I Choose Today

I Choose Today...

be faithful to deliver the good news.

Good morning, my friend. Today I was looking out the window, the ground covered in heavy white frost. I love this time of year. Actually, I love every season. Even though it’s not snow here in North Carolina, the frost reminds me of snow and of my days delivering papers as a kid. It’s had to believe that was over 50 years ago. The “Sturgis Daily Journal” was delivered to our house Monday through Saturday about 3:00 in the afternoon in one large bundle and sometimes more if there were advertisements  My brothers would all take how many they needed and we would head out to deliver the papers. In Michigan we got lots of snow. They call it lake effect, but all I can say is, it’s heavy snow. There where many times that we walked to deliver the papers because the snow would make it difficult to ride our bikes. But like the postman, we were faithful and delivered the good news to the people that were waiting for their newspaper. It was before cell phones and when it got dark and we were not home yet, mom would start calling people on our route to see where

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I Choose Today to do my part

In describing the motivational gifts that God gives, it is describing characteristics of Christ. He is the perfect example of all those gifts; He embodies these gifts. We, as the body of Christ, represent parts of Christ. The same chapter, Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭4‬-‭5‬‬‬, tells us, “Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.” We each need to do our part. We are all different and have different gifts to complete the whole.  But it start with us knowing the gift God has made us with, and develop and use it for His glory. We are born with a bent toward one of these gifts, but we need to do our part in developing and working them to maturity, to being useful in its intent. The Israelites experienced this when God gave them the gift of food in the way of manna. Manna wasn’t bread; it was a seed. Numbers tells us that, “The manna looked like small coriander seeds, and it was pale yellow like gum resin. The people would go out and gather it

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To sit and wait on Jesus

Good morning my friend, I am reading  Psalm 139:1-4  “O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say before I say it.” I’m going back to school and I’m trying to get everything entered on my computer and iphone. I’m used to the “old school way.” One of the things I need is my High School diploma. I remember seeing it a couple of weeks ago and I didn’t put it back where it was. So I called my High School and they are looking for a copy. But, I did find my graduation invitation and the bulletin from my church. I even found my graduation picture.  But, not the diploma. As I am reading this passage, we have a God that knows everything and yet why is He the last One I go to? The Lord told us over and over to come to Him, so this morning I once again ask the

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I Choose Today to know my Motivational Gifts

Have you ever watched an artist at work, marveling at their God-given talent that allows them to create incredible masterpieces? Or witnessed an elite athlete with such natural gifting that their instincts in making the perfect shot or catch seem almost divinely inspired? Perhaps, you’ve been in a church service where the speaker, impassioned by their God-given message, left you in awe of the spiritual talent they possess. Or a musician, chef, mathematician, designer, teacher? I could go on and on, but you get the point. You may even wonder how they can physically, mentally, or vision that enables them to accomplish such things. God’s Word tells us how and why these people could accomplish all these amazing things. God has gifted each person the ability to fulfill the purpose He intended. Paul talks about the seven motivational gifts God gives us to complete our mission here on earth. Romans 12 says, ”so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. In His grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. “So if God has given you the ability to [motivate] prophesy, speak out with

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I Choose Today to know I have a purpose

A few weeks ago I talked about God giving us the gift of His breath in our lungs. He designed us on purpose, for a purpose. As a reminder of David’s worship to his Lord when he said, ”You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.“Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭13‬ ‭NLT‬‬ God wasn’t arbitrary about how and why He made each and every one of us. He knit us together, as David said. He designed us with intentionality, as Paul tells the Ephesians church, ”For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.“Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭10‬ ‭NLT‬‬ This verse reminds us that He planned good things for us to do a long time ago. So when He is knitting us together and making His masterpiece with purpose and intentionality, why wouldn’t He equip us by giving us the gifts needed to succeed and flourish in the Master’s plan? He wouldn’t and He didn’t. He has given us Christ Jesus, who perfectly lived out these gifts while being fully man and fully Devine. He embodied all these gifts so

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