And this is eternal life… – John 17:3, Amplified Bible In a recent survey, two thousand employers were asked for what reasons they fired employees. Two-thirds of those surveyed responded that a major reason they let employees go is because the employees could not get along with others. When people don’t get along, it is… Continue reading Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Category: Christlikeness
Are you a slave to pride? If so, God would like to set you free.
Therefore pride is about their necks like a chain; violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe]. Psalm 73:6, Amplified Bible God tells us that pride is a cruel slave master which keeps us bound against our will. When I read Psalm 73:6, I immediately got a mental picture of a man… Continue reading Are you a slave to pride? If so, God would like to set you free.
Be ready to lend a helping hand – to your enemy.
If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying [helpless] under his load, you shall refrain from leaving the man to cope with it alone; you shall help him to release the animal.… Continue reading Be ready to lend a helping hand – to your enemy.
Your faith is the key to unlocking God’s power in your life.
And when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were in the brink of the water—for the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest— Then the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in a heap far… Continue reading Your faith is the key to unlocking God’s power in your life.
God would love for you to be one of His raving fans.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to be My disciple, let him deny himself [disregard, lose sight of, and forget himself and his own interests] and take up his cross and follow Me [ [a]cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying, also].… Continue reading God would love for you to be one of His raving fans.
Sometimes, it’s better for you not to get what you want.
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. – Matthew 20:20, KJV In Matthew 20:20-24, the mother of the sons of Zebedee asked Jesus to make her sons His right and left hand men in His Kingdom. The motivation behind her request… Continue reading Sometimes, it’s better for you not to get what you want.
If you want to be important, don’t try to be.
Humble yourselves [feeling very insignificant] in the presence of the Lord, and [He will exalt you He will lift you up and make your lives significant]. – James 4:10, Amplified Bible Robert Townsend published his book Up the Organization in 1970. In the early 1960s, Townsend became CEO of Avis Rent-A-Car, a then young car… Continue reading If you want to be important, don’t try to be.
Did you wake up grumpy this morning?
Do all things without grumbling and faultfinding and complaining [against God] and questioning and doubting [among yourselves], That you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse], among whom you are seen… Continue reading Did you wake up grumpy this morning?
Persist, persist, persist. Never quit, never quit, never quit. Get the idea?
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might… – Ecclesiastes 9:10(a), Amplified Bible Recently our church was visited by a missionary to Canada. His entire testimony was fascinating, but there was one part of his testimony that affected me deeply. The missionary stated that when he, his wife, and their two… Continue reading Persist, persist, persist. Never quit, never quit, never quit. Get the idea?
Your life is God’s gift to you; don’t waste it.
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5:15-16, KJV) Imagine for a moment that you’ve died. You are saved, you are in Heaven, and you are at this very moment standing before Christ. Christ is about to review your life before… Continue reading Your life is God’s gift to you; don’t waste it.