Love yourself

Why do I need Self-care? Isn't that selfish? If your asking that, consider Jesus' words in Matthew 19:19, "You shall love your neighbor as you love yourself." Most of us think that being selfish is bad. Actually it is important to our health. Let me share you something.
The thumb is you. Your index finger represents your parents. Middle finger for your mate. Ring finger for your children and lastly the little finger is for your job. You have the responsibilities to love and take care of these plus your friends right? But what if one day you exhausted or burnt out? Try using your hand without using your thumb. You'll found out that your hand is useless. No matter how hard you work, the hand falters. See? How will you able to give love if you yourself don't love yourself. Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit therefore we should take care of it. Here are some ways that will help you manage that:

Eat healthy foods regularly. Such as fruits and vegetables. Poor diet can make you vulnerable to stress.
Get enough sleep. This enables your body to grow and heal. Lack of sleep can make you less productive, you'll not be able to handle stress and function well. Here are some ways on better sleep strategies.
Drink plenty of water. This will help you hydrate your skin and your body. It also eradicate toxins out of our body and helps on concentration.
Keep yourself clean. Dead skin cells are fine dining for the body bugs we host everyday. We wash because the bugs become toxic if unwashed which leads to other fungus.
Exercise regularly. Allocate time frame for this. It helps strengthen our physically and mentally being plus helps your body release endorphins, which increase your feelings of overall.
Have fun at least once a week. Everybody deserves to be happy. Don't stress out too much.
Have a good attitude. Always be positive.Test your self whether you are optimist or pessimist by taking this quiz. Discipline yourself as well. You know what is right from wrong and by doing this you know that these are the things that should be done.

"Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul." 3 John 1:2

Jesus heals you

"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3)

Aren't you glad that God is a healer! It doesn't matter what is "broken" in your life today, God's nature is to bring you complete healing. Do you need healing in your body? Your mind? Heart? Finances? Relationships? God is your healer.

Notice what the Psalmist says int he verse: He binds up their wounds. In the natural, if you have a broken arm, it doesn't just heal over night. The doctor makes a cast to hold it in place and protect it. He binds up your wounds.In the spiritual realm, God does the same thing. He raps Himself around your brokenness and protects  the wounded area until it is strong enoough to function properly again.  The Bible says that He is a restorer. That means that when He does a work of healing in our lives, He makes us better than we were before. If you're going through the healing process today, know this: it may take longer than you planned, but God is binding up your wound.He is protecting you and healing yoou. He will bring you out better and stronger than you were before. He will take you to a place of complete healing so that you can live the life of victory He has in store for you.

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Saturated in Love

Where God 's love is there is no fear, because God's perfect love drives out fear.

1 John 4:18

We fear rejection, so we follow the crowd. We fear not fitting in, so we take the drugs. For fear of standing out, we wear what everyone else wears. For fear of blending in, we wear what anyone else wears. For fear of sleeping alone. we sleep with anyone. For fear of being not loved, we search for love in all the wrong places. But God flushes those fears. Those saturated in God's love don't sell out to win the love of others. They don't even sell out to win the love of God. Do you think you need to? Do you think, If I cuss less, pray more, drink less, study more.. If I try harder, God will love me more? Sniff  and smell Satan's stench behind those words. We all need improvements, but we don't need to woo God's love. We change because we already have God's love. God's perfect love.

Today, I read this from the book of Max Lucado entitled Grace for the moment. It's a book where in each day there are Inspirational thoughts like this. While I'm reading it, I was struck and so I'm sharing it. While I'm typing it naman, nashock ako kase kanina di ko nabasa yung chapter and verse and to tell you, It's my number kase birthday ko yan. So feeling ko parang God is speaking to me talaga.