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Step Into July With Courage And Purpose

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Title: “Step Into July with Courage and Purpose”

Welcome to a brand new month — a fresh chapter full of possibility. July 1st isn’t just another date on the calendar; it’s an opportunity to realign, refocus, and reignite the fire within you.

Maybe June didn’t go the way you planned. Maybe you stumbled, got discouraged, or felt like giving up. That’s okay. Progress isn’t about perfection — it’s about persistence.

This month, remind yourself: your story is still being written.

You have the strength to keep going, even when the road gets tough. You have the wisdom to learn from the past and the courage to chase your goals — even if they feel out of reach.

Take a deep breath. Let go of last month’s frustrations, and walk boldly into this new season with faith and determination. Small steps still move you forward, and every effort counts.

As you start July, speak life into your journey:

“I am capable.” “I am resilient.” “I am moving forward.”

Don’t wait for motivation — create it. Show up for yourself. Set one goal, take one action, make one decision that aligns with your purpose. The rest will follow.

You’ve got this. July is your month to rise.

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When You Try To Get Even, You Will Get Hurt

Some people love to get even. Clint Eastwood does it. Rambo did it. On the old television show know as AMOS AND ANDY, Amos was extremely distraught over a guy who kept poking his finger on Amos’ chest every time he spoke to him.

Either too small or too scared to challenge the fellow physically, Amos explained his game plan to Andy in saying, “I’m going to put nitroglycerin on my chest and the next time he pokes at me he will blow his finger off!”

When you try to get even—you get hurt. Relationships are built on the basis of love—which keeps no record of wrongs and forgives!

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Start Your Day Off Right Series 5/29

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Here is some food for your Daily Bread!

5/29–Start Your Day Off Right Series

Quote:

5/29–Hero Today, Zero Tomorrow

Story:

Farther to his son: don’t ever let anybody tell you that you can’t do something…. not even me.

If you have a dream…. you having fun e to protect it! When people can’t do something themselves .. they want to tell you that you can’t do it. If you want something go get it, period.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond. measure! Is our light not our darkness is that for most frightens us. You’re playing small does not serve the

world there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were all meant to shine as children do. It’s not distant some of us it’s in everyone. As we unconsciously let our own light shine we give others permission to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear. Our presence automatically liberates others. In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove anything to nobody except yourself!! You need to keep negotiating with your mind to find more strength…. but you keep going.

Dream big, don’t ever give up. Help other people achieve success and you will be successful! The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books –how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

Scripture:

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Humor:

Can You Spare A Minute Or So 5/29?

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If you can’t find five minutes, can you spare one or two?

5/29– Can You Spare A Minute?

There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day, the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer to court.

The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer replied, you see Your Honour, I am primitive. I don’t have a proper measure, but I do have a scale. The judge asked, Then how do you weigh the butter?

The farmer replied, Your Honour since long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound of bread from him. Everyday, when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker.

The moral of the story: We get back in life what we give to others. Whenever you take an action, ask yourself this question: am I giving fair value for the wages or money I hope to make? Honesty and dishonesty become a habit. 

Some people practise dishonesty and can lie with a straight face. Others lie so much that they don’t even know what the truth is any more. But who are they deceiving? 

Themselves more than anyone else. Honesty can be put across gently. Some people take pride in being brutally honest and, in the process, hurt others. It seems they get a bigger kick out of the brutality than the honesty. The choice of words and tact are important while expressing the truth.

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Taking Responsibility, The Power Of Ownership

One of the greatest turning points in life comes when we stop making excuses and start taking responsibility. Responsibility is not punishment—it is power. The moment you accept responsibility for your choices, your attitude, your actions, and your future, you place yourself in position to grow stronger and wiser.

It is easy to blame circumstances, other people, or bad luck when things go wrong. But winners understand something important: while we cannot control everything that happens to us, we can control how we respond. Taking responsibility means saying, “I may not be able to change yesterday, but I can change what I do today.”

Responsibility builds character. It earns trust. It develops maturity. People who take responsibility become dependable people—at home, at work, in friendships, and in their walk with God.

Even spiritually, responsibility matters. God has given each of us gifts, opportunities, and purpose. We are called to be faithful stewards of what He has placed in our hands. Instead of waiting for someone else to fix our problems, encourage us, or carry us, we must rise up and do our part.

Mistakes will happen. Nobody is perfect. But responsible people do not run from their failures—they learn from them. Every setback can become a lesson, and every lesson can become a stepping stone toward success.

Today, take ownership of your life. Own your attitude. Own your decisions. Own your future. The road to victory begins when we stop pointing fingers and start looking in the mirror.

