You Become What You Behold
There is a fascinating story in the Old Testament about the power of focus. What you focus on can affect and transform you…
Falling Out of Bed
There was a story of a little boy named Johnny who kept falling out of bed. Every time he would fall his mother would come in the room and scoop him off the floor and place him back in bed.
Empty Seat
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, October 2nd 2017 Share the goods! A man went to the Super Bowl. He could not afford the great seats so he bought the cheaper seats relatively speaking and he was in the nosebleed section, even though his ticket had cost $350.00. The man noticed something as he looked through his binoculars, he saw that down on the 50-yard line was an empty seat. “I can’t stand this! I’m going to go down there and see if I can get that empty seat.” He made his way down there. It took him past half time to get to the seat because he had to travel so far. He got down there walked over to the seat and said, “Sir, is there anyone sitting in the seat?” He replied, “You can sit here the seat is available. My wife and I would go to the Super Bowl every year, but my wife recently died and so this seat is available.” Then it dawned on the man, as he started thinking to himself, “Your wife recently died, don’t you have some relatives or friends that you could have brought with you to bring to the game and sit in the seat?” The man responded: “Yes but they are all at the funeral.” You see that man had his priorities confused… What is the most important thing to you? Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities...
Sun Moon Earth
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, September 25th 2017 Share the goods! Something is attractive about a full moon against the backdrop of the lake… But if you are scientifically minded, you will realize that the moon has no light. The moon is dark 24/7. The sun reflects off the moon. It is the work of the sun that enables the moon to shine. Some days you get a half moon, some days you get a quarter moon… Whenever you see less than the full moon, it means the earth is in the way. The earth has gotten in between a portion of the moon and the sun. The sun is there to light the whole moon, but the spin and the rotation of the earth, gets in the way and blocks the full light of the sun. Here is the question that each and every one of us must ask. What are we allowing to get in the way of God’s glory giving you a full life? Full direction, full joy, full success. He has so much he wants to reflect on our lives, but He is hindered when we allow things to get in the way!!! The Holy Spirit’s job is to point out things that are getting in the way of us receiving what the Son has for us!!! Being led by the Spirit is simply listening to the inward witness of the Holy Spirit so that the Son can reflect all that the finished work of the cross has for us!!! Don't limit God! Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters...
Bomb of Anger
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, May 8th 2017 Share the goods! There was a 1994 article called Wars, which stated that there were lethal bombs left all over thirteen European countries. The bombs of WW2 were still killing people in Europe. They would turn up and sometimes blow up at construction sites and fishing nets on beaches 50 years after the guns fell silent. Hundreds of tons of explosives have been discovered in France alone. Thirteen bombs exploded in France in 1994, killing 12 people. One man says: “I lost two colleagues due to these bombs.” An expert said that unexploded bombs become more dangerous with time. Corrosion inside the weapon causes the detonator to become exposed. This is why the longer they’re there, the more dangerous they become. This is how anger is with many people. Have you ever been around a person and they just explode and you say where did that come from? Simple. The detonator was off with something you said or did!!! An angry person will just go off!!! “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath. Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, May 8th 2017 RELATED VERSES Esther 3:5-6 (NKJV) When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay...
Composite Mates
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, August 8th 2016 Share the goods! It is very clear that when men engage in porn, they start to create a composite, physical Bambi. What does that mean? Simply put, every time that man views a beautiful or sexy image, that image is stored in his mind and then added to this composite Bambi. So she has the legs of Stella, the breasts of Sue, and the legs of Becky. This is so dangerous because the man is, in essence, asking his wife to compete with this composite woman. Obviously, his wife cannot keep up with this image! Be fair to your spouse! Click To Tweet On the flipside, what people do not discuss is that women can engage, I believe, in emotional porn! What does this mean? Simply put, you will have women who want their men to have the Scriptural knowledge of a pastor and the type of adoration their fathers used to give them. They want their husbands to have the communication skills of Larry King. The charm of Bill Clinton. The money of Bill Gates. What these women are doing is asking their husbands to compete emotionally with this composite, emotional Bambi! Clearly, that man cannot keep up with this man who lives in his woman’s dreams because this composite man always listens to her, has nothing but time, never has an opinion that challenges hers, and believes everything that she says is right! MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity...
