Love Conquers All with Dr. Berlinda Love: Recent Episodes
Love Conquers All with Dr. Berlinda Love
LOVE CONQUERS ALL WITH DR. BERLINDA LOVE will focus on learning to love others as we love ourselves by demonstrating caring, compassion, and understanding, and knowing that love is an action as well as an emotion. In so doing hearts will be changed and brokenness replaced with wholeness.
This show is about living your best life now, as opposed to being stuck in the past or consistently dreaming about the future. I encourage my audience to focus on enlarging their vision, and to create a subconscious mindset that is positive and enables them to realize their God-given blessings to accomplish lifetime dreams. What we become is inherent within us and we are all heirs to the Kingdom of God and his gifts on Earth. I refer to Pastor Joel Osteen’s audiobook, Your Best Life Now, and share a summary of his principles of success. My ultimate goal is to encourage and motivate the listeners to have faith and believe that their blessings are tangible now. However, life will escape us if we are not watchful, as it is fragile and filled with swift transitions. Therefore, we must find joy, peace, happiness, and contentment in what we have, while simultaneously remaining faithful for our future success.
This show is about standing strong during the trials and tribulations of life knowing that the Lord is with you. Hurricane Idalia hit our town and there is quite a bit of devastation including fallen trees on houses and buildings, utility poles down, stop lights not working, flooding, lights out across the city, and no internet or cell phone service. Having a serious storm of this magnitude awakens us to the realization that God alone is in charge of the universe. It is a frightening experience for everyone, knowing that humanity can do nothing to control nature. Therefore, we must put our trust in God to protect us from, through, and after these perils. I go to Him in prayer and song when facing catastrophic problems, because He is the only one who can save us. My sharing of several hymns for my audience is to calm their spirits as many are victimized by fires, floods, hurricanes, intense heat, tornadoes, mudslides, tsunamis, powerful winds, and other natural disasters. Our consolation is in knowing that the Heavenly Father will make things right again in His time. We must pray and listen to His still voice in quietude.
This show is about understanding why we procrastinate about using our God given talents when He promised to never leave us or forsake us. There are many things in life that will dissuade us from accomplishing our goals, however God cares for us and will change our negative situations into positive ones, if we believe and trust in Him to do so. Humanity may have good intentions that often are not carried out, but God’s Word is true. It is a shield to them that put their trust in Him. Success commands that we believe in ourselves and in the only one who can help us in our times of need, Jesus Christ. When the world lets us down, we have a friend in Jesus, and there is no friend like Him. The hearers are encouraged to spend quality time with our Lord every day by reading the Word and meditating on Him.
The Bible provides everything that we need to know concerning acquiring wealth and prosperity God’s way. He is able to supply all of our needs and much that we desire, however we must prove ourselves worthy of these blessings. The main requirement is that we put God first in all that we do and have faith believing that He will come through for us. I discuss scripture references concerning debt, our financial responsibility and giving, greed, and God’s provision. True riches come from God, and not from material things such as money. Financial stability will allow us to enjoy material things but it is the spiritual things that are most important. We must focus more on the eternal rather than the temporal life here on Earth. God wants us to live the abundant life, but we must be obedient to His Word, pray and ask for what we need, and wait for His answer.
This message is in response to the devastating wildfires currently going on in Hawaii, and in addition I prayed for the people there. Weather devastations are not always “acts of God,” although often perceived to be punishment for the sins of the world. God has the power to control storms and other forms of devastation, however most are merely acts of nature. However, God may decide to not intervene when tragedies due to weather conditions occur, because He wants us to come back to Him and focus on eternal life rather than things of the world. If one never encounters storms in life, what assurance would we have that God can save us from them. We cannot reverse devastation upon the land, however God can help us to overcome the effects of the storm and start over anew.
The title of this show is derived from the 2022 theme of the United States Coast Guard - Honoring Our Past…Shaping Our Future. I was inspired when reading an article about the annual birthday celebration of the US Coast Guard every August 4th, and felt that this would be a message that everyone needs to hear, although they may not understand why. My discussion centers on reasons why we must appreciate the past for the lessons learned and use that knowledge to catapult us into a more positive future. We must remember the past but not live in it, because the negative chain of events that we have endured will have a great impact on our mindset and ability to get over the drama, essentially keeping us imprisoned in that former place. It is imperative that we replace those negative happenings with positive memories, meaning that we must find new ways of creating happy events and times in our lives. We are to glean what we can from the past but live now. The future may never come because of the uncertainty of life and the swift transitions that it causes without warning. We must forgive others as blaming them for persecuting you will make things worse. Forgiving others and ourself will give us the impetus to move away from former nightmares that life brings to each of us from time to time.
The purpose of this show is to encourage and motivate both parents and students to look forward to having a wonderful school year filled with new challenges and possibilities. Parents must reinforce their children’s education by instilling in them the proper morals and values, and ensuring that they come to school ready and willing to learn. Learning should be a positive experience for the child and parent, and both mother and father must be a visible part of the child’s learning by maintaining an open door policy with the teacher and school administration. Students must not be put down when they do not meet up to the parent’s expectations, but rather they must be praised for putting forth their best effort with the understanding that they will do better the next time.
