The Issue I’ve Changed My Mind About

What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?

I used to believe I could change people. But then after many attempts I learned. You can’t make somebody change. Unless they want the change themselves, or things get so bad they don’t have a choice.

You can inspire them to change, and educate them towards change and even support them in their change. That’s because making someone do something, even if it for their own good, requires either coercion or manipulation.

It requires intervening in their life in a way that is a boundary violation which it cause damage in the relationship and sometimes hurts more than it helps.

Sometimes we see clearly what a person needs to do, and it seems an easy change for us. Yet the person doesn’t see it or they see things from a different perspective on it, and seem to have no issue with it.

Being A Watchman On The Wall

Most people that truly follow Jesus, think of themselves as watchmen. We don’t guard goods, but we pray, and protect our families from evil danger.

God gives watchmen specific assignments — individuals, families, other believers, cities, borders, or to watch over Israel.

Most people don’t give much thought to being spiritual watchmen but they really should. It could make the difference as to whether a person or physical territory thrives or languishes.

Being a watchmen has enormous responsibilities. Watchmen in the Old testament stood on the city wall, and stayed alert of danger, especially enemy attacks. They will sound a trumpet alarm, if anything, looks suspicious, putting their lives in danger to protect others.

It’s now the 21st century so what’s the understanding of the watchmen on the wall mean today and how does it apply today?

A Watchmen On The Wall Prays

Watchmans are gods guardians, and therefore called watch and pray. As a watchman, you don’t pray based on feelings. You say sensitive to the Holy Spirit leading and respond quickly on how He moves.

A prayer warrior takes up the mantle as the watchmen by “rejoicing and hope and persevering and tribulation“ (Romans 12:12), and “praying without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). That doesn’t mean there are other things involved. It doesn’t mean that prayer is always on your mind.

That’s because uppermost in Washington life is concern for others. They experience temporary moments of grief and anguish with family struggles, churchgoers, exit from the church, life, and evil seem to ramp up in intensity.

A watchman knows that giving their concerns to God, this results they could never orchestrate on our own.

A Watchmen Stays Committed

Be on the front lines of a spiritual battle day after day can be disheartening. Yet God still expects vigilance. it says in Ezekiel 3:17-18,

.”Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchmen for Israel. Whenever you receive a message from me, warn people immediately. If you want and wicked saying, ‘ You are under the penalty of death, but you failed to deliver. The warning, they will die in their sins, and I will hold you responsible for their deaths.“

In the Bible, Paul service as a watchmen over churches, and today, true believers, should warn other believers who are overtaken by sin. Regardless of the personal cost, watchmen is a servant to others on behalf of Christ. A watchman, Siri, spiritual eyes, and a heart sold out to Jesus.

A Watchmen Knows The Enemy’s Tactics

God is bigger than every battle. All watchmen know how the enemy works and aren’t afraid of his tactics.

Do you think David notice Goliath’s stature as she swung the stones? No, he didn’t. Because he focused on how big God is. Don’t be deceived. God knows what goes on behind enemy lines. He gives believers a battle plan so you are silence by attacks.

Jehoshaphat defeated Moab and Ammon by seeking God. He and the people, fasted, prayed, praise God, and waited for His counsel. A prophet delivers God’s message.

He said: “listen, king Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says to you: ‘ do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s” -2 Chronicles 20:21.

God tells people to take your positions and standstill. They won’t even need to fight. Ching go half with that singers out for us to pray to God. Praises confuse the enemy, so that they killed each other. God turn cutest dire circumstances into a Valley of Berakah, which means blessing.

Watchmen place himself under God’s authority to outlast the enemy. Watchmen wait to hear God’s instructions because they know He is on their side. Recognizing the enemies plans, I am wearing the full armor of god. They put their trust in God. They never fight alone.

A Watchmen Sees People’s Needs

Staying on the lookout for ways to help people could be as simple as helping someone find what they need at the grocery store, giving a compliment to a stranger when they look down hearted, giving up your seat on a bus or subway, or taking dinner to a sick or lonely neighbor.

A watchman is a person who is full of love and joy. Those virtues work together to spill over into active kindness to help broken people. This, can take expanded energy, or even call you to take risks, or use every available means to lessen someone’s suffering.

A Watchmen On The Wall Builds God’s Kingdom

Are you trying to say, pure, holy, and righteous a watchman on the wall is spiritually awake. They can separate them selves to stay in God’s presence, and remain religion amidst the influences of a perishing world. One thing is for sure no one can be both kingdom minded and earthly minded.

