Today I got the official confirmation email that said I’m no longer a Beachbody coach.  When I began my time with them in late 2014 and becoming a coach in February 2015, I was looking for something that would keep the health and fitness momentum going that I had built with the team atmosphere of Live Big with Ali Vincent. At first, because it was a “shiny new object in my life.  I loved going to the events that were called super Saturday and meeting the celebrity trainers. Eventually, the new happy feelings wore off, and I began to feel like I had to be pushy about what I had to tell people about the products, and  I wasn’t very good about telling people what they had to do, for example, drinking shakeology daily.  I had stopped drinking it myself because frankly, I got bored with having a shake every day and I missed eating.  Recently we looked in my closet and found five unopened boxes of shakeology. A bag that has 30 servings costs $130 in the United States.  I forgot what they cost in Canada and the United Kingdom.  Once I found out the financial toll purchasing products can have on people, I began to serve my community of friends for free. Checking in with them as they did their workouts. I found that I loved that so much more.

I also began to feel that the #GirlBoss mentality was way to young for me. I had began to want to change myself image in terms of the language I used about myself and I began to call myself a woman. So needless to say the image did not gel with what I wanted. I’m excited for the next chapter of my life. I’m not fearful because I know God has got me.

My dream is to continue speaking God’s truth on my social media outlets and maybe one day in person at churches and hospitals. I want to yell people what is possible if you trust God and allow him to work in your life.

I’ve heard a lot in the past three weeks about identity and giving up one thing that you feel overwhelmed by because we feel like we are so many things.

  If we know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, then we only have one identity. We are a child of God

Every title we have or tasks we do are only tools that we serve him with.

Aren’t all religions the same?

• It’s one

Memory Verse

There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”

Acts of the Apostles 4:12

So many voices, so many choices.

Aren’t all religions the same?

• It’s one thing to say all Religions are similar
• It’s another to say all religions are the same

what’s the difference?

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!”

John 14:6‭-‬7

• Jesus is God’s choice

Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 

Philippians 2:9-11

“You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

Matthew 7:13‭-‬14

Isn’t it Elitist to say their is only one way?

It would be if it wasn’t available to all

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

Matthew 7:8

For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:13

A verse speaking to the people who already follow Jesus

Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. Then if people speak against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ.

1 Peter 3:15‭-‬16

Memory verse

So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Enthusiasm comes from En Thos, which means in God

There are two types of people

1. Those who let their circumstances influence their enthusiasm
2. Those who use their Enthusiasm to influence their circumstances

It’s not what you do that makes it meaningful; it’s who.you do it for.

But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. 1 Corinthians 15:57‭-‬58 NLT

King David’s Enthusiasm

When David was a kid, he was an Enthusiastic person who

1. Trusted God daily
2. Walked with God daily
3. Worshipped God Daily

When David lost his Enthusiasm:

With Enthusiasm, David ran into Battle to serve his God ( when he killed Goliath the giant)

With apathy( as King) He stayed home to serve his comfort.  ( He had an affair and had his lovers husband murdered.

But he Got his Enthusiasm back when  Nathaniel call to his attention what he was doing and the changes that.needed to be made in his life.  David was ultimately called a man after God’s own heart

Why is Complaining so Dangerous

It offends the heart of God; God only wants to give his children the Best things for them.

When we complain, we are rebelling against God

It can rob us of blessings because what parent wants to continue giving their kids things that they won’t be grateful for. 

Five things that gratitude does to you

Removes toxic emotions

Reduces pain

Helps sleep

Regulates stress

It relieves anxiety and depression

Things to Remember to live in gratitude

Every good gift I have comes from God

I will.not let what I want blind me to what I have.

I’ll turn every blessing.i have to praise

A Negative outlook Never leads to a Positive Life

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What Optimism is Not:

1. Optimism is not a Denial of reality
2. Optimism is Not Blind Faith

What optimism is:

The Unwavering Expectation that our loving God is working in Every Situation

Optimism is confidence in the future

Mini Takeaways

1. What consumes your mind controls your life
2. your quality of life will never exceed the quality of your thoughts

The big idea

, feed my faith and starve my fears

Something to think about:

If I have more input from the media than I do from the word of God my discouragement is self-inflicted

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Romans 8:18

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

Romans 8:26

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38‭-‬39 N