Think
Romans 12:1-2(NLT)
1And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.
2Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Ever ask what's God's will for my Life? I'm sure you have just like anyone who has made Christ their Lord and Savior. We want to know, but most of us don't take the time to to really seek God, or let alone let Him change our way of thinking. So how do we do that, first of all I would say spend time with Him in prayer asking questions, spend time in His word, spend time with other believers (not just anyone but those you are close to and you trust, people have good intentions but all aren't listening to God) discussing whats on your mind, your thoughts and plans. The verse above says if we allow God to transform how we think, then we will learn God's will for us. Now that's good and really isn't rocket science. In Jeremiah 29:11-14 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you,” says the LORD. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.” Most of the time we stop at verse 11 but when we read on He says when you pray, seek Him wholeheartedly He will listen and restore us. I believe this is a key, we have been enslaved by our culture's thinking. Then we wonder why things get all crazy why can't we hear God or better yet we ask were is God when all along He's right there waiting on us. Today take some time pray and ask God what He truly wants for you. I bet you'll be surprised! I'm not going to tell you what he wants but I will say "It's All Good!"
Hebrews 11:25 says that Jesus lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf. So why not take some time today and intercede on your own behalf. So you may be a blessing
Sir Gregory
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Daily Vitamin -"Provides"
Provides
2 Corinthians 9:10-11(CEV)
10 £ God gives seed to farmers and provides everyone with food. He will increase what you have, so that you can give even more to those in need.
11You will be blessed in every way, and you will be able to keep on being generous. Then many people will thank God when we deliver your gift.
Be a blessing Sir Gregory
2 Corinthians 9:10-11(CEV)
10 £ God gives seed to farmers and provides everyone with food. He will increase what you have, so that you can give even more to those in need.
11You will be blessed in every way, and you will be able to keep on being generous. Then many people will thank God when we deliver your gift.
We generally look to ourselves to provide our needs! When we look to God for or needs, He always gives more than enough, in fact He gives us enough so we can give to those in need. I was thinking about this. If God provides all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Phil 4:19) why do I need more? Others can go to Him and He will supply -Provide- all there needs. Then it hit me, others who don't know Him in the area of their need, are the ones in need of my extra. Others may have the extra in an area I haven't fully come to know God in. All my needs are supplied with extra but I just haven't realized they are on the table waiting for me. All our physical, emotional and spiritual needs can be meet if we would look to God, He will send others to help us along they way. once He has supplied in an area of our lives then we can get extra to help others, then once they have gotten theirs they can help others. So with God in our lives all things are possible. Today take your abundance and share with others, allow them to share with you.
Be a blessing Sir Gregory
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Daily Vitamin -"Prompted"
Prompted
2 Peter 1:19-21(TMSG)
19We couldn’t be more sure of what we saw and heard—God’s glory, God’s voice. The prophetic Word was confirmed to us. You’ll do well to keep focusing on it. It’s the one light you have in a dark time as you wait for daybreak and the rising of the Morning Star in your hearts.
20The main thing to keep in mind here is that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of private opinion.
21And why? Because it’s not something concocted in the human heart. Prophecy resulted when the Holy Spirit prompted men and women to speak God’s Word.
We have the old saying the devil made me do it, could we say he prompted me to do it. A lot of the times our flesh or human nature will prompt us into doing things that later we regret. I have never regretted something that I knew the Holy Spirit prompted me to do. A lot of times He (the Holy Spirit) gets the blame or God for stupid things we do. We'll say things like "you know brother the spirit lead (prompted) me to do it, I didn't want to but God made me" In truth God was a million miles away. There are many things the Spirit will prompt us to do, not just prophecy sometimes he might ask you to give someone a word of encouragement, or a bottle of water, maybe buy someone diners or there groceries at the store. I say all this to say don't make something up and blame it on God saying he told you to do it. As you read the scriptures above realize when God speaks they aren't things just made up in a humans mind. They are from God! And guess what everyone around knows it. We don't fool others. So today listen for His promptings and act on them. As your being a blessing Today
Sir Gregory
2 Peter 1:19-21(TMSG)
19We couldn’t be more sure of what we saw and heard—God’s glory, God’s voice. The prophetic Word was confirmed to us. You’ll do well to keep focusing on it. It’s the one light you have in a dark time as you wait for daybreak and the rising of the Morning Star in your hearts.
