Category Archives: 90 Day Light the World Challenge

sacred spaces - spiral jetty, great salt lake

Sacred Spaces – Day 70: Light the World, Build the Kingdom

My husband, David Kuhns, joins me to talk about how to find sacred spaces in your life and why they are so important.

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day,“What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

God and man

Thoughts on God and Man – Days 67-69 Light the World

Day 67

“Sometimes the hardest thing is to step aside and let God do His work.” – David Kuhns

Day 68

The purposes of God and His divine plans cannot be frustrated. Even when we lose our way, if we turn to Him, He can work all things together for our good. He always keeps His promises.

Day 69

“There is an incredible freedom in letting go of worrying about what other people think… in just being real, raw, vulnerable and being yourself.

Interestingly, in doing that, we become very attractive to others who DO believe and feel the way we do. If we are so busy trying to be someone we are not, we won’t connect with the people who would love us the way we are.

God didn’t create us to be the same. He didn’t create us to think, feel, act or believe the same way. The more we stand up and are willing to be ourselves, the more we give others “permission” to do the same. Then we can really unleash our freedom of expression as a society and celebrate true diversity, not one demanded by political correctness.” (From my soon-to-be-released book, “Restoring Liberty: Reclaiming America”)

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day,“What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

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stop over-analyzing

Stop Over-analyzing – Day 66: Light the World, Build the Kingdom

Those of us who study the laws of attraction and abundance and energy work often come to believe there is a reason behind EVERYTHING that’s happening amiss in our lives. We become convinced that if things aren’t going our way, if angels aren’t running to keep us from stubbing our toes on every rock, that we must be doing something wrong.

The fact is, we’re living in a fallen world. Bad things happen to good people. I think we need to stop over-analyzing everything. You’re doing your best, keep going, have faith that things will work out. God’s got a happy ending in store for you, and every hero by definition must face some opposition to be a hero.

The important thing is to keep trusting in Jesus Christ. Having faith in Jesus Christ is not faith for a specific outcome. All the faith and trust in the world can’t prevent bad things from happening or keep other people from harming you. Things happen and people have their freedom to choose and many times those aren’t good choices. Faith is not a free pass.

Faith in Jesus Christ is trusting that through everything He will stand beside you, lift you, carry you, lighten your load. And that one day after this mortal life all our tears will be wiped away, all the dead will live again, and all our losses will be made up.

(From “Confidence Rising! Trust Your Heart. Be Yourself. Bless Lives,” Marnie Pehrson Kuhns)

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day,“What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

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shoulder taps

Shoulder Taps – Day 65: Light the World, Build the Kingdom

You’ve probably heard me talk about Divine Compensation and how when we lose someone or something, the characteristics we love about them are scattered in the world around us and show up in various ways. When we go into observant gratitude, we see them everywhere.

This video by Bill Hart called Shoulder Taps is a perfect illustration of what it means to follow your heart and light the world AND how doing so helps others receive Divine Compensation for the the people and things that have moved out of their lives.

Listen to those heart whispers (as I call them) or the “shoulder taps” as this man calls them. They’re an opportunity for you to be part of God’s heavenly work in this mortal world.

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day,“What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

Stop taking offense about what other people think and concern yourself more with how you feel about yourself and how God feels about you.

Taking Offense – Day 64: Light the World, Build the Kingdom

In today’s world many become offended. Most of what we hear in the media is about someone being upset about what someone else said or thinks about them. Taking offense has become common place.

There is always going to be someone who doesn’t agree with you, thinks you’re crazy, wrong or foolish for your beliefs or the way you choose to live your life.

At some point we have to realize that all that really matters is what God thinks of us and what we think of ourselves when we look in the mirror. Is the person looking back at you someone you respect? Whom you can trust? Whom you can believe in? Whom you can count on? Most of all is the person looking back at you someone God can trust? Whom God can count on? If so, who else’s opinion matters? When we come to that place of confidence, nothing anyone else can say can harm us. If God be with us, who cares who is against us? Let them say what they will. All is well.

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day,“What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

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You are not alone. Angels are with you.

You Are Not Alone – Day 63: Light the World, Build the Kingdom

A friend shared with me an experience she had while going through chemotherapy. After her treatments she would come home, lie on the couch, unable to do anything but stare at the walls. While she was alone in the room, she felt she was never alone. She felt the clear presence of angels with her. As a result, she never felt afraid. She had a sense that others were there taking care of her.

During my deepest points of loss or crisis, I too never felt alone … when I got still. Whether I was a 17-year-old lying in a ditch after a car wreck waiting for someone to find me, or alone in a hospital after a miscarriage, or after losing my mom and my marriage… I was not alone. I felt the presence of God’s Spirit and more… the presence of angels.

