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Hey there and welcome back to the Fit Soul podcast. Thank you for being here Today. I want to do something a little bit different in this podcast. I want to share with you a text, a faith-activated text, that I send out every morning to my Walkworthy Mentorship, and this one is about Transformation Thursday, and I thought you know what. Let me just take a moment and share this with the podcast.

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I think there's something really powerful when we have a place to where we can feel hope and encouragement but also be challenged, be pushed, and this particular faith activation text, I think, will really encourage you and, at the same time, challenge and push you, because here's the deal encourage you and, at the same time, challenge and push you because here's the deal, as we are pursuing the end of this year 2024, as a follower of Jesus, as a Christian, as a certified high-performance coach, life coach, health coach, coach, health coach I hope to inspire but also challenge you to take the actions needed to grow your spiritual life, your emotional health, your physical health, physical health and you'll hear in this particular faith activation text, your mental well-being, your mental well-being is that's a whole thing, but the powerful thing, I believe, is that when we learn to take personal responsibility for our thoughts. It changes everything, instead of letting the automatic negative thoughts I call them ants instead of letting the ants run on replay in our brain, which is what I did for so many years. And the thoughts of guilt and unworthiness plagued me. Guilt, shame, unworthiness, I mean. That's all I heard, that's all I felt, that's all I knew. Therefore, I hid, I shrunk and I stayed in self-protective mode. Therefore, I hid, I shrunk and I stayed in self-protective mode. I that, that's all I knew. But there was something in my spirit that was like this is not okay, like I was in my 40s.

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I was in my early 40s thinking, okay, this is it, this is just. You know, this is just. I've made my bed. Now I'll lie, lie in it. I've made some mistakes. It is what it is Because those mistakes define me. My failures defined me, and that's just what the enemy wants to do Wants us to stay stuck, and so yours.

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I see this manifest itself a lot in physical health In all sorts, in every realm, but I also see it in the physical realm with I've tried so many diets, I've tried so many plans and I'm a failure. Nothing works. I'm a failure. And what I've learned in coaching women, in helping and watching women transform over and over and over again, is that it is such an integrative approach and when we take a holistic look at our thoughts, our emotions, our spirits and our physical health, like mind, body, spirit the scripture actually says spirit, soul, body. But when we take this holistic approach at our identity, who we are, the way that God wonderfully made us, fearfully made us, beautifully made us and precious in his sight, instead of this place of honestly, a victim, a victim, I'm a victim to my circumstances. These things have happened. Therefore, I'm this and the enemy's having a heyday with this. I'm just saying not today, satan, nope.

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Anyway, I'm going to give you a little sneak peek inside of our Walkworthy Mentorship Faith Activation Text on a Transformation Thursday Enjoy. Okay, we're going to go over my very favorite, my life verse today, super excited about this Ephesians 3 20. I love to watch you grow in your faith. I love to see you evolve and become stronger and I love to see you getting freed up. I love to see you doing the thing, finding some, some freedom in areas of your life. Some of you it's pursuing different passions, maybe it's pursuing different hobbies, maybe it's jumping into different businesses. Maybe it's taking some risks. I've watched ladies in Walkworthy quit their job because it was bad for their health, it was not helpful for their relationships, and then to watch them take off and go do things. I love seeing the ways that you work creatively for the kingdom of God. I love to see the ways that you guys connect online. That makes my heart so happy and I'm grateful that you're here. I just want to say that Today I want to talk about transformation is always going to start with how you think in your identity and getting our identity and our alignment for our assignment and making sure that we have the right approach to the way that we are looking at the father and the way that we are looking at ourselves, the mystery of God and the mystery of ourself and the mystery of others, and so understanding that as a man thinks, so he is as you think about it, as yourself.

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It's true. If you think that you're an absolute loser, you're a loser Because you haven't done XYZ or you have had so many failures in the past, or because you just can't seem to be and get ahead and you feel like such a loser and that's on repeat in your brain. That's what your brain is going to search for. It will be true. It will be true if you think that you are just a big, fat slob and you're never gonna improve, you're never gonna be anything. That will be true too if you think that you are just not like her. You're just different. She's just different. You'll never be able to like, fully live up to your potential because you're just not like, you're maybe an introvert and you just you'll just never be that. Then you're right. You're true Because, as you think, it will manifest itself in your life.

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So, getting to the root cause of your broken belief systems, I think, is so crucial for you to really get freed up and whatever's holding you back, where you are experiencing fear and guilt and shame. The root cause is something. Cause is something, and for you to identify and start to make connections that, honestly, only you can make. The Holy Spirit will illuminate it for you if you ask him. But when we understand this whole scripture, like we've been talking about this week, that God wants you to know his unbelievable love for you, that's what he wants you to know. He's so in love with you, he's so crazy about you. You are the other tone of his creation. His DNA is in you. It's magnificent. And if that doesn't, is magnificent. And if that doesn't feel like how you feel like, okay, yeah, I hear you but I don't feel that I can promise you.

