Awaken Faith LIFT Publications
Awaken Faith LIFT is a Women’s Small-Group Workbook Study Series. Its purpose is to equip and encourage faith connections that enhance spiritual growth in Christ. We must be aware of how our faith actions interact with the people around us, the things we learn, the things we do, and the places we go. More importantly, we must allow the Holy Spirit to guide the path of our spiritual awareness, redefining our self-worth from the inside out (according to God’s view and not the world’s view).
There is a dialogue between us and God that happens because of our faith. The Cross is the only One-and-done part about Christianity. It is our faith that must be refreshed and awakened to new levels in Christ all the time. We are better together – find a group, join a group or create a group – keep your faith walking!
Plant the seeds. Water the seeds. Watch God grow His seeds of purpose!
Creating, Enhancing or Expanding a Women’s Group
Christian Women Ministries basically share the same mission: to provide opportunities, equipping, and encouragement for the women of their church to grow toward maturity in Christ through worship, study, service, fellowship, discipleship, and evangelism. They exist to provide space for women to connect with God and with one another, growing in knowledge and relationships so that Jesus Christ holds the greatest influence over their lives.
It is my hope that your place of worship will incorporate Awaken Faith LIFT workbooks, as part of your Women’s Group development. The entire series (all six workbooks) are available in one book. Or, you can select individual titles to align with related materials your group is focused on already. Best wishes for a Spirit-filled experience.
Peace & Blessings,
Gayle Smith
Our approach to life through the Holy Spirit yields God’s greatness. The Holy Spirit: has life, has a will, is omniscient (all-knowing), is eternal (endless), and is omnipresent (ever present). From Him we get the boldness, ability, and self-discipline to follow God’s will, and purpose to live by.
Our bodies are a blessing from God, containers for God’s glory, well suited to perform (walk in) the purpose He has placed on the inside of us. As daughters of our Father, God, we must be good stewards of our body. They are powerful, well oiled, and focus-driven – when we put them in the hands of our Savior, guided by the Holy Spirit.
Our minds are powerful, which explains why God designed us to function from the Spirit realm, to achieve balance! As Christians, we must continually process the Spirit’s direction with the aim of it showing up in our minds. It is the grace of God that enables us to run the race of life without the defeat of weights and entanglements.
Everything we know about God is based on His Heart! God demonstrates his own love for us through Christ Jesus. God never has to make up His mind about us, He is never surprised at what we do, think, or say, and he will never leave or forsake us in who we are. We were created to communicate and commune with Him Heart to heart.
Change is a transition, a spiritual crisis – with wisdom and grace, one of the most significant growth points of our lives. Our faith should mirror God’s presence, to have knowledge of the differences between us and the character of our world, and to help us respond to our circumstances without turbulent reactions. This requires courage. Saying yes to our lives and saying no to that which is not us. It requires a profound level of honesty – we stop living with illusions about who we are or wish we were – and accept the life that has been given to us.
The Cross brings the love of God into our hearts and minds! That love makes us brave and strong as we encounter struggle in this life, because He has overcome the world. The joy of Jesus conquers with peace, so that peace becomes our song. The light that we get from the Cross is amazing grace – as the Holy Spirit (our friend and comforter) moves on in, we are forever changed. Let us embrace Him, choose a greater reliance on the Spirit’s guidance, and walk tall in our faith.
Our Father, God, takes the time to know each of us intimately, with a plan for our future and purpose for our today. God already knows and understands everything that we go through. He holds a “light” for us to penetrate whatever we must, to see freely. Our thoughts become words and those words become actions. This workbook series explores spirit-led actions of the body, mind and emotions, and the spirit. It inspires us to investigate our “inner me” through scriptures, affirmations, prayers, coaching based questions and journaling. Let us make the Holy Spirit our guide.
Faith Forward Publications
The Faith Forward resources were written from my bittersweet-turned-better experience. The non-traditional tools highlight radical body, mind, and spirit connections through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Faith Forward’s techniques challenge you, the reader to examine your beliefs, to use faith to identify your actions and refocus your life. Faith Forward is an investment for life.
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FAITH FORWARD: Wellness Tools for Creating Change
FAITH FORWARD: The Workbook
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Faith Forward Planner: Tools to Create Possibilities While Living Life’s Uncertainties
This enables the user to take time management to the next level. Armed with purposeful goals and objectives and mindful time strategies, blueprints for intentional life plans can be realized. An excellent companion for the workbook or used alone. It is a planning process for personal or professional growth.
FAITH FORWARD: The Workbook Professional Guide
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Being a “change agent” in today’s society comes with underlying competition that didn’t exist two decades ago. There is a race for more, quicker, better, and instant microwave-type manifestations of success for family, business, pleasure, relationships, and wealth. Unfortunately, many people are falling short in this quest.
The situation exposes a great possibility for “change agents” to facilitate personal and client processes that produce deeper personal insight, peace, and functionality through life’s varied encounters of good and not-so-good.
The Walk of Faith: Triumph in Troubled Times
“The Greatest weapon we have against the works of the enemy are the fruits of the spirit: love, peace, joy, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, quietness and self-control. Sometimes the walk may be compared to wearing heavy boots slugging through deep mud puddles. Sometimes the walk may be compared to wearing high heels gliding over solid ground. Using our faith is the pathway for God to be activated in the walk of our lives. Wear the heals, Faith Forward.”
Illusions Against Faith: God Knows What Needs Fixing
Faith Forward is an inspiring book for those seeking to reclaim their position as a Child of God. It brightens the path for us to connect with our Heavenly Father. The words literally jump off the page and the Author’s experiences remind us that we are not alone in this life. But mostly she was willing to find your way and understand her life as God planned it for her. What determination! – K.F.
Awards
Recipient of the NAACP-NYCHA Branch’s, Just Read Literary Award 2016, For authors who change the game through writing. ~ July 7, 2016
God has arranged to make my blood, sweat and tears reflected in this book a gift! Not just a gift/tool for Black women, but for White, Brown, and Yellow…alike to find security in their true identity.
