Month: September 2017

The past weekend has been a busy time for me with much to do. I worked through my birthday from early morning late into the evening preparing for two church services on Sunday and a training event I am conducting on Monday morning. Some people wonder why, at my age, I am not retired and off vegetating in some exotic location. One of my peers just turned 65 and announced his retirement this week.

For me, I am excited about what I am doing. I want others to benefit from the training I have received and the experiences I have gone through. Research has shown a significant percentage of people soon expire after they retire, because they no longer have anything to live for. One of my mentors, Ed Foreman, who is now in his eighties and extremely busy living his life to the full and helping others do the same, requested prayer that God would give him good health and energy to keep doing what he was doing for at least another 20 years. That’s my kind of mindset.

I looked at my priority manger yesterday to see what was coming up and realized the next month is going to incredibly exciting and busy. I have just one more session in the current training event I am conducting after today, but I am looking to conduct a full day event in late November, if I can arrange and get the pieces in place in time to make it a transformational experience for those who will attend. In the month of October we will host an I-Ching open house and a church soup fellowship. I will attend a three day I-Ching seminar and certification training event in Toronto and then fly to Los Angeles for a three day intensive training event with my mentor, Joel Bauer. Between my wife and I we have six nursing home services and my wife will be pulpit supplying two Sundays in a community about 2 hours away during the month of October. There are all the usual things around the house to be done, orders to be shipped for my wife’s mail order company with her weekly trip to Lewiston NY to ship U.S. orders, Sunday morning services in our local congregation to prepare for, pastoral “thingies” to do, community ministerial and food bank committees to attend, a daily blog article to write, getting the gardens around the house ready for winter, leaves to be rakes, snow fencing to put up and the list goes on. I think you get my point. WOW! Life is really exciting!

Your mindset about your life, your goals, your dreams and so much more is really important. Remember, it is your mindset, you determine what it will be and what it will bring into existence. What you think, believe, say and intend is important. As Joel Bauer says, “Your EGO is not your Amigo.” Troy McClain describes “EGO” “as Exiting God Out” of your life. Take care of your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health as you live out your passion on a daily basis. When you do, boring is not in your dictionary or vocabulary. Jesus came that you might have life and live it to the full (John 10:10). So go and do it!

If you go online you will find a litany of options for detox programs covering a wide variety of areas from alcohol and drugs, to weight loss, to dealing with specific organs, and so much more. There is not nearly as much information about the need to detox your thoughts. Yet your thoughts, beliefs, words and intentions impact your actions determining the outcomes in your life.

Dr. Caroline Leaf in a blog post titled, “Controlling Your Toxic Thoughts,” it would be a good idea to consider the following:
– How many “could-have”, “would-have”, “should-have” statements have you made today?
– How many “if onlys” were part of your inner vocabulary today?
– How many times have you replayed in your head a conversation or situation that pained you, or one that hasn’t even occurred yet?
– How many scenarios have you created of the unpredictable future?
– How much is speculation taking out of your day?
– How passive is your mind?
– How honest are you with yourself?
– Are you at cross-purposes with yourself – going through the motions, but not really committed to the goal, saying one thing but meaning another?
– How distorted is your thinking? Are you forming a personal identity around for example, a disease? Do you speak about “my arthritis”, “my multiple sclerosis”, “my heart problem”?
– Do you ever make comments like “nothing ever goes right for me”; “everything I touch fails”; “I always mess up”?

Negative toxic thinking, limiting lies and limiting subconscious programming have consequences connected to them. This is why God’s Word encourages us to be on the positive, liberating, freedom side of life. The Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:8-9 writes, “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things. {9} Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me–put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”

Dr. Leaf writes in her blog, “Toxic waste generated by toxic thoughts causes the following illnesses: diabetes, cancer, asthma, skin problems and allergies to name just a few. Consciously control your thought life.” What outcomes are you looking for in your life? It is never too late to change. Take action now. Live well and responsibly.

When you say YES to the relationship with Jesus there is a transformational process which takes place in different fields of existence. The tragedy is that teaching and training about these areas are limited. When the Apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “If anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation; old things have passed away, new things have come,” how often do you hear training related to the “new creation” in terms of what the original Greek says is, “a fresh original formation”. Humanity was first created in relationship with the Creator. There was a certain vibrational frequency to human DNA. This frequency changed when Adam and Eve rebelled and “sin” became part of the human race.

The actions of Jesus on the Cross of Calvary provided not only a mechanism to re-establish a restored relationship, but a restoration of vibrational frequency which had been lost. Freshness was renewed opening the door for the potential of what it means to be a child of God once again.

