Love Is Ultimate

Loving God And Sharing It With Humans Fulfill's God Requirement

Many people in our generation want to be spiritual, act spiritual and live spiritual. But when they are told to keep the commandments by Jesus, they ask like the young rich ruler, "What commandment to keep?" (Matt 19:16-22).

Jesus told the young rich ruler to keep all last six commandments towards one's neighbor to make him realise that he cannot keep it without the help of God. This man said to Jesus that he has religiously kept all these commands of God towards people from his youth, but still he felt that he lacked something deep inside him.

What is that? This rich young was missing something inspite of striving to keep all the religious dogma of the jewish religion? This shows that religion no matter how we try, will not please God enough to make Him move on behalf of us and fill the space which He has created inside every human for Himself.

One of greatest theologian of all times and the first one God used to explain salvation by grace and grace alone through faith was Paul the apostle. God clearly revealed through him that we cannot be saved by our works (Eph 2:8-9). Only God can save us because He is love and because of it He has ventured in to our world to make a difference through His life lived for us and be an example to emulate. When we are saved, we are saved by God's mercy of His love (Titus 3:5). If we do not know love, we do not know God at all as He is the embodiment of pure love which has no motives behind it but love itself (1 John 4:8).

So for this young rich man because he was rich, the ultimate place where the love of God should have seated inside the centre of the throne of His heart, was filled with the love for money. Money and God cannot coexist inside our heart at the same time, either we can love one and hate the other (Luke 16:13). Money is a substitute God of idolatry for many people in our generation.

One should be beware of the love of money which can subtly take the place of God and will make our life empty with unwanted sorrow and destruction (1 Tim 6:9-10). Seeing our life in a bigger picture, we are all born and one day we are going to die and return to the dust. Then whatever we have done or acheived all the days of our life on earth will go in to dust. Then what is the meaning of life?

This is where God comes in. If we have not been created by a loving God, all our lives have no purpose on earth expect work and work and one day die. GOD HAS PROMISED TO REVEAL HIS LOVE AND PURPOSE FOR OUR LIFE AS WE LOVE AND SERVE HIM DAY AFTER DAY IN OUR LIFE ON EARTH (Psa 32:8). God's plan are only good for us and because of His love He has created us (Jer 29:11; 31:3). God doesn't want us to play religion and he never gives his blessing upon it if we choose to be religious by our own choice and for our own safety. God wants us to have loving relationship with himself. This is the reason we are given a life designed by God to DEVELOP LOVE WITH GREATEST LOVER OF ALL TIME, THAT IS GOD HIMSELF.

Every moment we spend our lives on earth to love God and man, GOD WILL START TO SMILE OVER US AS WE ARE FULLFILLING THE VERY PURPOSE HE HAS CREATED US. All of God's commandment will be fullfilled once we start to love God and show it to Him by loving people whom he has put around us in our lives.

COMPREHENDING THE LOVE OF GOD IS THE ONLY SERVICE WE CAN DO TO GOD AND SHARING THE LOVE OF GOD IS THE ONLY CALLING WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO FULFILL TOWARDS OUR FELLOW HUMANS.

No matter what, LOVE NEVER FAILS. Keep loving and enjoy living with God! Praise the Lord!


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Positioned For Blessing

Blessed To Be A Blessing

"I will bless you... you shall be a blessing." (Gen 12:2, NKJV).

Unless God blesses a person, he cannot be a blessing to anybody. The purpose for which God chooses to bless a person is to make him a blessing to others around him. Ask God to make you a blessing to all people around you and especially the Household of Faith which is the family of God. When you are asking yourself this question, "How can I be a blessing to others today?", you are the most likely candidate with the right attitude to receive the blessings of heaven today.

CHOOSE TO BLESS PEOPLE VERBALLY AND SUPERNATURALLY WHETHER IN THE NATURAL YOU LIKE OR DISLIKE THEM FOR THEIR BAD BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDE, YOU WILL RELEASE A BLESSING OF CHANGE IN THEIR LIVES AND ABOVE ALL YOU YOURSELF WILL BE LOADED WITH MORE OF THE HEAVENLY BLESSINGS OF FREEDOM, JOY AND PEACE OF GOD UPON YOUR LIVES.

