~ Integrity ... Accountability ... Initiative ~

I believe if each of us could or would master and practice daily what I am about to write, the world would be a much better place and our homes would be in harmony.

Each morning when I arise I thank God for allowing me to see another day. I thank Him for my health, my life, family and friends.

I ask Him each morning for Wisdom, Favor, knowledge and a good understanding!

That being said, I believe that most people are good. I believe that most people don't have a terrible problem seeing what's right and wrong. Doing right is sometimes complicated, but knowing what is right usually isn't so hard.

Again, People are basically good. Honor, courage and virtue is everything. Money means nothing, though we need it. I believe that Good always triumph over evil.

Three things are difficult to achieve, yet living by these principles can make us successful in life.

• Integrity -  The quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards
• Accountability - Responsible to somebody or for something
• Initiative - the ability to act and make decisions without the help or advice of other people.

Why is it so hard to be honest? That is what integrity is.
Why is it so difficult to be accountable? We are all responsible to someone and for something.
Why is it so hard to take the initiative and be a self starter, without being ask or lead by someone else.

We must raise the bar by taking hold on integrity. We must learn that we are accountable to someone and we must learn to take ownership of things wherever the need lies. This could be in your Home, Job or Church.

Many of us are so afraid of failure, thus making yourself less accountable. Take charge over situations by taking the initiative to be a leader and not always a follower.

Remember, followers are lead around and told what to do. But, people with initiative take charge and tell others what should or need to be done.

There is so much we could discuss on this. So seek out Integrity, Accountability and Initiative. Make them your personal friends. Live by them, Love by them and treat others fair with them.

Know this, the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you were not worth the truth. We all deserve the truth. So, don't lie to yourself and hopefully others won't lie to you about you.

Remember, God is not mock, for what o ever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

These are my thoughts ..... I welcome yours and your comments!!!

An Inspiration.... Believe in yourself...

"You can always choose how to live ... no matter where you live" Glenda Scott    



Most of us feel very comfortable at home. We feel safe and secure. But we must all enter into the world one day and this is usually where the battle begins.

The world is not all sunshine and rainbows. It can be a very mean and nasty place... and it doesn't matter how tough you think you are, it will beat you down to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it.

 Some say that life is hard and can hit you even harder. You nor I can hit as hard as life's circumstances. But its not about how hard you hit...It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward... How much you can take, and keep moving forward. "That´s how success and winning is achieved".

But, you need to understand something. Life is not hard and Life does not hit you. What hit us hard in life, are direct results of the decisions/choices that we make.  You see life is a Gift from God and is meant to bring us Joy and fulfillment.

Moving forward:
If you understand your worth, and if you have a yearning, burning, intensifying desire for something that you want, then go get it. Take this expression of hope deep into your hearts~~~"Hope is a desire accompanied by Expectation". 

In other words don't just hope, but expect that hope to come to fruition
Fruition: A state or point in which something has come to maturity or had a desired outcome.

That being said,  go out and obtain. But you gotta be willing to take the hits the world gives.

Remember, negativity is always present. Someone will always issue doubts towards you. Pointing fingers saying: you can never be what you want to be because of your past, who your daddy was or wasn't, who your mama was or wasn't.

Cowards do that and that is not you You´re better than that, so believe in God and yourself!!!

If you have a dream, then you've got to protect it. If someone cannot do something themselves, then they sometimes tell you that you can't do it either. If you want something, then go get it.

~Greatness  and Success exists in all of us~

...Bottom line, believe what God says about you. His thoughts are always honest...

I welcome your rebuts and positive responses

Being True To Myself....

Many of us at one time or another have gone through the (Being real ... Being Honest) ordeal. We live in the prison of our own minds by pretending to be someone we are not.

We lie to make others think we are someone that we know we are not. Therefore, we lie to hide the true of who we truly are.

I'm going to ask you to do something for me. As you read what has been written, I ask that instead of saying we and us; I want to to go back to the beginning and read in the first person. That is,  as you read say I ...

