So shall you know skillful and godly Wisdom to be thus to your life; if you find it, then shall there be a future and a reward, and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off. Proverbs 24:14 [AMP]
Dear Father thank you Lord for all you have given to me and my sisters in the Lord. We are so blessed Lord and often times we forget to be thankful and not be just expecting the things you do for us. This is wrong because you always take caree of our every need. I am so grateful and Praise Your Holy Name!! Lord as I searched your word this morning this verse stared out at me.I so want Godly wisdom and know that the way to that is through your word. So help me Lord as I read your word to get a complete understanding of what you want me to know and remember. Lord I also pray this for all your children in Hope Ministries. In your precious and Holy name I pray. The name of Jesus. Hallelujah!!
~Patricia Chaffins 6/17/09
Amen!!! I am afraid dear ones that sometimes this is so true!! All God wants is “us”, all He wants is communion with us, all He wants is for us to spend time with Him and give Him glory, but oh me…so many times all we do is ask, ask, ask, ask and then when we don’t receive or dont receive it the manner in which we expect, we get all down in the mouth and don’t even give Him one ounce of thanksgiving and praise! We just start cying “oh woe is me, where are you God?” UGH! Now don’t that just kick you right where it hurts!!!
God wants us to seek HIM not what He can do for us!
We need to seek His face not His hand! He has promised as has been said in what Patricia posted…that He shall supply all our needs according to His riches in glory!We need to be SEEKERS…seeking His presence, His face not His hand!!!! Forgive us Father! Thank You for Your Mercy and Your Grace!
~Cindy Farris 6/17/09
At the moment I have all I need—and more! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God. And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus. Now all glory to God our Father forever and ever! Amen. Philippians 4:18-20 [NLT]
Amazing Grace, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Happy Birthday, The Star Spangled Banner, Silent Night: do any of these titles stir your emotions or flood your mind with memories? As you ponder them, do you hear only the words or do you also hear the music?
Music is a universal language. People of all ages can enjoy and find meaning in music. It crosses every culture. We use it in our churches, weddings and funerals. The list would be a mile long if we tried to name all the places, events and things associated with music in our lives. Music is very versatile. It ranges from the simplicity of listening to the complexity of composing lyrics, melody and/or harmony.
In a Washington Post article, Rick Weiss stated that “only recently have researchers gone to the trouble of testing and refining the hypothesis of the effect on the physically or emotionally disabled” even though music has been around for centuries (1994). Recreational Music and Music Therapy, the use of music and music related strategies to assist or motivate a person towards specific non-musical goals are being used in various medical settings today. They serve the same purpose, but Music Therapy must be performed by a certified Music Therapist. Music is particularly important for older adults with dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease or neurological disorders. Catherine Bush, a certified music therapist reports, “even the most withdrawn, confused person is responsive to music. Music motivates, soothes, arouses and orients if only temporary.” Music and singing are good ways of increasing awareness, interest and responsiveness.
Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of Awakenings states that “music can be a crucially important aspect of therapy; often people who can no longer use or understand language … … can respond to music.” He added, nobody knows for sure how or why music often brings a measure of lucidity to Alzheimer patients, but that in his view the key may be music’s power to stimulate memories; without our memories we lose our identities.
At times music seems to be magical. It can bring elderly patients joy, laughter, tears, assurance and occasionally frustration. The response and awareness of themselves and their environment is the purpose of music therapy. A song like Let Me Call You Sweetheart can stimulate elderly persons into long reminiscence discussions about their first loves or their spouses. One person’s memories can provoke others in a group setting which stimulates social interaction. One Alzheimer patient was very unresponsive until someone would begin to sing to her. Immediately her eyes would begin to sparkle and, if she recognized the song, she would join in and never miss a beat.
Micky Hart, drummer for the Grateful Dead said “it’s a heartwarming thing to see the enthusiasm in patients who gather around for a music program knowing that some of them can’t even comb their hair. It is very gratifying to see a patient succeed, whether it be beating a drum, singing a song or just managing to stay put for thirty minutes.”
Music may not be a miracle cure, but it definitely plays a role in the allied health services today.
Weiss, Rick. “Music Therapy.” Washington Post, 1994.