Don’t copy the behavior in customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you’ll learn to know God‘s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

It’s important to know the characteristics of a watchman. Wherever God places you, be a watchman on His behalf. pray, stay committed, and be wise to Satan’s tactics, And meet people’s needs, great and small. Be able to build God’s kingdom one soul at a time.

Get Away I Never Knew You

Imagine, for a moment what it would be like to die and open your eyes in hell. Even more terrifying is it you had spent your life thinking you were a good person doing all the ‘right’ things.

“Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ Then I will tell them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.” – Matthew 7:21-23

The three verses in the book of Matthew are probably some of the most troubling verses to me. They travel me because they described many followers of Christ, who at face value, assuming they doing the right things, and the death, they are refused entrance into the eternal rewards of the righteous.

Multitude of church today are blessed with tremendous anointing to move in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. During church services, prophecies, words of wisdom, or words of knowledge seem to just fall out of them (…have we not prophesied in your name?).

Many have shouldn’t base your faith with some of the most wicked spirits that hell can produce, casting them out of their victims, sending them back limping back to the abyss (…and in your name cast out demons?).

Your others, how to build large and far reaching ministries and mega churches. They have fed the poor, supplied relief and funds to Third World countries. They have seen multitudes come to Jesus, and receive salvation and physical healing (…and in your name do mighty works?). As we stand before the Lord of Lords expecting to hear “Well done, good and faithful servant… enter into the joy of the Lord” (Matthew 25:21). His words will ring in their ears throughout eternity. “ I never knew you depart from me you that work iniquity.”

These groups will also include Sunday school, teachers, pastors, evangelists, song leaders, choir members, and musicians may also be in these numbers, along with elders, deacons, and stewards. From the most influential member and the church to the least, maybe run the risk of being rejected entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

How could this happen? It seems impossible that people with ministries, that we have judged as successful and blessed, could fall into such a spiritual wasteland. But nonetheless, it could happen.

One of the biggest mistakes we make when reading our Bibles is that too often we use our denominational doctrines or religious traditions as our standard for scriptural interpretation. This is backwards theology. We must live scripture, in context, interpret our living. When we allow doctrine or traditions to interpret scripture, we run the risk , like the Pharisees, of falling into religious tradition.

It has been my experience that religious peoples spiritual lives are usually centered around doctrinal traditions, rather than the Word, in it’s entirety. It is taken out of context to form a certain view or lifestyle.

Sometimes, when I talk to people about Christ the Conversation end with a debate. “Do you believe once saved, always saved? Or does your church speak in tongues?” The sad fact is, they don’t want to know the answer from God‘s Word, they only want to argue doctrine. When we were just people witness, for the most part, they will use the name of Jesus, only to create another, convert to their doctrine or their religious philosophy. Many times they do more harm to the kingdom of God then they do good. They paraphrase God’s Word and don’t involve the truths in the Bible.

A perfect example is myself, I remember the Mormon church coming to my house and telling my parents that it was God’s will that my brother died on a church outing. For many years I believe that was true. I hated God for every He done in my life, the abuse, my brother drowning… I was on my way to hell because I thought God was horrible, and despiteful.

I still would be lost and on my way to hell. That is why Jesus told the Pharisees, woe unto you, scribes, and Pharisees, hypocrites for you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him two fold more the child of hell than yourselves. (Matthew 23:15).

I thank God every day He sent me to the church I go to now. He actually saved me through my children. You may think that cannot be possible, but my children got saved before I did. They are the ones who got me going to the church I go to now. They were raised Catholic, but began going to a protestant church, when we stopped going to the Catholic Church. Thank God that I have a holy scripture, Bible believing pastor that I can call anytime or day or night for anything. And that I am glad to call a friend as well.

God separated me. Because he love me and shit his son on the cross to bear penalty of death for my sins. And if I repented and chose to follow, Jesus as Lord any debt would be canceled and I would be made righteous.

I was lost and suffering when God separated me for him. Now I am found and full of joy.

Feeling Out Of Place

Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.

I’ve felt out of place all my life. I knew early on I was ‘different.’ When I was in grade school I knew I was different from everyone. I always felt like a square peg, being forced into a round hollow,

I had a few people who I could relate to, but they always ended up moving away. By high school I have 4 good friends but I always felt that we were all misfits. I was bullied because I was different. Then I would go home and experience my mother’s abuse. My life wasn’t the greatest. I alway felt like I was born at the wrong time.

