Dreams are not decisions. ‬

‪Dreams alone go away every morning. Decisions leave every day a little closer to its goals.

‪Decisions get up every morning and work on their dreams. ‬

Decisions dig the foundations that your dreams are built upon. ‬

‪Conclusion, dream big; work even harder. ‬

Prayers are long distance blessings. 

Prayers are Spiritual emails, filled with interactive faith and saturated with Divine possibilities. ‬

We have reached a place in our society where a nonbeliever is allowed to curse all they want to and it is all ok, but a believer is not allowed to give praise at all. 

‪Prayer, is one of those special places where you can work out your frustrations and then languish on God’s promises, at the same time. ‬

‪Prayer is where you often take a closer look at what God meant when He said, “I love you with an everlasting love.”‬

‪Prayer is where lessons learned become lessons understood. ‬

‪The Bible is becoming more irrelevant to those people who will soon become irrelevant. ‬

‪Your or my  opinions or conclusions will bear no weight on Judgement Day.‬

Sin tends to drive good sense right out the window.

Sin promises what only God can give: satisfaction, peace, happiness, and a vision of what true love actually means. 

‪One of the greatest tragedies of Hell will be remembering, that you did have a choice. ‬

Christians need to keep in mind, that those who say they are fine, aren’t; those who act like they have it all together, don’t; and those facing tragedies who say they don’t need comforting, do. 

Jesus is the only One who hears your prayers and is capable of making any difference, whatsoever. 

“Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25 

If you only listen to those folks that tell you what you want to hear, you are not listening, you are gathering.

Christians, live like you are someone’s “verse for the day” because you are!

The wealth of anyone is not found in what they have but by what they are willing give. 

The true value of anyone can only be measured by the size of their heart.

Greed is what empties your life of meaning. 

Greed is the greatest suppressor of happiness.

Greed contains no joy. 

It is greed that turns praise into pride. 

A happy heart is one that has turned pride into thanksgiving.

However, a proud heart must sacrifice everything else to survive. 

Being a Christian, makes you to thankful to sleep and to grateful not to. 

Love that binds can also strangle. 

Love that gives, rather than controls, thrives. 

Selfishness is a result of a lack of God in one’s life. 

Never trust your tongue when your heart is broken, or when bitterness or anger has take refuge in your soul. 

‪Your conversion is completed, when what you once hated, is what  you now love.‬

‪Beware never to convert what is evil into make believe good. ‬

‪Truth never requires a vote. ‬

‪It is is easier to love people that it will be to love the truth. ‬

‪Love never ever fails...man’s possibly God’s never!

All men die, but sadly, some while their hearts is still beating. 

Giving up on God is the ultimate failure. 

Fatigue is a symptom of perseverance or of being on the wrong journey, only you and God can determine which it is. 

There is little as tiring as a journey to nowhere.

‪A Smoky Mountain Hi 
Love the unlovable people while they will allow you too, for soon they will see love as a weakness or an enemy. ‬

‪Love is an away game with home court advantage.‬

‪The more consistent your love the more effective your love becomes. ‬

‪Sometimes it takes a tragedy for someone to see, want or accept love. ‬

Life changing advice: Learn to do what needs to be done before it has to be done. 

Procrastinating is rarely a good choice and almost never the best choice. 

Truth is not responsible for or subject to, your feelings, your opinions, or your notions. 

People’s view of truth is not always based on your observable facts but truth is the fact. 

Love truth it will never change...oh, however,  it may change you.

‪Forgiveness is something you can only give before you die.‬

‪There is no forgiveness from the grave ‬

‪Do diligence and be the first to forgive and the last to hold a grudge...no never ever carry a grudge, as those you love must bear it with you. ‬

‪Grudges are, in the end, completely unbearable in themselves. ‬

‪Mother’s Day is a reminder of our interdependence on each other! ‬

‪Everyone had a mother except Adam and Eve. ‬

‪Mom’s do everything, other than that, they are just normal people. ‬

‪Everyone reading this should thank their mother that she did not have an abortion. ‬

‪The tears and the prayers of a mother are stronger the than powers of habit. ‬

‪Whatever you do, effects your mother, more any one else. ‬

‪Thank your mother for your successes and yourself for your failures.‬

‪Mom’s gave you life, what you do with it is up to you!‬
A Smoky Mountain Hi May 11,2019

 People have asked me over the years “Why bad things happen to good people?”  I told them that, it has only happed once in history and Jesus volunteered for it.  
No one is good but God, and Jesus is God. 

If you think that God has failed you, it is likely that you demanded of Him, instead of asking.

Never think it is right to do evil in a nice way. 

Most of the time you have to love the unlovable to help them becomes lovable. 

Remember you were likely once unlovable. 

Wealth is measured by what you give not by what you keep. 

Live right, it confuses those who don’t.

The job of a Christian is to everyday, push back “the gates of Hell” in there lives and the lives about them.

Resistance to evil is the beginning of strength. 

Doing good is the avenue to doing more good, as doing evil leads to greater evils. 

Learn to love good...it confuses those who won’t and riles up Satan, which is always a good thing for a Christian to be doing!

Most people would rather blame God...instead of choosing to live right. 

In the end, your life is your responsibility and is an accumulation of your choices. 

Choosing to “do as you please” brings very little happiness to others and will bring even less to you! 

Be a blessing. It is the least and the best you can be. 

Keep believing until there is no hope left, then believe some more. 

Live is not always simple but it subject to perseverance.  

Don’t waist your life on things not worth dying for! 

Patience is for those who want the best, haste is for those who will settle for a “ fly by”!

‪No one who refuses to forgive is ever free of guilt or of bitterness. Therefore everyone around him suffers as well. ‬

‪We bear the full load of whatever or whomever we refuse to forgive, but our children bear the scars.  ‬

‪The person who refuses to forgive builds his own prison day after day, brick by brick.

I thought I was better than I thought I was, but Grace taught me that I wasn’t as good as I thought I could be.  

However, Grace also taught me that I could be better than I thought possible. 

Grace is the impossible strength I need, when I think I don’t. 

Grace, is the greatest!

You can have a lot of success without Grace but you will never accomplish what you should or be what you must be...without Grace. 

Grace is soul food on steroids. 

Grace is a gift that cannot be earned. 

You are never truly happy without Grace

Some folks have become comfortable with their discontentment, thinking is the best that there is. 

Comfortable misery is a terrible condition. 

Timothy 6:6 “But godliness with contentment is great gain”

Love you enemies, as willing, as you love your friends. 

Stubborn people never allow facts to dirupt their decisions. 

The facts may “speak for themselves” but they are getting fewer and fewer listeners. 

Never be led by someone’s “opinion of the facts” but learn and test the facts for yourself. 

Finding God is to find truth.

Hate, anger, and an unforgiving heart, will always be free of peace unless it has learned to deceive itself. 

Stubborn contentment is discontentment, (I am fine contentment, don’t bother me) you have just become a victim of your own deception. 

Contentment, for every Christian, is a choice.

Prayer is the author of peace, the more you pray the more you will be at peace. 

Pray for you enemies to be at peace for there is is no lasting peace that does not come from God the Father Himself. 

Your continually sinning is a guaranteed peace buster!  

Every Christian is surrounded with “Impenetrable Grace” nothing comes their way without Grace’s permission. 

Sometimes God leads you, sometimes pushes you, sometimes drags you, into doing His will; the more willing you become, the less the dragging and pushing is necessary.

‪When the facts are irrelevant then what you are doing is likely wrong. ‬

‪The Bible says “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth...” 2Timothy 2:15. ‬

One of the problems with a Christian School is that a few people, you assumed were trying to do right, are trying to temp you to do wrong, like they are, so they won’t feel as badly as they do now. In a public school you just have massive more students wanting you to sin. 
Sin is not “cool“ ever.

We must remind ourselves at least once an day, hour and every moment, that the only viable option, for a Christian, is to trust God with every fiber of their heart. 

There are no sins where no one gets hurt. Sin always hurts you, those who love and pray for you. 

Never ignore temptation resist it and make haste plans to escape it. 

You are never tempted unless you have something of value to lose!

