~ Food for Thought! ~ Growth Is Good! ~

There is a need to start this off with: God Is Good! Ps. 73:1 From here we can go anywhere.
You might have had a need to ask me why the last post was in Red? I am glad you asked and because it caught your eye, it served its purpose1

The main reason is to convey how I hurt … (And not like BC = “I feel your Pain!) to see so many not partaking in HIS Kingdom out of ignorance and/or stubbornness. The funny thing about it is that even as I am writing about this I could be right in the middle of both of them.

Sometimes they are so subtle that they are invisible and evasive. As I write this, I am open to have a slap up the side of my head, so that I can partake of all this wisdom myself.

The reason for this post is for my growth and you could be the instrument of HIS choice should you step out of your comfortable prison and let the swing begin, by contacting me. Go ahead so I can say: “Thanks … I Needed That!”

Nevertheless, have a blessed day and reap what HE has for you today!

1 aka DP

~ Food for Thought! ~ Change Is Good! ~

It is said, Change is Good! And before we get in the middle of this, let it be said, that I said It, whether it was the first time said or not. Another one I like is: “Everything Changes, except Change Itself!” And when ‘It Is All Said and Done’, GOD IS THE EXCEPTION!

Have you heard anyone say, “They Say!” when trying to bolster his or her perspective on anything?

What I have found out in the last few days, is that if you want to ‘T’ them off, just ask them to, “Name One!” I learn this by accident the first time, as the inference was that there was a ‘Multitude’ of the ‘They’ that were saying, … whatever it might be. What you will also find out is, ‘what it is that ‘T’s them off’, should you push the issue. It is that they (Who you are talking to;) cannot name even one!

What is Important in all the above, is that “They Say” in not the only repeated, obsequious, Master over Slavery that so many people lock themselves in prisons of their own making.

Say what you want and no doubt, you will and that also, will, be repeated by those who abhor Change, Nevertheless, as I pursue these thoughts, I am becoming an expert in the bondages others keep themselves in.

Not The Rule, though far from being the exception, Believers who are partaking in the Kingdom dynamically in certain areas, will not even give ‘Thought’ to the many other areas of participation, on only one count. That being ‘Change’ and their detestation of it, because knowing it will eliminate their selves from their state of soothed contentment.

Now ‘Soothed Contentment’ is only being dispersed and enjoyed in the area of that Change. Now why is this important? I bet you thought that I would never ask!

Change is what brings us into new realms of God’s Promises’ and those being based on HIS Laws that even Atheists partake of. Many of the times it is, only on that point they base their resistance.

My greatest growth in my relationship with God and learning how much more that HE had me to participate in, was the excruciating and agonizing torment I went through, until I just accepted the Change!

Now no doubt, that some of the ‘They’ will say that, the above was infested with hyperbole, albeit others will know that I only scratched the surface of what they have gone through.

This will be my first closing, as all good preachers say.
SO WHAT? You say! I thought you would never ask.
BOY! Does a question like that, bless a preacher!

Ministering so many different times to these situations in the past has made me an expert in this area. The only accounts that have not been productive were only those situations where the participants shut off all communications dealing in these issues. I Mean Shut Off!

In closing (for real this time!;-) Should you be going through something that has gone on for a long time and are ‘REALLY’ Ready to deal with it, I invite you to contact me and I will be blessed to being a part of your ‘Painful Growth’!
Contact me!
And Be Blessed, 1 aka DP

~ Food for Thought! ~ Finish Strong! ~

I may get a lot of argument from this, though what I have come to not only believe, but endeavor to walk in is, ‘The Choice Is Yours!

Sometimes our starts are a little weak and wobbly, though we ought to choose to ‘KNOW’ that we are going to accomplish what we start out to do. Courage is a quantity that we are not aware of to any extent. Even beyond our wildest dreams.

Bethany Hamilton is a good example of what the human being is capable of doing! Having an arm removed from a shark bite and coming back to compete and winning with in 6 months!

Ray Kroc should have rolled over and died at age 52, Nevertheless McDonald’s is what it is today because of Ray’s determination!

To believe and then act on it is key to most every success! Where do you get your belief system from? As we discussed before, it comes from all those filters that we have been indoctrinated in and our sub-conscience keeps us trapped there, should we not first become aware of it and then do something to change it!

Wilma Rudolph, Ben Hogan and Paul Hamm, all could have gave up though with that positive attitude and determination thy “Finished Strong”!

NOW How will you chose to respond? It IS your choice! Go get them Champs!

Be Blessed, 1 aka DP

~Food for Thought !~ Perry The Peacock~

What about ‘ol’ Perry The Peacock and the ordeals that one with a positive attitude has to deal with, when confronting a stagnant status quo mindset? A lot of issues are evaluated here and sometimes one with a lot of energy and enthusiasm, who is creative and has imagination to see opportnities is some what accepted for a season. Even a temporary partnership, seems to have a potential of co-opporative development.

B U T ! As soon as the status quo is made uncomfortable for any reason, trouble will appear. Trying to get conformity will rob all the positive aspects from any creative individual. CHANGE is always uncomfortable!

The creative individual is sad, to disappointed that there seems to be no way to break through the staus quo into bigger and better innovations.

Anyplace in the world can be “The Land Of Opportunity” depending on one’s perspective and those who are their associates.

