1)     Code Orange Revival at Elevation Church

2)     Volunteering on prayer team

3)     Running my 2^nd half marathon in San Diego

4)     Taking care of my mom

5)     Going on a romantic getaway with my hubby

6)     Family beach trip

7)     My daughter’s 12^th Birthday

8)     Leading women’s bible study

9)     Building & investing in my coaching business

10)   40 day juice fast

11)   Joining Proverbs 31 Online Bible Study Team

12)   Having coffee with my girlfriends

Reflecting on these 12 things remind me how very precious time is and how important it is to be selective and intentional with every minute of my day.  Over the past month I’ve read several blogs on New Year’s Resolutions about why you should and shouldn’t set them.  Personally, I say do what works best for you.  I like to set manageable goals throughout the year so I don’t end up putting too much pressure on myself all at once in January.  I’m the type of person that gets overwhelmed very easily so I make sure I do everything I can in baby steps.

I want to share with you my little secret for success when I set a goal.  The key component to achieving success comes down to one word.  Can you guess what it is?  It is an action word.  The word is Surrender!  That’s it, that’s all I need to do in order to achieve my goals.  Every single time I set a goal and start with surrendering myself to God, I’m astonished at the success that comes.  However, the flip side is there are many times I set out for an achievement and forget the “surrender thing” and I can just about guarantee the lack of success.  Now, don’t be fooled about this surrendering to God because it is NOT a one time thing, it’s an all day everyday attitude and way of life.  However, once you’ve mastered this attitude and way of life, you are golden my friend.

Please leave a comment today and let me know what things made your 2012 Greater.  I would love to hear from you!

Honored to serve as a Women’s Christian Life Coach at www.lindakuhar.com

After spending time at the Billy Graham Library I was assured of 2 facts.  First, we will never have a definitive answer to why God does not stop evil in this world.  One answer we have is from 1 Corinthians 13:12, “Now I know in part; then I shall know fully”.  During this lifetime we can only understand just so much and the rest is based on faith.  The other fact I was faced with is that our God is good no matter what evil is thrown our way.  Billy Graham wrote, “But which is better: to decide that God hates us and doesn’t care about us – or to believe that He loves us and wants to help us in our times of grief or fear?”  I choose to believe the latter that God really does love us and he really wants to help us, especially during times of such great sadness from the evil we encounter in this world.

When I find myself questioning God why or how this happened I turn to the bible for answers that will comfort my spirit and confirm that my faith is never wasted.  I am choosing to believe the truth during this horrific devastation that took place in Newtown, Connecticut.  Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

I cannot possibly imagine the heartache these parents and families are feeling this season, but I am praying earnestly for God’s supernatural power to provide peace, comfort and hope every single day.  I continue to pray that everyone will turn to the scriptures for the truth and choose to believe that our God is good and He does love us beyond all that we could ever possibly conceive.

Honored to serve God as a Women’s Christian Life Coach in Charlotte, NC.

After attending the funeral service for a sweet friend of mine last week, it forced me to think about my life from a different mindset.  I started thinking about the outstanding accomplishments I made over the last year, as well as the major mistakes I made too.  I decided to make a list of the 12 Goals I will accomplish in 2013.  I don’t know about you, but if I do not write it down and get it out there I will NEVER achieve my goals.  I’ve learned through Life Coaching that we must be intentional in order to have success!

I challenge you today to take out a piece of paper and write down 12 Goals for 2013 and share it with someone you respect.  This typically insures accountability on your part.  Once you have done this, Congratulations because you have taken the first step, (baby step) in living your life with purpose.

When I made my list, I did it from the perspective as if it where my last year alive.  This frame of mind, forced me to be completely Honest with what I want out of my life.  I hope you will join me today and take that first baby step to intentionally make your life different!

Honored to serve as a Women’s Christian Life Coach from Charlotte, NC at www.lindakuhar.com

How do you know when God is speaking to you?  I frequently get asked this question in my line of work as a Women’s Christian Life Coach.  There are thousands of ways God can speak to us, but I will share just a few ways I hear best from God.

My favorite way to hear from God is through journaling.  I typically spend my morning reading scripture and then writing in my journal.  I write to God and He responds back to me through journaling.  Another way I hear from God is through prayer, but this kind of prayer for me is not easy.  The type of prayer I’m talking about is with my hands and knees on the floor with my face planted in the carpet.  This type of prayer comes with a lot of emotion and usually buckets of tears.  Then there’s another way I really love hearing from God, which is usually through a messenger.  It could be a friend, a speaker or even a song.  It’s something unexplainable, but you just know at that very moment God has spoken directly to you and there’s no denying He wants you to embrace and accept what He just spoke in your life.

