The Medicine That Never Fails

You don't need an excuse, event, organization or special invitation to do good in the lives of others.  Love your neighbor today.  Don't worry about if anyone notices or appreciates it.  Just do what's in your heart, humbly and quietly.  God will always provide the opportunity.  And God will always give the reward.

You Will Find Your Way

Stay focused on the word.  This life is difficult to navigate.  The journey can be treacherous, even impossible.  But with God, all things are possible.  So let the word guide you.  Don't take your eyes off it. No matter how tempting it is to look at others, no matter how persuasive they might be, you must keep your eyes fixed on the word.  Without it, you will be confused, in darkness.  By it, you will find your way.  Always!

Are You Really Alive? Check Your Vital Signs.

We were put here to serve God by serving others.  If you're not doing that, you are not living.  You may be here.  You may be working.  Making money.  Prosperous in the world.  But you are not truly living.  If you are not experiencing God's vital signs of truth, joy, peace and love, you need to go to Him for resuscitation.  You need to let Him restore you by His word and His spirit, so that you can live by loving.

The Next Big Thing

There is nothing like spending time with a good friend or loved one.  Appreciate it when you have the chance.  Don't ever take it for granted.  Sometimes we're so busy looking for some "great thing" to happen in our lives.  We're so busy running and working that we don't enjoy the great things that we experience every day.

Use What You've Got To Get What You Want

Don't be bashful and fearful when it comes to your gifts.  Recognize that your gifts are from God.  He wants you to use them boldly, lovingly and joyfully.  Do so, and you will always be satisfied.

Gain Without Pain

Take advantage of good advice.  Don't waste it.  Often, advice is your chance to learn from other people's bad experiences.  You get to gain wisdom while avoiding the pain.

Dress to Be Blessed

Life is not for show and tell.  Life is for real.  So be for real.  Live with purpose, truth and sincerity of heart.  Don't put on a show.  Shows are fun while they last, but they don't last long.  If you want to have an impact and make a difference, be yourself.

To Make It To...You Must First Make it Through

To make it to, you must first make it through.  So you might as well enjoy your journey.  If you are miserable, complaining, mean, anxious and uptight, your journey may become unbearable.  Then you may stop.  If you stop, you will not get where you're seeking to go.  So take it one day at a time, enjoying each day.  Don't bulldoze your way through.  Take your time.  Be kind.  Respect others.  Consult your Creator at every step. 

Free Indeed!

If you want to be free, give yourself completely over to God.  Let Him have total control of your thoughts, speech and actions.  That seems contradictory according to man's rational thought.  But when God owns you, you are truly free.  You are free to be who you were meant to be.  This is what we strive for, fight and die for, to be able to live out our destinies and inner desires.  Only through God's power can we do this.  So give yourself to Him.

Feeling It

Enjoy yourself, who you are, where you are, what you are. Take time to feel the joy God put in you.  Spend time with yourself and find out why God loves you so much.  Look around and take in the joy that surrounds you. Appreciate where God has placed you.  Really delve deeply into your work.  Enjoy being a part of God's creation.

Let It Be Real

Thoughts, ideas, opinions and perceptions are not real.  They only become real when they become actions.  So don't waste time worrying over mere vapors that come and go with the wind.  Focus on what is, not what was or what may be.  And if what should be isn't, make it so!

Soul 2 Soul

Make real connections with those God places in your path.  Reach out to them in love.  Give of yourself, your time, your attention, your knowledge, your support, your company.  Be yourself.  They need what only you can give.  So you have to be the real you.  Good impressions are fine, but the real benefit comes from real, honest, soul-to-soul contact.  When you can give yourself openly, you will find freedom.

Possessed

Give yourself to God completely.  Allow Him to have full ownership of your thoughts, activities, conversations and possessions. let Him use it all for His glory.  When you do this, you will have peace and fulfillment, because you will be in God's place of perfection.  Everything you do will succeed.

Do More Thanking Than Thinking

You need to do more thanking than thinking.  Our thoughts can get us into a whole lot of trouble.  They can be envious, mean, fearful, lustful and prideful.  They can really lead you astray because thoughts become actions.  Actions become habits. Habits determine your quality of life and afterlife.  When your thoughts threaten to take control of you and lead you wrong, take control of your thoughts by thanking God and recognizing His omniscience. 

Who's Your Daddy?

Humility does not have to be a painful, forced, embarrassing experience.  Voluntarily humble yourself before the Lord.  Allow Him to be your father, protect you and lead you with ease.  Dote over Him, like a child does his or her father.  Believe His every word.  Become a child, a babe, as He wraps His loving arms around you, surrounding you.  Let go as He strokes your back, rocks you gently and puts the melody into your heart.

Give Until It Stops Hurting

If you want something, give what you have.  Not just material things.  Give love.  Give respect.  Give mercy.  Give sincere friendship.  Give understanding.  If you only have a little, give a little.  As you give, God will work within you, reward your act of faith and bless you with more than you gave out.  Keep  repeating the process over and over.  You'll end up with more than you know what to do with.  But God knows what to do with it.  So trust Him and give.

The Good Life

Learn to enjoy folding clothes just as much as you enjoy buying new clothes.  Enjoy making dinner as much as eating at a five star restaurant.  Your everyday responsibilities can seem mundane or even like drudgery.  But these are done more often and take up more of your life than what you might think of as special occasions.  The good life can be found in these little everyday moments.  You can make every day great and every moment special.  Don't wait for it.  It's already here.

Love Doesn't Try to Change People

God loves you because of who you are, not in spite of who you are.  When you do the same for others, your relationships will be blessed and you will have great peace.  God's love in you will allow you to do it.  Don't try to mold people to fit your expectations through preaching, nagging and manipulation.  Love and support them where they are.  Let the Love make them not different but better. 

