Facing the Challenge

I want to take you through this chapter in my newest book “Picking up the Pieces” Facing the Challenge and spend a few blogs sharing about the importance of facing challenges. So come back often to check out more.

In our lives, there are many challenges that we face; these challenges come to us in many different ways. As these challenges come, we then are forced to respond which in turn will cause some kind of reaction; the reaction then requires a decision. Unfortunately many times people make a decision to respond in fear, panic, pain, causing them to react by giving up in life. Because of these decisions to give up and quit, people find it difficult to recover from anything. When responding to these things in this way, it places people in a place of denial, and if we are in denial, then we allow ourselves to be blinded to the fact that there is no use to carry on and that there is no hope of recovery. If we respond in a negative way with our minds reacting with thoughts of failure, our course of action will result in remaining in a place of stagnation to the truth and experiencing freedom. It then becomes a life of self-destruction without any recovery in sight. In my own personal life as with many individuals, I have been met with tough challenges. With these tough challenges coming my way, it caused me to either face them head-on or to quit in life. Life is full of decisions, and what decisions we make will determine either success or failure. A decision is the act of making up your mind about something. Too many times we give up on whatever it is that we are going through. God has put dreams within our hearts for his purpose as well as for our benefits, and yet, many have given up on these things. We have allowed the faces of circumstances to dictate to us that we can never reach the fulfillment of these dreams. So, we then take the low road that leads us to failure, and we never reach that place where God intended for us to be. Every individual must know and understand their self-worth and that you have the potential to do great exploits, “but the people that do know their God shall be strong and do great exploits” (Daniel 11:32, KJV). So, if we know God (knowing about God and knowing God are two different things), then we also understand how valuable each individual is to God. With knowing these things, we must continue to believe that it is still his desire to see these dreams come to pass in our lives. With knowing these things, we must continue to believe that it is still his desire to see these dreams come to pass in our lives.  Merriam Dictionary defines dreams as a strongly desired goal or purpose. Let us begin to make a shift in our lives and begin to turn away from the negative faces that have been looking at us for years and begin to look at the face of God and let him show us what he has for us.

This is from my newest book “Picking up the Pieces”