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Daily prayer is key!
Song of Solomom 2:4
Proverbs 15:17
Romans 13:10
Ephesians 3:19
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The Loveletter Staff
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Founder / Editor in Chief
Laconia Dunn
Senior Editor
Sammie Love
Webmaster
Katinya Lilly
Contributing Writer
Roz Harris
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From the Heart
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Holy and Healthy
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And God Said
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Ministry Spotlight
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Editor's Notes
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Guestbook
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Jehovah-jireh (God our provider) Genesis 22:14
As we travel down the busy highways of life, many of us find ourselves on side of the road. We get ourselves into a mess, and then expect God to get us out. Or, we say, "I know that God is going to fix this for me." I ask, if we know that, why do we continue to worry? Why is our life filled with the anxiety and stress of wondering where our next dollar will come from or how our next bill will be paid? If God is who you say He is in your life, why are you paralyzed when the trials come?
We claim to KNOW God and to trust Him, yet when life deals us a situation that is beyond our control, the God that we said we KNEW goes in the back seat.
Could it be that maybe you don't KNOW God like you say you do? Or maybe you don't TRUST Him like you think you do? The truth is, you'd like to. Your intentions are honorable. And, God sees your effort. However, your reward is NOT based on your effort, but on your BELIEF! Take a good look at your self and ask God where you stand with Him. Are you waiting on God to send you a mate? What are you doing "n the wait"? Are you serving God in ministry or with His people? Or, are you trying to help God out..thinking that every male in your life could be "the one?" Have you asked God to help you with your finances? What are you doing to better your financial situation? Are you still shopping for shoes, cell phones, computers, or cars knowing that the dollar that you just spent can be added to your utility bill? I know, it was a good sale, too good to pass up.
Think about it and ask God do you really see him as Jehovah-jireh in your life? Or, are those mere words that you've heard others say as opposed to the character of God that you've come to know and adopt on your own. Think about it! The answer could change your life!
Until the next time,
Laconia Dunn-Master Servant
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The Blind Spot
There are no short cuts that last.
One of the questions I ask audiences when speaking to groups across the country is, "How many people are weight loss experts? Now most people should be raising their hand, because more than likely you DO know how to lose weight. Right? Because you've done it once, twice, three time, six times, 10 times… Right?" The truth is: "we lose the weight but are failing miserably at maintaining our weight loss!"
A comprehensive, customized, and coach-approach to maintaining a weight loss has not been taken. We were looking for solutions outside of us. But the fix is within us. If maintaining a weight loss was really that simple, wouldn't we have already figured out what pill to take? We're not stuck on "Lost Island" without access to television and the internet. If sustained success in weight loss was really that easy, it's my hallucination that we would have figured it out already.
What am I saying? We're already thinking about our weight because being over weight will do that to you. But don't be fooled and don't be foolish, when you lose a significant amount of weight, it will need to be managed.
Get this: Weight is meant to be managed, if you are going to maintain it, that's why maintaining a weight loss is difficult." "J.A.M.A." (The Journal of the American Medical Association), newspaper or magazine has proven that weight management is critical and vital to you. And you would probably deem it critical enough to stop everything and start taking action now.
It is amazingly ironic that there are more drugs, gyms, health magazines and slogans behind weight loss than ever before?
So why are we fatter than ever before? Why is the community fatter than ever before? Why is the nation fatter than ever? I believe there are three reasons why people are not conquering obesity and overweightness:
- Confusing information - We need researched based, scientific, and spirit-focused information
- Detached, apathetic experts - We need coaches and consultants... along with doctors, nurses, dieticians, nutritionist, physical fitness experts and trainers.
- A sole, blind focus on weight loss - We need a focus on weight maintenance
I was ignoring the most important key that makes weight loss successes permanent, and not temporary, Behaviors. I was feverishly working a program, new diet book or exercise routine, but not spending any time instilling new behaviors and life style changes. Practice a habit and it will become a behavior. Complete that behavior enough times and it changes your interpretation of a situation. When your interpretations and observations change, your
ACTIONS change. Eventually, it doesn't have to hurt or be uncomfortable to maintain a weight loss and be healthier. For now, let me share with you some truth: maintaining a weight loss is WORK.
In His service,
Roz, the coach
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Ministry Spotlight by Sommer Triggs
Once a month, HCI Ministries, the ministry that houses the Loveletter hosts Friday Fellowship. For the month of June, we traveled to Indianapolis , IN. It was an awesome time in the Lord! God was in the place! The word was shared, testimonies were given, lives were changed! By the next week, we were getting requests to come back...and soon!