The Falling Spider
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, July 4th 2016 Share the goods! When you knock a spider off the wall, she’ll throw out cobwebs while she’s falling, and if you try to knock a spider while she’s falling backward you can’t hurt her because she knows how to break her fall. No matter how you try to knock the spider off balance she continues to spray cobwebs to break her fall. We Christians ought to be like that spider. The spider fights with what she has within herself to break her fall, and is protected by her cobweb. No matter what height she falls from, the spider empties out what God put inside of her, and she survives the adversity of the experience. The goal of the enemy is to make you doubt yourself and what you have in your own “web” inside you. The adversary wants you to believe somebody has something better than you in their web, when in reality God is no respecter of people! If we are born again, we are equipped with God’s power inside us to help us in every situation. God is no respecter of people! Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, July 4th 2016 RELATED VERSES Romans 2:11 (NKJV) For there is no partiality with God. 1...
Be of Good Cheer
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, January 18th 2016 Share the goods! We can usually cope with something when we find out it’s normal. When a pregnant woman starts to have morning sickness or her feet start to swell she can initially become very upset, but when a doctor tells her that these experiences can be a normal part of pregnancy all of a sudden the woman’s perspective changes and she adapts. She’s still nauseated. Her ankles are still swollen, and she can’t fit comfortably into most of her clothes. She may still be feeling poorly physically, but she’s no longer worried because she understands what’s happening and that it’s all part of the process. If you go through life without understanding that there are some things that you have to go through so that you can deliver what God has impregnated in you, you can get distracted. John 16:33 NKJV says, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. How consistent is my explanatory style with what the Bible has to say? Click To Tweet Psalms 34:19 NKJV reminds us that, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” If you don’t live with the mindset that there are some things in life that you simply must push through, you’ll turn an experience into a crisis—when it’s really just a crossroad! We must continually ask ourselves, “ What’s my perspective on this situation, and what...
Cancerous Thinking
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, January 11th 2016 Share the goods! Did you know that cancer cells do their own thing? They have their own agenda and act independently within the body—growing and multiplying as they desire, and destroying the good cells. And this is how negative thoughts work in the life of the believer— each negative thought that we have tends to multiply and metastasize, but God gave us the ability to renew our minds so that each good thought becomes a building block that fortifies us and the body of Christ. But when we allow negative thoughts to grow and metastasize into cancerous thinking those thoughts end up destroying us! Each negative thought that we have tends to multiply and metastasize. Click To Tweet Look at the metaphor in Ephesians 4:15-16 (NKJV) “but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head — Christ — from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.” Joints connect and build up the rest of the body. The purpose of joints in the context of Hebrews 4:12 (NKJV) “for the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, is for the soul to connect and link up with the...
The Computer in Your Mind
When you first started using a computer you quickly learned a universal truth: if you enter wrong data, you’ll get wrong data. But if you enter correct data, you’ll get correct data. Computer pioneers called this, “GIGO” or “garbage in; garbage out.”
The Greatest Pitcher
There was a little boy who loved to play in his backyard with his ball and bat. Every day he’d put on his baseball cap, grab his ball and bat and go outside and start tossing the ball in the air. As the ball descended, the boy would say to himself, “I’m the greatest hitter in the world!” Then he’d swing and miss.
Access Point
A woman who lived by herself went home one day and discovered that she’d been burglarized. As you can imagine, the woman was very upset and went out and purchased an alarm system and had it installed; she also replaced her stolen items.
Beauty for Ashes
When we hang onto past hurts and wrongs, it causes us to have a victim’s mindset and it keeps us from getting the best that God has for us.
