Spreading Kindness and Love

Posted on December 20, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What was the last thing you did for play or fun?
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One of my greatest pleasures is spreading kindness and love. I enjoy distracting people from their burdens by helping them to smile and chuckle a bit and to experience some warm heartedness.

I’m a natural introvert, but I’ve discovered that It’s lots of fun to spread warm heartedness. I’ve learned that if I meet and greet people with friendliness, they usually respond with the same. Love shared spreads and grows.

It’s not enough to talk about and to know about love. Everywhere you go experience, enjoy, celebrate, and spread the beauty of love that’s outta this world.

Open your heart to enjoy and share the amazing healing power of God’s love. (1 Corinthians 4:20) Begin to train yourself to sow God’s love and to grow in God’s love until you overflow with God’s love and start to show God’s love everywhere you go. Jesus put it this way: “This is My command: Love each other.” (John 15:17)

“Love never fails.” (1 Corinthians 13:8) Affection and sentiment that fail to endure come short of true love. Settle for nothing less in your thoughts, words, and behaviors than: patience, kindness, gratitude for other people’s blessings, humility, self-denial, freedom from anger, fully forgiving people, refusing to enjoy seeing evil, rejoicing in truth even when it’s uncomfortable, carrying people’s burdens, believing and hoping for the best for people, and demonstrating endurance that never gives up. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

Embrace the reality of what the Bible says in John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

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Food Can’t Bring Inner Peace

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Steve Simms
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List your top 5 grocery store items.
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You can’t eat your way to inner peace. The only way to truly find it is to step out from behind all your disguises.

God sees through all my disguises. He knows who I really am. Yet He loves me anyway. God invites me to continually turn aside from all rebellion and to let the risen Jesus heal me, lead me from within, (Colossians 1:27) and make me whole. What an amazing opportunity He offers all of us humans!

By Christ’s wounds we are offered true healing. “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:5-6) God invites us to come out of the darkness of our hiding places and “into His marvelous light.” (1 Peter 2:9) “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters” (1 John 3:16).

Jesus is all around us. All we need to do is to watch and listen for Him and to open wide our heart to His presence and healing.

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The Famous Man Who Has Personally Impacted My Life

Posted on December 18, 2025 by Steve Simms
Daily writing prompt
Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.
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There is a very famous man who has personally impacted my life. I wrote the following short poem about him.

When Jesus is neglected
Your heart is disconnected
From His presence and power —
Your thoughts are not corrected
By God the Holy Spirit.
Your life is not subjected
To the will of the Father.
When have you last detected
Jesus’ presence in your life?
Glory to God in the Highest!
There’s great peace for those who
Let their life be infected
And every day directed
By the risen Jesus Christ.
Are you paying attention?

Jesus is present and active in the world today and brings great joy to all people who choose not to neglect Him. “O taste and see that the Lord is good!”

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My Thinking Shapes My Life

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?
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A blind mind thinks without insight. I try not to do that. I make it my goal to think God’s thoughts. I have found the best book for God’s thoughts is the Bible. It helps me connect with God the Holy Spirit and to think with insight.

It’s vital to love God with your mind, not just with your heart. (Matthew 22:37) To love God with your mind is to affectionally think about Him throughout each day. It is to set your mind on things above, not on earthy things. (Colossians 3:2)

To love God with your mind is to keep His commandments in all that you think. (John 14:15) It is to align your thoughts with God by bringing every thought captive and obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5) It is to think about what God wants you to think about. (Philippians 4:8)

To love God with your mind is to set is to set your mind on the things of the Spirit. (Romans 8:5-6) It is to refuse to be conformed to this world but instead to be transformed by letting God renew your mind so that you can accurately discern what the will of God is. (Romans 12:2) It is to seek, embrace, and obey God’s wisdom not mere human analysis and interpretation. (1 Corinthians 2:4-10)

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A Book That Imparts Amazing Attitudes, Skills, and Lessons

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What skills or lessons have you learned recently?
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Throughout my adult life my favorite book has imparted amazing attitudes, skills, and lessons to me. It continues to do so day after day! Give the Bible much more than a passing glance now and then and it will do the same for you!