Bush, Catherine. “Music: How to Make Magic.” NHC, Nashville, TN. April, 1995.
Cindy Farris
October 13, 1998
“From the love between the man and a woman to the oppression of people- music and song have supplied the soundtrack to life.
“Music is love in search of a word.”
“Music is a universal language. Where speech fails, then music begins. It is the natural medium for the expression of our emotions. The art that expresses in tones our feelings which are too strong and deep to be expressed in words.”
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and wihout reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5
O child, do not expect the trials to be lighter than in the past. Why should you think the tests would be less severe? I test all things. Do not look for respite. The days ahead may call for greater endurance and more robust faith than you ever needed before. Welcome this, for you must surely know how precious are the lessons learned through such experiences. Even if you are unable to fully anticipate them with joy, you can certainly gain an appropriate appreciation of them in retrospect.
Apply your heart to learn wisdom. This goal transcends every other aim, and any other good that comes out of a pressure period is an added blessing in excess.
Seek Me above all else.
Copyright 2002 by Frances J. Roberts
ISBN 1-58660-576-3
Published by Promise Press – Barbour Publishing, Inc. Uhrichsville, Ohio
Water. All Noah can see is water. The evening sun sinks into it. The clouds are reflected in it. His boat is surrounded by it. Water. Water to the north. Water to the south. Water to the east. Water to the west. Water.
He sent a raven on a scouting mission; it never returned. He sent a dove. It came back shivering and spent, having found no place to roost. Then, just this morning, he tried again. With a prayer he let it go and watched until the bird was no bigger than a speck on a window.
All day he looked for the dove’s return.
Now the sun is setting, and the sky is darkening, and he has come to look one final time, but all he sees is water. Water to the north. Water to the south. Water to the east. Water to the …
You know the feeling. You have stood where Noah stood. You’ve known your share of floods. Flooded by sorrow at the cemetery, stress at the office, anger at the disability in your body or the inability of your spouse. You’ve seen the floodwater rise, and you’ve likely seen the sun set on your hopes as well. You’ve been on Noah’s boat.
And you’ve needed what Noah needed; you’ve needed some hope. You’re not asking for a helicopter rescue, but the sound of one would be nice. Hope doesn’t promise an instant solution but rather the possibility of an eventual one. Sometimes all we need is a little hope.
That’s all Noah needed. And that’s all Noah received.
Here is how the Bible describes the moment: “When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf!” (Gen. 8:11 NIV).
An olive leaf. Noah would have been happy to have the bird but to have the leaf! This leaf was more than foliage; this was promise. The bird brought more than a piece of a tree; it brought hope. For isn’t that what hope is? Hope is an olive leaf—evidence of dry land after a flood. Proof to the dreamer that dreaming is worth the risk.
To all the Noahs of the world, to all who search the horizon for a fleck of hope, Jesus proclaims, “Yes!” And he comes. He comes as a dove. He comes bearing fruit from a distant land, from our future home. He comes with a leaf of hope.
Have you received yours? Don’t think your ark is too isolated. Don’t think your flood is too wide. Receive his hope, won’t you? Receive it because you need it. Receive it so you can share it. Receive his hope, won’t you? Receive it because you need it. Receive it so you can share it.
What do you suppose Noah did with his? What do you think he did with the leaf? Did he throw it overboard and forget about it? Do you suppose he stuck it in his pocket and saved it for a scrapbook? Or do you think he let out a whoop and assembled the troops and passed it around like the Hope Diamond it was?
Certainly he whooped. That’s what you do with hope. What do you do with olive leaves? You pass them around. You don’t stick them in your pocket. You give them to the ones you love. Love always hopes. “Love … bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Cor. 13:4–7 NKJV, emphasis mine).
Love has hope in you.
The aspiring young author was in need of hope. More than one person had told him to give up. “Getting published is impossible,” one mentor said. “Unless you are a national celebrity, publishers won’t talk to you.” Another warned, “Writing takes too much time. Besides, you don’t want all your thoughts on paper.”
Initially he listened. He agreed that writing was a waste of effort and turned his attention to other projects. But somehow the pen and pad were bourbon and Coke to the wordaholic. He’d rather write than read. So he wrote. How many nights did he pass on that couch in the corner of the apartment reshuffling his deck of verbs and nouns? And how many hours did his wife sit with him? He wordsmithing. She cross-stitching. Finally a manuscript was finished. Crude and laden with mistakes but finished.
