A part of this positive living lifestyle is achieving your life dreams and goals. However this enemy has some goals also.

He does not want you to achieve YOUR dreams because that will make a positive difference in this world and in the lives of many.

Hence this enemy is on a mission to discourage you and make you want to give up your positive focus and turn back to your old negative ways.

His actual target though is not actually your dreams and goals, but your MIND.
Yes, that’s right. If the enemy of your life can take over your mind (your thoughts), he has achieved his purpose. With the takeover of your mind, he has full control of your life.

This is why it is so important to continually train AND maintain the positive conditioning of your mind in the same way you train and maintain the condition of your body.

A part of your training is to learn to become alert to the enemy’s tactics and resist them.

You do this by using your God given power of decision. This is what the affirmation we are looking at today is all about.

Affirmation #141 of the 210 Day Affirmation Challenge created by John Di Lemme of the Lifestyle Freedom Club declares:

Your Distinct Advantage:
Now when you give your life to God and His Son Jesus Christ, you have the added advantage of knowing that His help is always near.

It is like a small child walking with the protection of his big brother. The little child may be determined to win and will possibly win some battles.

However when his big brother is with him, the enemies often don’t even bother to stop and fight. Instead they flee! They know that they are no match for big brother.

Hence the little brother could declare with even more confidence:

The enemy of your soul and your ability to enjoy positive living is no match for your Big Brother (Jesus Christ)

The preparation that we considered in the previous article consists of:

• Your decision to never retreat – no turning back.
• Your daily training program which is designed to strengthen your mind to stay focused on the positive side of life.
• Above all – your decision to walk with God (see the Gospel of John 1:10-12).

Today’s Challenge:

• Have you made a strong decision to enjoy the benefits of positive living?
• Are you determined to win (this means no turning back or no retreats).
• What are you doing each day to demonstrate these decisions?

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club

It is not too late to get involved with this challenge. Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Blog Click on the menu at the top that says “Affirmation Challenge” to get involved. It will be one of the best decisions of your life.

Here is a question for you today:

• When you wake up every morning, what is the first thing you think of?
• What is the first thing you do?

Do you recognize that during your first few waking moments of each day you set the stage for the mood of the day.

Every morning when you wake up you either say (out loud, or by your attitude):

• Thank God for this new day — or
• Good God, another day! (Sometimes these comments are followed by “any day, another dollar” or something similiar).

You may have smiled as you read this.
The question is: which one of these two categories do you fall into? (Perhaps it varies).

Here is a fact to consider:
Unless you make a DELIBERATE choice every day, your early morning moods WILL vary depending on your circumstances.

Today is Day 84 of following the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

Today’s affirmation will help you to make that deliberate choice every day:

Every morning as you roll over and get out of bed, make this declaration and EXPECT to see miracles.

This may not necessarily mean you will see MAJOR miracles every day (although some days you will). It means you will begin to open your eyes and heart to see all the little miracles that DO happen in your life every day.

For example: For me one of the miracles I am expecting every day is to have all of the tools I need to fulfill my why. Some of these tools may require a bigger miracle than others. But for me, every provision is a miracle. This is why I added this to today’s slide. The miracles you expect every day of course will be different.

Your heart will be full of gratitude and this makes room for MORE miracles.

Today’s Challenge:

• Make a decision to wake up every morning EXPECTING miracles.
• Make this declaration every morning and follow it by declaring your WHY.

Your WHY is the reason for your life, and so is the reason for this new day.

Here is a great way to build up your faith and expectancy so that every day you WILL wake up expecting miracles.

Get involved with this 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge Today:Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

Your life will never be the same. You owe it to yourself to take this action NOW because:

Resources:

Today’s affirmation is a powerful one, but also one that I am turning into a question:

This is Day 67 of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

The question is:
Just how CAN I slay all debt out of my life?

You will notice that I used a picture of David meeting Goliath on my slide for today’s affirmation. There is no doubt that debt can be a huge forbidding giant in your life.

As I go through this challenge (today for me is actually day 124), I am creating slides for each day. This is adding a powerful visual effect as I read these declarations each day from the slides.

Because debt can be a giant in your life, let’s take a look at just how David DID manage to confront this giant and slay him. (You will find the complete story in 1 Samuel 17 in the Bible

David was focused.
He had one thing in mind, and one only and that was to slay the Giant, Goliath.

Notice, that David’s focus was not on the Giant, but on SLAYING the giant. There is a huge difference!

Remember, a warrior always focuses on WINNING!

