Do you ever experience a “let-down” feeling? Decline of interest in life is often due to pressure, tension and anxiety. As energy sags responsive interest in things, events and situations declines. Sometimes a person experiences a succession of cruel blows, loss of a loved one, disappointment in money problems, ill treatment of one kind or another. These knock the supports from under life. How to lift the spirit so that we may be effective and happy...that is the problem. In this booklet you will find 31 Scripture statements, one for every day of the month. These have been chosen because they can lift a person out of discouraged, depressed attitudes. Read this booklet from cover to cover to get its full impact. Memorize one “Spirit Lifter” each day. Say that passage over to yourself several times daily. Finally, saturate your mind with these creative, dynamic, life-changing thoughts. Slowly, but surely, this process will lift your spirit!

INTRODUCTION Do you experience hopelessness in your daily walk in this present world that we are currently living in? Do you feel let down? Do you feel like you have lost your zest and enthusiasm for life? Sadly, so many of us, answer these questions with a resounding "YES I HAVE". It has become a real day to day problem to keep oneself on a high level of interest, anticipation, joy, and peace, it's a real daily struggle. A decline of interest in life is often due to a creeping dullness that can spread throughout our thoughts and attitudes. Pressure, tension, anxiety, overstress, overworked, all of these deplete our energy. As energy sags, responsive interest in things, events, conditions, and situations declines. When our thoughts are not at peace, we develop a "weariness" point of view. Sometimes life just happens, we experience a succession of cruel blows such as the loss of loved ones, disappointment in ambition, money problems, even unkind treatment from those we care about. These things can knock the wind out of our sail of life. You can go on with reasons for what and why your spirit is so low. But we are interested in a positive nature-how to lift your spirit so that you may feel effective, happy, and useful to yourself and those around you. You are about to discover an effective way to keep perpetually alert, eager, and enthusiastic, something so simple that it is astonishing that you could have missed it. I found that by simply, walking in this spirit that God has placed in me "For His Purpose" memorizing certain passages of scripture from the bible, holding them in my mind, and repeating them, I can re-stimulate and refresh my mind. This book shares a powerful message about the power of the words of Jesus. "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you." (John 15:7). I take this literally to mean that by "dropping" dynamic and refreshing sentences from the Scriptures into my mind that was tied, weary apathetic, it would release a force able to change the condition of my mind with powerful effect. In this book, Spirit Lifter, are 31 Scripture, one for every day of the month. These 31 have been chosen because I, and others too, have found them particularly designed to lift one out of discouraged, jaded depressed attitudes to continue on to see what the end going to be. The effect of a Scripture passage, when properly used, is more powerful than any other combination of words. In this book, we tell you how we have experimented with their use and how others have effectively used them. These 31 Spirit Lifters presents here a powerful application of texts which can if you carefully follow the suggestions given, provide you with a never-failing Spirit Lifter.

While in an Oklahoma camp meeting, God spoke to Carol's heart about writing a book concerning the great need for positive affirmation among the members of the body of Christ. Quite often there are those attending church services who possess feeling of loneliness, depression, or despondency. How their spirits would be lifted by a warm handshake, a loving smile, and a kind word from a member of the Body. Yet how many Christians really accept the mandate Christ gave "to practice loving each other"? Sharing testimonies gleaned from her 30 years as a pastor's wife, Carol challenges her readers to make a difference in the lives of those about them and in their local church. We can do this by creating unity and love through the words we speak and our actions to others. The choice is up to every individual, but indeed, as believers practice being "spirit lifters", the lives of others will be greatly affected.

Over a period of twenty years, James Scott Bernard wrote this collection of spirit lifting messages. His objective is to offer hope and encouragement to everyone facing the trials and triumphs as humans in a challenging world.

Is life a little too serious? Need a good laugh and a little homespun encouragement? Believing that joy comes from a relationship with God, Lois shares her faith with optimism and humor.