The Rain Falls On The Just & The Unjust Another Prospective
The Rain Falls On The Just & The Unjust Another Prospective
Lots of people have had to endure some major downpours of rain in the forms of losing a loved one to a Mass Shooting, or Covid-19, or a child to school shootings, or intense hatred from Racism. Then there are also lives that were lost to Political Divisions like the rampage at the U. S. Capitol building, and the loss of life from opioid addiction. The list is endless of bad things that happen to good people. However, we must remember that Jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly. Two of the greatest spirited motivational speakers Tony Robbins & Les Brown tell us to keep the faith and keep moving forward. After the rain, God will give us all beauty for ashes. Check out my website
As we have read in the bible, but I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. – The Rain Falls On The Just & The Unjust Another Prospective
God sent his son Jesus to die on the cross for all our sins. God also gave us freedom of choice and some of us choose to live life doing good while others choose to do evil. God is no respecter of persons so all of us will have to endure testing periods in our lives. One of the greatest well-known figures in the bible went through long arduous testing from God. Joseph had to wait 13 years before he lived his dream of being second in command to Pharoah. Joseph endured lots of trials: being thrown in a ditch by his brothers was sold into slavery, was imprisoned because he was wrongfully accused of trying to sleep with Pharoah’s wife, and finally, he interpreted a dream and was released from prison and was promoted to second in command behind Pharoah. – The Rain Falls On The Just & The Unjust Another Prospective
Remember God never gives you more than you can bear, you are stronger than you think. Remember events will happen in life but your reaction to them will determine the outcome as to whether you pass the test and rise or if you fall. You cannot have a testimony if you do not have a test. – The Rain Falls On The Just & The Unjust Another Prospective
This is the reason for me writing the three books I have written, and I have been blessed for them to be Award-Winning Books: Miracles of Direction Miracles of Conquest Miracles of Provision Miracles of Purpose, Book of Proverbs – Proverbs for The Modern Day, and Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God. I was awarded one of the 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading For 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. I was a nominee for Top Female Author in 2017. I won Top Female Author in 2018 for the Religion/Philosophy/Spiritual category. Finally, I was awarded a 5-Star Book Review from Readers’ Favorite in March 2021. I feel so blessed and humbled to have received these awards and accolades.
Christian Books – Negativity – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God
Christian Books – Negativity – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God
Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit, and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues. – Steve Maraboli
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.” — David Lynch
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” — W. Clement Stone
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” – Rumi
Daily we truly must maintain control of our minds. What we allow to grow in our minds in the present and fertilize it is what our future will be like. In the same way, we must also watch the words we speak because they will also shape our future. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” – Proverbs 18:21. “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.” – Proverbs 23:7. Where the man goes the mind follows. – Joyce Meyer. http://www.miraclebook.net
In the same way that a car battery has a negative and positive terminal, we have the choice to live either negatively or positively. We also have the choice to speak negative or positive words and most definitely we have the choice regarding who to keep company and friendships with. Sure, we also have negative family members, but we can also control how much time we spend with them. Choice is something that God gave us from the beginning when he created Adam and Eve. God warned them about the tree of knowledge of good and evil and not to eat of it, but Eve chose to be deceived by the serpent and Adam chose to go along with Eve in eating the fruit from the tree. Christian Books – Negativity – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God
Every day we are presented with many choices, but it is up to us to choose wisely. That is why it is so critical to pray for wisdom daily. Some things we can stay away from completely. An example of this would be if you are a person who is allergic to shellfish then do not order it when dining out at a restaurant and do not buy it to cook for meals. If you do then you know what is next, you will have to snuggle up with a bottle of Benadryl when you break out in hives. However, there are times when you do not have control over things or persons that are negative. If your co-worker is a negative person then do not sit down and have lunch with them every day. Remember that adage that says couples married for a long time begin to look alike. “Back in 1987, scientists from the University of Michigan set out to study the phenomenon of married couples who grow to look more alike over time. (Their theory, which scientists still cite today, was that decades of shared emotions result in a closer resemblance due to similar wrinkles and expressions.)” – This is a part of an article written by JAMIE DUCHARME back on April 4, 2019, who works for Time.com. Well, the same thing applies to the company you keep. If you continuously hang around a negative person you will pick up their habits. Christian Books – Negativity – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God
