The Power of a Fresh Start: Transform Your Faith, Mindset & Daily Walk with God

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And welcome back to Faithfield Woman.

This is your host, Kristen.

Today is a mini episode and we're going to talk about how every morning is a new day.

Every morning is an opportunity for us to start new, for us to literally be renewed with God's word, with God's spirit.

And so this is a quick episode just to encourage you in your daily walk.

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Hi, I'm your host, Kristen.

I'm an encourager, a faith led entrepreneur, a mom and a wife.

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As we let our faith guide us.

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All right, let's dive right into today.

So in scripture we're told several things about today versus carrying things into tomorrow.

One, in Matthew, let's see, Matthew 6:34, it says, Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.

Sufficient for the day is its own troubles.

So one, we're told not to be anxious about the next day or not to bring our burdens into tomorrow.

And basically we're told every day is anew.

Right?

Every day we'll be renewed by God's word and by his spirit.

And so the next thing I want to share with you is in Lamentations 3, 22, it says, the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.

His mercies never come to an end.

They are new every morning.

Great is your faithfulness.

So once again, every day we have an opportunity to experience God's grace, His mercies, his word and his renewing of our minds.

And what we have to do is just get in His Word.

What we have to do is remember we don't have to take our must, yesterday's, our past selves or past mistakes into today.

It's like a reset.

And I love what Bob Goff says in his book.

It's actually a devotional365 devotional called Catching Whimsy.

But this is from February 17th and it says, I love that God's promise to us is this.

We are new creations.

When Paul was Writing his letters to the Corinthians, he explained to the new church that we aren't stuck with all the previous versions of ourselves.

The scripture that he uses for this day's devotion is 2 Corinthians 5, 17, which says, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, and the new is here.

When he says this, God made us so we could fall asleep, wake up and try again.

In this way, each day is a beautiful reset.

How lovely is that?

He goes on to say, when you start over, don't allow yourself to pitch a tent in the shame or regret or disappointments of the day behind you.

Say to yourself, new day, new me.

I'm beginning again.

And I'll just share this last bit that he says.

Pick something big and grand and lasting and give it everything you've got.

Don't allow yourself to be distracted with half measures, moving the peas around on the plate, doing something small and safe and temporary.

Friends, I love that he says, each day is a beautiful reset.

How lovely is that idea to think about that every morning we wake up, it is a new day.

It is a fresh start.

And God is giving us that grace.

He's giving us that, that gift.

Really.

And, you know, I love that he had this statement as well.

Say to yourself, new day, new me.

I'm beginning a teacher again.

What if we stepped into every day thinking of those two ideas?

What if every day we woke up and said, thank you, God?

No.

Today is an opportunity for me to have another beautiful reset, to try again, to show up and do more good, to show up and be more loving, to show up and point people back to Jesus.

What if every day we said, God, I get it now.

New day, new me.

I'm beginning again because I am welcoming you into my day.

I'm welcoming you into my spirit.

I'm calling upon the Holy Spirit.

Come, Holy Spirit, be with me.

I just think this is just amazing.

And Bob, if you ever hear this episode, just know that this is one of my favorite devotionals you've done so far that I've read.

Yes, we're only in February, but still, I just love the idea of a beautiful reset.

And I love the idea that God has already given us this gift he's already given us.

That's the grace of a new day, of renewing of our minds every day.

But I think a lot of us didn't pick up on it because we try to carry just and from the human condition we're carrying our shame, our guilt, our disappointments.

Our expectations, our feeling of failure, our feeling of not being enough.

We're carrying those past ideas, identities and days into the next day and then into the next week, in the next month, maybe even the next year.

But I think it's because we are.

Too often we are tethering ourselves to the identities that we have found on this earthly, you know, in our earthly life.

Instead of tethering ourselves, only rooting ourselves only to, well, God sees us, how Christ has defined us and how he says, given us an example how to live.

And so I just thought this was so beautiful, and I wanted to share it with you and just remind you, if we even can spend a couple minutes every morning getting in God's word, that can be a devotional, right?

That has scripture, can be just reading a part of the Bible, you know, having a little time to hear from God, to pray, but only.

Even if you only have a few minutes a day, it is day changing.