She gave him the shove. “Send it out. What’s the harm?”
So out it went. Mailed to fifteen different publishers. While the couple waited, he wrote. While he wrote, she stitched. Neither expecting much, both hoping everything. Responses began to fill the mailbox. “I’m sorry, but we don’t accept unsolicited manuscripts.” “We must return your work. Best of luck.” “Our catalog doesn’t have room for unpublished authors.”
I still have those letters. Somewhere in a file. Finding them would take some time. Finding Denalyn’s cross-stitch, however, would take none. To see it, all I do is lift my eyes from this monitor and look on the wall. “Of all those arts in which the wise excel, nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.”
She gave it to me about the time the fifteenth letter arrived. A publisher had said yes. That letter is also framed. Which of the two is more meaningful? The gift from my wife or the letter from the publisher? The gift, hands down. For in giving the gift, Denalyn gave hope.
Love does that. Love extends an olive leaf to the loved one and says, “I have hope in you.”
Love is just as quick to say, “I have hope for you.”
You can say those words. You are a flood survivor. By God’s grace you have found your way to dry land. You know what it’s like to see the waters subside. And since you do, since you passed through a flood and lived to tell about it, you are qualified to give hope to someone else.
From A Love Worth Giving: Living in the Overflow of God’s Love
I am a woman who takes heart IN this Truth: Jesus has overcome this stinking world! Praise His Name because IN Him I can have peace amidst all the trials, tribulations, and sorrows that sometimes surround me. I know because He told me so!
I remember the first time I realized that John 16:33 was a promise and not just a thought or words on a page. No telling how many times I had read that verse, but never had I seen it as what it was/is…another of God’s promises to me…yep…it is whether I/we like it or not. But you see…Jesus did not leave us hangin! He gave us the bad news first and then followed it up with TAKE HEART my child because I, I, I have overcome the world!
Let’s make this our affirmation for this week:
I take heart that Jesus has overcome the world and IN Him I WILL walk in peace in spite of what’s going on around me today or any day!
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. John 16:33 [NLT]
I would like to say to all of you…first…CONGRATULATIONS, you did it!!
I pray that God’s Word will always be your guide. Study His Word as much as you can, hide it in your hearts so it will abide there forever. Take the below scriptures and put them in your own words; declare, affirm daily that you will allow God to direct every step along your life’s journey and be blessed in His directions…even if you might not like the directions in which He is leading you.
Remember if you falter or fail, you will not or cannot be totally defeated as long as you do not let go of God’s Hand. Keep your hands and hearts extended and He will never let go of yours.
Allow God by and through His Holy Spirit to teach you each time you look into His Word. Keep His precepts in every area of your life and He will make His Face to shine upon you. He will bless you beyond your wildest dreams and imaginations! And… finally…never forget to give God all glory, honor and praise for all things!
HE IS WORTHY…SO WORTHY!!!
God bless you each and everyone!
JESUS HUGS!!!
Cindy
Psalm 37:3-7, 16-17, 23-24, 29, 34 [NLT]
Trust in the Lord and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper.Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you. He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun. Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act. … It is better to be godly and have little than to be evil and rich. For the strength of the wicked will be shattered, but the Lord takes care of the godly. The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand. The godly will possess the land and will live there forever. Put your hope in the Lord. Travel steadily along his path. He will honor you by giving you the land. You will see the wicked destroyed.
Below (at the end of my blogging) is a “word” I have kept since 11/11/03. This was 3 days before my husband who went to be with the Lord on 2/20/03 would have turned 53 years old.
A note I made to myself that day was this: ”God is & has been speaking to me…He’s doing what HE is so faithful to do….I just can’t seem to do my part!”