Feeling out of place all the time leads to anxiety, self-doubt, and a worry that takes over. I remember thinking “What’s wrong with me?”

As I get older I just learned to isolate myself because that’s the only time I felt safe. I started taking beer out the fridge at home. I knew my Father would notice he was usually drunk trying to cope with my brother’s downing. As time went on I started doing cocaine and felt on top of the world. But that didn’t last forever. Marriage came, kids came and no more drugs. My kids came first now. I focused on them instead of me.

Today I still have a few good friends, but mostly feel out of place. I still isolate myself at times, it’s when I feel safest. But, I’ve realized that I don’t need to fit in. I just do me and if people don’t like it, they can move on.

I am more at home with my church family, than I am with own. And that’s okay.

Three Types Of Peace

Most people yearn for one thing more that anything else: inner peace. Without it, there is no lasting joy or security. The Bible defines peace in three main ways.

  • Spiritual Peace – Peace between God and man
  • Psychological Peace – Peace within
  • Rational Peace – Peace among mankind

Sin has destroyed or seriously affected all three of these types of peace. When ma was created, he was at peace with God, with himself, and with others. But when man rebelled against God, man lost peace in every way, these types of peace can be restored. But man cannot bring this about no matter how we try, but God certainly can. and has.

Through Jesus there is power to overcome every sin. He can break the chains of sin, but man has to confess, repent, and surrender to God first. It can be settled right now and everyone can enjoy peace and joy.

In John 16:33 Jesus says, “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace.” We have a peace keeper. God is the source of our peace, no matter what type we are having a lack.

Ways To Discover Peace In A Crazy World

As life goes on, many of us, just want to discover how to be a piece in this crazy world. We can look around at all the misfortune, and injustice and we wish that we could just snap our fingers, and it would all go away. But one thing is true if you always attempt to find peace outside yourself, you will always feel disappointed. Peace comes from excepting life and learning to ride the waves.

If we all found peace within ourselves, life wouldn’t have so many pitfalls. If you think about it, the lack of peace comes from some sort of imbalance within ourselves. As a collective, we create reality from our minds and thoughts. So, if we want a more peaceful overall world, we must conquer, and he believes that hole that contradicted.If we all found peace within ourselves, life wouldn’t have so many pitfalls. If you think about it, the lack of peace comes from some sort of imbalance within ourselves. As a collective, we create reality from our minds and thoughts. So, if we want a more peaceful overall world, we must conquer any beliefs we hold that contradict the truth we want to experience.

You have more control over your life than you think. Keeping this in mind, here are a few tips about how to find your inner peace.

“Peace is a result of a retraining, your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” -Wayne W. Dyer

Discovering peace in a crazy world

1. Respond rather than React

If you want to discover peace in this crazy world, you can’t let everything happen to get under your skin. Some cultures teach that we should have composure, and all circumstances in life I could not let them control us. If you react to every situation in life, throws at you,

whether negative.If you want to discover peace in this crazy world, you can’t let everything happen to get under your skin. Some cultures teach that we should have composure, and all circumstances in life I could not let them control us. If you react to every situation in life, throws at you, whether negative.If you want to discover peace in this crazy world, you can’t let everything happen to get under your skin. Some cultures teach that we should have composure, and all circumstances in life I could not let them control us. If you react to every situation in life, throws at you, whether negative or positive, your emotional and mental state will remain imbalanced.

In other words, you will remain a victim of life, rather than a master of it. By keeping your composure in both challenging and joyous times, you’ll be able to respond rather than react. Life inevitably comes with ups and downs. However, if you can learn to ride the wave, instead of letting them pull you under, you’ll come up on top every time.

For many years, I only found peace when things went my way, the second anything, unpleasant, what format it happened I lose my cool and allow life turbulence to drowned me. I was alway under pressure and ready to blow up at a seconds notice. My life was in a shambles because of this. My trick is simple, “If it costs my peace, it’s too expensive.”

2. Accept Life For What It Is, Rather Than Fight Against It.

No matter if you have your dream home, job, Or car yet, you can still find happiness in the now. If you have a roof over your head, a family who love you, food and water, and clothes on your back then you have a lot to be thankful for.