Temptation is a lie you want to believe. 

Be a blessing. It is the least and the best you can be. 

Temptation is a double edged sword, where Satan wounds you and discourages you at the same time. 

Temptation is to know better than you are about to do!

No one ever feel better about themselves after they sin who still have any form of a conscience.

Sever temptation is you last warning. 

Truth never changes, only the reasons we fail to accept it differ.

Truth is a gift to those seek knowledge and a blister to the soul who reject it. 

Truth is either comforting or disconcerting. 

Truth is never eroded by laws or the opinion of man.

Truth is God’s cleansing agent.

God does not get better and better every day we just discover more and more about Him each day.

Faith is a form of searching God, His love, He mercy, and His Grace...Each search, is a lifetime treasure hunt. 

Christians, will really never know how good they “have it” until Judgement Day. 

Even the persuasive voice of many can never change God’s truth ... never!

Sin is your choice that funds terrorist cells in your life and perhaps in another’s life.  

Grace is Heaven’s super glue.

Love, hinders no one, except those fleeing God. 

Without love, abject poverty, is all you can possibly have! 

The poorest man, filled with love, is the richest man you will ever meet.

If memory serves me right I only remember the things I think about.

“Turn your eyes upon Jesus look full in His wonderful face, and the things of this world will grow strangely dim, in the light of His Glory and Grace.”

What I choose to see, I eventually, become!

Pray that you will not be strangled by your own weaknesses, or lose your faith, over someone else’s weaknesses. 

The only perfect people you will meet in life, are bachelor’s wives and old maid’s husbands.

However, when you meet, Jesus, you have found true perfection.

‪Life’s is either preparing us for the greatest tragedy of missing Heaven or is preparing us for our greatest joy of arriving in Heaven.‬

‪Hell is filled with only personal sorrow, there will be no one there interested in your sorrow. ‬

‪Heaven will be celebrated by everyone there.‬

Some folks have become comfortable with their discontentment, thinking...this the best that there is. 

Comfortable misery is a terrible condition. 

Timothy 6:6 “But godliness with contentment is great gain”

Love your enemies, as willing, as you love your friends.

I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. I hate all who deal crookedly; I will have nothing to do with them. Psalms 101:3

Your friends guide your mind and your mind chooses its master. 

You can’t  choose yourself to be your master; evil or good will be your master.

If memory serves me right I only remember the things I think about.

“Turn your eyes upon Jesus look full in His wonderful face, and the things of this world will grow strangely dim, in the light of His Glory and Grace.”

What I choose to see, I eventually, become!

The greatest risk of attending a “dead church” is that you may become like them instead of them becoming like you.

In every successful life, fortitude is an attitude!

If fortitude becomes a noun then perseverance becomes its verb.

You can’t finish what you don’t start. 

Life has two big storms the first is when you begin to stall your progress and near the end to try to put you off course.

Love is happiest when the one loved is happy.

Love doesn’t always understand, but it is always more understanding. 

Love is not an escape; it is a destination. 

Love never looks back for a reason to stop, only for memories to fuel it through tough times. 

Love is severely wonderful!

Giving means living.
Praying means loving.
Loving means sharing.
Caring means doing.
Judging turns off loving.
Hatred turns off living.
Unforgiving turns off caring.
Bitterness turns off everything.

‪The richest man you will ever meet is the one who allows himself to love God enough, to obey His teachings‬, willingly.

‪God is saying to the Christian, to be fair to others, “I can’t let you get by with it either.”‬

‪Grace is to pull you out of sin, not to maintain or protect you while you are sinning. ‬

‪Grace is there to limit you sinning not to limit your blessings. ‬

‪Grace is better than just good..it is extravagant wonderful.

Giving is the beginning of God’s trickle down economy.

The biggest problem with God’s trickle down economy is that it usually is overflows into all of the lives around you. 

A trickle from God’s is a flood of hope to everyone who believes and a washout to those straddling the fence or on the other side of the fence.

‪Wrong should never be up for approval or subject to a majority vote . Wrong will always be wrong. ‬

‪Just a little bit of God will change your earthly life, and everything about your eternal destination. ‬

‪When you choose, to live in the shadow of the Almighty, you will have all the light you will ever need...day or night. ‬

‪Feeling the embrace of the Heavenly Father surrounding you is beyond any measure!‬

‪Failure is not option, learning from failure is.‬

‪If you are too have never failed, you must never try.‬

‪Failure is not the real issue in life, not trying is!‬

‪Doing what you can but getting an outcome that you did not want, is not a failure. ‬

Immorality is a form of personal dishonesty.

Immorality is for those wishes to self-destruct. 

Immorality is a cancer of your own making. 

Immorality is to sin against yourself.

‪Encouraging another is a truest form of praise.‬

‪Encouraging another is someone recognizing the potential of another. ‬

‪Who of you have not appreciated the encouragement of another?‬

‪May your life deliver hope for another’s life to build upon. ‬

‪What you have done for yourself will never be remembered, what you have done for God in another life will never be forgotten. ‬
‪Beware of the words that flatter you, that entice you do wrong.‬

‪Flattery are lies we want to believe. ‬

‪Congratulations and flattery are different but often can be found in the same sentence. ‬

‪Flattery is sermon material for funerals. ‬

Sin is identified by God, not man.

No need to vote it out or vote in, what God said was sin and will be the foundation of the final judgement, that all will attend willing or not!

Sin is not cultural or regional, it is universally wrong. 

A candy coated lie is still a lie.

‪Doing right is never wrong, unless you are doing it without love. ‬

‪It is better to do good for the wrong reasons, than to do wrong for the right reasons. ‬

‪Your motive is your reason. ‬

‪Love grows...hate spreads. ‬

‪Good affects...evil infects.‬

‪Never be distracted from going through the right door, by the window dressings of another destination.‬

‪Your dreams were not meant to be everyone else’s dreams nor theirs yours. ‬

‪At the very least, learn from the mistakes of others and make brand new ones instead. ‬

The more you pray the less your misdirection.

Never allow yourself to become too concerned about the things you can’t change but be extremely concerned about the things you can change and don’t or won’t.

Things that should change because the should rarely budge. Things that must change rarely move at all. Nothing happens until someone like you or I provides the inertia with effort. Inertia is perfectly satisfied with indifference, status quo, and with the consequences of doing nothing at all. 

If you or I want change we must be apart of that change.  Everyone is the result of someone’s effort to change, the question is,  “Do I or you want to increase that change or allow things remain as they are? “ The lack of our involvement plus the lack of effort solidify the state of our lives. Only you or I can change our environment for better or worse. 

Then there is the God thing. Yes, He can change anything He wants, if that were His plan, but He rarely changes anything that we could change by our own efforts. While blaming God may be popular is is never the correct answer...you and I are that answer. If we can see a wrong and pass by on the other side of the road, then  we  are part of that problem.  If the you or I are the problems let us do something about it NOW!

‪When people change to impress others, it is usually temporary, in order to give a false impression of who you are or what you want. 

‪Temporary changes are most often for selfish reasons. ‬

‪Making the same mistakes with other people, over and over again, represents the same problem. (In you)‬

‪If you don’t change, in some of your ways, as you live your life, you are likely too brittle to grow. ‬

‪Love without commitment is groundless.‬

‪By its very nature love requires perseverance. ‬

‪It it is not the trials or tribulations that damages love; it is selfishness. ‬

‪Love keeps on giving, even when it is no longer receiving. ‬

‪Love is the gift; it is an undeserved miracle.‬

‪If you claim to respect someone you must treat them with honesty.‬

‪Honestly does not carry a sword but a helpful willing hand. ‬

‪Brutal honest is reserved for Judgement Day.‬

‪Life is a gift that takes a lifetime to open!‬

‪Honestly is filled with love for the truth not revenge. ‬

‪Honestly is the beginning of wisdom. ‬

‪Failure is not option, learning from failure is.‬

‪If you are too have never failed, you must never try.‬

‪Failure is not the real issue in life, not trying is!‬

‪Doing what you can but getting an outcome that you did not want, is not a failure. ‬

Immorality is a form of personal dishonesty.

Immorality is for those wishes to self-destruct. 

