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These are 'golden' opportunities for you, right
now...
Wow! Does it seem that you are surrounded daily by negative
stuff? Just listen to the 'news' and you'll turn it off with a shudder, I sure have been, it's really getting hard to listen
to that so called information. I know it affects people like it tries to affect me, so I have GOOD news:
Golden Opp # 1 - Trust
As things, in the natural seemingly are falling apart, this is an opportunity to trust the Lord more. Focus on Him and just
let yourself fall into His arms. Find quiet time everyday to meditate on Him, His strength that is in you, His peace
that is in you, His joy that is in you, His love that is in you. It's yours, all yours, inside you right now.
"THE SHACK" a book by William P. Young or lately published with the name Wm. Paul Young is available
right now at Costco (April 2009) or visit: www.theshackbook.com
I compel you to read THIS book if you have not. It will change the way you 'trust in the Lord', and please.
let me know how it has affected your worship with Him.
Golden Opp # 2 - Be
This is an opportunity to take more responsibility for our 'being here'. Think of it as a very positive action on
our part, a chance to advance to the next level of living here on earth. Everywhere we go we affect others, by our actions
and by our attitude, by our words and by our facial expressions. Be a Christian, you do not have to act like
a Christian, acting is not being.
Here are two examples:
- Everywhere I go I try to reach out.
If someone is having a hard day I say something to brighten their day.
- When I go into a public restroom, if someone
before me has left paper towels on the floor, I pick them up and throw them away. If the stall is a mess with toilet paper,
I clean it to the best of my ability. (CAUTION: Do not put yourself in 'germ danger', use common sense and protect your hand
with clean paper products as you do this. Afterwards, wash your hands very thoroughly, please).
 Joyce Meyer believes that doing what is right is the way to do things. She says: Put your shopping cart in the parking lot stalls marked
"Shopping Carts".
Golden Opp # 3 - Create
If you have just lost a hundred thousand in the stock market, and the Valic/AIG CEO just received a multi million dollar
bonus, maybe it's time to
"rewrite your script".
Ask yourself this
question: "Why did God put me here, right now? and what can I do to rewrite my script". God is creative, in
fact, he is the creator of creative! So it should not be as hard as it sometimes seems. I hear people say all the time "I
am not creative" or "I am glad you are creative because I am not at all". But you are! read
on: Mike Murdock has the most awesome testimony. I have known him from his television shows back in the 80's, in fact I have sent him money.
In his testimony, this is his message: "Whatever leaves your hand, opens God hand. You can not outgive God. Invest in
your future.....I have invested in the stock market several times, and you know what? I lost it all. I invest in God, when
He tells me too and I gain - everytime, more than I gave..." I love Mike's spirit and if you get a chance to watch
his testimony, it is a good one. Create by giving, give to God and He will create for you a future that is
full of blessings.
Golden Opp # 4 - Live
As the old ways of livelihood fall away, new opportunities
will arise, and this is one of them:
Live! Live your life as if there was no tomorrow...
Live your life as
if you were going to live forever...
Live your life as if someone was always watching...
Live your life aligning
yourself to others that you look up to...
Live as though you were perfectly clear on your life's purpose...
Live
your life with God and He will give you the desires of your heart.
The mission
statement at our church - Calvary Community Church in Kona - is:
♥ Honor God ♥ Love People
♥ Live Life
Golden Opp # 5 - Cluster
The day of convergence
is here! Find your cluster and connect. Work with people who have the same ideals as you. Pray with people that
have the same Spirit as you. Share with friends that will build you up, not tear you down.
Grapes have always
been the symbol of prosperity, God's faithfulness and provision. As you cluster yourself with others that you can bless and
also be blessed by them, that is a winning combination. These times in our world seem unsure and sometimes scary.
Look up. Look forward. Look around for someone you can bless everyday. And...stay clustered.
In our quest for the ultimate life, remember, we are heaven bound.
Take as many with you as you can.
Who can you bless today...when you release what is in your hand, God
will open His hand...His hand is alot bigger than mine. You can not out-give God, try it...
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