Life is short and every moment counts. You do not have time to surround yourself around negativity. You need to look at the glass as half full and not half empty. Curtail negative words such as: Cannot, Do not, Impossible, Unable. Instead replace them with words like: Can, Attainable, Possible, Confident, Empowered. Remember in the bible it says, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” – Philippians 4:13. Christian Books – Negativity – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God
It is also necessary that we do not hold onto negative things that people have done to us and hurt us and keep replaying them in our minds. You are only hurting yourself. Trust me I know firsthand. You must pray and ask God to help you to be a bigger and better person. Wrapping yourself up in negativity like the blanket that Linus carried around with him from the Charlie Brown cartoon will only detract from a life of thriving. http://www.miraclebook.net
Christian Books – Faith – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God
Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God – Faith
Faith – belief and trust in and loyalty to God, belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion, something that is believed especially with strong conviction, complete trust.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. – Corrie ten Boom
We all were created in the image of God and he had faith in his creation of Adam and Eve when he placed them in the Garden of Eden. They disobeyed God but he continued to create even more of us. Even when he destroyed the earth by floodwaters, he spared Noah’s family and two of every kind of animal and when the floodwaters abated, he stated for us all to multiply and replenish the earth. Now you realize that if this had happened to most if not all of us, we would have been so distraught and disappointed in what we created we would have come up with another idea and never created human beings again. Gratefully we are not God and he continued to have faith in us and desired so much to have a relationship with us that he tried again and again. He continues to do that daily because his mercy for us is unending. God is still expecting all of us to become the image of his son Jesus. Christian Books – Faith – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God. http://www.miraclebook.net
We all need to strive to have an abundance of faith. We need to not just give up so easily and run to what we believe is the next best thing. Sure, we can do this if we have a change of heart regarding a food choice but that is not the same as the church, work, marriage, etc. Some of us are just too quick to change our church because we do not like or agree with the pastor anymore or a member of the church has hurt us in some way. Some people change jobs like you would change underwear. There is no stability anymore. I have the pleasure of knowing a banker who has worked for the same bank for 31 years. Remarkable! That is unheard of nowadays. Marriages nowadays are like going to an ice cream parlor and choosing several different flavors and then adding toppings. Christian Books – Faith – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God.
God is faithful and we should be the same in our daily lives. If God places a thought or idea in our minds, we should have faith to believe that he will see it through. The bible says, “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” – Philippians 1:6. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. – Jeremiah 29:11.
The bible has so much to say about faith. Look at these verses:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” – Hebrews 11:1
“But without faith, it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” – Hebrews 11:6
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” – 2 Corinthians 5:7
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” – Ephesians 2:8-9
There are numerous stories of people in the bible that had faith, but this is one example of a woman who had great faith. “And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace and be whole of thy plague. – Mark 5:25-34. Now the first thing that makes this passage in the bible so outstanding is that this woman was dealing with this health issue for twelve years. Most of us would have given up and had no faith or hope anymore. She spent all the money she had and to no avail. However, she pressed on in faith believing that if she could touch Jesus, she would be made whole. Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God – Faith
Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. – Smith Wigglesworth
Do you have any faith? If you do how strong is it? Miracles happen for those who have faith and believe. Christian Books – Faith – Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God.
Thriving – It’s Never Too Late
Thriving In Every Season Of Life With God – It’s Never Too Late
The time for action is now. It is never too late to do something. – Antoine de Saint – Exupery
It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
It is never too late to give up what you are doing and start doing what you realize you love. – Hans Rosling
Time marches on daily. Every day has 86,400 seconds. How many of them are you using to advance your future? The past is the past, and it will never return however the future is right in front of you. Are you looking at your life on a 32-inch TV screen when you can be shaping it with what you really love on an 85-inch TV or even bigger? Do not keep looking behind you like the rearview mirror in your car does. It is never too late to see your life in the front windshield window of your car or if you are bold and daring to see it as the size of a movie screen in the theatres. Thriving – It’s Never Too Late. http://www,miraclebook.net
There are countless people whose lives and futures did not spark at puberty or adolescence. They did not give up and settle. They realized that it is never too late and continued to persevere until they began to thrive in life.