Scripture

“For every man shall bear his own burden.”
— Galatians 6:5

Closing Thought

Responsibility is not a weight that holds you down—it is the key that unlocks growth, respect, and success.

We Must Take Responsibility To Please God

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Genesis 3:12-15 Until you learn to accept responsibility, you won’t prosper very much

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Start Your Day Off Right Series 5/28

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Here is some food for your Daily Bread!

5/28–Start Your Day Off Right Series

Quote:

5/28–In your season, God seasons you and, give you a flavor that attracts attention. This is your season and period of attraction!

Story:

A man was babysitting a little boy and he needed to do something so he got a newspaper with the picture of the world on it and tore the newspaper into little pieces and told the little boy to put the world back together. In just a little bit the little boy told his father he was through. The man couldn’t believe it. He asked him how did you do it so quickly? The little boy said on the other side of the world was a picture of a man.. I put the man together and the world came together too!!

When my Grandson was a little boy he would often ask his Mother “Mama, did you know”, and then finish his sentence with his answer. That particular day his mother, my daughter, seemed to be worried and he asked her “Mama did you know”?

     He told her that God had the whole world in His hand! That simple phrase from a child lifted her heart and mind to the level it needed to be at.

     You can learn a lot from a child if you will just pay attention!

Scripture:

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Humor:

Can You Spare A Minute Or So 5/28?

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If you can’t find five minutes, can you spare one or two?

5/28– Can You Spare A Minute?

There was a man who seemed stingy to everybody who knew him. 

He would be very scrupulous about how he spent even a nickel or a dime, so that he was greatly ridiculed. 

Finally it became known that he had an invalid wife and an invalid child for whom he cared, and they needed the very last penny that he could save to keep them alive. The criticism of outsiders now turned to admiration for him. 

Because we are unable to know everything about a man, we cannot possibly judge him rightly.

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Helping Others Reach Their Potential

A few words of encouragement from you today could awaken greatness in someone tomorrow. You may be standing beside a person who is one opportunity, one prayer, one compliment, or one act of kindness away from becoming everything God intended them to be.

We live in a world where many people walk around carrying hidden gifts, untapped talents, and unrealized dreams. The sad truth is that many never reach their potential—not because they lack ability, but because they lack someone who believes in them.

Have you ever noticed how a seed can sit dormant until the right conditions awaken it? People are often the same way. Sometimes all they need is a little sunlight from a kind word, a little water from encouragement, and a little care from someone willing to invest in them.

Barnabas in the Bible was known as the “son of encouragement.” When others doubted people, Barnabas saw possibility. He helped lift others, strengthen others, and bring out the best in them. Because of his influence, lives were changed and ministries were strengthened.

You never know what your support can do. A teacher may inspire a future leader. A parent may raise a world changer. A friend may keep someone from giving up. A simple conversation may alter the direction of someone’s life forever.

Too often people focus only on reaching their own goals, climbing their own ladder, and chasing their own success. But some of life’s greatest blessings come from helping someone else climb.

Don’t just ask, “How high can I go?” Ask, “Who can I help rise with me?”

Today, look for potential in people. Speak life into someone. Encourage the discouraged. Lift the weary. Believe in someone who has stopped believing in themselves.

Because sometimes the greatest thing you will ever become is the person who helped someone else become who they were meant to be.

“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Thought for today:
Helping others reach their potential doesn’t diminish your light—it multiplies it.

Seek The Deep Things Of God

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Gods treasures are in the deep!

I Cor 2; 10-12 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Start Your Day Off Right Series 5/27

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Here is some food for your Daily Bread!

5/27–Start Your Day Off Right Series

Quote:

5/27–Be With Those That  Build You Up

Story:

There was once a man and woman who had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about. For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.

In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife’s bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted doilies and a stack of money totaling $25,000. He asked her about the contents. “When we were to be married,” she said, “My grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doily.”

The little old man was so moved, he had to fight back tears. Only two precious doilies were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness. “Honey,” he said, “that explains the doilies, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?” “Oh,” she said, “that’s the money I made from selling the doilies.” 

Scripture:

Proverbs 9:8-10

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee:

rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser:

teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom:

and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Humor:

Can You Spare A Minute Or So 5/27?

https://youtube.com/shorts/XzP7DfqOvAY?si=MTcQ8537PeARNEjI

If you can’t find five minutes, can you spare one or two?

Normal desires of life compared with greed remind one of the difference between a fire used for cooking and the out of control forest fire.   The forest fire can even “crown”.   This is a term fire fighters use to indicate a fire that has leaped to the very top of the trees and is blown along by the wind.

Greed can be like that “crowned” forest fire.    Blown along by the wind, it can lead to complete destruction for the person.

Greed is nothing more than desire out of control.

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