Immorality is a cancer of your own making. 

Immorality is to sin against yourself.

‪Encouraging another is a truest form of praise.‬

‪Encouraging another is someone recognizing the potential of another. ‬

‪Who of you have not appreciated the encouragement of another?‬

‪May your life deliver hope for another’s life to build upon. ‬

‪What you have done for yourself will never be remembered, what you have done for God in another life will never be forgotten. ‬

‪Love is where you are given the opportunity to make one person fell and be very special. ‬

‪Marriage is when you are give that opportunity for the rest of your lives. ‬

‪To love someone is to dedicate yourself to providing the opportunity for the one you love to be happy every day.‬ 

However, happiness is a choice the one loved must still make for themselves. 

Happiness is always a choice, a hard one at time, but still a choice. 

When will you live? If not today, when? If not for others, for whom?

A selfish life is a wasted life, a wealthy life leaves everything behind. 

A faithful life builds up immeasurable treasure in Heaven. 

Faithfulness lead to Heavens steps.

There are countless, friendships, opportunities, fame and fortunes, lost in the difference between “ I can’t and I won’t “. 

Solitude is often best when shared with someone you love. 
Life is a journey into whatever comes next with zeal and faith leading the way.  

You can never know how good God is or how bad you are... only Grace can give you even a glimpse. 

‪The people who are always complaining that they are not getting all they deserve, really don't know how fortunate they already are.‬

You will never “get better” without God’s help.

‪Givers live on a budget that allows then to share, takers have no budget limiting what they are willing to take!‬

‪You will find out that, most often,  to do something different, you will have to learn to think differently. ‬

‪Your life has little chance of success, without your effort. ‬

‪If you are a Christian the “Good news” only gets better but if you reject Jesus, the “bad news” only gets worse!‬

No sinner is happy very long. Soon that sinner hates his master. 

‪You are never truly free in the world; you will and must serve either Satan with selfishness or God with righteousness.‬

‪However, you will serve God out of the deepest of love or serve Satan with tremendous regret and anger. ‬

‪“Choose you today whom you will serve.”and as Paul pointed out...do it daily. ‬

‪Those who depend on money, luck, and unearned opportunity, are soon left in the dust, as those, who work hard, pass them by. ‬
‪Never let your compassion excuse sin.‬

‪Offering an avenue of reconciliation is the best response to those who have fallen away.‬

‪Build bridges not barriers to those who refuse to abandon their evil ways.‬

‪Never let evil cross back over into your life, let those bridges you built be bridges of hope.‬

Your good reputation is your best shield against darts thrown by the selfishness of others. 

Your reputation is not always a choice but you can live in such a way that other people will have a hard time believing the bad things other might be saying about you. 

One day, I woke up thinking that I was a better person, but little changed. The next day I got up and did something about being a better person and life was better.

‪Christian, you our life is designed as God’s way of explaining the difference between good and evil.‬

‪You are here to reveal God differently than anyone else on earth. ‬

‪Your life is to effect other lives, to be a window for some and a doorway for others, to see and discover who Jesus is!‬

‪We are like a ten speed bicycle, full of gears we seldom use. We are satisfied with whatever gear we are in...we choose not to push on to different speeds, in order to reach, our full potential, comfort becomes our enemy. ‬

‪Information without change and obedience is informed stupidity. ‬

Mercy is love in action. 

‪Christians need not only speak the truth but must be infected with a commitment to obedience. ‬

‪Words are always easier to say than to do! ‬

‪Soft words are a pleasure to swallow,  but hard and harsh works crack your teeth. ‬

‪Speak what you live...you will not always be praised, but people will be believe you believe what you have said. Therefore, causing them to question themselves. 

Prayer makes a good family  better.

Payer makes the Bible seem better. 

Prayer makes good surgeons better.

Prayer makes good preachers better.

Prayer makes your good friends better.

Prayer makes you, everyone, and everything, better

‪Bending the truth creates an especially deceptive lie. ‬

‪Every lie is designed to cover the truth, by bending truth, lies become more convincing, meaning, it has just a bit more deception value. ‬

‪The lies you believe are, by far, the most dangerous to you and to your loved ones!‬

‪Mercy cannot bought or sold only given or received.‬

‪Mercy by its very nature is given to someone who doesn’t deserve it. ‬

‪If you deserved mercy it would not be mercy or a pardon, but a proof of innocence owed a person. ‬

‪Without mercy Heaven would be completely empty of humans.‬

‪Graduation is the platform of new opportunities. ‬

‪Graduation is not a place to start over but a launchpad for new discoveries. ‬

‪Graduation is one of many “milestones” life will bring you. ‬

‪Your graduation is a blessing to those who helped you and love you and a gift to those yet to know you.‬

A Smoky Mountain hi 

‪May you bring a breath of fresh air when you come not when you go!‬

‪It is part of your responsibility to recognize how you affect others, for good or for ill. Are you wearing them down or building them up?‬

‪Always be aware that everyone you meet is already carrying their own burden.‬ it is your choice to lighten it or add to it. 


‪Parents must discipline and train while, grandparents are there to help grandchildren to love and feel accepted.‬

‪Parents often must error on the side of discipline, grandparents tend to error on the side of mercy. ‬

‪Parenting and grandpareting work best when everyone is on the same wavelength. ‬

‪Forgive all you can then ask God for the strength to forgive all that is left. ‬

‪You will never know who you are or what freedom feels like, until you forgive someone you really hated. ‬

‪Forgiveness is for you to be relieved of the burdens of hate. It does not release the offender from their burden at all.‬

‪Part of the human experience is to make mistakes, another part of the human experience is to apologize and do your best to make things right. ‬

‪Repentance without change is a bad apology. ‬

‪Dwell on what good others have done to you, not what good you did for another ‬

‪Telling the truth provides you with the best memory!‬

‪Doing as I please is the beginning step towards tragedy.‬

‪Responsibility is sin conquered.‬

Too many folks are concerned about their freedom to do what they want and too few are celebrating the freedom not have to do as they would want.

However you express your freedom there will always be consequences either good or bad.

‪A hero is anyone who does what he can in spite of his fears.‬

‪Freedom is a costly blessing.‬

‪They are of equal value; what I die for and what I live for!‬

‪The blessing of freedom come with a heritage of sacrefice.‬

‪It is going the second mile that makes the first mile important...that is what our military has done over many centuries. 

‪Family is one of Memorial Day’s comforting blessings.‬

‪Perhaps the ultimate sacrifice was given by those parents who raised the one who gave their all.‬

Memorial Day is about the gift of others to the quality of your life.

One often diminishes the value of what they chose to forget.

Jesus is the ultimate Veteran of the Day but He can’t count because He rose from the dead!

‪Pray not for rewards but for understanding.‬

‪Your life, as a Christian, is God’s last testimony to someone. ‬

‪Never assume that a wrong has become, not only right, but “a right” just because others are doing it. ‬

‪God will have the last say, not the conservatives or the liberals!‬

‪Learn to be patient and tolerant with people but never with their sins. ‬

‪Love will triumph over evil...yes...all evil!

Our world is becoming populated with firemen, running to and fro quickly put out any fire of knowledge, Faith , or hope, so that the ”people sheep” will diligently follow society’s (Satan’s) newest lies into a world where, people not only cannot, but will not, think for themselves.

‪Christian, everything  you do in life, is just another means of spreading God’s influence. Monks have little effect on the world around them.  Every life is a ministry in some way or another...to someone or another. Don’t put your light under a bushel...Let it SHINE!‬...Let it SHINE!...Let it SHINE!

‪Until God, is all you have, you will never have all you want. ‬

‪The Blood of Jesus is more powerful than all of the evil in this world. Take what power in Christ you have, and apply it to the lives you meet each and every day. Your world will be changed forever, and the lives God touches through you, will never be the same again, either!

‪Christian, very little in your life is little, your life has meaning and influence, use it wisely. ‬

‪There is a balance between faith and hope is called work.‬

‪A kite, in the wind, is easier to guide than a kite laying on the ground that just wants to fly. ‬

To a kite the string is its Faith for Christians that string comes with three entwined, prayer, love, and obedience. 

