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 Amazing Life changing talk by Pete Briscoe. This is about an hour long but it is a must watch!

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Excuse

✞ Quote 4 2day!

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."

Children of the Light

✞ Song 4 2day! 

"Children of the Light" by Lecrae

Ephesians 5:8

New International Version (NIV)

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light

 

The Lies of the World

✞ Prayer 4 2day!
"Forgive me, Father, for believing the lies of the world and being deceived and enticed by the temptations of Satan. I know that sin brings heartaches, complications, and problems. I also know that choosing the right things, standing up for truth, and living faithfully for you is sometimes very difficult. Please help my heart believe and my mind see that walking in your will brings me life. In Jesus' name I ask this. Amen."

Jesus Paid Off My Debt

✞ Quote 4 2day! 

"Christ died for the ungodly. Christ died for me. Without his sacrificial death, without God's grace, I am powerless to save myself or make myself righteous. Jesus did for me what I could not do and paid off my debt to sin which I could not pay. He did it for me; not because I was good enough to be worthy of his death, but because I couldn't be worthy without him."

Foul or Dirty

Ephesians 4:29
The Message (MSG)
29 Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift.

 

We live in a world that says bigger is better

"Revolution is a complete renovation and reopening under new management." – L. L. Levinson

We live in a world that says bigger is better. Here in Texas, we are all pretty convinced that we are actually better because everything IS bigger. Yeah, that's the way it works in the world – but not in God's Kingdom. So rather than make resolutions that are “bigger and better," it's far better to allow your life to be revolutionized by God, who uses the little stuff to do amazing things. Again, let's look at Proverbs 30:

"Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise:
Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
Badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags;
Locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks;
A lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.” – Proverbs 30:24
Revolutionary Statement Number Eight: Small is big.

History is littered with "little" people who made great contributions. It's almost as if God takes great pleasure in using people who have to beat the odds:
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was in a wheel chair.
Homer was blind.
Ludwig van Beethoven was deaf.
John Bunyan spent a good chunk of his life in prison.
Abraham Lincoln was born into abject poverty.
Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph at the age of thirty, was almost totally deaf from the age of eight.
So if you're feeling small or you're feeling handicapped, you're in good hands – God's hands. He specializes in loving people like us and then working through us for big… or small… things.

Father, renovate my thinking, and open my mind to the way that You work. Take the focus off of me and the size of my contribution, and let me fix my eyes and my hope on You and who You are in me today. Amen.

Make Me a Channel

When Jesus tells us to love our enemies, He Himself will give us the love with which to do it. We are neither factories nor reservoirs of His love, only channels. When we understand that, all excuse for pride is eliminated.

Corrie ten Boom

Keep your feet from their way

✞ Verse 4 2day! 

Proverbs 1:15
Common English Bible (CEB)

15 My son, don’t go on the path with them;
keep your feet from their way,

My Prayer For 2013

"Dear God, my prayer for 2013 is a fat bank account and a thin body. Please don't mix these up like you did last year." – Unknown

New Year's resolutions seem to have more clout when they sound nice and spiritual. Another popular Christian New Year's resolution is this: I'm going to read through the Bible in a year! I'm going to start in Genesis and by the end of December I'll be finishing up in Revelation!

Again, I'm all for that! But that type of resolution is not a revolutionary statement. Try this on for size:

Revolutionary Statement Number Two: The Bible is living, accurate, and adequate. I'm going to allow it to speak to me.

"Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar." – Proverbs 30:5-6

God's Word is true. He told us that thousands of years ago and it's still true today. Not only is it accurate, it's adequate. We tend to add a lot of stuff to it like books, CDs, tapes, music, and videos. There is nothing wrong with those things, unless they start to take the place of your Bible.

The big problem with resolutions dealing with Bible reading is (again) that the focus is on you and what you do, rather than on God and what He does. Rather than making a Bible reading resolution, how about this for a New Year's revolution instead? Rather than trying to get through the Bible in a year, what if you ask God to let the Bible get through you this year?

See the difference!? How about opening yourself up and letting the living Word of God impact your life as it chooses? What would happen if your focus was not on reading a certain number of passages a day, but rather on allowing the Holy Spirit to soak the Word into your soul, and change who you are as a person, and change how you live every day?

Heavenly Father, I praise You that You have given me the Living Word – Your words – through which I can hear from You and experience You. When it comes to my Bible, focus my heart on my relationship with You moment by moment, rather than my reading habits over the course of a year. Amen.

The best way to break a promise

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." – Oprah Winfrey

New Year's resolutions usually reveal honorable intentions and horrible implementation. It's not a coincidence that we joke far more about breaking resolutions than we talk about making them. It seems like the best way to break a promise is to make one with your whole heart. What's the problem? Resolutions focus on you. But revolutions focus on God.

Revolutionary Statement Number One: To get an accurate view of yourself, focus on Him!

Agur, who wrote Proverbs chapter 30, gives an excellent example of this kind of focus:

"Surely I am only a brute, not a man;
I do not have human understanding.
I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.
Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
Whose hands have gathered up the wind?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is the name of his son?
Surely you know!" – verses 2-4

The answer to all of the questions is GOD, not ME. But even the best sounding New Year's resolutions focus on what you can do rather than on what God has done and is doing. One of the favorite Christian New Year's resolutions is: I'm going to have a quiet time of prayer and Bible study every day. I'm all for that, by the way, but it sets you up for failure because the focus is on you, and not on Him. Can you see that?

A revolutionary prayer, on the other hand, would be focused on God, asking Him to reveal Himself in any way that He sees fit – through the Word, through prayer, through nature, etc. Someone who makes resolutions believes they can get closer to God by their own strength. But the heart of a godly revolutionary is honest about his ignorance and inability to understand and relate to God on his own.

Lord, I want to know You more. Deep within my soul I want to know You. In the name of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, I ask that You would stir up this desire I have to be intimate with You. I depend on You today, and every day this year, to reveal Yourself to me in any way that You choose. Amen.