Words are like arrows shot from a bow and arrow once they leave the bow, the arrows can never return. Once you let your words proceed out of your mouth you can never grab them back.
Words are powerful especially to children who are so impressionable. We can’t wait for them to walk and talk and then we tell them to sit down and shut up! We tell them they are dumb, clumsy and other statements of incompetence. We can program them with negative programming in the first few years of their lives that will take years of reprogramming for them to be productive in life!
Millions of children go to bed hungry tonight for lack of food and nourishment. Millions more will go to bed hungry tonight for lack of encouragement. Words are powerful and life-changing. Words can build people up to accomplish great things, or tear them down and render them almost useless and helpless.
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There was a woman who said she wanted to be buried with a Bible in her right hand and a fork in her left hand. They said I understand the Bible in the right hand but why the fork in your left hand? She said whenever you eat and dessert is coming, they say hang onto your fork so she knows that after death the best is yet to come!!
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Our minds are like a computer and its default settings. Like the font– you can change it but if you don’t change the default, when you go out of the program and then go back in you font changes again.
That’s the way most people live their lives because their default hasn’t changed, their situation hasn’t changed.
So when they are in Church, or with other people they can get that going. But when you go back home you go back to default…. Over and over again.
Until you change your default you will always go back to who you were before, because you haven’t ever changed your mind. You changed you address, phone number, etc… But you didn’t change your mind.
I change my mind because I change my default settings and I choose not to fall back to my old ways!
I like bold print but forget when I go out of the program it will go back to the default print. So if I like bold print I need to make that my default setting.
It reminds me of reconciling a checkbook. If you put a deposit where a withdrawal should have been, you will not balance.
Likewise if you it a withdrawal where a deposit should have been, you will not balance.
If you are chastened don’t put it with your liabilities, it goes with your assets.
Romans 5:3-5
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
We may have instant coffee, grits, etc. but there is no instant experience.
Change your mind and default settings and you change your life, especially your Spiritual life.
If you keep thinking what you always been thinking you will keep doing what you have always been doing.
And if you keep doing what you’ve always been doing, you will keep getting what you have always been getting!
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I heard a story about a sixteen-year-old young man who lived in Ghana. He came from a very poor village. All he ever wanted to do in his whole life was to make a difference in the lives of others. As a teen, he left home in search of riches and wealth to bring back to his village. He eventually ended up working on a cocoa plantation.
For seven years, he had no contact with his friends or his family. One day he returned to the village. The people gathered around, and someone asked, “What do you have to show for seven years of being away? What did you bring us? Where are the riches?”
The young man responded by “reaching into his pocket and pulling out three tiny seeds.
“Is this all you have to show? Three tiny seeds?” someone asked.
Without speaking a word, he turned, went to the family hut, and planted those three seeds nearby. From those seeds grew the first cocoa plant to be cultivated in his nation. And the second and third as well. Today, cocoa is one of the primary crops in Ghana.
According to legend, it was started by one African man who planted three tiny seeds.
Dr. Munroe told me that story and said, “Go plant some seeds. Go do some positive things for others. God’s going to bless you.
Remember, there are some people who will say they’re going to help you in life, but they really won’t. Don’t depend “on them because in many cases they won’t have the information, the wisdom, or the insight to help you get where you need to go. Why? Because they are seedless. There are other people who will bless you, for they will give you the seeds of life. These are the people who will connect to your dream and your passion and help you move forward.
When you go to the supermarket, sometimes you’ll see two kinds of fruit, seedless fruit and fruit with seeds, but you don’t know the difference until you look inside.
And that’s the way it is with certain people. You don’t really know who they are until you look within them.
I want you to plant yourself like a seed because, like a seed, the outer shell is going to die off, and when “that happens you will cast off all of your past negative experiences. You’re going to become grounded in what your purpose is and what you’re supposed to do. And you’re going to endure some long winter nights and some hot summer days.
There’s a price you’ll pay for living your dream. You’ll have to make some sacrifices, but it will be worth it if you’re willing to stay committed. You’re going to take root. When you’re rooted, you’ll become fully committed, and you’ll be unswayable. No one will be able to talk you out of achieving your purpose. One day, you’re going to come up through the soil, you’ll start to rise, to take action, and the momentum will carry you forward. When you surface, you’ll see the results of “your efforts, and you’ll know that you’re ready to make a difference.
You’ll be ready to plant some positive things—seeds—in other people.”
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A shepherd was tending his flock in a field, when a new sports car screeched to a stop on the road nearby in a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in expensive designer clothes and sunglasses, leans out of the window and shouts over to the shepherd, “If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have here, can I take one?”
The shepherd looks up slowly up at the young man, then looks at his peaceful flock, and calmly answers, “Sure, why not?”
The young man steps out of his car holding a state-of-the-art palmtop pda, with which he proceeds to connects to a series of websites, first calling up satellite navigation system to pinpoint his location, then keying in the location to generate an ultra-high resolution picture of the field. After emailing the photo to an image processing facility, the processed data is returned, which he then feeds into an online database, and enters the parameters for a report. Within another few seconds a miniature printer in the car produces a full colour report containing several pages of analysis and results. The young man studies the data for a few more seconds and returns to the shepherd.
“You have exactly one-thousand five-hundred and eighty-six sheep, including three rams, and seven-hundred and twenty-two lambs.”
“That’s right,” says the shepherd, mildly impressed. “Well, I guess that means you get to take one of my sheep.”
The young man makes his choice and loads the animal onto the back seat of his car, at which the shepherd says, almost as an afterthought, “Hey there, if I can tell you what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?”
The young man, feeling confident, agrees.
“You’re a consultant,” says the shepherd.
“Wow, that’s right,” says the young man, taken aback, “How did you guess that?”
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No guessing required,” answers the shepherd, “You showed up here even though nobody called you. You took a fee for giving me an answer that I already know, to a question I never asked, and you know nothing about my business. Now give me back my dog.
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Robert Fulghum wrote in the Kansas City Times, “Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
“These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody . . . When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. “
This writer has captured part of what Jesus meant when he said, “Unless you become like little children, you won’t enter the kingdom of heaven.”
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
My Father And Mother wanted me to have good grades, but more than anything, they wanted me to have good conduct.
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It’s not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with the sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” (Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th US President and 1906 Nobel Peace Prize-winner.)
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The “Coronary and Ulcer Club” lists the following rules for members…
1. Your job comes first. Forget everything else.
2. Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays are fine times to be working at the office. There will be nobody else there to bother you.
3. Always have your briefcase with you when not at your desk. This provides an opportunity to review completely all the troubles and worries of the day.
4. Never say “no” to a request. Always say “yes.”
5. Accept all invitations to meetings, banquets, committees, etc.
6. All forms of recreation are a waste of time.
7. Never delegate responsibility to others; carry the entire load yourself.
8. If your work calls for traveling, work all day and travel at night to keep that appointment you made for eight the next morning.
9. No matter how many jobs you already are doing, remember you always can take on more.
Bits & Pieces, January 7, 1993, pp. 9-10.
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