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Refresh To Be Refreshed · WholeHeart Conversations

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  Constance Lavonice: Ever felt the need for a recharge spiritually, mentally, or emotionally?
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  Constance Lavonice: What comes to your mind when you think of recharging?
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  Constance Lavonice: Is it sleep, rest, relaxation, doing something totally different from what you've been doing?
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  Constance Lavonice: Something fun?
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  Constance Lavonice: Exciting?
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  Constance Lavonice: Well, the Bible offers a unique way of refreshing and revitalizing ourselves, and is found in Proverbs 11, verse 25.
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  Constance Lavonice: You're listening to Whole Heart Conversations, a podcast for women that provides biblical encouragement to foster whole heart, spirit, soul, and body resilience.
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  Constance Lavonice: I'm your host, Constance Lavonice.
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  Constance Lavonice: According to Proverbs 1125, those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
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  Constance Lavonice: Let's break that down.
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  Constance Lavonice: The New International Version states it this way a generous person will prosper.
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  Constance Lavonice: Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
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  Constance Lavonice: Refresh others, refresh ourselves.
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  Constance Lavonice: When we help others, we help ourselves.
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  Constance Lavonice: This is a spiritual law, the law of sowing and reaping.
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  Constance Lavonice: We reap what we sow later than we sow and more than we sow.
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  Constance Lavonice: And because God has been generous to us through Jesus' sacrificial death, His grace, and His mercy, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, we can be generous to others.
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  Constance Lavonice: Galatians 6 9 exhorts, let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we don't give up.
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  Constance Lavonice: We always reap what we sow in some form or another.
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  Constance Lavonice: The second consideration for refreshing others is that helping others or acts of service has been shown to boost our own mental health.
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  Constance Lavonice: It provides a sense of purpose and meaning.
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  Constance Lavonice: It brings out the gifts and fruit of the spirit God has given us and provides an opportunity for us to express those gifts and the fruit of the Spirit, such as love and joy to others.
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  Constance Lavonice: And it's also exciting that helping others releases feel-good hormones and neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin, which boost our mood and provides us with a sense of well-being.
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  Constance Lavonice: Thirdly, it pleases God.
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  Constance Lavonice: It draws the presence of God.
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  Constance Lavonice: When our ways please God, He's going to show up and in the process meet us at our point of need.
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  Constance Lavonice: So now let's talk about some practical ways to refresh others.
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  Constance Lavonice: The first is to call or text someone, encourage someone by writing a note, a card, or a letter.
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  Constance Lavonice: And I know that this sounds old-fashioned, but my granddaughter loves to receive a handwritten card.
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  Constance Lavonice: So try it.
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  Constance Lavonice: You may be surprised at how someone will receive an old-fashioned handwritten note.
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  Constance Lavonice: Additionally, we can perform a specific deed or a kind act, such as cooking if you know how to cook well, or you can bake a dessert if you know how to bake well.
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  Constance Lavonice: You can offer a ride to someone who may not have a car.
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  Constance Lavonice: We can pray for others and pray with others, or we can just acknowledge, affirm, and speak a kind word to someone else.
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  Constance Lavonice: Give a sincere compliment.
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  Constance Lavonice: Call someone by their name.
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  Constance Lavonice: Learn their name if you don't know it.
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  Constance Lavonice: Have a conversation.
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  Constance Lavonice: Listen without interrupting.
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  Constance Lavonice: There's so many ways that we can encourage or refresh someone.
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  Constance Lavonice: So this week I want you to think of someone you can encourage or provide an act of kindness to and make it your intention to follow through.
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  Constance Lavonice: Because when you refresh others, you will be refreshed.
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  Constance Lavonice: And a generous person will prosper in God's kingdom.
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  Constance Lavonice: So I want to thank you for listening.
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  Constance Lavonice: Please subscribe, share, and text the show and let me know what's on your heart.