Start Your Day With Faith

Success in life is valuable.  Those who place God as the cornerstone discover that success is attainable.  With God as the driver, success is priceless.  

You feed faith.  You nurture faith.  And guess what happens?  It's grows.  The fruit of the spirit should be part of who you are and how you move through each day.  Are you hungry?

He was a self made man.  Seriously, that's not true.  You might get this guy to admit that success came from the strength of God.  Your strength also has roots here.  Lean on God in the good times and the challenging times and you'll see what I mean.

Are you always humble?  It's not always easy to do.  Pause for a moment when the urge prompts and ask God for the strength to move forward with humility.  

Tough question, but if you dial in WWJD to your morning routine, you'll find several examples of how you can do it.  It's not hard. It just takes a moment to focus on WWJD.  Add that to your morning routine and experience the results.

People love to dig into other people's live, especially when it's a compelling story.  And then we can't wait to tell someone else.  Admit it, you've been bitten by the gossip bug.  Ouch!

Get even, get angry, or get God to help?  Yeah, choice #3 always works best.

A coffee break?  How about a "faith" break?  Discovering solutions to problems is always best, when our first step is to introduce faith into the to-do list on the white board.  Take a faith break and move confidently on with your day.  Success is waiting.

You've heard it said, pride comes before the fall.  Pride is a barrier to success.  Overcoming it is not always easy.

We have become used to picking up our phones and finding just about anything we need, including directions.  Want a better resource?  Check out the Bible.  It comes with every direction you might need.

Me, me me.  What's in it for me!?  Not a lot, until you can turn that focus outward.  That's not always easy to see or do.

Seriously, no one loves hearing "no".  Sometimes that's the only answer.  So, how to you handle "no"?

Waiting, and waiting, and waiting.  Sometimes waiting can deflate our passion for an idea or opportunity.  God gives us a solid foundation on the way to opportunity.  It's called patience, and God has saved some for you.

Temptation, it hits all around us.  Some days more than others.  So the question is, when it arrives, how to I make the good choices, the Godly choices?

We all have expectations and wishes about our lives.  Some are realistic, other's are pie in the sky dreams.  What we desire is sometimes not immediately or realistically going to happen.  So, just how do we manage that time?

God doesn't want what's left over at the end of the day.  God wants each of us allow him to use our whole being in service.  Don't worry, he'll leave plenty of time and energy for the rest of the stuff we need to do.  

Are you stuck in the spiritual moment.  Spiritual growth doesn't have a term or a season or an end date, when you graduate.  Every day is an opportunity to do it better.  This is a life lone journey and you still have a lot to learn.  

Your daily walk in faith has to be carefully cared for.  You take vitamins to keep your mind and body strong.  You exercise because it keeps you energized.  The same thing has to be practiced daily with your faith.  In between the vitamins and the steps, stop...and take a moment to reaffirm your faith.  It works.

Some folks get that degree and the benefits that come with it.  Other's, the quiet ones, manufacture the same level of success without the fanfare.  Degrees are wonderful, but the power behind success is the work you put into every moment in life.  

Life puts us places where we see and experience those things that just aren't right.  We are not designed to walk away from oppression.  We are designed to deeply live in every moment.  As they say, if you see something, say something.  Better yet, do something.

Unconditional love?  Yeah, that's a tough one.  Because we have limits of what we can handle.  Good news is, God has given us extra capacity for those over limit times.  Reach out to Him when your day is full.

Adversity.  You will bump into it, or it will bump into you.  Not on purpose, but just as a part of life, everyday.  You probably know the answer here.  Faith and nothing more will help you through it.  Simple, but very true.

Trust?  Have you ever experienced mistrust in a friend or family member?  They let you down.  It's okay because if you're looking for complete trust, there is only one that can give that to you.  Trust in the Father.

Imagine you were there.  The final week of life on earth for Jesus.  If you were there, would you have seen how profound each moment and each day was?  Imagine you were there.

Grief can be very consuming.  You've probably experienced that emotion with the loss of a friend or family member.  Instead, celebrate that person, their faith and what they are now experiencing.  Look beyond your emotions and discover how God sees that moment in time.