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Stay The Course Inspite The Winds

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 Life can be an emotional roller coaster when we fail to place our trust in God and we take matters into our own hands. Learning to communicate in love can be a strenuous thing in our flesh but when we learn to keep our eyes on the cross rather than the obstacle that may be before us is when God will carry us to the other side.  

 Seeking what is right by God rather than what we think is right for ourselves helps us to maintain a steady coarse without all the ups and downs. Just because we may have done something one way for so long does not mean that we can’t try something new. Think about it; The wind blows in many different directions and sometimes gentle with other times very strong but does this mean that we are to lose site of the objective? Absolutely Not! This just means that we learn to entrench ourselves in the Word of God to develop our senses as we are taught in Hebrews 5:14. 

 Then it just becomes application as Jesus taught us in Matthew 10:16 in being wise as a serpent and then as gentle as a dove. If your life is full of ups and downs don’t allow Satan to rob you of your joy. Stay the coarse and learn to trust God while being anchored to the Rock of Jesus who teaches us the Way…Amen

James A. Harrison

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History Is A Tool For The Future

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  Have you ever considered the importance of studying history not to to just learn the stories but to learn where and why something went wrong? So many times we get caught up in knowing the stories in history that we forget the main reason in learning from our past to possibly prevent something in our future.

 The Lord gives us the stories in the Old Testament to teach us how to be alert spiritually to evil and to recognize something in sin that can develop in us to divert the path that we are on. In Genesis 4 the Lord taught us this lesson before everything else with Cain and it was recorded for our own recognition to prevent something from consuming us to the point that it can destroy us. 

 History is a great tool when we know how to apply it to our lives today without becoming stuck in it to the point that we miss the lesson in it. The same evil spirits that have taken down men and women in history are the same spirits that attack us today. Don’t be fooled and think that history is only history because if you really pay attention to the times you will find that history tends to repeat itself until the people learn how to walk with Jesus to reach the other side…amen

James A. Harrison

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Are You In Tune With God?

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 Why is it that we tend to act so surprised when something changes in our life? This does not mean that some changes don’t come swiftly but if we are honest when we look at different things that take place there are usually signs that precede the action. The Lord tells us in Job 38:36 that God gives us our intuition to the heart and that He gives us our instinct to the mind but we tend to override the guidance of God due to our own negligence and sinful nature.

 The problem is that when we drift away from God and forget how to listen that we often neglect the senses that He has given us to stay in tune within the environment in which we are in.  Staying in tune with God helps us to be alert and aware of our surroundings and it also helps us to maintain what He has given. Are you aware of your surroundings or are you so caught up in everything else that you can’t even feel the water at your feet? Don’t allow Satan to spiritually cause you to miss what God has right before you and learn to grow where you have been planted to increase the yield in your harvest…amen

 For life is a beautiful thing, when we learn how to receive God’s rain…

James Harrison

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Be A Giver, Not A Taker

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 If you were to look at your life today in every aspect and ask yourself this question ,”Am I a giver or a taker?” What would be your answer? We all try to justify the measure in which we give due to our human nature but there comes a time when we should be trying to out-give what receive. For when we go the extra mile in giving is when God often gives us something in return whether in this life or in the next.

 Can you imagine what Jesus must have been thinking as He carried that cross for you and me? What if He would have taken the stance of holding back instead of giving His all? The Lord instructs us in Colossians 3:23 to do everything unto the Lord and this means that in everything we do we should be seeking to please God instead of only pleasing ourselves. For we all know what happened to Cain when he held back what could have been given.

 Is there an area in your life that you are holding back? Maybe in your relationships. Maybe in your job or maybe in your walk with the Lord? We all have areas that we can address but when we begin to neglect that every single day requires us giving something back in return then our days often become numbered because what use are we if we only take without giving something in return?

James Harrison

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Stand With Jesus Or Fall With Satan

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 Throughout the Holy Bible the Lord teaches us to stand strong in faith and to be to obedient to God’s Word. No where does it teach us to be complacent and allow things into our lives or into our homes that are not right by God due to the destruction that is destined to follow. When we allow what is simply wrong to take place over what is right our lives fall into a spiritual bondage of Satan that only takes us deeper away from the Truth until we learn how to speak what we know in our hearts.

 True love does not always give us everything we want because in our human nature we often seek things that we do not need. For instance do you give your children everything they ask or do you teach them how to have patience and earn their rewards? One of the hardest things to learn is the balance that is required in true love due to the self discipline that is a must and the teaching that is required in time to maintain what we have received.

 At no point in the walk of Jesus did he allow the world or Satan to influence His decisions or redirect the coarse in His life. Do you know the coarse in your life? Has it been redirected by something in this world instead of following what you know in your heart? Has Satan spiritually enticed you to chase the world instead of staying on coarse with God? Has the trap of the world placed you in the bondage of debt because of the lack of being obedient in the Word of God?

 I am here to tell you that there is Hope no matter the coarse that you are on. The first step of action is first recognizing where we are to see where we need to be headed and then one step at a time God will bring us back home…Amen

James 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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