Father and Daughter Meeting-Greatness and Relationship

Greatness is not the absence of weakness, because everyone has weakness. Greatness is being able to walk away from the temptation of pleasure in order to protect your integrity and relationship with God. Joseph did not walk away from Potiphar's wife because he did not desire her, but rather because he chose to protect his integrity and his relationship with God. Your pain has not been in vain, because on the other side of the door of pain is promotion. It's your time for the recompense of reward. We are designed for connection-eyes require a view, ears require sound,and the mind requires thoughts. Aloneness creates vulnerability. God knew it. Marriage was not created as a mere reproduction center for human babies. Marriage is sowing ground where you sow your patience, love, enthusiasm. But know this, God will never give you a gift that will replace His presence. A mate is not designed to produce your joy. The presence of God creates your joy. Ps 16:1 "In thy presence there is fullness of Joy"(fullness implies: requiring nothing in addition). Your mate is a gift from God to you to protect your focus, reduce distractions, create a climate for sowing. Unfortunately, some who qualify for our attention are often unqualified to receive our heart. We are created for connection. One cannot be fruitful alone. As the seed needs the ground, even so man needs the woman. If you are thinking about marriage, here are some suggestions. Think twice if you do not possess a passionate desire to give to them. Too often marriage becomes an exchange. Exchange is the evidence of business, not love. The proof of uncommon love is the investment of Time. Think twice if they do not possess a passionate desire to give back to you. A listening ear, flexibility, patience and the willingness to be corrected in what I am talking about. Think twice if your personal achievements do not create excitement in them.  Real love does not compete with the success of another. Think twice if they have not been captivated by what has captivated you. Are they stirred by the same things that stir you. God said(Amos 3:3)"Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" Strife is the product of two different belief systems clashing. Think twice if you have lost your desire to impress him. Familiarity often incubates disrespect and indifference. Protect his focus-reduce his distractions-create a climate for sowing. You are a walking message system to those you love. Think twice if they never ask you quality questions concerning your greatest dreams or goals. Think twice if you do not see continuous improvement in the relationship. Bonding should increase unity and bring a decrease in contention and strife. Think twice if they have an obsession to attract the attention of the opposite sex. Think twice if pebble problems unleash mountains of anger in them. Think twice if they refuse to find a job. II Thess 3:10-11, 14"Paul warned, this we command you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies...and if any obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed."  Remember, greatness is being able to walk away from the temptation of pleasure in order to protect you integrity and relationship with God.

Thoughts of Faith in God

Faith is a product (supply or yield) of the Word of God. Rom10:17"So then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God". When you got born again, God dealt you the measure of faith that you needed, in order for you to be victorious and accomplish all the will of God in this life to the glory of God. That measure of faith is meant to grow and develop by feeding it on the Word, and then exercising the Word. Exercise the Word by using faith filled words like Jesus did. He called forth Lazarus, he cursed the fig tree, he rebuked the winds and sea. Now is our turn to exercise our faith. It is the exercise of the authority of the believer on earth. It is man speaking as God's mouthpiece on the earth. Faith filled words have creative power. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. As you begin to use faith filled words, rather than fear filled or idle words, than God and the Angels will have something to work with in order to bring about the manifestation of the promises of God in your life. Another way that faith is exercised is by corresponding actions of faith. "For as the body without the spirit is dead, even so faith without works is dead also". Your faith is ever living, ever growing. You have the God kind of Faith, the wonder working faith. Hope brings the potential of healing or prosperity or deliverance from fear through the Word of God, but faith (faith filled words, and corresponding actions of faith) release that potential and brings about the manifestation of the desired results. The five physical senses create a barrier of limitations, but living faith can punch a hole through the five senses and lay hold of that which the five senses say is impossible, and pull it into the possible or natural realm. Living faith never senses defeat nor failure. It believes all things are possible. Whatever you can perceive with your five physical senses you don't need faith for. But whatever you have need of in the natural that God's word gives you a promise for, you can and should use your faith to obtain it. If you're sick, use your faith to help you get well. If you're broke, use your faith to help you become financially blessed. Remember, Abraham's blessings are yours. If you lack favor, use your faith to have divine favor in the eyes of all that look upon you and hear your voice, in Jesus name. If you're feeling down and discouraged, use your faith to give you a supernatural lift. Your faith can be stunned or rocked for a moment or two, but true faith never excepts defeat nor failure, it always finds a way and wins. "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ". In it's simplest form, faith is the hand that receives from Almighty God.