Nothing is Harder
All that I write has a purpose; some is more significant to me than others. Some I believe will be found more significant to some than others will find it. This portion does not apply equally to everyone. Some of you have other issues, other circumstances and controlling forces to deal with. For those who do qualify, this may be a storehouse of the greatest treasure you will ever open. Few people in this life will see what you see and even fewer will understand its immense impact and extremely few will possess it as a reality. Sadly the most common outcome if you are able to grasp it is that you will most probably glimpse it and let it slide from your hold. I do not intend this as a false build up of great expectations to a pathetically disappointing collapse. There is within your grasp far more power, and pleasure far beyond all the physical joys you have experienced in your short existence. Most folks are satisfied with mundane, predictable, safe normalcy. Most want just enough to be better off than the few around them whom they judge are doing well in their circumstances. Extremely few people experience lives free from…..More
Who is your stand for?
In First Kings chapter eighteen, Elijah challenges the Prophets of Ba’al to a test of faith. Remember James says Faith without works is Dead. The prophets of Ba’al had faith in the false god. They had a false faith, fake faith, failing faith, fruitless faith. Faith that produced no results, no changes for good in their lives, nothing by which they mightoffer praise and thanksgiving for deliverance and restoration. They prayed and thrashed about all day without results. Then Elijah instructed the acceptable sacrifice be prepared properly according to the word of the Lord. He obeyed God, he obeyed the Word of the Lord. Then He prayed. Read 1Kings 18:36-39 It is never wrong to stand for God. It is never wrong to be the man or woman of God He has designed you to be. It does not matter what the past has been what matters it today and when. When will you stand for Jesus? When will you get back in fellowship with God’s people? When will God the Father have complete sway over your soul? Continued
Success
is not usually the process of correctly
completing a series of actions.
Usually it is failure, then restoration followed by failure, then restoration followed by failure, then restoration followed by failure, then restoration followed by failure, then restoration followed by failure, then restoration followed by failure, then restoration followed by Success Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.The Millionaire
I remember the time when his grandfather said “Someday that boy will be a millionaire”. He was admiring our youngest son’s talent for doing amazing things when he had very little to work with. It seems he always could find a solution when a challenge presented itself. He had clever ideas and was able to put things together and make them happen. Several times he would come up with a new way to do something or a gadget and just a few months later an almost identical item would appear on the market. He was bright, cheerful, and obedient in ways that made mom and dad very proud. Yet he was all boy. Some of his antics caused us to wonder if he could survive his own brilliance.More