20The main thing to keep in mind here is that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of private opinion.
21And why? Because it’s not something concocted in the human heart. Prophecy resulted when the Holy Spirit prompted men and women to speak God’s Word.
We have the old saying the devil made me do it, could we say he prompted me to do it. A lot of the times our flesh or human nature will prompt us into doing things that later we regret. I have never regretted something that I knew the Holy Spirit prompted me to do. A lot of times He (the Holy Spirit) gets the blame or God for stupid things we do. We'll say things like "you know brother the spirit lead (prompted) me to do it, I didn't want to but God made me" In truth God was a million miles away. There are many things the Spirit will prompt us to do, not just prophecy sometimes he might ask you to give someone a word of encouragement, or a bottle of water, maybe buy someone diners or there groceries at the store. I say all this to say don't make something up and blame it on God saying he told you to do it. As you read the scriptures above realize when God speaks they aren't things just made up in a humans mind. They are from God! And guess what everyone around knows it. We don't fool others. So today listen for His promptings and act on them. As your being a blessing Today
Sir Gregory
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Daily Vitamin -"Rest"
Rest
Hebrews 4:8-11(TMSG)
8And so this is still a live promise. It wasn’t canceled at the time of Joshua; otherwise, God wouldn’t keep renewing the appointment for “today.”
9The promise of “arrival” and “rest” is still there for God’s people.
10God himself is at rest. And at the end of the journey we’ll surely rest with God.
11So let’s keep at it and eventually arrive at the place of rest, not drop out through some sort of disobedience.
What a promise that there is a place of rest. We know at the end of the journey we have a place of rest with God. He also told us to rest on the seventh day just as He did. Even the earth needs times of rest, we are told to not plant or work the ground certain years. Farmers have found out by doing this the crops after a time of resting the earth, it will produces even a greater crops. So let us take time on a regular basis and rest so that we may produce a better life for other to enjoy. We were created to have fellowship with God and each other. Take some time and rest in Daddy God
Be a blessing today, Sir Gregory
Hebrews 4:8-11(TMSG)
8And so this is still a live promise. It wasn’t canceled at the time of Joshua; otherwise, God wouldn’t keep renewing the appointment for “today.”
9The promise of “arrival” and “rest” is still there for God’s people.
10God himself is at rest. And at the end of the journey we’ll surely rest with God.
11So let’s keep at it and eventually arrive at the place of rest, not drop out through some sort of disobedience.
What a promise that there is a place of rest. We know at the end of the journey we have a place of rest with God. He also told us to rest on the seventh day just as He did. Even the earth needs times of rest, we are told to not plant or work the ground certain years. Farmers have found out by doing this the crops after a time of resting the earth, it will produces even a greater crops. So let us take time on a regular basis and rest so that we may produce a better life for other to enjoy. We were created to have fellowship with God and each other. Take some time and rest in Daddy God
Be a blessing today, Sir Gregory
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Daily Vitamin - "Law"
Law
Galatians 2:19-21(CEV)
19It was the Law itself that killed me and freed me from its power, so that I could live for God. I have been nailed to the cross with Christ.
20I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.
21I don’t turn my back on God’s undeserved kindness. If we can be acceptable to God by obeying the Law, it was useless for Christ to die.
Galatians 2:19-21(TMSG)
19What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man.
20Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
21I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
How many times have you tried to do what was right but only find that you mess it it up! The problem we have is the You we need to allow Christ to live in us and through us, instead of trying to keep a list of rules, regulations and laws. Our natural beings want to "Just Do It" and our Spirit being wants Christ to do it (His Nature in us) Today take some time, make a list of the Laws you are trying to keep and can't. Then sit down with Daddy God and ask Him to to really live in and through you, to allow Him full control allowing Him to "Do It" in you. Once in for all realizing that Christ gave up His role in heaven, came to the earth (natural realm) in an physical body. Then He fulfilled the law for you, so you could have one on one relationship with God.
Be a blessing today, Sir Gregory
Galatians 2:19-21(CEV)
19It was the Law itself that killed me and freed me from its power, so that I could live for God. I have been nailed to the cross with Christ.
20I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.
21I don’t turn my back on God’s undeserved kindness. If we can be acceptable to God by obeying the Law, it was useless for Christ to die.
Galatians 2:19-21(TMSG)
19What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man.
20Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
21I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
How many times have you tried to do what was right but only find that you mess it it up! The problem we have is the You we need to allow Christ to live in us and through us, instead of trying to keep a list of rules, regulations and laws. Our natural beings want to "Just Do It" and our Spirit being wants Christ to do it (His Nature in us) Today take some time, make a list of the Laws you are trying to keep and can't. Then sit down with Daddy God and ask Him to to really live in and through you, to allow Him full control allowing Him to "Do It" in you. Once in for all realizing that Christ gave up His role in heaven, came to the earth (natural realm) in an physical body. Then He fulfilled the law for you, so you could have one on one relationship with God.
Be a blessing today, Sir Gregory
Monday, September 12, 2011
HELP SAVE OUR FOOD BANK!
Press Release: A Miracle in the Works
Mansfield Community Rallies to: HELP SAVE OUR FOOD BANK!
Harvesting International Ministry Center (HIM Center) is large food bank and food pantry that has served the Mansfield area for the last dozen years -- since 1999. Even a decade prior to that, its current president Gregory Dewbrew was serving the hungry in Mansfield, beginning way back in 1989 at Living Word Outreach. So for two decades now Dewbrew and the HIM Center have been meeting the needs of the less fortunate in our town.
Harvesting International Ministry Center (HIM Center) is large food bank and food pantry that has served the Mansfield area for the last dozen years -- since 1999. Even a decade prior to that, its current president Gregory Dewbrew was serving the hungry in Mansfield, beginning way back in 1989 at Living Word Outreach. So for two decades now Dewbrew and the HIM Center have been meeting the needs of the less fortunate in our town.
In fact, their impact is felt way beyond the borders of Mansfield. The HIM Center is also a major distributor of food to the hungry throughout North Texas. They not only give free food directly to hundreds of individuals each month in Mansfield (that’s what a food pantry does), but they also sell food for pennies on the pound to other food pantries and ministries throughout the region who in turn distribute it to the needy (that’s what a food bank does).
Each year they distribute between 3 and 5 million pounds of food. Thanks to Dewbrew and the HIM Center, literally millions upon millions of pounds of food have been collected and distributed to Mansfield families in need over the past decade. So without their presence in our town, thousands of families in our area would go hungry.
When you give food to people it ministers to more than their stomachs! Just ask one of Him Center’s volunteers named Joann. She is always excited to share how 15 years ago her family was out of work and on the verge of disaster. Dewbrew found her walking on the side of the road, gave their family food, and helped get them back on their feet. Since then she has volunteered regularly at HIM Center, and she just beams as she shares how Gregory and the ministry has continued to inspire and encourage her all these years. – And that is just one of countless stories of Mansfield families who have been rescued because of our food bank.
Now, without your help, their presence in our community could be lost. The HIM Center lost its lease last July, and that is huge deal. When you give away nearly two-thirds of your product and sell the rest at only pennies on the pound, there is no way to afford the cost of large commercial warehouse space. This food bank has been able to continue all these years because of the generosity of their current landlord, Richard Geist of Kent Associates.