I was in a really bad, low place at the time, I mean really bad and really low! This morning I am not in “that” place, but I do find myself in a somewhat state of confusion, wondering what to do about certain circumstances in my life. These circumstances have nothing to do with my new endeavor of getting healthy…no…so far I have not missed a beat and I will be heading to the gym a little later today…hopefully in just an hour or two. Neither do I find myself in despair or feeling dreadful or hopeless. It takes a WHOLE lot these days to cause me to feel hopeless for I know for absolute sure that my HOPE has a name — JESUS. The Apostle Paul said, if I had hope in this world only, I would be of most men miserable. I so agree with Brother Paul so I am not without hope…ever! I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, because we should never say never. I learned that when Jeff passed because at that time I did not think there was anything that could possibly shake my faith (HA!) I found out that was not the case at all!
Reminded myself of a quote: “Don’t always believe what you think you believe”. Many times we think things because that is what we want to believe, when in fact we are totally wrong about a person, place or thing…but because we want to believe the best and maybe because that’s the way we want someone or something to be, then we convince ourselves in our hearts and minds that…that is how it is! Which all this is another whole thought/lesson so let me get back on track!
Just as I knew in 2003, I know now that my God is not the author of confusion and I know He is the wonderful counselor. I go to Him often for counseling, for wisdom, just as I have been now for several weeks about a particular something. He speaks, I listen. The trouble is I don’t always like what I hear! The issues in my life today are not big, dark or ugly…but they are issues, nonetheless…matters of the heart. Another little trouble I have with what I’m hearing is…it’s not what Cindy wants and most likely not what Cindy needs though she thinks it is! Ya’ll ever find yourselves in either of those trouble spots? Not liking what you hear, so you kinda ignore it and keep asking the same questions only to get the same advice from God and/or you keep seeking. hoping God will change His mind because His answers aren’t what you want or think you need :) Boy! For me, for us to think that we know better than God…but we do it, don’t we?
God wants nothing but the best for us and He delights to give us the desires of our heart….so then why does God not answer our every request, our every desire with a “yes”? We know the answer don’t we? The answer can be found in Psalm 139. God laid out my life at the very milisecond I was conceived in my mother’s womb! HE HAS A PLAN and my plan does not always align with His! Throughout my walk with Him the last 32 years, I have really gotten myself in some tight spots and outright trouble simply because I did it my way and not His! It’s not so easy, is it to always trust and obey? We also find in Jeremiah God says: “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Yet I find myself once again questioning the plans an Almighty God, my Abba Father has for my life!
Are you there today…in this place like me? I hope not, but I know it happens to all of us so, don’t beat yourself up if you are. Let’s just continue to go to God. He can take it and He is patient with us. Let’s listen over and over again to His counsel, continue to meditate on it. Let’s fight the good fight of faith and strive to do all the things Bill Burns (through the Spirit of the Lord) tells us to do in the last paragraph below.
God bless and may you have a Monday full of mercy and grace!
”I come now as your counselor, and I say that there are those who wonder what to do about your circumstances, for there have been things occur that have overwhelmed you and caused a spirit of dread and confusion to come upon you. You are wondering what to do, for it seems hopeless. But, I say, this is not a hopeless situation, for I have given you dominion and authority and power. And, I say, what you must now do is bind the strong man. Fight the good fight of faith. War a good warfare. Do you not know and do you not understand that every new move and every new thing that I bring to the earth will be contended for by the enemy?
I say, do not let him have his way! Rise up as mighty men and women; take the sword of the Spirit (the Word) and confront the strong man and break the power of that hindrance. Break the power of the curse. Exercise by faith the authority that I have given you, for I have promised that I will fill your horn with the anointing, and that anointing will break the yoke of every bondage.
Rise up! Do not allow the enemy to hold you down. Come and be filled, for I am the One who fills the horn, and I am giving you at this time that which you need for the season that is ahead of you. Turn now from all disappointment and despair, and encourage yourself with this word. I am for you, and I am the Anointed One. I am bringing My anointing to you that you may be filled with all fullness and power. Receive now that yoke-breaking anointing, and then address the strong man in the power of My word and watch him flee seven ways from you, says the Lord.”
My answers are a little off the norm this morning…couple of things, maybe a few on my heart & mind this morning!
First, I am a proud aunt this morning! My eldest niece, Tracy Marie Woods is graduating from Murray State University this weekend! And if I may be so proud to say…with a boatload of honors! She has worked long and hard to get to this place and she also has held a job in the marketplace throughout the majority of these last 5 or 6 years! Her career will be in social work. She loves the Lord and is strong her faith and Lord knows we need some strong Christian people in that arena of this world!
