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To Care Requires Time & Attention

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  It is very easy to find daily reminders that help encourage us in this negative world but if we are not careful to seek the Creator then we could be setting ourselves up to be left behind. It is in our human nature to be lazy and to rely on others to help carry us forward and until we learn to build our own relationship with God through the love of Jesus Christ then how can we learn to stand on our own?

 The Lord wants each one of us to discover who we really are in Christ and to recognize our purpose in order to help others along the Way. Each one of us are very special to God and He has given each of us a special task to allow His unconditional love to touch every one in our path. Life is a beautiful thing when we begin to look at it through the eyes of the Lord and realize that we are only temporary caretakers over what He has given.

 When we begin to look at our life as a caretaker this helps us to look at things in a new light in order to take better care of ourselves and everything else around us. For when we care about who we are and care about what we do then the love of God will always shine through…amen

“We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.” Luke 17

James Harrison

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Could This Be THE Hour?

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 How often do you think of the day that Christ will return? Does it cross your mind only when someone brings it to your attention or do you keep it in front of your daily thoughts in order to be prepared in your walk? If God was to call you home this very instant would you be prepared and ready to go? Or, would you be like the rich man in Luke 17 who pleaded with the Lord to at least warn his family and friends?

 It is important to recall that life will be going as usual on the day that Jesus returns and that no warning will sound. Most people will be going about their everyday life living for themselves rather than following the will of God. We don’t know the time nor the hour of Christ return but we do know that He coming. He may come today, tomorrow, or centuries in the future but whenever Christ comes we must be morally and spiritually ready.

 Everyday that God gives us is another day to live for Him as the caretakers of what He has given in our homes, in our relationships and in our careers in order to further the Kingdom of God through our children of tomorrow. I challenge you to look at  your life on a daily basis to insure that you are morally and spiritually ready to go home. For the last thing that any of us should ever want is to be called when we are not prepared. Are you ready? How about those that God has placed all around you. Are they ready? It sure would be sad to go home and then realize that the very ones we loved were left behind…amen

James Harrison

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God Gives Us Our Vision & Direction

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 Have you ever been at a point in your life where you continued to face the same issues time and time again? Or, have you ever gone beyond the extra mile in effort for something to work but continued to hit the same walls? It is very easy in life to encounter repetitive cycles in our relationships, in our careers, and even in the church when we look at things through our human eyes rather than looking for what God is wanting to teach us. 

 When we begin to look for God in our circumstances is when He often shows us the lessons that can be learned and the direction in order for us to move forward. So many times we miss the lessons of God because we get so wrapped up in our circumstances that we become deaf and blind to the Truth that will set us free. God’s Word challenges us to look beyond where we are to see where we are going and today the Lord is saying to each of us,” If you feel stuck or you are continuing to hit the same walls then seek Me with all your heart and I will show you the Way”…amen    

James Harrison

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What Drives Your Life

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  Have you ever taken the time to sit back and truly evaluate where you are? One of the most important things in life to do is to recognize what drives us in our careers, in our homes, in our church and in our relationship with God. The driving factor of everything we do should be out of the love of God in order to maintain what we have been given and to improve from where we began.

 If we can not recognize where we are then honestly how can we even establish where we are going? For every day that God gives us is a new day to improve from where we began and when we allow God’s love to be our driving factor rather than something of this world then we are on the way to a new beginning…amen

James Harrison

http://balancedlifeministry.org

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Don’t Allow Satan To Hold You Down

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 Yesterday, there was a lesson shared from Luke 10 on the Good Samaritan that helped someone that had been pushed aside by the very ones who claimed to follow the Word of God. This Jewish man that was in the ditch had been robbed by thieves as he traveled from one destination to the next. Who do you think was spiritually guiding the thieves to hurt this man that deserved no harm? Who do you think caused the ones to walk on by because they failed to hear another child’s cry?

 There is another way to see this message when we look at it in the spiritual eyes of Christ. The man that was traveling was a child of God that Satan set out to destroy. This man can be compared to a woman that has been raped and robbed of her dignity. This man can be compared to a child of God that that has been preyed upon in molestation in order to rob them of their self esteem. This man can be compared to the poor that has been robbed by the rich in order to keep him down due to someone else’s greed, and this man can be compared to someone in the church family that is crying out in their needs while the church neglects their duties of serving the people instead of worrying about where they are going next.

 Many of us have experienced pains in our life and some of us have fallen into the ditch at times but all that matters is how we pick ourselves back up again to return to the path that God has given. I challenge you today to not allow Satan to spiritually hold you down anymore in your mind or through others that are trying to rob you of who you are as a child of God!

 If you are in a ditch STAND UP and dust yourself off with your hands in the air in just thinking God for how you have been spared! Recognize those that are trying to hold you down and learn to love them to show who you are in Christ to help others along the Way…amen

James Harrison

http://balancedlifeministry.org

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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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