Speak Life

Speak life into each other!

Lift each other up!

Lean on each other!

Strengthen each other!

This is what we need do.

We need to stop keeping our thoughts to ourselves. When we feel joy for someone we need to tell them, not just tell it to ourselves. When we see someone doing amazing things let them know. I know sometimes our inner thoughts get the best of us and jealousy wants to take a number. Tell jealousy to take a flying leap and then pray and text that person how happy you are for them.

When someone is going through hard times and you pray for them, let them know you are praying! They want to hear that. It feels good when we know other people are truly thinking of us. I don't know about you, but when I'm in my lowest of lowest and I finally tell someone it feels so great to have that freedom off my shoulders. It's the same thing with good stuff. We need to stop holding ourselves back and share it all. We were meant to do this life together. The good, the bad, and the ugly! We need to speak life into each other. Sometimes that means sharing the ugly. If we see someone who looks like they are having a bad day, we need to stop what we are doing and say, "Hey, can I pray with you, looks like your having a bad day. Is there something I can do to bring you joy today?"

I'm learning that if I want this in my life I need to give it! So if you get random texts of joy and encouragement from me it will be because I'm trying to live this out! I want to bring joy and prayers to people. This week I'm pretty sure God was up in heaven thinking "Her again!" This week was a struggle and I could feel myself going down a rabbit hole of lies and I fought them so hard. I brought the bible and lots of prayers into my battle. And oh my gosh was it amazing to see the anger and anxiety disappear.

How many of you have seen How I Met Your Mother? You know how Lilly and Marshall take pauses from their arguments, well that is honestly the best thing we started doing in our marriage. We know something is wrong and instead of fighting and saying things we don't mean we started saying, let's pause and take a few days. Those few days are hard and that's when the king of lies wants to attack and that's when I got my bible out and started praying over our marriage. That's when I could feel the anger go away and really figure out what is behind our argument. So before our date night last night, we had a two-hour conversation. There were tears, but instead of fighting, there was listening and understanding. There was resolution and a plan to conquer the next steps. What's crazy is the argument started over something dumb and ended up being a blessing. Marriage is hard folks! LOL But with Jesus and lots of love, we can really show how love conquers all.

I didn't mean to get so honest in this one, but I feel like being honest and sharing is my new way! :)

I love you all and praying big prayers!

Always Smile,

Michelle