✨GOD IS DOING A NEW THING — Learn To Perceive It
🌿ENCOURAGING MONDAYS!
🌟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. And we honor the consistency, courage, and intention it takes to keep going.
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:
“God Is Doing a New Thing — Learn to Perceive It”
SCRIPTURE READING — (NLT)
Isaiah 43:19
“See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.”
Encouraging Mondays Reflection:
Perceiving the New Without Pressure!
Family…
As we step into this new season, God is not calling us to rush, strive, or force change.
He is inviting us to perceive what He is already doing.
January is not about pressure.
It’s about awareness.
Sometimes we think a “new thing” must look loud, fast, or dramatic.
But often, God’s new work begins quietly—
in our posture,
in our rhythms,
and in how we listen.
God is gently reminding us that transformation does not always come from adding more.
Sometimes it comes from allowing space.
🥕This month, we are entering a 21-day journey that continues what we began in December—caring for the body with intention—but with a deeper layer of understanding: rhythm, rest, and restoration.
God designed our bodies with wisdom.
Not to eat all day and all night.
Not to run without pause.
But to move in cycles of nourishment and healing.
This is where intermittent fasting comes in.
Intermittent fasting is not about deprivation, extremes, or punishment.
It’s about giving the body space to heal, time to reset, and permission to listen.
This is not about perfection.
It’s about alignment.
🤔Encouraging Thought for Today:
If you’ve been feeling:
• tired
• pressured
• uncertain
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.
Sometimes the “new thing” God is doing does not come from effort—
but from rest.
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
• quietly observing
And all of it still counts.
Gentle Temple-Care Truths to Remember:
• Our bodies are God’s design
• Habits follow the heart
• Clean choices can be simple and convenient
• Awareness leads to freedom, not fear
This month, we’ll talk about:
• gentle eating windows
• honoring hunger and fullness cues
• not “making up” for missed meals
• choosing nourishment without guilt
• learning how discipline and care can exist together
Start where you are.
One small shift is enough.
🙏🏼Closing Prayer
LORD,
Thank You for Your presence, Your patience, and Your light.
Thank You for doing a new thing in this season and inviting us to perceive it.
Teach us how to listen—
to You,
to our bodies,
and to the rhythms You created for healing and restoration.
Release us from pressure, guilt, and striving.
Help us walk in wisdom, grace, and discernment as we care for the bodies You entrusted to us.
Cleanse us.
Guide us.
Renew us.
In Jesus’ Powerful, Majestic, Healing, and Perfect Name,
we Praise and we Pray!
Amen.
✨Closing Blessing
💖Much love for you all!
Have an amazingly Blessed day and week.
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