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Reach out to them today and express your sincere gratitude and thanks.

Let God know that you finally get it that he has always been there and made his presence known through some special people. All the honor goes to him because he made it possible.

Have and make thanksgiving reign out in your heart as you go about your day. I give thanks unto the lord for his goodness to me, I give thanks unto the lord for his goodness to me, for his mercy endureth forever, I give thanks, I give thanks, unto the lord.

It’s easy to be discouraged when expectations aren’t met or things don’t go the way we planned. Jeremiah 29

11: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

12: Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

13: And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

St. Matthew 5:6

Bless are they which do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Yes, God is in the filling business. In fact, the word "fill" means to be satisfied in the sense of being stuffed after a sumptuous meal.

What are you cooking? Is it producing an aroma that leads to people wanting to come and find out what it is? Does it lead to people wanting to eat?

Think about this: God will satisfy your deepest desires if you look to him for fulfillment.

Psalms 61:2

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

There is no place I can go or state of mind or emotion I can get to that I will not cry unto you, God. I will always cry unto you. I realize that I have access to you no matter where I am physically or mentally. Even when my heart is overwhelmed in which it appears that it will be consumed with my troubles as a drowning man that seem to be going down for the last time. I am asking you to come to my rescue and lead me to higher ground. Lead me to that rock, to that place in which my troubles can’t reach me.

Put courage in someone. I love that because I love putting courage into others. I love encouraging people so they can courageously pursue their goals and dreams. Life is too short to live small and scared. Be bold. Believe. Take action.

Denzel Washington talked about his experience with God and the Holy Spirit. However he concluded although it kept him grounded in spite of himself, he Accepted it, Experienced it, but was not ready to live it.

This is a very interesting statement. We find ourselves accepting and believing in something that is true and good for us and we have experience that validates that. However we are not ready to fully commit to it because of other things that seem more important at various times in our life. In other words we want to put it off until we enjoy pleasures or do the things that may take us further from what is worth living for.

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. The righteous, by faith and prayer, devotion towards God and dependence on him, run into it, as their city of refuge. God is our rock. That means you can trust him completely for his strength and protection.

We may tremble on the rock but the rock will never tremble under us.

The keenest pain comes from remembering what you should do — a day too late to do it.

There is nothing quite so sad as recalling what might have been. Unfulfilled potential has a way of drawing you back to the scene of the failure and whispering in your ear, “If only you had . . .”

Psalms 81:13 - 16

St. John 16:33

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

That, no matter what trouble we may face in this world, by him overcoming the world, we shall have peace in him.

Time waits for no one. It is a true saying that life goes on with or without you. You can either sit on the sideline and watch or get in the game. We spend so much time being stagnant and before you know it years have gone by. We have already experienced the negative. Do something positive to jumpstart your future today.