How do we get hungry? We WATCH commercials that give us a hunger for a burger or a new car. We TALK about boats or motorcycles with friends and then start wanting them. We THINK about what we want, and it fuels our hunger. We spend time in the PRESENCE…
In a dark room, we often turn molehills into mountains. It can be easy to treat any sound as a monster or threat. Our imagination takes over and blows things out of proportion and our fear spikes. Then, when the light is flipped on, all of a sudden, everything is…
We end up where we are because we say where we are going. Our words direct the path of our life. If a mountain ends up in our path, we need to say something! God used words to make something happen. “Let there be light.” If words can create mountains,…
Life has difficulties that we often reference as mountaintops and valleys. We need to be careful what we say and how we act while in the valley of life. The often missing ingredient to positive thinking is positive speaking. We will never get to the mountaintop of life if we…
I challenge each of you to be positive and without complaint for 24 hours. For us to do this, we have to examine what we say. It will not be easy. As we identify a complaint that is coming out of our mouths, we need to correct ourselves by rewording…
“Do all things without complaining and disputing” (Philippians 2:14). It can be amazing how much we complain. The teenager says, “Mom won’t let me do anything.” Mom says, “My teenager never does anything.” Dad works all day, comes home and complains, “No one ever does anything!” We always find something…
The devil won’t tell us to go do pushups. In fact, he won’t nudge us to do things that might make us stronger, healthier or cause us to feel better about ourselves. If he does, then he does it in extremes so that we obsess over it and become unbalanced….
Do you ever feel like you don’t know what to say to God? God made us from dust; it doesn’t get any more raw than that! God wants to hear the organic stuff, the real down-to-earth issues and concerns that are going through our head and heart. He wants us…
I am strong in the Lord and in the power of his MIGHT. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I am infused on the inside with supernatural God power! I decree and declare how my future looks. I speak long life and blessing over me. My…
Do we believe God modeled rest because he needed rest? NO! So why did he stop on the sixth day and rest on the seventh? Why didn’t he go 24×7, for 30, 60 or 90 days straight? If we consider how we teach young children to cross the street, we…
We wear our W-2 yoke, our pleasing-others yoke or our kid-pleasing yoke. Why do we feel guilty that we can’t make everyone happy? It’s the flesh. If we keep doing it our way, it’s we are going to kill ourselves. God wants us to be sustainable to do what…
If you are overworked, overwhelmed, a motivated workaholic, a people-pleaser and you get gratifications from the work you do and how you do it, then this is for YOU! Does life ever feel like a video game where we get more points if we can just get one more thing…