I could write pages on all the ways we can hear God speaking to us, but I believe every individual hears from God differently.  There’s no magic formula to “hear the voice of God”.  It takes effort on our part to learn how to look for and listen to God’s voice in our life.  The bottom line is it starts with relationship.  The more time you spend seeking God the easier it will be to hear His voice.  How will you spend your time today listening for God’s voice?  What new ways can God speak to you?

Honored to serve as a Women’s Christian Life Coach at www.lindakuhar.com

I’ve got a confession to make!  I have two sides to my “Christian Life”.  There’s the one side that just completed a 40-day juice fast strictly out of obedience to God’s call to start writing a book about my cancer/coma journey that he miraculously healed me from just three years ago.  Then there’s this other side that is filled with fear, self-doubt and insecurities that “tries” really hard to continue to walk in faith but eventually gets so worn out from trying that I end up living a mediocre so called Christian life.  I fall into complacency and do the same old song and dance day after day.  I wake up and half-heartedly have my quiet time and continue throughout the day to live the “Christian Life”, but really I just would rather lie down, hide my head and forget all the things God has called me to be.

In Pastor Steven Furtick’s new book Greater, he talks about the confessions of his shadow side and what to do when condemnation sets in.  I have to be honest here, it was quit refreshing to read how Pastor Steven deals with the same negative voices that I do.  It gave me a glimpse of hope and encouragement once again to know that I’m really not a phony Christian after all.

On day 40 of my fast, God revealed why he had called me to such a lengthy fast.  In my journal God spoke to me by saying this, “The fast was never about the length of time but about the amount of trust you have in me.”  Pastor Steven says in his book “God doesn’t do greater things exclusively through great people.  He does them through anyone who is willing to trust Him in greater ways.”

Now I know that when I start going down that road of a mediocre life, it is time to evaluate my trust in God.  As a Christian Life Coach, the best way for me to evaluate is to ask myself some questions.  For example, how has God proved himself to me in the past?  Or when has God ever left me to fend for myself?  When I challenge myself with these types of questions, its like scales are removed from eyes and I am able to really trust God again with 100% of my life.  I would like to encourage you today to ask yourself some tuff questions and see how God reveals himself to you!

Honored to serve as a Women’s Christian Life Coach at www.lindakuhar.com

I have some questions for you.  How much power does the Holy Spirit have in your life?  Do you REALLY believe that the God of our universe lives inside you?

I want to share with you from my personal experience on how the Holy Spirit can drastically change your life.  You see just 33 days ago God spoke something totally insane to me while reading the bible.  I heard that small voice say, “40 day juice fast”.  Now I don’t know about you, but for me I LOVE MY FOOD!  The first thing I did was say no way, I cannot do that and I really don’t want to only drink juice for 40 days.  That’s crazy!  I was literally complaining out loud to God and saying No.  Once I stopped whining, He said “If I cannot trust you with this small sacrifice, how can I trust you with more?”  I immediately took a big sigh and didn’t say another word except ok Lord and started my fast the next day.

I’ve never had success when it comes to diets and using my own “will power” to follow an eating plan, so I knew right away that if there was anyway I could successfully do a 40 day juice fast it would only be through God’s strength and not my own.   Acts 1:8 says “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you” and I am proof today that when the Holy Spirit moves in your life you can do ANYTHING!

I’ve learned so much during this fasting period, but honestly I’ve faced some great heartache and attacks along the way.  I realized along this day-to-day journey of my life that the difficult times and trials I face allow me to trust God deeper and to know him more intimately.  I’m learning and developing sustainable character that will impact my life as well as the others around me.  I’m finding that there is great beauty from pain and suffering.  After all, I do serve and worship a God that is the perfect example of this.

I want to challenge you today to take a step of faith and evaluate your life with spiritual eyes and not just your physical eyes.  What is God speaking to you today?  What is He asking you to surrender in order to know Him deeper?  My prayer for all of us today is to boldly walk by faith and not by sight every single day.

I had a dear friend commit suicide last week.  This special lady fought breast cancer with me, while I fought Lymphoma.  I cannot help but question God why we were in each other’s lives fighting so hard to stay alive and now within seconds she took her very own life.  My heart is broken in a million pieces for her and all the loved ones she left behind.  I keep saying to myself over and over if I had only said this or done that maybe she would still be here with us.  God keeps reminding me over and over that I am not in control or responsible for other people’s actions, however I am in control and responsible for my own.

