Good at the Shootin’ Part (Unconditional Love) | Facing Your Blitz Weekly Videvo

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You know how good it feels to be accepted and affirmed when you don’t feel like you deserve it. There is a way to spread this good feeling…and it’s not by wanting or begging people to treat us like that. Read on about how you can be revolutionary.

Game Plan:

“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another…if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:10-12, 19 (ESV)

Time Out:

Some of us (like me) love pressure, competition and seeing how well we can do. And…some of us don’t like the pressure of competition, always being measured. Regardless of our style, when it comes to love, none of us want to continually have to earn our acceptance. Being loved, accepted and affirmed without condition is a most awesome and needed thing.

Are you able to step out of your own shoes and become the giver of that sort of love and acceptance? If you can, you will be a deep blessing to others. You’ll profoundly improve your relationships…and that will turn out well for you as well.

Go Deep:

The power to affirm, accept and love people in this unconditional way is beyond us. It’s supernatural. It’s God’s love. God’s track record proved His love for us by having Jesus sacrifice himself for us while we were still rebellious, selfish and proud.

Stop taking God’s love for granted. Think about how He initiated unconditional love. Decide who needs your affirmation, acceptance and love…regardless of how they perform.

Start with your spouse and your children. Be radical like God. Love and accept one another unconditionally, apart from performance and measurements.

A hug, a kiss, a note, an encouraging word, an “I love you”, or forgiveness…be creative, be generous.

Live that love today… an unconditional, relationship-based value system.

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Turning Pain into Gain | Facing Your Blitz Weekly Video Devotional

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Is there something unfair and painful in your past? Someone you’re angry at? This story can help you reframe your outlook and improve your future.

Game Plan:

But Joseph replied, “Don’t be afraid of me. Am I God, that I can punish you? You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.”   Genesis 50:19-20 (NLT)

Time Out:

Life includes terrible things that have happened to us…even brutal things that people have done to us. Not many of us have it worse than Joseph, though. He modeled a powerful principle that can help us:

Never treat people like the enemy. Never view God as the one who gave you a raw deal. 

Remember that bad originates with Satan. God can still turn things for good when we avoid vengeance and trust God’s bigger purposes.

Go Deep:

Ask yourself: Who am I still blaming? Who am I mad at?

Let it go. Forgive them.

Set yourself free to fulfill your positive destiny?

Ask God to show you the good you can create despite, or even because of, the past.

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