Don’t give up.
Maybe you have been working on a relationship for several years and it looks like it just won’t get any better. Perhaps a child is going the wrong direction in life or ignoring you. Maybe your spouse doesn’t understand you and causes you grief. Or maybe you are working on a promotion at work and it just seems to be impossible to get it. Continue Reading…
Would you like better finances? Would you like to get out of debt? How about more spending money? Og Mandino was a very successful salesman and writer. He helped countless people to become financial stable. Many of these people had been in debt or were too poor to provide well for their family. Og knew that if a person is willing to work hard, he can improve his life. In the quote below, he mentions that wasting time is like stealing from his family. He worked hard and became wealthy, not just for himself, but for his family and for hundreds of people he helped.
From “The Greatest Salesman in the World” the Scroll Marked V: Continue Reading…
You are a person of great worth. You have enormous potential to accomplish incredible things in life.
We all know people who are arrogant and turn people off because they think they are better than everyone else. But if we stop and think about it, we realize that there are very few arrogant people out there. In fact some people who seem arrogant and brag the most about their accomplishments are the people who have the lowest self-image. They don’t believe in themselves. Continue Reading…
How do we bring goodness and well-being into our lives? How do we have more happiness?
God wants good and pleasing things for you. That is a promise in the Bible. *
Go with the flow of God’s love. His love pours down on you constantly. ** You are constantly being drenched in love and well-being. But why is it that we often don’t feel like any goodness is reaching us?
The more we focus on God and His love, the more we are tuned in to it. It is like listening to the radio. The radio waves are always there, but we can’t hear the music of the radio station unless we tune our radio in to the correct wavelength. When we are on God’s wavelength, we tune in to His love and goodness.
So how do we tune in to God? We pray, worship Him, read the Bible, talk about Him with other people, meditate, sing praises, etc. We think about things we like or love, not things we don’t like. Thinking about things we don’t like almost always pulls us away from God and His joy.
“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” ~Romans 12:2 NLT
We can choose to go with the flow of God’s love or we can go with the flow of the world. When I was a teenager I went with some friends to a fast moving river. We sat in inner tubes and let the river push us down stream. There were beautiful trees and plants along the way. Birds were singing, the sun was shining and life was good.
We were going with the flow of a powerful river. But it is even better to go with the flow of God’s love. He is all goodness and all powerful. There is no evil, selfishness or meanness in Him. Even when we sin He still loves us and dotes on us because He is our father in heaven.
*Romans 12:2
**Romans 5:5
Why is it called the million mouth movement? Because we emphasize speaking with our mouth to spread God’s love.
Would you be willing to do this? Just find two people who will be willing to share with two people. Ask them to do these five things and in turn, encourage them to ask the two they find to do these five things: Continue Reading…
Brad Stanton
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