The Summer House
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, February 13th 2017 Share the goods! A woman who was going through a bad time was trying to find rest for her soul. She had lost her husband and felt alone. She was spending time in a summerhouse trying to put her life back together. She was sitting in the middle of a big open room with high arching windows when a bird flew in. It flew up to the ceiling and was trapped. Trying to get out it flew to every window but nothing happened. It flew to where the light was coming in, but it couldn’t get out. It flew window after window, but it would only bang against the window and fall back. It would try to force its way out of the house through every little crack or crevice. She thought in her heart, “Poor bird, why do you not come down lower see this open door and fly out easily?” Tell God how you feel. Let Him bring the strength that is available to you through His Word. Click To Tweet But the bird insisted on wounding itself, flying against all of these clear windows. At last its wings grew tired. It flew lower and lower until finally, it was on the level with the open door. Then, seeing the way of escape the bird finally found freedom. Just then the woman thought, “I am like that bird. Through my pride and self-sufficiency, I have been flying so high to see the window up there, and God has been trying to humble me so that I...
Admit You Made a Mistake
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, January 23rd 2017 Share the goods! Many people invest in bad relationships like they invest in bad companies. Have you ever owned a company? Let’s say it’s a tech stock, and the company is worth 1/5th of what you paid for it. The stock did not have any earnings, but you bought it anyway because of its potential. When most people lose roughly 80% of their investment, they hang onto the stock saying “It is low, it has to go up.” But instead, it just becomes dead money that is not doing anything for the owner. Instead of taking that money and buying a company that could appreciate, many people keep their money in that dead company. This is what many people do when they get into relationships based on potential. After four or five years, they watch a person “depreciate.” Instead of investing themselves in a relationship that is healthy and heading somewhere, they say to themselves, “Well I have been in this relationship this long I may as well stay.” Are you overstaying your welcome? Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, January 23rd 2017 RELATED VERSES Joshua 1:1-3 (NKJV) After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke...
The Enemy’s Cell
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, January 9th 2017 Share the goods! One of the greatest and scariest aspects of 9/11 was the fact that the enemy had set up cells in our community. This is so scary because cells are pockets of enemies that are planted so that they can familiarize themselves with our patterns of life. In older times they were called the fourth column. Well, satan does the same thing now. He sets up cells that plant themselves in our minds and they study our thoughts and the things that interest us. Just like the 9/11 cells, these cells in our mind become activated. Don't believe the enemy and his lies. Click To Tweet Let’s talk about some of the cells that the enemy plants in our mind that activate at the opportune time: 1. Fear is a cell that the enemy plants. He tells you that you do not have what it takes to make it. He tells you that you will grow old and your dreams will not come to pass. 2. He plants the cell of ‘unlovable.’ In other words, he tells you that you are unlovable. He really loves this cell with single women because he tells them that they are incapable of being loved and that no man will appreciate what they have to offer. He tells them that they will never meet anyone who will care for them. 3. Age is another cell that the enemy plants. He tells people that they are too young or too old and it is too late to fulfill their destiny. MORE...
Solve for X
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, December 12th 2016 Share the goods! The key to life is to solve for x, for example 3x+4=19. The goal of the enemy is to have you think the whole equation is the problem, when in reality the problem is x. The enemy always talks in generalities, and the Holy Spirit always talks in specifics. This is like saying the Holy Spirit always convicts by solving for x. The enemy always condemns for the whole equation. This is important, if you can solve for x and discover what is holding you back in your walk with the Lord then you can move to the next level. This is the difference between the optimist and the pessimist. Or, we could say, the difference between people whose eyes are full of light and people whose eyes are full of darkness. You see, the optimist says that his problem is x, the pessimist says his problem is the whole algebraic equation. The enemy always talks in generalities, and the Holy Spirit always talks in specifics. Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, December 12th 2016 RELATED VERSES John 16:13 (NKJV) However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His...
Indecent Proposal
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, June 6th 2016 Share the goods! The goal of the enemy is to always present you with an indecent proposal – particularly when you have a particular, or an intense need. He wants you to compromise who you are, or your birthright to fill what feels like an urgent need. In Genesis 25:29-34, Esau gave up his birthright to his brother Jacob to satisfy an intense hunger he was experiencing in a particular moment. The enemy always comes to take advantage of us in our weakest moments, so we have to learn how to delay gratification. In other words, we need to suffer in the short term, so that we can be blessed in the long term. It may appear that satan has some goodies, but they are not the will of God. Click To Tweet Here’s the question we all must ask ourselves: What are some of the things we may need to suffer in the short term so we can be blessed in the long term? Is it our finances? Save now, so we can be blessed later? Maybe it’s keeping ourselves sexually pure while we are so our minds can be clear in the long run. Why is this so important? Simple. The enemy will always come down your block on a hot summer day with ice cream truck of temptation! It may appear that satan has some goodies, but they are not the will of God. You remember what happened when you were little and you heard the ice cream truck coming down the block. You’d act...
