Take some time and make an effort to be friendly today! Smile and make people think that you are up to something! Say hello and wake people up! You will cross paths with many different people today – make sure that you do more than cross paths! Make a connection! With your smile and hello you may just remind them that there is a God of LOVE and that He cares for all of us!
If each one of us would do just our little bit, it would be amazing what could be accomplished for the Kingdom! Look at me – I am smiling at you! Smile back! Now doesn’t that make you feel better! Have a blessed day!
I am currently in the process of re-reading a book by Craig Groeschel, pastor of www.lifechurch.tv. In this book he makes the following statement: “Maybe you’ve heard the old adage, “Where God guides, ha always provides.” We’ve made up a new saying: “God often guides by what he doesn’t provide.”
So many times in life we catch ourselves thinking “if I just had this or that, then I could do something with my life!” We think that there is something else that we need to complete the calling that God has given us. The fact is: God has aready given us what we need! The problem is: We fail to see it!
A need is an invitation to stop, look around and take in all that God has already blessed you with! A need allows you to look with a different set of eyes and see things that ordinarily you would overlook! So don’t get caught up and stuck in what you don’t have, instead take some time to appreciate what you do have and then get busy doing something with it for God and His glory!
Are you growing? Do you know and love Jesus more this week, than you did last week? You can’t know victory without growth! We are to move/grow toward maturity. Did you know that you can be healthy and not mature? You can be in a relationship with Jesus, but if you are not growing in that relationship, then you will not be mature. Did you know that you can be gifted and not mature? You might have the ability to do amazing things with the skills, talents and gifts that God has given you. With your actions you might look like you are growing in your relationship with Jesus, but if you are not really growing, then you are not maturing!
I know that I am maturing when I am becoming more like Jesus! The goal of the church should be to present every person mature in Christ! Here’s the question for today: Are you becoming more like Jesus? Think about it and be honest! Now, what do you need to do about it?
Are you growing? Do you know and love Jesus more this week, than you did last week? You can’t know victory without growth! We are to move/grow toward maturity. Did you know that you can be healthy and not mature? You can be in a relationship with Jesus, but if you are not growing in that relationship, then you will not be mature. Did you know that you can be gifted and not mature? You might have the ability to do amazing things with the skills, talents and gifts that God has given you. With your actions you might look like you are growing in your relationship with Jesus, but if you are not really growing, then you are not maturing!
Michael Joe Harvell 