FAF Take Care Of Others By Taking Care Of Yourself 4-23-23

The speaker discusses the opportunity to rebuild the earth and emphasizes the importance of taking action. They encourage listeners to serve others and be advocates, just as Jesus served as a mediator between God and man. The speaker also emphasizes the power of affirmations and declarations in one's life. They urge listeners to prioritize self-care and love themselves in order to better serve others. The speaker concludes by inviting listeners to join webinars at ChristianWomenImpact.com. Welcome to Faith Alive in 5, the 5-minute gospel. Now here's your host, Dr. Faye. There's an opportunity right now for every one of us to rebuild this earth. The earth is experiencing a rebirth and God has graced us with the capacity to speak our world into existence, to change what we don't like about it. Now, silence is consent. As an advocate, I speak to many people on a regular basis and people who don't want to own what they know are in denial, like the ostrich with his head in the sand said, oh maybe somebody else, it's somebody else's problem and we'll let them handle it. But I believe, like Mike Murdoch said years ago, if you have observed an issue, you see a problem, then that's the thing that God has called you to solve. And if you're not solving it, then you're not serving him. And let me say that again for the people in the back. If you are not solving the problem, you are not serving him. How can we see the naked man and not clothe him? How can we see the baby cry and not feed? How can we see a person in need and walk by and say we're going to church and we're serving the Lord? We are all called to serve in some way and we begin with getting our own lives in alignment because love begins at home and spreads abroad. So first be true to ourselves, then we cannot be false to anyone else. To be true to yourself means that you don't mind opening your heart up and opening your mouth up and declaring decrees that God has declared over your life. Once you learn this operative to declare decrees over your own life, you will start declaring decrees over others, over your children, over your city, over your community. Every one of us will rise up and be advocates because another term for advocate is a mediator. It is someone who goes instead, who stands in the place of those who don't have a voice for themselves, those who cannot walk for themselves, those who cannot think for themselves. They become advocates. They become mediators. Who is the master advocate? John talked about we have an advocate with the Father, even Jesus Christ, the righteous. He's the mediator between God and man. We've all been called to serve from this place of advocacy. We've all been called to serve in our nursing homes, whether they're in prison or in our wherever there is, wherever there's a need. Jesus said, I was hungry, you didn't feed me. I was naked, you didn't clothe me. When did we see you like this, Lord? The least you've done unto these, you've also done unto me. As lead person on family council, I have the challenge every day of my life to look into matters that family members and friends call because they're concerned about their loved ones. I don't mind taking the heat and being the target because Jesus didn't mind doing it. He didn't mind laying down his life so that others might live. He didn't mind becoming a sacrifice and if we're going to follow him, we're going to have to become servants of all. We begin to be servants. When you start understanding the power of affirmations and declarations over your life, that it doesn't stay just with you. It comes from you and it emanates out to others around you, but it must begin with you. That's why I've spoken to you over the last two or three weeks about affirmation, confirmation, J-Bez's prayer, life and death, and the power of the tongue so that to get your mind in a place that you can start working from that place of authenticity, transparency, integrity, those things that will bring honor to God and honor to humanity because God wants to use you highly in this earth, in the rebirth of this earth, in the rebirthing of this earth as we're experiencing right now in this post-pandemic rebirth. You are fearfully and wonderfully made and it's time for you to rise up. We don't want you depressed or oppressed anymore. We want you to rise up and take your rightful place in the kingdom of God and the way that you do that, you must begin to declare the decrees over your own life. Love yourself. Put the oxygen over your own mouth first, over your face first, and then you can put it over the ones that you're taking care of in the flight. Amen? It's time for us to rise and be servants of all through taking care of ourselves. I know five minutes is up, but I got to tell you I love you, appreciate you. Join me for Christian Women Impact's The Lettuce Free Webinars at ChristianWomenImpact.com. I'm Dr. Faye, your pastor coach. Love you. Talk to you soon. Bye-bye now. Thank you for tuning in to today's broadcast. Dr. Faye would love hearing from you. Contact her today at 870-860-9758 or email coach at drfaye.com. And remember, the calling is a gift, but the choice is yours.