I am so excited about what God is doing!  God is teaching us some amazing things and when we put into practice the things that He is teaching, we have the potential to experience incredible and blessed lives!  God is allowing Northwood to step out of it’s comfort zone.  Every step we make out of our comfort zone is one more step we make closer to God and His amazing will.  Let’s get out of a small church, scarcity and mediocre mindset and get into a Kingdom Church, Abundannt and Excellent mindset!  We are God’s creation with a God-given purpose and the supernatural power to accomplish that purpose for God’s glory and our blessing!

I am so thankful for the team leaders that God has blessed this church with!  I am so thankful that they are a part of the team and that they are willing to give more than lip service!  The men and ladies that give leadership to our ministry teams are a great blessing in so many different ways.  They give of themselves in service to God, Northwood and others!  We cannot do all that God has called us to do without these leaders and their willingness to submit, obey, discipline and give of themselves!  You guys are great and I am so glad that we are all on the same team!

I am so looking forward to the blessings!  I believe with all of my heart that when we are obedient – God blesses!  When I read through my Bible, I see God blessing the obedience of His people.  Thank you for reading this blog and thank you for working to become obedient to Christ.  Our obedience is opening the doors of our lives to receive amazing and abundant blessings!  Over the next several days – I will be talking about the blessing of success.  I hope that you will join me every day and I pray that everyday God will show you something else about His greatness in your life!

I love the Bible!  I love the Bible because I have found it’s words to be true, accurate and always right on target!  The Bible knows where I am and where I need to be and instructs me on how to get there!  If I will take the time to read a little every day, I will always have a healthy supply of whatever I need to face whatever may come my way.  Don’t look at the Bible as a book of rules and regulations, instead look at it as a guide to the very best life possible.  When it tells you to do something – it is telling you to do it, because in so doing, you will discover blessing!  When it tells you not to do something – it tells you not to do it, because to cross that line will cost you more than you really want to pay!  The Bible is God speaking to you and me – listen and you will hear some amazing things!

In Philippians 4:8 the Scriptures tell us to focus on some things.  If we will shift our focus and put it on the right things, it will make an amazing difference in our lives!  We should focus on what is:

True not false – what good will a lie really do you?

Honorable not destructive -what good does it do anyone to tear down and apart?

Right not wrong -stop trying to make wrongs right, just admit there wrongs and get right!

Pure not impure – purity builds, blessed and binds us to God, while impurity destroys, discourages and defeats us!

Lovely not unlovely – if it’s not the good stuff of God – what do you want with it?

Good not bad – this is a no brain-er!

Excellent not mediocre – we should give our best for the best!

Praise worthy not gossip talk – Granny said it best:  “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all!”

This is really all about focusing on the positive!  God is a positive God!  His Word is a positive Word!  We His people should be a positive people!  Shift your focus and think in the positive things of God today!

What makes you happy?  According to the Bible – we are to rejoice in the Lord!  Does God make make you happy?  I mean really does He make you happy?  For most folks, if they were honest – the answer would be no!  God does not make us mad or sad, in fact we won’t allow God to make us anything.  We just tend to have God around as a fixture, safety net or crutch.  We need Him in our lives so that people will know that we are spiritual.  We need Him close by, just in case we get ourselves into something, we can’t get ourselves out of.  We need Him in our lives, so we will have someone to shift the blame toward!  God is so much more that most of us will allow Him to be!

God is real!  God cares about you and me!  God has a plan for our lives!  Stop trying to find happiness and allow happiness to find you!  Happiness will find you, when you realize that you can have a personal and meaningful relationship with the God that has always had you best blessing in mind and heart!  Take some time today to fix your relationship with God by making sure that you allow it to be all that He created and crafted it to be!  Happiness, real happiness comes through our relationship with Him.  Stop running, stop making excuses and start getting the real deal!