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Poor Leadership Curses The People

April 16, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

 It is evident in today’s time of the curses that take place due to leadership that does not follow God’s instruction. One of the most vital parts of a true leader is one that seeks God’s instruction and learns to apply it while being alert to the gifts of the next generation. When we fail to recognize the talents of others and neglect our responsibility as a leader to help someone else develop the gifts that God has given is when we are destined for stagnant growth and deterioration.

 Throughout the Word of God He gives us the instruction of how to not only maintain our homes, our jobs, our churches, our communities, and our nation He also gives us the instruction to live with a purpose in life. We often lose sight of this purpose due to judgement, pressures or temptations from the world and this poor leadership leads to discipline back upon the people.

 Why should we expect our children to have security if we are not following God’s instruction and adhering to His Word? How can we honestly expect the next generation to find direction if we are not teaching them who shows us the Way? Another sad part is how stagnant we have become in creativity due to our drift away from the Creator. The further we drift away from God the further we will fall and the harder it will be on the next generation. 

 This has been proven throughout history and until we learn how to recognize this truth then we are only neglecting the evidence that is right before us. The question that we should be asking is this,”Are we listening for God or are we listening to man?” Too many times we allow positions of leadership to be filled with individuals that are out of position due to seeking the desires of man instead of the ones with the heart for the position in properly serving the people.

 Learning how to let go and simply trust in God can be an excruciating process but is very rewarding as we begin to see the hand of God at work. If we are not teaching our children how to trust in the Lord through our words and actions then how can we honestly expect them to do the same? In trusting the Lord it is vital that we teach our children how to recognize the God given gifts of others to help edify the Kingdom of God and maintain the liberty that we have been given. It is my prayer that we learn to put aside our differences and begin to recognize the gifts within God’s children to help carry us forward.

 For when something is of God there is no weight, no burden nor struggle. The work is not looked upon as work with dread but with a zeal in working unto the Lord instead of man. For their is a joy that only comes from God that uplifts our relationships as we begin to have unity within the body to serve His purpose instead of our own…

 Psalm 146:3 ‘Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help’.

James A. Harrison

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Filed Under: Balanced Life Ministry, Church Assistance, Leadership Forum, Raising Children, Spiritual Growth, The Church Voice Tagged With: American Family radio, balance, Balanced Life Ministry, God, James Harrison, Jesus Christ, life, love, purpose, special delivery, the purpose driven church

Tests Of God Strengthens Our Faith…

March 28, 2011 by admin 1 Comment

 When faced with a difficult decision don’t allow impatience to drive you to disobey God. When you know what God wants in your life then follow His plan regardless of the consequences . God often uses delays to test our obedience and patience but far too often we struggle to trust God when we feel our resources are slipping away.  

 The Lord tells us that He will never leave us nor forsake us and His Word is always proven true. Sometimes the very  things that we feel slipping away happen for a reason and the object is to recognize the season. For some things we think we need are not what we need and sometimes what we try to hold on to is the very thing that God is trying to show us that we need to let go of. 

 When we learn how to let go of the side of the boat and place our trust totally in Him with our eyes upon Jesus is when God will teach us how to walk on water and reach the other side. Too many times we scramble for the side of the boat simply because we do not know how to let it go…

James A. Harrison

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Filed Under: Balanced Life Ministry, Daily Growth, Leadership Forum Tagged With: American Family radio, balance, Balanced Life Ministry, God, James Harrison, Jesus Christ, life, love, oprah winfrey new earth church, special delivery

Unity Requires Trust

March 22, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

 Have you ever really considered the lesson of Joshua and Caleb when they were ready to go forward into the Promised Land but the others on their team being the Israelites lacked faith in God because they could not take their eyes off of man? Think about it! If you have a team that carries specific talents and they are in their positions but fail to trust in one another then how far do you honestly expect the team to go? Could you see that the team would lack harmony due to their lack of unity?

 This same principle applies in our homes, our careers and in the church. For without trust their is a constant battle for the ball and this causes many people to miss the ones that have received God’s call. It is vital to understand that we all drop the ball from time to time but what matters is how we pick the ball back up and get back in the game!  

 James A. Harrison

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Filed Under: Abuse, Balanced Life Ministry, Church Assistance, Daily Growth, Divorce & Broken Homes, Leadership Forum, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: American Family radio, balance, balanced life, Balanced Life Ministry, God, James Harrison, life, love, special delivery

Love Thy Neighbor

November 24, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

 Have you ever witnessed the joy in watching a newborn child take his/her first steps? The first steps of an infant are the hardest steps of their life due to their fears of falling. You would think that their feet weigh a thousand pounds in the effort that it takes for them to take their first step. Once they make this first step every other step gets easier as long as they continue to try even after their fall.