When you choose to bless people against your feelings by faith, you are becoming a supernatural blessing in the lives of someone in need of heaven's touch around you.

Much Blessings.....

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How Much Should I Listen And Speak?

Interesting Biblical Facts

"Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear [a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry." (Jam 1:19, AMP).

BE QUICK TO LISTEN AND SLOW TO SPEAK. If some one has doubt regarding how much to speak and how much to listen, just see that each of us have two ears and one mouth. That means according to God, we should listen two words for each word we speak. That is nice, 1:2 speaking to listening proportion. Know this saints, when we are slow to speak and quick to listen, we will also become slow to take offence and to get angry against others because of a good self control and patience that increases by the power of the Holy Spirit who will be pleased with our life.

Much Blessings....

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Give to God to Become a True Success

From Mundane To Magnificence

God's needs something that you have, before He can use that something to bless you with everything you need. God never acts without us, we cannot be satisfied and fulfilled without God.

God knows and remembers that we are nothing but dust without the breath that keeps us alive. He knows that we amount to nothing without Him adding value to our lives. So he waits for those who will give their nothing and expect something good from God because of their faith. God accepts our nothing because He loves us to bits and pieces. He lives for us and he would love to see us live for Him.

God actually enjoy's us when we give our everything wholeheartedly to Him. So as apostle Paul says, "Take your everyday, ordinary life-your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before God as an offering." (Romans 12:1 MSG).

Once you give your something with your whole heart, out of what you have given to God expect everything supernatural to happen to you and through you.

So may your prayer after that be, "Lord our God, may your blessings be with us. Give us success in all we do!" (Psalm 90:17 TEV).

Before you can realize, YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL ENOUGH TO MAKE EVEN OTHER'S SUCCEED in their life because of being blessed by God to overflowing. I mean you will have become a BLESSING!

"The greatest blessing a human can receive from God is to be made a blessing." — Abraham Israel

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Let Your Spiritual Sight Rule Over Your Physical

Is your EYE PLAYING OR your MIND PLAYING games with you?

 "18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Cor 4:18).

While our mind can play games temporarily, but our heart which is the spirit-man inside us is something eternal which gives the true picture of who we are and where we will spend the rest of our lives eternally based on our belief in Christ Jesus.

SO IF YOUR HEART IS NOT YET OPEN WITH SPIRITUAL INSIGHTS BECAUSE OF THE LIFE OF GOD WORKING WITHIN, CALL ON JESUS AND GET YOUR SPIRIT-MAN CHARGED WITH ETERNAL INSIGHTS TODAY.

muCH BLEssiNGS....

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Attitude Of A Good Leader

Be A Leader And Not A Boss

This is a super difference which really brings out the great characteristics and qualities of a real Leader against the evil selfish characteristics of a Bossy personality who live for himself and his inflated ego. Through this comparision between a real Leader and a Boss, we can really understand what it means when Jesus said, "25 ...The kings of the Gentiles are deified by them and exercise lordship [ruling as emperor-gods] over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors and well-doers. 26 But this is not to be so with you; on the contrary, let him who is the greatest among you become like the youngest, and him who is the chief and leader like one who serves. 27 For who is the greater, the one who reclines at table (the master), or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am in your midst as One Who serves." (Luke 22:25-27).

The above reply of Jesus was given in the midst of a boiling situation, where an eager contention arose among his apostolic team of disciples as to which of them was considered and reputed to be the greatest (Luke 22:24). In the nature of man there is a inherent quality of sin nature and independency that does not want to submit to anyone, even to God Himself. This lack of submission to God breeds lovelessness over people and a prideful bossy attitude over a period of time. This nature can only be tamed to excellence of leadership when we take pains to develop a heart to serve people rather than be served by people. Even the secular world today is realising that a servant leader is the best person to inspire people to excel in any profession.

