Jealousy is a very ugly emotions that does harm on just about every level of our existence.  The problem with jealousy is that it consumes you from the inside – out!  Jealousy causes you to want something that you do not have and when you get focused on what you don’t have, you fail to appreciate what you do have.  It may be a relationship, a possession, a responsibility or any number of different things, but you can’t allow anything to cause you to travel down this destructive road.  It will take so much more than it will ever give.

You have to learn to control this emotion or it will control you.  None of us are perfect and we are all doing battle or need to be doing battle with something.  If you need to be doing battle wit jealousy, then I want to encourage you to:

1.  Realize that you are not perfect and that is okay!  People can expect you to be perfect, when they become perfect, so I think it’s pretty safe to say that you have some time and space.  

2.  Talk about it by sharing your challenge with someone who understands!  Not someone who is going to excuse the damage it is doing, but someone who has been there and worked their way through it.  I have found that my best counselors are the one’s who listen and help me to listen to myself, so that I can hear what I am really saying.

3.  Put positive stuff in!  Read positive books, articles and blogs.  Listen to positive and upbeat music and teaching.  Watch things that will inspire you to strive for the better blessed life that you were created for.  Turn off the TV and go outside and walk and take in Creation.

Today I challenge you to begin the journey of getting rid of jealousy!  Take and make some time to appreciate all that your Creator has blessed you with. Gratitude is one of the most powerful medicines you can take!  Be happy for others and their blessings without envy, resentment or bitterness.  There is enough blessing for everyone and hating on someone else’s blessing is not going to make it yours!  Stop worrying about what other people think or say, their opinion of you, is none of your business.  Fall in love with yourself and realize what a great blessing you have been created to be.  The greatest is not behind you, it is in front of you and waiting for you to come and get it.

You are blessed, you are loved and you are ready to live a more fulfilled life that makes a difference.  Stay after it, give it all you’ve got and live blessed!

You are not ALONE!  I know that sometimes life gets tough and the challenges get hairy, but you and I are never alone.  The promise of the Scripture is that He will never leave us or forsake us.  Our Creator never takes his hand off of us, because we are still being created in some shape or form.

He leaves his hand upon us, to comfort us and let us know that everything is going to be okay.  He leaves his hand upon us, to guide us and show us which way is best.  He leaves his hand upon us, to continue to mold and make us into something special for his glory and everyone’s blessing.

Next time that you feel that you are all alone, in the stillness of the moment, take the time to feel his touch and then remember that the touch of the Master makes all the difference!  Praying for you to have a great day as you seek to live blessed!

You were created for MORE!  It is great to be content, but I am not so sure that we were created to be satisfied in this human experience, because hunger is almost always a part of our lives.  And hunger is not a bad thing, it is actually the things that drives us to seek something better.

The problem is that we often want to take short cuts or we are willing to sacrifice what is best for what will do and this causes us to miss out on the greater blessing of the something more that we were created for.  Your Creator wants to bless you, so that you can be a blessing, because it is in the act of blessing that you move from humanity to divinity.

Don’t let what other people say about you influence who you are or what you do.  Instead, choose to live in the amazing power of what your Creator knows about you: that you are blessed and highly favored.  Situations and circumstances, good or bad are invitations to step out of the finite and into the infinite, which is what you were created for.

The only limits that we have to worry about, are the limits that we put on ourselves.  Remove the limits, run into the glorious future that your Creator allows you to create and live blessed!