‪Likewise, a Christian in prayer is much easier led, than a Christian who just wants to be led . ‬

‪Someone reading the Bible learns considerably more, than someone just carrying the Bible.‬

‪What cannot be said or done in love; should never be said or done at all.‬

‪It is the love, that is the greatest measure of any gift, not the act of giving or the gifts itself. ‬

‪Of the two, finacial satisfaction or soul satisfaction, feeding your soul, then other souls, will be your best choice.

‪People tend to undervalue what they have, and overvalue what they want.‬

‪An unsatisfied soul is the Devil’s delight. ‬

‪To many Christians put their trust in what they don’t have, insteading of, putting to good use what they already have been given from God.‬

‪Learn to do what you can, with what you have first!

‪Preferences are what you feel comfortable with; don’t demand them of others, standards are what God has ask of you.‬

‪God’s standards are in the Bible; man’s preferences are in the church doctrines, rules and regulations.‬

‪If the church has to tell you how to dress and how to live, likely it is their preference.‬

‪Few lose their way when they are focus on their chosen task. ‬

‪Many lose their way when focused on someone else’s task. ‬

‪Tolerance and patience are gifts you wish others had and you did not need.‬

‪Often, it seems easier to live with a wrong, in your life, than it is to change that behavior. ‬

Grace is both the power to change and the determination to stand firm. 

‪There is never, not enough, Grace available for the asking and the believing. ‬

‪“Faith Grace” is God’s gift to the believer. ‬

‪“Faith Grace” makes the possible probable and the impossible likely. ‬

‪Grace cannot be measured, only used, without ever being used up. ‬

Grace is both the power to change and the determination to stand firm. 

Grace is not free but it was paid for with a tremendous price, yet God has chosen to give it freely. 

Mankind itself exists only by God’s Grace whether they are aware of it or not. 

Choose to have a Grace based life!

‪We don’t pray because we have found something to be thankful for, but we pray, because we have to much to be thankful for...not too!‬

‪Sometimes, you will reap what you sow in just one day. ‬

‪Sin always finishes last in the long run…yes always!‬

‪Righteousness always finishes first in the long run….yes always!‬

‪Man has no righteousness without being born of the Spirit of God through Jesus Christ the Lord. No never!‬

‪No one can earn their righteousness by there works.‬

Preferences are what you feel comfortable with; standards are what God has said.

God’s standards are in the Bible; man’s preferences are in the church doctrines, rules and regulations.

If the church has to tell you how to dress and how to live, likely it is their preference.

Heaven is not dependent on your faith, but your Faith is dependent on Heaven.

A wise man, is someone who lives in such a way, that you can understand what he says.

Sometimes my mouth says what I think before I thought it.😳

Love without commitment is groundless.

By its very nature love requires perseverance. 

If it is not the trials or tribulations that damages love; it is selfishness. 

Love keeps on giving, even when it is no longer receiving. 

Love is the gift; it is an undeserved miracle.

Christians need not only speak the truth but must be infected with a commitment to obey.

Words are always easier to say than to do! 

Soft words are a pleasure to swallow; hard works crack your teeth. 

Speak what you live, you may not be praised but you will be believed.

We are like a ten speed bicycle, full of gears we seldom use. We are satisfied with whatever gear we are in...we choose not to push on to different speeds in order to reach our full potential; comfort becomes our enemy.

Christian, your/our life is designed by God so others can see the difference between good and evil.

You are here to reveal God differently than anyone else on earth. 

Your life is to affect other lives. Be a window or door doorway for others to see and discover who Jesus actually is.

‪‪You attract friends by the qualities you project. You keep friends the qualities you actually possess.‬

‪You keep people from wanting to be your friends by living a purposeful, Godly, life.‬

‪Measure you life, not by money but by the number of lives you have influenced for Jesus.‬

No amount of prayer can make a wrong into a right. ‬

‪No amount of Faith can justify doing nothing about what God has told you to do something. ‬

‪Expand your prayer life into someone’s sin life. It may not stop them but it might take away some of the joy they think they are having in sin. ‬
‪Love grows into marriage when your hearts grows together so that you can feel the heartbeat or the pains of the other.‬

‪Love opens up possibilities you can have together that you could never have apart.‬

‪Love forces you to think about another, doing kindnesses that we not expected.

‪The amount of sorry you feel for sin, can be calculated by your repentance, times the amount of the change you make, times the length of the change, divided by the times you revert to your old bad behaviors, when you are under duress. ‬

Repentance , without change, means you are not sorry for your sin, but you are sorry for being caught.

A repentant person does not cling to being sorry, he changes instead. 

Change is the single most obvious difference, that shows that repentance has taken place.

The reason that talk is so cheap is because supply exceeds demand.

Only, Godly sorry, can lead to sainthood. 

A Christian never takes a step the has not already been walked in; because, the Father of All, was there before they ever too that step. He  is ever before a Christian, behind them, and with every Christian for every step.

Be loyal to to yourself and to those who have earned your loyalty.

Being loyal to a cause can be noble, being loyal to people is often celebrated, being loyal to the ones you love is what love is. 

Being loyal to anyone any cause that is not of God is off limits to you as well.

Knowing what I believe, is one thing, staying faithful to what I believe, until it comes to pass, is quite another.

Love is faithful because that is the very nature of love.

Being a true friend means you have taken the time to shift through a lot of the sand to find the gold.

The most difficult lessons to accept are the one we learned but tried to forget. Perhaps it was the teacher, or the people involved, perhaps the circumstances surrounding the lesson, but the lesson was there to be learned.

Those lessons you have chosen to forget are bound to return, perhaps in another form, but they will return.

‪No one can fit into your mold you were made oddly wonderful. ‬

‪You have what you need the be successful, all you need, to close the deal, is Jesus. ‬

‪You were knitted together in your mother’s womb, to be who you are...Not in another’s mother’s womb to be someone else. ‬

‪Grace is what God gives you that you don’t deserve, could not earn, but cannot live without. 

Grace is God's love in an incomprehensible form. 

Grace is the oxygen of a Christian life that keeps them alive while the world around him is dying.

‪Love given from the heart, tends to heal itself best when it is applied to the healing of others.‬

‪Only the giver and the receiver understand the sweetness of the love shared. ‬

‪Love cures; loneliness, resentment, heartbreak, insecurity, hatred, anger, the left behind, the shattered, the wounded, and all other afflictions of the heart, of and for the willing. ‬

‪Be most thankful for the blessing you know nothing about.‬

‪God is constantly pouring out an abundance of blessings, that you are completely unaware of, in a million or so different ways. ‬

‪Our known blessing are few but still they are totally uncountable in number. ‬

‪Learn to integrate you passion with your soul’s desire.‬

‪A man changes his ideas but not his principles, unless he learns that his principles were not valid, then he must change. ‬


‪Be show to judge yourself and even slower in judging others. It is best to do neither. Best to just let Jesus do it!‬

The most corrupt person, politician, or preacher, is the one who never changes his mind even when confronted with the truth.

If you do not sometimes change your opinions, as you grow in life, you are indeed ignorant. 

Learning requires change in direction, opinions and priorities....or you have not learned or not grown. 

‪The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not as much about the feelings of people as it is about the filling of people. ‬

A smile changes the atmosphere you share with anyone and everyone else. 

‪Prison is full of people who were taught to do their own thing, all is ok if you want to do it, then do it. ‬
‪Not all prisoners are behind bars, some are enslaved by habits, some by desires, others by the will of those who lead them. ‬

‪To fail is one thing to remain a failure is quite another. ‬

Truth never changes but our comprehension of it should.

Truth is infallible but the consequences vary. 

What is right is right, regardless of how it feels or what others think. 

Circumstances, opinions, notions, or desires, never change truth nor alter there consequences.

Ministry is simply living the best version of Jesus you can, day after day, after day!

Love accepts the failure, weaknesses, and limitations, of others but still see a way to allow them to grow for their betterment.

Love sees your best, your strengths, your vision, your hopes and allows you the room to accomplish what God desires for your heart.

From His hands, to yours, to another’s; that is the cycle of life in God’s plan for you and everyone else. 

