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July 22, 2024

July 22, 2024

Not long ago, I read that only 20% of people are coachable.

 

As a coach who desires to bring transformation to people by cementing their personal relationship with Christ and the renewing of their mind (see Romans 12:2), if true, this statistic means that 80% of us can be written off as beneficiaries of this goal of coaching!

 

Why this negative mindset?

 

I suspect that the change and growth associated with coaching is foreseen as a lead in to losing one’s comfort zone. It seems that most of us prefer the comfort of a self-help approach.

 

Coaching provides accountability and consistency that’s missing from self-help. Time and effort are necessary elements in reaching goals. A coach provides support, inspiration, encouragement and the necessary follow through to reach a goal that will bring lasting change.

 

In the words of Charles Spurgeon: “Growth is painful. Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

 

With coaching guidance, you can get unstuck, move forward, overcome fear and uncertainty, and find hope, healing and peace.

 

If you would like to talk about coaching, send me a message to set up a free half-hour Discovery Call. Be the exception!

 

Are you interested in exploring the possibility of change?

January 8, 2024

January 8, 2024

Transformation is a primary key to moving forward and achieving a closer walk with the Lord. I am so grateful to the Lord for His transformational power, His healing, and the knowledge that He’s not finished with me yet!

 

By allowing God to work in me, through challenges that have come my way, I am able to play a part in paying His work forward by helping others to experience God’s healing as well. It has become increasingly clear to me that God allows us to go through hard times for good reason. He uses everything for good! (Romans 8:28)

 

Of course, God works the transformation. My part in it is simply allowing Him to transform me, hopefully, day by day, into the image of Christ. While this goal won’t be fully achieved until I go to be with Him, I have the use of, and access to, the knowledge and wisdom that He gives me to help others along the same path toward their own transformation.  

 

It’s an added blessing to me to be able to help others as I work to pay it forward!

July 17, 2023

July 17, 2023

How much of your thought life is spent on your worries?

 

Chances are that worry is a beast that you’ve been battling for years. When you reflect on it, it’s usually apparent that worrying is basically a losing battle. 

 

An important aspect of my coaching practice is working with clients on their thought processing. We work on “re-framing”, learning to think differently. The idea is to replace hurtful, self-defeating behavior for that which is positive.

 

The picture and verse that I selected for this post speak directly to the path for productive and positive thinking that can remove worrying from its dominant position in your thoughts.

 

As you become focused on redirecting your thought life to Christ, you will experience a transformation and renewal of your mind that will allow your worries to fade and to be replaced with His peace. (Romans 12:2) 

 

You may need to check your Bible for more detail on God’s perspective for that thought.  

 

Not only do you take your negative thoughts captive, but you take your mind and heart captive, too.  In order to know His perspective and the truth, you need to rely on the mind of Christ at work in you.

 

Are you ready to re-frame?

April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023

This is a favorite quote from a YouVersion plan by Noel Yeatts, “Rescued To Rescue”. The theme of Yeatt’s plan is that God rescues us so that we can rescue others. She writes, “As people who have been rescued and set free, how much more should we long to rescue and restore those in desperate need around us?”

 

Yeatts reminds us that if we have been set free by our acceptance of the sacrifice that Jesus suffered on the cross, and have experienced the freedom that He promises, that we need to be mindful that He wants us to pass on the good news about this gift to others around us who are hurting.

 

In addition to true freedom, Jesus provides a heart desire to be used as an instrument in His hands to point others to Him as the Rescuer and to pass on our own story of the acceptance of His gifts to help and encourage others to share real freedom and transformation.

 

Are you in need of hope today? Let me point you to the God who rescues.

January 9, 2023

January 9, 2023

What are your hopes for 2023? 

 

It may sound strange, but my hope in this new year is that there will be widespread recognition of the Biblical truth that we have all been born into a spiritually broken world; each of us born with a spiritually flawed nature and that many will accept Jesus’ standing offer for a transformation that He will freely provide to those who ask. My hope is the basis for my vocational choice of ministry as a Christian life coach and includes an emphasis on promoting genuine transformation.

 

One of my goals centers on helping clients re-write their stories – like I have been re-writing mine – and, in partnership with the Holy Spirit, helping them to become the people that God made them to be.

 

My personal goal for 2023 is more perfectly stated in the words of the 1896 hymn by Frances Brook, “My goal is God Himself, not joy, nor peace, nor even blessing, but Himself, my God.”

 

Only God, only Jesus, is faithful. As Charles Stanley observes, “His commitment to you is lasting…His friendship never changes.” Jesus is Immanuel, God with us, to all those who believe and receive Him. He is always with us, a shoulder to lean on, our faithful companion and friend!

 

The challenges we’ve all experienced over the last few years have caused many of us to evaluate where we stand with God and to draw closer to Him. Many desire the transformation that only a relationship with Him can provide!

 

What are your hopes and goals for 2023? Are you ready for a transformation? 

July 4, 2022

July 4, 2022

A few thoughts to ponder on Independence Day!

 

Our God is a God of freedom!

 

Freedom is transforming!

 

When we are free, we can become the person He created us to be.

 

It  was for our freedom from bondage to our natural sinful nature and its penalties that Christ came to the earth.

 

Navigating a life path on our own is encouraged by the world, but that’s an effort more likely to add bondage rather than freedom.

 

He promises us that freedom in exchange for our relinquishing control of our lives.

 

With  freedom comes transformation and the renewing of our minds. (Romans 12:2)

 

We are able to replace old attitudes and ideas based on worldly concepts, conceived by the spiritual enemy of truth.

 

Freedom and spiritual truth become inseparable!

 

I would love to talk with you about the experience of freedom.

 

Is there anything holding you captive?

June 13, 2022

June 13, 2022

Do you comprehend the breadth and depth of God’s love for you? (Ephesians 3:17-19)

 

Sometimes you just need to be still to allow His great love to sink in and find rest for your soul.

 

If you simply accept “His indescribable gift”, He will begin to change you from the inside out through His Holy Spirit living inside you. (2 Corinthians 9:15)

 

Do you have assurance of His love for YOU?

March 7, 2022

March 7, 2022

Do you know that you have a new identity in Christ?

When you believe in and accept the sacrifice that Christ made for you on the cross and ask Him to be the Lord of your life, you take on a new identity!

The key to the transformation you are looking for is found in your new identity.

You become a daughter of the King! You belong to Christ and you are His prized possession! 

The old self is gone, your new self is here!

“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”. (Romans 8:1)

You are a new creation!

Have you received your new identity?

January 3, 2022

January 3, 2022

God is seeking our transformation!

God wants us to view ourselves the way He views us – as “chosen and precious” (1 Peter 2:4)!

Our belief in Christ and acceptance of His love for us in His sacrifice on the cross leads to transformation by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2).

Coaching promotes transformation one person at a time as we invest ourselves in helping others in their renewal.

Are you seeking the renewal of your mind through the absorption of God’s word?

How can you begin contributing to God’s desire to transform the world this year?