Friday, 31 March 2017

Hebrews 6:15


We are called to demonstrate our faith to the world

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By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

--Hebrews 11:8

Abraham stands apart from everyone else in human history. His faith is stands as an incredible example to us even today.

Think about how deeply he trusted God.  When God revealed Himself to Abraham, Abraham was living a life of ease and comfort in Ur, an ancient center of commerce and idolatrous religion.  But when the true God called him, Abraham left that life to go to a land that he didn’t even know!

Abraham is such a great example of true faith…putting actions behind our words. Demonstrating true faith is one of the most difficult things a person can do, but Abraham did it.

And even though Abraham stands alone in the pages of history, we are like him in that we too are called to step out from the world in a dark and faithless time.

While God doesn’t speak to us as He spoke to Abraham, He is still calling us to follow Him and demonstrate the reality of true faith to the world.

Because Abraham was faithful, and openly demonstrated his faith in God, thousands of lives have been influenced over the centuries to follow his example.  I challenge you today to let your faith shine brightly, so that others may see it and be encouraged to trust God


We are called to demonstrate our faith to the world.

Moving Forward

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:12–14

The collapse of the French defenses and the rapid advance of the Nazi armies in May of 1940 left hundreds of thousands of British, Canadian, and French forces in danger of being surrounded and destroyed. A desperate rescue effort was put in place called Operation Dynamo. British officials hoped to save at least 45,000 troops by using naval boats and fishing vessels to ferry them across the English Channel before the Germans arrived. The operation was a huge success, and in the end nearly 350,000 Allied soldiers were rescued. Many in England viewed it as a triumph, but Winston Churchill took to the floor of the House of Commons to point out a painful truth amid the rejoicing. “We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.”
The direction of the Christian life is meant to be forward, not backward. Though we encounter obstacles and opposition, we must remember that retreat is not an option and that the victory has already been secured for us. “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57). We are not to be constantly looking back either in regret for things done or undone, or with desire for what is in the past. Instead we are to be looking to Jesus and striving to accomplish all that we can for Him.
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
God has given us power to overcome the world, and we must move ahead to claim the victory for Him.

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Swallowing My Heart =)


Hearers and Doers

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He is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate. Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.

--Job 37:23-24

I recently was in London to visit our radio and TV stations in the UK, and I found myself staring at and admiring the great 95 story skyscraper called “the Shard.”  So called because it, the tallest skyscraper in the UK, resembles a shard of glass. It is huge and powerful, and loomed over me as I stood beneath it on the sidewalk.

But when I flew over it in a plane, I got an entirely different view. Although it towered over me and made me feel small when I was standing next to it, it looked tiny when I saw it from the air.

God views all human efforts to impress Him as tiny grains of sand…even though we may think that we are pretty great.  A good example is the tower of Babel in Genesis 11.  It may have impressed its builders in their vain attempt to reach up to God, but it was just a tiny speck to Him.

Our wisdom is considered pretty foolish to God.  God is never impressed with even our best efforts to please Him in our own strength.

Instead, God wants us to put our faith in Him, not ourselves or our own works.  We need to take a “God’s eye” view when it comes to our efforts to reach up to Him, because anything we do on our own falls short of His standards.

If you are living your life trying to impress God, stop.  Make it your purpose instead to submit to His great power, justice and righteousness.

God is never impressed with even our best efforts to please Him in our own strength. 

Hearers and Doers

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
James 1:22–25



The Bible is not given to us as merely a source of information, though it is completely reliable in all the knowledge it contains. The Bible is given to us primarily as a source of transformation—it is meant to change us through the work of the Holy Spirit as we learn its truths and apply them to our life. Nothing in Scripture is meant to be read and ignored, but taken to heart and put into practice.
J. Vernon McGee said, “There is a difference between being a student in a class and being an auditor. I used to have quite a few folk who would audit my classes when I was teaching at the Bible Institute in downtown Los Angeles many years ago. I had more trouble with the auditors than I ever did with the students. Those auditors never had to take exams; they never had to make preparation; they never wrote any papers; they never got a diploma. They didn’t do anything. They just sat there.”
God does not correct us so that we know we are wrong; rather He corrects us so that we will change. The Bible is the standard by which we evaluate our spiritual condition. When the Word shows us a shortcoming in our lives, it also gives us the power to change that so that we come into alignment with God’s purpose and will.
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
It is only as we put into practice what we learn in the Word that we experience spiritual growth.

