God Has Given You Direction

What talents and traits have God given you? Most people have some idea of their talents and traits. The talents and traits God has given you can be an indicator of His will for your life. Your talents and traits are pointers you can use to measure your hopes and dreams against God's will. If you are great in math and accounting, God may need you to use your math ability to fulfill His will for your life. If you are mechanically inclined then work or service in a mechanical field may be God's will for you. God's will is like the wind. You can either go with the wind or go against the wind. Walking is easier with the wind at your back. Likewise pursuing hopes and dreams using your native talents and traits is easier than pursuing hopes and dreams requiring you to use talents and traits you do not have.

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Our Greatest Weapon Against Evil

The most important job a communicator of the gospel has is to help the receiver of the communication connect gospel truth to everyday life. In our reality, Satan attacks every person's life. When a person is disconnected from others and disconnected from God, Satan takes advantage of this lack of connection. When people lead disconnected lives, everyday life easily turns into chaos. Connected lives are fruitful lives. Connected persons live life on purpose, for a purpose. Disconnected lives are full of problems. If our heart is totally connected to Christ, our faith is unshakable. When our connection to Christ via the Holy Spirit is unbreakable, we would forever walk in the glory and grace of his presence. However, our faith is not strong and our connection to Christ is weak. When our faith is weak, our connection to Christ becomes weaker, and we end up in this downward spiral of losing what little faith we possess. For persons who are Christians, Satan tries to attack our connection to God by using adversity, pain, and suffering to weaken our connection to Christ. As Satan attacks, connections begin to fade, and there is backsliding. We must counter-attack Satan with prayer, meditation, humility, and an open heart to Christ's redeeming love. A melted heart kneeling before the Cross is our greatest offense against the evil one.

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Bad Times

Everyone has bad times in life. No one is immune from adversity. For some people, the adversity may come late in life and these people are devastated if they have never tasted adversity before. For other people, bad times surround them at birth and adversity follows them for life. We must understand bad times fall on a person's life regardless of their race, creed, economic status, age, or origins. We must never expect the good times to roll on forever. We must never expect good times to come to us and stay forever. If we expect the good times to roll on forever, we will be in shock when disaster strikes or bad times fall upon us. Our willingness to admit bad times do happen enables us to prepare our heart, mind, and soul in advance for what may come. Indeed, the person who prepares in advance today for potential bad times in the future has a decided advantage when bad times fall. In addition, the person who prepares in advance for bad times has a greater sense of well-being and security during good times because necessary preparations have been made. We must not delude ourselves into thinking everything will be comfy and cozy in the future. A construction manager in parts of the world where bad weather strikes should prepare in advance for bad weather conditions. A person who needs to fight traffic jams every day should prepare for adverse traffic by leaving at an appropriate time. Knowing bad times may fall does not need to make us unhappy. Knowing and preparing in advance for adversity can give us peace, happiness, and security no matter what happens to us in the future.

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Victory Over Circumstances

Thank the Lord for the circumstances of your life. Even when you cannot see past the present moment of devastation, thank the Lord for letting you live, breathe, and have your being through Him. Humbly ask Him to give you power over circumstances seeming to defeat you and over which it seems you have no power. Ask Him, and He will empower you not to be a big person in the eyes of others, but He will empower you to be humble before them and before Him. Ask the Lord, and He will empower you to overcome the difficulty of these present circumstances by resting in His presence within your heart and life. Ask Him, and He will empower you because He knows you have so little power on your own. Ask Him, and He will empower you with His wisdom to decide what to do when it seems all options are gone. Ask Him, and He will empower you with His vision to see past this present moment to see your next moment full of His joy, His peace, and His encouragement. Ask Him, and He will empower you with the certainty of victory in His name. Ask Him, and the Lord will empower you to see the adversity you face is not as it seems, but is an opportunity to serve Him and be His humble child. Ask Him, and He will empower you to reach out and touch those who do not know Him and who need Him in their life. Ask Him, and the Lord will empower you to see, feel, taste, touch, and hear the power…the power of Jesus Christ, the Living Son Of Almighty God…the power of His Name that is above all names, the power of His thought that is above all thought, and the power of His presence called the Holy Spirit.

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Responding To Bad News

Here is how people respond to bad news…

A. Some people say "Fine" when they hear bad news and they force a grin. However, these people are not fine. These people are the "Smiler's".

B. Other people respond with fear, panic, and emotional hysteria when they hear bad news. Their world comes crashing down. This response is not uncommon. These people are those who wilt.

C. The victorious choice, when we hear the really bad news, is grounded in our commitment to not let the bad news turn us into a victim. There are people who, when they hear the really bad news, by their own decision, turn proactive. Upon hearing bad news, there are people who refuse to be victims because they decide not to be victims. Upon hearing bad news, there are people who make a decision to take charge of their life. Upon hearing bad news, there are people who make a decision to take charge of the experts. Upon hearing bad news, there are people who make a decision to take charge of their plans. Upon hearing bad news, there are people who make a decision to take charge and pursue their objectives. Upon hearing bad news, there are people who make a decision to take charge of every possible moment. These are the people who make a decision to insist upon full information on every issue related to the bad news. These are the people who make a decision to insist upon full participation in every decision made in the future. These are the people who make a decision to use the challenge presented. These people are the "Chargers." These people are the eventual winners when bad things happen.

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Angels From Hell

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Love In Times Of Temptation

Christ's love always empowers you to do right, even while your temptation from the evil one tries to weaken you so you will do wrong.

Christ's love always shows you the way, even while your temptation from the evil one tries to blind you.

Christ's love always brings you to the Light, even while your temptation from the evil one tries to take you into the darkness.

Christ's love sends you upward, even while your temptation from the evil one tries to pull you downward.

Christ's love brings you hope, even while your temptation from the evil one tries to bring you despair.

Christ's love heals you, even while your temptation from the evil one tries to wound you.

Christ's love enables you to do more and be more, even while temptation from the evil one tries to disable you.

Christ's love brings all the parts of your life and soul together, even while temptation from the evil one tries to separate you.

Christ's love flows down and pours over you from above, even while temptation from the evil one tries to destroy you from below.

Christ's love remains forever, while your temptation from the evil one disappears into the darkness from which it came.

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Troubles In The Defensive Life

Trouble in relationships is like a fever in the body. Trouble in relationships is an indicator something is wrong and needs changing, treatment, attention, diagnosis, and some kind of action on your part. Someone who lives a defensive, dependent life crumbles when threatened. A threat casts the defensive person into despair. Living a defensive and dependent life creates faulty relationships one after another. Defensive people defeat themselves with their own defenses, always trying to justify themselves. This is how the darkness threatens and keeps the defensive person captive. However, when we are ultimately threatened we often let the defense rest or let the defense down. Then we can let the Light of God's redeeming love work within our heart and life. People grow to be defensive because they have been hurt or deprived. Even when people are hurt by accident, the way people handle the accident, as well as how they use, build, grow, and heal from the accident is determined by whether a person chooses to live in the darkness or live in the Light after the accident happens.