Pray To Be Stronger

 

 

A common cry among organizations and churches is "How can we develop more leaders?"  Leadership development programs and courses abound but how effective are they at developing leaders?  The better question is, "How did Jesus develop His leaders?"  With Jesus class was always in session and the world was His classroom.

 

 Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. Pastor Rick Higgins has a very interesting blog post. Click the picture above to read a great Bible Study.

A Top Five Pick

It would be a sad thing if a frog can’t sing about its own pond.

 

Columbia, SC is in the center of the state which makes it access-friendly to just about everything with-in a short time. Lakes, Ocean, mountains, city or country, it’s all here. Please don’t let this get too well known. The best thing about it is that we love it just like that. I appreciate

 

Kiplinger’s shout-out but if this keeps happening they will come. Enjoy it while it last Columbia. We have been discovered. Click the pic to see the number five pick for best cities.



Slow Down

 

Why am I in such a hurry?

 

He (Jesus) came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to Him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what He said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made… ‘Martha, Martha’, the Lord answered, ‘you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.’”

Luke 10: 38-42

Southern Tied Young Palm Tree

 

 

 

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time,

 but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart

 so that people cannot discover what God has ordained,

 from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

That Old Man Is Stronger Than You Think

As a Christian I have found the heaviest weight I work-out with now has to do with pushing away more that pulling down. Trying to keep the doors close on the things that the Old-Man (your old self) tries to open is a daily challenge. Everyday the struggle to keep those doors and windows close equate to a good weight-pump and/or cardio round.  Training is a must to keep in shape for both. As in any good workout program there has to be consistency. God has built into the body great memory and it will bounce back to time off if it is brief. If the body is in shape it withstands body-blows, mental-mistakes and enemy-challenges. An in-shape body will do things above what you feel you can do during stressful situations.

 

 However the longer you stay away the harder it is to get back into shape. Like a good workout if you don’t lift the Bible daily it gets harder and harder to deal with what comes at you. Without dropping down to you knees daily the voice of God gets weaker and weaker to your ears. And with the wrong meditation the words that flow off of your tongue sounds more and more like what’s already out there.

Your training only gives you what you put in. The Old-Man has been training for a long time. And, it’s natural to him. He is a lot stronger than you think. Only Spiritual training will help you keep him out.

Leaving Our Old Ways Behind (Ephesians 4:17-24)

 This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,  and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

 

Twinkies Return

 

 

I really think I'm going to pass on new the Twinkie thing.

As a kid I can remember chomping down a pack or two a day. I wasn't hooked I could quit any time I wanted too. Seriously Twinkies had no expiration dates. Now they are supposed to have a longer shelf life. That really tells you that something is definitely wrong. Do you know of anything (food) with a longer shelf life? I'm sure the vacuum packed plastic that they come in must have a special protective coating on it. If interested they supposed to debut on the 15th  of this month. Well good luck with that. 

Deja vu All Over Again

 

 

 

This seems impossible. Take a look at two photos of two famous people merged and still looks natural and tricks your eyes.

Pre 4th Celebration

Family and Friends



 

Cars

 

 

Line dancers



American Horsepower 

Proper Flag Etiquette

 

What is the proper way to display a flag?

There are a few options: You can fly it from a pole, attach it to a wall with tacks, or tape it over a window. Just don’t tie it to a tree or drape it over the side of a car, a train, or a boat. These are all signs of disrespect, according to the official U.S. Flag Code, adopted by Congress in 1942.

Click the flag above to see what is and is not proper

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