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.

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‪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 continually resist it!‬

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. 

‪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. ‬

‪We all have excuses for what we do or don’t do, that we have allowed to hinder or defeat our progress in one way or another. ‬

‪Excuses are limitations we have accepted rather than chosen to overcome. ‬

‪We all try to justify our behavior into acceptability, while questioning the behaviors of others.‬

Pray more, judge less, do more and resist not doing as we should!

‪A friend causes me to be myself without fear.‬

‪A good friend not only accepts you as you are but give you the space that change and grow even when it causes you to leave them behind for awhile. ‬

‪Friends come and go, but great friends stay. ‬

‪Marriage is love that cannot be explained, experience or expressed in any other way.‬

‪Men soon learn that women cry when they are happy or sad and when they are not happy or sad. ‬

‪Men cry best where no one can see them. ‬

‪Men and women both realize that tears help you see more clearly.‬

‪Lord you have brought me this far for a reason, help me to do my part of that reason, today.‬

‪Lord may your love to me flow though me into the lives you intent to bless with that love. Help me, Lord Jesus, not to hinder your love in any way. ‬

‪Lord help me today to more yours, than mine. ‬

‪God’s love, is a necessary gift you cannot thrive without. ‬

‪God’s Grace is a necessary gift you can not overcome without. ‬

‪God’s mercy is the only gift that can keep you out of Hell.‬

‪God’s love is the only way you can learn to love your enemies. ‬

‪God’s Love gives you tears of compassion.‬

‪Choose to “do good and shun evil” first thing every day ‬

‪Only you can choose to “do good and shun evil”, your friends may help or hinder you but you are the one making that choice!‬

‪You can never be right until you live right!‬

‪What you do is who you are, and only Grace can make you any different.‬

‪The best way to keep your “to do list” looking good is to not list it until it is done...then post it and just cross it off. 

‪Even when I can’t complain. I sometimes give it a try anyhow.‬

Learn to enjoy today because tomorrow may have some unpleasant surprises for you. 

‪A note to the young and a reminder to the old; the more you love God the smarter you will be and happier you will become. ‬

‪God can make the greatest failure a success and the biggest fool a wiseman. ‬

Jesus showed you the extent of God’s love for you at the Cross and His resurrection showed you His commitment to you. ‬

‪The success of God’s love in your life is dependent on your willingness not His. ‬

‪God is willing that not any should perish but that all should come to Him, in repentance.  

‪The love of the heart of God beats in every Christian and is the hidden desire in the hearts of those who aren’t even seeking Him. ‬

‪The ultimate healing of a man is not when he steps out of a hospital room but when takes his first step onto the streets of gold in Heaven. ‬

‪You are the material of someone else’s blessing, just as someone else is made up to bless you. ‬

‪God’s economy of love is made up to be given to and spent on those who could never afford nor deserve such love...in other words you and me!‬

‪Every Christian’s Faith goes past their ability to comprehend. ‬

‪Faith, by its very nature, hopes for more than it can ask for. ‬

‪Faith contains both doubt and expectations at the sametime. ‬

‪Faith gives us backbone while melting our hearts into acceptance of whatever God wills for our life.

‪God’s love is far more thorough and profoundly comprehensive than any mother’s love or father’s love could possibly contain.‬

‪God’s love is simply, everlasting applied and inexhaustibly wonderful. ‬

‪True love is never long enough, but always is enough. ‬

‪Love is when you are in charge of the comfort and safety of someone else’s heart. ‬

‪Serious love is often afflicted with intense joy. ‬

‪The best kind of love is shared loved.‬

‪God is love. Sharing His love is priceless!‬

The truth is for those who know God to have and cherish. Truth for those who don’t know God is to wonder about, even question while they search for it and then question it again when you do find it, thus reaping an intensely more thorough degree of confusion. 

Question God and He will teach you; question among yourselves and your answers will reap confusion.

Possessing a deepening Faith is an exquisitely blessing, filled with everlasting rewards. 

Hope has its roots in Faith and its branches spread out to capture the best of God’s possibilities. 

‪If you are expecting to perfect people in your church, you know little about churches and less about why Jesus died on the cross. ‬

God has great hearing, so you can pray from anywhere anytime.  He can hear what you want to say when you are still trying to think how you should pray it.

