Day Of Reflection
The Journey Continues
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Good Morning Beauties!
We all just celebrated the resurrection of Jesus yesterday; now it’s time to celebrate your own new life. Today is the day to look back throughout your entire 40 days and reflect on your personal growth. It’s a time to examine all the ways God has changed you by speaking truth into lies you once believed.
It’s helpful to, once again, consider the steps of your preparation and answer a few questions. There are no right or wrong answers, just honest ones. Look back through your journal and notice any changes from the first few days until the last few. Where is the growth? Selah.
Were your expectations met? How was it different than you expected? Looking back, what would you do to improve the success? Selah.
Nobody could have anticipated a global health and economic crisis when we started. Talk about a HUGE distraction! How were you able to keep it away from your time with God while you continued your journey everyday? Did your action plans work? Selah.
What about your motivation? Did your hunger and thirst for God keep you coming back each day to spend time with Him? Did you find your heart longing for more of Him, or did the constant bad news of the pandemic cripple you to move forward with Him? Selah.
I pray this 40 Day Journey experience has made a positive impact in your life. If so, please consider going again. Our life’s journey continues everyday, and sometimes we need a resource that keeps us close to God. I hope you found this journal to be a resource for you.
If this experience has been a good one, would you please tell your friends and family? I believe the enemy has done so much harm to women to keep us bound. He knows our strength and is afraid of the power through God we have to change the world. Let’s help break the chains of every woman we know and set them free to walk in their God given purpose.
Please also consider sharing your story about how God used the 40 Day Journey in your life. It’s another way of encouraging each other. You can contact me on the “let’s connect” section of my website. I’d love to hear from you and hear how God has changed your life.
If you or your friends need a journal, I’m happy to send them one. I want to make sure everyone has a chance to have a copy of the journal, as it’s an important piece in the experience.
As we end our time here on the blog, go back and listen again to the song that speaks truth to your heart. Quiet the world, and go to that safe quiet place. Let Him sing this song over you as you thank Him for all He’s done to bless you and make you whole.
Love and Blessings,
Kendra
“King David’s song of praise
1 With my whole heart, with my whole life,
and with my innermost being,
I bow in wonder and love before you, the holy God!
2 Yahweh, you are my soul’s celebration.
How could I ever forget the miracles of kindness
you’ve done for me?
3 You kissed my heart with forgiveness, in spite of all I’ve done.
You’ve healed me inside and out from every disease.
4 You’ve rescued me from hell and saved my life.
You’ve crowned me with love and mercy.
5 You satisfy my every desire with good things.
You’ve supercharged my life so that I soar again
like a flying eagle in the sky!
6 You’re a God who makes things right,
giving justice to the defenseless.
7 You unveiled to Moses your plans
and showed Israel’s sons what you could do.
8 Lord, you’re so kind and tenderhearted
to those who don’t deserve it
and so patient with people who fail you!
Your love is like a flooding river
overflowing its banks with kindness.
9 You don’t look at us only to find our faults,
just so that you can hold a grudge against us.
10 You may discipline us for our many sins,
but never as much as we really deserve.
Nor do you get even with us for what we’ve done.
11 Higher than the highest heavens—
that’s how high your tender mercy extends!
Greater than the grandeur of heaven above
is the greatness of your loyal love, towering over all
who fear you and bow down before you!
12 Farther than from a sunrise to a sunset—
that’s how far you’ve removed our guilt from us.
13 The same way a loving father feels toward his children—
that’s but a sample of your tender feelings toward us,
your beloved children, who live in awe of you.
14 You know all about us, inside and out.
You are mindful that we’re made from dust.
15 Our days are so few, and our momentary beauty
so swiftly fades away!
16 Then all of a sudden we’re gone,
like grass clippings blown away in a gust of wind,
taken away to our appointment with death,
leaving nothing to show that we were here.
17 But Lord, your endless love stretches
from one eternity to the other,
unbroken and unrelenting toward those who fear you
and those who bow facedown in awe before you.
Your faithfulness to keep every gracious promise you’ve made
passes from parents, to children, to grandchildren, and beyond.
18 You are faithful to all those who follow your ways
and keep your word.
19 God’s heavenly throne is eternal, secure, and strong,
and his sovereignty rules the entire universe.
20 So bless the Lord, all his messengers of power,
for you are his mighty heroes who listen intently
to the voice of his word to do it.
21 Bless and praise the Lord, you mighty warriors,
ministers who serve him well and fulfill his desires.
22 I will bless and praise the Lord with my whole heart!
Let all his works throughout the earth,
wherever his dominion stretches,
let everything bless the Lord!”