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READY ✅ PUSH 📌 STEP 🦶 P ray 🙏 U ntil 🥱 S omething 😳 H appens 🤯 Prayer is one way we prepare. 🙇‍♂️ GROW 💪 🤔 How will you choose to wait? Choose Prayer! 🙏 “Jesus, help me to PUSH through during this season. Help to prepare by choosing to connect with you. Amen. StepIntoGrowth. TV #StepIntoGrowthTV #FightFinishFaithful #Advent2021 #Advent #Jesus

READY ✅ “Where you go, I go” ~ Ruth ~ (Ruth 1:16) STEP 🦶 #FOE Family Over Everything 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 #LOE Loyalty Over Everything 💪 That is the story of Ruth 👧 Ruth demonstrates who God is with her Loyalty. 🛡 God does the same thing and that is what why we celebrate Advent. 🙇‍♂️ That is why we always celebrate God. 🙏 He always has a plan. 📝 He always is showing up. 🚕 Always has. Always will....

READY ✅ “Routines make the extraordinary ordinary.” ~ Brian Cain ~ STEP 🦶 What is a dream you have that seems impossible? ☁️ Routines make the extraordinary ordinary. ⭕️ Faith is not just believing but doing again and again and again. 💪 Even if you come off a little crazy. 🤪 You want to see that Dream become a reality ❓ Create a routine. ⭕️ Put in the work. Workout Prepare. GROW 💪 🤔 What...

READY ✅ Prayerful Expectancy STEP 🦶 How are you at waiting? ✋ Culture answers that question for us. 📦 Not good. ☹️ Delayed gratification seems to be something of the past. 🙈 2️⃣ words to shift our focus while we wait. Wait for anything. ‼️ Big or Small. 👊 “Prayerful Expectancy” 🙏 When you wait: Pray. 🙇‍♂️ In other words. ✍️ When you wait. ☺️ Prepare. (That is what prayer is) 😉 GROW 💪 🤔...

READY ✅ ““You can’t spell testimony without the word test.” ~ Mark Batterson ~ STEP 🦶 What trials have you faced in your life? ⚠️ What has your perspective been like in the midst of those trials? 🧠 Looking back how has those trials shaped you? 🏋️‍♂️ Pits and Prisons aren’t the end. 🕳 Continue to trust God. 🙏 Continue to persevere. 💪 Continue to prepare. 😓 Trust the plan. 📖 God redeems. ❤️‍...

READY ✅ "The mature human being goes about doing what needs to be done regardless of whether that person feels great or terrible." ~ David Reynolds ~ STEP 🦶 Feel great. 💪 Feel terrible. 🤒 Choose to live heroically. 🦸‍♂️ Choose to put the work in no matter what. 💼 Regardless of how you feel. 🥴 Will you choose to prepare❓ GROW 💪 🤔 Will you choose to honor your commitments instead of giving...

READY ✅ “Look up at the sky.” ~ Genesis 15:5 ~ STEP 🦶 God wants you to do something today. 📝 Look at the sky. 🌌 Remember who is in control. 💡 The one True God. ☝️ Who has and always will show up. ‼️ At the perfect time. ⌚️ My hope for us. 🙏 That we will prepare for what God is already doing and is about to do with our stories and the story of this world. 🌎 That we will choose to believe....

READY ✅ “God came down.” ~ Genesis 11:5 ~ STEP 🦶 God came down. ⬇️ To make things right for His creation even if we didn’t fully understand His reasoning. 🚧 Let me change one word in that sentence for us today. 1️⃣ God comes down. ‼️ To set things right. 🤚 “If we are in the light as you are in the light; we can find our way together.” ~ Sacred Ordinary Days ~ 🕯 This Advent season let’s choose...

READY ✅ “He walked closely with God.” ~ Genesis 6:9 ~ STEP 🦶 God intervenes for us. 💪 God shows up. 🪄 He did for Adam. He did for Noah. ❤️ He did in a manger. 🍼 God has and always will intervene for us and His creation. 🌎 Our job. 💼 Walk closely with Him in this season. 🦶 To stay hopeful. 🙏 To prepare by staying close. 🤟 To trust God no matter what. 🦯 He has a plan. 📖 Will you choose t...

READY ✅ “At Last!” ~ Genesis 2:23 ~ STEP 🦶 Choose to prepare by being people of hope and people who prepare by doing the work with anticipation that God will show up. 💪 God will arrive just at the right moment in our lives just like he did so long ago when he provided Eve to Adam as the ultimate helper.⌚️ The same way God provided the messiah in Jesus at the perfect time in history for us to b...

READY ✅ “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can be and should be and he will BECOME as he can be or should be.” ~ Johann Wolfgang ~ STEP 🦶 What if we treated those we find ourselves around not for who they are but instead who they could become. 🥀 In others words. ✍️ See value in everyone. 🌹 When we entered into this world we were all born with value. 🤟 As time...

READY ✅ “He had Compassion on them.” STEP 🦶 Irritating. 😡 Isn’t that how we would describe most everybody? 🤬 Especially where we find ourselves right now? 🤨 So much division. 😤 So much disagreement. 😠 In the midst of one of Jesus toughest moments. 😢 The crowd found Jesus when he was trying to escape. 🤨 In this moment Jesus was not irritated. (Like we would be and are mostly) 🤷‍♂️ Jesus d...

