Each Monday on the Pure Purpose blog, I feature This Week’s 7, a simple list about an everyday topic, giving you ideas and encouragement. Now that we’re a couple weeks into the new year, you might be experiencing some frustration as you don’t measure up to every goal you set. Today is intended to provide you a jolt of encouragement! Write the following on sticky notes and place them where you’ll find them regularly and be faced with challenging encouragement to replace discouragement.

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” Henry Ward Beecher

“I choose patience… I will overlook the inconveniences of the world. Instead of cursing the one who takes my place, I’ll invite him to do so. Rather than complaining that the wait is too long, I will thank God for a moment to pray. Instead of clinching my fist at new assignments, I will face them with joy and courage.” Max Lucado

“When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.” Anonymous

“He has right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him, the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.” Henry Blackaby

“The true follower of Christ will not ask, ‘If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?’ Rather he will say, ‘This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!'” A.W. Tozer

“Here lies the tremendous mystery – that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honoured in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles : Fill the waterpots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.” Elisabeth Elliot

“I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?” – C.S. Lewis