Your life never shines as bright as when you are doing something for another who can never pay you back. 

Far every Christian, ministry is your life’s calling.

‪The vision that you will need in your life, can best be seen through the eyes of your soul.‬

‪“The first shall be last and the last shall be first” but even the last in Heaven is better than all alternatives the world will offer you.‬

‪The eyes of your heart are more easily focused on the things that truly matter. 

‪Love is where you lean on each other’s strengths while helping those strengths to be useful, not a source of arrogant and forgiving each other’s weaknesses, while helping the other build up their weaknesses into strengths. ‬

‪Never burden yourselves with the hatred of others.‬

‪Borrowed hatred is especially troublesome to process as you are not the one who was offended, so it is more difficult to know how to forgive. ‬

‪Hatred is a form of invasive cancer, that can only cured by love. ‬

‪Expect good from others but demand it of yourself.‬

‪Always require from yourself what you want from other, regardless of whether they reciprocate or not. ‬

‪Goals are something you reach for not something you condemn yourself for not having, but know you’re still working to obtain.‬


‪The Lamb of God went to the slaughter for the good of others, see that you live your life for others as well. ‬

‪What I have given to others remains behind to grow in them and in their ministries, long after I left this world. ‬

Your imitation of Christ is your finest testimony.‬

‪Never expect more than God has promised, but never settle for less than He has promised either!‬

‪A promise is no better than the strength, commitment, or the abilities of the one who made the promise.‬

‪As God is perfect in all of the above; His promises are take to the bank ready!‬

‪God’s promises always contain more than you expected, and more than you can imagine.‬

‪Your beliefs should not hinder you but free you to do even more for others.‬

‪Judge yourself by His mercy not by your weakness.‬

‪True love is a combination of knowledge, forgiveness and unspeakable joy.‬..true like has very little of the above. 

‪ ‪When you are feeling that life is passing you by, in reality, it is a day you left unopened.‬

‪The Bible says it is not, he that just believes, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.‬

‪I am not sure all that it means or why it was written that way but it was for a reason.

‪The Bible says to “by the truth and to sell it not!”‬

‪You cannot sell the truth and receive anything of value in return.‬

‪Satan tries everyday to get you to sell out the truth for some useless momentary gain.  ‬

‪Never sell a moment of truth for any price, the Bible says.‬

The consequences of believing a lie are devastatingly harsh!

‪For every Christian the best is yet to come, but it is on its way!‬

‪A Christian gets a little glimpse of the (best is yet to come), every morning, with every prayer and every testimony shared, every day.‬

‪No Christian ever walks in darkness except by choice, as his Faith is his light on the darkest night.  When you are feeling that life is passing you by, in reality, it is a day you left unopened.‬

‪The Bible says it is not, he that just believes, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.‬

‪I am not sure all that it means or why it was written that way but it was for a reason.

‪The Bible says to “by the truth and to sell it not!”‬

‪You cannot sell the truth and receive anything of value in return.‬

‪Satan tries everyday to get you to sell out the truth for some useless momentary gain.  ‬

‪Never sell a moment of truth for any price, the Bible says.‬

The consequences of believing a lie are devastatingly harsh!

‪For every Christian the best is yet to come, but it is on its way!‬

‪A Christian gets a little glimpse of the (best is yet to come), every morning, with every prayer and every testimony shared, every day.‬

‪No Christian ever walks in darkness except by choice, as his Faith is his light on the darkest night. 

‪True love is a reflection of the joy you and another share.‬

‪Whatever you have committed to God is safe and secure.‬

‪Love gives what is needed not just what appears to be necessary.‬

‪Love sees through both the tears and the smiles, looking to heal a wounded heart.‬

Openness is dangerous but being withdrawn is poisonous. Therefore be open to God and His love and cautious to the world who proclaim that they love you as well. 

Concern yourself mostly with the blessings of others, your blessings are guaranteed by the Father Himself. 

Your life may be the only book about Jesus some will ever read.

‪God is always able, whether you are or not, but He often waits until you are willing to be able, before He intervenes.‬

‪Hard work brings you the best of luck.‬

‪The ability to work hard is a gift from God, the willingness to work hard is your gift to God. ‬

‪Hard work resolves more problems than any amount of worry. ‬

‪A shovel will never move a mountain, a moving shovel at least has a chance. ‬

Love has the desire that the person loved has their needs met over their own.

So a spouse defers to the other, wanting them to have the best.

So, Jesus went to the Cross instead of sending you or me in His place. 

The greater the love the greater the tolerance.

God, like people, is more impressed with your actions than your words.

The greater the love shared, the less tolerance is needed.

The difference between a dream and a nightmare is content, be careful what you allow your eyes to see and guard what you allow you mind to think. 

 "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”Proverbs 23:7

‪There are no perfect perfect people here on earth, if someone thinks they are they are either deceived or dead. The only perfect person to walk on earth was Jesus the Son of God and He was crucified, died, buried and rose again...to become your very only possibility for salvation.‬

‪There is a world of difference between being principled and being just hard headed, pigheaded or rebellious.

‪A man must be willing enough to learn, strong enough to stand by truth and wise enough to change when he realizes he is  wrong. ‬

‪Stubbornness was given you time stand by the truth, not to resist it!‬

Jesus said...Acts Fact #24: Kicking against the goads;

Kicking against the goads. Goads were long, sharpened sticks used to prod oxen when they were hitched to yokes. Not wanting to be jabbed again with the stick, the ox would kick against it. It would soon learn that it ...

Whenever you have done something good for anyone, it is always accompanied by a feeling of satisfaction. 

Why are we rarely temped to do what is right?

Every sinner should be as nervous as a tree in a dog pound.

‪Why do we know it is wrong and do it anyway?‬

‪If you have to ask yourself, “should I do this or not?” You likely shouldn’t. ‬

‪Few people are tempted to too much good, and fewer, yet, end up doing it. ‬

‪Sin, tends to ignore the “should I” questions, choosing to focusing on the rewards of the temptation, instead. 

‪Give thanks in all circumstance not for all circumstances that you put yourself in; but if God put you in those circumstances, then be grateful.‬

‪God delivers us from all our sins but not from the consequences of all sin.‬

‪Even forgiven sin has consequences.

‪Sweet revenge always sours over time. ‬

‪Doing what is wrong to punish someone who has done your wrong is never right. ‬

‪A teaspoon of wisdom is better than a lake filled with just knowledge, alone. 

‪A wise man applies what he knows; a foolish man just brags about what he knows. ‬

‪The difference between knowledge and wisdom is success.‬

‪If a man who knows better but does something anyway, it is called sin!‬

What you do is what you believe and who you are. 

‪Doing a kindness is the only sweet revenge that last. ‬

‪The blessings of giving a blessing are perpetual. ‬

‪No darkness, no matter how deep or where it came from can extinguish the light that Jesus brings to those who believe in Him. ‬

‪Faith comes without darkness, if and only if, we keep our eyes on Jesus. ‬

‪Ordinary light casts a shadow as it turns but the light of God cast no shadow as it turnes...a shadow is a point of inconsistent light;  God has none whatsoever!

‪God’s plans are beyond our understanding. ‬

‪God’s Grace is beyond our hopes.‬

‪God’s love is beyond our comprehension. ‬

‪God’s mercy can never be rationalized.‬

‪Yet all is true, for every Christian...All of the time!‬

May God’s will be your will, then all you do, will be what He wants. 

Obedience is better than sacrifice the Bible says, but always not as convenient as we would prefer.

Being a Christian is often more predictable in an humanly unpredictable way.

Be zealous, not just for what you want, but for what you know God has called you to do. 

It is far easier to be “Almost persuaded”, as Pontius Pilate
was , than it is to be completely committed. 

Easy believism isn’t easy.

‪Hope and faith peals away the grip of doubt, one finger at a time, day after day.  ‬

‪Doubt is your way building resistance to the truth, creating your own stumbling blocks. ‬

‪“Without a doubt” is possible and even necessary to see and thrive in God’s marvelous Grace. ‬

‪Faith is where you trade in “pot luck” for “pot hope”.
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‪Without faith there is little hope and without hope there is even less love. ‬
‪Love is the only soil where where every good thing can grow, thrive, and bless. ‬

‪Only love can bury doubt to its deepest depths.‬

Faith moves mountains, doubt creates them, hope see beyond the mountains, doubts blinds you to your own possibilities. 

