60 Things For Your Characters To Do When They Talk Or Think - One of the easiest ways to show and not tell is to have your characters do things while they are talking to someone or thinking about something. https://t.co/wbVLYPsRGX
Just a reminder that some of the best books are still yet-to-be-written ❤️
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." ― Toni Morrison
Heavenly Father,
I come before You with a humble heart.
You are the God who heals, restores, and renews.
Lord, touch my body with Your healing hand.
Remove every pain, weakness, and sickness from me.
Strengthen my blood, my organs, my nerves, and my mind.
Where there is fear, bring peace.
Where there is pain, bring comfort.
Where there is weakness, bring strength.
Jesus, You healed the sick and gave hope to the broken.
I believe You can heal me too.
Fill me with Your life, Your power, and Your peace.
Give wisdom to doctors,
give patience to my heart,
and give courage to my spirit.
I trust You, Lord.
I place my health completely in Your hands.
Let Your healing flow through me today and always.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
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7 ways to keep God at the center of your life.
1. Root yourself in God’s love. When we have strong spiritual roots that go deep in God, we can live a life of faith, endurance, perseverance, and resilience, moving forward through whatever life throws our way and still fulfilling all the plans and purposes God has for us.
2. Nourish your heart. Our spiritual hearts — revealed in our thoughts, words, and actions — determine our spiritual health. The condition of our hearts internally determines the course our lives will take externally.
3. Pursue slow, steady growth. Jesus’s life models this for us. He grew up in wisdom, stature, and favor – he showed us how to mature. When we start growing, we’re not to stop. We’re to keep maturing and becoming more like Christ as long as we live on this earth.
4. Cultivate humility. Through Jesus and his Word, God taught us that we not only have the ability to cultivate humility in our lives, but we have the responsibility to walk in humility. When we choose to be humble, it opens doors for so many good things God wants for us to have in our lives.
5. Extend an olive branch. A peacemaker is someone who is actively seeking to reconcile people to God and to one another. Because we’re children of God, we have been reconciled to God, and then called to an actual ministry of reconciliation.
6. Accept the pruning. Pruning is not punitive but restorative. We are not pruned because we have done something wrong but because we are being conformed and transformed to the image of Christ— and to keep bearing fruit. Even Jesus said that we are pruned if we bear fruit and pruned if we don’t. Pruning is part of the process of us maturing in Christ.
7. Go through the press. God knows what we need to be transformed and to surrender more of our will for his will, to produce more fresh oil. Trust in his process.
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Studying the olive tree in Scripture has truly changed so much for me.
It’s what we can learn from the olive tree that helps us navigate the present and the future, that reminds us how to thrive in the midst of it all and helps us bear fruit regardless of the thorns and thistles that crop up in our world.
I go deep into these 7 things in my new book The Faith to Flourish – a full chapter on each of them! You can preorder now at https://t.co/fQlvbvUjiY. Tag a friend below that you want to join you in keeping God at the center of this new year. 💚🌿
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