A leader is one who by being an example, leads others in to royalty and excellence. Jesus is the greatest leader of all leaders who ever lived on this planet earth because Jesus being God actually humbled himself to act as a bondservant of God in order to serve people. Seeing the wonderful attitude of a sevant in Jesus, God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and Power in such a way that he went all around the place where He lived doing good and healing from demonic possession of all the oppressed people whom he came in to contact with (Acts 10:18). If you are a minister or a leader in the Church by your calling, think about it for a second and ask youself, 'AM I SERVING PEOPLE OR AM EXPECTING PEOPLE TO SERVE ME? AM I FOLLOWING JESUS BY OBEYING HIS WORDS OR AM SERVING THE DEVIL AND THE FLESH BY BEING BOSSY OVER GOD'S PEOPLE?' If there is a Bossy attitude in you, please do take that evil to God now and say, 'God teach me to be a good servant of all people so that I can really be great in your kingdom. Help me model my ministry after the foot steps of Jesus as his disciple and a student. Teach me how to be humble to receive a mighty grace to lead people in to the excellence of their calling (Jam 4:10; 1 Peter 5:5). In Jesus glorious name. Amen and Amen'

If you have prayed the above prayer from your heart, I bet that in the coming days, you are going to be the greatest among the people of God. God will lift you up and exalt you with a great anointing in His time to make you a life giving minister in this generation of spoiled bossy ministers of God who live a soulish life of disobedience toward God (1 Peter 5:6). LEARN TO EXCEL IN SERVING PEOPLE AS SERVANT LEADER BY DEVELOPING THE SKILL TO STAY HUMBLE BY GIVING GOD THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND GLORY FOR ALL THAT GOD WORKS OUT THROUGH YOU IN YOUR LIFE AND MINISTRY. When you choose to become small by serving people, you are actually becoming great in the sight of God who wants to make you an eternal excellence before people in the days to come.

Much Blessings......


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Inspirational Verses

Wow Translation!

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"15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance. 16 In Your name they rejoice all day long, and in Your righteousness they are exalted. 17 For You are the glory of their strength, and in Your favor our horn is exalted. 18 For our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel. " (Psa 89:15-18, NKJV).

I really liked the way this verse is translated and would love to share it with you.

"15 Blessed are the people who know the PASSWORD OF PRAISE (!), who shout on parade in the bright presence of GOD. 16 Delighted, they dance all day long; they know who you are, what you do—they can't keep it quiet! 17 Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us — you've been so good to us! We're walking on air! 18 All we are and have we owe to GOD, Holy God of Israel, our King!" (Ps. 89:15-18).

Glory to our LORD GOD in whom we live, breathe and have our being intact. Praise the Lord!

Much Blessings.....

Wealth, Health and Character

Be Wise And Choose Character Over Riches

Material wealth cannot save a person on the day of destruction and death, but a good Character built on a foundation of a lifestyle pleasing to God will rescue a person out of it (Prov 11:4).

God is still in the buisness of rescuing people from death, those whom are pleasing to Him (Psa 116:8;68:20). So it is better to live a life pleasing to God than to live for self and die like a animal on the day of death. Understand that righteousness is better than riches in this mad world which is driven by materialistic madness. "Choose a good [character and] reputation over great riches; [always remember that] being held in high esteem is better than silver or gold." (Pro 22:1, NLT).

Don't over eat and lose the good health that God has given to you as a gift. Overeating is like killing yourself, so say no to your appetite by making a strong choice by the strength of the Holy Spirit (Pro 23:2). Eat moderately and choose nutritious foods like vegetables, fruits and cereals. Excerise daily by walking and praying for atleast half an hour to one hour, weight exercises and aerobics are also recommended. Health is precious next only to our spiritual life and therefore should be taken care of by us.

Above all is our spiritual life out of which our character is sculpted over a period of time. Character increases as the conscious of the presence of God increases. Good thoughts are chosen to be entertained according to our Character which we have built over a period of time. Character is worth more than rubies (Pro 31:10). If you are in pursuit of one thing, let it be a good character which has more worth for now and eternity ahead in the sight of God and man. Your character will one day decide whether you will fullfill the destiny of God in your life for your generation or not (Acts 13:36).

So understand the priorities in life. When your wordly friends wants to lose their virginity just to show that they are cool, avoid it. When your so called cool friends want to smoke, booze and act cool by the influence of the world system of thinking, choose character and say to yourself, 'It is cool to stay seperated from the so called cool stuffs which are actually injurious to my character and destiny fullfillment.' People who stay like this in the midst of all the temptations of the world will stay blessed more than all the people in the whole world and a divine light will be seen upon their words, throughts and actions for the GLORY OF GOD till they die and go on to be with the Lord forever.

