What is your viewpoint?

   Our outlook of things has a lot to do with our happiness. How we perceive things can be the difference between enjoying life or being miserable. If we are looking for something to happen and each day we wake up thinking that this may be the day that it happens then we have something to …

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It’s time to move forward

   Deuteronomy 1:6  The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have dwelt long enough on this mountain.     As I pondered this scripture it spoke to me in several ways. We think that the Israelites were crazy for what they did but we do the very same things. We stay in vicious cycles of …

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Complain and remain

As I was watching a teaching by Joyce Meyer this morning I realized that what I had read in a book that I am reading, a devotional that I am reading, the bible verses that I read this morning and now this teaching, are all on complaining and how it affects us. I believe that …

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Because He loves us

Hebrews 12: 1-13 talks about the suffering of discipline from God. It states that God disciplines us just as a father disciplines his child because we are His children. He does not punish us, He disciplines us. Just like my mom use to take away my tv privilege if I did something wrong or something …

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The difference of our who and our do

Many of us look at ourselves by the things that we do. We base who we are by the actions that we make. We think that because we have a nasty attitude that we are a bad person. We think that because we are unable to do something that we are less of a person. …

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Thoughts part 5 /relationships

As our thoughts affect every part of our being, they also affect our relationships. Because of the way that our thoughts affect our actions and our words, we could lose friendships, partnerships, and close connections with others. Our thoughts also affect the relationship that we have with ourselves and the Lord. Because our relationship with …

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Thoughts part 4 /actions

We have been talking about how our thoughts effect our lives. We have seen how they affect our feelings/emotions and our words. We are beginning to see how they can control every part of our being for better or for worse. Today I want to talk about how they affect our behavior/actions. We have to …

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