InCouragments Insight - Image

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Image -A visual representation of something


When others see you what are you representing? Is it negative or positive? Is it happy or sad? Is it confident or insecurity? Is it real or false? Are you a encourager or a hater? Are you a giver or a taker? Are you compassionate or manipulative? Are you selfless or selfish? Do you have direction or are you lost? Are you humble or arrogant?

As you ask yourself these questions be honest with yourself. For some weeks now I have been encountering some real difficulties when it comes to others. Let's just say that I have been challenge to respond to them in a negative way, due to how they approached me. Some of these encounters really had me uptight, and coming out of my character. I had to actually vent to others to calm me down (thanks Dionne, Lisa E, & Lisa L).

As these encounters kept coming at me, I eventually had an aha moment, or let me be real God had to deal with me. He made me realize that I had to have compassion for these certain individuals, because they had other issues occurring. Such as sadness, insecurity, selfishness, I realized that some of us deal with our issues by just dealing, but there are others who deal with them in a very negative format.



So I as I pondered on these individual, I came to realize what each one what was dealing with and it came down to them not having a good image of themselves. Our image of ourselves is very key to how we represent ourselves in others visual.

• Some of us will use other images so that the real image of ourselves is not projected, this is call being false, pretending to be something you are not.

• Others will talking about others to someone else, inform this person that the other person was talking about them and the end effect is chaos, this type of person is manipulative.

I could go on about the different type of defense mechanisms that people use to cover up their real selves, but I think you get the picture.

For the last two years I have being saying that I want to be the best human being possible, no not perfect, just a person with integrity, compassion, love, and a heart for others. So, I pray to God on a daily basis, let me be a good human being today, and he does answer my prayer, because he made me face the negative situations by having compassion for these individuals.

So I say to you today when others view you are you approachable, are you a positive person, do others see you as a person with honesty and integrity. You might say I could care less what others think of me, I say to that remember we were made in the image of God, so your image is representing him.

I also want to encourage you today to love every part of how God made you and let the person he created come forth. Strive daily to be a visual image of goodness, respect, charity, love, integrity, and compassion. Remember your image could change someones life, it could mentor someone, it could assist in someone wanting to change who they are. Also, participating in a positive image changes how you feel about you, and you will see how your life will change from negative to positive right before you, it did for me, I was not always a positive person.

Lastly, I say to the people that challenge you find compassion for them somewhere in your heart and learn to move forward past what they did, and pray for them.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27

Be InCouraged
Mechell

InCouragements Insight - Dear God

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Dear God,

I am writing to you today first to let you know that I truly, truly, truly am thankful to you for giving your son as a sacrifice for my life. I thank you for your constant forgiveness for me in the midst of my sins. I thank you that you only see the best in me, when others see the worst. I thank you for your constant conviction on my life, because without it I would be in the enemy’s court.


I am amazed at your love for me and how you see so much purpose in my life when I feel like a complete failure. It is so wonderful how you adore and love me when I sometimes don’t love myself. You are an amazing father and have been all my life, you direct me when I’m lost, you correct me when I do incorrect things, you provide for me, when I don’t know how, and you are there for me when everyone else has walked away, and when I even walked away from you.


I thank you for sustaining me through the times, when I thought I would lose my mind. I thank you for bringing comfort and peace when life became so chaotic, and troubled. I thank you for teaching me to walk in your ways, even when I’m tested by your other children. I thank you for placing so much love, concern, and care in my heart, that I in turn show it to others.


I thank you for each adversity that you have allowed in my life, it is making me. I might not understand them all, but I do know that each one is taking me to my purpose.
In essence, thank you for being the awesome Father that you are.


Love your daughter,

Mechell

Challenge:

Write your own Dear God letter, it's an awesome feeling. Also, do me a favor, greet people in the morning or whenever, learn to speak and say hi to others even strangers, let's stop being a people of self. Sorry on my soapbox.



Be InCouraged

Mechell

InCouragements Insight - Power of The Mind

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InCouragements Insight

Power of The Mind

Mind – the way an individual feels, perceives, thinks, wills and reasons.

Power – the ability to produce an effect

As you all know most of our challenges start in our mind because of its powerful effect on how we make decisions, makes choices, how we feel about ourselves and others. We have to know that when we are faced with adversities, failures, disappointments, etc, we must take control on what we allow to come to our mind.

Challenge:

So I challenge you to use your:

(Power) which is your authority, control, command, dominion, force, jurisdiction, influence, strength, might

OVER YOUR

(Mind) which is your intellect, wit, reason, imagination, opinion, psyche, brain, decision, observance, thought, view, belief, attitude

AND

Fight for Your Life, Dreams, and Purpose!

Quote for today: “Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.”

Scripture:, “For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind!” Timothy 1:7

Begin to think on the Word or begin to sing a praise song to God. Make a conscious effort to fill your mind with good, pure, wholesome, and lovely thoughts. Philippians 4:8

Be InCouraged
Mechell

InCouragements Insight - Passion = Purpose

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InCouragements Insight

Passion = Purpose

Passion – boundless enthusiasm; intense emotion compelling action; to lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity.

As you start this New Year ask yourself these questions:

1) What am I intense about in life?

2) What am I full of enthusiasm about?

3) What compels me to act on with great eagerness?

So my next question to you, are you actually participating in these passions? If not, ask yourself why? Is it fear, procrastination, lack of finances? WHAT IS IT? If you do not know what this is figure it out, and once you have started a plan so that you can pursue your passion. I ask you all these questions because your passion usually leads to your purpose.

Let’s use me for an example, most of you know I care about people, and I love to encourage them in whatever way I can through words, advice, money, giving. I just love to see people feel empowered and work through the adversities of life, and I love to assist with this. So, through me and God’s conversation I realized I needed to become a Psychologist, I knew I needed to return to school and receive my Masters. I took action applied for school and I am currently in my second semester of school working towards that purpose.. Once I graduate and pass the state testing, I will have my practice inside my coffee café where I can serve my community of people, who have never had some sort of counseling. I now know where I’m headed and I feel secure in this and not wandering from thing to thing.

The great motivational speaker Zig Ziglar says some of us wander around our whole lives going from one thing to another, because we have no clear purpose of what we are destined to do. God is the only clear way to understand what our purpose is in life. So have a conversation with him and see what he might reveal.

Challenge: I have two challenges for you this week:

1) Think about what you are passionate about, and see how it fits with your purpose in life.

2) Create a vision board, and place your favorite quotes, scriptures, pictures of places you want to travel to one day. Place words of things you might want to become one day ex: Doctor, Entrepreneur etc. or places words of how you want o feel ex: Happy, Fulfilled, Success, Patience. Put pictures of tangible things you desire (I have a picture of my Bentley that Taylor will buy me one day) seriously God has no problem with us desiring things. Once you have completed the board sit back and see how the items, words and pictures on the board fit into your purpose. Also create the same vision board for your children. If you need some assistance with this please contact me.

Quote for today: “Find your passion and allow God to direct you to your purpose.”

Mechell Bridges

Scripture: And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. Habakkuk 2:2


Have an Awesome Week and Be InCouraged!

Mechell