Start Your Day Off Right Series 2/13

Here is some food for your Daily Bread!

2/13–Start Your Day Off Right Series

Quote: 

No matter how alone you seem to be right now , just be aware that in this precise moment there are huge amounts of people who totally resonate with you,  who share exactly your hopes and desires , who would be most happy to support you just as you , just as you would be happy to support them. Be open to connect with them and allow them to connect with you!

Story:

A man took his children to a restaurant. The six-year-old son asked if he could say grace. As heads were bowed he said, “God is great and God is Good. Let us thank Him for the food, and I would even thank you more if mom gets us ice-cream for dessert. And liberty and justice for all! Amen!”

Along with the laughter from the other customers nearby they heard a woman remark, “That’s what’s wrong with this country. Kids today don’t even know how to pray. Asking God for ice cream! Why, I never!”

Hearing this, the son burst into tears and asked, “Did I do it wrong? Is God mad at me?” As I held him and assured him that he had done a terrific job and God was certainly not mad at him, and elderly gentleman approached the table. He winked at my son and said, “I happen to know that God thought that was a great prayer.” “Really?” the son asked.

“Cross my heart.” Then in theatrical whisper he added (indicating the woman whose remark had started this whole thing), “Too bad she never asks God for ice cream. A little ice cream is good for the soul sometimes.”

Naturally, Dad bought the boy’s ice cream at the end of the meal. The boy stared at his for a moment and then did something that will be remembered for the rest of life. He picked up his sundae and without a word walked over and placed it in front of the woman.

With a big smile he told her, “Here, this is for you. Ice cream is good for the soul sometimes and my soul is good already.”

– author unknown, submitted by Marjorie Radcliffe, TX

Scripture:

Acts 20:35

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Humor:

Why didn’t Noah ever go fishing? -Because he only had two worms.

It Is Very Important To Have The Right Perspective

The Right Perspective

 A landscape artist does not always stand at an arm’s length from his canvas. He must not limit his attention to the isolated details of what he is doing. Occasionally he steps back to view his work from a distance. He needs to see how his thousands of small brushstrokes fit together to produce an overall result.

 Likewise, our perspective on life is much improved if sometime we can step back and see it whole. We can become so occupied with its daily brushstrokes that we have no real perception of the whole scene we are painting on the canvas of the ongoing years. Our attentions can be so consumed by the requirements of daily living that we have little awareness of the dimensions and directions of life itself. 

Step back from the canvas a little, and try to see the picture whole. Look beyond the varied episodes of our daily doings and see the glory of it all. Look beyond the brushstrokes to see the art which the brushstrokes have made-and are making. “But we all… beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2Co 3:18).

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Start Your Day Off Right Series 2/12

2/12–Start Your Day Off Right Series

Quote: 

2/12– it takes but one positive thought When given a chance to survive and thrive and  over power an entire army of negative thoughts!

Story:

Scripture:

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

Humor:

After church on Sundays, the priest always sees parishioners in private. This Sunday, Mary came to him in tears.

“What happened?” asked the priest?

“Oh father, last evening my husband died.”

“That’s terrible! Did your husband have any last wishes?”

“Yes he did.”

“What did he say?”

“I beg of you, Mary. Put down the gun!”

Sooner Or Later Everyone Runs Out Of Time

Sooner or Later Everyone Runs Out of Time 

Much sooner than you can anticipate, you will be the silent guest at your own funeral. 

No doubt there will be relatives and friends present to mourn for you whom you haven’t seen in years. 

After the preacher delivers a message in your memory, you will be taken to the graveyard, given a final farewell and buried. 

The retirement that you spent your life working for will be gone forever. Remember the new car that you worried about scratching? Its new owner just wrecked it! The newlyweds bought your house and have redecorated the room that you had at last decorated to your liking. 

Your personal belongings have been sorted and some discarded. The dog is making a bed out of your favorite old coat. Other clothes of yours that no one could wear or did not want have been boxed and given to Goodwill. 

Your personal treasures that were valuable only to you-the carefully preserved flower, the lock of hair, the torn picture, the stained postcard-have been burned as trash. You attended a number of funerals in your lifetime, but for some reason you just never expected to be lying in the casket yourself. 

Sure, someday, but not that particular day. “Maybe tomorrow,” you always thought, “but not today.” You remember telling the Lord each time you thought your time was close, “Not this time, Lord. Not today. Maybe tomorrow.” 

Sooner or later, everyone runs out of time. Paul states that everyone has an appointment with death and then the judgment (Hebrews 9:27). The only time that you can decide whether or not your death will be a blessing is today while you are alive. Today is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2). Today is the day to do the Lord’s work. “

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all of your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working, nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom” (Ecc 9:10). Sooner or later, everyone runs out of time but no one runs out of eternity. Doesn’t it make more sense to spend your time preparing for that which will not end, rather than squandering your time trying to hold on to that which will not last?

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Don’t Judge Someone Before You Know Their Story

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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Start Your Day Off Right Series 2/11

2/11–Start Your Day Off Right Series

Quote:

When boasting ends,  there dignity begins.

Story:

Scripture:

Proverbs 6:16-17

These six things doth the LORD hate:

yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

A proud look, a lying tongue,

and hands that shed innocent blood,

Humor:

He told his assistant that he wasn’t feeling well. He drove to a golf course in another city, so nobody would know him.

He teed off on the first hole. A huge gust of wind caught his ball, carried is an extra hundred yards and dropped it right in the hole, for a 450 yard hole in one.

An angel looked at God and said “What’d you do that for?” God smiled and said “Who’s he going to tell?”

Start Your Day Off Right Series 2/10

Here is some food for your Daily Bread!

2/10–Start Your Day Off Right Series

2/10– If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in,  you won’t understand how much bigger the world is

Story:

2/10–

Scripture:

Hebrews 10:25

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Humor:

Old man goes to church

One Sunday morning an old cowboy entered a church just before services

were to begin. Although the old man and his clothes were spotlessly clean,

he wore jeans, a denim shirt and boots that were very worn and ragged. In

his hand he carried a worn out old hat and an equally worn out Bible.r>

The church he entered was in a very upscale and exclusive part of the

city. It was the largest and most beautiful church the old cowboy had

ever seen. The people of the congregation were all dressed with

expensive clothes and accessories.

As the cowboy took a seat, the others moved away from him. No one

greeted, spoke to, or welcomed him. They were all appalled at his

appearance and did not attempt to hide it.

As the old cowboy was leaving the church, the preacher approached him

and asked the cowboy to do him a favor. “Before you come back in here

again, have a talk with God and ask him what he thinks would be

appropriate attire for worship.” The old cowboy assured the preacher he

would.

The next Sunday, he showed back up for the services wearing the same

ragged jeans, shirt, boots, and hat. Once again he was completely

shunned and ignored. The preacher approached the man and said, “I

thought I asked you to speak to God before you came back to our church.”

“I did,” replied the old cowboy.

“If you spoke to God, what did he tell you the proper attire should be

for worshiping in here?” asked the preacher.

“Well, sir, God told me that He didn’t have a clue what I should wear.

He said He’d never been in this church “