Category: Courage

Courage and Fear

Posted April 14, 2015 - Courage

Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

— Mark Twain —

  Nothing stops our God-Purpose from happening quicker than unbridled fear. Fear happens, but what we do with it determines what happens with us and having the courage to face it head on with God as our co-pilot is the only way to master it. I have to think God gave us the ability to…

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Courage and Stepping Away

Posted April 12, 2015 - Courage

Courage doesn't express itself by marching boldly on and roaring like a lion. Sometimes courage is best expressed by quietly walking away from a situation and turning it over to God for refinement and clarification.

— JJM —

Something I learned a long time ago was the importance of stepping away from situations that didn’t seem like they were going as planned.  Sometimes stepping away only lasts a day for me, but when I couple stepping away with turning the situation over to God, amazing things always happen.  Sometimes what happens is not…

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Permission

Posted April 11, 2015 - Courage

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

— Mahatma Gandhi —

I’ve had a few breakthrough moments in my life and one of those was when someone many years ago told me I had a choice whether or not I allowed another person to hurt me. There are still times today when people disappointment me but that is as far as it goes with me as I…

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Courage and Pushing Through

Posted April 10, 2015 - Courage

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

— Bruce Lee —

As most of you know, I enjoy competing in triathlons.  I believe they are the ultimate test of an athlete…my opinion.  Recently my body has been trying to tell my mind it is time to give them up (due to my old age) but thank God my mind keeps telling my body to just keep…

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Courage

Posted April 9, 2015 - Courage

Courage is looking fear right in the eyes and saying, "get out of my way, I have work to get done."

— Unknown —

  Courage is also fear that has been prayed for. How is your courage these days? If you are struggling with fear and anxiety, maybe it is time to speak and pray at your fears and if that doesn’t work try reaching out to someone you can confide in and try a “tag-team” approach at…

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Answer

Posted September 17, 2014 - Acceptance, Courage, Excuses

“When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.”  ~Alcoholics Anonymous We can apply this simple thought to any problem we face in life and if you find yourself being unable to pull out from the problem…then you’ve become the problem. The litmus test for figuring out whether…

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Minds

Posted July 24, 2014 - Courage

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”  ~Washington Irving Truth P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Proverbs 3:26, “For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.”  (ESV)