Step Into Growth

READY ✅ “The habitual reaction, when faced with hard times is, ‘Why is this happening to me?’ What I would encourage you to think instead is, ‘Why is this happening for me?’” ~ Emily Fletcher ~ STEP 🦶 Hard Times. They bring out the worse. They bring out the best. My challenge. Put the blanket away and the ice cream down. Instead… Grab you cape. Stress less. Pray more. GROW 💪 🤔 In the midst of...

Flowers vs Weeds 💐 READY ✅ Water the flowers not the weeds STEP 🦶 Feeling stressed? Stress taking over your emotions? Don’t know how to get unstuck? Try this… Ask yourself this powerful question = What am I grateful for? List some things off that your grateful for. Health, family, job, space that you call home, fridge Stress Less. Be thankful more. GROW 💪 🤔 What am I grateful for right now?...

READY ✅ “Keep your ears open and your mouth shut.” ~Ecclesiastes 5:1~ STEP 🦶 Take a deep breath in through your nose and say… “God is trustworthy” Exhale out of your mouth and say… “I can let go and trust God.” “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.” ~1 Peter 5:7~ GROW 💪 🤔 Will you stop today and take a breath? 🙏 “Jesus, you are trustworthy. I choose to let go of all...

READY ✅ “Be earnest and disciplined in your prayers.” ~1 Peter 4:7~ STEP 🦶 On average we spend 5-6 hours on our phones. GROW 💪 🤔 You have time. How will you use it? 🙏 “Jesus, in moments of stress I choose to turn to you. Amen.” #StepIntoGrowthTV #StressLessPrayMore

READY ✅ “Don’t worry about how well you’re doing! Don’t worry about whether the relaxation response is really working or whether your mental picture is maximizing your health benefits. Just do it!” ~Herbert Benson~ STEP 🦶 Here is another way at looking at it. A fun analogy of brushing teeth. We don’t dwell on the tooth-cleaning process. We just work away with that brush every day. Almost no one...

READY ✅ “Why should you dedicate any of your very precious and limited minutes, every day, to meditation? Simply put, because it creates more time. Would you be willing to invest 2 percent of your day if you knew it would improve the other 98 percent?” ~Emily Fletcher~ STEP 🦶 Productivity. When we are able to dump our stress. It allows us to be more energized, more focused, and more creative in...

READY ✅ “Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It...

READY ✅ “When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer.” ~Psalm 94:19~ STEP 🦶 Doubt. Will you be ready for it today. It’s coming at some point. You will doubt yourself, your future, your dream, the mundane of the day. Doubt is an everyday normal occurrence in our minds. GROW 💪 🤔 What has you doubting? 🤔 What has you hopeful? 🤔 Where do you find cheer? 🙏 “Jesus, tur...

READY ✅ “In only two months, meditation can change the brain enough to be visibly detachable by MRI.” ~Emily Fletcher~ STEP 🦶 Prayer shrinks the fear center and enlarges the centers responsible for happiness, love, and creative problem solving. Think my stress less pray more is just some religious hoax? Think again. Even studies from the secular world back up the power of prayer. GROW 💪 🤔 How...

READY ✅ “God is greater than our feelings.” ~1 John 3:20~ STEP 🦶 Emotional highs and lows come and go. Stop letting your current emotional status dictate who you are or what you do. Remember that GOD is greater than our feelings. Stress less. Pray more. GROW 💪 🤔 Do you get caught up in the emotional highs and lows throughout your day? What can you do in those moments to remind yourself that GO...

READY ✅ “Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we GROW in wisdom.” ~Psalm 90:12~ STEP 🦶 People are at each others throats. Friendships and families have been divided. People are being fired or quitting their jobs. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. My challenge for us all. No matter where you land on the vaccination. Let’s use this season to truly pray more. Pray for those...

READY ✅ “Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we GROW in wisdom.” ~Psalm 90:12~ STEP 🦶 Life is filled with pain and trouble. Life is filled with joy and success. Life is short. Stress less. Pray more. GROW 💪 🤔 Are you fixating on your pain and troubles? 🤔 Will you instead choose to fixate on the gift of today and the shortness of life? 🙏 “Jesus, today help me live my life knowing...

READY ✅ “There’s always a choice. Just never had the guts to make the right one.” ~Clay Calloway: Sing 2~ STEP 🦶 Stress is real. Stress is normal. How we react that stress is what I really want to catch. When stress hits you today. You have a choice. Let that stress overwhelm you and take over your soul. Or you can stop… Take a deep breath. Close your eyes. Remember you’re not alone and pray. Hi...