It is life changing.

But if we can start changing our perspective, letting the Bible change us on a daily basis, right?

And that is what it's supposed to do.

That is what it does when we allow it to do the work.

But we have to make sure that we're seeing this from a biblical perspective, not from our human perspective.

It's so easy to carry every last thing that we think we messed it messed up in our lives.

The things we said wrong yesterday, that we got snippy at our spouse or said something we shouldn't have.

Whatever it is, it can be small things, or at least seemingly small things.

It can be big things, can be that we feel like a failure.

But guess what?

We are not ever a failure.

And every day, we get to choose to do it over.

It's kind of like the greatest Groundhog Day ever.

Because instead of repeating the past, we get to recreate and remake our future.

We don't have to stay in the past.

We get to literally have a new future.

And so the Groundhog Day is just that.

Every day we get to wake up and make it even better, you know, and so that should really be a challenge to us.

How do we show up and just say, yes, Lord, I am here for it.

I am here to have a beautiful reset, to try again to see how much good can I do in the world?

How much love can I share?

How much light can I shine in dark places?

How many people can I touch?

Through affirmations, through prophetic words, through encouragement, and through just pointing people back to Christ?

And also by just being example of how Christ has changed us.

Christ in us changes us.

And people can tell.

People see how you react to things, people see how you're living life.

And they will want that.

They will at least want to know what is this if they don't, if they've never experienced it.

I was just listening to Kayla when I was running errands yesterday and one of the, one of the people, the radio personalities, I forget who it was, but she said, look, I was with my family on a trip or I think it was a vacation.

And she said before we ate and they were out of the country before we ate.

She said, we just said a prayer, you know, quietly at our table.

She said, I went to the bathroom a couple minutes later and a woman from another country awkwardly stopped her and said, you know, look, I'm, I'm not really comfortable with this, but I noticed that you were praying at your table.

And then she basically asked her to pray for her marriage, pray for her relationship with her husband.

And she didn't want them to pray right then, but she did say, when you think of me, will you pray for us?

And my point is, is just someone quietly on their own, they weren't saying it loudly, they weren't trying to bring other people into it.

It was just their small family.

Just by the act of praying, they.

A woman from another country who's never seen this other person before, had a conversation with her about prayer.

So what I'm telling you is our actions, the way we're showing up, when we're willing to be brave, when we're willing to be bold, one getting God's word, but also listen to his promptings, when we're willing to get a little uncomfortable by doing what God is putting on our heart, by doing what God tells us to do.

When we do these things, our day will change.

And when we continue to be more faithful, when we continue to be more disciplined in our faith, even bigger things happen in our next day, right?

In the next day.

And.

But I have an episode that's getting ready to come out and it was with one of the co founders of a non profit, a mission focused non profit and called Musana.

And she's explaining that in the us, in other countries, most of us are too comfortable, right?

We have, we have every amenity.

We don't really have to experience hardship in the way that other places, other people might in other places.

We have kind of everything we want and need to some extent, at least a lot of us.

And he's explaining that it's very hard to see God do miracles.

And it's very hard to see God do the impossible when we don't need Him.

And by need him, I don't mean we don't need him.

What I mean is we don't have to look to him because we think we're doing it on our own.

We think we have comfort in our lives because.

And it makes us not have to rely on God as much.

It makes us not notice what God's doing, how he's moving in the world.

And so that episode will really encourage you.

You know, how do we step out of our comfort zone a little bit more?

How do we do more of what God's calling us to do?

But at the end of the day, even in that episode, it comes down to spend at least a couple minutes at the beginning of your day making time for God in His word, because that will change your life.

It will let you start stepping into having a new day every day and then remembering that every day truly is a gift and it is an opportunity to have a.

A beautiful reset as Bob Goff talks about, and that it's a new day, and it means I get to begin anew.

I do not have to take my past, you know, and as Bob talked about, we don't have to bring up past versions of ourselves.

We don't have to bring, sorry, where is it, you know, the guilt, shame, the regret, the disappointments, the feeling of failure, the feeling that we're not enough.

We do not have to bring those into the next day or the day after that.

We can let it go.

