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Yesterday morning I got up at my usual time and sat down to do my daily program of devotion, meditation and prayer. My heart was extremely heavy because Paris had been attacked by terrorists the night before and a couple days earlier forty lives were taken in a senseless bombing in Beirut. I did…
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Epictetus said it well in this quote. Jesus says it even better in Luke 16:10, “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much” (NIV) …if you want to expand what you have you must show God gratitude and be responsible with the “little” in order to blessed with the “large.” P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com
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So true! Notice the word discipline in Mr. Nouwen’s quote above. In essence, developing an attitude of gratitude requires a willingness to part from the normal path created by the world and instead focus on the path God has created for us and choose to be grateful for it. Developing this discipline will give us the…
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Basically you attract whatever condition your spirit is in. Be unthankful and you will attract unthankful spirits. Be thankful and you will attract thankful spirits. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Proverbs 17:22, “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” (ESV)
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It’s easy to thank God when great “life blessings” are poured down upon on us but it’s life transforming when we are able to thank God for His grace regardless of whether or not life is blessing us. It is His undeserved grace that allows us to experience the greatest blessing of all…eternity. We…
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I’ve seen this happen more times than not. Wealth is way overrated, health is not. Choose health over wealth. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were…
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Being grateful is a state of the heart…so is being ungrateful. How is your heart? Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” Proverbs 4:23, “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com
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If this is you, God Bless You! If it isn’t…fake it til you make it and try reading the scripture from Psalms daily until you make it. Having a grateful heart upon arising is a great way to put the devil to rest early and often, one day at a time. Psalm 104:1-35 P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com
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Even the most horrific circumstance(s) will be turned into something good if you allow God to be a part of the solution…I write from experience. Helpful hint…God cannot do His best work when we are in anger, denial or simply in a state of indifference. It takes the willingness to seek an accepting heart…
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I find myself thanking God early and often each day. It is a habit I developed years ago and it forces me to get out of myself and see the beauty God has created. I have found the darkness in my world is self-inflicted. There is always light ready to “dim” the darkness but…
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