Wednesday, 29 March 2017

I Quote =)


Inspiring =)

      This woman explaines ISO 9001:2015 very well.

same direction, 1 perspective =)


Take time today to check the “road” you’re traveling

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There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. 

--Proverbs 14:12

Proverbs 14:12 is such a humbling verse for me because as humans, we often think we have such great knowledge and wisdom. But God says that human wisdom leads to death.

That’s what makes living the Christian life so difficult sometimes. There are so many choices out there that look good and seem to make sense, but they do not lead us to the narrow way that is the only road to eternal glory in heaven.

To the human way of thinking, it seems common sense that if you try hard to be good and don’t kill anyone or commit any other horrifying crime, then you’re one of the better candidates for citizenship in heaven. This may seem right to many people, but this kind of thinking leads to destruction because the only way to heaven is to abandon our efforts at good works and trust Christ alone for salvation.

We don’t get voted into heaven, nor will we make it because we come out looking pretty good in comparison to others. Only the blood of Christ shed on the cross to forgive sin can qualify us for heaven.

Take time today to thank God for His great gift of salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ…and make sure you aren’t traveling the road that the world thinks is right.


Take time today to check the “road” you’re travelingand make sure you are heading toward Christ.

The Right Tool for the Job

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”
2 Corinthians 10:3–6

Anyone who has ever tried to drive a nail with the handle of a screwdriver or the heel of a shoe knows that it can be very difficult to do a job with the wrong tool. Sometimes it is impossible. There is only one tool that will work, and no matter how hard we may try, we cannot do the job without the right tool. Spiritual warfare is one of those areas. The tool that we have been given is the Bible. Nothing else will suffice.
Charles Spurgeon said, “‘It is written.’ Stand upon it, and if the devil were fifty devils in one, he could not overcome you. On the other hand, if you leave ‘It is written,’ Satan knows more about reasoning than you do. He is far older, has studied mankind very thoroughly, and knows all our weak points. Therefore, the contest will be an unequal one. Do not argue with him, but wave in his face the banner of God’s Word. Satan cannot endure the infallible truth, for it is death to the falsehood of which he is the father.”
Every day we do not use the Bible to respond to temptation, is a day when we will be defeated. The Lord has not called us to do battle with our own weapons, but with His Word. It is our protection, our strength, our guide, our wisdom, and the sole weapon with which we can resist Satan.
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
Rather than relying on our wisdom or power, we must use the Bible to overcome the enemy.

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Thank you =)



Because I Miss You


The road is narrow that leads to heaven and we need to help others find it

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Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
--Matthew 7:13


When it comes to a person’s eternal destiny, they have two choices in life: they can live by the tolerance of society, or by the truth of Jesus Christ.

I believe that it’s important than ever that we make the choice clear because there are countless thousands of people who believe there are many ways to the same heaven.

But Jesus was not just some broadminded guru who gave people options to get to heaven. He stated that there are only two roads for us to choose. We can either choose the broad, popular path to destruction, or the narrow road to everlasting life.

The Tower of Babel in Genesis 11 is a perfect example of the broad road that leads to destruction. It was built in order to give mankind a new and better way to get to God.

And just like the people who were building the tower of Babel, many people think that salvation is like a modern-day expressway you can get on or off whenever you want, and pick the lane you want. But Jesus said that the road to heaven is the narrow road of faith in Him, not a 5-lane expressway.

The deception that was alive and well in ancient Babel is still alive and well in America today. But the road to heaven is still the narrow way, so let’s be sure we are helping the people around us find it.

The road is narrow that leads to heaven and we need to  help others find it!

A Foolish Walk or a Wise Walk?

