How To Start Your Day Right

We often take the first few minutes of our days for granted, without knowing that our morning habits have the power to change the tone of our entire day.

Then we go about our daily tasks mindlessly, and we wonder why there are moments when we’re impatient, demotivated, or irritable when nothing disastrous happened and we’re supposed to be in a good mood.

If, like me, you want to transform your day and your life daily, then it’s time to change your morning habits.

My good friend Dave Martin calls his first hour of every day his “Hour of Power.” And I think it’s a good practice that we should all adapt.

What should our “Hour of Power” look like if we want a great day? It involves reading the Word of God and meditating on it.

We often take our time with God for granted. We think we can just insert it somewhere during the day. We give God the leftovers of our time and ask Him to change our lives with what little we give.

This isn’t how we’re supposed to live.

There is a reason why Jesus spent His early mornings in prayer and in communion with God. It gives Him time to listen to God, to be led by God, and to submit His entire day to God’s will. Yes, we can talk to God, but it makes a whole lot of difference when we quiet our thoughts and listen to what God wants us to do for the day.

Through our “Hour of Power,” we allow God to lead us because He knows best, instead of us trying to make sense of what’s happening in our lives daily. We can trust Him and His ways because He goes before us and knows everything.

If you have been wanting to transform your life for the longest time but somehow you just can’t seem to get started, I invite you to spend your first hour every morning in communion with God. I assure you that it is life-changing to listen to Him every day.

“And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.” —Mark 1:35

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How to Speak Life to Our Relationships

Using our words is easy, especially when our only intention is merely to provide an outlet for our feelings.

But communicating and speaking life is hard. It involves intentionally going out of our way to understand someone and to feel their emotions. Is this even possible when we’re all made differently and we have different communication styles?

By our own efforts, it’s not possible. By the grace of God, it is very possible.

Whenever we approach our relationships, we need to approach it differently from the way we’re used to.

Our usual way of approaching conversations, even those with the people we hold dear, is always to be heard. We need to make them understand where we’re coming from. We need to make them listen to us. It’s all about us!

However, the Word of God says that we need to renew our minds so that we don’t act sinfully and selfishly. A renewed mind communicates with different intentions: to understand and to speak life to others.

As we go about our day, let us go out of our way to learn and to practice how we can encourage others and build them up. Let us approach our conversations, even the difficult ones, with the intention of understanding the other person and restoring our relationships. Let us also open our hearts humbly for correction, so we can become better versions of ourselves.

Our words have power. They can either tear us down or build us up. I hope we always choose the latter. I hope we always choose to communicate life to others. I hope we always choose to follow God’s example of communicating life and restoration to each of us.

“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” —Ephesians 4:29

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Knowing the Source of Your Strength

“God, there is no way I can do this in front of people. There is no way! But you know what, Lord? I’m just going to do this.” —Ashley Nemeh

There is something so beautiful about surrender.

Humility is a leadership skill that we overlook so often. We admire people who are confident, who appear like they’ve got their lives and choices figured out.

Yet we overlook those who kneel down in prayer, arms raised to God, begging Him for strength to go one.

Surrender is a sign of humility. It is admitting to ourselves that we can’t do it on our own and humbly coming to God to tap into His strength as we do the work He has set for us to do.

God’s work for us is never easy. It is often scary, intimidating, and it requires us to step out of our comfort zones. When doing His work, God asks us to surrender and trust that He will provide us with the power to overcome and to excel.

But how? How do we tap into His never-failing and never-ending strength?

In critical moments when you’re feeling helpless and despair, pray. 

Come to God in thanksgiving, knowing He will always come through for you. Present your request to Him and humbly tell Him you cannot do this task on your own.

Then breathe in and breathe out. Quiet your fears and listen to God’s voice. Rest assured that the Holy Spirit will work in you and through you in ways that you’ve never seen Him work before. 

Partnering with God requires 100{35ab65ff8ebe81a0b45b033482b56805ae3cdcd744e3749e3752781fa1ca6b6b} surrender because He carries 100{35ab65ff8ebe81a0b45b033482b56805ae3cdcd744e3749e3752781fa1ca6b6b} of the load. 

God will always fulfill the promise He gave you. He will do His will because He is faithful. You will only need to surrender and trust that He loves you.

“But, as it is written, ‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him’” —1 Corinthians 2:9

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How We Can Actively Move in Faith as We Go through Challenging Life Seasons

It is inevitable that, in life, we will go through seasons of pain and suffering. Jesus said it Himself that we will face troubles (John 16:33), but He has also promised us that we will overcome them through Him. 