Faith sees your glass as overflowing, doubt see your glass as half empty or half full. 

Hope is a heart condition, doubt is a mind condition.

‪God said that obedience is better than sacrifice. Unfortunately most of find that making some big sacrifice is easier than obedience.  It is easier to try and earn our salvation than it is to accept it by faith in Jesus, God’s only Son. Jesus has already paid it all, so put your faith in Him. ‬


Jesus did not ask Paul, “Why do you persecute my church, or my people but asked why do you persecute Me!” Salvation is a very personal journey. The Faith of others is there to encourage your Faith, not to replace your faith.

We are saved to serve, we are not saved by serving. 

‪Chose to let go of what is hurting you before it hurts someone you love.‬

‪You never carry your burdens alone, your love ones are always caring the heavy end. ‬

‪The hurts in the lives of those you love bring you more pains than the hurts that you think are yours alone.‬

Jesus came to bear your burdens with you and for you. 

‪Forgiveness brings your moral sobriety.‬

‪It is better to force yourself to do right than to allow yourself to do wrong.‬

‪It is better to forgive than to make your loved ones bear your bitterness, with you or for you. ‬

‪Few want others to suffer for their wrongs but they always do.‬

Love changes everything!

‪Freedom is about so much more than hamburgers, fireworks and watermelons as good as they are; freedom is about the people who cannot celebrate it because the gave their lives so you could celebrate freedom. Never lose what cost so very, very much. ‬

In America your freedom exist within the boundaries of laws.

Your freedom in the USA is being bought and is continually preserved by the lives and dedication of brave men and women.

Independence and freedom are not the same.

You never want to independent from God , but you want freedom from sin.

Your spiritual freedom has be paid for by the blood of Jesus.

‪It is your Faith in Jesus, God’s only Son that brings freedom to your heart.  ‬

‪Nothing or no one else can ever set you free! So believe and be free indeed!‬

Good men are not always wise and wise men are always good. Only a Christian has a shot at being both wise and good!

‪Just because you are wrong doesn’t mean I am right.‬

‪One can be correct without being right and you can be right without being correct. ‬

‪Power is intoxicating, money is addictive and Christians are not immune. ‬

‪Never let your biases lead you to revenged, instead let your love lead you to righteousness. 

The Grace of God is richer than you are poor, freer than you are bound, wiser than your ignorance, and it is all perfectly and completely free!

A wiseman uses what he learned to better himself and others; a selfish man uses what he learned to enrich himself at the expense of others. 

A foolish man can be throughly wrong yet thinks he is right...well actually we all can do that. 

Success become intoxicating as well as a blindfolding. 

Little is done without great effort. 

Comfort is the enemy of change. 

It is hard to be normal in an abnormal world who think they are normal. 

God never makes any plans for you marriage to fail. 

‪If I am thinking, “If I get a chance I might sin.” Because I can always repent later, it is time to repent...now!‬

‪Temptation can lie to you a thousand different ways to weaken your resolve or to get you to continue in your sin. ‬

‪Everyone is temped few put up much of a fight. ‬

If you are anchored in hopelessness, despair will always keep your blessings away.

Never allow the troubles from the past to outweigh the joys of the present. 

Man often tries to pick through their weakness looking for hope but it never is found there. 

If you are ever proud of your sin you are indeed deceived.

Shame takes away our feelings of belonging. 

Feeling forgiveness is far more difficult to experience than being forgiven. 

Gospel is the behind the protection and the power of every Christian to live as a Christian not just say that you are one. 

If you don’t believe that God loves you, you do not understand the Gospel in any manner. 

Love does not create fear in those they love. 

Accepting the love of God brings joy not sorrow. 

Are you a witness to the sorrow of God by rejecting His love or a witness to the freedom God’s love brings you by accepting His love. 

In life you have to know and accept that part of life’s joy will always be in you and set before you and will always be yet to come!

Be slow to avenge what is righteous, as truth is its own defense, less pride replace healing and truth is more tarnished by your deeds than theirs.  

Judge your feelings, notions, prejudice and conclusions before judging the motives of others. 

Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you as you take any step to redeem a brother who see things differently than you may. 

When correcting a believer, be cautious but not fearful, be kind but be clear,  come with a redemptive heart, striving not to injury but to heal. 

Consider the effect of your actions on those who may be innocent who surround the offending one with their love as well. 

Be sure the splinter in your brother’s eye has not blur your vision as well. 

‪As a Christian, holding back from God is a form spiritual insanity.‬

‪Plant no evil thought in the soil of temptation, in your life or in the lives of others. ‬

‪Deceiving yourself is a disgrace and a sin, deceiving others is sin of another magnitude.  Jesus warns about harming the innocent.‬

‪Your attitude regulates your thought life.‬

‪When you see the growth of an evil thought, pluck it out, smash it.‬

‪If I am making plans on how I could get away with a sin, it is way past time to repent. So, repent NOW!

‪Don’t let just anyone write on the pages of your life.‬

‪There is a vast difference between those who have to love you, those who choose to love you. ‬

‪May you also consider those who you get to love. ‬

‪Love is a privilege, returned love is a serious blessing. ‬

‪Want a good fight? Try fighting temptation!‬

‪God will supply all of your needs and more than enough of your wants.‬

‪Fighting temptation is the best exercise one can get.‬

‪Few are fooled into temptation, we mostly choose to do it!‬

For the Christian, discipline brings with it the greatest happiness.

For the Christian, discipleship brings the greatest peace.

For the Christian, love brings both and much much more. 

Learning plus love breeds forgiveness.

‪Winning doesn’t make you a hero or bring to you that sense of accomplish, that doing your best will.‬

‪The greatest danger in preaching the Gospel will come from those who don’t quite believe it, yet purposefully resist it!‬

‪The better your “thought life” the better your heart!‬

‪Share truth, not prejudice, notions or persuasions. ‬

‪Always tell the truth about a truth, less you damage it in someone else’s mind. ‬

‪Truh is infallible, you are not. ‬

Christianity is blood and sweat relationship with a living God..get out of the grandstands and into the fight. ‬

‪There will come a day, Christian, when the pains and struggles of this life will seem very very trivial, a distant memory quickly overcome by the joy that surrounds you from this moment and for every moment on its way towards you!‬

‪The root of evil always seeks to grow in the soil of your soul and your heart while trying to influence your daily life in every way, possible.‬

‪Resist the Devil, and God’s promise is that he (the Devil) WILL flee from you. ‬

‪Christian, Satan has no power over you but tries to make you think and  believe he does. ‬

‪Prayer, Faith and discipline are your best protection against temptation.‬

‪Temptation is a very personal war between your heart and you physical desires. ‬

‪No man or woman lives without temptation as they reside deep within everyone of us. ‬

‪Yielding to temptations temptation is a choice not a mandate.‬

‪Praise, is like cut flowers, it must be watered every day to survive. ‬

‪Never allow yourself to be addicted to praise instead become a praiser of God from which all good comes from.‬

‪Praising God brings a settled joy, the praises of men are mostly for the self-gain of the one praising.‬

‪People with helping hands, tend to see better and sleep better. ‬

‪Life is either used up or left behind, everyday. ‬

‪Time is unredeemable, but the lost around you aren’t. ‬

‪Jesus is better at forgiving than you are at sinning. ‬

‪Love redeems lives, hate destroys lives.  ‬

‪Salvation is the only way to have freedom from sin.‬

‪Dependence on Jesus is the only way to Salvation. ‬

‪Christians learn that interdependence on each other is the best way to grow as a church and as an individual. ‬

‪Bearing one another’s burden is in the Bible for a good reason!