Wealth is lost, nothing is lost,

Health is lost, something is lost,

If character is lost, everthing is lost.

So..

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character." — John Morley

"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece — by thought, choice, courage and determination." — John Luther

Much Blessings,

Abraham Israel

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Today's Weather Forecast

Facing Our Day To Day Spiritual Weather Forecast

No matter whether your weather is rainy, sunny day, hot and humid, stormy, gloomy and cloudy, because Jesus is reigning on the throne and is ruling the whole universe now, we can expect the SHOWERS OF BLESSING to come upon us.

When ever I have gone through some severe depressive gloomy days in the wilderness that God took me through in the past, one precious great promise He used to remind me to give great hope and joy to my heart. I will share it with you today and hope you will also be greatly encouraged like me through the quickening power of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord would remind me of this verse in Nahum 1:7 which says, "The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him." This really means that the good Lord becomes a active stonghold in the day of our trouble for us who trust in Him. In other words, the Lord who sees the trust in the recesses of our heart which we have in His power to deliver us from our financial troubles, broken lives and marriages, heart aches, bodily infirmities, starts to fight on behalf of us and automatically becomes our defensive stronghold against the evil plans of the devils and their depressive circumstances.

God used to remind me that though there are more than 7 billion people in th earth, yet he knows that I am trusting in Him. Never forget saints, the Lord will move over a million people to touch one heart that has faith and keeps trusting on His unfailing mercies. A great confidence would come to my heart every time God would say that. I began to understand that no one is able to understand what I am doing and going through, yet the Lord is watching all the things accurately from above and also knows every small details of the circumstances I am going through. The moment this thought would come that God is watching over the motives and intentions of my heart through out all my troubled days of wilderness, I knew within me that God is able to bring good times as a reward for trusting Him in the very near future. True to His word, God has brought not only good times once but also has repeatedly brought refreshing of great joy.

Not only that, our God continiously fights on behalf of us against our enemy. But the only things He is watching over us is to find whether our hearts are loyal to Him always or whether we are loyal to Jesus only when our heart are weighed with troubles of hopelessness and our bones are also troubled and aching (Psa 6:2-3)? If our hearts are loyal to God always, our soul will pant for something more of God through our troubled situations (Psa 42:1-2). Once God sees that our hearts are loyal to Him through all times in spiritual fidelity, whether good or bad, sunny or cloudy, depressive or happy circumstances, then God will arise and show Himself strong on our behalf to fight our enemies who keep trying to bring all the troubles to discourage our hearts (2 Chr 16:9).

I pray as we understand this spiritual secret to survival in tough times, may God's grace cover and comfort us in all of our lives journey.

Have a nice time ahead in His Presence!

MUch BLESSings.... :)

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Your End Will Be Glorious!!!

The End Matters The Most

"Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your latter end will increase greatly and abundantly." (Job 8:7).

This is a really a great promise of great hope from the Lord to every one of us. So it is not wrong to start as insignificant, because most of us start this way from the scratch because we are not all born with a golden spoon in our mouth. But it is a crime to stay that way without any change the rest of our lives.

All of our are born in different culture, geography and in different social settings. We are also born in differnt financial status and upbringing, but all of us have the same time given on earth by God to make a difference in our life and in the lives of others.

To really make a difference in the world, all we need to do is to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding to solve our day to day problems that arise. When ever we succeed, we should acknowledge that it is God who has done it for us. As we keep acknowledging the sovereign hand working and keeping our life intact, the Lord will start to direct our path (Pro 3:5-6). Praise the Lord!

When we keep walking in the direction of the Lord's path and become older and older day by day, our end will start to increase greatly. The end of our life will be more prosperous than we could dream about. Spiritual life is worth every ounce in gold because it is useful for life lived now and also for the after life in which we will be positioned according to our spiritual output produced in this earthly life.

SEEK GOD'S FACE AND LIVE IN THE CENTRE OF GOD'S PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE. I PROMISE YOU, THOUGH YOUR BEGINNING WAS INSIGNIFICANT BUT YOUR END WILL INCREASE GREATLY AND WILL BE GLORIOUS BOTH IN THE EYES OF GOD AND MAN.

