As I watched the show “Breakthrough with Tony Robbins” tonight I realized my own breakthrough.
A calm confidence has been gifted to me with God’s grace. I started a contract job a couple months ago. I was told it is extremely, overwhelmingly busy and stressful.
The job began slowly with only a few hours with the person who was leaving, on her last day. I am learning as I go, and by baptism of fire, so to speak.
As the pressure has been increasing, when I begin to feel overwhelmed or stressed, I stop and ask God to fill me with His calm, and confidence within myself. The accomplishments come, and I find myself able to say I am unable to do it at the moment, or even that it may be a couple days before I can get to it. I tell the person “I want to help you, but I am overbooked at the moment” or something like that.
I am skilled and capable, although it took me years to believe it of myself. Now I do, and that is a huge break through for me.
As I was watching the show tonight I did some light exercise in the open space of my living room. It became a more open space after selling my large queen size sleeper couch on Sunday. I had that couch for a long time. There were many times it was a comfort to me. However, it was time to let it go and it feels wonderful, even a new sense of freedom.
I am getting closer to another breakthrough…better focus, discipline, and passion to write as God has been prompting me to do.
Ah! What a lovely feeling of accomplishment when we realize a breakthrough in the barriers which used to exist in our lives.
I had a bit of a breakthrough myself recently. Not in my writing but in my ministry outlook. I was very discouraged because it seemed despite the fact that God was blessing ministries I was involved with, along with those blessings came opposition or lack of cooperation from important persons around me, well mostly from one particular person. But I shared my discouragement with someone in confidence who gave me just the advice I needed. They reminded me not to grow weary in well doing, to tell Satan to get behind me. They also told me what they did when they felt the same kinds of discouragement and frustration, they got busy ministering to someone else. That's exactly what I did and before I knew it my perspective had changed. Now you have to understand that this frustration has been going on for quite some time. And I was having a difficult time keeping my negative thoughts and feelings inside. So I placed it down at God's feet and am concentrating on more important things.
Thank you for sharing this uplifting and positive article, Ann. I am very happy that you have found this and I wish you the very best in your new job. Love and blessings,
Regis