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
Ephesians 5:15–18

Timothy Treadwell loved wildlife. He spent summers in Alaska camping in the wild. Treadwell especially loved grizzly bears. He believed that he had a special connection and relationship with the bears, and ignored the warnings of park rangers and others who tried to tell him that the wild animals were dangerous. In 2003, Treadwell stayed in the Katmai National Park after the summer ended despite the fact that bears become more dangerous in the fall. In October, Treadwell was attacked and killed by a bear. He was confident that he had made friends with the bears and that they would not harm him, but he was tragically wrong.
The world is full of people who are living foolishly, and a number of them are Christians. Rather than walking according to God’s direction given in the Bible, they choose to go their own way, ignoring the fact that we do not have the necessary insight and wisdom to choose the right path on our own. “O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps” (Jeremiah 10:23).
The wise walk is only available to those who are willing to walk in the Spirit—to trust God’s wisdom above their own and follow it. The will and purpose of God for our lives is not hidden, but shown to us in the pages of Scripture. Through the indwelling Holy Spirit, we have the ability to read and apply the truths of God’s Word to the daily decisions of life. We walk wisely when we walk obediently.
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
If we are not walking in the Spirit, we will constantly stray into foolish errors with negative consequences.

Monday, 27 March 2017

The Power of the Truth

The Power of the Truth

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:29–32

I read of a sociologist who was a committed atheist and hated religion. He traveled deep into the jungle in hopes of finding a tribe that had not been exposed to the outside world. He finally reached a group living in isolation. To his dismay, he found that a missionary had been there before him, and that the chief and many members of the tribe were Christians. Seeing the chief reading his Bible, the professor said, “That book is a worthless collection of myths.” The chief looked at him for a moment, then replied, “If it were not for that book, we would have killed you, and you would be in my cooking pot right now.”
The Bible changes lives because the Bible is the truth of God given to direct our lives. God never leaves us as He finds us. His purpose and plan is to mold and shape us into the image of His Son, and it is the power of the Word that works in our hearts and minds to bring about that transformation. It is not a one-moment event, but an ongoing process that lasts for the rest of our lives for us to be renewed and changed by the truth. Paul wrote, So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). We do not hear the Word once, but over and over again, and in that process our faith is built and our lives are transformed.
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
Without the Word of God being active in our hearts and minds, we cannot become more like Jesus.

Read and Reap

by Joyce Meyer - posted March 26, 2017

[Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known.
—Mark 4:22


The Word has tremendous treasures, powerful life-giving secrets that God wants to reveal to us. They are manifested to those who ponder, study, think about, practice mentally, and meditate on the Word of God.
There is no end to what God can show you out of one verse of Scripture. You can study a scripture one time and get one thing, and another time you'll see something else you did not even notice before.
The Lord keeps revealing His secrets to those who are diligent about studying the Word. Don't be the kind of person who always wants to live off of someone else's revelation. Study the Word yourself, and allow the Holy Spirit to bless your life with truth.

Power Thought: Revelation is available to me when I study God's Word.

Sunday, 26 March 2017

Our Generous and Gracious God

Give What You Have

by Joyce Meyer - posted March 25, 2017

They said to Him, We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish. He said, Bring them here to Me. Then He ordered the crowds to recline on the grass; and He took the five loaves and the two fish, and, looking up to heaven, He gave thanks and blessed and broke the loaves and handed the pieces to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
— Matthew 14:17-19


One of the biggest mistakes we can make in life is to focus on what we don't have or have lost and fail to take an inventory of what we do have. When Jesus desired to feed five thousand men—plus women and children—the disciples said all they had was a little boy's lunch, which consisted of five small loaves of bread and two fish. They assured Him it was not enough for a crowd the size they had. However, Jesus took the lunch and multiplied it. He fed thousands of men, women, and children and had twelve baskets of leftovers (see Matthew 14:15-21).
If we will just give God what we have, He will use it and give us back more than we had to begin with. The Bible says that God created everything we see out of "things that are unseen," so I have decided that if He can do that, surely He can do something with my little bit—no matter how unimpressive it is.
Lord, thank You for all You have given me. I ask You to use it for Your glory and to provide all that I need. Amen.

Our Generous and Gracious God

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
Psalm 84:9–11

The heart of Satan’s lure to Eve in the Garden of Eden was the false notion that God was unfairly holding things back from her. If she would just eat the forbidden fruit, then she would have greater spiritual knowledge and be more like God. That lie appealed to Eve thousands of years ago, and the devil is still using the same false promises today. It works because our selfish nature finds it easy to believe that people are withholding things from us, and we wrongly think the same of God.
If we properly understand His nature, we see that He is a good and generous God. In fact, nothing that we have is because we deserve it—every good thing we receive is because of His grace. Our pride does not like to admit that we are not worthy of God’s grace. We prefer to think that He owes us good things and that if we do not receive all that we want, we are somehow being cheated.
In reality, God does not give us what we deserve, and we should be extremely grateful for it. “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities” (Psalm 103:10). Rather than griping and complaining about not getting what we think we deserve, we should be thanking and praising God that we do not get what we really deserve. And when we look at life in that light, we will find it easy to be grateful Christians.
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
God’s goodness to us demands our gratitude—He is nothing but loving and kind despite our failings.

