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LYH113: An Unfair Faith – How Renewed Minds Transform Relationships

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  • Featured Presentation: An Unfair Faith Faith – How Renewed Minds Transform Relationships
  • Transformational Resources:
    • Key Scripture: 2 Peter 1:3-10
  • In this episode, I discuss the following important topics:
    • How and why to choose transformation over conformity to culture
    • Why safety is an illusion and how to escape it
    • What to do when your life is under stress
    • Why your faith is not enough to lead you to your purpose
    • Why your faith walk demands a growth-mindset
    • How to believe God for more in your life
    • and, much much more.

Faith in Focus: “Operation Transformation”

(Romans 12:2)
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” – Romans 12:2
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LYH112: How to Replace Scarcity with an Abundance Mindset

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  • Faith in Focus: “Where are Your I’s”
  • Featured Presentation: How to Replace Scarcity With an Abundance Mindset with Special Guest, Kingsley Grant
How to Contact Kingsley Grant:
  • Website: KingsleyGrant.com
  • Twitter: @kingsleygrant

Helpful Resources:

Faith in Focus: Where are your I’s? (Psalms 121:1-8)

“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?” (ESV)

 

Featured Presentation: How to Replace Scarcity With an Abundance Mindset

Special Guest: Kingsley Grant

In this episode, I discuss the following important topics and much more with my special guest:
  • Where your Scarcity mindset comes from
  • Why people of faith people struggle with embracing an Abundance mindset
  • Why Abundance is about building great relationships
  • Why Abundance requires you to push beyond the status quo
  • Why Abundance demands that you think differently about money
  • Why midlife is the best time to embrace Abundance
  • and, much much more.

Practical Tip: Write down the areas in your life where you struggle with a scarcity mindset. What do you take away from this lesson to replace it with an abundance mindset?

If you have any questions, just leave it in the comments for this episode or leave a voicemail on my website

Feel free to leave me a voicemail message with any questions or concerns by going to HaroldArnold.com and clicking “Send Voicemail” on the right side of the screen.

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LYH111: The Goal-setting Habits of Thriving Couples

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  • Faith in Focus: “The Highest Prize”
  • Featured Presentation: The Goal-setting Habits of Thriving Couples with Special Guests, James and Cynthia Greene of Marriage Built 2 Last

Faith in Focus: The Highest Prize (Philippians 3:13-14)

“Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (ESV)

 

Featured Presentation: The Goal Setting Habits of Thriving Couples

Special Guest: James and Cynthia Greene, Marriage Built2Last

What Exactly is Goal Setting?
 
According to Mindtools.com, “Goal setting is an important method of deciding what you want to achieve in your life. Separating what’s important from what’s irrelevant, or a distraction. Motivating yourself, Building your self-confidence, based on successful achievement of goals.”
In this episode, I discuss the following important topics and much more with my special guests:
  • Why goal-setting is important for couples
  • The pitfalls of not goal setting as a couple
  • The five life areas to focus goal setting: Education, Financial, Health, Family/Personal, and Spiritual
  • How goal setting enhances marital intimacy
  • What to do when your spouse doesn’t want to work with you in setting goals
  • Why you should include your children in your goal setting activities
  • and, much much more.

Practical Tip: Write down as a couple your answer to… “Where do we expect to be in five years as a couple?”

If you have any questions, just leave it in the comments for this episode or leave a voicemail on my website

Feel free to leave me a voicemail message with any questions or concerns by going to HaroldArnold.com and clicking “Send Voicemail” on the right side of the screen.

Will you leave me a rating/review of the show on iTunes?

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LYH110: The Prayer HABIT: Perfecting Prayers for a Thriving Marriage

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  • Featured Presentation: The Prayer HABIT: Perfecting Prayers for a Thriving Marriage
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Faith in Focus: “Be Perfect”

(Matthew 5:48)

“You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Do not be intimated by the word, “Perfect”. It is best to translate it as “mature” or “complete”. The message God gives us is to “be made whole”. That is the fundamental pursuit of a marriage that thrives.

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LYH109: Eight Commitments to a Marriage Back Guarantee

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  • Featured Presentation: Eight Commitments to a Marriage Back Guarantee
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Faith in Focus: “Trust Your Strength”

(Judges 6:14-16)

“The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.”

 

Featured Presentation: Eight Commitments to a Marriage Back Guarantee

In the book of 2 Peter chapter 1, the Apostle Peter gives the recipe for an unfailing relationship with God, your spouse, and others. In a culture where marriages are falling apart all around us, you are just eight commitments away from from having a marriage that will never fall.

Here are the eight commitments that guarantee that your marriage will never fall.

8 Commitments to a Marriage Back Guarantee

Commitment #1: I will Pursue an Active Faith

Commitment #2: I will Invest in Virtue

  • I will invest my full energy to demonstrate godly virtue and remain aligned as a couple, even when our differences and circumstances challenge the character of our marriage.

Commitment #3: I will Empower Knowledge

  • I commit to the pursuit of godly knowledge as to how to best accept, agree and affirm God’s full purpose for us as individuals and as a couple.

Commitment #4: I will Negotiate Self-control

  • I commit to a level of trust in God such that my life demonstrates an attitude of contentment with His provision for our marriage.

Commitment #5: I will Commit to Persevere

  • I commit the best part of me to keeping our marriage moving toward God and, as a redemptive spouse, modeling Christ who covers all our needs.

Commitment #6: I will Embrace a Godly Lifestyle

  • I commit to a lifestyle in which I expect our difficulties to shape our marriage into a vessel of honor and an altar of worship to God.

Commitment #7: I will Serve with Mutual Affection

  • I commit to be my spouse’s best friend who prioritizes his/her needs, advocates for his/her godly desires and challenges you to experience the best God has to offer.

Commitment #8: I will Imitate Unfailing Love

  • I commit to walk by your side for a lifetime with an unfailing love that worships God and channels the light of Christ into life’s dark places.

After laying out this beautiful and powerful commitment cascade, scripture tells us that those who do these eight commitments in “increasing measure” will never fall. That phrase “increasing measure” is critical. You can’t stay in a comfort zone. You have to keep pushing your investment in these commitments. To not do so is to be distant from God, the Father.

I want you to have a marriage that never falls. Your children need that. Your family needs that. Our world needs that.

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