Starting Your Best Life Now: A Guide for New Adventures and Stages on Your Journey
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Overview
Happy and fulfilled people make the most of new opportunities, live in the present, and expect great things from the future. They're living at their full potential and so can you! In Starting Your Best Life Now, you'll learn how to:
- Enlarge Your Vision
- Develop a Healthy Self-Image
- Discover the Power of Your Thoughts and Words
- Let Go of the Past
- Find Strength Through Adversity
- Live to Give
- Choose to Be Happy
No matter what you're going through, it's never too late to start living your best life. Today is the day don't wait another minute!
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780446581011 |
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Publisher: | FaithWords |
Publication date: | 04/11/2007 |
Pages: | 128 |
Sales rank: | 604,995 |
Product dimensions: | 7.90(w) x 5.20(h) x 0.60(d) |
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Starting Your Best Life Now
A Guide for New Adventures and Stages on Your JourneyBy Joel Osteen
Faithwords
Copyright © 2007 Joel OsteenAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-446-58101-1
Chapter One
Dare to Unpack Your Dreams
From the time she was a little girl, Tara Holland dreamed of becoming Miss America. After two years as runner-up in the Miss Florida pageant, she was tempted to give up, but she chose instead to focus on her goal. She rented videos of every pageant she could find and watched them over and over again. As Tara watched each young woman crowned a winner, she pictured herself receiving the crown and walking down the runway in victory.
So when Tara was crowned Miss America in 1997, taking that long walk down the runway came as natural to her as breathing. Afterward, a reporter asked her if she was nervous about being on television, in front of millions, accepting her crown. "No," she said, "I wasn't nervous at all. You see, I had walked down that runway thousands of times before." She was simply living out the dream she had practiced so many times in her mind.
SO WHAT ABOUT YOU?
What do you want to do with your life? What are your dreams? If you could write your best life story today, what would it say?
Is your first reaction to hesitate? Perhaps you most often see and describe yourself in terms of past experiences or present limitations. Perhaps you see yourself more in terms of losing or just surviving rather than fulfilling your dreams.
If you've packed away your dreams, dare to unpack them today. It's time to enlarge your vision. Dare to ask God to rekindle those dreams in your heart and mind. He wants to do big things and new things in your life. God wants us to be constantly increasing, to be rising to new heights. He wants to pour out "His far and beyond favor" on you (Ephesians 2:7).
Quiet your heart and receive God's Word: "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future'" (Jeremiah 29:11).
Friend, if you will get in agreement with God, this can be the greatest time of your life. With God on your side, you cannot possibly lose. He can make a way when it looks as though there is none. He can open doors that no man can shut. He can cause you to be at the right place, at the right time. He can supernaturally turn your dreams into reality.
Never allow your own wrong thinking to keep you from God's best.
(Continues...)
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Table of Contents
Introduction 8
Enlarge Your Vision 12
Dare to Unpack Your Dreams 14
Expect Great Things 18
Rise to New Levels 22
Break Through Barriers 26
Declare God's Favor 30
Develop a Healthy Self-Image 32
See Yourself as God Sees You 34
Be Strong and Courageous 38
Be an Original 42
Become What You Believe 46
Discover the Power Of Your Thoughts and Words 48
Win the Victory in Your Mind 50
Think About Your Thinking 54
Speak to Your Mountains 58
Confess God's Word 62
Let Go of the Past 64
Let the Old Go 66
Get Up and Move On 70
Forgive to Be Free 74
Keep Moving Forward 78
Find Strength Through Adversity 80
Stand Up on the Inside 82
Trust God's Timing 86
Be Patient 90
Walk Through the Fire 94
Live to Give 96
Be a Giver 98
Walk in Love 102
Keep an OpenHeart 106
Reap a Harvest 110
Choose to Be Happy 112
Rejoice in the Lord Always 114
Excel in Integrity 118
Enjoy Your Best Life Now 122