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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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Balancing Is An Art…

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 As a child of God did you know that we internally go through a war until we learn how to surrender to God through Jesus Christ? Once we learn how to Surrender the next stage is learning how to Balance. Think about it; “Surrendering is an act and Balancing is an art that requires self discipline to maintain who we are.”

 Both stages are very important in our daily lives and one does not work without the other because if you can’t learn to trust then you will never learn how to walk. The object is once we learn how to walk that we learn how to Balance while being anchored to the Rock of our salvation to insure that we are secured in case a fall. There are times that we all stumble and there are times that some of us may fall but all that matters is that we pick ourselves up when we hear God’s call…amen       

James A. Harrison

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God Is The Artist Of The Future

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 There are storms that we can see and there are storms that we don’t see. The storms that we are often blinded to are the ones that affect our spiritual lives in our day to day activities. Think about it; Have you ever noticed how evil attracts evil but good attracts good? Or, have you ever noticed how greed attracts greed and love attracts love?

 It is when good and evil collide within us that storms can come our way. The object is to recognize the different spirits that we are dealing with to insure the path that we are on and the path that we are to take. So many times we live in a spiritual unsettlement within ourselves because we don’t know how to trust in God verses placing our trust in man. When we learn how to look for the qualities of God that comes in the fruit of the spirit this helps us to settle the distrust that we tend to carry.

  I challenge you today that if you are holding on to something in distrust to let it go and learn to place your trust in God instead of keeping it within man. It would be a shame to hold someone back because of our own lack of trust that we claim to have. Do you trust God? Jesus did. Did Jesus hang Judas or did Judas hang himself? If you are holding on to the rope learn to let it go and allow God’s love to flow…amen  

Let go of the brush and allow God to paint the picture….

James Harrison

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Natural Gifts Of God

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  One of the most important things about teaching is learning to recognize the natural strengths of each individual to help them develop their God given talents into maturity. Have you ever seen the difference between an artist that went to school to learn how to paint verses an artist that  was just born with a natural gift of God?

 Their is a distinct difference in the expression of the art between the two because you can feel the difference in the depth of the painting in the one born with the natural gift verses the one that was taught by man. It is the passion behind our goals that shows the depth of our picture in life and when we overlook those with natural gifts of God due to rules and procedures is when we so often miss what God has right before us.

 In today’s society many have become seriously blinded to the natural gifts of God in others due to their own fears and the amount of emphasis being placed on the accomplishments of man instead of seeing the accomplishments of God. It is very easy in our human nature to become blind when we place so much emphasis on the guidelines to follow along with the sins of others as the Pharisees did in the Holy Bible and Jesus warned us of this in order for us to maintain our Balance in life. The Lord gives us guidelines to follow but He also taught us how to be alert to our surroundings because we never know where God could be working next. 

 There is no better blessing in this world than to know that we played a roll in the Kingdom of God by helping His children discover who they are as child of God and develop the talents which the Lord provides to further His will and not our own. I challenge you to look beyond what you see in the physical to recognize what can take place in the spiritual to further the Kingdom of God for our children’s future…amen

 For we never know what God has right before us until we learn to look for God instead of man…

James Harrison

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