While life happens - Happy Days

"Happy Days"

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Back in 1979 one of the most popular sitcoms was "Happy Days" which aired on Tuesdays around 7 p.m.    The show started and the doorbell rang.   It was Gary and Judy Bauer making their debut KAM visit.   We were the family God directed them to contact.   We had just met and they asked us to turn off the TV!!  What?

I was raised Catholic and thought I knew a lot about God.   This had better be important.   I was sincere about God, but sincerely missing something and I didn't even have a clue what.   God knew and He used Gary and Judy to get through to me.   I received the greatest miracle of my entire life.   I became a new creature in Christ that evening.

Things began to change immediately, mainly my mindset.   Nothing was the same anymore.   My perspective on life took on new understanding.   God put in me a...

Psalm 34

"Gain clarity on how to be aligned with your life purpose"

Chelley Antonczak is founder and CEO of Chelley Antonczak & Associates, a company dedicated to helping Christian Businesswomen gain clarity on how to be aligned with their life purpose.  Chelley has developed a proven process to help women design a life they love!

Her heart’s desire is to see Christian businesswomen collaborating to make an impact as influencers for the Kingdom of God! Chelley is a speaker, consultant, transformational trainer, and private coach.  Her background includes extensive experience in leadership development, spiritual transformation, brain-based learning design and international business.

Chelley has also led a non-profit ministry focused on spiritual development, outreaches, and retreat events over the past fifteen years.

Connect with Coach Chel:

Website: www.coachchel.com

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Instagram: coach__chel

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Sweet Victory

"Everything has purpose."

Recently I watched a movie and then read a book on The Holocaust. The horrors depicted there are too many to comprehend. The resiliency of the human spirit shone through them both.

Forgiveness, gratitude and recognizing God's hand in their midst of their traumas caused me to re-evaluate my own heart's posture.

What the majority of us will ever experience in life is insignificant compared to what those precious people endured and suffered at the hand of manifested evil against humanity.

In my life, I have had tragic and traumatizing experiences where I thought "this is it...it's over." And yet, here I am still doing what I love, helping people come alive and thrive in Christ. How is that possible? I've discovered a secret: Everything has purpose.

1. It tests my heart towards God. Mad or glad. Hateful or grateful. Distrust or greater trust. Turning away or turning toward. Bitter or better. Hard or Soft. What will my response be to...

Cling to HOPE

Cling to Hope

"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much." James 5:16

I must confess that over the last few weeks I feel like I have been in the boxing ring of life and knocked down hard, with the overwhelming feeling of defeat. I have experienced it spiritually, mentally and physically. I have arrived where the deepest hurts and wounds – those that seem to define me for my entire life - is being brought to the place where Dr. Jesus can do what is needed. It's raw, exposed and it hurts – overwhelmingly so.

I confess too, that I am believing that this “down for the count” experience will lead to a radical life changing victory. Defeat is part of life. I was thinking about the story of the woman with the issue of blood who touched the hem of Jesus' garment and was healed.

43 "Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who...

 More than Conquerors

"Defeat is temporal, but only if you do something about it."

Defeated means: (a) Having been defeated in a battle or contest. “The defeated army” Yep, that’s right. It means you lost; you have been beaten; victory was not yours.

I don’t know anyone that likes to lose. It’s not a nice feeling. It gets you down, it makes you miserable and can even make you depressed. But defeat is part of life. We all experience defeat at some stage in our lives. Individuals, teams, organizations, armies, governments and even entire nations know defeat. We see it in news headlines, on television, we read it on social media.

But we also read it in the Bible. Yep, defeat is in the Bible! It’s not created by man or the devil. God uses it in His greater plan for us. Sometimes we need defeat to bring us to our knees. Sometimes we need defeat to realize that we are out of God’s will. Sometimes it's through our own doings, our own...