MucH BlessingS...

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Blessings Unlimited Only Within Marriage

Blessed Beatitudes of Marriage

In today's world where a marriage ends with the honey moon, it is very important to READ AND WALK IN THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE BEATITUDES OF MARRIAGE, by the help of the heavenly power within us and as a result of it build a heaven on earth.

Read the following "Beatitudes of Marriage" which I found really interesting,

"Blessed are the husband and wife who continue to be affectionate, considerate, and loving after the wedding bells have ceased ringing.

Blessed are the husband and wife who are as polite and courteous to one another as they are to their friends.

Blessed are they who love their mates more than any other person in the world, and who joyfully fulfill their marriage vow of a lifetime of fidelity and mutual helpfulness to one another.

Blessed are they who attain parenthood, for children are a heritage of the Lord.

Blessed are they who remember to thank God for their food before they partake of it, and who set apart some time each day for the reading of the Bible and for prayer.

Blessed are those mates who never speak loudly to one another, and who make their home a place "where seldom is heard a discouraging word."

Blessed are the husband and wife who faithfully attend the worship service of the church, and who work together in the church for the advancement of Christ's kingdom.

Blessed are the husband and wife who can work out the problems of adjustment without interference from relatives.

Blessed is the couple which has complete understanding about financial matters, and have worked out a perfect partnership, with all money under the control of both.

Blessed are the husband and wife who humbly dedicate their lives and their homes to Christ, and who practice the teachings of Christ in the home by being unselfish, loyal and loving."

God has a special blessing and satisfaction for married couples. The married couples will be able to experience this blessing and also will be able to impart to others only if they are attuned to the voice of the Holy Spirit within them.

Why not open you inner ears and hear what the Lord has to say regarding your marriage and walk inline within the blessedness of the married life which He has prepared for you beforehand (Heb 4:9-11; Exo 19:5-6).

Remember saints, Patriarch Abraham was promised by God to be made a BLESSING so that in him all the families of the earth shall be blessed. God did not promise a individual blessing through Abraham, but a familial blessing to all the earth through him.

God's major blessings on earth is not for individuals alone (Isa 51:2), but it has been planned by God to reach families through blessed individuals who walk with God (Gen 12:1-3). Abraham obeyed God and has become a blessing to all the earth in Christ Jesus (Gal 3:16, 13-14), how about you dear Brother and Sister who has been called to live on earth as the kingly priest of God (Rev 1:5-6; Gen 12:4). You too have the potential within you to become a blessing to all the families of the earth if you continue to walk by faith in Jesus Christ's power which is the "steps of the faith which our father Abraham had." (Rom 4:12).

If you build a family by the grace of God and walk in the blessed "BEATITUDES OF MARRIAGE", then you might be blessed enough like Patriarch Abraham in all things and will be made a BLESSING TO THE WHOLE WORLD in the coming days (Gen 24:1)! You will be blessed in such a way to be a blessing to many that other's who are blessed through you will confess that God has blessed you greatly, like Eliezer confessed about Abraham his master later period of his life (Gen 24:35, 36). Come let us walk in it together and glorify God who has called us to inherit a blessing (1 Peter 3:9).

BLESSED MARRIED LIFE!

Much Blessings..... :)


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Mother's Influence Matters

A Mother’s Influence Cannot Be Wiped Away

The last influence a man forgets is the teaching of his mother. I was urging the early conversion of children in a meeting, and a man got up at the close and said, " I want to endorse every word". Sixteen years ago I was a missionary in another country, and my wife died and left three little children. On the Sunday after her death my eldest girl came to me and said, "Papa, shall I take the children into the bedroom and pray with them as mother used to?" The mother was dead, and little Nellie, ten years old, wanted to follow her footsteps. The father agreed and she led them off to the bedroom to pray.

When they came out he noticed that they had been weeping and asked, "what had happened?" "Well, father," said the little girl, "I prayed just as mother taught me, and then" – naming her little brother- "he prayed the prayer that mother taught him; but little Susie, she was too young, mother had not taught her a prayer so she made a prayer of her own, and I couldn’t help but weep to hear her pray." "Why," said the father, "what did she say?"