Saturday, 25 March 2017

Architecture is for Architects


Never compromise on the gospel!

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
--John 3:16


It seems like more and more, you hear people talking about how all the religions of the world are really leading to the same God. They want everyone to just get along, put aside our differences, and make this world a giant, hug-filled place of peace.

Since 9/11 and with every horrific terrorist attack, like this week’s in London, you also hear and read that all faiths are divisive and deadly. We simply need to be more tolerant of others faiths by sacrificing the truth of the gospel.

If we’re not careful, we as Christians can fall into this peaceful sounding trap. While you and I as believers are certainly to be characterized by peace and love, we are not to give up or give in on our convictions…and give credibility to another false religion.

The truth of Christ divides people. Christ certainly preached a message of love and forgiveness, but He made it clear that not all gods are equal and there is only one path to God. He is the ONLY way!

People of this world don’t like the gospel of Christ; they see it as narrow-minded and divisive. The world praises the idea of one religion that unifies everyone—which in fact is coming. But the problem is that it will be the religion of evil in the end times.

Don’t surrender the truth of the Gospel for the sake of peace. We know that Christ is the only answer to the world’s need, so be ready with that answer for people who are desperately searching for something real to believe in.

Never compromise on the gospel!

Worldly Wisdom

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
James 3:13–16

In Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes in vivid detail many of the people Christian meets as he travels from the City of Destruction to find salvation. Though a few of them are helpful, many hinder his journey. Among the first people Christian meets is someone called Worldly Wiseman who inhabits the city of Carnal Policy, and tries to soothe Christian’s fears about the state of his soul. Worldly Wiseman mocks the gospel message Christian has heard, and warns that if he attempts to follow that path, he will suffer greatly. He tries to divert Christian from the right path by offering alternatives to what God has declared. Only the return of Evangelist keeps Christian from being turned away from seeking eternal life.
The world is filled with voices that offer us advice that appeals to our pride, our intellect, and our appetites, but is contrary to God’s purpose and plan. Just as he does with so much else, the devil offers a counterfeit version of true wisdom, designed to lead us astray. Divine wisdom provides us direction and guidance for daily living in a way that is both pleasing to God and powerful in influencing those around us toward Him. “Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time” (Colossians 4:5). One of the distinguishing characteristics that allows us to discern the difference between God’s wisdom and worldly wisdom is the focus. Worldly wisdom only cares about the temporal and physical, while God’s wisdom is concerned with the eternal.
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
The world’s wisdom is appealing, but because it is contrary to God’s wisdom, it only leads to ruin.

Friday, 24 March 2017

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The Clarity of the Truth

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Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
--Genesis 10:8-9


In our previous devotional we looked at the place known as Babel…a place that was ruled by an evil and powerful king named Nimrod. He was, in effect, the first great world ruler.

The very name Nimrod means “the rebellious one,” and this guy certainly didn’t disappoint. He was strong and powerful physically as well as politically.  The translation of the text seems to imply that Nimrod thought he was mighty in God’s sight—that even God was impressed with him!

King Nimrod is a perfect illustration of another person Jesus warns us about…the Antichrist. Nimrod was strong and arrogant, and he ruled over the world, then known as Babylon. The Antichrist will also rise up in the last world system, and lead arrogantly against Christ, including hunting down God’s people.

Yesterday we saw yet another terrorist attack, an attack by one filled with evil.  More and more we see the spirit of Antichrist—those who oppose Christ and anything Christian—at work in our world today.  But just as God has always protected His people, so He will protect you and me even in these unstable and somewhat scary times in which we live.

Our calling is to stand firm and continue being lights to a world that is slipping deeper into darkness.  My prayer for you is that you won’t give into the fear that so easily pervades our world today, but instead, be a strong and mighty witness of the power of God to change a life!


Stand firm in God’s protection so that you can be a light to our dark world.

