🌈Encouraging Mondays “The Influence That Heals”
💞Good, Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends & New Encouragers!
📗SCRIPTURE READING — NLT
Proverbs 27:9
“The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense.”
✝ENCOURAGING MONDAYS REFLECTION
“When Friendship Brings Healing”
Family…
God is inviting us to slow down and examine the influence we allow into our lives.
Not every consistent presence is a healthy one — and not every familiar voice is a healing voice.
True friendship does not drain the soul.
It refreshes it.
The Lord gently reminds us today that relationships aligned with Him bring clarity, peace, and renewal — not confusion, anxiety, or emotional exhaustion. This is not about perfection or cutting people off harshly. This is about alignment. God’s presence brings light, and when friendships are rooted in Him, they help us grow instead of shrink.
💞Healthy friendships reinforce God’s voice — they never replace it.
🔑Key spiritual truths highlighted today:
Light vs. darkness
Peace vs. striving
Alignment vs. anxiety
Truth vs. confusion
💛ENCOURAGING THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If you’ve been feeling:
• emotionally drained
• spiritually unsettled
• unsure about certain connections
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.
🍎TEMPLE CARE CHECK-IN
This journey is not about extremes or guilt.
It’s about awareness, stewardship, and grace.
You may be:
• consistent
• restarting
• learning
And all of it still counts.
Our bodies respond to peace just as much as our hearts do.
🥕Gentle Temple-Care Truths to Reinforce
Our bodies are God’s design
Habits follow the heart
Awareness leads to freedom, not fear
Peace supports healing in both body and spirit
✝ CLOSING PRAYER
🙏🏽Perfect LORD,
Thank You for being the truest Friend we will ever know.
Refine our circles and guide our connections.
Remove influences that drain us and strengthen relationships that bring healing and peace.
Teach us how to be faithful friends by first being faithful to You.
In Jesus’ faithful and healing Name we pray,
Amen.
✝CLOSING BLESSING
❤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.
💛If God is speaking to your heart, I invite you to stay connected:
Website — Encouragement & Ministry Resources
https://encouragingmondays.com
LinkedIn — Weekly Encouragement & Reflection
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawna-stately-853771390
YouTube — Encouraging Mondays Video Messages
http://www.youtube.com/@EncouragingMondays
Podcast — Devotionals with Shawna S.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3pT2RcBNOKpa8A2vuYIJ4W
Wherever you connect, may God’s peace meet you there.