The Bible is the lense that God has given you to help you keep your eyes fixed on Jesus — to keep you focused on “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Because the writers of the Bible “spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit,” (2 Peter 1:22) if you use it, it will help you stir up the gift of the Holy Spirit inside of you. (2 Timothy 1:6)

Get more from the Bible! The Bible’s not just a textbook to be studied and analyzed. It’s a love letter from God to be continually absorbed, cherished, and treasured. It’s alive and active. (Hebrews 4:12)

To study the Bible is popular and good. However, there are other, often ignored, approaches to the Bible that are vital.

Don’t just have Bible studies. Have Bible searches. Have Bible discussions. Have Bible seekings. Have Bible stir ups. Have Bible doings. Have Bible experiences.
Continually search the Bible to verify what you believe about God and what you have been taught and preached about Him. (Acts 17:11)

Discuss the Bible. Talk about it with other people. (Joshua 1:8)

Seek the Bible for revelation, inspiration, and the kingdom (inner government) of God in your life. (Matthew 6:33). Meditate and ponder it day and night. (Joshua 1:8)

Stir up (2 Timothy 1:6) the Bible in your mind and memory. Keep it burning in your heart. (Luke 24:32) so that its words are flowing with the Holy Spirit within you. (John 7:38-39)

Do the Bible. Follow and obey what it clearly states for you to do. Be doers of the word, not hearers only. (James 1:22).

Personally, and directly experience the Bible. As you read it savor it. “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” (Psalm 34:8)

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Beyond City Sights

Posted on December 15, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What cities do you want to visit?
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The glory and splendor of the Lord is all around you. Take the time to notice it. Let your physical eyes observe some of the Creator’s amazing and majestic beauty and engineering in nature and its 2.2 billion species of life that scientist have catalogued so far. (Romans 1:20)

Look up and notice how spectacular the sky and the stars are. (Psalm 19:1-2) Climb a mount and sense God’s glory. Walk a beach and hear the waves praise Him. This incredible world is but His shadow declaring His greatness and magnificence to all who will recognize it.

Open your heart to awe and astonishment. Cultivate ever increasing appreciation for the creative miracles that surround you and the ones that are you — the multitudes of physical marvels that make up your material body and the wondrous mysteries of your consciousness, your conscience, moral compass, your compassion, your mind, your sense of fairness, your desire for justice, your desire for meaning and purpose, your longing to be genuinely loved, your sense of guilt, your disappointment in yourself, your desire for approval, and so many more curious things about you.

A lifetime of “Wows!!!” from a heart dazzled by nonstop amazement cannot do justice to the abounding splendor and creativity of the infinite intricate (visible and invisible) designs of nature! Focusing on the grandeur of all that incredible physical and nonmaterial stuff baffles the brightest minds and will stir the hardest hearts with overwhelming wonderment.

Recently someone pointed out to my wife and me that we both say “Wow!” a lot. I was so encouraged by that. Our goal has been to recognize, celebrate, appreciate, follow, and demonstrate the love and glory of God. Wow! That’s still the burning desire of our heart. We love being wowed by the beautiful things that we see, hear, hear about, and experience, God doing throughout each day.

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I Try To Keep My Heart Open to God’s Mysteries

Posted on December 14, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.
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I try to always keep my heart open to God’s mysteries and to let Him lead me outside of my comfort zone. Doing that fills me with awe and wonder and keeps me astounded by His presence, love, and power. You can do it too!

Open wide your heart to vision and insight. Let it be deeply touched, moved, and led by God the Holy Spirit. Always carry God the Son inside of you; let Him lead you day and night. Worship and glorify God the Father in all you say and do.

