Walk with God and Lay Aside Every Weight: "Wherefore Seeing We Also Are Compassed About with so Great a Cloud of Witnesses, Let Us Lay Aside Every Weight, and the Sin Which Doth so Easily Beset Us, and Let Us Run with Patience the Race That Is Set Before Us" Hebrews 12:1 Kjv

By Christina Stafford Mims

During seasons of waiting, this devotional book was birth, while parting ways with the old and embracing the new. The devotional displays how God purged, protected, and guided what was within through fasting, praying, and surrendering to Him fully. It offers daily practical and biblical devotions for women that include teaching and encouragement for our everyday lives. Throughout this devotional book, you can renew your mind and deepen your relationship with Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. By knowing that God wants us to be in tune with His word and intentional with His purpose.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664281707

Christina Stafford Mims

Christina Stafford-Mims was born and raised in Ringgold, Louisiana. Christina is a wife and mother of two sons. She is the owner of Red Plug, LLC and Red Plug Hemp Farms, LLC. Christina graduated from Grambling State University with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a minor in Health Education and Coaching and with a Master of Science in Developmental Education in Guidance and Counseling. After graduating high school six months pregnant Christina developed a passion to help others like her to rise above shame, guilt, fear, and mental health issues. She has worked in mental health counseling for over ten years. When God gave her a vision, she stepped out on faith leaving the corporate setting to follow Him completely and started her own business. Christina’s passion is to help people who are called by God to rise higher and walk into His purpose, His plans, and His ways by being in tune with purpose, wholeness, and balance.

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ISBN: 978-1-6642-8171-4 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022919720

WestBow Press rev. date: 12/07/2022

Contents

Introduction

1 Forgive and Forget

2 Choose Your Thoughts and Words

3 Dealing With Uninvited Change

4 Glance At Your Hearts Management

5 Divine Power

6 Keep Quiet

7 Discernment or Suspicious

8 Release Prideful Ways

9 Sit Down, Be Humble

10 My Edges Were Defining My Identity

11 Stop Trying to Figure Everything Out

12 Called You by Name

13 God’s Way to Wholeness

14 Willing and Obedient

15 His Requirements

16 Every day is God’s Day

17 Keep Silent and Remain Calm

18 Clean It Out and Let God Work

19 Trust In Him

20 We Need Him In Everything

21 Hiding In You

22 Check Your Ways

23 God Heals Emotional Wounds

24 Outgrow The Need for Validation

25 But … Battling-Unworthy-Thoughts

26 Trusting God

27 Release the Excuses

28 Don’t Be Rebellious!

29 Hush and Delight in God, Not Pride!

30 God Is Among You

31 Give Resentment and Bitterness No Opportunity

32 Fight Depression!

33 What the Lord Hates, the Holy Spirit Grieves

Introduction

Trust God by saying yes, and be willing to walk with Him. At a point in my life, I asked for wholeness; I was tired of feeling unhappy and unsettled in my soul that I did not know who I was. I was lost internally and externally. When going through menopause, my weight and hormones would fluctuate, causing my desire to counsel others to leave. I no longer wanted the life I thought I wanted, so I surrendered to God. I remember feeling disgusted with myself, my body, my hair, my money, my job, and most of all, I did not like myself. I had to get honest with myself and get real with God. I would sometimes wake up, say a quick prayer, and start my day.

I would get phone calls in the morning to discuss yesterday’s problems and get to work feeling drained before I started. I would go to work with an I got to survive mentality and do only enough to keep my job. I would tell myself that I did an excellent job, knowing I did not give my all-God-given ability to do so. I knew this was not what God called me to do every day; to have this feeling every day, it was time for a change. God had to show me that everything I did was not bringing Him glory.

At an early age, I knew Jesus died for me in my heart. I learned to go to church on Sundays, and Wednesday was for bible study, but I did not know how to have a personal relationship with