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Make The Most Out Of What You Have

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 Everywhere we turn society is telling us to make the most out of life and Satan is tempting us to jump time to feed our sinful nature. They say,” Live it up and you only live once. Reach for the stars and don’t quit until you get there.” These are good statements but the most important part that many people are missing is how to make the most out of what we already have and learn how to maintain our foundation in order for our children to stand in the future.

 It is very easy to place our eyes upon our goals but if we overlook the daily steps that are required to get there then we are only setting ourselves up for a fall. There is a specific reason that God taught us first hand with Moses how to not only walk in life but how to maintain what He has given. God wants to bless us with more but until we learn how to appreciate what we have then how can we honestly expect something better?

 I challenge you today to make the most out of what you have and do the work that it takes to maintain what you have been given. Because it is what we teach to our children in our actions that sets their patterns for their future…amen

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By Faith God Restores Our Lives

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 By faith many marriages have been healed. By faith many that have faced difficult times made it through. By faith our families can be restored and by faith our nation can overcome! No matter how bad things may seem we are to never lose hope in our circumstances because we never know what God has in store. He allows us to fall to teach us who picks us up and to make sure that we stay humble in the future.

 All it takes is one man of true faith and God will work wonders to help uplift His children. If we sit around with little hope in our voice then how can we honestly expect the moral of those around us to be? I don’t know about you feel but my God is an All Powerful God that gives Mercy in His Grace and nothing is over until He says it is over! So, until that day we go home we should be doing everything we can to teach our children how to never give up or lose hope no matter what they face to show how God delivers us from this place.  

 Life is not about us. It is about serving God’s purpose and what we leave behind to help someone in their future…amen

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Grab Hold Of The Power Of God

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 In today’s society many have fallen weak in faith like Gideon in the book of Judges and forgotten the power which our Father in Heaven has given to each of us to overcome our issues in life. God has given each one of us the power in the Holy Spirit to overcome whatever trial that we may face but we must learn how to trust and strengthen our faith to insure a safe landing. We all have to face things in life  that we do not understand but when these times may occur it is not for us to sit around and drown in our pity. We should be seeking God for what it is that He wants in our life rather than what we would prefer and this is where many struggles come our way because we seek our desires instead of what God wants in our life.

 Life is filled with challenges that help build us wiser and stronger for our future. It is what we do in these times that sets an example to others and teaches our children how to trust God rather than losing hope in our circumstances. As Gideon, the Lord wants us to learn where the true power comes from because He knows what will happen when we think that we have accomplished something on our own. I challenge you today to strengthen your faith and learn to seek the power of God that dwells within you to overcome anything that may be holding you back from sharing the love that you carry…amen

James Harrison / Servant

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God Confirms His Word In Nature

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 Have you ever noticed geese flying in the air? They fly in a formation to decrease the wind resistance to the ones that follow and this allows the other geese to maintain their strength for when they move to the front. The beautiful part of what they understand better than we is how they rotate the ones in the lead. When one gets tired he steps to the back and allows another to step to the front while never losing their direction within the flock. Not one of the geese fight for their position nor do they become jealous of the one in the lead. They just learn how to work together to reach their destination.

 God guides us in the Holy Spirit and it is our job to learn how to fly together to reach our destination. But where we differ from the geese is how often we allow the distractions in the world to throw us off coarse and how we tend to fight for our position instead of allowing God to move us from one place to the next. The object in this life is to learn how to listen and then Jesus will teach us how to follow. 

 Another Beautiful part of geese is how they never leave their mate. Once in love always in love to the end…amen

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How To Fly Your Plane

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 Love suffers when we don’t speak the truth, and allows Satan to suppress the love that we carry. It is in our human nature of a loving individual to not want to hurt someone else’s feelings but when we don’t share with others what we know in our hearts to be true then we are only allowing Satan to rob us of the seeds that need to be planted. Not only are we allowing Satan to supress us but we are also allowing Satan to rob the other party of the nutrients that helps us to mature. 

 The object in speaking the truth is learning how to recognize the timing of when to approach and how to deliver the message in love so that it is received. For if we try to land too soon the plane or the passengers may not be ready for the impact and if we wait too long we could up short in the landing. It is very easy in our human nature to be misled by Satan in our emotions and act before we think and this often causes turbulence in the air.

 To insure a safe landing we first must know the plane that we are on and have faith in those that are not only flying it but having faith in those that built it.  Second, we must know that it has been properly maintained to insure that it will reach our destination. Because what good is a plane if it falls apart in the first storm that it encounters or if the ones that are in charge don’t know how to react when the winds may take them off coarse?

 If the pilot does not consider the passengers in the landing can you see how some could hit the floor when they might be not be prepared for the sudden jolt. This same aproach is required when we learn to share the truth with those that we love. I challenge you today to study the runway before you try to land and if it takes years to make your approach just commit yourself in your flight and make sure that you maintain your fuel in the Word of God to insure that it is delivered in the love of Jesus Christ . Another important part of flying your plane is to always be alert for that timing of God to land your message.

 For if the timing is not right then learn to make another approach and be prepared for the opportunity to land…   

James Harrison / Servant

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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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