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Faith It Until You Make It

Faith is not believing that God can…


It is in knowing that God will… 


Wouldn’t it be great if we could wake up every morning with a faxed or emailed itinerary of EXACTLY how our day will go? 


No more guessing, juggling, and figuring out, just seeing and doing. 


Unfortunately, we live in a real world with other real people, places, and things that are ALWAYS changing. 


The good news is that we actually DO have the daily itinerary! 


It’s in our hearts and all we have to do is drop the expectations on people, places, and things and walk forward in faith, knowing God has the end result covered!


 All we need to do is participate fully with our hearts. 


Think about it. 


 Doesn’t your day go so much better when you drop the expectations and just be? … 


Check your experience… 


“In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves.” Big Book pg 70 


Lord, let us walk in faith and not in expectation, AMEN. 


“For we walk by faith, not by sight” 2 Corinthians 5:7 


 Have a blessed day y’all! 


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What am I investing in?

“A beautiful reputation is more to be desired than great riches, and to be esteemed by others is more honorable than to own immense investments.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭22:1‬ ‭TPT‬‬

Am I exhausting myself in investing in things of this world that I will leave behind, or am I investing in things that really matter?
In the end, all that matters is God and people

It’s a Matter of the Heart

It’s a matter of the heart… 


Have you ever heard or used the expressions; 


“’ You’re all heart, ‘; ‘She has a lot of heart’ ; or ‘bless his heart’”?


 Hopefully, we use and or hear those phrases associated with good thoughts. 

They are spiritually based and character driven by design. 


The Bible is full of examples and references to our heart and how we should guard it, allow good to flow from it, and protect it. 


The fact of the matter is that God not only sees our hearts but also knows what fills it and how it fuels our lives

So, what do you see when you look at your heart? …


Check your experience… 


“Here was something at work in a human heart which had done the impossible.” Big Book pg 11 


Lord, open our hearts to contain good and grace and remove those things that get in the way of our usefulness to You and those You would have us help, AMEN. 


“God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7 


Have a blessed day y’all! 


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Risks and Rewards

Keep walking the Path…. 


It seems no matter what the reward is, there is some form of risk involved. 


From a child first learning to trust gravity to ride a bike, to the risks we take as adults with relationships, finances, employment, and other worldly things,…


We have to risk something to gain something else. 


Risk is part of our Earthly experience and a great exercise for us to build and practice our faith as we seek the reward. 


Sometimes we hit bumps in the road but if we keep our hearts and eyes focused on our goal, our risk does not become ruled by fear and our faith carries us through. 


Measure your risk with your faith and see how it helps! 


As always, don’t take it from me, rather….


Check your experience… 


“Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.” Big Book pg. 16 


Lord, let our hearts know that our risk, supported by our faith will carry us through to the reward, AMEN 


“So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while.” 1Peter 1:6 


Have a blessed day Y’all! 


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Love Never Fails

Love is all you need…


We have answers and solutions and fixes for just about everything imaginable these days. 


The internet, TV, and most brick-and-mortar retail stores have the ability to sell packaged solutions to most any need. 


I like that “flabs to abs” idea, but I hear tell that ultimately it really requires providing the willingness and effort to eat right and exercise. 


I am sure it’s the same for most any other challenge or situation we face. To get better it requires our participation and willingness to either change or participate. 


The bottom line involved in any interaction, positive or negative, is that spiritual emotion or state of being that we all are born with, which is love. 


If we can bring our love to the situation or task at hand, the Holy Spirit within us can then participate with us and guide us to the healthy outcome we seek. 


Are you bringing your spiritual love to your situations?.. 


Check your experience… 


“Patience, tolerance, understanding and love are the watchwords.” Big Book pg. 118 

Lord, let us bring the love in our hearts, supplied by Your Spirit into every situation we face, both good and bad, AMEN. 

“Love takes everything that comes without giving up. Love believes all things. Love hopes for all things. Love keeps on in all things. Love never comes to an end.” 1 Corinthians 13: 7-8 


Have a blessed day Y’all! 


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Seek and you will find

What am I seeking today? Am I looking for things that are negative, or am I seeing all the blessings that are around me? I often struggle with seeing the good in my life. For me, it is sometimes easier to focus on the negative, than to experience the goodness of God! I have to create good habits of focusing on the positive. One way I can do that is by naming 3-4 things I’m grateful for each day. Writing them down in a journal is a great way to do that! I need to ”stop and smell the roses” throughout each day! Seek the goodness of God each day, and I will always find it!