Some things need to be understood. Especially, when it comes to hope and integrity.

• We must understand that Hope is a desire accompanied by expectation.
• We should always choose Principal over Profits.
• We should understand with clarity that Secrecy is Trumped by Honesty.
• We should understand that those we love should be more cared for than the show of ownership.
• We should understand that our word should be more of a resource to be tended to than a commodity. to be sold. (Never Compromise your word).
• We should put those that we love in front of our selfish desires, wants and needs.

We should also understand that:

Life isn't meant to be easy, it's meant to be lived... Sometimes HAPPY :) 0r sometimes SAD :( however, with every... up and down you encounter, you will learn lessons that will make you stronger.

As life goes on we start to learn more and more about responsibility. And we should realize that the things we do, affect the people around us. That being said, we should always take the time to apologize to those whom we’ve hurt, based on our words and actions! Being True To Myself will aid me when an apology is in order.

 Both loyalty and integrity are admirable  traits to have in friendships and relationships. Integrity is the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards.

Your integrity is not limited to what you want others to see in public. Integrity also what you do behind closed doors when no one is watching.

Do not be misled; bad company corrupts good character. It always has and it always will.

Please read the poem below!!!

"Myself"

by Edgar A. Guest

I have to live with myself and so
I want to be fit for myself to know,
I want to be able as days go by,
To look at myself straight in the eye.
I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done.

I don't want to hide on a closet shelf
A lot of secrets about myself,
And fool myself as I come and go
Into thinking that nobody else will know
What kind of man I really am;
I don't want to dress myself in sham.

I want to go with my head erect,
I want to deserve all men's respect
And in this struggle for fame and pelf
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself and know
That I am a bluster and empty show.

I cannot hide myself from me;
I can see what others can never see;
I know what others can never know,
I cannot fool myself, and so

Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free.


~ ...I welcome your thoughts ... ~

~Once when I was little~

Once when I was little:
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~The word Impossible was never in my vocabulary~ 

It seems I was the one who always got into things first; I didn't think twice to look behind.
I got such a good feeling from playing in the dirt, Once when I was little.

We could pretend we could build a rocket and fly to the moon; Leave in the morning and back at noon.

 When we were young there wasn't nothing , nothing that we couldn't do, once when we were little.

 When I was little, I could dream more then, I could believe more then, that the world could only get better. I could be free more then, I could pretend more then, that this life could only show me good times. Once when I was little!

There was a time when I trusted everyone. There was no place I would not go. I would spend all day on the  hillside next to a cotton field, catching bees, playing in the grass, once when I was little!

When I was little I use to feel so strong and invincible, even when they'd tell me, I was wrong, that I can't live in a magic world and it's time for me to grow up and I've got to live like the rest of them.

Well, I know things have been lost, but I could still pretend more then and I could still believe more then, once when I was little.

Now, I am old and I still have hope, I believe that I am more wiser now, then I was when I was little.

My thinking is a bit different, I'm more cautious now, then I was when I was little...Yet in My mind I am as strong as ever and Mentally I'm pretty solid. I think more before speaking. Much more now than when I was little.

So you are young and you'll little and you are the next one, next in line. Stay as young as you can, Dream as deep as you can and for the longest time, because those days flew by me like a breeze just passing through...

~Once when I was little~

~The word Impossible was never in my vocabulary~  

~don't let it be in yours .. Today~

These are my thoughts ... I welcome yours!!!

Change Your Thought Process!!!

 

I had the glorious opportunity granted by God to return home; to my place of birth, which is Hartsvile, SC.

As always, while driving home I began to reminisce on past events. On Wednesday, January 9, 2012 at 11:20 A.M. I sat down at my favorite coffee Shop, which the The MidNight Rooster. I sat in the same location as always and started writing.

As I begin to write I realized I have nothing but good thoughts, because life has been very good to me and so has this place I call home, {Hartsville}.

So often we dwell on bad events, but in reality, if bad events never occurred, I may not have  have discovered the word preseverence. So, I think on the goodness of God and how he has protected and guided me through hard times.