We can literally put it, you know, ask God to take it away from us.

We can ask God to carry our burdens.

We don't have to bring in the worry or the anxiety to the next day, because we can, and we should be relying on God.

And I think for a lot of us, if we've been living fairly comfortable lives, and that does not mean nothing's happened to us, nothing hard.

But what that does mean is most of the time, things have been provided in our life, right?

We might have a home, we have food, we have heat, we have electricity, we have water.

We probably have people around us that are there that could help us.

So we literally are so blessed, if you will.

We're so.

We've been provided for in.

In such a great way.

And I think sometimes we can.

We can take that for granted and, you know, so, yeah, I just wanted to come on and encourage each of us to remember each day is truly a new for us, a New day has dawned and it means we can be a new creation in Christ.

And so, and before I wrap up, I actually want to add a little bit to this episode and say this.

Not only is it getting in God's word every day, not only is it changing our perception and understanding that each day we are a new creation, that we have an opportunity to, to show up differently, right?

To not bring everything from yesterday or yesteryear into today.

But I think we also have to remember that what we fill up on, in other words, what are we consuming?

You know, that's not just physically what are we eating, but what are we consuming that we're putting into our mind, in our heart, in our spirit.

And what I'm talking about is our words actually do have power.

And so not only is getting God's word so important, but it also is what are we telling to ourselves, what's our self talk?

And then what are we filling up on?

Are we continuing to be anxious and worried because we are watching the 24 hour news cycle on TV?

Are we watching the local news?

And everything on it is just terrible and talking about death and destruction, you know, I don't know.

But my point is, is we do have to be careful.

And I've shared a little bit about this before.

But Mark Batterson in his book, Please, sorry, thanks.

Talks about, first of all, he says, he shares John 1:1, in the beginning was the word.

But he, he talks about the word abracadabra.

And he says abracadabra is the most used word that doesn't need to be translated because it's been used, you know, by magicians and such.

But he says the ancient, ancient words abracadabra means as I speak, I shall create.

And he goes on to say in other words, words create worlds.

Words said the Jewish theologian Abraham Peschel, are themselves sacred.

God's tool for creating the universe and our tools for bringing holiness or evil into the world.

I think we have to remember that, you know, and obviously there's scripture that talks about the tongue has the power, right of life and death, right of good and evil.

And so we have to remember that.

And so I think remembering those words by Abraham Heschel, so important words are themselves sacred.

God's tool for creating universe.

In our tools for bringing holiness or evil into the world, what would we change about what we say today?

Maybe in our past we've, we've said words that have cut people down, that have made people think they're less than.

Maybe we've used words about ourselves that made us feel less than, that made us feel less than capable, or made us feel shame or guilt, or that we aren't worthy, or that we don't have purpose, that no one sees us.

So whether we spoke those words or those thoughts to ourselves, or whether we've spoken them to someone else when we were frustrated, angry, maxed out, whatever the reason, how can we step in tomorrow knowing that our words are a tool for bringing holiness or evil into the world?

Because I think when we do that, how we show up tomorrow in the next day knowing that we can start over and we can use different words.

Right?

I think how important is that?

And Mark Patterson goes on to say, if you want to change your life, you have to change your words.

Our words don't represent the world objectively.

Rather, our words create the world subjectively.

For better or for worse.

Our words can function as self fulfilling prophecies.

They have the power to bless or to curse, to heal or to hurt, to give life or to cause death.

Scientific studies have found that negative words spoken to plants cause them to languish, while positive words help them flourish.

It's as true of people as it is of plants.

Oh, and here's here was the thing the tongue said Solomon.

It's the power of life and death.

And so I just wanted to add that onto this episode to remind you that our words are lower.

So yes, get in God's word, but we also have to have that guardrail or that filter on the words that we're speaking into people's lives in the words we're speaking into our own lives because they truly have the power to bring holiness and light into the world or to bring darkness, division and evil into the world.

I know which one I want to choose.

It doesn't mean it will always be easy or that we'll be ever perfect in doing this, but it does mean it gets easier when every day we get in his word and every day we choose words that are life giving.

Ah, I love it.

I just wanted to share that with you and I hope it encourages you.

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Okay.

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