Read what June’s Friday Fellowship did for a native Indianapolis God seeker:
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: "Triggs, Sommer"
To: Heart Changers
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:29:30 PM
Subject: RE: newsletter spotlight
There was so much love given on Friday Fellowship.
I gained so much with self-effacing expectation, diminutive faith and modest enthusiasm.
That Friday night out w/ the home girlz(women from all different backgrounds, and ages) was so on point-I knew that what I did after the fellowship was more important than the invitation. I left my support laced up my running shoes and I knew I had to...
Learn the importance of becoming more transparent
Rid myself of cancerous relationships
Develop a serious relationship w/ change/conflict
Curse retreat
Accept and love on accountability
Ditch the wig
Invest in a Dentist
Upgrade my spirituality
Expect better in everything
Repent
Fast
Dump the inner and outer hater
Develop my womanhood
Become an expert in something
Build on my teaching
Accept my calling w/ no conditions or reproof
Love my on my husband-you know lay it down!
Do all the good- life, good-eternity prerequisites
Make my mind up
Transformation begins in and then out-MAC cannot cover that baby~
Thanks L for being so regular~
Sommer Triggs
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I've been married now for almost four months. I can't do this! It's hard. It takes an attitude of sacrifice and compromise that I didn't even know I had. I don't think I want to be married anymore. I'm not sure I really even love this man. What do I do? Why didn't someone tell me that marriage was as much work as I've found out it is. How do I walk away?
Signed,
Once again seeking singleness!
Dear "Once again seeking singleness",
Let me start by saying your desire to end your marriage so quickly, and your uncertain feelings for your husband, makes me question your reason for even getting married. Most of us are ready to be brides, but few of us are ready to be wives! There is a difference!
My guess is that you knew you shouldn't have married this man when you did. Now, you've gotten yourself into a situation, and are looking for ways and authorization to exit. In addition, someone probably did tell you what you were getting yourself into, but you didn't have ears to hear. Not only did someone tell you, but I'm sure there were signs. Sometimes, we ignore them based on what we want. Also, "things" can blind us. If that's you, again, I challenge you to look inwardly. Because, now that you're there, God demands that you honor the covenant.
Ask yourself: Did you marry for any reason other than love? The world has taught us varying views, but if your answer is "yes," this could be the butt of your problem. Are your issues ones that you can work out with your spouse? Talk to him and find out what's really going on. Is your health at risk? Are kids involved? Is this something that can be made better by patience or perseverance both from him and you? Have you considered counseling?
The above questions should all be considered before you call it quits. If you walk away from this relationship, that makes it easier to walk away from the next. So, leaving this one may not be the best thing for you. Practice patience, understanding, communication, and perseverance and see how things change. God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16). So, unless, your health is at risk, or infidelity (Matthew 19:9) has happened, I encourage you to hold on. Remember though, even in the event of infidelity, God can still move mountains. The question is how bad do you want it, or how willing are you to make it right? Divorce is the world's answer, commitment is God's. Which will you choose? The choice lies with you!
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Been thinkin' bout…..
Have you ever given any thought to what will be said about you when God calls you home? While in school, we were asked to write a short summary of how we wanted to be remembered after our lives were all said and done. Mine went a little something like this...
"I want to be remembered as a very loving, kind, and compassionate person that loved life to the fullest and gave everyone I encountered the same opportunity to show me that there is true genuineness in all people. I also want it to be said that I loved all I encountered unconditionally, regardless of race, religion, or belief. Now I'll admit, it took me a minute to get to this surmountable stage in my life, but I can honestly say, and I feel God would back me up on this, that I treated everyone I met the way I wanted to be treated. There were times when this task was challenged, but for the most part, it was accomplished. I want it to be said that people I met knew God was with me and could see Him at work because of the love that I showed, the compassion that I showed and the un relentless effort I showed towards trying to share Jesus with all I came in contact with.
And finally I would like for it to be said that I never met a person that I didn't like or couldn't find something about them to like. I would like to be remembered as a person that always has a good attitude and chose to focus on the positive, rather than the negative, in every situation I was presented with. I would like for it to be said that I made a DIFFERENCE!!
Not too many times do we get to do own "brag session" and just point out the good in us and there definitely will not be an opportunity for us to do it once we are stretched before the public and face to face with Jesus, so I thought it would be nice to air these things and see if what I said matched with what God says…..So when you get a chance .chat with Jesus and see if what you see in you, He sees in you too...
Was Just Thinkin'
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