Let me give you Scripture to confirm this last perspective:
Luk 11:34
"The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
Luk 11:35
"Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.
Luk 11:36
"If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light."

Also see: Mat 6:21-23

For some reason there will always be those, whose glass is only half full. Regardless of what side the get up from, it is the wrong side of the bed.

Not that I am all the way there as yet, But my glass is over half full, in fact, “I am drinking from the saucer, because my cup runneth over!”

Be Blessd, Loved of The LORD! 1 aka DP

BREAK TIME ~More food for Thought!~

I want take a break here and put out some food for thought! Here are some ‘Attitude’ and ‘Behaviour’ movies to set your creative juices into motion. Let me know what you think and that will takes us back to “THOUGHTS”!

http://www.perrythepeacock.com/
http://www.finishstrongmovie.com/
http://www.changeisgoodmovie.com/
http://www.richestmanmovie.com/

Do your self a favor and comment on one or all of them. It will help you and give me more to write about.


Be Blessed, 1 aka DP

More Thoughts: Factions in the Church!

Loved of The LORD,
Continuing on the thought about factions in the Church, I know there will be some who will say that Paul did not condone factions, in order to refute my thought in post below. Re: 1Cor 11:19.
Ok, let me agree with them for the sake of unity. It is never conducive for fruition, to have any kind of conflict when promoting, producing and/or publishing any good of any kind, especially The Good News of Jesus.

Nevertheless, as painful the pruning and culling that incurs in all productions, they are necessary, in order to harvest a crop of maximum fruition.

While reading I came across this verse that goes hand in hand: Luk 9:50 But Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against you is for you.

What is almost hilarious, had it not been sad, that Jesus had to rebuke the ‘Son’s Of Thunder’ for wanting to pull off their own agenda, several times. Four verses later, they want to call down fire from heaven, because the Samaritans did not welcome Jesus.

So many times the differences are more important to point out and refute than paying attention to one’s own calling and reaping their own share of the benefits and results.

Yes! No Doubt! Should I make the effort, I could find something about what you believe that I could inexorably disagree with. Nevertheless, while camping out on that and wasting time energy and effort to prove you wrong, those passing me on by on their way to hell are neglected!

SO! There must be something here that you disagree with. Make a comment so we can get it on!



Just Kidding! ;-) Be Blessed, 1 aka DP

Thoughts: Factions in the Church!

Why do Issues that come up in The Church, sometimes turn into a deeply implanted Crusade that one finds their self almost ready to die for and protect what one thinks is its virtue. 1Cor 11:19



I have a real good friend and brother, … In a way another Spiritual Son, who is still ministering in the Former USSR. We have been conversing (E-Mail) about the different Doctrines that make the different Denominations Ultra Sectarian in the positions they take.



As we dialogged, we find out how really united we our in our beliefs. The more we converse, the more the light reveals what we had formally thought as being differences.



It Becomes Hilarious, when we get down to the Nity Grity. We can laugh at those who are locked into their ‘Boxes’ (Filters)



It reminds us of the Sadducees and the Pharisees during Jesus’ time. The controversy over being, an after life, any such thing as Angels, etc. were very minor to the main Issue at hand. That is Serving God.



The Preacher, who came to town and turn their Religious world upside down, united them, (Against Him.) proving that they did not know God. (Even Face to Face with Him.)



Today it is so easy to Label another part of the body, as heretical, because of how they see things different.



The most recent is the ongoing arguments from the Calvinists and the Armenians. It has been going on for scores of decades and both sides, (And all the splinters betwixt and between.) wrestle over an issue that has nothing to do with getting The Gospel Published and giving individuals a choice of not spending Eternity in Hell.



Is Predestination something only God determines, and if it is, what is the use of preaching the Gospel, if God is going to make the decision, regardless of what is your desire? On the other hand, after you choose to be saved, can you turn your back and walk so far away from God that He will never hear you repent, ask for forgiveness and He welcoming you back with open arms?



Like the Hypothetical sign at the entrance to The Kingdom as you approach it, … it reads, “Predestination” and as you pass through, you glance back at that sign and it reads, “Who So Ever Will”!




I have ministered to many from these different “Factions’ that have been beside themselves about Salvation, especially theirs and helped most see the Light from The Truth! It is what sets them FREE!



Let me finish with this:
Paul is very clear about the factions in the Church and I believe that he is telling us that these factions are necessary. Let us look at it here:
1Cor. 11:19 For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.



There is no one person that will be able to minister to every single person. It had been, it is and will be all of us that Publish The Good News that will bring in The Kingdom. Even though Paul is rebuking the Church at Corinth, he is telling them (and us.) that some will hear it from others, some from … yes even you, and I hate to spoil your thoughts about me, but God has and will still use me. (As unworthy as I am.)



Forget the trivial and hone in on what is important! i.e. The Vital message is: Jesus + Nothing! The ‘Nothing’ includes anything that one would consider important to be saved. Jesus Took care of it ALL!

The Jewish Christians wanted to strap Circumcision on the Gentiles for them to be saved. That made Paul Mad!

The only Question to be asked is: ARE You Saved Now? And If not: How Come? Scripture is very plain about how and the way it is done.



Should you need some help on this, comment and we will go to The Word Himself.



Be Blessed, 1 aka DP