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Hey, Happy Tuesday. I hope all is awesome with you today! What are you up to today? Later I’ll be recording a new episode of #encouragementnotes. It’s week two of our Samson series. This week’s message is called When Emotions Rule Your Life.
I hope you’ll join me.
Do you have any questions for me? March is Cerebral Palsy awareness month. If you have any questions you want to ask me, Leave me a comment Thanks
Hey, I hope you’re having a beautiful day. What are you doing today? Right now, I’m finishing breakfast. As a #boundlessbabe, we are asked to take on a chosen goal. My goal. Is to keep up my independence by using my wallet basket.
I’ve had this goal before, and I have fallen away from it. What will make it’s time different is that I have good friends to check in with.
Samson was an incredibly strong man, with a desperately weak will.
His Great potential: Samson was Selected by God, Set apart by God, and Strengthened by God
His Fatal Flaw: Samson was a man of faith, but he wasn’t a faithful man
1. Lust: I want it
Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”
Judges 14:1-2 NIV
2. Entitlement: I deserve it.
Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
Judges 14:8-9 NIV
Pride: I can handle it.
Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men.
Judges 14:10 NIV
But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Luke 12:48 NIV
It’s taken so long for me to get to mentally to the place I am in now. I used to think that hanging out with. people who looked like me was weird. If you’ve been around me for a while, you know that I was once asked
Are you going to get any better?
You also know that I threw myself into.physical therapy, because I thought walking would make me normal.
In 2021 I decided to let that attitude go, and I was ready to make friends with women who look like me and share similar experiences. I chose to throw myself headfirst into signing up for Rollettes 2021. I attended virtually. This year I am looking forward to attending in person.
I have already paid for my tuition and room, but the coordinates of the event need assistance for the event. Rollettes Experience is much more than a dance camp. It is a time of women’s empowerment for women who are wheelchair users.
It’s time for women like myself to be looked at as someone who can take over the world.with her abilities and not pitied for her perceived disability
Please consider donating to this epic event
One day a young woman named Nikki visited her new school Shiz University. She was a lover of performing arts and was a member of her church choir, and she loved cheering on her professional performer friends at small venues in her town. Nikki also loved gushing about her friends on her podcast Encouragement Notes.
One day, before class Nikki noticed a young woman sitting by herself. Being the extrovert she is, Nikki strolled up to the woman and introduced herself.
Hey, I’m Nikki! I’m new here; what’s your Name?
The shy woman smiled and said,
Hi,
I’m Nessa Rose
Nice to meet you, Nessa. How long have you been coming here?
My sister Elphaba and I have been students here for a year; I’m waiting for her to get out of her sorcery seminar.
After a few minutes of silence, Nessa got the courage to ask,
Nikki, why do you use a chair with wheels? I don’t like being in one; it makes me feel weird.
First of all, Nessa, I get it; I’ve been through times when I thought I was weird too.
At the last school, I was at, someone came up to me and asked if I would get any better. I went into shock and didn’t say anything.
I’ve also heard the question, how do we describe you? People who don’t know me often think I’m strange, and I used to agree with them and believe that I needed to be fixed somehow, but this past year has been life-changing for me! All of the ideas I had about myself have been challenged in a good way because I met a group of women who look like me. They are members of a group called the Rollettes members of their dance classes. You ought to look into the classes.
As Nikki finishes gushing about the team, Elphaba comes up to Nikki and Nessa; she’s pretty but Nikki could tell that people had considered her strange as well because she was green.
Hi Elphaba! This is my new friend Nikki; she’s been telling me all about her life and the people she has met. I think I want to try one of the dance classes she goes to. They meet on Tuesday. I want to go check it out. It sounds like fun!
It’s hard to see a lot of stars in Los Angeles, but on a very clear night, when I do see stars, I know that the one who. created them also created me, and he is looking out for me.
1. Hope is the confident expectation that God will do what he says he will do
2. Hope shines brightest in Darkness and is not based on our mood or circumstances
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 MSG
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 NIV
3. Hope is a form of resistance
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:1-2 NIV
4. Christian Hope is not in going to heaven when we die but in all of creation being renewed and filled with God’s Glory
1. Pray for hope, as God to renew your hope daily
2. Practice Hope, it’s a muscle that you have to exercise
3. Gard your hope, when things look bad remember that God is in control and when people and circumstances are negative, keep on talking to God through prayer and reading his word.
This is today’s #blogganuary prompt.
If I were a tree, I would be one of those Purple flower trees that seem to grow out of the cement. I wouldn’t look strong, but I would have firmly planted roots, just as my roots are planted in my relationship with Christ.
My falling petals would be the part of me that tells my story. It would be told softly and often because I want people who saw me to know what God has done for me.
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