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Is There Life In Your Marriage?

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 To maintain the fire within our marriage there must be substance within our actions. This substance should be driven by the love we carry. Without substance within our relationships this opens the doors for others to stumble due to living a life of complacencey and simply going through the motions. In everything we do there is a marriage from our careers to our friends from our homes and especially with the Lord but if we have no substance within our actions then our marriage can become lifeless.

 Where we find Life we find energy. Where we find Life we find strength. Where we find Life we find Honor. Where we find Life we find love and where we find Life we find God. Does your life project the Life that is within you or does it project something of death or darkness? In everything we do as God is in front there should be a light warming our souls and being magnified to others. If you were to look in the mirror of God today what would you see? I pray that you will find substance in your actions that is driven by love in depths that never quit until the day we go home. For without Life what do we really have?

James A. Harrison

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A Gentle Warning….

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 Have you ever felt a hunger pain? Do you recall the tightening of your stomach and the craving sensations that you experienced? How about a hunger pain to reach a goal that you have been seeking within your heart? Can you recall making some wrong steps due to following your heart rather than waiting on the instruction of God?

 Hunger pains are good when we learn how to wait upon the Lord for they teach us self discipline and help to develop our senses. During our hunger periods in life the devil works in many ways to throw us off course and it is wise to stay in tune with God to insure the steps which are taken. The next time you feel hungry for something maybe in a relationship, a job, for food, or for something more of God may I encourage you to take a step back and ask yourself this question,”Is God directing my steps and can I see healthy results in the decision which is being made?” If your hunger is spiritual then may I strongly encourage you to be humble enough to ask yourself this question,” Am I truly ready for the steps before me?” 

 Our decisions have either positive or negative affects on others and before any decision is being made seek God first to receive your answers…

James A. Harrison

Old & New Working Together…

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 Have you ever studied the human anatomy and how the human cells are growing new ones every day? Have you ever thought about the purpose of this maturity within our physical bodies and how it is related within the body of Christ? Learning to work within the body requires unity, understanding and harmony as the body matures in season.

  Working together requires maturing in love as we learn to stand in obedience for the next cell to take our place before moving to the next location within the body. This is to take place without frictions within the body in order to prevent restrictions and to allow the body or entity to function properly within life. The problem  that many cells encounter within this process is learning to trust God so they try to hold on to their positions for too long and this can restrict the overall movement in the direction of God. Sometimes cells have to die off before the next ones can enter in for the new life to begin.

 This same principle applies within our homes, our careers as well as in the overall body of the church. For when we learn to move in the hand of God is when greater things can take place as well as maintaining the body that we have been given. Here is question for you this morning,”Are you ready to be moved?” If not then what is wrong with this picture? For there is no cell within the physical body that ever stays intact nor healthy unless it is ready to moved into the next position. The object is to disciple one to one day replace the next…For if a cell is undeveloped when thrown into position how could this affect the overall body? Are you ready? Are you training  

James A. Harrison

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New Wine…

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 Jesus teaches us that we can not put new wine in an old wineskin due to the expansion of the new wine in the fermentation process that will cause the old wineskin to explode. The fermentation process of the new wine or lets say youth climbs at accelerated rates where the old wine has passed through this process and now matures at gradual rates deepening the taste within the soul.

 Here is where a major problem occurs often within the church body due to its own lack of understanding of the natural progression of God. The body of Christ is alive and strong with the new growing within the old and when the old does not learn to shift within season this can cause one of two things oppression or an explosion which bring many other issues within the body. This same principle applies within our homes, our careers and simply in the process of life. For when we try to restrict the natural progression of God within the lives of others then we are holding back what God is taking forward.

 May I challenge you today to never become stuck where you are and always be open to learn from the new to deepen the depth of the old…

James A. Harrison

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Trust In The Lord…

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 In Luke 2 :19 we learn how Mary kept things in her heart but thought about them often. She knew what the Lord had shared with her about her Son Jesus and she also knew how Elizabeth spoke of the child that she carried. The awesome part of this lesson is how Mary did not go around boasting about her Son and how she allowed the Lord to reveal the man that He was.

 Learning to keep our mouths shut and allowing God to place us into position is the most secure place we can ever be. This goes against our human nature in many ways but when we learn to wait upon the Lord there is a peace beyond all understanding….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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