But how do we move forward from these troubling times? How do we continue fighting and walking?

The road to healing may be long and bumpy, but it is a worthwhile journey to take. 

These are some of the things I learned from my conversation with Andrea Vecchio and from my own journey, too. 

1. Surround yourself with people who will build you up.

“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” —Proverbs 27:17

When you’re healing, you will likely tell yourself a lot of discouragements. It is normal because you’re hurting and all you can see are your mistakes and incapabilities.

This is where the encouragement from people comes in, to remind you that there is hope and that you can get through this better and stronger.

2. Go back to your foundation.

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you…” —John 15:16

Who made you? Who was there from the very beginning

Remind yourself that God has a plan and a purpose for everything that you are going through, even if these things are hard to see at the moment.

You need to go back to all the tough times you went through before and how God has carried you. Surely, He will do the same in this season of your life. He is faithful and unchanging

3. Share your life and inspire others.

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.” —John 15:16

We have heard this time and again: the best way to heal is by healing others.

Your life may be in chaos but God always uses the broken to heal others. Allow God to use your story as a testimony to bring others healing and encouragement. 

Our pain only makes sense when we surrender this to God and allow Him to transform the ashes into something beautiful.

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My good friend, Janet Valore, shared her testimony on the NEW EPISODE of HEARING GOD’S VOICE WITH JEFFREY PAUL & I am sure that you’ll be blessed with her story of Patience and Prayer. Especially the single ladies that are still waiting on their God’s Gift (a.k.a special someone). 

In this episode she openly and honestly shared: 

• How she grew up in a Christian community but didn’t know how to have a personal relationship with God

• How she willingly surrendered her life to God & how it changed her and her life

• How God was communicating with her during her prayer time and in her dreams

• The importance of reading the Bible as it’s God’s way of telling us what He wants to say

• Her experience of praying patiently for the person that God meant for her

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In this episode of Hearing God’s Voice Podcast with Jeffrey Paul, I had the chance to interview such a committed and passionate champion of God and His Word. Beau Abernathy, an author, teacher and pastor has dedicated his and multi-lingual talents to be of service to God. He’s so passionate that he willingly moves when God tells him to. What a man of commitment! 

We talked about:

• How he was introduced to the Scriptures when he only had his grandmother’s Bible as a form of entertainment growing up

• How God used his talents in languages in building churches and Christian communities in different countries

• His inspiring and beautiful process of conversing with God through his interpretation of the Scriptures 

• How his personal struggles and challenges inspired him to write books of inspiration

Know more about Beau Abernathy & get his books on his website. 
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42 years ago, I had THE GREATEST LOVE AFFAIR of my life. No, not with my wife Zina, but the love affair I stumbled upon in a small church here in Ohio, when I laid my life to God and opened up my heart to Him. It amazes me how my love for God and his unconditional love for me has helped me brave through all the storms that I went through in my career, my business and my family. 

In this episode, I share about…

• How God’s love is designed unlike anything else

• How I journal by seeking God everyday and the love letters that I find in the Scripture

• How reading the Bible strengthens my love affair with our Creator

• How the enemy tries to steal our true joy
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I had the opportunity to meet and interview Rebecca Olmstead, a Christian author who has allowed God to transform her life and use her story and skills to reach and inspire more people. This woman went through serious health conditions that could’ve left her paralyzed but she didn’t feel any fear in the process. She was certain that God will not leave her side and true enough, God didn’t. With His Grace, her struggle is now her story of faith to tell to the world. 

 In this episode, we talked about…

• Her journey when she found out about her tumor and how her hospital blog became her platform to inspire people

• How she allowed God to speak through her

• How God works in our lives in ways we couldn’t have imagined and so much more!

Know more about Rebecca & her ministry on: https://watchgodwork.com/

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On this season finale of Hearing God’s Voice with Jeffrey Paul podcast, I had the chance to interview my very good & really inspirational friend, John Murtha. He was introduced to his Christian faith early on in his life but has turned his back from it in his teenage years.

John openly shared his journey to learning God’s voice – from being a soldier stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam War to becoming a social worker clueless about how to help people, to be a missionary with his wife in Asia, and how all these experiences helped him know more about God & grow a relationship with him. 

In this episode, he shared about…

• How he found peace and joy when he was saved by God’s Amazing Grace

• How he allowed God to use him and his wife to be of service to Him in Thailand

• How DISCIPLESHIP is different from being a CONVERT

• The difference between being happy and experiencing true joy

• The importance of allowing God to transform you through the Scriptures

• What he does to keep his faith in Him burning for God

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