November 2015 archive

Gratitude Day 22 – Ignore the Mockers

This past season I have had the privilege of hosting a study featuring Steven Furtick’s book “Crash the Chatterbox”. How often do we utilize that inner voice to mock ourselves? We need to tune our ears to God’s voice and hear is voice amongst all the other noise that is around us. Most of the …

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Gratitude Day 21 – guard your mouth

Today is the first Saturday I have actually had off in I don’t know how long. My work schedule has changed to where I actually am off on Saturday. I was able to stay in bed and cuddle with my wife. How often do we engage our mouth before we engage our brain? When you …

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Gratitude Day 20 – A man’s steps are directed

I am thankful for the direction I feel God is leading me in. I am not always sure of the exact path or where it really leads. God always illuminates the next step for me and let me know it is time to step. True I have had numerous missteps, there are many times He …

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Gratitude Day 19 – Listen to advice

I am grateful for those that have come into my life to give me advice, sometimes though I failed to follow the instruction and had to repeat the lesson. Oh how many times did I hear my mom and dad so don’t do that? Oh how many times did I get burned from not listening? …

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Gratitude Day 18 – The ears of the wise

I am so grateful for my ability to listen. God has given us two ears and two eyes and one mouth for a reason. Great knowledge comes from listening to others and seeing what others are doing. This challenge I put myself on for writing 30 days of Gratitude started off easy and now I …

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Gratitude Day 17 – Use of words with restraint

While reading the today’s proverb, I chose to highlight the couple of verses that I have the most trouble with and as we get closer to the holiday season. Last night I delivered a speech titled “Choices are”; there will be increased traffic in the coming days as more people decide they want to spend …

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Gratitude Day 16 – Commit to Succeed

Here we go again another beautiful Monday. I had a wonderful weekend went to the District 16 Toastmasters Fall Conference in Oklahoma City. Had some great educational training. Met some friends I hadn’t seen in a while and then met some new friends. I listened to 6 great Humorous speeches and was thankful I wasn’t …

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Gratitude Day 15 – Don’t Reject Correction

I am grateful for my daughter. She is my middle child and for her protection she is sandwiched between her brothers. She may not enjoy the protection but I don’t have to worry about troublesome young men; her brothers take care of it for me. Yesterday driving down the road my driver front blew while …

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Gratitude Day 14 – a fool’s talk brings a rod

As I write this I realize it may be a bit incendiary but with the past couple of days post I have to say it. In the news I have seen people doing foolish things and then have issue when the consequences of the actions bring down the rod of correction. Maybe that is the …

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Gratitude Day 13 – A Wise son heeds his father’s advice

As I write this it dawns on me that today is also Friday and the 13th so many have superstitions about the date but realize it is just a fear tactic; don’t let fear rule you overcome it. Growing up I had many learning opportunities a few that my father tried to steer me away …

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