What does God say about your situation? It is time to stop allowing others perception of the situation define God’s perception of the situation.
Stop comparing your start with someone else’s finish. That’s a word worth holding onto. All of us want the opportunity to be made mature when our hearts feel alive. We don’t get electives on when (what season) we are maturing in the Lord.
What would happen if you believed in your heart of hearts that your life (actions & prayers) influenced our culture? Imagine if you lived within that understanding? Did you know that the disciples had been identified as “lights of the world” before contributing much of who they were?
Statistics say about 50% (1 in 2) of the marriages that start will not make it. And of those 50% or so that do make it, the vast majority of them report being miserable, lacking intimacy, and are sticking together for the sake of the kids, or provision. So the odds are really stacked against us if we do what everyone else does.
I remind my children often that true failure isn't making the mistake, but rather giving up!
Be a person who doesn’t give up! Let me write that again: Be a person who doesn’t give up.
Thomas Edison is one of the most significant innovators and inventors in American history. Edison is perhaps best known for inventing the first long-lasting light bulb. Edison’s 10,000 attempts to create the light bulb must be remembered.
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying.
He was a leader of many other breakthroughs, including the first phonograph (sound) and the motion picture camera (video), and he was influential in developing the first economically viable way of distributing light, heat, and power from a central station.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. – Denis Waitley
When you find yourself failing; making a poor decision; saying the wrong thing; remind yourself after the event to NOT GIVE UP! Remember, you have the ability to innovate, to think differently about a situation. If you’re not failing, you’re not trying.
2 Cor 12:9 “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
You got this, PA
Worship is a word that’s commonly used in our church culture, but how well is it understood and lived in our lives from Sunday to Sunday? Worship is not an act reserved for monks, priests or even church congregations; worship is an activity of the human soul.
So together, we’ll be focusing not on improving the quality of our worship, but the object of our worship.
Beginning Sunday, July 15th, we will be unpacking what worship is, and how all of us have a billboard above our lives displaying what we value.