The Clarity of the Truth

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”
1 Corinthians 14:31–33

Our society is filled with confusion. Truths that have been known and believed for centuries are being questioned and cast aside. Everything seems to be up for debate, discussion, or decision through a popularity contest. A good deal of this confusion is the result of a concerted campaign to blur the clear lines of truth and replace them with indistinct markers that can be crossed or redrawn at any time without consequences.
The reality is that no matter what the world around us may say, truth is eternal and unchanging. What God said in the past is still true today. Just as the law of gravity operates whether a person believes it or not, the laws God has given in His Word apply equally to believers and unbelievers. There are no exceptions—no special cases to whom the rules do not apply. And while we should always be gracious in our dealings with others, we should not allow the confusion that clouds the truth to infect our language or our thinking.
When God’s people abandon the certainty of truth, confusion always follows. We should not be surprised when the world blurs the lines. That process has been going on since the Garden of Eden. Our task is to take a stand on the truths God has declared in His Word and refuse all efforts to change or alter what He has spoken. Both the church and the world need the clarion voice of truth, more in this day of confusion than ever before. “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” (1 Corinthians 14:8).
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
It is impossible to rightly follow Jesus without being willing to take a stand for the truth.

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Love in the Moonlight =)


God hates pride…but honors humility

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Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
--Genesis 11:9

What a scene it must have been when the survivors of Noah’s Flood began to build the Tower of Babel.  They were determined to build a monument to their pride and as their way of trying to approach God on their own terms.

It’s hard to imagine the arrogance of that act, or the confusion that must have reigned in Babel as mighty and intelligent men began speaking different languages for the first time.

The Tower of Babel is a real historical event, but it is also an illustration of society even today. Men and women in our day are just like the proud people of Babel . . . believing they know everything there is to know and therefore can approach God on their own terms.

The Lord states many times in the Scripture that He detests arrogance and pride. “Haughty eyes” (Proverbs 6:17), or a proud look, is first on the list of things that God hates. People today are building towers to try and reach heaven; not physical structures, but towers of pride and self-sufficiency.

God honors a humble heart.  So don’t let the world fool you into thinking you need to be self-sufficient, rather reach up to God with with an open hand and heart to receive His grace each day.


God hates pride…but honors humility!

Continuing Warfare

by Dr. Paul Chappell
“Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.”
Ecclesiastes 8:6–8

It is a normal part of human nature to want to kick back and take it easy. Most people look forward to their vacations, perhaps even counting down the days until they leave the normal responsibilities of work behind and take some time off. While there is a time and a place for rest, and it is important to our physical and mental health, there are some responsibilities that never stop. One of those is the ongoing spiritual warfare that we face on a daily basis. The devil doesn’t take days off, and if we let down our guard and take time off spiritually, we will be defeated.
This tendency is what led to the greatest downfall of David’s life. “And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem” (2 Samuel 11:1). When we are not where we are supposed to be, doing what we are supposed to be doing, we are in great spiritual danger. There will come a day in Heaven when we can lay aside our armor and all battles will cease, but until we stand in God’s presence, there will never be a discharge from spiritual warfare. Stay alert and stay involved in the battle to avoid becoming a casualty.
 
Today’s Growth Principle: 
The devil will always take advantage of the opportunities that we present him when we let down our guard.

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Ang trabaho parang pag-ibig



Ang trabaho parang pag-ibig.

Maihahalintulad ang pag-ibig sa trabaho. Minsan kailangan mong hanapin para mapasaiyo ang iba naman hindi na ibig sabihin kusang dumarating lalo n kung alam mo na angkop ka para sa trabaho na pinasukan mo.

Pagnakapasok k na. Ang tanong magtatagal ka ba? Masaya k p b?

Hindi nasusukat sa tagal ang happiness, nasa nararamdaman iyon. May iba kasi matagal na sila kasi wala namang choice. Nagtatagal kasi kailangan. Meron naman sa unang pagkakataon pa lang tama na. Sa paglipas ng panahon mas nakikita nila ang sarili nilang lumalago sa propesyon na pinili nila. Paano kung hindi?

Eh di, maghanap ng iba. Mahirap kasi kung nahihirapan ka na. Magkakasakit ka lang. Walang masasayang na panahon kung alam mo sa sarili mo na tama iyong daan na pinili mong tahakin. Naging mahirap man pero sa bandang huli, kahit papaano nasabi mo sa sarili mo na may ginawa ka. =)