Take Off Your Shoes

Take off your shoes…


Years ago when I was on staff at Salvation Army as a counselor, 


I taught a class for the men in the Adult Recovery Center in Sacramento. 


One of the more popular lessons I taught was called “Take off your shoes” 


I would post a sign outside of the chapel that served as our classroom asking all who entered to. take off their shoes. 


Everyone complied and no one ever had a serious problem with the request. 


I would then share with the men how we are always willing and able to comply and participate with general requests, like taking off our shoes. 


I would then ask them to think about why they did not feel the need to demand to know what kind of shoes I was asking them to take off. 


Would sandals qualify or be excused? 


What about sneakers and boots? 


The point I was making for the class was that we all put something on our fee t and even though it may be a boot, sneaker, or sandal, it’s still just a shoe with the main purpose of protecting our feet. 


I then used this understanding to home in on the fact that whether it is alcohol, cocaine, pills, meth, heroin, or other chemicals, we are all addicted to something, and we all have that in common and need to band together to recover. 


Driving home the point that we all put something inside of us to numb ourselves to the outside world. 


Now folks, I am NOT politically motivated, and those who know me best know that I am color blind with respect to skin and race. 


So, my point today is that we are all living and breathing humans, so why can’t we band together to help one another instead of all this senseless nonsense…


Check your experience… 


“The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.” Big Book pg. 60 


Lord, let us remember we are all Your children and one Earthly family, AMEN. 


“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28 


Have a blessed day Y’all! 


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Relationships

For me, I truly believe that my relationships are the most challenging, yet most rewarding experiences that I will ever have and go through in my life! For me, in my marriage, am I fighting about it, or am I fighting for it? Am I trying to win the battles, or am I trying to win the relationship? I struggle with wanting to always be right. Thinking my ways are the best ways! Being prideful! Those are times when I find myself fighting about the relationship. If I can swallow my pride, and realize that we want the same things in our marriage, but that we just have different ways of achieving them, neither way being right or wrong, just different, than I can continue to fight for our relationship! I have to have that mindset in all my relationships. In the end, all that matters is God and people!

Is There a Wisdom Ap?

Is this available on Amazon or at the Wal-Mart?… 


Wouldn’t it be great if we could just order wisdom online, download it to our mind computer and keep on moving? 


Heck, even buying the CD and watching it would… no wait, lot’s of late-night ads are already trying this and I don’t think it’s delivering on the desired effect all too well. 


So what is the secret to getting wisdom? 


I am still trying to figure that part out, but I can share from my own experience as well as watching and learning from others, that wisdom comes from learning, applying, and gaining experience. 


We have a great Book of knowledge that contains many skills, lessons, and insights, but it takes a commitment to read it, share it, and practice the principles it contains.


It’s a good thing to have a Bible, but we can’t gain from it until we learn from it and apply it to our lives. 


How’s that working out for you?.. 


Check your experience… 


“We have learned that whatever the human frailties of various faiths may be; those faiths have given purpose and direction to millions. People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about.” Big Book pg 49 


Lord, open our minds and hearts with willingness and a thirst to learn from Your Word, AMEN. 


“Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do! And whatever else you do, develop good judgment.” Proverbs 4:7 


Have a blessed day Y’all! 


What if you had a person who coached and mentored you in building a better life? 


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Help is Always Near

2 hands are better than 1… 


In my experience I have learned that most things seem to get accomplished more efficiently when another person is involved. 


From raising Miss Kai to making decisions on ministry, career, finance, and other things, I have benefited from seeking and using the wise counsel of Miss Tami and many others I am blessed to have in my life. 


Along the way I have learned that I am really never alone, so when I am faced with the need to make an 
instant choice or decision, 


I can rely on the Holy Spirit residing in me to guide my thoughts and direct my actions. 

I am not perfect, and my-self will still gets in the way more than it should, but at least...


I know that I do have the ability to seek God’s will and not rely on my own. 


How’s that working out for you?.. 


Check your experience.. 


“What was our choice to be?” Big Book pg. 53 


Lord, let us look to You through Your Holy Spirit to show us how to navigate the many choices, decisions, and temptations we face daily, AMEN. 


“Then I will ask My Father and He will give you another Helper. He will be with you forever.” John 14:16 


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