I love to express what I feel called to say. Writing helps me to open up my heart and do that. I hope that what I write helps you in some way. I hope it makes you think, encourages you, or inspires you. If it challenges you or if you disagree, I hope you know that I respect your right to have a different point of view.
Since few people openly talk about their experiences with the living Jesus, such experiences are falsely considered rare and unusual. They’re much more common than people believe.
When awareness of the living Jesus overrides self-awareness, the joy of the Lord gushes forth! Choosing darkness diminishes our awareness of God’s glory. Grace talk without the living Jesus is empty words.
Grace isn’t a free pass. It’s God’s unearned power that changes people from within and empowers them to live with godly character and behavior. It gives us supernatural strength to walk the way of the cross. Grace doesn’t replace the need for a Christ-led lifestyle.
Grace is the free gift of being taught, led, and empowered directly by the living Jesus. Have your received it?
There’s more to me Than physiology. My eyes display images, But I see.
My brain processes data, But I think.
My ears recognize sounds, But I hear.
My nerves Send notifications Of pain And contact, But I hurt And I feel.
My eyes, brain, Ears, and nerves Aren’t conscious, But I am.
My sensory organs work automatically and don’t know what they’re telling me, but I know.My body sends much information to my brain, but I choose what to do with all that information.My body automatically keeps itself alive, but I decide where it goes and what to do with it
My mouth and tongue move, but I speak. My fingers and thumb tighten, but I grip. My legs alternate bending, but I walk. My fingers touch keys on a screen, but I write.
All matter is made of tiny, empty balls of energy, squeezed together into things, but a person isn’t a thing. My anatomy has no me. My body parts are what, not who, but I’m who, not what.
Conception, gestation, and birth can’t explain where the me in my body came from.A human body is material and measurable, but the life in the body is immaterial and immeasurable.
Materialism is a myth. What we call reality is really just electrons orbiting mostly empty space.
If humans kept as close accounting on thoughts as we do on money, we’d be better off.If we knew what we think we know, we’d all be wiser than we are.
Stress management and anger management both depend on thought-feeling-desire management Chase away thoughts and feelings that try to ruin your day.
If we’re being driven by our thoughts, desires, and emotions, we’ve given up our self-control. If we resist negative mood swings, it’s harder for our emotions to push us around.
Life is full of both reasons for sadness and reasons for joy. Which reasons do you search for?
Our mindset sets the tone for our life. The more we set our mind on hope, the better our life will look to us. Both emotional and mental wellbeing require well-doing and well-thinking.
We have the ability to embrace or to resist individual thoughts, but too often we’re indifferent to that life-changing power. Try not to be unaware of what you’re talking and thinking yourself into.
Even when life outwardly seems to be going right, what’s wrong inside of us continues to need an inner cure. We can be embittered by life, or we can be empowered by it, but not both at the same moment.
It’s hard for other people to fix us from the outside because the ability to control our thoughts and behaviors resides inside us.If we’re not the choreographer of the thoughts that dance thru our brain, we’ve turned our mind over to chaos.
Walking in the light and courageously letting others see the inner burdens that we’re carrying, can somehow makes us feel lighter. Light is healing.
When negative, destructive, and/or tormenting feelings are fed and allowed to grow large, they cause much misery.Death by human hands saddens me. Suicide, violence, and abortion, all shout that we humans fail to treasure the gift of life.
This is unofficial, But between artificial And superficial, Life today is fickle.
As humans, if we won’t be completely honest, we won’t be completely rational. Either way we engage in some degree of deception by twisting and/or hiding the truth.
Why consider Jesus? Because He speaks inside those who ask and listen with their heart. Jesus isn’t an ancient myth, but the contemporary answer to the meaning of life.
Your assumptions about the supernatural could be wrong. Talk to Jesus and see if He answers.When your heart feels empty, the hollow echoing sound, might be Jesus knocking to fill it up.
The unseen Jesus, Right here, right now, Sees and listens, Hears and answers.
It costs nothing But a few moments To ask Jesus a question And see if He answers.
I can’t prove my consciousness but I follow it throughout the day. The same with Jesus.
To order your life according to the kingdom of God is to avoid disorder. Instead of serving and obeying your thoughts, feelings, and desires, make them serve you and submit to your control.
I was eating quacamole
And thought about
A roly-poly,
The tiny bug
That rolls into a ball.
Then I slowly
Began to realize,
I haven't seen a lowly
Little roly-poly
Since I was a child.
Did they go extinct
Or did I just blink
And overlook them
All these years?
I'm wholly
Confused.
What will happen
When I eat ravioli?
God wants to make a lifesaving incision in your heart, not to fill your head with precision. When your heart hears God speak over you, it’s a moment you never get over.
Preachers try to describe Jesus, to dissect Him, when what people really need is to experience a demonstration of Jesus’ presence that penetrates the hardness of their heart.If you’re not enthralled by Jesus, there’s a good chance you’ve only heard about Him, but not yet encountered Him.
Too many Christians try to live without continually experiencing and stirring up the inner overflow of God’s Spirit. By trying to analyze, categorize, and systematize God, we miss out on His mystery. A closed heart doesn’t experience the flow of God’s living water.
There’s little stability in a shaky world, but much in a Christ-filled heart. Thoughts, feelings, and desires are shaky things. If you don’t use discernment and discipline, they can easily shake you down.
