Topic: Meeting Adversity Head-on

There are secrets to living and even prospering in adversity. Here are twenty of these secrets to prospering in adversity. 1. Meet your own expectations after you have met the expectations of God. Ask yourself how you would feel if you let something slide. 2. Enjoy the experience of being in charge of yourself after you have submitted all you are to God's will. 3. Routine matters like housework and homework are a small part of life. The times when you see yourself as a victorious child of God are the times your life takes on a victorious presence. 4. Establish priorities of importance in your life based upon what God thinks is important. 5. Doing what makes you feel good about yourself is not self-indulgence unless doing what makes you feel good about yourself is against the will of God. 6. As you put others first, take care of yourself or you cannot take care of others. Take care of others or eventually you will not be able to take care of yourself. 7. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Then love they neighbor better than thyself. 8. Love God. Love others. Love yourself. Always in that order. 9. Charity begins with you always doing what God wants you to do. 10. Sacrifice and self-denial in favor of another person and in favor of sustaining a relationship keeps the relationship in tact and whole. Self-indulgence in thoughts, words, or actions detrimental to a relationship occurs because there is no willingness to sacrifice and no willingness to deny oneself in favor of another. 11. Listen to God. Listen to others. Listen to yourself. Don't smother out your needs and inner voices, but also do not act on your needs and inner voices without your actions being a reflection of God's will. 12. Don't go along with what other people say unless they reflect the will of God. Always desire and mean to go along with the will of God. 13. Speak up! 14. To really change you must have perseverance. 15. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. 16. To change you must want to change even when you don't want to change. 17. Accept your messiness and mistakes, you are human. 18. Talk to yourself. Listen to yourself. Reassure yourself. Tell the child in you "no." 19. Forgive and love the misbehaving child in you. Know him or her. Love him or her all the time. 20. Find self-love by taking your sin to Christ. By taking your sin to Christ, by turning away from your sin, by kneeling at the foot of His cross in humble regret and sorrow, your sin will be erased by His love. Then you will come to love yourself as God loves you. Finally, accept His forgiveness.

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