‪Prayer is a way to minister beyond you limitations. ‬

‪Whatever you can’t pray for...you shouldn’t have anyway. ‬

‪Prayer is the only way to move mountains of guilt. ‬

‪Prayer gives you the faith to pray. ‬

‪The Bible teaches “Faith, hope and love but the greatest of these is love,” but love cannot exist without the other two.  ‬

‪Prayer is for your good, not God’s, but He still hears ever unsaid word as clearly as the ones you can say. ‬

‪Prejudice is a mixture of pride, selfishness and insecurity.‬

‪Insecurity is the begin for of most every sin. ‬

‪He biggest sin is to think you are better than anyone else, the worst sin is to deny God, Himself, the deadliest sin is not to accept Jesus as your Savior. ‬

‪Happiness is troubling to create; as it is ultimately a result of the way you are  living . ‬

‪Joy is a gift to the believers that unbelievers  rarely get a glimpse of, yet believers bask in it daily. ‬

‪Forgiveness is one of the doors that unbelievers tend to keep locked, even with they have the key in their hand.‬

True guilt means you did wrong and need forgiveness; false guilt involves: I should have, I could have, and the "Ifs" the if “had only"…if I been there, done this, waited, called, said something, et cetera…which is the devils playground for manufacturing that unforgivable false guilt. (Unforgiveable because it does not exist it is you lying to yourself)

If you did something wrong you know what, when, where you did it and what to do about it. If you are consumed with false guilt you are not quite sure of what, where, when, or even if, you are responsible, but you might have been.

Sin is true guilt and you need to be repent; false guilt is not sin but will bring down your quality of life and your effectiveness as a Christian...so leave it alone, do not accept it in any form! 

‪Until you understand that God is God and that you are severely lost until you are redeemed by the blood of His son, Jesus, and then through faith and repentance you become a Child of God, you are celebrating a deep form of personal ignorance or rebellion, thus accomplishing nothing.‬

‪The road to Heaven may appear to be very narrow but it is wide enough to include anyone who is willing to travel it.‬

‪The road to Heaven is often filled with people who are headed the wrong direction. ‬

‪The true road to Heaven has only one entrance and no exits. ‬

‪Death is only the enemy to those who have made no preparation to live beyond it.‬

‪Death is not an end but a beginning of everlasting joy or everlasting misery, your choice here...but not there. ‬

‪Death is a destination, life is a journey. ‬

‪Death is an external experience for Christians as the Bible teaches “to be absent for the flesh I’d to be present with the Lord!”‬

‪Shame and guilt are used by Satan for your destruction or by Jesus for your salvation.‬

‪Repentance is the ultimate form of faith, and it results in the ultimate form of hope. ‬

‪Hope, faith and mercy are three of the key ingredients in love. ‬

‪Devine love contains everything!‬

‪Dropping the chains of the past clears the way for you to celebrate the future...now!‬

‪No past has ever been changed by regret, but the future can be changed without it. ‬

‪Forgiving is harder, not forgiving is even harder...especially on those you claim to love the most!‬

You are not called to be a fan of Christianity but you were called to be a working member of the team. 

There are no grandstands near a church, but the practice fields are  nearly everywhere you look around a church. 

One good deed is better than a thousand unheeded “amens” in church.

‪Feed with abandon but eat with restraint.‬

‪Discipline is the most difficult of all virtues.‬


‪Learn more about marriage than work and you will be more successful at both.‬

‪Marriage is a mutually specific bridge to one another’s heart. ‬

‪The more you care about others the less mistakes you make. ‬

‪Marriage is an exclusive luxury. ‬

‪Being a parent to your children is much harder than being a friend, but more beneficial for the children.‬

‪Every child is given to their parents but they make their own friends.‬

‪It is the hope and prayer of every parent that their children will become their friends as they age. ‬

‪Marriage should mean that "cautionary love” no longer applies.

‪If you really need a prenuptial agreement in your first marriage, you likely don’t need to be getting married at all.‬

‪Conditional love rarely develops into a permanent relationship.

‪Everything you withhold from a marriage eventually haunts it. ‬

‪Marriage is only restricted by your joint application of love, your honesty and your commitment.‬

‪In marriage, love, is made up of moments sown together for a lifetime. ‬

Living together will never accomplish the "being together" that marriage supplies. 

If you are not committed enough to get married, just living together is still a wrong poor choice. God said this...not me. 