The Spirit of Faith

Even a little bit of fear is unhealthy.  Fear is not of God, so it is not healthy.  It doesn't benefit you in any circumstance.  It stifles you, hinders you, cripples and ultimately kills you.  Don't welcome it, thinking it grounds you to reality.  God is real.  Fear is a lie from the devil.  Face your responsibility, dream, obstacle, or challenge with faith, courage and confidence in God.  Go forth, boldly and unafraid. 

Mission Control

Let God light your way as you follow your heart.  Stay focused on your heart and His voice.  All else are just distractions meant to keep you from completing your mission.  Doubts (whether yours or other people's), temptations, fear, hurt, gossip (about you, about others, by you, by others), and other people's business or issues are just weights, hindrances and detours.  Keep walking.  Do whatever you have to do to stay on the mission.  If you learn to let go of the weights, become oblivious to the distractions and channel your focus, you will experience the joy, peace and fulfillment God intends for your journey.

Don't Give Up on People

The most important assignment God gave is to love your neighbor as yourself.  Sometimes that seems like the most difficult one.  Sometimes it seems our neighbors make it hard to love them as themselves let alone as ourselves.  They hurt us, leave us, lie on us, lie to us, use us, abuse us, even hate us.  Getting along with our family, friends, co-workers, etc. is very challenging and complex.  How do you say the right thing?  When do you say it?  How do you give of yourself appropriately?  How do you respond to what they said and did?  Do you respond at all?  It's not easy.  That's why it's called the Golden Rule.  Gold does not come cheap.  It's precious and rare.  You work for it.  And you have to believe it's worth the work.  When you achieve it, it's by the grace of God.  You can't do it without God's love and power working in you.  But whatever you do, don't give up on people.  God put us here together for a reason.  Seek Him to understand how to make our existence together enjoyable.  Those precious moments where we work together in perfect peace, love and unity, are so worth it!

Facebook is Alright But Face-to-Face is Better

Don't miss the precious opportunity to commune with the ones you love.  Sometimes we take them for granted, especially the ones we see everyday.  These days communication has gotten so convenient that we overlook the importance of it.  We can talk to people thousands of miles away via the Internet.  We can use our phones to send out mass messages in an instant, but we often don't even know the first names of our next door neighbors.  Sure the technological advances are great and can be quite useful, but don't think they substitute for the warmth and sincerity of real human face-to-face contact.  It's good to hear a voice, see a smile, share a hug.  The convenience of modern technology may be making us lose the ability to really connect and empathize.  While you're checking your e-mail at work, the person sitting in the cubicle next to you might be desperate for love and attention.  Take time to reach out in Love.

Paralysis of Analysis

When God gives orders, He also gives the knowledge, skills and strength to complete them.  He will send the necessary help.  Just get to work.  No need to count up the costs and assess the risks.  Just do what He said.  Spending too much time in analysis will induce fear, hesitation, stagnation and eventually paralysis.  You will fail to do the work.  You will be useless to God and outside His will.  So when God says go, go immediately. 

Push

When the directions seem the most confusing, when the expectations seem the most unreasonable, when the responsibilities seem the most unfair, when you're just too tired, when you think you can't, when you just don't want to, obey God.  It is in these situations that the consequences for disobedience will be most severe and the reward for obedience will be the most fulfilling.

Desires of Your Heart

Just when you begin to settle into your blessing, when you sit back, close your eyes, and exhale.  Just when you thought you got what you wanted, God will give you a desire that came from so far down in the depths of your heart that your head never knew to ask for it or even imagine it.  Just when you thought you knew all about Him, God will reveal even more of His power and provision.  Just when you open your mouth to say thank you, God will grant more of His grace.  So just keep saying thank you.

Waiting for Rain

God answers prayers right on time, according to His perfect plan.  Just keep doing as you are told.  Go about your daily schedule and live your life.  Don't worry over and scrutinize the details.  If you prayed for rain, don't keep checking the clouds and color of the sky.  Be sure the rain will come.  The atmosphere changes gradually, sometimes too gradually for you to detect with your eyes.  If you stop looking so hard, the skies will open up before you know it and pour down torrents of blessings.  But you can't make the rain come any faster stressing and analyzing the atmospheric conditions.  It's going to take the same amount of time, whether you're anxious or at peace.  So why not enjoy yourself while you wait for the rain? 

Happy Are the Peacemakers

Those who make peace are happy because those who make peace already have peace.  If you are going into a situation of potential conflict, go in not ready to fight but in a spirit of peace and meekness.  If you go in with your dukes up, you are bound to get a fight.  If you go in with your hands open, you may find that you gain a friend.

Giving to God

Give to someone who isn't expecting a gift and who won't have a gift to give back.  Give to someone who won't go out and tell everyone you gave.  Give to someone you don't even know.  When you let go and freely give, you enter into a higher realm.  You are giving from the spirit and to the spirit.  You give unto the Lord, and from the Lord you will get your reward.

The Color Purple

We all want to be loved and appreciated.  There is nothing wrong with you if you desire to be loved.  The problem arises when we don't realize how much we are already loved.  In a world that is so full of distractions and distortions, it may be hard to perceive the simple yet powerful love that exists in each of our lives. Because we may not be able to see the love, we feel a yearning that causes us to seek love and the divine experience in other people or even in material things.  We get hooked on that elusive and temporary feeling.  Then we have to do any and everything to repeat the experience. Some people seek their whole lives and never feel enough love and attention.  Some people reach high wordly status and fame.  They become celebrated and adored by throngs of people and still never sense the love of God.  But the love of God is always available and everlasting.  When we learn to take the time to feel the love of God moving in and around us, we find out how much adoration and appreciation we really already have.  We have God.  God is love.  So we have all the love in this world and the world to come.