The Reality of Prayer, E. M. Bounds

PRAYER—A PRIVILEGE, PRINCELY, SACRED

I am the creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit
come from God and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf; till a few moments
hence I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing, the
way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach
the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. give me that
book! At any price give me the Book of God! Lord, is it not Thy word—“If any man lack wisdom,
let him ask of God? Thou givest liberally, and upbraidest not. Thou hast said, if any be willing
to do Thy will he shall know. I am willing to do; let me know Thy will.”—John Wesley

YOU HAVE TO LIVE ABOVE REGRET

YOU HAVE TO LIVE ABOVE REGRET

 
  Do not over inflate the regret. Accept it as it is and do not make it bigger by dwelling on it.

    Don't rehash the event over and over by continually telling others what happened. You could actually become "addicted" to the sympathy!

    Discovering the source of your regret but not modifying your behavior to avoid the situation in the future will lead to repeated regrets, possibly of greater intensity.

    If at any point your regret turns into severe depression, withdrawal, self-harming, or suicidal thoughts, please contact a doctor, psychologist, counselor, psychiatrist, somebody that you trust completely. You are not alone!

    If you are feeling guilt or regret because someone abused you or sexually assaulted you, realize that you are not to blame! But, make sure that you tell the police (and your parents if you're young) so that person who hurt you will be stopped from hurting you and other victims.

We live only once, so lets live above REGRET.

Tips On How to Overcome Serious Regrets

Tips On How to Overcome Serious Regrets

Keep your situation in perspective. Remember that anything you've done is totally forgivable, even though it may seem unforgivable to you.

Also make sure you forgive yourself and others because we all mess up!

Think to yourself, why did I do it? And how can I prevent myself from doing it again?

Forget the past, watch the present, and create the future.

Whatever your past mistakes are, they can be redeemed and used for good if you are truly sorry. The mistakes you made can be used as teaching tools, to prevent others from making the same bad choices and getting into the same trouble you did. If you're truly changing you can work with teens and be a mentor. Sharing your story with others, with the goal of teaching, can be very healing. The rough things you went through, even if they were your fault, can even help others who have already made mistakes they regret, because you can be a friend to them which will understand how they feel and not judge them.

Writing about your regrets, feelings, and frustrations can help understand why you did what you did and how you can learn from your mistakes.

Remember that sometimes you are actually harsher with yourself.

Live in the present, keeping your focus in the current moment stops you from re-living the past over and over; this will also help you to stop living your life through the eyes of your past.

Take comfort in knowing that we've all made really huge mistakes! You're not alone. If you only knew all the skeletons in people's closets, you'd know that we all do things we seriously regret at times. But, this too will pass (as they say).

Visualize yourself acting and doing things as you move forward and leave your regrets behind.

Forget it, Let Go and Let God.

REVEALING TO YOU LIFE'S GRACIOUS REALITIES: YON CAN DO BETTER

REVEALING TO YOU LIFE'S GRACIOUS REALITIES: YON CAN DO BETTER: How to Overcome Serious Regrets There is no such thing as a life without any regrets. However, regrets can become either burdens that ...

YOU CAN DO BETTER

How to Overcome Serious Regrets

There is no such thing as a life without any regrets. However, regrets can become either burdens that interfere with your present happiness and restrict your future, or motivation to move forward. If you find yourself overcome by regrets, here are some steps that should help you integrate them.

1 Determine what your regret really is. Do you regret something you did or something you didn't do? Something someone else did or did not do? A circumstance beyond your control? It is important to step back from the feelings of regret and identify exactly what the regret is. 

2

Ask for forgiveness and make amends. Apologize for any harm you may have caused others, it does not kill to ask for forgiveness so give it a go! Forgive yourself. Forgiving others will make you happier. Be compassionate toward everyone involved including yourself.

3 Accept the circumstances. Avoid blaming others but rather take responsibility for anything that you could have better handled. 

4 Deal with toxic relationships. Sometimes other people cause us to do things that leave us with serious regrets. Do you have a toxic relationship that needs to be addressed or severed? 

5 Grieve for your regrets. When we feel regret, we re-live guilt, sadness or anger over and over again. Allowing yourself to experience these feelings fully with the intention of moving forward can help you stop revisiting them. 

6 Recognize what you have learned or gained. When you find yourself thinking of the regret, turn your thoughts to the things you have learned and the opportunities that are now yours - even if they are not what you would have preferred. There is always a lesson even in pain and sadness. Look for the lesson and focus on it instead of what might have been. 