READY ✅ “Father in Heaven, your name is GREAT!” ~The Lord’s Prayer~ STEP 🦶 Watch the birds who fly and sing. They never worry, fret or fuss. And God cares even more for US! He watches as you GROW and play. GROW 💪 🤔 What worry, fret, or fuss, do you need to trust God with? 🙏 “Jesus, thank you for your always there, always perfect care. Amen.” #StepIntoGrowthTV #StressLessPrayMore

READY ✅ “O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unFAILING love for all who ask for your help.” ~Psalm 86:5~ STEP 🦶 I have failed many times in my life. In roles, jobs, and in relationships. I have even been called a failure. It is in these moments I have learned to stress less and pray more. I may fail. But my Gods love for me is UnFAILING. His promises. Unfailing. His purpose....

READY ✅ “Stress is not what happens to you. Stress is your reaction to what happens to you.” ~Emily Fletcher~ STEP 🦶 Pinpoint what is causing the stress. Form a gameplan. Remember your ‘Why’ “May there be work to do. Tasks to accomplish. And this I ask for Jesus sake. Amen.” ~President Harper~ (University of Chicago) GROW 💪 🤔 Take time to pinpoint your triggers. 🤔 Form a game plan. 🤔 Start w...

READY ✅ “The mind thinks involuntarily, just like the heart beats involuntarily.” ~Emily Fletcher~ STEP 🦶 Ever find yourself frustrated because you just can’t stop your mind from thinking all those stressful thoughts. Here’s the good news. That’s normal. Nothing is wrong with you. In fact if you didn’t have a battle going on upstairs I may think something is wrong with you. GROW 💪 🤔 What is ca...

READY ✅ We pray to learn to surrender and realize we are at our best when we are reliant upon Jesus instead our ourselves. STEP 🦶 I personally find myself in seasons of stress when at the same ime I find my prayer life in seasons of drought. We pray so that we can stress less and accomplish more, not to get good at praying. We pray so that we learn to know God better and better. Not to impress p...

READY ✅ “Think positive” and I quote. “Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment, and focus.” ~Jon Gordon~ STEP 🦶 Think about everything you want in life. Your dreams, a healthy marriage, deep relationships with your family and friends, getting in shape, and so on and so on. It all comes down to consistency, commitment, and focus. Three things that a lot of...

READY ✅ “Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters, a pathway no one knew was there!” ~Psalm 77:19~ STEP 🦶 Ever had a setback in your life? Ever have something just not go your way? Leading you to believe that there is no way out or no hope ahead? Me too… GROW 💪 🤔 What “Dead End” or “Setback” are you facing? 🤔 What in your life are you up against that just seems im...

READY ✅ “Just because you grow up doesn’t mean you have to grow apart.” ~Boss Baby~ STEP 🦶 Strained relationships. Broken relationships. We all have them. Instead of growing apart today choose to take a step and grow closer. You are one phone call or even one text message away. GROW 💪 🤔 Who in your life can you reach out to today? 🤔How can you begin to invest in that relationship to prevent g...

READY ✅ “I desire you more than anything on earth.” ~Psalm 73:25~ STEP 🦶 Is what you desire just a substitute for what your soul truly needs? Do you find yourself hitting a wall, becoming stagnant, or even crashing? Desire after something that will never fail or grow weak. Only ONE thing can do that. A daily relationship with Jesus. GROW 💪 🤔 What do you desire? Where do you find your strength?...

READY ✅ “You must not have any other god but me.” ~Exodus 20:3~ STEP 🦶 He has given my life a new meaning and purpose, and a heart that wants to know Him and make Him known. He loves and pursues us. GROW 💪 🤔 How can you ask God to completely satisfy your heart? 📖 “So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us mor...

READY ✅ “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” ~Matthew 5:16~ STEP 🦶 Life is about making Jesus KNOWN. It is about engaging others by showing others how Jesus has changed our lives. It’s about equipping others so that they can have the same opportunities we have had. That way we are all empowered...

READY ✅ “Overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us." ~Romans 8:37~ STEP 🦶 OMMS: Obstacles Make Me Stronger. I represent God in everything I do, and I know He has a plan for my life. And through all my struggles, I’ve chosen to step into growth each day to learn to know God better and better. God has a plan for everyone and once you’ve discovered that plan, no one but you can stop...