Most people feel discomfort and anxiety, because they always fight against life.They don’t feel inner peace because they give all their energy to warning, ruminating, They don’t feel inner peace because they give all their energy to warning, or ruminating on the past. If you constantly tell yourself, “oh, I’ll be happy when…” that they will never come. Don’t remove yourself from the present moment. Focus on being happy in the moment.

Once you’ve excepted your situation, you can choose the next step with a clear head. I releasing up those pent up emotions, you will find it much easier to discover your intuition, which will help guide the way.

3. Go Within Yourself

I’ve never really really been into meditation. But recently, I found out that meditation simply remain training your attention and awareness by using your breath to control bodily energy. Interestingly, I found when I meditate I am able to relax and lessen my daily stress. The eastern culture have been meditating for many centuries, many practices at a devotion to a higher power. But you don’t need to have a “religion to practice it.

4. Make Your Home a sanctuary

If you have a peaceful environment, you come on through, this will help ward off stress and anxiety in my life. Surround yourself with plants, soothing music, art, and any other piece promoting objects, so you will find tranquility in your immediate space. Eliminating anything that disturbs your inner calm, whether that means getting rid of unnecessary clutter, turning of the news, or throwing out unhealthy foods.

If you turn your home into a sanctuary, you will always look forward to returning after a stressful day. Maintaining a calm environment in your home can help facilitate peaceful feelings in your heart and mind.

5. Watch the Company you keep

No one likes to surround themselves with negative people, but we all know someone in our lives, which can she bring it down more than lift us up. Pay attention to go to close friends and notice how you feel around them. If you leave, feeling, drained and overwhelmed, after hanging out with them, you should reevaluate your friendship with them.

Friends, should lift you up and inspire you, So if they lower your mood, the majority of the time, ask yourself why you continue to hang out with them. Friendship also add value to your life in someway. If you want to discover peace in a crazy world, start by distracting yourself from people who don’t bring out the best in you.

6. Find Peace by getting out in nature

We have evolved over thousands of years by remain in touch with their natural environment. Unfortunately, many diseases have surfaced when we started removing ourselves from nature, and shifting your modern technology -driven world. While in Bonnerton, conveniences have made our lives easier in many ways, they’ve also cut up our connection to our natural environment.

Nature and restore, peace and calm in our lives. When we surround ourselves with woods, dreams, and natural scenery, our minds immediately start to calm down. In today’s world our attention continually tilts from stimulus one similar to another. However, the peacefulness found in nature allows our mind to drift solely from one scene to another.

The slower pace of life in nature, and help you discover peace in a crazy world. It can help ward off depression and negative thinking. Research has shown that spending 90 minutes walking in nature reduces activity in the part of the brain associated with negative rumination.

7. Listen to other people’s problems without taking them on as your own

The moment we take on other peoples problems, our piece gets snatched away. We can have empathy who others without absorbing their energy or taking it on off our own. As an empath I have a really hard time differentiating between peoples energy and mine. I’ve had to set boundaries which is vital to preserving inner peace.

If you find that people come up to you, and often divulge their problems, simply listen without giving too much of your energy or taking on as your own. By allowing circumstances, outside yourself to dictate your emotions, peace will always evade you. However, if you take with like rolls that you and maintain a balanced disposition, you will have more energy and resources to help people.

Some ways that you can provide love and support to others out, being overwhelmed, are:

  • Give them advice, but don’t get too wrapped up in their stories
  • Suggest other resources to them, such as medication, counselors, or support group.
  • Make time for your self-care because you can’t pour from an empty cup.
  • Don’t give more of yourself, if you can’t afford it. If you have a lot on your plate, perhaps focus on your self more than others. This isn’t selfish. It’s sometimes necessary to strike a balance.
  • Remind them, that life is sometimes unfair, but that doesn’t mean things will remain difficult forever.
  • Pray for them. Even if you don’t believe in prayer it is a powerful.

We all want inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment. However, without the hard times we wouldn’t appreciate the easy ones as much. In reality we must have to both dark and light; otherwise, we wouldn’t exist. So the next time you feel frazzled and overwhelmed by life, just remember that the hard times don’t last forever, and you will see better days.

We cannot change the situation’s life brings out way, but we can choose how we respond. Don’t allow people into your life who disturb your peace. If we make time for nature and help others without taking on their problems in our own, then peace.will be found.

Life Without A Computer

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

I would do more reading and do written Bible studies. Coffee with friends. Clean house. I would definitely have to get a better stereo system.

