Strategy For An UPbeat Day

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Check Up…Size up and evaluate what you have done.

O you who believe, you shall reverence God, and let every soul examine what it has sent ahead for tomorrow. You shall reverence God; God is fully Cognizant of everything you do. – Quran 59:18

Let us examine and probe our ways, and let us return to the Lord. – Lamentations 3:40

Lift Up...Your thoughts through prayer and praise. Shift gears in your thinking as needed.

Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. – Matthew 26:41 & Mark 14:38

You shall recite what is revealed to you of the scripture, and observe the Contact Prayers (Salat), for the Contact Prayers prohibit evil and vice. But the remembrance of God (through Salat) is the most important objective. God knows everything you do. – Quran 29:45

Straighten Up…Seek God’s Forgiveness. Keep your priorities straight.

You should eagerly race towards forgiveness from your Lord and a Paradise whose width encompasses the heavens and the earth; it awaits the righteous. – Quran 3:133

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you – Matthew 6:33

Stay Up…Hang in there.

… My beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. – 1 Corinthians 15:58

O you who believe, you shall be steadfast, you shall persevere, you shall be united, you shall observe God, that you may succeed. – Quran 3:200

Move Up…To a greater reward from God.

The wicked earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness gets a true reward. – Proverbs 11:18

As for those who repent, believe, and lead a righteous life, they will end up with the winners. – Quran 28:67

Donna A.