological Questions.

I got one that same day. My first response was to not respond. That person I didn’t know could search my website and find a half dozen articles on the question they asked. Why should I do that legwork for them.

Then I remembered they were contacting me from another site and maybe didn’t see my teaching anywhere else. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I was being stingy. So I took the time and found those articles and sent back a response with those links for them to check out.

I don’t know if anything will come from that. I’m not sure anything has to. I had to be generous with my time and actions to honour God and obey His leading.

Hope right and give back benefit

And actually I was blessed reading some of the material I found on my website. What’s that Proverb? Those who refresh others will they themselves be refreshed.

It’s true. Be blessed as you bless others.

What is something you can give someone this week?

Can I help you bless others?

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Hope RIGHT and Recover More Than You Lost

Hope right and recover more than you lost. Learn how to be confident you will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Hope Right

The payoff with hope is that you can recover more than you lost. It’s not guaranteed. It’s not a five-step formula. But if we learn to trust God with the outcome, we will come out further ahead…eventually.

David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, "This is David's plunder.”

The good news about David’s story is that when the worst happened and he lost everything he did the right things. He strengthened himself in the Lord. He asked God what to do. He obeyed what he was told. He let others cope how they could. He attacked.

And he recovered more than he lost.

You can too.

Hope Right, don’t let this season go to waste.

Plant seed in the famine.

Do the same thing David did whenever you know you’re in a battle for hope - in your health, in your relationships, or in your finances.

Strengthen yourself in God, listen for what He will say, obey what He tells you to do, do what you can along the way…in God’s time He will make it all beautiful.

He will fill finish the work He’s started in you. He will make EVERYTHING work out for the good of those He has called. He’s called you. He works all things together for your good. You will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!

Take care of the most brutal truths of your reality day-in and day-out, but know in the end you won’t trade what He offers in exchange for your pain with anything.

He does do exceedingly, abundantly more than you can ever ask or imagine.

Hope isn’t wishful thinking

Hope isn’t wishful thinking. It’s trusting God with the process so you can strengthen yourself, hear from Him and obey whatever He tells you to do.

Have you been doing that?

If yes, awesome! Encourage whoever God puts on your heart today.

Have you not been doing that?

Make time and repent. Ask Him to help you trust Him. Obey whatever you sense He’s telling you to do today.

And the peace of God will be with you.

Can I help you?

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