My biggest lesson from 2022

by Team Soar Girls | Jan 23, 2023 | Christian Walk, Leadership

Like most of you, every year I purchase a beautiful dairy and use the first page to set goals for myself. As I enter 2023, I like to go back to the 2022 dairy, spending time, reflecting on the previous year, and preparing my heart and mind for the next. As I contemplate, the most important lesson I learnt which I believe should be the foundation for our lives is: God wants us to not only survive, but thrive under him.

Those who trust in their riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf. (Proverbs 11:28)

So yes, celebrate Jesus… for you thrived in 2022

Here are a few lessons that built and strengthened me in 2022:

In the year 2022, I released God was focused on fixing my heart. I remember in the month of March, I started to see the enemies plan unfold in my life; but God had already given me a word in January to prepare me.“Guard your heart, be faithful Sheryl”

I learnt to guard my heart by guarding my eyes, mouth and ears. Holy Spirit reminded me to be intentional of what I spoke, saw or heard. Here are 3 keys to guard your heart:

1) Guard your eyes:

Keep away from watching anything that will erupt an emotion that you are struggling with. I had watched myself and identified that romantic and thriller movies had the tendency to go deep in my heart and spring up emotions that I could not handle. Romantic movies would made me expect a similar married life like in the movies, and when that did not happen, I would get disappointed. And thriller movies would make me imagine unseen things in the dark… you know what I mean.

So I quickly cut off from them… If I felt like watching a movie I would watch good Biblical movies.

2) Guard your ears:

I have always been influenced with music, I believe many of us are because God has put worship and music in our hearts. So I made it a point to listen to uplifting worship music or listen to amazing Christian podcasts and books that are available for free.

3) Guard your mouth:

I learnt from my spiritual parents “If you have nothing good to say, don’t say anything”. I reminded my self often, I don’t have to share my opinion about everything and that I will only speak to uplift. My colleague recently introduced me to a GenZ lingo “FOMO” (fear of missing out); that is when the Holy Spirit spoke to me that ‘FOMO” is the biggest battle we all face.

Hey, it’s ok if you miss out on the joke or the latest topic in your office; but don’t miss out on the voice of God.

As I was intentional in guarding my heart, God was rewarding me with His presence by speaking to me through the Bible or a song and many times through the man and woman of God placed over me.Believe me, as the year has ended, I can look back and say, “I have been guarded from making many mistakes”. God has been my refuge and my I have been protected under is almighty wings.

He will never leave you nor forsake you

Girls, as a person I am very private, I don’t share anything about my personal life. However, today here I am peeling that layer of me to glorify the work of God in my life. When I would meet women that did not fall into relationships or habits in there teenage years, in my heart, I always blamed God for not protecting me from falling in wrong relationships or habits.

I would cry out to God so many times, “Why did you forsake me when I was in my teens, why did you never protect me”. I had to go through so many heart breaks and get over over so many addictions when I received Christ, my walk with Him was very different from the other Christian good girls in the church.

Truly truly , I tell you Our God never leaves us, I am a living proof. Even when I made the wrong choices He was with me. He watched over me and at the appointed time sent people in my life to reveal His never-ending love for me. Deuteronomy 31:8 T_he LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you._

Now by Guarding my heart, I continue to stay under the protection that God offers and not just survive but thrive daily.

Girls, so what was your biggest lesson from 2022?

XOXO
Sheryl Gadre

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Girls, 5 Quick Tips To Guard Yourself On Social Media

by PH International | Sep 13, 2020 | Christian Walk

September 13, 2020

Girls, 5 Quick Tips To Guard Yourself On Social Media

What you hide, has power over your life. (22)

By Kim D’souza

Online is the new game and social media has changed the way we do relationships. But as much social media has its benefits, if we allow it to master our hearts, it can cause a lot of damage.
Here are five quick tips, especially for single girls on how they can guard their hearts when it comes to social media:

1. You are who God says you are
The desire to be liked, appreciated and get social validation is normal. However, avoid getting preoccupied with social media so much so that it starts defining your self-worth. People post their best lives on social media and it’s so easy to start comparing and feeling stressed that you are not as cool, smart or popular as they are. But the virtual world is not always real, and the number of likes or follows don’t define you, you are who God says you are – chosen, loved, accepted and brought for a price that is worth His son Jesus.

Know your identity in Christ

2. Be intentional in the way you carry yourself online
The way you project yourself online is the way you allow others to perceive you. Some girls’ social media feeds are flooded with pictures of themselves in thousands of poses. Come on, that’s somebody craving for attention and acceptance. And the people who want to take advantage of that can smell it! Know that your acceptance comes from God, and be rooted in His love (Romans 8:38).

3. Keep it clean baby
Keep your social media accounts ‘clean’ and let there be no room for immorality. As a child of God, strive to uphold His honour. Post content that edifies and encourages people, and points them to Jesus. Also, if you are going to be posting a lot of personal snaps, it makes sense to keep your social media accounts private or accessible to only those you know.

4. Why accept all friend requests?
Hey, you don’t have to be present on every social media platform, follow every Tom Dick and Harry or accept every friend request you get. The numbers shouldn’t matter to you, rather the quality of content you allow your heart to access to (am talking about personal account).
When I follow someone, it also means I give that person access to speak into my life through his/her posts that will now start appearing on my wall. So if my wall is going to be flooded with un-useful or unhealthy information, I choose would rather not accept your friend request! (#dontfeelbad).
In fact from time to time, it is a good practice to unfollow people in your friend list, and instead follow people who inspire you, who you can learn from, who make you run after Jesus.
Another thing – discipline yourself from following or monitoring accounts of your past relationships. Go ahead and unfriend, unfollow or block them, however rude it may seem – lest you open door for your past hurts and dead soul ties to rise again.

5. Cut off
Lastly develop self-control. From time to time cut off from social media completely lest you allow it to become an addiction. Instead make time to build real relationships.

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