Inspiration and Encuragement Comes from Everywhere

Don't mind the messenger, mind the message. B. Scott spoke to me and could be speaking to you too.

It happens around the half way point... click the link to get there because I can't figure out how to get the volume on this!

a great forward...

God has it under control!

"DO NOT GET WORKED UP…GOD WILL HELP YOU DEAL WITH WHATEVER HARD THINGS COME UP…" MATTHEW 6:34 (TM)

Fear is just a ‘grown-up’ version of worry! If you let one in, the other comes with it. Stop and take inventory; of the things you worried about last year, or even last week, how many came to pass? And how many did you change by worrying? And did worrying make them better or worse? And what about the physical and emotional toll it is taking on you?

And what does your worrying say to those who know you are a follower of Christ? ‘What can I do?’ you ask. You will only stop worrying about tomorrow, when you learn to place it in the hands of the One who holds all our tomorrows.

Listen: ‘Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust Him, and He will help you’ (Psalm 37:5 NLT). By committing each day to the Lord, you are trusting Him to go before you and work things out in your favour. It is amazing what you accomplish when you live, trusting God a day at a time.

Have a Blessed Weekend All!

the begining of my testimony...

A Long Time Coming but It Came...

After returning from a two year trip to London, England I decided to become a writer. I made up my mind to pursue the one thing that I've loved doing since I was young (I began writing my first book when I was 12).

It took a lot of work and a LOT of applications (and prayers!) but I finally got a position as a writer for AMOI Magazine. This month's issue features not just one article by me, but four and my book section contributions. Some of you guys might know that AMOI asked me to become their Book Section Editor and this was even before I began working in the publishing industry (I've been working full-time for a book publishing company for two months now).

Long story short: God is Great and worthy to be praised! Amen

You all (in Canada) need to go out and get this issue of AMOI! Available everywhere...Shoppers Drugmart, Zellers, Walmart, Chapters...

and God willing I will have some more big news regarding my writing before the end of 2008

Stay Blessed and Remember to Chase Your Dreams..not the money!

Employing Patience

We know the promises but it's so hard to believe them.

Consider the following dialogue between my spiritual being and my human being:

• All things work together for good
• So then why am I working somewhere that doesn't use all my talents and that I hate?
• For God's glory
• How does God get glory from me suffering
• In His time your mourning will turn to gladness
• Why is His timing so delayed, I'm suffering now
• Count it all joy when you fall into various trials
• Why, Why me, Why now, Why?
• The testing of your faith produces patience
• So?
• Let patience have its work so that you will be mature and complete, LACKING NOTHING (James 1)

We all talk to ourselves but when we are in turn with the holy spirit our spiritual being alway prevails and we are persevere.

Patience is the key to us getting all that we desire in the will of the Lord. Remember the reason for which you go through something may not be known to you, but He knows and it will alway be for your good and His Glory.

If only...

I always feel rushed to pray and spend time with God in the morning but yet I alway find time for breakfast and to make my lunch for work (because I don't want to waste money).

Why couldn't I look at my time with God as neccessary as the food I put in my body? If only i regarded my time with God as important as my breakfast.

That will be my new resolution. I'm fasting today and it's my first fast this month. Beginning tomorrow I resolve to spend quality time in prayer each day just like I spend time eating.

It will be difficult but food for my soul is way more important than food for my body.

Stay blessed and may God bless you and yours abundantly in the new approaching month and for the rest of your life!

Never Give Up

So you've prayed, fasted, been to revivals and have even had hands laid on you but yet your miracle is not here yet.

That business that you're praying for is not here. That money you need to pay your bills is not here. The job that you've been desperately searching for has not yet come. Or has that husband/wife.

Times are starting to feel bleak. Especially when you think of all the awesome wonders that God has performed in the past (and for you).

So you want to give up. On your desire and even on God. You want to not tithe, pray or read the Word.

It happens to us all. It's called discouragement.

What usually happens is that we give up. On praying and believing that God has heard us and will provide all of our needs.

But what is the sense of that? It is far better to wait in expectation of something great from God than to sink in despair.

Get up and read the word and keep on believing and thanking God for his goodness.

Beware of False Prophets

I find myself putting certain people on a pedistal. People who are clearly lost. I say that without judging but with reference to the word. How can one say they are a Christian and prefer living in sin rather than getting married. Who picks and choose which things from the bible they are going to follow and not follow and then say they fear God?

I'm bringing this up because someone who I thought was an outstanding follower of Christ is proving to be a false prophet. The person I am refering to is Oprah.

She speaks to a wide variety of people, all races and society statuses, but I have begun to notice that she is not promoting a good image of a follower. While her not getting married to Steadman is an obvious flaw, she has also promoted some questionable new age philosophies.

I love Oprah and what she has accomplished but I just pray that we can dicern true prophets from the false prophets out there and not get caught up in their lives.

Take heed,

1 John 1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.