After going through so much with my own personal battle to stay alive, I am amazed at how I have a newer brighter perspective on my life from this tragedy.  God is once again revealing to me how very important it is to live one day at a time and embrace each day as if it were my last.  All of a sudden I have a deeper desire to stay connected and in the present moment with my husband and daughter like never before.  I am determined to share Christ with others and tell them about how he has removed the chains of condemnation from my life.  I don’t want to waste a single second living in past regrets and failures.  I want to love and embrace everyone through the eyes of Christ.

Life is too short for judging or second-guessing who I am and why I am here.  To Honor my friend’s life today I am fully embracing that I am the daughter of the most High King, Jesus Christ and I will not stop sharing the love of Christ with others until the last breath I take on this earth.  Thank you Lord Jesus for taking our deepest heartaches and turning them into hope and a future in your ever-lasting arms.  My prayer today is for ALL people who are struggling with despair and wanting to end their lives.  May God rescue them today.

Three years ago I just woke up from my coma and I’ll never forget laying in my hospital bed literally strapped down, with a feeding tube, trachea and multiple IVs pumping all through me.  It was Halloween and the nurses were all dressed up in their Halloween scrubs.  My family wasn’t allowed to stay over night in my room so I was alone and afraid.  The TV was left on and black and white Halloween movies played all night long.  I was totally freaked out and panicked because I had no voice to yell for anyone and since my hands were tied down I could not reach the call button.  Talk about a real life horror story!!!  That is one situation I would not want my worst enemy to experience!

This morning I was reading how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and I couldn’t help but think how much this story echo’s my life.  In John 11:4 Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death.  No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified.”

To be real with you, I spent the majority of the last three years questioning God why I had to go through cancer, being on life-support and a coma for 3 & ½ weeks.  People would say to me all the time, “Linda, you have a story to share with the world” and I would kindly nod my head and agree with them.  Really deep down on the inside of me I would say, who am I to tell the world about this miracle and who really cares that God performed a miracle in my life anyway?  But not too long ago God opened my eyes to His perspective.  I realized I HAVE to tell my story because it represents who JESUS is and what He can do in anyone’s life.  It was such a relief to know that sharing my story is not about me, Linda Kuhar, but ONLY about pointing to my creator and the Savior of my soul.

I would like to ask you today to take a step back from your “life story” and view it from a new perspective, maybe even through Christ’s perspective.  How does that change the way you see your life?  What can you do different with your life to glorify God with your story?

Have you ever had a time in your life when you say to yourself, this is too good to be true and then you psych yourself into believing something bad is bound to happen?  Well, lately I’ve been experiencing these thoughts frequently.  Once I convince myself that something bad is going to happen, I’ve noticed I stay in a state of fear, anxiety or disbelief.

First of all, scripture tells us point-blank we WILL have trouble in our life, shoot Psalm 23:4 says, even though I walk through the valley of death…Bottom line, scripture is telling us we will have problems and bad things will happen in our life.  However, Psalm 23:6 says surely goodness and love will follow me all of the days of my life! So you know what I’ve decided to do?  I am embracing the truth and the facts that I will have difficult times in my life but, I will also have Goodness and Love that will follow me through any storm in my life.  Why continue to waste any more mentally draining energy on wondering if something is “too good to be true” anymore?  Instead I am going to believe the word of God and fight the enemy with the truth.  So the next time you have that thought pop in your mind, this is too good to be true, I would like to challenge you to read Psalm 23 and ask yourself this question, “Is this thought from God or from the enemy?”  Today I will be praying for all my readers to believe Psalm 23:6, that goodness and love will follow you all the days of your life!

I would like to challenge you today with the word of God.  Grab a pen and paper and copy the following scripture.

God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.  No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful.  Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12:10 & 11

After reading and writing this scripture, I want to ask you a few questions.

1)  What area of your life do you need to truly surrender to God?

2)  How bad to you want freedom from this in your life?

3)  Are you willing to sacrifice this to experience God’s holiness in your life?

I’m currently offering sacrifice to God and what I have discovered during this time is that the presence of God brings me greater satisfaction than any other pleasure in life.  I’m praying that all my readers today will listen to that nudge from the Holy Spirit and follow God’s discipline for this season in their life so they will experience the fullness that only Christ can bring in our lives.

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