There has been much penned regarding the importance of controlling oneself and the benefits are evident. But, tonight is not about controlling yourself. Tonight is about everything else you think you control. Outside of yourself, and that is tenuous at best, you are not in control of much. You cannot guarantee an outcome. You can…
I learned long ago that the believer’s only enemy was fear because fear defeats the promises of God. Not defeated in the sense that God could be defeated, but defeated in terms of stopping the believer from receiving the results of the promise. Fear is never based on truth. Fear is another option. Fear is…
Living life as we do, we spend our days evaluating and analyzing our experience. It’s the strangest thing. We interact with the world, then we tell ourselves stories about what it means. We really have no way of knowing what someone means, other than asking them, and even then you still my not know. We…
The concept of faith or belief has been wrestled with for centuries. It’s almost universally known that faith gets the job done. The Olympics would testify to that with some kid winning gold because they actually thought they could. Yet for most people, faith is a real head scratcher. I will sheepishly admit to spending…
I believe one of the greatest hinderances preventing people from getting to God is religion. Oh, the irony. The one place you ought to be able to go to learn about God, insists on adding in lots of unpleasant elements. Yes, there is plenty of talk concerning who God is as you might expect, but…
They say you know a man by his fruit. Well to take it a step further, the fruit you are able to garner for yourself in any category of your life indicates your success or failure. This is taking responsibility at the highest level. Instead of blaming God, circumstances or bad luck, you have to…
As I look back at past posts, I see the above topic resurfacing again and again. It’s certainly good advice for all of us. First, to clarify, getting out of your own head does not mean to cease from thinking nor does it mean to leave your body nor any other weird, hooky pooky stuff.…
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog about being anxious for nothing. Basically my goal was to elucidate that it is not God’s will for us to live with, put up with or suffer with anxiety in our lives. Anxiety does not have to be something “everyone” lives with nor does it serve…
Sometimes you have done everything you know to do to solve a problem in your life without any success. You have invested a tremendous amount of effort. You have analyzed the situation from every possible angle. In fact, you have reached the end of your human capacity to overcome the situation and you find yourself,…
Have you ever found yourself in a mental state of complete disarray? Your thoughts are racing all over the place and you can’t seem to settle down. Your troubles and your worries appear to have joined forces to bring you into a state of confusion. Many people live this way every day. They have become…