‪God has promised to deliver us from most of the evil in the world...right?. ...wrong! God has promised to deliver us from ALL evil. ‬

‪Truth is the judge of our hearts not, opinions, ideas, or whatever power you might have temporarily. ‬

‪It will be the Word of God, Himself that will determine truth not the whims of any man. ‬

‪Half hearted faith reveals little truth and even less application of it.‬

‪Lust is the desire to do in the flesh, what I know to be wrong in my spirit. ‬

‪Sow want you want to reap, give what you hope to keep and live like you want those you love to live. ‬

‪Peace is no accident, happiness is a choice, and joy is a gift of God to His children. ‬

‪Sin never delivers what it has promised, God never fails to deliver on His promises...”choose you today whom you will serve”. Joshua 24:14-15.  ‬

‪Going through difficult time? They are there not to make you late, but to help you understand where you are headed. ‬

‪Troubles often come our way to wake us up, to see the consequences, of our behaviors, before they are applied.‬

‪Are going through challenging waters? They are here to cleanse you not to drown you. ‬

‪Sow the truth into the lives around you, not shame or guilt, but sow only truth in love, that will be enough. ‬

‪Your most bountiful crops will be grown in the lives of others. ‬

‪Fame, fortunes, or accomplishments, rarely go beyond the grave.  If they do the "you" part of them is soon forgotten. ‬

‪Heaven and Eternity will be all that will matter beyond the grave!‬

‪If truth is in a smog, it will be excuses that are obscuring it. ‬

‪Every step we take towards our goal is one step we take away from whatever is keeping us from it.‬

‪Your heart will let you know what is right, even while your mind try’s to convince you that you are allowed to do what you desire. ‬

‪No men live alone for they are either a good or a bad influence on someone somewhere and to often. ‬

‪Forgive what you can; cast on Jesus asking for mercy, for all that you can’t, forgive.

‪The amazing part of Grace is that it is free, complete and without merit.‬

‪Only Jesus can give Grace, through the Father to all who will receive it and often, even to those who reject it. ‬

‪Possibilities become probabilities when fed a steady diet of Faith. ‬

‪It is not what you can do that will count, in the end, it will be what God can and will do that will matter. ‬

‪God's provisional Grace is for humanity but God’s saving Grace is only those who believe and choose to live by Faith. ‬

‪Few people run their lives with the precision they apply to judging others shortcomings. ‬

‪Finding fault is far easier than discovering the good in another, especially those who disagree with us one way or another. ‬

‪Love can’t wait to publish the best about another, hate can’t wait to publish the worst about another.

Often intelligent people do dumb things, that they are not smart enough to see or understand.

Intelligent people often have a difficult time seeing or applying simple truths. 

Obvious truth are the most ignored because folks feel they are exempt from them or they don’t apply.

‪Never save any part of today to spend tomorrow, but keep the good memories, forever. ‬

‪You cannot live today tomorrow or tomorrow today but you can live each to its fullest. ‬

‪Understand, that your sins and your good deeds of today, will follow you into tomorrow. ‬

‪In America your freedom exist within the boundaries of laws.‬

‪As a Christian we are free within the boundaries that God has set for us. ‬

‪If Jesus is your Savior, you feel those boundaries, if not thoes bound become more and more blurred. ‬

‪Knowledge can either serve you or enslave you. ‬

‪Give more prudence to obedience as you learn than to the simple acquisition of knowledge.  ‬

‪Freedom without applied love becomes a weapon against itself.‬

‪Loving your neighbors illustrates and is the ultimate form of freedom.‬

In times I have given up, but God has never given up on me. 

God seems incapable of leaving me without His love, mercy and Grace, to help me move on in my journey towards Him. 

Hardening of the arteries is not near as dangerous as hardening of the soul.‬

‪A hard heart leaves its scars in the lives of others, as well as in your own. ‬

‪Bitterness is the super glue of depression, which can only changed by love and forgiveness.‬

‪‪You will learn much more by walking into the light from darkness, than you will ever learn by waking away from the light into darkness. ‬

‪Have you ever thought how good it is to be better than your are? Or than you were?‬

‪If you really know what is good for you, and do it, then you really do know Jesus. ‬

‪Knowledge without application is either stubbornness, stupidity or both. ‬

‪I have felt the presence of God enough to know that He is there, even when I don’t feel His presence, I still know He is there. However, I have never felt His presence enough that I don’t want to be there anytime He will allow me that privilege.‬


‪I leave nothing behind me greater than the joy I will carry with me to Heaven. ‬

There is nothing in this world that I will leave behind other than my testimony that will be of greater value. 

Other than those I have helped know and love Jesus, whatever I left behind me will soon be consumed and thrown away.

‪It often only takes the laugh of a child to restore the Faith of a man.‬

‪A million dollars can never replace the smile of a child, yet we abort them regularly before they can.‬

‪Everyone comes with a purpose from a purpose giving God. ‬

‪An intentional God gives purpose to the willing. ‬

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‪Living your life as a loving obedient Christian is the Will of God for your life. Don’t complicate it!‬ He will always lead the way. 

If someone is treating better than you deserved they either want something from you, they love you very much or you just may have found a true friend. ‬

‪Friends are not usually found they are most often made over time as each measures the character of the other. ‬

‪A new friend is refreshing an old friend is comforting. ‬

A friend believes what he knows about you before he believes what he hears about you. 

A true friend will tell you what you need to hear instead of what you want to hear. 

Friendship is a two way street, a friend who is doing all the lifting will tend to look for someone willing to bear their share of the load.

A true friend , however, is one who will bear more than their share of the relationship, when required, that is why they are so hard to find. 

‪Too many folks read the Bible through the eyes of their theology, rather than reading the Bible to find their theology.‬

‪We are are tainted by what we have been taught and thus are guided by what we think we know, instead of searching the Bible for what it wants to teach us. ‬

‪The pain of being wrong is no near as sever as the pain that results for staying wrong. ‬

‪The comfort of God’s presence exceeds anything else you can or will ever experience. ‬

‪The challenge of the day and everyday is to love someone more than they could ever have earned.‬

God is and will always be more forgiving, have more mercy, give more Grace, love us more thoroughly, than we could ever hope to understand or imagine.

‪Remember to be exceedingly joyful while you are being somber.‬

‪Joy unspeakable should be noticeable. ‬

‪Let your joy overwhelm your sadness in the end.‬

‪A joyless Christian is a true oxymoron.‬

‪If you really want to know what is good for you; then search for Jesus, follow what He says, and love your neighbor. ‬

‪It is alway good to be better than you were. ‬

‪Friendship with God is the best source of everything; friendship with a fellow believer is the best source of renewable energy. ‬

If it weren't for today, tomorrow wouldn't mean much.

If you spend today with Jesus tomorrow will be wonderful wherever you are.

‪May the happiness you bring to your fellow believers be your greatest source of contentment. ‬

‪If God does not help you, you can never do enough. ‬

‪“Building up each other in the Faith” often takes more effort than winning the lost.‬

‪Preachers be aware that having a captive audience does not mean you have captured their minds. ‬

‪Some friends folks are just too busy to be wise. ‬

‪Wisdom comes from learning from what you did wrong, so the next time you will be at least closer to doing it right.  ‬

‪“Wisdom work” is more valuable than wisdom thoughts. ‬

‪Every life you touch for Jesus, can never say it was untouched. ‬

‪Our churches are in desperate need of a massive “ Love Crusade”, filling the hearts and lives of every believer.  ‬

‪If every Christian were a “Love Crusader” imagine the effect it would have on their world. ‬

‪Just having one “Love Crusader” in a home would alter that home forever‬!

