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Recognizing The Gifts & Tallents Of Others…

November 9, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

There are principles within every instrument that must be understood in order to maintain the tune. Within every instrument that is born we all learn to play as we learn to listen. The object is to allow each instrument to develop in their own timing and not try to force them in ours. Learning to teach with God directing the way allows us to discover the journey of change and being open to learn what works for someone else rather than the way it may have worked for us.

It is easy to allow our traditions to blind us when we get out of tune from God’s Word and forget who is in control. Sometimes we allow traditions to get in the way due to following everyon else instead of insuring the steps of our own. This lesson was taught in Luke 2 with Jesus’s parents as they followed the people and left Jesus behind.  His parents had to re-track their steps back for three days before they finally found Jesus in the temple. They tried to pull Him out but little did His parents know the music that was being played to the elders who chose to listen.

Learning how to listen and recognize the development and talents of each individual around us should be teaching us how to work together as one without trying to change someone else’s individual tune. The music is love and the instruction comes in time as we learn to teach in ways that others can relate with no debate. Enjoy this awesome video of a three year old prodigy child playing the piano  and how his mother looked for creative ways to teach her son. She did not discourage him due to his age nor did she discourage him due to the lack of his education. She simply recognized his own gift and discovered a way to further the development of these skills.

The object in teaching is learning the hearts of others and then learning how to capture their interest in creative ways to deliver the lessons to be received…Like the 3 year olds mother states in the video her son is driven more to play on his own than when being pressured by others… Here is the link to this creative teaching lesson  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ygzf709CmI

James A. Harrison

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What Are You Teaching Within Your Home?

January 31, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

 In Genesis 41 Pharoah shares two different dreams with Joseph. In both of these dreams there was something very unhealthy that devoured something that was healthy. After the poor cows ate the fat cows they still looked the same. Did you know that these dreams still teach us practical wisdom today? How, you may ask? 

 Later in the book of Exodus with Moses this lesson was taught in how to ration with manna and be responsible when we are hungry without devouring everything we have at once. See, if we don’t teach our children responsibility within our homes then how long do you think their provisions will last without teaching the self discipline that is taught in the Word of God?

 Think about it! Why is America the most obese nation in the world? Simply due to the lack of self discipline that is being taught in the homes. Why do you think America is in the financial debt that we are in? Simply due to our own lack of self discipline and the lack of obedience to God. Why do you think people are losing it and going on shooting sprees killing innocent people? Simply due to their lack of understanding between good and evil? Why do you think so many teens are becoming pregnant? Simply due to the lack of teaching in the Word of God and parents placing their teaching responsibilities on others.

 If there is anything gained from this message I pray that someone will recognize the importance of keeping God in the center of our homes and not placing our responsibilities as a parent on government entities that are teaching our children to be safe with sex in stead of simply not falling into temptation and having sex. If we don’t teach our children how to be happy with what they have and how to maintain what they have been given then how healthy can we honestly expect their future to be?

 I leave you this morning with this question,”What are teaching within your home?” 

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Teaching A Child To Walk

November 23, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

 In the love that we have for our children it is easy for us to carry them but there comes a point that our children need to learn how to walk on their own. We are to be that anchor that is rooted in the Mountain of God to give His guidance through the Word when they may stumble or fall. Every child needs to learn how to pick them self back up after a fall and learn how to not allow their fears to prevent them from standing and walking again.

 What is it that drives a child of God to walk? What is it that drives our children to step further than before? The answer is simply one four letter word, LOVE!!!God’s love for us can motivate us to walk like we have never walked before and our love should be teaching the same. Do you recognize the parallel between the love of our children and the love that our Father in Heaven has for us? 

 The Lord encourages us as we are to encourage others in return. Learning to encourage one another in the love of God gives us a strength like we have never known and a sense of security in case we fall because we know God’s true love covers all. This same love that we have for our children is the same love that God wants us to have in the family of God. When someone falls be there to help pick them up! If someone is in need reach out however you can! If someone is hurting let them know that you are there! And if someone simply needs some encouragement show them that you truly do care…amen

James A. Harrison

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Filed Under: Balanced Life Ministry, Church Assistance, Daily Growth, Leadership Forum, Raising Children Tagged With: balance, children, God, James Harrison, jesus, life, love, teaching

Are There Barriers In Your Life

July 31, 2010 by admin 1 Comment

 It is very easy to see the physical differences in people and allow these differences to cause a division within the overall body that create a barrier for us to overcome. These divisions that can come between us not only rob us of the blessings of God but they also open the door to Satan to spiritually misguide us into forgetting how we are to work together as One in the body while respecting each part for the roll that we all carry.

 To help us break these barriers between one another it is vital that we recognize that there are only two types of people in this world. We are either a child of God that serves the Kingdom or we are a child of Satan that seeks the world. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ taught us how to live in the world but not of the world while instructing us to love the enemy in hopes that the enemy would recognize how God’s love is for all people. 

 As a child of God in this world it is very critical that we teach our children how to avoid these divisions in the body of Christ by teaching them how Satan wants us to be robbed of who we are. The day that we are given life as a child of God it is important to recognize how Satan has been already at work in the family to destroy the foundation of the home that is needed to raise our children. As God’s children mature they are in constant attack spiritually to be robbed of who they are to limit the amount of work that they can do in helping others along the Way.

 A good example of this is how men prey on women to satisfy a selfish desire that is being triggered in an emotion. The spiritual deception that works in our sexual desires is a very dangerous emotion to recognize because Satan works strongly in these desires because he knows how they can rob someone of who they are and how they can cause us to feel like something that we are not. Our emotions are critical to recognize in how they can misguide us and cause us to do something that we would later regret. This happens in all aspects of life from buying something that we do not need, from saying something that we should not say, doing something that we should not do, and even quitting on something because we feel that we can do no more.

 When we allow our emotions to guide our lives it is very easy to become suppressed and lose the direction which God provides. This world is full of pressures that come from every corner and when we do not teach our children how to handle their pressures in the Word of God through the self discipline that is required to maintain what we have been given then we are only setting our children up for a hard road in the future. 

 Teaching does not only come in books but in the example of how we live our lives in this world. When God gives us the gift of our children it is our responsibility to not only provide for them but to teach them in our words and actions how to rise above the hardships that we encounter from time to time to eliminate any divisions that can cause a separation within the body. When we begin to look at every human being as a creation of God then this helps us to look past what we physically see and this displays to others in whom we believe.  

 I challenge every reader that reads this message to take a step forward in faith to break down the barriers which may be holding you back. Often all it takes is for one to make that first step in love to overcome where we have been and then to help others along the Way. Sometimes that first step that we take in humbling our self is all that is needed to set others free…amen 

 “But even more blessed are all who hear the Word of God and put it into practice.” Luke 11

James Harrison

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Moving Forward At The Outpost…

August 14, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

The Lord recently led me from my daily writings at BLM, to living it out in faith, at a little place on the edge of the TN River called The Outpost located in Pickwick, TN.

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