Category Archives: Time
Don’t lament the end of an era.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. – 2 Corinthians 5:17, KJV It is terribly easy to become depressed when something we love comes to an end. We mourn for the loss, and naturally
God is working on you. Just hang in there.
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me… – Psalms 138:8, AMP Every now and then, God blesses us with extraordinary moments of insight into His plan for our lives. He lifts us up out of the belly of the
Don’t come down from your great work.
I am doing a great work and cannot come down. – Nehemiah 6:3, AMP Russ Warner, CEO of ContentWatch, was quoted in a July 2012 Forbes.com article titled Employees Really Do Waste Time at Work. Warner cited a 2012 Salary.com survey
Be ready to be inconvenienced.
But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Rise and proceed southward…So he got up and went. – Acts 8: 26-27, AMP The day before Mother’s Day 2011 I had a thought pop into my mind. My idea was
Focus like the Navy officer, and concentrate like the wallbuilder.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. – Nehemiah 6:15, KJV Years ago I knew a retired Navy officer who taught me a powerful lesson regarding focus.
Once God has given you the go-ahead, get on with the work He’s told you to do.
Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee. – 1 Chronicles 22:16, KJV The movie Shenandoah, starring the late Jimmy Stewart, tells the story of widower farmer Charlie Anderson and his family during Civil War times. Although
Beware of the microwave mentality.
There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David… – 2 Samuel 3:1, Amplified Bible The microwave oven was invented in 1947 by a man named Percy Spencer, but the countertop microwave so common
God will keep His promises. Just be patient.
…Surely the land on which your feet have walked shall be an inheritance to you and your children always, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God. – Joshua 14:9, Amplified Bible Patience is one of the hardest virtues
Beware the shackles of fear.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. – 2 Timothy 1:7, KJV I was reading the paper the other day and ran across an article written
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