Joyce Meyer's fb status this morning:
Whatever challenges you the most, decide now that you are going to set your mind for total victory.
Do you ever know something, but just know it? The girl drama. I know it has to stop, but I just know it sometimes. And this is where I want to set my mind for TOTAL victory. I think about how free "the honesty policy" in every area of my life would be. Which also means, taking people at their word and believing they are being honest as well.
This week a friend of mine who has been a friend for a long time was willing to do the grown up and uncomfortable thing of talking to me and checking our relationship. Gauging things that have changed....why and if we were still going to be friends. Was it a fun conversation? Not really, but the more I think about it I know that we really have a REAL friendship bc we just did the TOUGH stuff together! It really goes for any of my deep relationships...we did the yucky stuff and made it to the other side.
Do I give people in my life that same respect? Why don't we talk to our friends directly about the issues we have with each other? (I am a queen people pleaser and enabler...so I can come up with a million reasons why the person couldn't handle that conversation.) But really, it comes down to be being daring enough, real enough and vulnerable enough to speak the truth.....IN LOVE...but the truth because I respect them and want our relationship strong and healthy.
Let's live by the spirit in our relationships!
22 But the fruit that comes from having the Holy Spirit in our lives is: love, joy, peace, not giving up, being kind, being good, having faith, 23 being gentle, and being the boss over our own desires. The Law is not against these things.
Let's be daring together! Be intentional about our friendships, not let the devil get his way in them and keep him out by of our minds by being real. I know God will bless it and the best part is our true friends will be so thankful in the end.
