When we allow someone to provoke us to say or do something we wouldn’t normally, we unwittingly place them in a position of leadership, and submit ourselves to their authority.
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Thought for the Day – Provoked
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged provoke on February 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Thought for the Day – Role Reversal
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged beware, role on January 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Beware of assigning a mere man to a role God has reserved for Himself (1 Sam.8). Likewise, beware of becoming the man who assumes a role God has written for Himself (1 Sam. 13).
Thought for the Day – Genuine Leadership
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged anointing, calling, leader on January 28, 2020| 2 Comments »
Do not be deceived.
A leader can look the part (1 Sam. 9:2),
have a calling (1 Sam. 9:16-17),
be anointed (1 Sam. 10:1),
have an established resume (1 Sam.13:1),
and still veer wildly off course (1 Sam. 13:13-14).
All it takes is fixing one’s eyes on the wrong thing.
Never forget that it is by their fruit that you shall know them (Matt. 7:15-17).
Thought for the Day – Insecure
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged exaggerate, insecure, insecurity, manipulate, rejection on January 23, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Insecurity
It drives us to exaggerate our claims, while hiding our failures
It highlights the painful moments, while syphoning off the blessings
It causes us to interpret even the simplest of questions as an attack
It conjures images of inevitable rejection
Insecurity
It compels us to manipulate in the fear our needs will go unmet
It keeps us wrestling for a seat that already had our name on it
It pushes us to be someone we’re not in the belief that no one could love us as we truly are
It makes us feel as though people are judging us when we’re actually judging ourselves
Insecurity
It encourages us to wonder who the author was thinking of when he wrote this
Thought for the Day – Guidance System
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged reliant on Spirit, Spirit of God, Word of God on January 15, 2020| Leave a Comment »
If Jesus, a man of perfect faith, who was one with the Father, refused to act without specific guidance from above (John 5:19), how much more should we be reliant on the direction of His in-dwelling Spirit. For those who would point to the Bible as our sole source for divine guidance, consider that Jesus was the Word (John 1:1-14).
Thought for the Day – Beyond Repair
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged beyond repair, broken, healing, hope on December 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Being broken is not the same as being beyond repair. Hold on to hope, and find a place of healing.
Thought for the Day – Lost at the Mall
Posted in Heart of "The Father", Thought for the Day / Quotes, Word Pictures, tagged bright and shiny things on December 9, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I am like a child lost at the mall
Though my eyes can be drawn to the bright and shiny things
And my nostrils filled with the smells of sticky treats
And my ears tickled with the festive sounds
My heart yearns to find my Father
And to abide in the warmth of His presence
Thought for the Day – Genuine
Posted in Commentaries, Opinions, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged counterfeit, genuine on December 4, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Exposing the counterfeit is of little value unless we go on to manifest the genuine.
Thought for the Day – Final Destination
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged final destination, forgiven, ultimate goal on November 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
That we are forgiven is a blessed revelation, but it is was never meant to be the final destination. The ultimate goal is genuine transformation.
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Thought for the Day – The Pursuit of Happiness
Posted in Commentaries, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged dying to self, gaining your life, pursuit of God, pursuit of happiness, seek and you will find on December 30, 2019| 1 Comment »
Make no mistake, there is a world of difference between the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of God. One is rooted in the temporal, while the other is rooted in the eternal. One is about gaining your life, while the other is about losing it. One is centered on edifying self, while the other is centered on dying to self. One is endlessly elusive, while the other comes with the promise that if you seek, you will find.
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