Important advice for daily living.

Advice to reflect upon for today:

Take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Love each other. Be generous with your gifts: words, help, materials, money, possessions, etc.  

Trust God - he knows what he's doing, especially when you don't.  Be content with who and where you are - God's strong hand is upon you; he'll promote you at just the right time. So, keep your guard up and a firm grip on faith; stay out of YOU and stay in HIM.

And remember to turn away from worldly rubbish, it is a waste of your time.  For in due time and in all things, painful or not, God always gets the last word; yes, he does.

-Adapted from 1 Peter chapters 4 & 5  MSG

Want the good life?

"Whoever wants to embrace life
     and see the day fill up with good,
Here's what you do:
     Say nothing evil or hurtful;
Snub evil and cultivate good;
     run after peace for all your worth."

-1 Peter 3:8-12 MSG

Need I say more?

God on your mind

“Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God.”

-1 Peter 1:18-21 MSG

Live with God on your mind, not yourself. 

Guaranteed, life becomes a lot more rewarding this way.

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Sink or swim...

"...So Peter got out of the boat and walked on water and he came toward Jesus. But when he perceived and felt the strong wind, he was frightened, and as he began to sink..." Matthew 14:29-30 AMP

Faith in Christ, (remaining fearless in spite of the storms of life), will cause you to walk on water in the middle of the ocean.  

Doubt in Christ, (becoming fearful during the storms of life), will cause you to sink the moment you step out of the boat.

The choice is yours: faith or doubt, swim or sink?  
Hence, live or die?

No enemy can stand against you when you trust God

"... God sent his angel, who closed the mouth of lions so that they would not hurt him... there wasn't a scratch on him.  He had trusted God." Daniel 6:21-22 MSG

When you trust God you can rest assure that evil stands not a chance against you.   God has it handled; it is for His glory that you be victorious.

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Worry about the Holy. Fear God-of-the-Angel-Armies

“Don’t be like this people,

Always afraid somebody is plotting against them.

Don’t fear what they fear.

Don’t take on their worries.

If you’re going to worry

Worry about the Holy. Fear God-of-the-Angel-Armies.”

Isaiah 8:11-15 MSG

There is a place for worry in our lives and it’s one worry only:  to worry over the ᴸᴼᴿᴰ.  Everything else is a waste of our time!  So, turn everyday worries over to God, and focus on God and his light.  I believe that if we do every aspect of our lives will change for the better; every aspect of our lives will change for God’s great glory!

We are so blessed!

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Make your bed!

“And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ (The Messiah) [now] makes you whole.  Get up and make your bed!...” Acts 9:34 AMP

Jesus died so you can live – Jesus died and made you whole!  Therefore, get up, (wake up, be the strong man/woman in Christ that you were made to be), and clean up your life!! Do what needs to be done so you can stop living second best; you are God’s child, you are a conqueror,  you are alive, you are able, and you have the Spirit – you need nothing more.  Therefore, stop wasting time in self-pity, misery, and the like, otherwise, you soon may find yourself at the end of your life wishing you had more time to do things differently.