7 Write out a plan or agreement for yourself that identifies how you could avoid having this sort of regret in the future.

GO TO THE ANTS.................

 GO TO THE ANTS.................

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities. More than 10,000 known ant species occur around the world. They are especially prevalent in tropical forests, where they may be up to half of all the insects living in some locations.

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be located underground, in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants nest in wood and can be destructive to buildings. Some species, such as army ants, defy the norm and do not have permanent homes, instead seeking out food for their enormous colonies during periods of migration.

Ant communities are headed by a queen or queens, whose function in life is to lay thousands of eggs that will ensure the survival of the colony. Workers (the ants typically seen by humans) are wingless females that never reproduce, but instead forage for food, care for the queen's offspring, work on the nest, protect the community, and perform many other duties.

Male ants often have only one role—mating with the queen. After they have performed this function, they may die.

Ants communicate and cooperate by using chemicals that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus, or insects. However, some species have diets that are more unusual. Army ants may prey on reptiles, birds, or even small mammals.

Source: nationalgeographic.com 

Talk For Change

 CHANGE YOUR MENTALITY

Do you know that the MENTAL gap between the RICH and the POOR is not as much as the MATERIAL gap between them????
All you need to do is to CHANGE your MENTALITY, Get the MATERIAL and make your DREAM a REALITY.

MY LIFE'S REALITIES

Tell us Your Life's Realities................

REVEALING TO YOU LIFE'S GRACIOUS REALITIES: BED TIME TALK {BTT}

REVEALING TO YOU LIFE'S GRACIOUS REALITIES: BED TIME TALK {BTT}:
GET REAL OR DIE FAKE

  Real people are never fake, because they believe in the genuineness of themselves. There is non like you, God made y...

BED TIME TALK {BTT}

GET REAL OR DIE FAKE 

Real people are never fake, because they believe in the genuineness of themselves. There is non like you, God made you and you along, why are you tying to be like others. Do you think they are more than you, they only have opportunities that you are yet to have. Look inside of you there are things about you that you have not yet discover, remember REALITY comes after DISCOVERY.

GET REAL OR GET FIRED

Get Real or Get Fired

If we believed that Heaven and Hell is real then we have to start living real. Living Real is living above lies, above what people say about you and living beyond fake. Start Living Real, Get Real Get Ready and wait For HEAVEN to Get you.

REVEALING TO YOU LIFE'S GRACIOUS REALITIES: Every Morning Talk {EMT}: HIGHER EVERYDAY

REVEALING TO YOU LIFE'S GRACIOUS REALITIES: Every Morning Talk {EMT}: HIGHER EVERYDAY:  SEARCH OUT SOMETHING  Text: “It is the glory of God to conceal athing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.” (Proverbs 25:2...

Every Morning Talk {EMT}: HIGHER EVERYDAY

 SEARCH OUT SOMETHING 

Text: “It is the glory of God to conceal athing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.” (Proverbs 25:2)

A proverb says, ‘curiosity killed the cat’. But note that if not for curiosity, there would be no United States of America. There would be no electricity, motor cars, telephones, computers and aeroplanes. It was the zeal of men like Christopher Columbus, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison and Alexander
Graham Bell that made them possible. 

Curiosity is the same word as inquisitiveness , interest, prying, or questioning. We all possess it as children and like to explore our environments. That means you too can search out something. Unfortunately, as you grow older, this zeal is subdued by many things, including unhelpful experiences and discouragements by friends and family members. You need to
renew your curiosity. Learn how to develop keen interest in yourself and environment.
According to Ken Keyes, “Let everyone and everything around you be your teacher.” Inquisitiveness makes your mind active instead of being passive; observant of new ideas, and opens up new worlds and possibilities. It brings excitement into your life, leads to new discoveries makes you fruitful and useful.

Challenge: Curiosity can open new world of possibilities to you.
Prayer: O God, keep my mind active.
Further Reading: Ecclesiastes: 12: 9-12

BED TIME TALK {BTT}

SLEEP part 1

what is Sleep?

There are over 20 definitions of "sleep" in several dictionaries. The first, a verb, seems most appropriate: to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.

Physiologically, sleep is a complex process of restoration and renewal for the body. Scientists still do not have a definitive explanation for why humans have a need for sleep. We do know that sleep is not a passive process or "switching off" of body functions; sleep is believed to be important in many physiologic processes including the processing of experiences and the consolidation of memories. It is also clear that sleep is essential, not only for humans but for almost all animals.

