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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. I am being love in action.
- 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. (being very careful to protect
myself from the germs).
- 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".
In the last year, I have come to understand
a new "BE"... so I think it is time to share. I have a new friend, her name is Bea. About 5 years ago she
had a stroke and was forced to move from Kona to the mainland for better specialty health care. Bea was a prophetic
powerhouse before her stroke and had a difficult time understanding why something like this would happen to her - until
one day God lovingly said to her "Bea, just BE". It was Gods way of telling her to relax, rest and restart
her life - her new life. God still is using my dear friend as she shares her testimony and gives hope and inspiration to many.
◊ Be who God wants you to be now
- not yesterday. ◊ Be willing to release it all
to God, so He can have you be what He wants you to be! ◊
Be... a friend of God.
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... The message is: "Whatever leaves your hand, opens God's 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 and
I gain - everytime, more than I gave..." I love testimonies and if you get a chance to create one by giving, please
I want to hear about it.
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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