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Flippin’ Tables
What are you allowing in your life that Christ would urge you not?
What are you coveting that He would have already cast away?
Sometimes, our lives seem to be on hold, and we blame it on circumstances, being held back, and maybe even our own incapacity to overcome a certain handicap in our lives.
Yet, I have found too often, my limitations aren’t due to someone or something around me, but rather it’s from pursuit of something I should have never been chasing in the first place.
When we start chasing God stuff rather than me stuff, we will find success will come on a whole new level.
Ask Him what tables He would flip in your life, and let Him start cleaning house.
It’s a whole better place when He’s in charge and He comes to abide.
Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
Matthew 21:12-13
Stay on Mission
Keep going.
Keep striving.
Keep achieving.
Their words don’t matter.
They didn’t call you.
He did.
Stay on mission.
We’re not home yet.
And we have a battle to win.
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12-14
Choose Well
It’s so true that there are many things of which we have no control of our choices.
Decade in which we are born.
Parents. Birth location. Upbringing.
Physical attributes. Talents. IQ.
These things are given to us, and we have no say.
Yet, we do have a say in how we respond, in how we handle, and in how we carry on once we have them.
And this choosing results in our character.
Which is also a choice.
And it also will become our voice.
How we respond to the things we cannot control will determine our promotions, our successes, and our influences.
We are never a victim.
Being a victim is a choice. And that choice brings about our character.
When we choose to hate these things out of our control, or maybe just fight against them in a rage that wounds all those around us, it shows our character as rude, spiteful and selfish.
When we choose to embrace these things out of our control as chains, and we are just a martyr for the cause, or maybe we just can’t do any better because of all that has befallen us, it shows our character as weak, whiny and self centered.
Yet, when we choose to accept these things out of our control, fight against the things that would try to inhibit us, and become overcomers inspite of the pain, the turmoil and the difficulties, it shows our character as bold, courageous and focused.
And when we take this tenacious attitude a step further and begin to show others how to overcome their own obstacles, it shows our character as loving, giving, and outward seeking.
We can be a hero or a zero.
The choice is ours.
What will you choose today?
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Romans 8:37
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28
Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10
Silly Saturday
Funny Friday
Perspective Changes with One Shift
HOPE To NOPE
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I saw this little gif today, and it made me think how easily our perspective can change.
NOPE can change to HOPE
With one little shift in a letter.
Something broken can be healed with one little dot of super glue.
A rainy day can become sunny with one little wind surge.
The altered state can seem simple, small, and even insignificant,
But to the NOPE, it becomes HOPE.
To the broken, it becomes mended.
To the drenched, it becomes dry.
To the hopeless, it becomes a tomorrow.
Let your walk be realigned.
Let your vision be refocused.
Let your speech be rearranged.
Let your mind be rallied.
Let your heart be restored.
Love can overwhelm you.
Hope can consume you.
And you’ll never be the same.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2
Silly Saturday
Funny Friday
Define Freedom
What is freedom?
Is freedom being able to “do what I want when I want and however I want?”
Is freedom having an absence of confinement and restrictions?
Is freedom being able to speak, work, and live without rules and boundaries?
Truly, in this day and age, freedom seems to be negotiable to the person or parties making those decisions.
However, because we are children of God, our truth doesn’t change with culture nor with man.
Our truth comes from the Word of God; so, when seeking the definition of freedom, we must seek what God tells us is true.
Jesus said, in John 8:36, “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”
Then, Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:17, “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
And in Galatians 5:1, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
Christ has given us a clear picture of what freedom is and what He has meant it to be in our lives: true freedom can only be found in the redemption fo Jesus Christ!
So, if you are a child of the King today, YOU ARE FREE!
If you are saved by the Blood of the Lamb, and your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, YOU ARE FREE!!
Let us rejoice in His freedom!
Let us praise Him for the great things He has done!
Let us raise our hands and lift our voices with a grateful heart for the freedom He has brought us both within our spiritual lives and within this country that we live because we are free to worship Him today!
I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12
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