Yesterday Ended: Healing the Traumas of Life

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text In a battle when things are going very badly there comes a time of decision of whether or not to surrender to the enemy and beg for mercy. The thought of surrendering to our enemy is devastating. To come to the end of our ability to defend our selves and see no way out destroys all hope and paints us as failures. So how do we become v...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text There are days when all I can do is think about yesterday and how I didn't do it right.  I messed things up. There are times when stupid things I did as a child come back and try to haunt me. I was kind of stupid. There are minutes in my life that I would do anything to undo. People got hurt.    What does it take to get passed ou...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text How do people think about you? And how do you think about yourself? Knowing that you are loved by others is empowering, emancipating, emboldening, and embracing just to name a few wonderful aspects. But of all those who could love us to know that God loves us already and always gives the greatest impact. So let me ask you do you belie...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text I have been working with wood for many years now. I used to build cabinets and custom furniture. I have now traded that in for doing wood sculpture. I am constantly looking for the best tools to accomplish the task at hand. The question is what works the best? No matter what business or task at hand having the right tool for the job i...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text Imagine you're in a grocery store and as you're walking down an aisle you see an item and you think oh I need to buy that and you get it and put it in the cart and pay for it. Then you go home and you go to put it in your cupboard only to find that you already had it. There are times in our lives when in a moment of despair...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text The title of my podcast today is a very old cliché. These questions arise when we are trying to figure out a bunch of different things. So we ask a bunch of questions. We are a curious folk and at times let me put this politely ignorant of what's going on. So we ask questions. That's a good thing. But what is it like when Go...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text There's an old saying that is very wise, be where you are when you're there. Too often we can physically be somewhere but mentally be somewhere else. Today I want to twist that a bit. Where I am mentally may not be where I am spiritually. Seriously I'm seated in Christ beside God the Father. Mentally I may be in a fog....

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text In a world where image is so very important what we look like has many people very concerned. In 2020 alone American spent about $93 billion on cosmetics and skin care. In the same year they spent 16.5 billion on cosmetic plastic surgery. And unfortunately there are those people who are getting nips and tux to try and look like other...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text A couple of weeks ago I did an episode entitled “it is his love.” What an awesome realization that Jesus loved us enough to die for us, to give his life for us. Not only did he give us life but he gave us freedom from fear and every trauma we have ever faced. We have a wonderful relationship with the greatest lover of all times. We ar...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text Monday, September 6 is the American observation of Labor Day. According to the US Department of labor, Labor Day honors and recognizes the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States. So my question for this episode is what are you laboring for? What will...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text In my opinion There is nothing more euphoric in life than knowing that you are loved. That moment when on your Facebook page you click in a relationship brings a rush of joy into your heart. In studies concerning infants and young children in orphanages those who are regularly held turn out to be mentally healthier than those that don...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text Yogi and boo boo, Abbot and Costello, laurel and hardy, Batman and Robin, Ben and Jerry,  What do these names have in common? They are partners. Partners in laughs and partners in crime fighting and partners in ice cream making. So what makes a good partnership? And is it better to have a partner or to go solo? Do you have all the res...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text Which way did he go George? Which way did he go? This quote appears over a billion times in a Google search. Yeah that's 1 billion with a B. The quote comes from a cartoon from December 1940 entitled of “fox and hounds.” It is spoken by a dog named Willoughby asking his supposed friend George who is a fox in dogs clothing which w...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text Have you ever found yourself going in circles? Have you had problems with not moving forward in the things of your life? It's summertime and people are going on vacations. So what is your favorite vacation destination? Without deciding upon a destination you can get in your car ready to go but you won't get far not knowing w...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text  There is a terrible mindset that affects way too many of us. This subtle mindset paralyzes us and terrifies us. It is a sneaky mindset that minimizes God. It is a subliminal mindset that denies the work of Jesus. It is called a poverty mindset. And even that name hides the true depths of its reality. Unfortunately when we think of po...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text July is my birthday month. And I have been blessed by the remembrance by many for that blessed day. But for other reasons some of my friends have also remembered and acknowledged the blessing of my life in theirs. It is wonderful to be remembered. It is a joy to know that others are thinking kindly of us. When people remember the thin...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text What kind of renewed mind dance are you doing? Is it the three steps forward two steps back tango? Is it the spinning top hop? Is it the backwards ballroom waltz? The challenge to renew our minds is a constant one. To not be conformed to the schemes of this world one must be constantly conscious of their thought patterns. It is easy t...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text When you're stuck in a rut it's hard to see the way out. You look at a wall on either side and turn around and look at the path and see darkness behind you turn and see darkness before you. All too often we Forget we can I have a different perspective because we are seated in the heavenly's in Christ. We have a right to...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text So what kind of attitude do you have when you approach your Heavenly Father? I once knew a believer whose prayers never used the word Father let alone the words Abba or Daddy. It was always just God. How’s your relationship with him, with Father or Abba or Daddy or Papa? There are times for different attitudes, different postures, if...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text There's an old saying girls love a man in uniform. But what is the uniform? There are so many to choose from. The saying is attached to men in military uniform but then janitors have uniforms also. Uniforms immediately identify a person by what they do generally. But a persons identity goes far deeper than their actions. In Scrip...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text Perhaps the greatest doubt that enters our minds is whether or not God loves us … always. Because we disobey at times we start to think that his love diminishes. And for anyone with a persistent challenge the chance that we feel unloved greatly increases. When our performance is lacking the feeling that God is holding out on us become...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text There are some people who love a good fight. There are others that will run from every fight before them. So how do we react when we are opposed.? How do we respond to intimidation? I mentioned in a previous episode the phrase, "training for reigning”. We are admonished to train our hearts and minds and bodies. We are commanded n...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text I have a friend who spent 21 years in prison. I'm glad to say he now has been out and sober for 20 years. A summation of his life is that he grew up in a 6 foot x 9 foot prison cell. He got an hour in the yard each day. When you have surroundings such as these your options are very few. Most of us don't grow up in a prison c...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text If you do a word search on identity crisis you will come up with a plethora of pages concerning the problem. Identity crisis is a very real problem in our world today. People are lost because they cannot define who they are. Simple labels of our identity include our ethnicity, our social status or our gender. But there are so many way...

CLICK HERE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ?? or prayer requests send a text In my last episode I mentioned being a self-made person is not one who has surrendered. The truth of our need and dependency upon God and his son and the Holy Spirit is denied by the self-made person. The self righteous want to show their worth comes from