David was NOT intimidated – in fact he was FURIOUS at Goliath’s attitude. How dare he challenge His (David’s) God like that!

The whole nation of Israel was shaking with fear. Goliath was scoffing loudly and the army of Israel was trembling with fear.

Fear is the opposite of faith (they believed Goliath’s threats)!

But David believed His God!

David’s faith was firmly planted in His God consequently:

• He did not hear the scoffing of the giant.
• He did not feel the fear of the army of Israel.
• He was not intimidated by the jealousy of his brothers.

With a faith mindset, you CAN slay debt! Poverty is a negative mindset!!
It will probably mean you need to fight for your freedom, and that is exactly why you are a Why WARRIOR Champion!

Resource:
Get involved with this 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge TODAY:Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

He said: I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:14.

You will enjoy reading the complete Psalm 139 here.

Today is Day 46 of following the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge and today the affirmation is an echo of David’s prayer:

You were created for a purpose, a GREAT purpose. If you have read the complete Psalm 139, you will have discovered that David also said: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. (verse 13 of Psalm 139).

You were designed to have fellowship with God and to participate in His great plan in this world. His plan is to give all the opportunity to live the abundant life both here and in the hereafter.

You might ask: then how come so many negative things happen to me and to those around me?

Your Choices:
Many of the negative things that happen to you and me are a result of our choices, which led us down a path where we were vulnerable to the negative influences. Or our choices led us directly to the challenge we may be facing now.

Other’s Choices:
Other negative things happened to you and me because of the choices of others. These negative experiences may be a result of the choices of one person close to us, or the choices of a group of people who’s lives have an influence on ours.

In this case, you and I still DO have a choice.

• You can choose to become better or bitter in any situation.
• You can choose to allow the situation to mold you into a stronger, better person, or you can choose to play the blame game and become a puppet to the situation.
• You can choose to learn from the situation and become stronger and wiser, or you can yield to the situation and just cope with it.

Pick up a copy of Champions are Born, Losers Are Made today and read it over and over. You will be glad you did.

You and I always have a choice no matter how hard the situation we face may be:

• You can decide to conquer it or
• You can decide to cope with it.

I am sure you will choose to conquer because:

Resource:
Get involved with this 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge TODAY:
Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

Life is full of challenges, and there is always an opportunity to give up if we will take it. Resigning to a situation or just coping with it is the same as giving up.

However I know that you won’t ever give up, because YOU are a champion and you are called to conquer!

Here are some tips to help you conquer the circumstances that life may throw at you.

1. Confront.

Ah that nasty word that not everyone likes to hear. I know it is often easier to avoid or ignore a situation or event than it is to confront it. But avoiding something is to live in denial and conquerors don’t live in denial.

No situation is going to change if we ignore it.

Conquerors face the truth and they face it with faith and a positive mindset focused on winning. You are a conqueror, right?

2. Consult

This is where you can begin to understand the importance of keeping a journal. When you have a record of the experiences of your life and how you conquered them, it serves as a positive encouragement in times when something else shows up to challenge you.

Your journal may contain notes about your relationship with God and how you saw His Hand changing impossible situations for you as you stood in faith.

These will certainly inspire you to stand in faith once more and expect to see yet another miracle happen in your life as you face a new and challenging situation.

You will have noted your strategies, your solutions and the advice you received during challenging situations in the past as well as your decisions. These will also certainly serve to once again help you discover the solutions for the present challenge.

3. Challenge

Everything that happens to you in life will either make you or break you. The choice is yours.
Since you are a champion, I know you will choose to take this event and make it into something that will change you for the better.

When there are important choices to make the best thing to do is to find some time alone to be quiet for a while. Of course your journal and a pencil or pen will be with you.

The first thing to do is to make sure your emotions are quiet. You will not want to make any important decisions based on emotions. Your decisions will be based on what is the best for you and your family. The decisions you make should take you closer to your life’s purpose.

Refer to Finding Your Life Purpose

4. Choice

The decision (or decisions) you make that will lead you to conquer will be made after you:

• Face the facts. No burying your head in the sand or ignoring anything hoping it will go away. It won’t.
• Have taken the time to reflect, and consult with your journal.
• Have made sure your emotions are well under control
• Have taken the time to note down the pros and cons, and taken a good hard look at them.
• Face the consequences that may occur as a result of your decision.
• Decide you will deal with these consequences (NOT resign yourself to them).
• Accept the challenge to confront everything that may occur and pursue victory.

5. Create

Let your creativity flow. Lots of very positive solutions can some when your mind is in a creative mode. Above all remember:

Recommended reading:

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life.