🌈Encouraging Mondays: Always Abounding (Active Obedience)
😊Good, Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends & New Encouragers!
📖 SCRIPTURE READING — (NLT)
1 Corinthians 15:58
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”
💛ENCOURAGING MONDAYS REFLECTION
“Faith That Moves”
Family…
We have talked about being steadfast.
We have talked about being immovable.
Now we move to the next instruction:
Always abounding.
Abounding is not passive.
Abounding means increasing.
It means growing.
It means active obedience.
God is not inviting us into stagnant faith.
This is not about perfection.
It is about participation.
Abounding looks like:
Serving even when unnoticed.
Growing even when uncomfortable.
Moving forward even when unsure.
God’s presence brings motion.
Abounding is faith with movement.
It is praying and then acting.
Believing and then stepping.
Trusting and then obeying.
This is not about performance.
It is about alignment.
Some people are steadfast but stuck.
Some are immovable but inactive.
But abounding means:
“I will not just stand firm — I will move forward.”
Active obedience says:
“I will serve where I am.”
“I will grow where I am planted.”
“I will keep showing up.”
Even small obedience counts.
A kind word.
A disciplined choice.
A forgiving response.
A consistent habit.
Always abounding does not mean frantic.
It means faithful.
Keep growing.
Keep serving.
Keep moving forward in faith.
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💛 ENCOURAGING THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If you’ve been feeling:
• spiritually stagnant
• hesitant to take the next step
• unsure if your obedience matters
Pause and remember:
You are not rejected.
You are not forgotten.
You are not out of reach.
God is still speaking.
God is still drawing.
God is still walking with you.
Take the next faithful step.
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🍎 TEMPLE CARE CHECK-IN
This journey is not about guilt or extremes.
It’s about awareness, stewardship, and grace.
Growth includes physical stewardship too.
You may be:
• consistent
• restarting
• adjusting
• learning
• observing
And all of it still counts.
Active obedience includes caring for your body.
Movement.
Hydration.
Rest.
Consistency.
Faith moves spiritually and physically.
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🙏🏼 CLOSING PRAYER
Father God,
Teach us how to abound.
Not to rush.
Not to strive.
But to grow faithfully.
Show us where to serve.
Strengthen us to move.
Align our actions with our trust in You.
Let our obedience be active and sincere.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name,
We Praise and we Pray,
Amen and Amen
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🙏🏼 DAILY PROCLAMATION
Before we close, I want to invite you—only if you feel led—to say a daily proclamation with me.
This is the proclamation I return to daily.
Not out of perfection, but out of surrender.
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From Survival to Surrender — My Daily Proclamation
🙏🏼God, today I stop negotiating with You.
I stop hiding parts of my life behind excuses, wounds, and fear.
I stop managing sin instead of surrendering it.
I stop calling survival “strength” when it is really exhaustion.
I release every attachment that feels good but pulls me away from truth.
I let go of relationships, habits, and cycles that soothe me temporarily but cost me spiritually.
I acknowledge what I already know:
what does not align with You cannot heal me.
Today, I surrender control.
I surrender comfort.
I surrender timing.
I surrender the false intimacy I’ve used to avoid true wholeness.
I choose alignment over appetite.
Obedience over urgency.
Healing over hiding.
God, I no longer want to survive — I want to live whole.
I invite You into every area I’ve kept guarded, delayed, or divided.
Lead my life.
Heal my heart.
Reorder my desires.
From this moment forward, I choose surrender —
not because I am weak,
but because You are strong.
In Jesus’ Name,
Amen.
💞 Love you all much!
😊 May we all have a wonderfully Blessed day and week!
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🎧STAY CONNECTED WITH ENCOURAGING MONDAYS
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it’s a digital ministry and growing community rooted in faith, reflection, and peaceful transformation.
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