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Give God Your Best!

Promotion is God’s business!  Stay faithful right were God has placed you!  Give your best today! 

This world almost pushes you to push yourself.  Much of our energy is spent on our trying to get ourselves to somewhere that we think the world says that we have to be to be successful.  Stop trying to get yourself to whatever place it is that you think you have to be to be happy.  Happiness is not found in our arrival at a destination, but in our learning to appreciate the journey that God allows us to travel.  Learn to enjoy the journey -one moment at a time, one day at a time! 

You are where you are today and that is where God has you!  Remember that God has a perfect plan for your life.  Don’t get in the way and mess that perfect plan up.  Stay faithful to Him and trust Him to grow and move you to where He wants you to be.  Wherever you find yourself today – GIVE GOD YOUR BEST and know and trust that HE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REST!

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Powerful Emotions!

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img000057Emotions are powerful things!  I am going to tell you something you know, but seldom really think about:  You can control your emotions or your emotions will control you.  Some of the emotions that we experience in life are negative and they seek to dominate and control us.  Fear, anger, frustration, lust and discouragement will turn you into a slave, if you are not careful.  These negative emotions eat at us, steal our joy and rob us of our peace.  Negative emotions are like a cancer, they seek to destroy everything they can.

God wants you to have positive emotions such as love, joy and peace!  Jesus Christ came and died on the cross, so that you could have love, joy and peace!  The Holy Spirit is active and alive right now, so that you can have love, joy and peace!  Don’t let the devil and the negative emotions of this life keep you from having, experiencing and living in all of the amazing power that God has for you.

You will have challenges and you will face hard and difficult times, but stay positive, trust God and you will discover that your courage and confidence in Him, will empower you to think, feel, act and experience victory – no matter what the circumstances!  Emotions do not have to be a bad thing.  We just have to learn how to use our emotions, rather than have them use us.

Here are a few things that you can do today to deal with your emotions:  1.)  Take some time to pray!  Just talk to God and tell Him what is going on in your life and how you feel.  He will not be surprised or caught off guard.  2.)  Make some time to listen!  Open your heart and mind and listen for what the Spirit of God is saying to you.  (The Bible is always a good resource in listening!)  3.)  Refocus your life!  Take what you have said to God and what God has said to you and get your life into alignment with Him!

God is who He says He is and you can trust in Him!

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Does God Have A Plan For Your Life?

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My Daughter Gracie WalkingThe Tracks That I Grew Up On!
My Daughter Gracie WalkingThe Tracks That I Grew Up On!

I was  reading through Matthew 2 this morning about the birth of Jesus and it was amazing to see how God had everything mapped out!  The Magi, the star in the east, the prophecies, the dreams and the moves!  Does God have a plan for your life?  The answer to the question is pretty obvious – most of us believe that God does in fact have a plan for our lives.  But the “yes” answer is the easy part.  What kind of plan?  How much of a plan?  Do I get a choice in the plan?  These are all very important questions and help us to realize that while God has a plan for our lives, we still have responsibility!

Are you taking your responsibility seriously?  Are you doing your part to discover and live in the blessing of God’s plan?  It is one thing to know that God has a plan for our lives.  It is another thing altogether to believe that God has a plan for our lives.  To know and believe means that you are going to live life differently.  To know and believe means that you want to make sure that you are doing your part to stay in step with God’s plan.  To know and believe means that you will live life on purpose and for a purpose!

God does have a plan for your life and it is an amazing and beautiful thing!  Take some time today to think about His plan and how you can walk in step with it!  And then take your thinking one step forward by doing your part – whatever your part is that God has shown you!