Jesus told His disciples as He was about to return to His Father in heaven, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18). In Luke 10:19 we are told Jesus gave to His followers, “authority” (“privilege, i.e. (subject) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (object) mastery (“concrete magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence :- authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength)” – Strong’s Greek & Hebrew Dictionary, “over all the power of the enemy.”

Have you been informed you have that power and authority as a result of your relationship with Jesus? Have you been taught how to properly use what Jesus has given you? If not, why not? To what extend do you realize and apply His authority in your life to bring about transformation in the world?

Don’t you think as someone in relationship with Jesus you ought to know about these things? Have you not read what Jesus said as recorded in Matthew 16:19 and 18:18? “I assure you; whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven.” As a child of God you are responsible, as a steward, for what you do with what you have been given. You can make a difference. You have been given the gift of restored relationship, you have been given the gift of restored DNA frequency and you have been given much more, but that is for another article in another point of time.

Take what you do know and implement, not for yourself, but the benefit of others and the glory of the One who gave Himself for you.

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What do you do when you have developed a degree of understanding and functionality on a subject and then are offered an opportunity to take what you think you know to a deeper level of understanding? In that moment, is your mindset open to new possibilities? You are faced with a choice. Will you accept the challenge to learn more and commit to the process of change which might result? It is an interesting dilemma isn’t it?

How do you feel about yourself, about your beliefs and principles by which you live? Are you comfortable knowing there is a lot you don’t know, and you are excited with the possibility of growing beyond your current status?

What do you do when your computer hard drive is getting full and you want to add or update programs on your computer? There are a variety of options, but apart from buying another hard drive, or another computer, you might consider a process of sorting, sifting and differentiating which leads to deleting old, or non essential, programs and files to make room for what you want to add.

You need to be specific about what you want to do and the process of doing it. Yesterday I was working with a new version of a software program I had been using. The latest version has repositioned command functions for certain processes. I was not paying close enough attention to what I was doing on a new file I had just started working on and saved overtop of a file which I had spent more than eight hours creating. I am not sure there are words to describe how I felt as I realized what I had just done. If something like what I just shared has happened to you, you have an idea of how I felt. In that initial moment, it did cross my mind, this would not have happened if I had just stayed with the old version of the program.

It was a couple minutes later when I had calmed down enough to think clearly I realized I had transferred that file to another computer to work on it. A copy of the original file could be copied back to my computer. Those hours of my life spent on that project were not lost. Celebration time!

This event was a reminder, I cannot live in fear and limitation of what might come as a result of learning something new, even if it means change and perhaps even a mishap or two along a learning curve. The functionality and increased benefits of the newer version of the software program will be well worth the process of change in the long run.

Our thinking, beliefs, words and intentions are driven by the neural pathways we have incorporated in to our life. This applies to every area, including the spiritual. The Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 2:15-16, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth. {16} But avoid irreverent, empty speech, for this will produce an even greater level of impiety.” We will reap what we sow. Are you seeking to strengthen the principles by which you live, while at the same time finding ways to be teachable in terms of the methods by which you communicate those principles?

I came across a phrase which declared, “You need to see yourself differently.” That reminded me of another phrase which I have heard and read many times from Les Brown, “You have greatness within you.” What difference do you think and believe it would make if you came to the realization “I really do have greatness within me.” How do you think that might influence what you say about yourself and how you perceive others comments about you. Can you imagine how that might influence your intentions and impact your actions? Would it make a difference ultimately in the outcomes of your life?

I am sure if you began to truly live with this realization, as a reality, there will be someone who will criticize you for being egotistical, lacking humility and any number of other alternatives. But in the end, does it really matter what they think? Those who truly know and understand you, know it isn’t true. Care, but not that much. Do not allow their opinion to hinder you from being all God created and empowers you to be.

Listen to what the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8:31-39, “What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? {32} He did not even spare His own Son but offered Him up for us all; how will He not also grant us everything? {33} Who can bring to account a charge against God’s elect? God is the One who justifies. {34} Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the One who died, but even more, has been raised; He also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us. {35} Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? {36} As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered. {37} No, in all these things we are more than a conqueror through Him who loved us. {38} For I am convinced that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers, {39} height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!”

You are more than a conqueror. God confidence is not something to be ashamed of, or should you hide it. Responsible stewardship of who you are in Christ is to be expressed and anything less is not pleasing to Him. Remember the servant who hid his talent rather than use it (Matthew 25:24-30).

If you are not living your life to the full, I would suggest to you the idea of changing some things, so you see yourself differently and demonstrate the greatness you have within you.