Turning defeat into a WIN

Read your Keys

Joel Lopez is the founder of Read Your Keys, a self-discovery business, and a Life Languages certified coach. He majored in psychology hoping to find insight and found none.

In his pursuit of wisdom, he attended personal development courses and conferences. Through his search he discovered God’s heart for him and his purpose.

His goal is to help men to discover their God-given identity so they can fulfill their destiny.

Originally from Southern California, Joel is married to his high school Sweetheart and lives in Arizona with their four young children.

Connect with Joel:

https://www.facebook.com/readyourkey/?

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Finally, You Can Tear Up That Prayer List! Statistics show that conversational and relational skills are the MOST EFFECTIVE way to introduce Biblical truths and have a front row seat to miracles when YOU minister to YOUR friends and family. Imagine, no more lost relationships or closed doors to...

It's time to ROCK

A ROCK solid foundation is needed to transform and build life on

Erik Salzenstein's story is one that truly shows the power of change and what's possible. From greed and addiction to purpose and fulfillment. Erik found himself facing life in prison, with his back against the wall where he finally had to face his worst enemy up until that point.....himself.  

What stands out that he had to go to prison to find freedom and realized he was in his own prison long before actually being behind bars. He then went on to spend 4 years relentlessly pursuing personal growth, coaching, speaking, running workshops and even being published in a newspaper all while in prison. He developed a 4 step process using the acronym ROCK that allowed him to tap into his full potential and develop the ROCK solid foundation needed to transform and build his life on. He's since used this process with much success to his clients lives. 

Erik is a powerful and sought out...

Turning defeat into a WIN 

Take the lemons in your life and open up a lemonade stand

Losing a checker or ping pong game, a race or boxing match, a board game or not winning the lottery - these are examples of when we can "suffer defeat." Friendly, healthy competition has winners and losers. It doesn't define who we are as individuals.

However, in other life situations, we allow defeat to define us: bankruptcy, divorce, fired from a job, loss of a limb, debilitating disease, even things like tragedy, retirement, incarceration, or unexpected loss of a loved one. We often file these devastating events under "defeat" and go through a period of mourning, depression, or shame. We can feel as though "life is over" or that "we're a loser" or "we'll never amount to much because of...." (fill in the blank).

If we stay too long in these things they become baggage that we carry with us into each new season of life. The compounding weight can become very cumbersome.

A...

Turning defeat into a WIN  

You already have everything you need.

The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need. Psalm 23:1

The famous king and poet, David, wrote this lyric as a man acquainted with pain. David was told from a young age that he would be king. Nothing pointed to that promise coming true for years. In fact, the sitting king hated his guts and chased him around the wilderness, trying to kill him.

David understood that even when he had nothing, and was on the run with his life in the balance, he already had what he needed. He learned to trust that the Lord was his shepherd, provider, protector... even when circumstances were at their worst.

It seems the bigger the promise, the greater the pain on the journey. The secret is believing along the way, “the Lord is my shepherd, I already have what I need.”

 

The journey of faith insists upon rest.

He lets me rest in green meadows; He leads me beside peaceful streams. He renews my...

This Episode: Holiness

In this episode Mama J and Chad have a great conversation about infectiousness, Love, Holiness and choice.

"Holiness is not infectious." Haggai 2:10-14

Haggai describes how God's glory will fill His house. We are God's house, His dwelling place. God was teaching His priests (which we are also) the principle that holiness and unholiness don't mix.

If I put a drop of saltwater into a container of pure water; it's no longer pure. If a moldy piece of fruit is in a basket with good fruit, what happens? The moldy fruit contaminates the whole basket.

However, the reverse is not true. Saltwater is not made pure by pouring pure water into it. Good apples in the basket will not un-contaminate the moldy one. Same with us. God gave Adam and Eve freedom, authority and access to Himself. He only had one restriction: "Don't eat from that tree!"

There HAD to be a choice involved. Otherwise their relationship with God would not be based on love-because-I-want-to, but...