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Discipline With Love And Justice

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 There are two principles that make up the very foundation of God’s character and they are love and justice. These principles are not easy to keep in balance but they are essential to maintain who we are as a child of God. Some people are loving to the point that they excuse wrong doing while other people are just the opposite in forgetting how to love .

 Love without justice leaves people in their sins because it is not aiming them to higher standards. On the other hand justice without love drives people away from God because it has no heart. To specialize in one and forget the other causes a distortion in our witness while leaving a negative impact on someone else.  

When you are called to discipline someone else like your children, students, employees or other church members do not be rigid. Vary your approach according to the goals you are seeking to accomplish and in each case ask yourself this question before your act, “Does this person need guidance or do they need to be nurtured?” 

 God is patient with us and we should be patient with others…

James A. Harrison

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Are You Firmly Planted?

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 Did you know that it is Satan’s objective in your life to keep you from being committed not only to God but in everything else? It should be our desire as a Christian to make a positive difference in this world but what good is this if we can’t even make a positive difference where we are? We often tend to chase the world instead of learning to grow where God has planted us because we tend to neglect what we already have.

 It is in our human nature to conquer things that we don’t have but what good is conquering something if we don’t know how to maintain it? Don’t fall to the spiritual traps of Satan that cause us to lose our balance and forget where we stand. The world likes to tell us, “Do this and do that.” Where God says, “Take care of this and if you neglect what you have don’t be surprised when I allow it to be taken away.”

 Staying in tune with God and learning to grow where He has planted us helps us to develop a sense of peace that only comes from God. If you are missing this peace seek God in prayer for the direction you need to bloom where you have been planted…

James Harrison

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Use What God Has Given You…

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 Did you know that one of the worst things that we can do is hold back someone else when they are ready to move forward? Because when we hold back someone without giving them the opportunity to go forward then we are allowing Satan to spiritually control our actions and restricting the blessings that are sure to come.

 It is very easy  to become blinded to our surroundings and miss what God has right before us when we allow Satan to cloud our vision. When we seek daily to stay in tune with God He helps us to be alert to our surroundings to maintain the integrity in what He has given to carry us forward. It is when we overlook what we already have that Satan often robs us of what God has given.

 Are you alert to your surroundings? Are you seeking God to point out the areas that might need to be addressed? It does not take much to lose our balance when we take our eyes off of what we already have because this is what Satan spiritually desires in tearing down instead of building up. I challenge you today to learn how to build with God instead of looking for something that you already have.

 Why should we ask God to bless us with something else when we are not properly using what  He has already given?

James A. Harrison

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Show Your Love In Whom You Love

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 Love is something that will inspire someone to go beyond levels that we can even comprehend and love is something that will deliver our lives from the end. Have you ever noticed how one kind word in love can bring someones lifeless face to a smile that will light up a place? The way we are to keep our marriages alive are through the love of God and not for the love of something in return.

 There is nothing like feeling the love of Jesus in the ones that are true to His Word. For unconditional love without partiality or judgement is something that no one can explain because it is the healer to all of our pains. The object is to seek to please God instead of seeking to please others and when we learn to trust in Him is when He will show us the Way…

James A. Harrison

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Regain Your Youth

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  Everywhere we look there are people pushing some new miracle product which they claim will revive our youth and our stamina. Some ministries have even fallen into pushing these products as the best medicine we can receive in forgetting how to believe. While the doctors are injecting others with a potion that fills our hopes and dreams. The world does a good job of selling the world and over complicating things that are really quite simple. 

 The best medicine that will increase our stamina comes from the self discipline that is taught in the Word of God and our youth is returned when we discover Jesus Christ. Think about it; Are you having trouble breathing or simply have a loss of energy? Have you considered what you are putting in your body and the lack of exercise to maintain the strength in your lungs? Maybe the wrinkles are out of control and your age is starting to show. Have you considered a balanced routine that requires adequate rest or possibly that the wrinkles are just part of life in growing old?

  To maintain our health and our stamina it is crucial to stay close to God and learn to be obedient to the Holy Spirit which guides us to do what needs to be done  to maintain who we are. Abraham stayed close to God and he did not need Viagra because he knew who kept his blood pumping and he allowed God to keep his marriage alive. If you need a boost try God before you try anything else on your own and allow the love of Jesus to give you life like you have never known…

James A. Harrison

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Spiritual Revelations

Don’t be like Eli in 1st Samuel and miss something that has been given by God. If you recall with Eli he did not listen because the Word of God was rare in those days and he did not recognize what was taking place until he saw the persistence of Samuel…

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