💞Encouraging Mondays: Rooted In God’s Love!
😊Good, Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends & New Encouragers!
Before we continue, I want to pause and acknowledge something meaningful.
🙌🏼🥳To everyone celebrating a birthday this month, to everyone celebrating an anniversary, to those honoring milestones, and to those who have remained faithful to resolutions and commitments, big or small: We see you. We celebrate you.
Whether you chose to read more, rest more, watch less television, be more present with your family, care for your health, or simply stay committed to growth — your effort matters.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations on every milestone and every resolution kept!
You are loved.
You are supported.
And you are not doing this alone.
✝️ Today’s Message Is Entitled:
“Rooted in God’s Love”
📖 SCRIPTURE READING — (NLT)
1 John 4:16
“We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in His love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.”
🤔 ENCOURAGING MONDAYS REFLECTION
“Living From the Love That Holds Us”
Family…
God is inviting us to begin this month anchored — not in romance, performance, or approval — but in His unwavering love. This is not about striving to earn love or proving our worth. This is about remembering where love truly begins.
The Lord is gently reminding us that His love is not conditional, fleeting, or fragile. God’s presence brings security where fear once lived and steadiness where uncertainty once lingered. When we are rooted in His love, we stop reaching for validation and start resting in truth.
This is not about perfection.
It’s about abiding.
Living from God’s love changes how we see ourselves, how we treat others, and how we respond to life. When love is rooted in Him, it produces peace instead of pressure and confidence instead of comparison.
🗝️Key spiritual truths highlighted today:
Love vs. fear
Rest vs. striving
Identity vs. approval
Security vs. anxiety
Alignment vs. performance
🤔 ENCOURAGING THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If you’ve been feeling:
unsure of your worth
weary from striving
longing to feel secure
Pause and remember:
You are not rejected.
You are not forgotten.
You are not out of reach.
God is still loving.
God is still holding.
God is still walking with you.
🍎 TEMPLE CARE CHECK-IN
This journey is not about guilt or extremes.
It’s about awareness, stewardship, and grace.
You may be:
consistent
restarting
adjusting
learning
observing
And all of it still counts.
🍐Gentle Temple-Care Truths to Reinforce:
Our bodies are God’s design
Habits follow the heart
Clean choices can be simple and convenient
Awareness leads to freedom, not fear
When we rest in God’s love, our bodies respond to peace — not pressure.
🙏🏼 CLOSING PRAYER
LORD,
Thank You for Your presence, Your patience, and Your love that never fails.
Root our hearts deeply in You.
Shine on every place that needs clarity, healing, and renewal.
Help us walk honestly,
live intentionally,
and rest confidently in Your love.
Cleanse us.
Guide us.
Renew us.
In Jesus’s Powerful, Majestic Name,
we Praise and Pray,
Amen.
🙏🏼 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.
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.
🌈CLOSING BLESSING
“If these moments encourage you, stay connected—subscribe and walk with me.”
💕Much love for you all!
Have an amazingly Blessed day and week.
😊STAY CONNECTED WITH ENCOURAGING MONDAYS
💞Encouraging Mondays is more than a message —
it’s a digital ministry and growing community rooted in faith, reflection, and peaceful transformation.
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Wherever you connect, may God’s peace meet you there
