Take Back Control of Your Life Before 2025! | #MindRenewalMondays

1. Commit to the Journey ahead!

   • Decide that you want to gain control of your life. 

     • Be prepared to take on the responsibility and challenges that may come with this path.

     • Be fueled by the benefits that will also come with this path.

2. Shift to an Internal Lotus of Control

   • Embrace the idea that you have authority over your life. 

     • You may not be able to control outcomes, but you can control your inputs.

       • Sowing seeds ALWAYS bears fruit! 

   • Reject the idea that anyone or anything has the power to control you or your life. 

     • Factors that don’t have to have control over your life:

       • Race

       • Sex

       • Who’s president

       • Family of origin

       • Past mistakes

       • Current news headlines

       • Anything else you may be tempted to blame

   • This may require you to detox for a season so you can shift your mindset without being inundated with external stimuli that perpetuates a mindset of helplessness or hopelessness

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3. Make Time & Space for Healing & Self-Discovery

   • Heal from your past so it does not hinder you in your future through bitterness, shame, guilt, resentment, or other heavy weights. 

   • Intentionally cultivate space for self-discovery

     • Unpack strengths & assets you carry

     • Root out limiting beliefs & unhealthy thought patterns

4. Develop Self-Discipline

   • Start small in one or two areas

   • Intentionally become the type of person that is disciplined overall.  

5. Intentionally Guard Yourself Against Messages & Temptations to Give Your Power Away

   • Genesis 1:28 → Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

   • Luke 10:19 → Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 

   • Stand on these truths no matter what and be mindful of taking in messaging to the contrary, whether in school, church, on the news, at the dinner table, at work, etc. 

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