What (Is)-Not What (If)...

Colossians 1:27 (KJV)

[27] To whom- God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

The Riches of His Glory...

Riches-Plainly Defined: Wealth

Exceeding, With Nothing Worthy of Comparison Is The Riches (Wealth) of His Glory!

Which Is Plainly Defined as "Christ In You"

If This Indeed Is True, And We Do Believe That It Is So-

Then Why Are We So Stressed?

His Wealth Is Truly Greater Than More Money or Material Things Is It Not?

But If Christ Is Not In You, Well...

It Is No Wonder Then That You're So Discontent and Desperate To Get More of What This World Has To Offer...

But If You Have Jesus?

Well (You Know) And

Nothing Else Needs To Be Said...

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Too Much of A Good Thing

Proverbs 25:16 (KJV)

[16] Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

There’s Nothing Wrong With Honey…

In Measured Amounts!

Taste Is An Interesting Sense…

It Is Meant As Both an Inhibitor and Enticer for The Body-

Its Function Is Necessary for The Body, Both As To Reject and Accept What Comes In.

But-Without Balance It Can Become Harmful and Even Deadly To The Body…

Even Good Sweet Water Has An LD(lethal dose)… too much and you drown!

The Five Senses of The Body Can Be Pleasurable…

*But Too Much of A Good Thing-

Can Be Damaging!

Beware-When Life Becomes an Obsession of Appeasing The Desire of What Tastes Good…

You May Find Yourself Vomiting…

(Matthew 6:33)

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The Art of Listening

Psalms 81:13-14 (KJV)

[13] Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! [14] I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

Oxford Dictionary-Listening:

To take notice of and act on what someone says…

“If Only I Had Listened”

Famous Last Words!

Yet, Here God Is Saying-

“If Only They Had Listened”

The Ability To (Listen) Among The Cacophony of Noise In This Generation Is Truly an Art!

It’s Not The Loudest Voice You Should Be Listening To…

But Rather-

That Still Small Voice Calling You To Walk In His Ways…

Then and Only Then…

• He’ll Subdue (your enemies)

• He’ll Turn His Hand Against (your adversaries)

Otherwise You’ll Be Sadly Saying…

“I Should Have Listened”

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Quicksand

Proverbs 24:16 (KJV)

[16] For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Misconception of Falling…

All Will Fall-Without Exception!

*Where You Fall Is The Difference…

The Just Fall And Get Back Up!

The Wicked Do Not Get Back Up Because They Fall Into Quicksand….

The Difference Between a Just Man and a Wicked Man-

• The Just Man Falls Because of Weakness

• The Wicked Man Plans For Evil

• The Just Man Fears God

• The Evil Man Does Not Fear God

The Just Man Knows (The Secret)-

The Wicked Man is Clueless…

(The Secret)- “I Just Got To Get Back Up One Time More Than I Fall…”

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Worth The Wait

Isaiah 64:4 (KJV)

[4] For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

The Most Difficult of Human Feats-Wait

Sometimes The Desire for Something Just Anything To Happen Spoils “Waiting”

Don’t Confuse and Substitute Movement With Waiting On God…

If You Wait- It Will Be Truly Unbelievable!

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The Past Is An Anchor

Philippians 3:13 (KJV)

[13] Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

If You're On A Journey You Must Move On!

Ships Were Not Built To Be Anchored In Safe Harbors...

When The Past Transforms From Lesson to Anchor It Becomes What Prevents You To Go On To a Place God Has Awaiting You...

Are You Reaching?

Or Content in Safe Harbor?

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Unaware

Jeremiah 8:7 (KJV)

[7] Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

. An Entire World During Noah's Day Was Caught (Unaware)

. An Entire Nation Was Caught (Unaware) When Jesus Came-

. An Entire World Will Once Again Be Caught (Unaware)

At The Return of Christ...

Nature Seems More Adept At Knowing Her Appointed Times

*Than Man Who Has Been Kissed by God...

(Unaware) Is This Curse of Man...

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