Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week, daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Is it Friday already? Oh, yes, it is, and it's time for the Friday five. Five random things to break it up from our week of inspiration we do around here

Monday through Thursday. It's been a great week, and today I want our show to just wrap it all up,

sort of bottom line it for us as we've been talking about getting out of ruts, not being stuck

anymore, but moving towards a victorious life. It's possible, you know, and if you don't believe that,

well, you may want to listen to the earlier shows this week. But today I want to quickly cover five areas we should

never settle in our life. Yep, these are deal breakers, I think, within ourselves. You on board

to hear about them? Let's get into it. So let's do this, the five areas I believe we should never settle in our life.

Number one, our body. Now quickly, let me say, I did not say make peace with. We should absolutely do

that. I said settle. Because settling is different. Settling is saying I'm not where I want to be or no,

I need to be because of health, but I'll settle for something less. We should never settle for

something because we feel it's too hard or too far off or others tell us we can't or whatever.

And that's really what I'm saying here. Don't settle for a compromised body in nutrition or exercise. I'm preaching that to

myself, by the way. Don't settle because your body and my body are far too important and too dear.

Number two, another area never to settle is spiritual life. Relationship with God. So many of us do this,

I think. We settled for a stale relationship. I speak often on John

5 and the man at the pool of Bethesda and how, after being sick for 38 years and what we know is

his inability to heal himself, he settled into that life. And Jesus had to come along and ask him,

would you like to get well? Which seems like a crazy question. Of course he would.

But what do we say to Jesus about our intention toward him that we will settle for sparse communication,

that we are okay with a flicker in our passion for him rather than a flame? Never settle in this

area of life above any other area, really. Number three, never settle in your ministry life.

Now, I know you might say, Lisa, I'm not a preacher or a ministry leader, so I don't quite

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