I think on God's goodness for bringing special people in my life, to aid in the navigation thereof.

With those thoughts I decided to think new thoughts. First, know this, God is very much aware of your needs. He is aware of how great your needs are, but he is not moved by your needs as much as He is moved by your Faith.

Thoughts are as follows!!!

• I desire for God to increase my capacity to receive .. Abundance and More as it relates to Matthew 7:7, Luke 6:38 and Deuteronomy 28:8.. but read the complete chapter.

Understanding to get my eyes off of the Babylonian system, which is the world's system of aquiring riches independently of God.

Understand, God givies according to your capacity to receive. He can give more, but your capacity to receive can limit. Therefore, open your belief by increasing your capacity to receive.

• Enlarge your Territory -- Growth and Expansion.

I (we) need to advance ... Help others ... live under God's command... Read: Ephesians 6:8. Don't respond in fear, respond in faith II Kings Chapter 4

• I (we) need to Re-adjust & re-align your faith-Life .. God is not moved by my needs, He is moved by my Faith!!!
  
  Again, the Babylonian system is aquiring what you need, want and desire without God. Re-focus your faith on God.

When you and I honor God's word, especially as it relates to Deuteronomy 28, this is what will happen:

• God will silence an adversary ... Prolong Battle will End.
• Unusual and Supernatural Miracles .. will be demonstrated by God and even by you.
• Financial Anointing ... Constant Anointing .. That abides ... (Hidden riches).
• Total Recovery and Restoration.  

(Remember ... Riches not only include money, but knowledge and understanding as well. So, in all your getting, get understanding!!!

 Remember, not only is God a Redeemer of Time, He is also a Reedeemer of Finances, Health, Relationships and So forth and so on.

I do not have an explanation as to why I started writhing this and the writing before this. But if I were you I would take heed just as I am.

These are my thoughts .. I welcome yours!!!

The Sovereignty of God / The Will of Man!!!

I chose to write this for the New Year....

God is complete Sovereign. He has put in each of us a magnificent apparatus. We call it the Soul. The Soul is made up of a volitional part called the will, a thinking part, which is the mind and the feeling part, which is the emotions.  

Volitional: The ability to make conscious choices or decisions... or the act of exercising the will.

Now when we exercise the will we are buying stock in the sovereignty of God! Which is The sovereignty of God.

This may seem strange to you, but God has assigned you a destiny. Over which, by enlarge, so that He can interrupt it at anytime. You are sovereign. You can make choices...to either except or reject!

You can rule it; you can make decisions, pleasing to Him (GOD). You can cast demons off that area in your life, in the name of Jesus. You can call excellence into existence. You can make demands of your soul. Your Spirit man can make demands of your Soul.

His (God)Spirit in your Spirit, controlling the soul, which uses the body as the servant will make you a person of excellence.

Make no mistake; what the world calls excellent is a way of achieving certain goals. Monetary or Power goals. But that’s the World’s definition of excellence.

God’ form of excellence comes from the proper combination of word, what God has said; And Spirit, who God is, operating in His Word and through it today in us; and the power that comes forth.

We are not excellent until we take advantage of all the gifts that have been offered to us by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

Excellence is not you doing the best you can. Excellence is letting Him (God) do the best He can in your daily regular cooperation with Him.

Lets examine this statement:

In the midst of prospective suffering Jesus possessed His Soul (will).

“In patience posses your Souls”… In other words, with stubborn decisiveness get a hold of yourself. Control your soul. Don’t let your Soul stay in a passive state. Take charge of it!!!... Read 1st Thessalonians 4:1-4

Stop saying “ This is just the way that I am. Except me or reject me. I’m not going to change. Words are very powerful. Listen, if the way you are keeps you away from God's best, then your life is out of order! So, get rid of it. Give it up. And, if you are saved you are a new creature.

In stubborn endurance get a hole of yourself! Endurance means to Stand.

