The Most

Remember that you are a servant.  Find out how you can give the most not how you can get the most.  The one who owns it all will reward you.

Don't Wait for the Show to Show Out

Give it all in whatever you do.  Don't wait for the show to show out.  You don't need an excuse, special occasion or even an audience.  Show love.  Show compassion.  Show power.  Show faith.  Show your gifts.  Show your blessings.  Show who you are.  Show God within you.  Not to impress anybody, but to do what you came here to do...be who you are to the fullest.  You came here to give who you are to the world.  So show out everyday, and you'll have joy, peace and fulfillment.

Who's the Boss?

When God sends help, accept it.  Be grateful and humble, realizing it is God's work you are doing.  Allow Him to show you how and when He wants it done.  Give Him the glory when it's complete and thank Him for allowing you to have a part.

Nobody Wants to Hear a Bragger

Instead of being a talking resume, be a walking portfolio.  You don't need to go around listing your strengths, talents and accomplishments.  Just demonstrate your awesomeness by using your gifts.  Stop trying to sell yourself.  You've already been bought.  Bragging doesn't ever really accomplish what the bragger intends anyway.  It just annoys the listener and turns people off.  However, when you put your best work on display, it will accomplish its intended purpose.  You don't need to talk about it.  Just be who you are!

WWJD

Open your fist, lay down your sword and reach out your hand in mercy, compassion and understanding.  This is how you overcome.  This is how you win the battle.  It seems crazy, but this is where real courage  will show up.  It doesn't take courage to retaliate with an eye for an eye.  That is nothing special.  That is what is expected.  That is what comes naturally.  However, when someone slaps you and you not only refuse to slap them back but take their hand in prayer, that is supernatural.  When you can pray God's best upon someone who did the worst to you, you become Christian (like Christ). At first, you may feel weak or like you're giving in and letting them beat you.  But you'll find that love is far more powerful than man's strength or greatest physical weapon.  Our battles, using our might and instruments of war, are destructive and ultimately ineffective.  But God's instruments of mercy, truth, faith, righteousness, and peace heal, build and give life.  They can not fail.  They make a difference that is eternal.

From the Heart

The way that looks easy may be the least rewarding.  The way that seems inconvenient may turn out to be the most fulfilling.  Follow the path that flows from your heart and connects with His Spirit.  Sometimes you have to overlook what you see with your eyes,  forget what you think with your head and ignore what you feel in your flesh.  You will find He will always guide you, strengthen you and help you.

Know-It-Alls Have a Lot to Learn

You never get too grown up to accept advice or correction.  Thinking you have achieved that level of growth and wisdom is a sure sign that you haven't.  Wisdom teaches us to be humble and ready to receive instruction and constructive feedback. If you learn to be humble and appreciate help from others, your path will be a lot clearer and smoother.

Make It Good

Relationships are so important.  Make them good ones.  Share, laugh and fellowship with your loved ones.  Don't take any relationship for granted.  Every meeting is important and a chance to experience the love of God.  It's up to you what you make of it.

The Coming Sun

There is good in everything God brings to you.  Although at the time some things may seem difficult, annoying, painful or frustrating, learn to give thanks anyway.  Remember that rainy days are necessary for growth.  The roses won't bloom without it.  The grass won't cover the hills and valleys without it.  The lion would curl up and die without it.  Rain can either symbolize an unwanted delay in your plans or a time of refreshing.  It's up to you.  If you change your attitude to one of thanks, you'll begin to see the opportunities that come with every challenge, the rainbow that comes after the storm.  When it's raining, see it as a chance to rest up and prepare for the coming sun.

You Were Born For This

You don't need to strain to please God.  It's easy.  No pressure.  No worries.  Just obey God.  You were born to do the work, so it should be done with ease.  Don't try too hard or over think it.  Just do what your heart is pushing you to do.

Destined for Greatness

Your talent does not make you great.  Your status does not make you honorable.  Your assets do not make you valuable.  It all comes from God.  It all belongs to God.  It is all to serve the purpose and will of God.  You are one part of the whole of creation.  You are great, honorable and worthy because God made you.  Because God said so.... Period! God gave you  resources and equipment to be used to complete your assigned task.  Use them.  Be grateful for them.  That is all.

What a Mighty God We Serve!

Just do your work and be blessed by doing.  Serve your master, willingly, humbly and lovingly.  He has mercy and shows kindness to all, even to those others mock, undervalue and ignore.  He strengthens the weak and empowers the faint.  It is by Him that good servants are good.  He gives you what you need to do good work.  Then He gives you the reward for doing it!  Thank God for the blessings of life, to be among His creation, to serve Him, to love Him!

For All We Know...

You have everything you need to enjoy this moment.  So enjoy it!  Don't worry about what tomorrow will bring or whether today's blessings will last beyond today.  Be grateful for what you have now.  Appreciate where you are.  Take pleasure in what you are doing right now.  If you are obedient with what you have been given and attend to it as God directs you, your Father will take care of all your needs and give you all your desires.

Aint No Stoppin' Us

Take time to connect, connect, connect.  Don't busy yourself with so many activities and preoccupy yourself with so many things that you don't have time to do what's most important in this life.  Share your thoughts, feelings, skills and knowledge with those God brings into your path.  Give and receive energy.  Charge and be charged.  We all are sources of power.  Make the time to make real connections with others.  Imagine the potential for power!

Honor Your Blessings

Take nothing that you have to be a right.  Honor each blessing as a gift.  Each family member, each friend or acquaintance, each asset (big or small).  For everything in your life was created by and given to you by God.  It could just as easily have been given to someone else or to no one at all.  So cherish every person, every moment, everything.

