A Teaching Moment (ATM)
Exodus Into Better Things!
Exodus Into Better Things! “ARISE and DEPART, for THIS IS NOT YOUR REST; because it is defiled, it shall destroy, Yes, with utter destruction.” – Micah 2:10 New King James Version. “The RIGHTEOUS KEEP MOVING FORWARD, and THOSE with CLEAN HANDS become STRONGER and...
Discipline Pays Great Dividends – Part 7
Through DISCIPLINE and COMMITMENT, Frederick Douglass, the African American social reformer born in Maryland as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey became a national leader of the abolitionist movement, a prominent activist, author, and public speaker gaining...
Discipline Pays Great Dividends – Part 6
“If you love learning, you love the DISCIPLINE that goes with it—how shortsighted to refuse correction!” – Proverbs 12:1 Message Bible. “Wise DISCIPLINE imparts wisdom; spoiled adolescents embarrass their parents.” – Proverbs 29:15 Message Bible. “No DISCIPLINE is...
Discipline Pays Great Dividends – Part 5
DISCIPLINE will lead to HABIT, HABIT will lead to CONSISTENCY, and CONSISTENCY will lead to GROWTH. For anyone to grow to their true potential as we saw with Hilda Bassey [who almost gave up in the first 6 hours], the PATH to POTENTIAL is DISCIPLINE and COMMITMENT! By...
Discipline Pays Great Dividends – Part 4
Discipline Pays Great Dividends – Part 4 What could make someone be on her feet cooking for one hundred hours? What could make an individual defy nature and the need to get much-needed sleep like everybody else on planet Earth? The answer is DISCIPLINE and COMMITMENT!...
Discipline Pays Great Dividends – Part 3
“We do not enjoy being disciplined. It is painful at the time, but later, after we have learned from [been trained by] it, we have peace [it produces/bears the fruit of peace], because we start living in the right way [or …and righteousness].” – Hebrews 12:11 Expanded...
Discipline Pays Great Dividends – Part 2
“At the time, DISCIPLINE isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. LATER, OF COURSE, IT PAYS OFF BIG-TIME, for it’s the WELL-TRAINED who find themselves MATURE in their RELATIONSHIP with God.” – Hebrews 12:11 Message Bible. “Those whom I...
Discipline Pays Great Dividends – Part 1
“Then Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to believe in Him. “If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are My DISCIPLES for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you.” – John 8:31-32 Message Bible. “At the...
Persistent Faith – Part 4
“Whoever says he is in the Light and [yet] hates his brother [Christian, born-again child of God his Father] is in darkness even until now. Whoever loves his brother [believer] abides (lives) in the Light, and in It or in him there is no occasion for...
Persistent Faith – Part 3
“So, Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he...
Persistent Faith – Part 2
“Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” So, Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant,...
Persistent Faith – Part 1
“And Jesus, replying, said to them, HAVE FAITH IN GOD [CONSTANTLY]. Truly I tell you, WHOEVER SAYS to this mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him....