Category: Blog

  I’m going to say a really bad word right now. It’s one of those words we love to avoid. The word is DISCIPLINE. In order to fulfill God’s plan for your life, you don’t have to be smarter than the rest: you just have to be more disciplined than the rest. God won’t take last place in your life. And believe me, the enemy will do everything he can to distract you. When you discipline yourself to spend time growing in God’s Word and building your prayer walk, you will find that you will fulfill everything God has planned for your life.

  You can’t make people like, love, understand, validate, accept or be nice to you. You can’t control other people either. We can spend a life time trying to go above and beyond to get people to “feel” the way we want them to about us. It just won’t work. The good news is that it really doesn’t matter. If you have to WORK to get people to love, understand and accept you…it’s not worth it. If people can’t see how great you are, then it’s their loss, not yours.

  I want to thank every mom and dad out there who raised their boys to hold the doors open for the ladies. That shows respect and in this day and age, your boys stand out like a shining star. Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.

God’s math is so different than ours. We want to “keep score” in life. Somebody does us wrong and we tuck that offense in the back of our minds. And five years from now, we can still remember what they said…but God says we have to “lose count”. That means we have to let things go. We have to let go of the “three strikes, you’re out” rule and live by God’s rule that says we have to forgive 70 times 7…The number of completion.

Quit studying the problem and start studying the promises. It won’t do a lick of good to look at your problems over and over. They don’t change. If anything, the constant dwelling on them makes them appear bigger and scarier. Get in the Word of God of God and look at His promises. Start mulling them over in your head. The problems will look a whole lot smaller when you shine the light of the Word on them. And the Bible says He will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is on Him.

”If you have to sneak to do it, lie to cover it up, or delete it to avoid it being seen then you probably shouldn’t be doing it at all”. I’m pretty sure this is Basic Christianity 101 but I’m amazed at how many people park their brains by the front door and plow right in where angels fear to tread. You can take years building your reputation as a godly man or woman and one lapse in judgment can wreck it. Guard your reputation.