Taste of Grace

When everything's going your way, remember to say thank you.  Remember it's your Father who is rich.  It is He that giveth and He that taketh away. Continue to be an obedient child.  Bless His name.  Make Him proud.  Tell Him thank you.

Nothing More. Nothing Less

Simplicity is a gift from God.  Being able to relax and enjoy the moment.  Do a day's work well.  Come home and enjoy the sunset.  Rest for the evening. Sleep soundly.  Awake to a fresh new dawn.  Nothing more.  Nothing less.

Use What Your Daddy Gave You

You don't need to take on anything.  Work with what God gave you.  That is plenty.  Don't seek after more things.  Don't search for greater work.  Don't look for more interesting activities to involve yourself in or a broader network of friends.  Do justly with what you have.  If you work well within the context of your current situation, you will find that all your needs are met, physical, spiritual and mental.  Eat what's on your plate and be satisfied.  God will know just when to give you a bigger plate.

Overcome Evil With Good

Spend so much time doing right that you don't have time to do wrong.  Fill up on good thoughts so that there is no room for negative, unhealthy or corrupt thoughts.  Saturate the air with words that edify so that there is no space in the conversation for those that destroy.

Beauty for Ashes

Allow God to work in your life.  Let Him empty you, purge you, prune you and deliver you from yourself.  Don't try to keep it, hold it, salvage it or hide it.  Open up and let go.  The process may seem slow, ugly and painful, but the result will be beautiful.

Instead of Worrying Because You Can't Praise God Because He Can

If you had an awesome day, chances are you got up expecting an awesome day.  Get up each morning expecting something great from God.  Wake up rejoicing.  Praise Him for what He can do.  Don't wake up worrying about what you can't do.  If you acknowledge that God is able, He will demonstrate His power.  God will meet you at your level of expectation.  Rise up to walk in the realm of infinite possibility.

Is It Worth It?

Obedience is so much better than sacrifice.  Sometimes it seems to take so much to overcome our flesh and obey the Spirit.  When you have to choose between the two, the flesh seems to make more sense and be way more rewarding.  But when you succumb to the flesh, the reward is never worth it.  On the other hand, when you overcome, the reward is more than you ever even imagined.

Thank Him in Advance

God answers prayer.  He does it perfectly, in the right time, in the right way.  Just hold on.  He is coming.  He loves you.  And He's going to take care of it.  He'll make it right.  He's not late, so don't worry.  Don't keep checking to see if something's wrong.  Just be faithful and obedient.  The blessing is on the way.  Say thank you.

When You're At Your Best Satan is At His Best

When you're at your best, Satan is at his best.  You will always find your best isn't good enough.  Don't get complacent and too self-assured when things are going well, resting on your laurels in victory.  The fall from grace is the hardest.  Depend on the strength and wisdom of God at all times.  It is only by His grace that you will win.

(K)eep (I)t (S)imple (S)weetheart

It's really simple.  Seek God.  Ask God.  Believe God.  Obey God.  We make it complicated with our grand schemes and plans.  Struggling to bring our plans to fruition, we take on unnecessary burdens and stress.  Submitting to God's will, we find peace and amazing visions manifested.

Behind the Mountain Where Chilly Winds Don't Blow

Let God protect you from harm, hurt, your enemies, your fears.  Stop trying to secure yourself and defend yourself.  God is so much more equipped.  Hide behind Him.  Don't peek your head out to see what's going on or how He's doing it.  Just let Him take care of it.  Rest assured.  Humble yourself under His authority.  Let God have the battle and let Him have the Glory in Victory!

How May I Be of Service?

There is joy in serving others, the best kind, the kind that lasts, the kind that transforms.  It doesn't have to cost a thing, but the rewards are priceless, peace, sweet relief, fulfillment and more joy.  Give what you can.  Don't think about what you're giving up.  Give freely and honestly, without, pretense, without boasting.  Let go.  Humble yourself and serve.  You will be complete.

Forgive It or You'll Never Really Forget It

Most of our relationship problems come from failure to forgive.  I'm not talking about current hurts or infringements, but resentment that started long ago and has been brewing and festering for years and turned into nasty bitterness.  It probably started with people who are no longer even a part your life.  You're angry at your parents, children from childhood, an old friend or an ex.  Since you haven't properly dealt with it and let it go, you're projecting it onto the people who are currently in your life.  Forgive those people who hurt you then so that you can enjoy healthy relationships with those people who love you now.

Just for Laughs

Laughter is a healing ointment for the soul.  Don't miss an opportunity to laugh.  You need it.  It tears down walls you have built over the years.  It lifts burdens and removes the baggage you have packed up.  Let go and laugh.  Don't let pride and stubbornness rob you.  Just laugh.

Five Habits to Break

1) Trying to control others.
2) Marinating in anger.
3)Taking other people's issues personally. 
4) Worrying about what others think of you.
5)Trying to impress people.

Be The Friend You Want to Have

We expect perfection from everyone else.  Then when they fail to meet our impossible expectations, live up to our unreasonable standards and jump over our ridiculous hurdles, we threaten to cut ties with them and sometimes do.  How we forget about our own issues by accentuating the faults in others!  How we avoid dealing with ourselves by pointing out the inadequacies in others!  All of our mistakes have great excuses.  Our shortcomings should be met with mercy and understanding.  But there is no excuse for others?  The person who sets unreachable standards for his friends, while failing to reach them himself is sure to find himself alone.

Don't Ask Your Neighbor

If you're anxious, worried, frustrated, angry, hurt or confused, you may be spending too much time and attention on what you have no control over...others.  Instead of looking around, analyzing the conditions and trying to come up with the solutions for the world's problems, look up.  God is saying, "Don't ask your neighbor (or yourself). Come to me."  Next, look within and deal with your own issues, after getting direction from God.  Once you get clarity, you will be able to help your neighbors figure out their solutions.