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There's belief systems that are broke and some stinking thinking and some negativity. Broken theology, because God is such a God of love and the more we understand this we can get activated and really live out our kingdom purpose. Our transformation is a process. It's continual processes. An abundant life is available for you and for you. To get there, you got to make sure you are changing your stinking thinking Like you're not going to be able to access joy and peace and abundance that the father says are yours if you're rehearsing negative, nasty thoughts about yourself.

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Now, I'm not trying to be like harsh with that, but that's just the reality and the more you can understand that reality and get really serious about this and get really serious about strengthening and listen new levels, new Devils. This is something that you are continually doing. You're renewing your mind, your transformation. Romans 12 to says that do not be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So real, quickly, I want to share with you that, that four-part thought renewal process. You can jump in your members portal lots of beautiful information around this, lots of exercises you can do. But this is a process that is like just like you know that exercise is good for your body, you know that eating proper foods and whole foods are are good for your body, we know that reading the scripture is good for our spirit. This is kind of that same thing with that soul level.

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Work is understanding the beautifulness of who you are and how loved you are. And if I'm not feeling that I got some work to do and if I'm feeling these negative thoughts are kind of like rocking and rolling all over my life, I got work to do. Let me go do that work. Let me roll up my sleeves Uh-uh, not today. Satan, you can get a little sassy with that. Come on now. I love a little sassiness. Get a little sassy with that. Honestly, the enemy how dare the enemy take one more moment of your life? You have authority over him, sister, and stand in your authority. Let your faith be strengthened.

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This passage we've been reading this week is so powerful Ephesians 3, 14 through Ephesians 4, 1. And so I hope you've enjoyed this week. I'd love to hear back from you if you have. I know some of these have been a little bit longer this week, and that's okay. Sometimes I just want to illuminate on a passage. I just prayerfully go where the Holy Spirit leads. So these are different each week. And um, oh my gosh, and just wait till we've got what we've got coming up. I'm so excited about that, okay, okay, squirrel, squirrel. Let me get back to the word here. Ephesians three 20.

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Now to him who was able to do exceedingly abundantly. Above all, we ask, think or imagine, according to the power that is at work within us. Girl, girl, girl. Can we just talk about that? I'm eight minutes in, almost. You go ask God, the Father, the Holy Spirit, to like light, a fire under your booty, over the abundance that is yours. It's bigger than you can think. It's bigger than you can imagine. Part of your problem is you've lost vision, you've lost sight, you stopped imagining. You stopped imagining and opening up access for the Father just to speak into you to the magnificence of what he's calling you to do. So let's never, ever, ever, ever let that happen. Okay, part. Process of renewed thinking, of redeemed thinking, of the thought renewal process. Tons of workbooks and paper and teachings in your members portal regarding this. I'm not going to just leave you high and dry right here. If you want to take that next step and do deeper work, go to the members portal.

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Recognize the thought, refute the thought, reframe the thought, repeat the thought, the healthy thought, the good thought, the affirmation of who you actually are. Recognize your stinking thinking, the negative thought. Refute it Like, be honest about it. What's true about this? What's not true about this? The reality is, is that our stinking thinking. There's truth to it and that's why so many of the new age theology it doesn't work.

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Just believe this and it's like, yeah, but the truth is this I have made mistakes, I have made some failures, I have blown it so many times. I have not proven myself in this area yet. But just like we've talked about a lot, our mind filters through and focuses on the things that we haven't done and aren't doing, and our mistakes and our failures, and then the enemy is just mean. He's just mean and hateful and just sucker punches, and so he can keep you stuck right there, but that will not get you to that abundant. You will not be able to access the abundance when you are ruminating or stuck in your negative cycles of thinking.

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But you are the only one that can do that work to unstuck yourself. You really are With the work of the Holy Spirit, but you got to do that work. It's just like, yeah, I need to go exercise, you know it's the right thing to do. But if you're sitting on the on the couch eating a bag of chips, you know watching TV instead of getting up and moving your butt like you know you should be, that's on you Right. Same thing with this. Do the work. On you Right. Same thing with this. Do the work. Honor the struggle. Take the time to prime your brain so you can practice that redeemed thinking.

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Renew your thoughts. We have to renew them daily. That is where the transformation happens, because you can change your life with your thoughts, your actions and your habits, and it always starts with your thoughts. Transformation Thursday let's go walk worthy. That fired me up. If you would like more information on how you could also access and become a part of walk worthy mentorship and have access to messages like that every day to spur you on, to get you in action, go to walkworthythefitsoulcom or you can check the show notes and come join us. We'd love to have you All, right, my friend. Thanks so much for being here. I pray you have an incredible, remarkable, amazing day.