Secondly, I am a woman on a mission! I have been on a mission for 12 years now to teach, exhort, edify & equip women how to live peace filled, joy filled, victorious lives IN Christ Jesus despite situations & circumstances surrounding them. (John 16:33) But this is a mission of a different kind, on a personal level…to improve my health, my physical strength and gain some daggone weight!!! I have tried several times, different times for many years now to do all this. I would start and fizzle out! I am way too sedentary and have been for way too many years. Health issues did cause some of it, but not all of it! My goal was to begin May 1st…didn’t make it…but I did begin yesterday! YEAH! GO ME!!!
I spent 2 hours at the fitness center, then I grabbed some lunch, went to the park, ate and then I walked 1/2 mile! WHEW! Oh and I bought a pair of flip flops while there too! They had my name on them! HeHe! Then I came home and took a power nap! LOL I didn’t think I was that tired, but I hadn’t been home long and I just became sooo sleepy, kinda like I am after a massage. So…I’m thinking that was a good thing…working them toxins out!!! Oh and speaking of toxins makes me think of water. After a massage you are to drink lots of water for that very reason…to wash those toxins out. So that is one of the many things on the list of this misson/journey…more water. I don’t like water! LOL So…that’s gonna be a toughie, but I drank 24 ounces yesterday and that is saying a lot for me! These bodies are made up of mostly water so duh…only goes to say that we need lots of it. It does many things for our bodies, inside and out and I know it’s gonna improve alot of things for me! I am also shopping for a bicycle. I biked indoors yesterday, but I love to be outdoors in spring and summer so I need a bike!
I got many bad habits that need to be broken and replaced with new healthy ones! This isn’t gonna be easy…seems for some reason I just lack discipline in this area, big time!
I posted what I’m fixing to say next on my FB page yesterday, but I’ll say it again here cause it was such a supernatural blessing and encouaragement to me.
“Talk about encouragement! God is so good to me! I’m on the parking lot of the fitness center…was ready to get out of the car…this song comes on radio! So I shut the door and listened…was blessed and encouraged. I WILL be faithful to this, to getting healthier and physically stronger! Beautiful day out here and at the moment I feel beautiful too! So…here we go!”
I’m gonna include the song here this morning. It’s really a love song, but I love it…love the lyrics and the music so I recognized it yesterday on the radio with the first few bars and knowing what the name of the song was/is…I began to smile immediately! I certainly realize that my AND your beauty is not dependent on how the outside looks…NO…beauty radiates from inside us…from our hearts/souls…but…we women tend to like to look good, right? Can I get an Amen? I am a woman full of joy most days and that’s where our true beauty lies, ladies! Joy springing forth from the soul! I do want to be more healthy, yes I do, but at the same time…it’s really not all about that and the Word says that these bodies are the temple of the God and I know I have not been the best steward of my temple. Lord knows, I’ve sure done better the last 30 years than I did the first 30…but we won’t talk about those years today!
I will be 60 in July and I feel too good, am too young in heart and number to feel and look so weak…too many wrinkles too! LOL I gotta a lot of living to do, a lot of work to do for the Lord and others, a lot of people to see, a lot of this world I would love to see, a lot of fun to have…so time to get ‘er done! LOL I WILL DO THIS! I am setting no time table for my misson…just the goal to do it! I hope to be here quite a few more years and I want quality of life for however many years I am here! I often say, in fun really…I wanna go outta here with gusto…and the more I think about it…I really mean that…not just being funny! Gotta a great quote about that very thing somewhere, but no time to find it right now…may I can find it later and include it as a P.S. tomorrow. It’s a goodie!
OK…so I gotta move on cause you know why…I’m on a mission…gotta get up and get ‘er done for this day! Here’s the song that blessed me so much yesterday:
Good morning!
Using another song this morning to answer this question! God is so good!
He’s always leading, if we’re seeking; always answering, if we’re asking. I was listening to another song, a song I already knew; looked over to the right side of the page and there was this song title: “Identity”! I had to check it out and it blew me away! GREAT lyrics, great affirmation, great reply to the question and on top of that…I just really like the music, rhythm of the song…it gets 10 stars in my book! Though I may fall short some days and really am not all these things…I still really am IN HIM!!! I don’t believe it was any coincidence that this song was on that same page where I was listening, because just minutes before that, silently I prayed and meditated upon the question…what would be my answer for this particular day and voila…right before my eyes and into my ears my answer appeared!
