You Really Can Change Your Life in Forty Days!

Dr. Brad Miller teaches the Forty Day Way to Creating Your Promised Life of Peace, Prosperity and Purpose.

Each of the 40 Daily Episodes will include a story to make you think, a couple of points to ponder (many from a biblical perspective) followed by action steps you can take to create your promised life.

At the conclusion of the Forty Day Way you will have the tools on hand to create your personal Promised Life Plan (PLP) which will be your personal guide to life transformation.

Dr. Brad Miller holds a doctoral degree in transformational leadership and has 40 years experience as a Christian pastor.

He blogs and publishes the Beyond Adversity Podcast at www.DrBradMiller.com

Dr. Brad Miller really does believe you can change your life in forty days.

No pain, no gain. Hi, good people, Dr. Brad Miller

here with a 40 day way. And I really do believe that you can

change your life in 40 days and get on track to something better

in your in your life, something I like to call the promise given

life. We're going to take every day, for just a few minutes, 10

minutes or so. And I'm going to give you a story, a couple of

points to ponder with a biblical theme. And then we're going to

talk about some action points that you can do to develop a

process in your life that I like to call the promised life. Plan

your PLP by the end of our 40 days, you're going to have a

promise life plan, no pain, no gain. As we start this journey

together, I really want you to do something that's going to be

hard to do. Identify a painful part of your life that you want

to change right now. And know that you can gain in your life,

you can gain a direction in your life by identifying the pain. In

my life, I remember clearly a time when I was depressed and I

was upset and I was in a bad way. And was because of what

should have been a joyful occasion. My daughter asked me

to perform her wedding. I'm a pastor, and she asked me to

perform her wedding. And so I had a few months before the

wedding day came. And of course, I was delighted that she asked

me to do so. But then I almost immediately had this sense of

dread. What if I did something to screw it up? You know, I

perform hundreds of weddings. But this was my daughter? What

if I did something? You know what if I walked out on the

island? I tripped? What if I fell over my words, I also had

to give the Father the bride speech? What if I messed it up

and offended somebody in the family or did something else?

What if I spilled something? What if I, you know made a fool

of myself in some way or another? And I'm the besides

that I was overweight, and I was not in a good frame of mind

spiritually, all those things, and I was not in a good place.

That's not the way I wanted to be. Because I promised my

daughter that her wedding day I would do everything I could to

make it the best day of her life. So I made that commitment.

But I felt this deep a pain. So what are you going to do about

it? You're just gonna wallow in your pain? Or were you going to

do something about it? So I remember one February morning, I

got up early and I went to the gym to work out with a with a

workout partner. And I began the process of getting my health

together, getting my spiritual life together, getting my

relationship back together. I met with a therapist and other

things to get my act together in so many ways, got my financial

house in order in order to help my daughter have a great day I

became extremely motivated by the pain of not being dead

Zilla, I called it and the gain of giving my daughter everything

I could do to make it the best day of her life. I'll tell you

another time how that all turned out. But the point of today's

lesson on this day one of this 40 day journey is identify your

pain. And what is your game today happens to be Ash

Wednesday, and the Christian Uranus the day when many people

start a pattern of understanding that there is a time of

repentance of what you've done. That's identifying your pain,

having remorse about it being sorry about it, to to reflect on

it, and then to do something about it. What do people do

about it on Ash Wednesday? What

do people do about during this Lenten season, which is 40 days

between now and Easter? Well, there's things people do you

know what, some people will do something like light a candle.

When you have a time, you know, to do this to think about

something to reflect on. Of course, Ash Wednesday is when

many people will take the side of ashes and put it on their

forehead. You know, the sign of from dust you came into dust you

will return. And of course some people do things like fasting

and prayer. Whatever it is, this means be aware and mindful of

your situation of your fragility and do something about it. In

the Bible, there's also a story about a guy named Moses who had

enough. He was a slave. He was a Hebrew guy. He was a slave in

Egypt, and you saw any Gyptian guy beat up another slave. And

Moses ended up killing the Egyptian guy and he had to go

into hiding and some other things happen, but eventually

led Moses then to help lead his people out of slavery. to what

was became known as the promised land. So what we're going to

talk about here in these times together everybody is to how you

can have your own pivotal moment if you choose to, but you got to

break out of your slump, you got to break out of your your

numbness in your life, and identify your pain. And so

that's what I want to encourage you to do. Now everybody is to

have your moment. So I want you to take action. And we're here

in the 40 day way or have daily lessons, we're going to talk

about a story, we're going to talk about some concepts, some

teaching points, and what to talk about some action that you

can do, here's your action for today, I want you to find some

way to write something down just two points, I would like for you

to get a journal, this is my journal right here. Or you can

be anything else could be a piece of paper could be on your

computer. But I want you this would be part of your process of

building your PLP your promise life plan for the day, the day

one of our 40 Day weigh plan, it is all about you, identifying

your pain point, identifying your pain that you want to deal

with, that might be a relationship issue might be

losing weight, and maybe getting a new job or making more money,

it might be a spiritual thing. It might be you know, something

to do with health related things, the pandemic, maybe

you're you know, really want to be involved with something

really major, you know, some of you some of us are really,

really are inspired by the situation in Ukraine, and we see

the president there who was a great inspiration to me, and to

many of us because he had had enough and he is doing something

about it. He's stepping up as a leader, here's your opportunity

to step up in your life because you know, that you are here

today because there's something that you want to change. But you

cannot deny it no longer denial period is over with, you gotta

identify it. So here's number one thing always put in your

journal on a piece of paper someplace. And that is just your

pain point. What is your pain that you want to gain or that

you want to move out of? You know, let's just say you weigh

that you want to lose 25 pounds. And to get ahead get your a one

C and your diabetes down. Then write that down be specific

about it. You know, what is that pain? Write it down, identify

your pain, okay. So there is that point point to write it on

your journal is your what is your gain? Remember, no pain, no

gain, you got to have your gain, which is your end game? What is

your promised life experience? What is the goal that you have

this age, you know that some things may change along the way

these 40 days. But you got to have a goal to shoot for a

promised life to shoot for, if you will. And so you know for

Moses is leading the people to the Promised Land. For my

daughter for me and my daughter and her wedding. It was making

sure her her wedding day was the best day ever in her life. For

you what's it going to be? So write down what you envision as

what would be a good outcome a gain to make. That doesn't mean

perfection. It means you're going to make progress. You're

going to shift things in your life. So pain, no pain, no gain.

This is day one of the 40 Day Challenge. It happens to be Ash

Wednesday. So I wish you and those of you who are so

inclined, I wish you a blessed Lenten season and to what they

to observe a holy Lent.

This is Dr. Brad Miller with the 40 day way, reminding you that

you really really can change your life in 40 days. Now go and