Even allowing a small opening in your heart will let God’s light begin to come in.I don’t want to go to church where people are bored. I want to see Jesus passionately adored.If we don’t deeply realize our extreme lack of worthiness, grace is just a rather unamazing, religious idea.
According to the Bible, Christians aren’t called to go to God’s house, but to be God’s house.The only building the Bible ever called the house of the Lord was the Jewish Temple (not a church building).If the idea of endlessly worshipping Jesus sounds uncomfortable, you probably wouldn’t like Heaven.
Church tends to be a place for casual Christianity. It doesn’t seem to welcome passionate, Spirit-led Christ-followers.
The happiest place I’ve ever found Is wherever I am When I’m aware Jesus is around.
When is the time To bow Your heart Before Jesus And let Him wow You from within? Now.
A sermon That tidies up Your intellect Does little good If you neglect Jesus.
Many people give up on spontaneous, inner joy. They try to replace it with programmed, outer entertainment or a chemical high.
What you’re doing behind your eyes (on the inside) impacts your life more than what you see going on around you. Without emotional and mental housekeeping, the joy seeps out of life.The more we train our mind and emotions to function optimally, the greater will be our sense of wellbeing and joy.
As humans, we can’t avoid problems and pain, but joyous people demonstrate that we can learn to be happy anyway.Openness, honesty, and humility connect people heart-to-heart, bringing light for healing, recovery, and joy.
It’s hard to be happy if you let tormenting thoughts and toxic people pull your strings.Emotions, thoughts, and desires are real, but they’re often inaccurate and off track. Tough minded positive thinking is much more powerful than wishful drinking.
To be dumbed down is to avoid rational thinking. To be numbed down is to avoid caring and compassion.When we begin to undo years of harmful, habitual thinking and behaving, we start down the wise and kind path to a better life.
Thinking is like walking in the woods. The more you mentally follow the same path, the more permanent the trail becomes.
Perhaps as humans, our biggest problem is the darkness that we carry inside of us. When light disagrees with our darkness, we too often side with darkness.
The further away people are from reality, the angrier they get when it is pointed out.Social media is an internet platform often used to express anger and hostility when people disagree. Too much consumption of its contents can lead to discouragement.
When life shakes you to rock bottom, stand on the Rock and look up for His supernatural help. The living Jesus is the Rock.
It takes more courage to respond to a threat with kindness and compassion than with anger or violence.Kindness hinders violence. It’s hard to be violent to people who are showing you heart-felt compassion.
Acts of violence are attempts to dominate and control someone. To threaten people is to demonstrate insecurity.When human life isn’t respected, valued, and treasured, violence cripples a culture.
Laws don’t stop post-natal violence. They won’t stop pre-natal violence either. Violence can only be overcome by sacrificial love.
Showing pictures of what abortion does to a human fetus isn’t conservative or liberal. It’s factual.
The difference between infanticide and abortion is merely the definition of the kill zone. Partial birth abortion straddles the zone.
If pulling a living, human fetus apart isn’t an act of violence, nothing is. Abortion is an act of violence against the most innocent form of human life.Most people believe that child abuse is morally wrong, yet many of the same people believe that prenatal abuse is a good thing.
The Soviet Union fell apart without civil war. If America insists on falling apart, let’s follow their example and be nonviolent.
I’ve never read CRT and never taken a class on it. I only know about it through social media, so I’m sure my knowledge of it isn’t very accurate. However, for many decades, I’ve searched American history to learn about race, how the concept developed, and how it was used to justify atrocities. I’ve also crossed racial lines as a White man and reached out to many Black people in friendship and humility to listen and hear what they have to say.
Telling the truth about the atrocities of slavery and Jim Crow is neither liberal or conservative. It’s factual. The part of Critical Race Theory that tells the truth about history and its impact on the present deserves to be heard, not hidden.
Immediately after posting this, I went to Twitter. Then I saw a prenatal drawing of a black person and I’m astonished that I’ve never seen one before. Don’t fetuses come in all colors?
Unhealthy thoughts are common, storming me from without and roaring from within. The more I refute and reject them, the better I feel.Make healthy choices about both what you put in your body and what you put in your mind.
Perfection is beyond our reach, but tiny tidbits of daily improvement can make life wonderful.The thought patters you have embraced and established in your mind influence how you feel.As humans, we have the ability to regulate our thoughts.
Embrace thoughts, images, words, and feelings that give inner peace. Resist those that cause angst.
Silence your negative thoughts.As children, we’re taught how to hold a pen so we can write, but not how to hold positive thoughts so we can feel good. It’s not too late to learn it.
Some people say it’s too hard to mentally resist tormenting thoughts. I say it’s too painful not to resist them.
If you don’t continually tend, nurture, weed, and fertilize a garden, it becomes sickly. The same with the human mind.
Feelings are mental produce. Their quality depends on how well you tend and nurture the garden of your mind. Raise healthy produce.
Continually treat your mind with uplifting thoughts and you’ll find it gradually gets healthier.Avoid profanity. It’s compulsive and becomes habitual, clogging your thinking with meaningless meanness.
Relationships matter. A humble, heart-to-heart relationship helps both people heal their thinking.
Being focused on A purpose, A cause, A noble goal, Is good for your mind.
Positive thinking
Isn't pretending.
It's contending
With negativity
And ending
Its inner dominance.
Search for:
"Elephants INspiring
The Room."