So as I answer with this song, I do it prayerfully. Lord, help me to be all of this and more each and every day! Remind me when I do fail, that it does not change my true identity I have found IN YOU! Amen!
Hi ladies! Below (very last thing on page) you will find a link to a video I have had saved a long time. I Really like this video so I’m using it this morning to say who I am and why I am who I am!
The whole purpose of this daily question to myself and I hope to each of you as you ask yourselves the question…is to constantly remind ourselves who we are IN Christ Jesus. Also, to ponder on why we are who we are and why are we here…on planet earth…what is our purpose?
I am quite sure I hear in the distance all your voices as you give your own answers to this question.
I am a mother.
I am a grandmother.
I am a daughter.
I am a sister.
I am an aunt.
I am a wife/housewife.
I am a Christian.
I am a teacher.
I am a nurse.
I am an accountant.
And the list could go on and on, right? All answers would be correct, you are many things and hold many titles, but you are so much more than all that! You all take on many identities through the course of your lives and hold many different jobs, positions and perform many tasks, but all those things are not really who you are or why you’re here. And if I may ask…have you ever really stopped to think about all this? Do you really know who you are and why you are here; what your true purpose is?
This video to me says it all! It’s a powerful message. It might make you happy and cause you to shout or it might make you sad and cause you to cry! I just hope it causes some type of reaction which will make you stop and evaluate your true identity and your true purpose!
Where it says, “we are not here” or “we are here”, change it to the first person singular “I”. Watch it two or three times if need be…let it sink in! You have been created for God’s glory and for no other reason! The message says, “we are here because He first loved us” and about mid-way it says, “we are here because the Gospel, the Good News has forever changed us.” Has it? If so…then from this point forward you/I should try to take a brief few seconds before every move, every action, every task, every job performed to ponder this: ‘with my next move, with my next words, with my next action, how can I glorify You, O Lord?’
Some of you may be scratching your head, I’m not sure. I say that, because you’re thinking, ‘well, gee…I am all those things I said I was and I do all those jobs/tasks I said I do and yes…you sure do! But the truth remains…we are here to glorify God…no other reason. The Word tells us we are to do every thing we do as unto the Lord!
All that you are on this earth and all that you do is important and needed so never tell yourself you are not good enough or your less than what God created you to be and do! He has given you all that you have, all the gifts that lie within you, the ability to do all that you might do each day! Never think your career, your daily tasks, are menial…NEVER! It takes all kinds to make the world go round…right? Haven’t you all heard that? Sometime we hear it in a negative way…but it’s really true. The Word says that we are all jointly fitted together; we can’t have all fingers and no toes or all heads and no feet!
If you’re a stay at home wife/mother or even if you’re not…your home is your first line of ministry; your home is your mission field and from there anywhere your little feet trod is your mission field! You do not have to be “important” according to world standards or have a title or be on a platform in your church to teach, preach the Gospel and glorify God! In Him, we live and move and have our being! Even with every breath you take in and let out…you glorify God!
It’s that simple…it’s a matter of walking in the spirit though your feet are on this ole dirty, grungy, sometimes harsh and cruel planet called earth. It’s about having the mind of Christ! It’s about setting our affections on things above and not of this earth. It’s about compassion…thinking and caring more of and for others than you think of yourself. Christ lives in us, we are to represent him, to let His light shine, not ours! It’s just not about us…it’s ALL about Him and the simple fact…that’s He’s God and we’re not!
REMEMBER …
YOU ARE SOMEBODY IN CHRIST JESUS and YOU HAVE A CALLING, A DESTINY, A PURPOSE!
Soooooo…
GO, BE, DO, FULFILL YOUR CALLING, YOUR DESTINY, YOUR PURPOSE! Don’t wait…do it now…now is all you have!
So shall you know skillful and godly Wisdom to be thus to your life; if you find it, then shall there be a future and a reward, and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off. Proverbs 24:14 [AMP]