Every now and again you need to confront your soul (will). How long has it been since you have confronted your soul?  Read Psalms – 42:5; 142:1-7; 119:175; 19:7;16:10; 23:3.

You need to confront your soul to see if there is anything lurking that is displeasing to God. Self evaluation is very important in this walk.

We carry so much junk around and this junk gets very weighty. It accumulates. This accumulation breathes forth frustration, expressive dislikes, visual Attitudes, ETC.

Take self inventory of your Soul. Read Psalm 103 and see how David was coaching his Soul to the right thing!

What do you do when you began to get jealous, angry, when that fire begins to boil inside because you feel someone has wronged you? What do you do?

Take inventory of your soul and clean up all the dirtiness that lurks around it. This includes suggestive thoughts.

Take command.. Stop letting your Soul dictate to you. You dictate to it.

Listen, the Heaven of Heavens belong to God, but the earth is given to the sons of men.

There is a sense that  we call the shots. God has given us authority to do so. Just know when!

Remember you are what you are because of how you and your soul (will) have interfaced. So, interface with your soul (will) in a positive way for God the Holy Spirit to be effective in your life.

Command you Soul (will) to bless the Lord no matter what is going on around you. Say “ Bless The Lord, Oh My Soul and all that is within me Bless His Holy Name!

Take control of your Soul (will) by yielding it to God!

Purpose in your hearts when you attend Church that You do not intend to go home in the same condition upon which I came. Say to yourself - I intend to do what it takes to be changed from what I now am to the next level. I understand that it may take hardship, ; lost, betrayal and pain. But I desire to be changed!

 These are my thoughts .. I welcome yours!!!

Speak It!!!

When we we children we believed we were invincible. We could do anything, accomplish any task and we always found a way to turn the negative into positive!

How far would you go if you could thrust yourself into the mind of a child to recapture the clear-eyed vision of the world and the positive thoughts of yourself again.

As children when issues or problems arose we would look for solutions to find a way to resolve our conflicts.

As children when we needed a hug or love, we didn't wait to be hug by our moms, we would go and hug her leg or lay our head in her lap or simply hug her waste without a doubt that she would return the needed hug or embrace that we longed for.

As children, the world was beautiful, fun, exciting and presented itself as a window of opportunity. 

 And It STILL IS!!!

As children, our vision was so clear, unclouded with a sparkle of innocence!

Our problems began once we matured.  You see, once mature, we seem  lose the ability to see problems and holes in our plans,  as just a bump in the road.  Instead we perplex things with our adult vision. You know, make things more complicated.

As children we would watch T.V.  and if a cowboy picture were showing, we knew that the good guy was dressed in white and the bad guy was dressed in black.  And, we learn that simply by watching.

And we realized that no matter how tough the bad guy in black was, the good guy dressed in white was going to always WIN!!!

Now.... lets become children again. put on that white suite, lets pretend that we are invincible, that no problem can defeat us, and that there is always a solution to any issue.

Concerning love.... when we need a hug, lets revert back  to that child and go initiate a hug or say I love you to someone and believe you will receive back.

Sometimes as adults our thought process can cloud things, we see things in a more perplexed way!!!

This my suggestion is this:

~See yourself as God sees you~

• Say I am Wonderfully and  Fearfully made!
• I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me!
• I am a Perfect human being,, yet subject to make mistakes!
• There is no problem that cannot be resolved --- even if it means walking away!
• My day will a Great day!
• My nights will be sweet .. even as I sleep!
• My problems only presents opportunities!
• I shall not fail ... Because I am not a failure!
• I am not defined by my job... it is simply a means to provide!!!
• God is my TRUE PROVIDER!!!

Speak positive of yourself and others .... Be an adult, but let the childlike thinking excel and stop looking at your problem, but think on a solution.

There is a constant battle in the mind. Victories are won or lost by the power of the mind. We can  win the battles of life, first, by how to THINK, and then by how to SPEAK.

~I hope this writing  made sense to you~

These are my thoughts ... I welcome yours!!!