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Do You Listen?
Do you listen? Are you listening to understand? Do you pay attention to someone when they are talking or instructing? – People who are eager to listen will continue to learn & grow throughout their lives. #leadership – Listening is a sign of strength – Refuse to become set in your ways and watch how you expand the limits of your knowledge. #stayrooted #listen #payattention #strength
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Book of Life – Is Your Name in It?
There is one way to hope, acceptance, freedom, peace and love – today and forever – that way is Jesus! Jesus’ words: Rev 3:5-6 “All who are victorious will be clothed in white. I will never erase their names from the Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and His angels they are mine. Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what He is saying to the churches.” To be clothed in white means to be set apart. Christ DOES promise future honor and eternal life to those who stand firm in their faith! We are going to be set apart! The…
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Covid Funk
During the last 9 months of Covid I have been struggling with some old bad habits, along with not wanting to exercise, not wanting to eat well, not caring about my heath and I just plain feel physically awful. I am in a funk. Can anyone else relate? My daughter asked me if I had taken these issues to God? “Truthful witnesses save lives; false witnesses are traitors” (Proverb 14:25) We must turn to God when we are struggling (no matter what it is) and ask for His help and direction. What a blessing to have truth come from the ones closest to you! When truth hits us upside the…
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BUT EVEN IF HE DOESN’T
Faith by believing and not by seeing. What powerful words written by Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:7. We’ve all heard the story from the Bible about the three men thrown into the furnace. This is the kind of faith Paul was writing about. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were standing in front of King Nebuchadnezzar as he demanded that they bow down to his idols or be thrown into the blazing furnace. Were they scared? Did they ask for time to think about their decision? Did they bow down to the idols to save their lives? No! “If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is…
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Nagging – Not God’s way!
“A quarrelsome wife is annoying as a constant dripping on a rainy day. Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands.” Proverb 27:15-16 What is quarrelsome nagging? It is a steady stream of unwanted advice mixed with anger and complaining – it is truly a form of torture for our husband. Being a wife of almost 30 years, I am very familiar with the destructive habit of nagging and complaining! It is one of the easiest ways to spoil a husband’s happiness. Why do we nag and complain? We want to get our point across to our husband with our…
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Lessons Learned from a Bottled Water
Several years ago I was sharing my frustration with my Director because one of the hotels I frequented regularly had charged me $5 for a bottle of water that I had not consumed. I had been in touch with the hotel manager on several occasions trying to get my account credited. After weeks of phone calls and emails I still had not gotten the credit. (Seriously this must have been really hard!) I felt like such an injustice had been committed and I was on a mission. My boss listened to my rant then simply looked at me and said, “So how much of the company’s money have you spent…
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Rest Your Brain
Sometimes just being quiet for one minute is all we need! Information comes at us all day long! Our brains need a break! Try it today! Rest your brain. Set a timer. Think about your favorite Bible verse, say a prayer, or just sit in his presence….
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Laziness Leads To Destruction
“A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things.” Proverbs 18:9 (NLT) “One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.” Proverbs 18:9 (NIV) “Lazy” and “slack” stick out above and then we read “destroys.” These are two different translations of the same Proverb. God does not want us to be lazy in our daily job or spiritual life, laziness will lead to destruction. Let’s look at our daily job: We go to work each day to provide money but many complain and are lazy on the job. If we are LAZY on the job we fail to grow. We do earn a paycheck,…
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OPEN your Mouth
Good morning ladies! Happy Sunday! Lisa here – I had a great reminder from a friend last night that we need to keep telling the lost about Jesus – we can’t keep Him to ourselves. We need to open our mouths! Be bold! Be willing to be different and possibly lose a friend, job, or family member for the sake of Jesus. The main takeaway from our conversation was that Paul was in jail so many times because he would not stop TALKING about Jesus! If you are not talking about Him to everyone are you not hungry for Him?! We need to share the Good News to everyone we…
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ARE YOU LIKE MARY OR MARTHA?
One thing I have loved about my study in the book of Luke is that he wrote about accounts that are not in any other of the gospels. As I read this morning about when Jesus visited Martha and her sister Mary, I reflected on which of these two ladies I identified with. Hands down it is Martha! Martha believed who Jesus was and had growing faith. She also had a strong desire to do everything right! (yep, that is me!). I am often teased about my extreme planning and organizational skills. Especially when I whip out my beach trip spreadsheet! However, Martha (just like myself) had some flaws. Martha…