 Our children have a security in the arms of a parent that surrounds them in love as they begin their walk in life. This security gives them an inner confidence that helps them to develop a strength in their walk as they grow from day to day. There is a parallel to the steps of a newborn child learning to walk in relation to the steps of a newborn Christian. Based on the Word of God we are to be there for our brothers and sisters in Christ just as we are there for our children in their first steps in life.

 We all know that a child will fall in the early stages of their walk until they learn how to stand on their own. Why is that when we see a child fall we have compassion and even help them up but when we see an adult fall we won’t even give them a call? Why do we forgive our children over and over but when another adult offends us we cut them out as if they mean nothing at all?

 What is wrong with this picture based on the Word of God? If we are going to call ourselves parents lets be parents and if we are going to call our self a Christian then lets be a Christian. Learning to love is not something that only takes place in a brief period of time. Love is something that grows deeper and deeper the more we learn to love thy neighbor as thy self…

James A. Harrison

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Filed Under: Balanced Life Ministry, Church Assistance, Daily Growth, Leadership Forum Tagged With: American Family radio, balance, balanced life, child, God, James Harrison, Jesus Christ, life, love, special delivery

Speak The Truth Without Fear

November 19, 2010 by admin 3 Comments

 Due to our society here in America drifting away from the Word of God and leaving out the gospel of Jesus Christ this has allowed Satan (spiritually) to develop a society that is growing in fear. This fear that has been building here in our country has allowed our government and leadership to develop laws of man to govern the people instead of teaching the self discipline that is taught in the Word of God. We have become a nation of critics instead of One Nation Under God with Liberty and Justice for All.

The spirit of fear has been used as a marketing tool of Satan to spiritually rob us of our joy that we simply have in life. Unfortunately, this spirit of fear has even misled many pastors in the pulpit due to their own fears of losing the congregation verses trusting God to supply their needs. God’s word plainly tells us that no man knoweth the day nor the hour and the Lord plainly teaches us to cast our fears upon the Lord while trusting in Him to deliver our needs.

 There are many different levels of fear that can take us down into a dark lonely pit of no return. Fear causes us to run to the doctor everytime we feel a sniffle coming on, fears rob us of victory because we are too scaird of failure and our fears often cause us to sugar coat the Truth to the point that Satan will place us in spiritual bondage. Here is an example of spiritual bondage that develops in a broken home that does not follow the Word of God;

 Let’s take a single parent that has been recently divorced and lost their child. It is their time to spend with the child and they are looking forward to the weekend. Now, when the child arrives he/shetest the parameters of the home due to losing the structure that once gave them the security within their home. This often takes place due to their own inner anger with their parents and it can lead into rebellion with a child. Out of fear the parent does not want to correct the child because they fear that their child will not want to return.

 This fear of a parent not disciplining their child leads to the child now becoming the parent. Instead of the parent guiding the child the child begins to guide the parent and the longer this develops the harder it is to correct. Where many divorced parents go wrong is trying to buy their children’s love instead of teaching them how to be content and work through their issues in life through the love of Jesus Christ.

 Another side of this fear that can develop in a broken home is when the parents do not know how to trust God and be obedient to His Word. When this takes place either one of the parents or both tend to turn their child against the other parent due to their own fear of losing the love of their child. This lack of  trusting God places us in a spiritual bondage of Satan that can have a negative impact on our children’s future. Where many divorced parents go wrong is trying to rob their own child of the love that is shared with the other parent. 

 Our fears of speaking the Truth in love and adhering to God’s Word places us in a vulnerable position for Satan to rob us who we are as a child of God and it opens the doors to the pit that will take us down not only individually but also as a nation unless we Wake Up to the Truth in the Word of God. This dark pit of fear has been used by Satan spiritually to divide our children and to capitalize on our emotions. If we are not careful to address our fears in the Truth and we allow them to continue to build then we are setting ourselves up for an explosion that could have been prevented if we would simply follow God’s Word.

  Based on the 1st Amendment of the United States of America every citizen has a right to speak the Truth in the Word of God and to share their salvation in Jesus Christ. Where many Christians go wrong is that it is not our place to push our way on another for love is never directed because it comes in our own freewill.

 Man should never allow his fears to rob him of the Truth. Nor should any entity be allowed to remove God from our foundation. Without God our homes and our lives become vulnerable to Satan and they cause us to have fears that lead us to following man instead of the Lord. Without the Truth what do we really think that we have and who do we really think that we are? There is strength and security within the Truth of God that protects our nation and our homes for our children’s future.

 If there is anything gained from this article it is my prayer that you don’t allow your fears to rob you of the Victory that we have in the love of Jesus Christ and that you learn to simply speak the Truth of God while trusting in Him to do the rest. His Word does not return to us void!!!

James A. Harrison

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Filed Under: Balanced Life Ministry, Church Assistance, Divorce & Broken Homes, Leadership Forum, Marriage, Raising Children, The Church Voice Tagged With: American Family radio, balance, balanced life, cold, divorce, fear, fox news, God, James Harrison, Jesus Christ, life, rebellion, special delivery

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