A faithful reality

             

  When it’s hard do what we do?  We must take a risk which is a situation involving exposure to danger. There comes a time when a risk has to be taken but are we bold enough to step out of our comfort zone to do what we have to do to make the change happen in our life. When we doubt ourselves and our ability to change what do we do? How do we continue to rise after the hardships and flashbacks of continual failure?  How can we change the routine and free ourselves of being bound by the unseen? What about dealing with the unexpected blows and the desire to abandon our dreams? Is there any advice on how to respond when we doubt the creative ability inside of us? How do we survive the downer day?

                A step in a direction of looking up and getting up is reviewing our dream again. What is the source of the dream? Are we living someone else expectations of our life? Once we are able to identify where the dream is coming from we have an anchor in the middle of our mental storms. This anchor can serve as our navigational system when life starts trying to take us down the road of uncertainty. We must fight not to allow someone opinions to become our idol. As we dust ourselves off from the ashes we have to look at the mental transactions that we are thinking about daily. Are we profiting from the thoughts that become our behaviors? These behaviors determine if we have a positive or negative outcome in our lives which can lead to depression or high anxiety states.

 We have been liberated to fulfill the purpose in our lives. This lifestyle is one where our dreams can be fruitful, multiply, replenish and subdue the earth with the dream that the creator has empowered us with. This dream will help us subdue negativity and dominate everything that tries to get us to not live with a purpose. This takes place when we become curious about a lifestyle where we are not afraid to use our faith to stop being complacent in life.  

  “The fundamental presuppositions underlying the “Biblical Christian Approach” to CBT   Incorporate key elements: (1) the advocacy of God’s love, found in empathy & relationships, (2)     evaluating historical experiences developmentally to uncover “unresolved” issues, (3) focusing       on the subjective significance of spirituality and its impact on their lives and religious convictions       (revealed through the Holy Spirit), where truth makes itself known, (4) attending to cognitive issues that influence behavior where truth offers a meaningful change in reconstructive methods, (5) illuminating the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and effect behavior that influences emotional outcomes, where dependence evokes transformative change, (6) focusing on the relevance of community and relationships to subordinate change, and (7) to employing methods  containing scriptural truth to provide meaning in suffering, where opening one’s self for God’s love plants the seeds developmentally for lasting spiritual growth.”     (https://www.researchgate.net/...Use_of_Prayer_and_Scripture_in_Cognitive-Behavior...)

These elements that are mentioned are strategies to grow spiritually and live a life that will cause us to have joy in the moment of the storm. We can navigate through the mental storm if we allow the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us to all truth. As mentioned in the article God’s love will produce the seeds that are planted in us, so we can live in the spirit and not after the flesh. Once we live in the spirit we have just discovered a peace that only comes when we live in faith and not fear.