"Why, she put up her little hands, and closed her eyes, and said, "O God, you have come and taken away my dear mamma, and I have no mamma to pray for me now- won’t you please make me good just as my dear mamma was, for Jesus’ sake. Amen." And God heard that prayer. That little child before she was four years old gave evidence of being a child of God, and for sixteen years she was by her father’s side leading little children to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.

I remember blaming my mother for sending me to church on Sunday. On one occasion the preacher had to send someone into the balcony to wake me up. I thought it was hard to have to work in the field all the week, and then be obliged to go to church and hear a sermon, I didn’t understand. I thought I wouldn’t go to church anymore when I got away from home; but I had got so in the habit of going that I couldn’t stay away. After one or two Sundays, back again to the house of God I kept going. There I first found Christ, and I have often said since: "Mother, I thank you for making me go to the house of God when I didn’t want to go."

--D.L. Moody

Love Shared Through Prayer Brings Rest

Lifting The Burden Of Others, Makes Your Personal Burden Lighter

When I look back over those years in Siangcheng, China, there are two or three brief inner experiences that stand out vividly. Once I was jaded, dull, bored. Indeed, it was worse than boredom; it was fast becoming a depression from which I saw no way out. I felt hemmed in- there in the narrow compound with the ceaseless round of little meetings, of visits to women in small courtyards, of hours spent trying to teach some of them to read, and the lack of any mental or emotional stimulation.

There was a vacuum in my mind when I was weary, and there seemed no way to fill it. I was inwardly dry. I maintained my habits of Bible reading and prayer morning and evening, alone and also with , but I needed something more. I felt parched.

One day the barrenness of my own soul become intolerable. I knew I could not go on like this and, having half an hour to spare, I went to my bedroom, threw myself on my knees, and cried desperately, ‘Lord! Lord Jesus! You said, "If any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink!" And I’ve come! I’m parched and I want to drink.’

I waited expectantly, but nothing happened, so I cried again, with the same lack of result. I knew that only as I remained deliberately and consciously in the Lord’s presence could I expect the answer I longed for, but to remain there silent, trying to concentrate on God, was beyond me. My mind would wander, I knew. I must find a way to occupy it, and decided to pray for other people. Perhaps that was what I ought to be doing, anyway. I had a list of names and addresses of friends at home, so I got it out and went down the list, praying one by one for them, for about half-an-hour. Then I rose from my knees, went out into the courtyard and got on with whatever it was I had to do. There was no time now to think of myself. Other matters claimed my attention; and it was not until two or three hours later that it dawned on me that I wasn’t feeling bored or depressed any more.

Nothing noticeable had happened, there had been no upsurge of joy, but the dryness was gone. I was just quietly contented, back to normal, satisfied to be in the place where God had put me, doing what I believed He wanted me to do. It was as though, silently and imperceptibly, the waters had risen and the stream was flowing again.

That experience marked a new phase in my life, and illuminated me with a sentence which I came across at about the same time in the book of Job. As usual, when I was reading the Bible in theAuthorised Version, I saw the words, ‘And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends…’(Job 42:10).

I wasn’t focusing on the tribulations of Job, or the resentment he might have felt towards the friends who had misjudged him. But I knew what it was to have a mind in captivity to an unsatisfied desire, to the boredom of monotony, to be discontent with my lot. And I knew I had been released from that captivity after I had spent time with the Lord, praying for my friends. From that time on, I knew what to do when I found dryness and depression beginning to enfold me. Praying for others always had a liberating effect on me.

--Phyllis Thompson

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Guidelines for Abundant Living

Some Things To Follow

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy
5. Make time for prayer
6. Play more games
7. Read more books than you did in 2010
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9. Sleep for 7 hours
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day and....while you walk - SMILE!


Personality:

11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do ; keep your limits
14. Don't take yourself so seriously ; no one else does
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
16. Dream more while you are awake
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.


Community:

25. Call your family often
26. Each day give something good to others
27. Forgive everyone for everything
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day
30. What other people think of you is none of your business
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.


Life:
32. Do the right things
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful
34. GOD heals everything
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
37. The best is yet to come
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.


Last but not the least :

40. Do share this to everyone you care about.