I would probably have my husband teach me how to use the 3D printer to keep my mind and hands busy. And probably find a volunteer job in the community but only a few hours a week, nothing that would wear me out like before.

I would start writing my book.

What Skill I Would Like To Learn

What skill would you like to learn?

When I think about this there are a few. But, my main one something that I’ve wanted to do from about 16 years old. I wanted to learn to play the harmonica. My father played this instrument, and was amazing at it. I always want him to teach me, but he said it’s was something he learned with lots of practice. He was in a navel hospital for 3 years while they tried to put his face back together after a war injury. So, it was something that he started out of boredom.

I would also like to learn Hebrew dance. My father danced to Hava Nagila and sang every Sunday. Growing up I remember thinking this was a Hungarian dance. Later I found it to be Hebrew. I would love to find someone to teach me.

The Day Of Atonement

The day of atonement, arguably highlights, one of the most important rituals in the Bible, and ironically, it is set forth, and explain in one of the most overlooked and neglected books in the Bible.

In Leviticus 16, Moses records, God instructions regarding the manner in which era need to enter the home place to sacrifice before the Lord to make atonement for his sins And the sins of Israel.

Rather than being an obscure and isolated Old Testament principle, Atonement becomes a visual display of God fierce’s commitment to redeem His people, and through the future redemption of God’s people is to be comprehended.

What does the Day of Atonement mean in the Bible?

Let me set the stage for you. in the beginning of gods story, we are told that God created a good world ( Genesis 1:12; 1:18;; 1:21; 1:25; 1:31) for His people to enjoy. God’s good design involved, making His mark on the people who would experience intimate with Him as they worked alongside the Designer saturate the universe with His glory (Habakkuk 2:14).

From the very beginning, but eternal plan was for image bearers (Genesis 1:26), who represent God and His mission. Not only were the borders of the Garden of Eden to be ever extending, but mankind was to image their Creator by undertaking the responsibility of causing creation to flourish.

The idea of cultivating implies the development of culture in such areas as art, music, government, technology, and agriculture and so forth. It is no coincidence that the trajectory of God created work, begins in the garden that culminates in the Holy City (Revelation 21:2).

The divine program seems to have run aground on the banks of human rebellion as Adam and Eve listened to the hissing voice of the serpent rather than the loving voice of their Maker. Adam decides that he is more capable than God and defining what is good from what is evil (Genesis 3:5). As a result of Adam’s mutiny, all of creation is cast into a dark curse (Romans 8 20), and God’s good world plunges into a bottom of chaos and we only the Creator will be able to rescue.

It is critical to our understanding of atonement to grasp the full measure of Adam’s choice, and it implications on the humanity in every generation. Because God is holy, and perfectly pure, the Bible says He “drove the man out” (Genesis 3:24) due to Adam’s sin.

Mankinds Desire is to renew the relationship with God

Because Adam represented all of man throughout all of time, when he was driven from God’s presence, so were we driven from our Maker’s side. Man’s greatest need now comes the necessity to be brought back into God’s presence, where we were always meant to be, but now there is an unassailable barrier of sin that separates us from God (Isaiah 59:2).

At this point in human history, we must confess that God would have been justified to eradicate humanity from his good world. And God would have preferred such a course resolution, no man could have cried ‘unfair!’ After all, just not the potter have the ride over to clay (Romans 9:19-22?” To this conclusion, however, the Maker was not so inclined. It is precisely at this point in the story that Grace emerges and provides the backdrop against which God, merciful redemptive plan is set into motion.

God’s plan for Redemption

Genesis 12 provides for us a more detailed glimpse into the redeeming intentions, which is up to this point in Scripture have only been alluded to. It is here that we discover how God will choose one family to be the very instrument, through which , every tribe, language, people and nation (Revelation 5:9) will be brought back into God’s presence to continue the work which Adam was intended to fulfill before his betrayal.

It is the family of Abram and his descendant, Israel, which, foreshadow, spiritual, Israel, that church (Romans 2:28-29; Galatians 3:7-9), who will take up the mantle of Adam to bless all the families on earth (Genesis 12:2-3).

Nonetheless, the dilemma of sin still remains. God has chosen to people to represent Him and move His mission forward, but the people are infected and warped by iniquity. Where once, prior to the fall, gods presence, with a place of peace, joy, and safety, it has now become a place of danger and terror because God‘s holiness will burn up anything in pure and unclean that I camps to break through the perimeter (Exodus 33:20; Leviticus 16:1-2).

