30 Days to Your Best Life

By Ann-Marie Graham

30 Days to your Best Life is more than a fly by night solution to all your problems; it's a step-by-step guide to living the life you were meant to live in God's eyes.

 

Written in an easy-to-follow format by Ann-Marie Graham, an enigmatic minister and dynamic motivational speaker, this devotional journal walks you through three stages dubbed the Three E's:

• Expectation of faith
• Expression of faith
• Exploits of faith

Each stage is an important building block for your faith. With each passing day, you will find your life's purpose, learn to embrace God's love, and exponentially grow your faith.

 

Take this 30-day journey. It just might be the most influential days of your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: UpFromTheDust
• Release date: Apr 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393619345

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30 DAYS

TO YOUR BEST LIFE

A Devotional Guide to Greater Faith

Written By

ANN-MARIE GRAHAM

Copyright © 2018 All rights reserved.

ISBN-13: 9781791772574

Published By: UP FROM THE DUST TO A LIFE OF PURPOSE

All right reserved no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted any form or by any means, electronics or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information, storage and retrieval system without prior permission from the copyright Owner except for the use of brief quotations.

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan. com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America

To Pastor Larson Mutembu for always being my rock and support system in times of trouble and the countless others who have supported me on my journey over the past four years.

Table Of Contents

Introduction

Stage 1: Expectation of Faith

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

Day Five

Day Six

A message from Ann-Marie

Day Seven

Day Eight

Day Nine

Day Ten

Stage 2: Expression of Faith

Day Eleven

Day Twelve

Day Thirteen

Day Fourteen

Day Fifteen

Day Sixteen

Day Seventeen

Day Eighteen

Day Nineteen

Day Twenty

Day Twenty One

A message from Ann-Marie

Day Twenty Two

Day Twenty Three

Day Twenty Four

A message from Ann-Marie

Stage 3: Exploits of Faith

Day Twenty Five

Day Twenty Six

Day Twenty Seven

Day Twenty Eight

Day Twenty Nine

Day Thirty

Closing Statement

About The Author

Introduction

Dear Beloved, welcome to 30 Days to Your Best Life. To begin, I want to go back in time and give you a brief history of some great heroes of faith. These men and women were quite ordinary, but faith made them extraordinary and changed their story. My prayer is that one day in the far future someone will be reading our story and be inspired to be a hero of faith as well.

Let us first define faith.

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. – Heb 11:1

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

Your imagination is the evidence of things not seen. – Steve Harvey

In a sense, the last two quotes, although not biblical, are both true sayings as God plants ideas in our thoughts and our heart. However, Faith is the more appropriate word for what we are discussing in this book.

Faith is the preview of those dreams you want and desire. It is seeing and accepting them as real even before they are manifested in the physical realm. If you’re going to live your best life, then trust me, my friend, you are going to need some faith and a whole lot of grace and favor.

Noah was one of the first men to show faith in the Bible when God asked him to get up and build an ark. As normal humans here in the now, we can only imagine how difficult this may have been. Just think, many of us are scared to leave the house having a bad- hair day for fear of the critical eyes of others. Noah had to be in 100% from the get-go. There was no massive storm on the horizon when he started building. The ridicule and shaming must have been tremendous, and yet, he continued through with the deed sight unseen. Noah, however, had something that set him apart. He had extraordinary faith. Extraordinary faith is called for during exceptional times. But really, should this faith be extraordinary? If we follow the Bible, it should be more commonplace.

We also see faith being expressed by Abraham, who followed God faithfully in spite of the questionable circumstances he would have to overcome.

These two men are not alone in the walk of faith; women were right there in the mix with them. Faith does not discriminate. Mary also displayed tremendous conviction in her beliefs. She may have had the most irrational experience of them all when God’s angel appeared and told her she would conceive by the Holy Spirit. That sounds 100% illogical since she was a virgin. However, Mary’s reaction was total faith in action. I can imagine her with a smile on her face and a little sass with the response she gave the angel. Well maybe my imagination is too wild so let’s check the scripture. She said In Luke 1:38:

Then Mary said, Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her (NKJV)

There are many other examples of people in the Bible expressing faith, although at different levels. The common denominator between them was they all expressed their belief in God’s infinite power.

The Bible makes one thing absolutely clear. The more you have faith in God, the more connected you are to Him. Trust in God is everything. The Christian walk is a walk in faith. Without faith, there can be no walk in Christ, no spiritual race, no heavenly race or hope. The reason for that is because we are saved by grace through faith. Without faith, we cannot gain access to God’s grace. As I like to say, God’s grace is like a house filled with precious treasures, but faith is the key needed to access that house. That is why Jesus Christ said to Thomas in John 20:29:

Then Jesus told him, Because