Well, what do you expect?

Expectations are terribly important. So much of how we feel about our lives is based on how things are versus our expectations of how they should be. And our expectations are so shaped and influenced by the many different inputs and subliminal noises that we are constantly subjected to, and most often unaware of, that it is no wonder that, for many, life is lived with a feeling of frustration that can often lead to hopelessness or a frantic search for “something more” and finally to extreme busyness, more frustration, and sometimes addiction or worse.  There are several primary contributors to this common condition. Today we will focus on just two or three. First, the force of the consumer culture we live in and the “more stuff is better” mentality of materialism. Because of the...

The Key to a Better “NOW!”

When Moses asked God who he should tell the children of Israel sent him to them, God told Moses to say, “Tell them I AM has sent me to you.” When God refers to Himself He always uses the present tense. God is always present tense, in Himself He is never past or future, always present. God isn’t contained by time; time is contained in God. Time doesn’t limit God, God limits time. We are in a unique condition as we read this material, a condition that is temporary but very significant, a condition that, in all of eternity, we shall only experience once. We are as we are because God has created us to be so. He has chosen to create us to be, at this moment, spirit beings that temporarily inhabit a human body. We will not be forever as we are now. A day will come when each of us will...

The 6 Keys to Successful Journaling

After making our daily first hour with God non-negotiable the next most helpful tool is to write and keep a daily journal focusing on that time, There is just something that so clears our thoughts and helps us to remember meaningful things when we take the time to write them down. Its really indisputable how retention and understanding increases when we invest the time to write things. Keeping a daily summary journal of our time focused on God and His will and way for us will pay huge effectiveness dividends. It has always worked thst way for me and is the consistent testimony of every exceptional believer that I have ever known or read about. Many friends have agreed with the concept of journaling over the years but most have struggled to find a consistent format that helps to keep the...

The Critical First Step – Non-Negotiable!

Most Christians who struggle to have a consistent time of Bible reading, study, prayer and reflection do so because of one fatal mistake; the mistake of negotiation with the flesh! Get this! The flesh doesn’t want you to spend time with God! Neither does the world or the devil! They will never make it easy, always will oppose you in your effort to do so. When we make any profitable discipline or habit negotiable the most likely result is failure to maintain it. This is as true in exercise or diet as in any of the spiritual disciplines. The key is to not negotiate! It is infinitely easier to make one simple decision than hundreds or thousands of difficult complicated decisions. (I’ll have just a bite this time! I’ll skip running while I’m on vacation! etc.,etc.,...