The importance of sleep is underscored by the symptoms experienced by those suffering from sleep problems. People suffering from sleep disorders do not get adequate or restorative sleep, and sleep deprivation is associated with a number of both physical and emotional disturbances. In addition, sleep is influenced by the circadian rhythms (regular body changes in mental and physical characteristics that occur in the course of about 24 hours). These are controlled by brain neurons that respond to light, temperature and hormones and other signals and comprise the body's biological clock. This clock helps regulate the "normal" awake and sleep cycles. Disruption of these cycles can make people sleepy at times people want to be awake. For example, travelers experience "jet lag" when they cross time zones. When a New Yorker arrives in Paris at midnight Paris time, his or her body continues to operate (their biological clock) on New York time. It may take some time (about 1-3 days) to reset a person's biologic clock, depending on how much it has been altered by the time change.

There is evidence that some aspects of sleep are under genetic influence; a gene termed DEC2 is being investigated as causing people that possess it to require only about 6 hours of sleep. Researchers have only begun to examine the genetics involved in sleep.

REVEALING TO YOU LIFE'S GRACIOUS REALITIES: Every Morning Talk {EMT}: GOOD THINKING GOOD PRODU...

REVEALING TO YOU LIFE'S GRACIOUS REALITIES: Every Morning Talk {EMT}: GOOD THINKING GOOD PRODU...: George Washington Carver died on this day in 1943. The formal slave had become a renowned scientist, internationally recognized for his agri...

Every Morning Talk {EMT}: GOOD THINKING GOOD PRODUCT

George Washington Carver died on this day in 1943. The formal slave had become a renowned scientist, internationally recognized for his agricultural reseach, and was honored with numerous awards. Carver is especially noted for creating more than three hundred products from peanuts, such as a milk substitute, printer's ink, and soup. He also developed over seventy-five product from pecans and more than a hundred products from sweet potatoes, including flour, shoe polish and candy.
It's amazing to think that someone could create three hundred useful product from a peanut! It's also impossible for our finite minds to grasp the fact that God created everything we see from nothing, the book of Genesis told us. Since we are created in God's image, we have an inherent creative drive. Any creative act we perform is an act of worship to the One who placed that spark in us.

Just Believe that God will create something amazing out of your life today. Amen

Every Morning Talk {EMT} On This Day

MAKING YOUR REALITY AN OPPORTUNITY

Lousi Braille was born on this day in 1809 in Coupvray, France. At age three, he was permanently blinded by an accident with a leather-making awl in his father's saddlery. When Braille was fifteen, he began revising a method of writing that had been develop for trench warfare communication by army captain Charles Barbier. Barbier''s system was rejected by the military as too complex, but Braille hoped it could be useful for blind people. Ironically, he used an awl-like stylus to make small, raised dots on paper that could be felt and interpreted. This system was not officially accepted until after Braille died in poverty in 1852. Today it is universally accepted for all written languages and for mathematics, science, and computer notation.
We seem to be surronded by senseless tragedies like the accident that blinded Braille in his childhood. In the Old Testament, Joseph's jealous brothers sold him into slavery. He was falsely accused of attempted rape and spent years in prison. Yet he rose up to become the second-most-powerful person in Egypt and many nations during a time of great famine. Joseph later assured his brothers, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good" Genesis 50:20.
As believers, we have the promise that he is working out all things ____even our hurts, disappointments, and tragedies____for our good and glory.

What painful situation has God used for good in your life??????

QUOTES OF REALITIES.

• I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. Ken Venturi. 

•  Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller. 

•  “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss.

•   “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality, If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” ― Jim Morrison.

•  “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.” ― C. JoyBell C.

•  “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ― Søren Kierkegaard.

Bed Time Talk {BTT}

The celebration of a new year makes the heart happy and filled the soul with gladness. But after the noise of celebration, here comes the time for meditation, think about today's realities and make plans for tomorrow's, forget the problems of today, focus on how to make your tomorrow successful. That's life's realities, Get Ready To Get Real.

JANUARY 1 2014

New year's day is the oldest of all the holidays we celebrate. January 1 became generally recognized as the beginning of the year in the 1950s with the adoption of the Gregorian calender. The best way for the believers to celebrate each year is to resolve to live a new life free from the old bad life style. we also get a new future. Today is the first day of the year can you share with us what new thing you want from the Lord this New Year.