Henry Ford – Had several failures, but he did not let them deter him. In 1899, at the age of 36 years old, Ford formed his first company, the Detroit Automobile Company, that company went bankrupt. His second attempt was in 1901 when he formed the Henry Ford Company, which he ended up leaving with the rights to his name. That company was later renamed the Cadillac Automobile Company. However, it was Ford’s third try, with the Ford Motor Company, that success bloomed. He was 40 years old when he started the Ford Motor Company. www.wikipedia.com
Samuel Jackson – Was a social worker before he began his acting career. He had small roles in the films Goodfellas and True Romance. However, he finally became a star when he appeared in Pulp Fiction when he was 45 years old.
Colonel Sanders – Worked many jobs including fireman, tire salesman, insurance salesman, and of course, a cook. In 1952 he hit the road and began trying to sell his franchise-model chicken restaurant. He traveled across the U.S. looking for someone to sell his fried chicken, and after finally getting a business deal in Utah, Kentucky Fried Chicken was born. He was 62 when KFC was established. KFC is now one of the most recognizable franchises in the world. The company grew and expanded faster than he could have ever imagined. In 1964, at the age of 74 years old, Sanders sold the company for $2 million dollars to a group of investors. www.wikipedia.com
Jeremy Renner – Worked as a part-time make-up artist to survive. Finally, at the age of 38, he starred in “The Hurt Locker” and his acting career began. He has since starred in blockbuster films such as The Avengers, Jason Bourne Legacy, and Mission Impossible.
J.K. Rowling – Rowling is one of the most inspirational success stories of our time. Many people simply know her as the woman who created Harry Potter. But what most people do not know is what she went through prior to reaching stardom. Rowling saw herself as a failure at this time. She was jobless, divorced, penniless, and a dependent child. She suffered through bouts of depression, eventually signing up for government-assisted welfare. J.K. Rowling was a single mom living off welfare when she began writing the first “Harry Potter” novel. The first Harry Potter book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published in June 1997 and J K Rowling was 32 years old. Rowling is now internationally renowned for her Harry Potter series and, in US currency, became the first billionaire author. Motivation Leads To Success – Facebook.
Steve Harvey – He had a passion to be on TV since he was 10 years old. Through many trials and tribulations that passion and purpose never became a reality until he was 38 years old. He is now one of the most successful comedians ever.
If these people could do it late in life, then so can you. It truly is never too late. The bible says. “God is no respecter of persons.” Thriving – It’s Never Too Late.
Thriving – Your Appointed Time
Thriving – Your Appointed Time
We live in an extremely fast-paced world where everything needs to come to us instantly. Banks have drive-thru lanes, so people do not have to go inside the bank and wait in line. However, sometimes you must wait in line in the drive thru even if there are two or more lanes. Almost every restaurant has drive-thru lanes as well so we can get the food fast and in the comfort of our vehicles. Surprisingly, there are some places that do not believe in instant gratification like Italy. About six years ago my husband and I traveled to Italy for our thirtieth wedding anniversary and were shocked and surprised to know that they do not have microwaves in Italy. The Italians believe in fresh food that is tasty and using a microwave to quickly heat up dinner is not for them. Thriving – Your Appointed Time. http://www.miraclebook.net
Therefore, we have such a difficult time waiting for our appointed time for our breakthrough. God does not work on the same thought process as we do, and this keeps us frustrated. A thousand years for God is like one day. God created all of us with a specific purpose in life we are to execute. According to what that purpose is that will determine our growth time and our refining period. God will not elevate us until we are ready to handle the tremendous future, he has in store for us, so we do not crash and burn because we were not ready. The bible says, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28. Jesus said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” – John 10:10. Thriving – Your Appointed Time.
We have all heard the phrase “patience is a virtue” and it really is. For those of us that are a type A personality like me, this can be a real struggle sometimes. However, God has a sense of humor because every time he tries to promote us, he gives us a test and if we fail, he will just continue to retest us until we pass. This is what the children of Israel had to go through when they were released from Egypt and kept failing the test which is why they spent 40 years in the wilderness for a trip that should have only taken 11 days.
Be patient and wait for your appointed time because what God has for you in your future will astound you because it is much bigger and better than what you had in mind.