‪If your overqualified you should be doing a better job than anyone else at that position.‬

‪Doing your work better than others, doing the same job, impresses your bosses more than your education ever will.  Now just imagine if you had both!‬

‪You are only “qualified “ for the work you can and will do!‬

‪The saddest people you will meet are those who have and are creating their own sadness. ‬

‪Self-perpetuating sadness are fulled by selfishness and an unforgiving spirit. ‬

‪Selfishness is a gift to yourself that turns into a curse. ‬

‪No one values selfishness but the selfish.‬

‪If you don’t learn to cherish the moment, soon hours will slip by unappreciated. ‬

‪Time is the paper on which you write your life’s story. ‬

‪Time cannot be redeemed; only invested or lost. ‬

‪Love is as much about time shared, as it is time together. ‬

‪It is easier to be together than it is to cherish being together. ‬

‪Love is a compassionate sacrificial grasp on someone else’s heart. ‬

‪Love considers the cost to the one loved before considering the cost for itself. ‬

‪The Gospel changes nothing until it is accepted and applied. ‬

‪However, when the Gospel is accepted and applied it changes everything.‬

‪Only a Christian has to learn to live with a forgiving and forgotten past.‬

‪Only Christians are burdened with having to tolerate with less fret and less regret. ‬

‪If you want to grow some previous decisions will need to be changed, for few alway decide right the first time. ‬

‪I have learned that you don’t have to agree with me to be right their often more ways to be or do right than I willingly acknowledge. ‬

‪Love gives more latitude than blame. ‬

‪Character is easily comprised by many small bad decisions made over a lifetime.‬

‪Character is more of a position than a debate. ‬

‪When you are always right, other people’s input become unnecessary.‬

‪God’s more faithful to you than you ever could be to Him (By the way, He knows that!) 

‪The task of undoing the past is dauntingly impossible. ‬

‪Not the tiniest step in the past can ever be undone.‬

‪If you want to change the past, do it now before it is the past.‬

‪The past will last as long as you accept its sorrows. ‬

‪Live today, so as, to put a smile on your past. ‬

‪Good memories are purposeful made. ‬

‪Doing good makes better possible and puts best in reach. ‬

‪Life is a process of making your memories, better and the lives around you special. ‬

‪Few can imagine and less can express the joy that others bring into their lives everyday. ‬

‪Friends are the bedrock of a unique happiness consisting of a blend of a sense of purpose and a realization of accomplishment!‬

‪Only a handful are willing to do more than they are ask, and less will do it more than once!

A great marriage is not made up of two folks thinking identically but of two folks thinking together.

‪Prepare thoroughly but judge liberally.‬

‪The less you judge the more you can help.‬

‪Judging others often interferes with understanding them.‬

‪Judge the way you hope to be judged. ‬

Understand yourself to understand others!

Hatred is an ever increasing burden.

It is easier to grasp what is said than what is left unsaid. So speak the truth in love. 

‪We are most protective of our own needs and wants.‬

‪Prayer is a way of asking God what we are afraid to tell Him.‬

‪Prayer open up your heart so your head can hear. ‬

‪People that are too lonely to pray tend to remain lonely. Ask and you will receive. ‬

Imagination is God’s gave to you so you can picture and/or measure the results of your obedience or disobedience.

Imagination is the power of the moment to see beyond themselves. 

Imagination is not a guess but it is more like picturing yourself in a particular situation. 

Imagination is the key to love. 

When desire takes over your imagination, you are beginning to lie to yourself. 

It is the desire of the world to create false imaginations in your mind, then in your heart, then in the lives around you. 

When you spend too much time in darkness the darkness becomes your light. 

It takes imagination to see yourself as a sinner. 

Hearing is the beginning of imagination. 

Every book that was ever written is a product of imagination. 

A narrative is a sequence of verbal pictures joined together by a theme. 

‪‪Does your faith exceed your expectations?‬ It should everyday of your Christian life. 

‪How often are mesmerized by hope you have set before you?‬

God has and will always exceed you greatest hopes while dismissing your greatest fears. 

Pride goes before the fall, but laziness will get you there the quickest.‬

‪The willingness to consider doing wrong is the key to opening the door towards doing wrong.‬

‪The answers we do not want are still answers.‬

‪Doubt darkens hope the as little else can!‬

‪However then, hope can shatter darkness the way nothing else can. ‬

The less you judge the happier you will become. 

‪Your judgments of others will influence their judgment of you, as well.‬

‪Judgment of management and judgments of character are not the same.‬

‪The Judgement of motives and the judgement accomplishments are not the same. ‬

‪Never judge what you don’t have too!‬

‪Just the torque of a new idea can be painful because it often requires change. ‬

‪Require more of yourself than of any worker; example is one of the best motivators. ‬

‪Allow yourself the latitude to be different or mistaken or you will never vary your ideas or your actions. ‬

‪When a loved one suffers with pain, the other one suffer their agony.‬

‪Be careful, pain ruins the body but hatred ruins the soul.‬

‪One of life’s biggest is challenges is to do what you needs to be done, instead of doing what you feel like doing. ‬

‪Just because you can’t do all that needs to be done does not excuse you from not doing something. ‬

‪Live and then plan so that the last tree you plant will not be for your own shade.‬

‪Love is the only antidote for misery, and that often it seems little enough. ‬

‪Unnecessary “Good works” is now on the endangered species list.‬

                                             Ecclesiastes 3
1For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
2a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

9What profit has he who works in that in which he labors? 10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. 13Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. 14I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him. 15That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

Life, like the roads we travel, is paved with flat squirrels, and wondering people, who just could not make up their minds.

‪The difference between, thinking I am a Christian, and knowing I am a Christian is like thinking I should eat, and knowing I just have eaten.‬

‪A great marriage seizings every opportunity to bring happiness to the one loved. ‬

‪Encourage yourself to encourage others, often!‬

‪Healing is often a difficult journey.‬

‪Your pain can never be understood by another it is yours alone to bear, if you are without Christ our Lord. However with Him, He will be bearing it both with you and in you, also at times for you. ‬

‪His Grace is always with you, for you and in you, ever moment for every step of your Christian journey. 

‪Often the “Golden Rule” is harder to live in reverse. Am I doing for myself, as I am willing to do for others?‬

Moderation is the ability to take enough care of yourself so you can continue to help others. 

‪Without Jesus, I suffer from Divine inadequacy. ‬

‪No toubstone can justify a selfish life.‬

‪Without God your life will always be emptier than you want to tollereate; yet no matter how you try to satisfy it, you can’t it any other way, but Jesus. 

‪Happiness is a byproduct of loving God. ‬

‪Where God leads you, may not always want to go; but it is where you will always want to be!‬

‪Happiness follows Faith wherever it goes. ‬

‪Joy is better than happiness but why not have both?‬

‪In Jesus is all of the joy you can stand and all of the happiness you can endure. ‬

Your Father knows what you need
before you ask. 
Yet, He tells us to pray always. 
Why ...not for Him to know but for us to understand Him and His reply. 

‪It is heart control that is needed...in order to make gun control work. 
It is the heart that controls the gun. 

‪Being wise beyond your years comes seeing beyond what is in front of you. ‬

‪The “Now” is the biggest enemy of making a plan for tomorrow.‬

‪Temptation is often about trying to get what you want now, instead of wait for when you should have it. ‬

‪Contentment comes from wanting less and enjoy more of what you have!

‬‪Tears are just often prayers without words. ‬

‪One of life’s biggest challenges is to love someone when they are hurting you, purposely or without realizing it. Welcome to marriage and parenting. ‬

‪Without love, one becomes extremely selfish, and eventually very unhappy. ‬

‪The thorn of hope is often painful. ‬

The greatest treasure you have is not a thing but a person or persons who you love and who love you. 

If you put strings on a gift it becomes a reward, a reward brings a challenge, marriage is both a gift and a reward.

‪Grief has a language of its own known, only to those it has spoken too.‬

‪Harsh is the company of grief. ‬

‪Grace lessen the pain but never obliterates the memory it leaves behind. Without Grace there is never any hope offered. ‬

‪Only Grace offers any comfort for the pain grief burdens us with. ‬

‪Pray for the things you do every day and for the things you cannot do, but still need to be done.‬

‪Prayers ties your attention to the things of God rather that the things that hasten for your attention. ‬

‪May you be tempted to do good today and find a way to do it!‬

‪Pain ruins the body but hatred ruins the soul.‬

‪Never allow plain to become your testimony. As a Christian, even as your pain cries out, you have so much more to be thankful for and to which to give praise.‬

‪Healing is an elusive reality, guided by prayer, given by God.‬

‪We are all healed repeatedly, without knowing it, fewer have tasted Devine healing in their body. 
It is a gift of God whether He heals you now or takes away your grief and pain forever when He brings you home to be with Him.

‪Love is the only antidote for misery, pain, hopelessness, and all other human weaknesses. ‬