READY ✅ “We all need to hold on to something. Hold on to me. ” ~ Jesus ~ STEP 🦶 Forgive yourself. ❤️‍🩹 Then use this GRACE to spread my spirit. ❤️ Find another soul in despair. 💔 Help them. 🤕 We all need to hold on to something. 🙋‍♂️ Hold on to Jesus. ✝️ See Value in Everybody. 🤟 GROW 💪 🤔 Who can you find in despair today? How can you help them? 🙏 “Jesus, today help us forgive ourselves....

READY ✅ “Just as there are diamonds, gold, and oil inside the earth, there is a priceless treasure inside of you. You are valuable beyond measure and there is greatness inside of you. You don’t have to chase it. You already have it! You just have to do the work to bring it out and shine!” ~ Jon Gordon ~ STEP 🦶 There is a priceless treasure inside of you. ⚱️ You are valuable beyond measure. 💍 Th...

READY ✅ “The Crowd was Amazed.” STEP 🦶 Sick. 🤧 Social Outcast. 😔 Sin. 😞 Shame. 🙈 We all have or are in one of those categories. 📝 Jesus doesn’t shy away from these things. 🤗 He encourages us to bring people to him who are battling these things. 🤕 He encourages us to find him for our own sake. 🚗 So that we can be amazed. 😳 By who Jesus is and how he sees value in ALL of us. 🤟 & By h...

READY ✅ “You matter. You are enough. Your past doesn’t define you unless you let it. Focus on the future.” ~ Jon Gordon ~ STEP 🦶 You matter. ‼️ You are enough. 🤗 Your past doesn’t define you. 💔 Focus on the future. ❤️‍🩹 See Value in Everybody. 🤟 GROW 💪 🤔 How can you help others today see past their past and focus on the future? 🙏 “Jesus, help us to help others see they are enough and focu...

READY ✅ “He Noticed” STEP 🦶 He noticed. 👀 He notices. 😎 Whether you are sick, socially outcast, or full of shame. 🥴 He notices. 👀 “Hold out your hand.” 💔 Let Him heal you today. ❤️‍🩹 He sees value in you. 🥰 See Value in Everybody. 🤟 GROW 💪 🤔 Today I challenge you to notice that person today. 🙏 “Jesus, Help me to have eyes that notices others around me. Amen.” StepIntoGrowth. TV #StepI...

READY ✅ “Be encouraged! Your faith has mad you well!” ~ Jesus ~ STEP 🦶 Years of just being an extra in the story. 😢 Transformed, and healed. ❤️‍🩹 Jesus does not see extras. 👓 He sees value. 🤟 You are not an extra in life. ‼️ You have value. ❤️ Jesus demonstrates that over and over throughout the Bible. 📖 You are not an extra. 🎥 In fact no one is an extra. 🎞 We all have value. 🤟 We all are...

READY ✅ “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” ~ Robert Kennedy ~ STEP 🦶 Just a tiny ripple. 🪨 That is all it takes. 🤷‍♂️ From that ripple. ⭐️ People experience Hope. 🙏 Hope = Value 🤟 Value = A new sense of Life. 💪 See Value in Everybody. 🤟 GROW 💪 🤔 What can you do today to s...

READY ✅ “‘I’m after mercy, not religion.’ I’m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.” ~ Jesus ~ STEP 🦶 Can we stop looking at people like we are better than they are. 😞 How about we share a meal and begin to show people they have value! 🍝 Your job title, social status, or past has nothing to do with where your value comes from. 💰 We all have value. 💌 We all have a place at the table....

READY ✅ “Because you believed. It has happened.” ~ Jesus ~ STEP 🦶 Choose to believe there is value in those who don’t look, think, or act like us. 😤 Maybe even vote like you. 🗳 Let’s choose to unite instead of divide. ➗ Let’s choose to be like Jesus. ✝️ Choose to believe. 🪄 See Value in Everybody. 🤟 GROW 💪 🤔 Will you believe that there is value in everyone? Even in those who don’t look, ac...

READY ✅ “If social involvement and volunteering were a drug, we’d be popping pills like there was no tomorrow.” ~ We over Me ~ STEP 🦶 Watch someone serve and inspire others today. 🎥 Watch a documentary on mother Theresa or just think of my hero friend Malorie who likes to wear love. 🍿 Watch your body get a boost both physically and mentally from doing so. 🧪 Science tells me so. 🧬 See Value i...

READY ✅ “I discovered that it isn’t doing spectacular things that makes you remarkable in the eyes of God, but instead, it is when you light just one candle to dispel a little bit of darkness that you are doing something tremendous.” ~ Desmond TuTu ~ STEP 🦶 What you do is remarkable. 👏 Matter of fact. 👉 You are remarkable in general. 😎 How do I know? ❓ God says so. 🗣 See Value in Everybody....

READY ✅ “I want to.” ~ Jesus ~ STEP 🦶 Jesus sees value in everyone. 🤟 Jesus sees value in you. 😍 Can we stop for a minute and see value in others in the same way? 🧐 Let’s be more like Jesus today. 🪞 See Value in Everybody. 🤟 GROW 💪 🤔 When you see others in need or people come to you for help. Do you want to? 🙏 “Jesus, StepIntoGrowth. TV #StepIntoGrowthTV #ValueInEverybody

READY ✅ “One small step of kindness contributes to one large step for humankind.” ~ Craig & Marc Kielburger ~ STEP 🦶 One small step of kindness. 🦶 Kindness shows value. 🤗 Value leads to more steps from more people. 🏘 Which leads to more kindness. ❤️ Add it all together and you have ONE LARGE STEP FOR HUMANKIND. 🌎 See Value in Everybody. 🤟 GROW 💪 🤔 What step can you take today to bring...