Staying The Course
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, May 30th 2016 Share the goods! Boating on the ocean is fascinating. The captain sets a compass heading in the direction he wants to go. He locks in that heading on the autopilot, and then the boat takes off in that direction; so far so good. It gets interesting when the craft hits a large wave or a series of waves. The autopilot does not allow the external action to alter its course. It keeps its original decision in place, heads straight for the goal, and then goes through the wave. There is a splash, lots of rocking and spraying, and an immediate correction by the autopilot if the ship is knocked off course in any way. When I say immediate, I mean immediate. The autopilot does not allow the ship to get swayed off course even momentarily when it hits a bump in the water. Beware of the fear of men... Click To Tweet Most people do not operate like this. They know their proverbial ship is heading in the right direction, but they look over to see someone else’s reaction to their decision. The other person’s decision becomes like a mighty wave that looms larger and larger until it appears even bigger and bigger than their decisions, goals, and values that drove the initial decision. So the person changes their course. They adjust, but now they have lost their heading. They have avoided crashing into the wave and getting soaked by the spray, but now they are off course. Well, not entirely off course, but rather they’re on someone...
Metabolize Your Life
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, May 2nd 2016 Share the goods! When we do not metabolize or process the events in our lives we prevent ourselves from being able to embrace the new that God has for us. We’re like a computer that has a very small hard drive, say 3GB, and every time we try to upload a new program to our computer it slows down. I once had a computer that took 15 minutes to “boot up.” I would turn on my computer in the morning and then I would take a shower or eat breakfast, or do a whole bunch of other things. I finally realized that my computer was slow because there was no room on my hard drive for anything new. Get ready for the new things God has for you! Click To Tweet In other words, I had to remove some old programs to make room for the new programs. This is how life is for many people. God has some new software that He wants to load onto the hard drive of our life. But because we haven’t metabolized, or processed previous experiences we are unable to embrace what God is trying to do. It could be said that some people spend their whole lives “booting up.” In other words, they never get to run the program of life that God has for them because they are always “booting up.” They never get to the application of the things that God has for them because of unresolved issues that keep them in perpetual “boot up” mode. The goal of...
Break The Cycle
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, March 28th 2016 Share the goods! There’s a term called “transference” that’s used in psychology. Transference occurs when a person experiences something in a previous relationship and the person projects that experience onto others. What makes this dangerous is that “transference” will often make the person unconsciously engage in behavior that causes them to create experiences they fear. For instance, a person who had a tough and controlling father grows up to resent, or fear authority figures. What can happen is that when that person gets a job and their boss gives them some constructive criticism at a 5 level, the person, who is extra sensitive, and expecting the same treatment from his boss that he received from his father hears the criticism at level 9. What’s tricky is that the person will unconsciously engage in behavior that leads to the very situation they fear or were trying to avoid. Don't let your past determine your future! Click To Tweet Suppose that same person’s boss asks them to make a copy. The person making the copy is so nervous that he rushes to make it, but in his haste he makes a poor quality copy. The person then rushes and hands the copy to his boss. The boss looks at it and thinks to himself, “Why would they make such a poor quality copy?” The vicious cycle swings into motion, because the boss then tells them to make the copy quality a little better the next time. The boss’s level 5 comment is interpreted at a level 10 and instead of...
The Pocket Knife
A young mountain climber named Aron Ralston was hiking in a remote section of Utah when an eight hundred pound boulder shifted and trapped his arm. For five days, he tried to do everything he could to free himself.
Kathy Ormsby
In 1986, Kathy Ormsby was one of our nation’s top women athletes. She was the current record holder in the 10,000-meter run and was on the Dean’s List at North Carolina State.