‪Planning is the second hardest thing you do, making it happen is the hardest.‬

‪Application is both the ache and pain of success. ‬

‪Success is an illusive possibility until flooded with diligence and  hard work. ‬

‪True success is agreeing with God. ‬

‪At 18 I was absolutely sure, of what at 78, I realized was the wrong interpretation of what was true. 

When I think I know enough about something, I often get slapped by my own ignorance. 

Knowing and doing seem always to be in conflict, in real life.

How often we  are mesmerized by hope? Believing a lie until we are run over by disappointment.‬

‪Greed and love are two of the greatest driving forces in our world, greed leads to envy and love leads to happiness.‬

‪God never disappoints; the world always disappoints.‬

‪Jesus could have easily erred on the side of conservatism and condemned the woman at the well or erred on the side of liberalism and told her she was just fine as long as it made her feel good,  but instead He loved a sinner into repentance. ‬

‪Most folks know when they are doing wrong but won’t label what they are doing as sin, but will hasten to do so when seen in others!

‪Doing what you know is wrong is always sin. ‬

‪Many times anger is just a communication issue.‬

‪Sometimes anger is a reaction to selfishness, either yours or someone else’s. ‬

‪Often anger is a result of not understanding someone else’s opinion, other times it is because you do.‬

Anger if often an excuse not to think for ourselves. 

Being a neighbor and being neighborly are completely different issues.

Never settle for what you were, always strive for what you can be!

Life is far less important than living.
We live in a country where we lobby for folks to be allowed to come in illegally but allow you to kill folks who are trying to come into our country legally, through birth.

‪Abortion is an injustice to the unborn.‬

‪Abortion is population control by the needle instead of the sword. ‬

‪Giving your unwanted baby to a wanting families is the best answer to an unplanned pregnancy. ‬

‪Abortion is a death sentence, adoption is a life gift. ‬

Grace is a gift, a comfort, a shield and a blessing, that no one can take from you.

‪Regrets are pains that I decided are worth feeling over and over again. ‬

‪Doing good and wanting to good are never cut from the same cloth. ‬

‪Grace came before praise, praise only helps us give words to Grace.‬

‪Love gives, hate takes away, pretty simple isn’t it?‬

Love brings satisfaction to your life;  hate brings a greater selfishness. 

Peace that passes all understanding is not given to pass; it’s residue is always with you even in the worst of times. 

You experiences with God will be your comfort when despair is ravaging outside your heart’s door.  

Anger is disappointment filled with wrath. 

You get the decide how your circumstances affect you, but not what they will be.

‪We often think it is easier to live in harmony with our expectations, than it is to live with God’s expectations. ‬

‪The reason we think that way is that you want our wishes often more than we want God’s expectations. But His way is easy and His burdens are light, yours...not so much.‬

‪Thankfulness mixed with Grace is the best soil to grow character.‬

‪Whatever you can’t appreciate becomes useless to you.‬

‪A forgiving heart bears the best fruit. ‬

‪Without love nothing grows in you life, but thorns.‬

One wife said "The way to a man’s heart may be through his stomach, but there seems to be no way to get to his brain!"

‪Your life in Christ will increase in value in direct proportion as to how you share its message. ‬

‪It is always better to love others than to hate them...yes, always. ‬

‪Whenever you are intentionally mean you have lost your bearings, repent and turn around immediately. ‬

Even good people do bad things, on purpose sometimes, but they repent; evil people tend not to repent but continue in their evil as a result. ‬
‪Understanding people is difficult, an effort, a joy, a gift and a responsibility.‬

‪It is best to try to understand yourself before you try to understand another. ‬

‪Prayer will bring you more understanding of someone, than a dozen of any kind of books, lectures or sememars. ‬
When you find a “comfortable sin” you have discovered your own worst enemy. ‬

‪We are reaching the point, in our country, where accusations have become more important than facts.   ‬

‪We are in the midst of a world where we believe an accusation before you know the truth and when you know the truth, and don’t like it; we ignore it.‬

‪‪Truth has become a stumbling block to living as we want instead of willingly living as we should.‬

‪Therefore, truth must become more flexible, instead of creating more boundaries.

Jesus was full of the Spirit from birth yet went to work everyday being and obedience child and a good man, in every way, until His time had come to minister to the world. (There is a life lesson there!)
Jesus never retreated from the purpose His Father had given Him, instead poured out His life into the whole world. Jesus’s life was and is a gift to those He was sent to love and server. 
However, it was on the Cross that Jesus changed from a Saint to the Savior, taking away the sins of those who believed in Him as the only Son of God, thus blotting out their sins forever.