This show specifically speaks on how we relate to our children and the effect that these relationships will have on them for the duration of their lives. Children will mimic their parent’s ways when they are older and those characteristics may be positive or negative depending on what they hear and see while growing up. Their relationships with others will be affected by how they were treated by the people closest to them, their parents, as children learn what they live and live what they learn. Affection is most important to children from infancy, and parents can make or break a child by using inappropriate disciplinary measures and refusing to acknowledge their accomplishments regardless of how small. Children should be given responsibilities at an early age and encouraged frequently to prevent them from becoming depressed and sad when they should be happy and self-motivated. Parents must realize that they will receive the same respect from their children that they gave them over the years.
This show deals with self care and knowing how to deal with difficult people while striving to reach your dream. I begin by reinforcing to the audience the concept of taking ownership of their dream regardless of what happens. We must be strong enough to bear negative comments and deeds done by difficult people, and know how to maintain control over situations at all times by using de-escalation techniques, the proper tone, and choice of words when speaking to them. However, the most important thing is prayer. We must pray before acting so that the end result will be positive for everyone. It is not advisable to argue or debate with someone who is not thinking rationally, but rather we must allow that person the opportunity to say what they feel and calm down before attempting to resolve the problem.
This is show number two in my series on self care. It starts off with a brief review of the first show, Self Care is Important, and five main aspects to be considered: diet, exercise, rest, and listening to our body. In the second show I discuss how self care or the lack thereof can have a great impact on how we relate to others on our job and in close quarters at home. I talk about compromising, working together, and taking especially good care of your body to prevent negative mood changes and personality traits. The main things that we want out of life are happiness, joy, love, and peace because material things are insignificant.
Self care is critically important in maintaining a healthy and wholesome lifestyle. We must take care of our mental, physical, and psychological health in order to pursue our life goals. There are several things that we must consider in maintaining a healthy body, mind, and soul. Find ways to eliminate stress as it will debilitate us to the point of being nonproductive. Exercising will keep the blood circulating properly so that our brain functions to capacity as well as our physical movement. Eating more nourishing foods will give us fuel to keep going without overloading us with things that do us harm such as sodium, sugar, and carbs. We must take care of self first, before we can take care of others. Finally, our body will tell us what it needs and we must listen to those signs and act on them accordingly. Taking great care of ourself will give us the ability to keep going and accomplish our dreams.
This show starts off with questions for the audience to ponder on regarding their purpose in life. The message is actually a guide to help them clear negative aspects and listen to their inner being in order to live a happy, fulfilling, and joyous life. I encourage them to make good use of the time that they have on Earth and to accomplish realistic goals as opposed to pipe dreams. The main idea is that they take control over their lives and move in the direction of their inner spirit speaking directly to them, and not to others. They are reminded to be accountable and take necessary action to redirect their path.
This show is about leaving the past behind and looking straight ahead to the great future that God has in store for us. I have included various scriptures for follow-up reading including Genesis 19:12-26 ESV, Proverbs 4:22-27 The Message, Luke 9:57-62 ESV, and 2 Timothy 3:1-5 Living Bible. My primary focus is on Abram and Sarai (whose are renamed to Abraham and Sarah, Two Angels sent by God, Lot, Lot’s wife, and Lot’s two daughters. To summarize the story Lot and his wife were told to leave Sodom and Gomorrah because of God’s wrath on them for mistreating the people of God and continuously disrespecting Him. Their lives and actions were deplorable to God and He dispatched two angels to warn Lot and his family to leave immediately because destruction was imminent. When they left the cities were destroyed and Lots wife turned around and looked back. She was instantly turned into a pillar of salt, the very thing that she refused to give the two angels whom Lot had invited to eat at their home. The message to the audiences is to forget the past, because it will impede your forward progress. Follow God’s instructions and choose your associates carefully. Pay close attention to time and keep moving, so that you will succeed in accomplishing your dreams. Never look back.
This show begins with a discussion about anointing. What is anointing and what does it mean to be anointed? I define the different kinds of anointing, in that it started in biblical days when the shepherds would pour oil on the heads of the sheep to protect them from lice and other insects. That ceremonial act has now become a symbol of protection, empowerment, and blessing as we know it today. Several bible verses are shared which speak of God anointing Jesus, after which he goes around doing good and healing others. Subsequent to that others were anointed and appointed by God to carry out a task. This means that all of us are empowered by God through Jesus Christ to do great things. Finally, we know that those who believe in Jesus Christ will do even greater things than Him because of the Lord’s favor on our lives. Life is full of swift transitions and we cannot control fate. However, we have the power from Jesus to go forth with our dreams that we will bless God, others, our families, and ourself. We must not muzzle the mouth of the ox, because we cut off the food and the ox cannot eat. We are to be conduits for others to help them reach their dreams.