I believe that in our extreme situations, angels are with us. They are probably there all the time, but in those desperate moments the veil between the spirit world and the physical world is paper thin. We feel like if we looked hard enough, we’d see someone sitting in that chair beside us, holding space for our healing, sending us love and light.

The next time you find yourself at the limit of what your body, heart or mind can take… look around and know that you are not alone. Allow yourself to get quiet and feel angels near. Receive what they are offering.

When you truly understand that you are not alone, that God and angels are on your side, you have the confidence – God’s confidence to know that nothing is impossible. (From my soon-to-be-released book, “Confidence Rising! Trust Your Heart. Be Yourself. Bless Lives“)

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day,“What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

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the carpenter of nazareth

The Carpenter of Nazareth – Day 62: Light the World, Build the Kingdom

The Carpenter of Nazareth is a  poem by George Blair. I’d like to share it with you for Day 62 of the Light the World, Build the Kingdom challenge…

In Nazareth, the narrow road,
That tires the feet and steals the breath,
Passes the place where once abode
The Carpenter of Nazareth.

And up and down the dusty way
The village folk would often wend;
And on the bench, beside Him, lay
Their broken things for Him to mend.

The maiden with the doll she broke,
The woman with the broken chair,
The man with broken plough, or yoke,
Said, “Can you mend it, Carpenter?”

And each received the thing he sought,
In yoke, or plough, or chair, or doll;
The broken thing which each had brought
Returned again a perfect whole.

So, up the hill the long years through,
With heavy step and wistful eye,
The burdened souls their way pursue,
Uttering each the plaintive cry:

“O Carpenter of Nazareth,
This heart, that’s broken past repair,
This life, that’s shattered nigh to death,
Oh, can You mend them, Carpenter?”

And by His kind and ready hand,
His own sweet life is woven through
Our broken lives, until they stand
A New Creation–“all things new.”

“The shattered [substance] of [the] heart,
Desire, ambition, hope, and faith,
Mould Thou into the perfect part,
O, Carpenter of Nazareth!”

 

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day,“What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

Prayer works. In time you will learn to listen and recognize answers.

Prayer: Finding Answers to Life’s Tough Questions – Day 61: Light the World, Build the Kingdom

If you need answers to tough questions in life, please pray and ask God for those answers. Prayer works. It is a power we can grow into using more effectively with time as we learn to listen and recognize answers.

  • Answers may come while reading scriptures.
  • They may come as sudden strokes of ideas that feel like truth and/or make you feel joyful or peaceful.
  • Answers might come through a dream or a thought that keeps coming to you in various times and/or ways.
  • Sometimes answers come as what appears to be coincidences.

There are so many ways that answers may come. But the secret is to ask and then expect an answer.

From there keep your heart open and your eyes peeled. Let go of the outcome and trust the answer will come in God’s time and way. Resist the need to control or make things happen the way you think they should. God is there and He answers prayers.

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day,“What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

I'll fly away

I’ll Fly Away – Day 60: Light the World, Build the Kingdom (Year 2)

While in Nicholasville, Kentucky, visiting a friend, we had the opportunity to attend Gospel on the Green. This young woman on the keyboard and vocals singing “I’ll Fly Away” is an amazing musician. Marlana VanHoose (who is blind with cerebral palsy) sang during the inauguration activities of President Trump. She said she told President Trump that the only thing that will make America great again is belief in God and His word.

Come Morning the Darkness Is Gone, Performed by Marlana VanHoose

National Anthem sung by Marlana VanHoose

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day, “What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

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why bad things happen to good people

Why Bad Things Happen to Good People – Day 59: Light the World, Build the Kingdom (Year 2)

Have you ever asked wondered why bad things happen to good people? I’ve spent quite a bit of time pondering that one. I learned something important while writing my very first fiction novel …Character development. Each of us is the hero of our own story and a hero is only as strong as his enemy. Where would Harry Potter be without Voldemort? Where would Dorothy be without the Wicked Witch? Would Colonel Doolittle and his Raiders be the heroes they were without the Japanese?

We only grow through opposition and struggle. I believe we are here to discover the greatness within us and the only chance we have of discovering it is to face the opposition that brings it out. Also, every time we set out to create something bigger and better in our lives, we are attempting to create more order in our world. You can’t take a closet, a home, a life, or a world to a higher level of order without creating some chaos. Chaos is part of the creative cycle.

 

How the Challenge Works

Step 1: Ask God each day, “What is one thing I can do to light the world and build the kingdom today?”

Step 2: ACT upon whatever He leads you to do. Go through the day EXPECTING for opportunities to arise.

Step 3: Document somewhere — in your private journal or on your favorite social media platform.

Step 4: Share! If you share publicly, please use our hash tags: #BuildTheKingdom and #LightTheWorldNow so I can cheer you on! If you’re going to be documenting privately, I recommend sharing your experience with a close friend or accountability partner. There is power in the sharing.

For ongoing support and a place to share, please join our Facebook group.

 

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