How will God reinstate us, and draw, near to a sinful people without destroying them? The answer is found in atonement.

In the Old Testament animal sacrifice was needed to have atonement for sin. But now, because of the atonement , one of Jesus at the cross, We can receive forgiveness for our sins through sincere and complete repentance.

Sin can never be overlooked or ignored. God does not simply turn a blind eye to our offenses. If we don’t repentant of them and turn away from them in the end there will be consequences – God’s wrath.

God’s Word -vs- Your Feelings

Every day we are faced with a decision. Will we respond to life’s circumstances according to God’s Word or act emotionally? While our initial temptation is to react emotionally, it’s our decision.

Everything changes except for God. Letting changes in our lives upset us won’t stop them from happening. Circumstances change, people change, our desires change, and our passions change. The only constant in our lives is God -God never changes.

Most of the changes in life without our permission. But if we choose to adapt, we can live in peace. Emotions rise up and then move on, and they seem to want us to follow them.

When we choose to follow God’s Word are not not reacting to the situation, we are able to manage our emotions instead of allowing them to manage us,

How we respond to change, determines whether we transition mentally or emotionally. Do you act on God’s Word or react to the situation?

Patience plays a big role on how we react to change. If you have not developed patience, it tends to bring out the worst in you. My experience is that losing patience doesn’t make the situation faster it only makes me more emotional.

It seems like the more we want something, the more our emotions act up if we don’t get it. Common sense tells us it’s foolish to be in a rage when people do things we think are stupid when we’re driving or other simple things people tend to get upset about, like parking spaces. As we develop patience, we don’t think how hard and frustrating things are, but how peaceful we will be if we don’t just react.

No one likes to deal with difficult people. It’s beneficial to think how difficult you can be when you’re dealing with difficult people. There are a lot of difficult people in the world largely because of the stress we put ourselves under. People are trying to do too much in too little time and have more responsibility that they can handle.

We tend to follow the actions of rude people. But we need to stop and remember the person being rude probably have a lot of problems. And may not even realize how they are acting.

I see people posting rude comments on social media, and sure enough someone has to follow suit and before to long the entire comment section is an emotional rant, over something someone said or did. Being rude seems to be contagious these days. It gets our emotions going, and people end up getting stressed out and angry over simple things.

I certainly remember lots of times in my life when I was too harsh, but thinking back on it, I realize a had a lot going on and felt pressured, so the pressure came through in harsh voice tones. While that didn’t excuse my behavior, it was the root of the problem.

I am thankful that I learned the Word of God and have Him in my life to help and comfort me. But I lot of people don’t have that. I’ve had to work very hard with the Holy Spirit for the ability to act on Gods Word when people are rude, instead of reacting with a behavior that matches or tops others. Instead of joining in the rude reactions of people, I’ve learned to pray for them, asking God to open doors for them to get through.

I’ve had to ask myself on numerous occasions “how do I react to people who are rude?” Do I respond in love as God’s Word says, or do I join them in the behavior. If I’m not on my toes, I tend to respond the same way they respond. Being rude can be contagious if we follow our emotions instead of God’s Word.

Feelings come and go, and we can’t escape them, but we can choose to live by God’s Word and not our feelings. Even when it doesn’t feel right, we can live with peace and joy. When we follow God’s Word in every circumstance we face. We can learn to live beyond our feelings.

“The human body is a city with seven gates – seven portals to the outside world: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and a mouth. It is incumbent upon us to place internal ‘judges’ to discriminate and regulate what should be admitted and what should be kept out.” – Anonymous

Details To Pay Attention To

What details of your life could you pay more attention to?

I’ve gotten pretty comfortable in my comfort zone lately. I have become to familiar with the things that are easy for me. I know we can’t grow when we become safe in our little “bubbles.”

It’s not even that I fear getting out and doing new things. It’s because the world has become a stressful place to be.

Our comfort zones are a brilliant place to exist, but it likely won’t prepare us to handle some of those curveballs that life tends to throw at us.

It’s a fact that our comfort zones are our sweet spots, but if we want to achieve optimal performance, we have to step outside it a little bit, but not to much, and what prevents most of us from wanting to do that at all, is the deep seated need to stay safe.

Priorities

What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?

My top priority tomorrow and every day is to please God. Which involves being spiritually minded, studying His Word, and being open to hear Him when He speaks to me and listen even if it something I don’t want to hear.

In a life without faith it is impossible to please God, but with faith everything is possible.