See Greatness!

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you may help them to become what they are capable of being. If you can add a cup of encouragment daily, you could reap gallons of achievements for a life time. The best thing is to see potential rather then present. Help polish those rough diamonds!

Success By Associaton

I call it "Success By Associaton" and it has to do with the company you surround yourself with. If we are known by the company we keep then the company we keep ought to encourage, inspire and invigorate us to greatness, always pushing us to be at our best. So now that you have read this, here is the question: Are you being strengthened by your company?

Try to really take an inventory of your close friends (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust) and then those who you would just call acquaintances (a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship). And now ask yourself if those who you hold close are fulfilling their role in your life. They have, what you could almost call a job or requirement to help build you in the process of becoming who you need to be. Close friends have a higher level of standards they should live up to compared to someone who is just an acquaintance yet they both have major significance in the role they play in your life.

I've stressed many times the importances of pouring into lives but in the very same way, others should be pouring into you, especially if you consider them to be a close friend. In a small way I hope that I've been able to pour into your life, even challenge you to be better, wheather you consider me to be a close friend or just an acquaintance.

Rainy Days

...ever had one of those days,"when it rains it pours" and each drop felt like a waterfall and u just wished someone would lend u an umbrella but it never comes. the only thing i can tell u when one of those days comes around is pray for the SON to come and dry u up!

SENSES

I think we tend to take for granted our senses at times. Such as touch, taste, smell, and hearing but the one sense we over look the most as got to be our COMMON sense!

Go Deeper!

We appreciate someone for what they do but we affirm who they are. When someone does something great for you, you tend to appreciate the act, not so much the person but affirmation goes much deeper cause when you affirm them, there is no need for them to do anything but be themselves.
Therefore, I believe that when you encourage (AFFIRM) someone on a regular basis, you not only strengthen thier state of mind but also their soul. Because when someone is affirmed for who they are rather then anything they could possibly do, that speaks volumes to the soul.
Lets dig just a little deeper, Jesus Christ died for us with the full knowledge that we could never repay Him, but just love Him in return. So when Christ affirms us each day with love and the promise of hope, He does it just because you are YOU!!!

--PREVIEWS--

Have you ever seen great previews to a movie, then when the movie
came out, it turned out it was really lame?

Lets use that as an example in life, check this out. Those great
previews are much like the temptation this world offers us. The
world only wants you to see the glamorous part, the fun part. But
just like the lame movie that follows, you won't see the real stuff until you've had to pay for it. By then it's too late.

At least the movie will finish in an hour or two, but the pain and
heartache after paying for the temptation from this world could
easily end up in years of bondage.

--MATURITY--

A true sign of maturity is being others-centered rather then just being self-centered. Here is a good example; you begin to see growth when your prayer time becomes more about others instead of always about me,me,me.

We make a living by what we get but we make lives by what we give!!! It might be more important to enrich others rather then to just be rich.

HIGH WIRE

Ever seen a high wire act? You know, where there is a person walking on a thin wire suspened high in the air and the only thing between them and the ground is a safety net. Sometimes they even do it without the net, how crazy is that?

Well I got to thinking about how that reflects life in a way. I mean just think about it for a moment. The walk on the thin wire can represent our walk in life cause you know as well as I do, life can feel just like that at times. It's a complete blancing act, with family, work, school, friends and the list can go on and on.

But here is where it gets real interesting, the safety net can easily represent God. When life becomes so overwhelming to where we can no longer balance and we fall off the wire, God is there to catch us before we hit the ground. The sad part about this whole thing is that so many are walking on the wire of life without a safety net, without GOD.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

TRUE FAITH

Faith is daring the eyes to look beyond what they CAN see. We see our present troubles but God see our future victorys!

Here is something about faith that most don't know: Faith doesn't deny fact but it changes it!
For example: if you're sick then you're sick, dont lie and say your not cause then you'ld be lying. It has nothing to do on wheather you're claiming the sickness or not. It's just fact that you might be sick but with your faith you can know that you can get better or be healed. BE BLESSED!!!

VALUE

As tough as it is to love them sometimes, those closet to us help us become better. So how much do you value your family and friends because the saying is "your network equals your net-worth".