In this next season, you will need a community.

When you are in the right community, you will thrive and grow. You can help one another, hold each other accountable, and have fun together. On the opposite hand, being in the wrong community can hold you back in life, have negative affects on your body including your nervous system, bring negative influences to your life (ie. Encouraging sin) or bring regret and shame.

God wants to heal your childhood! He wants you to have life and life more abundantly (John 10:10) and walk in true freedom in Christ (Galatians 5:1). The wounds we face in our childhood, whether it was sexual, verbal or physical abuse, parental abandonment or lack of affirmation or support from our parents, guardians or family members, hold us back from having that abundant life in Christ.

It is the last month of the year and the thought came to me “No Holding Back”. As I thought about everything I wanted to accomplish this year, I realized being that it is December, the last 31 days of the year, I have to give it all I got and set myself up well for 2025. There are promises we made to ourselves and goals we have set that is yet to be completed and some we have yet to start. Today, I urge you to go back to those things and give it all you got! No Holding Back. It’s not too late, just get started!

Discipline. Our favorite little word!

But on a serious note, often times having discipline is what stands between us accomplishing our goals or not. Whatever goal we set for ourselves, the reality is that there will typically be some level of opposition or challenge that will try to keep us from accomplishing that goal. So the question then becomes, will you make the choice to do what you said you will do, or will you follow your feelings when it is leading you in the opposite direction ...