😊Encouraging Mondays: Wholeness Changes the Way We Love
😊Good, Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends & New Encouragers!
✝️Today’s message is entitled:
“Wholeness Changes the Way We Love”
📖 SCRIPTURE READING — NLT
Colossians 2:10
“So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.”
✝️ ENCOURAGING MONDAYS REFLECTION
“Loving From a Place of Completion”
Family…
God is not calling us to love from emptiness.
He is calling us to love from wholeness.
When we are rooted in Christ, we stop asking people to fill spaces only God can fill. Relationships shift. Expectations soften. Love becomes healthier, freer, and more honest.
This is not about isolation — it’s about completion.
Wholeness in Christ changes how we show up, how we forgive, and how we connect.
God is gently reminding us that when our identity is secure in Him, our relationships no longer carry pressure they were never meant to hold. God’s presence brings peace where striving once lived, and clarity where confusion once lingered.
🔑Key spiritual truths highlighted today:
• Peace vs. striving
• Alignment vs. anxiety
• Surrender vs. control
• Truth vs. hiding
🤔 ENCOURAGING THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If you’ve been feeling:
• emotionally tired
• overextended
• longing for deeper connection
Pause and remember:
You are already complete in Christ.
You are deeply loved.
You are fully seen.
God is still speaking.
God is still drawing.
God is still walking with you.
🍇 TEMPLE CARE CHECK-IN:
Wholeness includes how we treat our bodies.
Peaceful routines.
Gentle awareness.
Grace-filled choices.
All of it honors God.
🍐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
Whether you are consistent, restarting, adjusting, learning, or simply observing — all of it still counts.
🙏🏼 CLOSING PRAYER
Powerful God,
Thank You for making us complete in You.
Heal every place we’ve tried to love from emptiness.
Teach us to walk whole, grounded, and secure in Your love.
Thank You for reminding us of our sins and leading us to
confession and repentance of our sins. Thank You for Your
special hedge of protection and our guardian angels!
In Jesus’s powerful Name, we Praise and we Pray,
Amen and 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
Much love for you all!
May God’s peace guide your day and walk this week!
💞 STAY CONNECTED WITH ENCOURAGING MONDAYS
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Wherever you connect, may God’s peace meet you there.
