"Silent Communications"

Did you ever think about what you say when you do not talk? It is true! We say alot when we do not talk. I look at our little dog, he does not talk but he communicates volumns with us. We understand or try to understand what he wants or is saying to us by a wimper or wein or suttle bark.

Every day we say something to someone. We send messages by what we do or what we do not do. If we try to cheat or not do something the honest way we are telling someone that is watching us how to possibly do somehting the wrong way. Or we may be teaching a young person who we are and how we do things. If a father does not pay his tithes from the first fruits of his income but instead does not pay at all he is telling his kids something. If we take the money and we use it unwisely we are telling something. If we gamble we are telling something. We are sending a loud message to someone, especially our spouse and kids or?.

God says, that he helps those that help themselves, but most people misinterpret this message. This does not say to be selfish. God intended us to help others and he also said we should pay him first and he is a jeolous God. He gives and he takes away. He will give us messages to wake us up to our infractions and cause or allow adversities to pound us until we get the message or not. God is faithful to meet our needs but he expects us to share with others and the more we share the more we receive, that is the message. If we do not share we are giving a message.

God Bless

"THE BIG FLYSWATTER"

I was reading in "The Daily Bread" about God using a big fly swatter to correct us. Sometimes we need a big flyswatter used on us to wake us up. Maybe this sounds familiar.

Have you ever been around someone you love and that person is so set on perfection that they continually keep after you about something? It is brought on by their insecurities and it feels like they are standing there with a big giant fly swatter ready to "Whap"! you every time you do something they consider "Wrong". They swat you until you conform so they can feel in control. If you get whopped too often and you allow it to happen then your self-esteem is torn down and become only a branch of them. There is no you anymore. You must remover yourself from that situation in order to be who you are. Ask God to help you to become you and to give you assistance. Remember when Jesus left he told the disciples that he was sending a helper, that is a helper to you as well. It is the Holy Spirit and we all have this spirit in us and our helper. We have power within us and to heal us, help us change and to make good discisions.

Until you decide to not allow the flyswatter to be whapping you all the time, you will be not allowing the whapper to live with God and to learn forgiveness. You will only be a crutch to them and you are there enabler. Yes, you will have to be strong and do some things that will make you feel upset and you will not want to do but it is best.

Remember God is with you!

"Riches"

Did you know that Jesus in his teachings talked about money more than any other subject? Check it out for yourself. Jesus knew that by human nature we are drug into the thought that money solves everything. The more we have the more we want. When we let money be the center of our life we fall away from Gods message and we in the end lose. Maybe what we had worked so hard to aquire and that we thought was the things we needed or wanted really was not what we wanted after all? What was it all for?

I am speaking from experience, I was doing quiet well from where I came from, but God was behind it and I forget that. I however, lost site of the fact that I had asked God to be with me and help me prosper. Because of my selfishness, along came some unscrupulous folks and God allowed them to take it away from me. I take full responsibility for what happened, for I did not give back to God as I had said I would, and then I even listened to some unethical people. Low and behold, I started to do the right things for awhile then allowed the downward spiral because I thought it was me that did it and I was so smart. Then it was all gone and I was back to square one. Riding high for awhile, but forgetting that it was not all my doing or my intelligence that got me where I was.

Because of the lose of insight and the lose of resources, I had to suffer great humility for many years. This caused me to become humble and to learn that riches are not in the possessions. I had aquired but in my relationship with God I had lost. I never did have many new things, but I did have what I thought was security. Well, nothing is secure except through Jesus.

I find Luke 12:13-15 to be a great reminder "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. I have found that I can feel just as good finding a great buy in a high quality thrift consignment store, laundering it and hearing someone say how nice I look, where did you get it? Also, cleaning up and old item and making it look new again or making something else out of it. I do not have to spend a lot of money to get new and running up a bill to scramble to pay for.

"Our Daily Bread" says,"You'll hear a lot of advice about how to become rich. But only Jesus tells it to us straight. It's not about money. It's about the richness of our relationship with Him and the joy of turning our greed into generosity. --Joe Stowell"

Also, "The riches of this world are vain,
They vanish in a day;
But sweet the treasures of God's love--
they never pass away.--Bosch"

There are many dividends working with God!