Learning the lessons

If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:11 NIV

1.       Hurt people, hurt other people

2.       What we put out to others, others return it to us

3.       Before you seek forgiveness, grant forgiveness for it opens a whole new life for us

4.       Changing our tone, changes the meaning sent out to the world

5.       Change starts in the inward parts before the outward parts will be accepted

6.       Time teaches only those who are seeking

7.       Unless your standards aligned with the Father, they will never sustain

8.       Someone seeking the best for you, and someone trying to tell you what to do, look the same but they are not. One is for your good, and the other is not.

9.       True love in any form is unconditional because it is given freely, not because of what you did but what God has done.

10.    You cannot keep all you have, and get all you want; something must be release as it in nature, it is with man

11.    Giving to others, gives to you in surprising proportions

12.    Unforgiveness hurts you, not the person you are not forgiving

13.    Prayer is about being one with God, so you are aligned with God

14.    God created only treasures, not trash; that is man made

15.    We cannot control what others say to us, but we have total control on how we respond

16.    Self-hate allows negative speech to stick like super glue

17.    Today’s struggles are preparational  blessings for our divine ordered destiny

18.    God’s logic shakes our very foundation of possibility to show us His vastness

19.    God will not do or allow others to do, what you can do for yourself

20.    We are all on a journey of self-discovery, although our paths maybe different, the end result is the same, to live our truth

21.    Just because you changed, it does not mean everyone else will change

22.    Not letting go of the negative experience as a badge of courageous endurance, make it impossible to appreciate the great things happening to us presently

Steeple or People: Both

Steeple or people, as Christians, we are called to be the church. Not to say a physical facility is not needed or necessary. However, it is to say we should always remind ourselves what we are about; winning souls for the Father. Let me make this disclaimer just in case someone reads this, and think I am against church growth and/ mega church; I am not.
As I look out into our society today, I see more and more focus on bigger and better. It seems no one understands, if the church is little and lingering, then you have growth and ghastly. For some reason as the church increases, God focus decreases. Not all the churches but far too many, this is the fate of the church; so goes the people, so goes the church. Material gains are the focus, and it becomes paramount over spiritual increases. The fresh, innovating approach to teaching, preaching and connecting to invigorate the members, and allowed for growth to occur in the first place, is no longer the vehicle used. For some reason instead of building on what enable growth, we are sucked in by notoriety, celebrity status, and fame, we become lost in the confusion. However, if we go back to the word and take our lead from the life of Christ, we would see quickly enough, He never let anything move Him from His mission, purpose, and focus – win souls for the Father. When we follow Christ’s example, God maintains it because what God directs, He protects, and when He places, He provides for; thus, growth occurs.
See, we should be reconciled unto God, not man but for some reason, we desire reconciliation with man over man. The irony is this, when we submit and let God reconcile us to him, the right people seem to come to us with all that we need. In Luke 10:12-14 we shall find this most prominent  - Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him and said, “Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside and find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here.”  He replied, “You give them something to eat. “They answered, “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd.”  (About five thousand men were there.). The rest of the story is they were fed; what is my point? My point, God provides for those He draws; He blesses, what is increased in His name that is beyond what we could have imagined or requested. We, Christians, just have to believe and follow the Bright and Morning Star that never goes out.