Keep in your mind, that  truth does not need your or my “stamp of approval” to be true. ‬

‪God’s way is truth. ‬

The difference between experiencing conflict and becoming a combatant is a choice only you can make. 

‪When we think truth is irrelevant then we begin to think God is as well. ‬

‪Without God you or I are, indeed, forever irrelevant. ‬

Agape love gives before it is asked and gives lavishly more than is required. 

Committed love is not stingy but flows abundantly from the one loving heart into another. 

The rich and generous love of God fills every willing heart afresh continually. 

True love is not to be measured; it is just to be thoroughly enjoyed!

Happiness is the choice of happy people. ‬

‪Attitude brings more happiness than accomplishment.‬

‪You can provide an atmosphere of happiness for those you love, but only they can choose to be happy. ‬

‪For Christians, happiness is a gift to the faithful, from the Father, forever. ‬

‪Sometimes is is hard to believe what you know, but because you know it to be true, you carry on. ‬

‪If what you believe is wrong and you know it but refuse to acknowledge it, you will inevitably deceive others as well.  ‬

‪I have known many good folks that know what they believed has changed their outlook in life, but they don’t or can’t change without incurring the wrath of their family or others descending on them.‬ So, they end up confusing, discouraged and then start deceiving others and even worse, the ones they love the most.

‪Somethings you believe for a season, some for their convenience and other are a foundation for a lifetime.‬

‪Faith is the foundation of all possible hope.‬

‪Faith is a busy entity, but a stabilizing friend. ‬

‪Knowing in Whom you believe, that being God, Himself, is more important than understanding all you believe. ‬

‪Thankfulness is the beginning of humility. ‬

‪You have to do what you have to do; to do what what you have to do; it is called names like discipline, training, maturity and experience.‬

‪A “feather in your cap” cost someone something, and the bird even more. ‬

To be surrounded by Angels is special but to be loved from the inside out by God, Himself, is amazingly wonderful. 

‪No one wars with a peaceful heart, be they country, family, neighbors or in a marriage; until the weapons are layed down, love will flee like the morning mist. ‬

‪One tends to learn more about themselves and other folks when they don’t get their way, than when they do. ‬

‪When you have disagreements you may be right or wrong, it really depends on your attitude while you are disagreeing. ‬

‪Your temperature while disagreeing determines how hotly you disagree!

Never take a dog to a Flea Market!

‪While the Love of God is beyound our ability to understand it is not beyond our ability to feel and appreciate. ‬

‪God love is greater than our faith in Him, stronger than our very best efforts to do right and as comforting as it is massive. ‬

‪If it is better than you were promised, it came from God; if it is worse than you were promised, it came from Satan. ‬

When the trials of life seem insurmountable, try cosying up to God’s loving heart, every moment; it is special.

‪Some folks don’t believe in Hell...”Spoiler alert” that has not changed the temperature in Hell by even one degree!‬

‪Jesus spent more time warning you about Hell than telling you about Heaven; that ought to tell you something. ‬

‪‪ All of the prayers of all of the people in the world can’t get you out of Hell, not even for even a second, but the simplest prayer of faith in Jesus, before you die, can keep you out of Hell, forever!‬

There are no fire escapes in Hell, no light switches either.‬

‪May your thankfulness be exasperating to enemies and comforting to your friends.‬

‪A thankful heart always creates a smile in your soul, and often in the souls you influence. ‬

‪Be thankful, Christian, regardless of your present circumstances, voracious abundance is on the way!‬

Live your life so your grandchildren will be thankful for you.‬

‪Effort is the beginning of accomplishment. ‬

‪Never try too hard at doing the wrong things. ‬

‪A talent is a gift to every believer from God, for the purpose of serving His Church. ‬

‪An undeveloped talent is a loss for the believer and the church.

‪Selfishness is the primary ingredient is every sin.‬

‪In marriage, love in an endless journey into one specific life, for its betterment.‬

‪Every marriage is different than every other marriage but with the same goals. ‬

‪‪The Bible say to workout your Salvation with fear ( being aware of the consequences of failure and the blessings of success) and trembling (fearing the temptation involved) before the Lord, so should our marriage.‬

Love is a scratchless itch.

Love is a gift with a responsibility.