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Communication Is Living Art

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 Have you ever watched an artist paint as they brought a blank piece of canvas to life? There is alot to learn from an artist that knows how to use the primary colors in mixing two different ones to receive another color in return which is used to bring their picture to life. Colors are used by artist to express their inner thoughts and their emotions. From an artist perspective, as colors blend together this is the same principle in learning to communicate with each other.

 If you were to analyze the very words that come out of your mouth how would they be reflecting your inner thoughts and displaying your emotions? Would you find your conversations productive and blending with others without restrictions in adding something to God’s picture of life? Or, would you find that you are painting a picture alone with hard lines and dark words that miss the meaning in blending our words in love?

 Learning to communicate in a loving spirit requires the primary principles of how to stand and then we learn how to add color through our words and actions that brings God’s picture to life. In God’s picture there is love that flows from the mountain tops to the valleys in living water. This living water is displayed from the waterfalls to the rivers and then to the springs.

  The lakes are fed from the springs that come up from below and they are like mirrors reflecting what they see. There are green meadows, blue skies and alot of God’s children playing close by. The wildlife is at peace due to the harmony in the spirit while everything in life is experiencing unity through the love of Jesus Christ…

 As you can see our words can paint pictures and display our inner thoughts when we learn to look at what colors are coming up from our well. I challenge you to look at the colors that you bring into life to insure that they are adding something good verses something that could be bad. For who wants to paint a painting all alone and miss the relationship that we can have with our Creator on the eternal throne? 

 May your words add color and warmth to this cold world for others to see how to properly believe….Amen       

James A. Harrison

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Look To God For He Is The Artist

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  As an adult teaching a child how to draw we often start them out by connecting the dots of a picture. In these first stages of a young child that does not know how to look beyond what they see it is our place as a parent to teach our children how to develop the image in their mind and then how to believe. Exercising our minds requires effort and discernment to figure out the picture that we have before us. Then once we see the picture it is our place to help God’s children do the same while we learn to add value between the lines.

 Have you ever thought you saw one thing but then as you continued on you began to see something totally different than what you thought at first? Did you look back and recognize all the wasted energy and time that was spent in the picture that you tried to develop in your own mind? Too many times we allow our human nature or Satan to develop a wrong picture due to focusing on what we see and forgetting how God teaches us to look forward and how to believe.  

 Life can be very stimulating when we learn how to connect the dots through listening and applying God’s Word to what we hear and to what we see. Don’t get caught up in the spiritual confusion of human intellect that can cause someone to simply forget how to connect the dots in God’s living art. There is only one true artist in Heaven above and He is the Creator of this living picture in life. He paints with love through His Son Jesus Christ which touches our lives and fills our souls…Amen

James A. Harrison

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Are You A Teacher Or A Dictator?

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 Did you ever play connect the dots as a child? Did you find the game interesting as you began to see the picture come to life? Now that you are older have you ever helped a young child play the game in return? Wasn’t it exciting to see the child’s face come to life as the picture began to develop before their eyes? Why is it when we work with children that we allow them to figure out the picture for themselves but as we grow older we tend to become impatient and want show our own intellect in describing the picture for our self?

 There is an art to teaching and delegating that can inspire others when we learn to sacrifice our self and place the dots in front of the student or employee which will motivate them to figure out the task at hand. Unfortunately many parents, teachers and employers never figure out the meaning of sacrifice and how to inspire growth in other individuals because they become too lazy in dictating instead of teaching. 

 Due to our lazy human nature or our busy schedules we often give the answers without taking the time to listen and explain for someone to receive them on their own. Spiritually Satan wants us to feel as if we don’t have the time when we really do. For when we take the time to serve others then we are serving God and He will supply us with the time that we need in return. 

  There is nothing more inspiring than to witness the excitement of someone else connecting the dots as they begin to look within themselves and allow God to develop their picture in life. For when we begin to see the picture that God has before us and recognize the value within the color that we can add is when we discover the inner springs of creativity which come from our Creator in Heaven above…amen

James A. Harrison

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Work Together Without Resistance

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 Recently, a friend shared a story with me about his two boys that were going to build a deck one afternoon. His son requested the help of his brother on the construction of the deck. The son that was building the deck at his home had studied the instructions from the Internet and relayed this information to the his brother before he arrived.

 This task concerned the brother that was called to help because he had his own way of construction and did not want listen to the Internet instruction. In his love for his brother he agreed to help but along the way he called his father for some council. The father gave him some good advice in spiritual wisdom that helped his two sons not only accomplish the task in a timely manner but it kept them united in spirit without the spiritual resistance between them hindering the mission.

 The fathers advice was simply this,”Just help your brother build his deck.”  That advice seems short but it is very wise because too many times we encounter spiritual resistance between one another because we get to busy trying to tell someone else how to achieve their goals. There are principles that have to be followed to accomplish any objective but each person might not travel the same road to reach their destination.  

 Here is the life lesson from this experience. Pay attention to what someone is asking to hear their needs and learn to work with them to achieve their goal. God gives each one of us individual objectives and it should be our goal to understand our position without trying to take over someone elses mission…Amen   

 James A. Harrison

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What Is Your Dream?

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 Too many times we allow Satan to spiritually divide us because we simply do not know how to trust in God and act in love. Why does this happen? Because we simply allow Satan to enter into our own minds and develop misconstrued thoughts without being obedient to God’s Word. The spiritual resistance that we encounter due to someones lack of faith or belief often restricts the growth and progress that can be attained in the spirit of God. The more that we tear each other down rather than uplifting and encouraging one another in love allows Satan to spiritually hold us back from the promises of God.

 Learning to work within the Kingdom of God requires each one of us to serve one another however we can to help someone else discover their purpose in life through the love of Jesus Christ. For instance, it is my place as a husband to not change my wife but to encorage her to be who God has set her out to be.  We all have different heartfelt dreams and ambitions that can reach out to help others when we are willing to lend our support.

 If you have a dream or a passion that God has given never give up or allow Satan to spiritually discourage you from achieving what God has placed in your spirit. One of the most inspiring things that we can ever do is helping someone else in the spirit of God to see their dreams come true…Amen

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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