Morning Christian Words of Encouragement – “Are YOU 100% sure, that you are Saved and headed to Heaven when you die? Are you sure YOUR name IS written in the Heavenly “Book of Life?” Is there absolutely not a shadow of a doubt in your mind, that your Salvation is already secured and you’re just waiting on the good Lord to call you home to be with Him? If the answer is “No, Not Sure, I Think So, Maybe, or Probably, then you need to get busy right now working on fixing that. You need to be totally sure where your Soul will spend eternity!” And AMEN goes right here….
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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “Submit Your Weakness and Losses To God…”
Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this morning, good I hope? Did you have a good weekend, I sure hope so? Well mine wasn’t as good as I had hoped, I saw three deer while sitting on my stand, but they didn’t close enough for a good shot. My Dallas Cowboys got beat down by the Atlanta Falcons, and a couple of other things that are not even worth mentioning. However, there is one bright side that I’ll just say restored my hope and Faith that things might be looking up! LOL! By a show of virtual hands, how many of my readers have struggled with your weaknesses, or ARE experiencing some storms as a result of your weaknesses? This is going to be a two part question, and how many of you have experienced, or are experiencing “losses” right now? Come on now, don’t be shy! Get those hands up! Don’t be ashamed to own up to them, afterall, this is a virtual admission meaning no one but you and God will see your hand up? We all have weaknesses, that’s something not one person alive or dead can deny! And we all have and will experience losses too, and that’s another thing that no one alive or dead can deny. It is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about, “Submit Your Weakness and Losses To God.” And AMEN goes right here! Now in dealing with our weaknesses, that can be a very touchy subject for some people. Why, because some people tend to refuse to believe they actually have them, and despite knowing that’s not true, they will totally ignore trying to keep their weaknesses in check. This selfish act usually more times than not, ends up resulting in that person being responsible for hurting or damaging some totally innocent other person in the process. And AMEN goes right here too!
Everyone has weaknesses, but not everyone are willing to confront their weaknesses in an attempt to keep them from influencing their lives, as well as the lives of others who cross their path. Here lately especially, I have been trying really hard to deal with my weaknesses. They have cost me some pretty good losses. And being that I try to be an open book for the most part, I have laid my weaknesses out there for the world to see many times. Things like, I am too nice. I try to be friendly to everyone and not everyone is open to, or appreciates a friendly person. I give too much of myself to people not concerning myself with whether they are willing to, will give me even a percentage of themselves back. I am loyal to a fault to a person even after they have shown me they have no clue what loyalty even is in return. I always try to see the best in everyone, despite being proven time and time again that not everyone has a good heart. Some people are carnivores, feeding on the kindness of the very type of person I pride myself with trying to be. Even my kindness has more times than not, been perceived as weakness and naďveness by predatory type people. I overanalyze things sometimes in an attempt to try and make it make sense to me when there’s just some things that will never make sense. I also try to pride myself in being a true good guy and gentleman, and I’ve found that this is my biggest character flaw (not really a true flaw), because it has cost me so many losses I don’t care to try and keep up with our count. I am way too open, I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have never learned how to sugarcoat things, and I can be very blunt at times. I have found this to be a HUGE flaw or “weakness,” because people in this day and age don’t like things said to them bluntly, they want them sugarcoated in today’s society. The last one I’ll mention, it probably my biggest personal weakness, I don’t know when to shut my mouth LOL! I will sometimes offer more information than people might be interested in hearing, because I tend to “over explain” in an attempt to make sure they totally understand what I’m trying to say, and I might offer my opinion when it has not been asked for, and I have a tendency to try and be an “I can fix anything” type of person. Why am I sharing all of this you might ask? Because I am trying to make a point that nomatter what your weaknesses are, if you’ll submit them to God to help you deal with them, He will do just that and more!
The problem with having weaknesses that go uncontained, is that you will end up experiencing loss after loss. Sometimes those losses are due to your actions, for example, the Prodigal’s son asking and receiving his share of his father’s estate (aka his portion) while his father was still alive, then going out to explore the world and blowing every dime of it on frivolous things. However, sometimes the losses you experience will have nothing whatsoever to do with you or your weaknesses, like Job. If you remember Job in the Bible, he lost EVERYTHING, all of his children, his home, his fortune, and all of this expensive livestock, everything. Now watch this, instead of Job cursing God like his wife insisted he do, Job Praised God after losing everything. Now here’s where the meat of my message comes in, because of the fact that Job PRAISED God after losing everything instead of cursing Him, walking away from Him, and or ending his relationship with Him, God restored everything Job lost TEN FOLD! Job had 10 kids if I am not mistaken, they all died the same day, but God have him 10 more kids. Everything else, God multiplied when He returned it to Job. You see, the point here is that if we will just Praise and Worship God nomatter how big the storm is raging in our lives, nomatter how high the waves of destruction are when they crash up against our personal lives, nomatter how much of our stuff is swept out to the sea of loss, God can and more importantly WILL restore it if we’ll just turn over, or submit our weakness to Him and Praise Him while in the middle of those storms! Yes, I know, I know, that’s easier said than done, and believe me if anyone knows this it is me! Since I took up my Cross to spread God’s Holy Word, I have taken some HUGE losses! But as hard as it was and even still is today to do, I still try to Worship and Praise ANYWAY! God only wants us to trust Him in the midst of the storms that come and rage in our lives, that’s all. He lives for the opportunity to show us that if we Praise and Worship Him with everything we have nomatter if we are in good times or bad times that He will provide all of our needs. And He will restore EVERYTHING we lost and then some! Today, I challenge you to submit all of your weaknesses to God nomatter what they are, and nomatter how big or small they are. Then, trust in Him and have Faith in Him that He will restore everything back to you 10 fold! Can I leave you with a question to ponder today if I may?
“Are You Willing To Submit Your Weaknesses and Losses To God For A Restoration Breakthrough?”
Can I Get An Amen From The Folks Like Me With Weaknesses?”
“Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that exactly what He did for us on the Cross?”
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