Your Best Life Now for Moms
Joel Osteen
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN: 0446581003
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
#1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Joel Osteen revisits his seven core principles from YOUR BEST LIFE NOW to offer a guide to successful living for moms. YOUR BEST LIFE NOW FOR MOMS will help women through the vast parenting responsibilities and teach them how God can pour out "His far and beyond favor" on them and their children.
resist it, but it’s not going to do any good. God is more interested in changing you than He is in changing the circumstances. You may not always like it; you may want to run from it; you may even resist it, but God is going to keep bringing up the issue again and again until you pass the test. Faith tells you the best is yet to come. __________________________________ CONSIDER GOD’S WORD IN THE LIGHT OF MOTHERHOOD Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon
God’s special help and release our faith, knowing that God wants to assist us. We can expect preferential treatment, not because of who we are, but because of whose we are. It is not because we are better than anybody else or that we deserve it. It is because our Father is the King of kings, and His glory and honor spill over onto us and our families. As God’s children we can live with confidence and boldness, expecting good things. If we love God, He’s working life to our advantage, and it
knowing that God loves you unconditionally. His love for you is based on what you are, not what you do. He created you as a unique individual—there has never been, nor will there ever be, another person exactly like you, and He sees you as His special masterpiece! __________________________________ CONSIDER GOD’S WORD IN THE LIGHT OF MOTHERHOOD But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
mother, He would have made you look like her. If God had wanted you to have a different personality, He would have given you that personality. When you go around trying to be like somebody else, not only does it demean you, it steals your uniqueness. An important factor in seeing yourself God’s way is to understand your intrinsic sense of value. Your sense of value cannot be based on your successes or failures, how your children treat you, or how popular you are. It is not something we earn;
their disappointments. They can’t understand why their prayers aren’t being answered, why their loved one wasn’t healed, why they were mistreated. Some people have lived so long in self-pity that it has become part of their identity. They don’t realize that God wants to restore what’s been stolen. We’ve all had negative things happen to us. You may have gone through things that nobody deserves to experience in life—physical, verbal, sexual, or emotional abuse. Maybe you’ve struggled with a