There’s a mountain outside my window, but I can’t see it now. It’s covered with clouds, but I know it is there. I’ve seen it many times before. It is one mountain with three peaks. The first time I saw it I was reminded of the mystery of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. When it’s covered by a cloud, I am reminded of the glory cloud that covered Mt. Sinai when God appeared to Moses. There is so much that we humans don’t see that we don’t understand. There is so much more to life than our physical eyes can see.

Keep your heart open to vision and insight. Instead of monitoring the Holy Spirit let God the Holy Spirit monitor and lead you.

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About Cessationists, Sensationists, & Facinationists

Posted on December 13, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.
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Cessationists say it has stopped. Sensationists try to add to it by human feelings, ideas, and effort. Facinationists live in awe of it and surrender to it. What is it? It is the power and presence of Jesus Christ living and working in today’s world.

The psalmist in the Bible said: “I will keep my eyes always on the Lord.” (Psalm 16:8 NIV) If the psalmist could do that hundreds of years before the first Christmas, how much more can we 2000 years after Christ has been born, laid down His life for us, risen from the dead, and now is present to live and work inside of His followers! (Colossians 1:27)

There are at least three ways Christians today present Christianity. Cessationists present the Gospel while denying or ignoring its present-day life-changing and supernatural power. (2 Timothy 3:5) Sensationists mix the Gospel with lots of human programming, ritual, or hype. (Galatians 3:3) Fascinationists live in continual awe of Jesus and continually experience Him as living and working in the world today in, though, and around ordinary people like themselves. — “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

I am a Christian facinationist! The risen Jesus keeps me passionately in awe of Him and amazed at what I see Him doing in, though, and around me. I say to Jesus: “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.” (Psalm 16:2) Thank You, Jesus!!!

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Which Christmas — NP or ME?

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Steve Simms

Is your Christmas focused on the North Pole or the Middle East? Your answer matters.

When the main character in Christmas is from the North Pole instead of the Middle East, the supporting characters are elves instead of wise men, and the main props are reindeer and a sleigh instead of a manger and a star, there has been a major plot change. One main Christmas character has shoved aside the other and stolen Christmas, and his name isn’t the Grinch.

Which Christmas do you prefer — a sincere, heart-felt celebration and rejoicing in Christ’s birth, life, death for our sins, resurrection from the dead, and active presence in the world today? Or a capitalistic commercialization and consumerization of the holiday?

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I’ve Often Spoken On Stage About My Love for Jesus

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech?
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Prophetic boldness, faith, action and adoration flow from wholehearted love for Jesus! If we loved Jesus more, we would experience much more of that in our churches and in our daily life.

You can love Jesus more than you do. He wants you to. (If you’re not passionately in love with Jesus, you’re missing out on life’s greatest romance.)

Jesus calls halfhearted, halfway Christianity lukewarm. (Revelation 3:15-17) He sees it like lukewarm coffee. If you love Jesus less passionately today than you have in the past, your heart has gone in the wrong direction.

Offer Jesus better than that! Stir up your heart to blaze with wholehearted, all-out, ever-increasing love for Him. (2 Timouthy 1:6) Settle for nothing less!

Mother Teresa said: “I serve Jesus because I love Jesus.” Do you? Loving Jesus isn’t passive religion. It’s divine romance. It’s vibrant adoration for Him that passionately overflows from deep within a human heart. (John 7:38-39)

You’ve probably been told at least once that “Jesus loves you.” Have you ever told Jesus that you love Him?

Can a person love Jesus too much? Absolutely not! When love for Jesus enters your heart, never let it go! Keep it ablaze with passion and adoration for Him. Never allow your first love for Jesus to die down or drift away. (Revelation 2:4)

It’s impossible to overdo love for Jesus. Our problem as Christians is not enough love for Jesus, never too much. Jesus said: “Whoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me. *Luke 9:23) You can’t overdo that!

I wholeheartedly adore Jesus because He first loved me. (1 John 4:9) How can I not return such amazing love?

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