For the past dozen years, Geist graciously allowed the food bank to operate out his warehouse at 560 Easy Drive. For many of those years, he charged them no rent at all. In more recent years, he has asked only for a very modest sum. However, Kent Associates has grown and Geist is in need of his warehouse back.
This truly has become a local crisis. The food bank will shut down if it does not have adequate warehouse space from which to operate. This is a crisis that could affect our entire region as more and more people are seeking the assistance of food banks in these tough economic times. And this is the exact time our community needs to rally around and support the less fortunate. It is the responsibility of our business community to keep the community healthy, and as individuals we all know that the next person in need of food could be our brother or our sister… or even ourselves with just one layoff.
Thankfully a miracle is in the works and you can be a part of it!! The Mansfield community is rallying together to help SAVE OUR FOOD BANK!! It started when two angels-with-skin-on pledged to raise two hundred thousand dollars if Mansfield Cares, another local charity, would raise the remaining money needed to build a suitable facility for the HIM Center on its property at the corner of Broad Street and 6th Avenue. And Mansfield Cares has risen to the challenge! But they need your help!
Mansfield Cares is an amazing charity that was created by a widely diverse group of caring citizens for the purpose of providing help to the economically challenged citizens of Mansfield. Their goal is to be the “safety net” of Mansfield; so they work with various local charities by providing money to meet needs that they cannot. Not only do they raise funds for a variety of local causes, but they have provided the community with a free medical clinic at the Linda Nix Family Caring Place. This Mansfield Cares clinic is already located on the same property as the proposed warehouse for HIM Center’s food bank.
Richard Geist, in his continued generosity, has given the HIM Center an extension to stay until the end of October pending the construction of the facility by Mansfield Cares.
Time is of the essence. October is fast approaching and construction needs to begin. Mansfield Cares has already obtained building plans and permits… they are just in need of further funding. The $200,000 pledge will meet about half the cost of the cost of the facility… but they are in need of approximately another $200,000.
Please help SAVE OUR FOOD BANK!! The Mansfield community is rallying together!! Every single small donation adds up. So please don’t hesitate to give whatever you can. And of course there is a great need for a few more angels-with-skin-on to come to the rescue!!
Donations can be sent to Mansfield Cares, 990 Hwy. 287, #106-185, Mansfield , TX 76063. You can also give online at ManfieldCares.Org. Be sure to mark your donation with “Save Our Food Bank.”
For more information on Harvesting International Ministry (HIM) Center:
Website: www.himcenter.org
Email: info@himcenter.org
Food Bank Phone: 817-453-3663
Website: www.himcenter.org
Email: info@himcenter.org
Food Bank Phone: 817-453-3663
For more information on Mansfield Cares:
Website: www.mansfieldcares.org
Contact Person: Lance Walker
(817) 832-8307
lwalker@woodhavenbank.com
Website: www.mansfieldcares.org
Contact Person: Lance Walker
(817) 832-8307
lwalker@woodhavenbank.com
By Susan Dewbrew
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Daily Vtamin - "Ordinary"
Ordinary
Romans 12:1(TMSG)
1So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31(TMSG)
29I do want to point out, friends, that time is of the essence. There is no time to waste, so don’t complicate your lives unnecessarily. Keep it simple—in marriage,
30grief, joy, whatever. Even in ordinary things—your daily routines of shopping, and so on.
31Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the world thrusts on you. This world as you see it is on its way out.
The sacredness of ordinary
Romans 12:1(TMSG)
1So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31(TMSG)
29I do want to point out, friends, that time is of the essence. There is no time to waste, so don’t complicate your lives unnecessarily. Keep it simple—in marriage,
30grief, joy, whatever. Even in ordinary things—your daily routines of shopping, and so on.
31Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the world thrusts on you. This world as you see it is on its way out.
We think that everyday going's and comings are not important to God. but the truth is He is just as concerned with our week day's as he is our Sunday's. We at times can only focus on sunday, not wanting to wait till then to see our more special friends, our special worship, or thinking God will be there on sunday so i can get a touch or a healing. He is waiting patiently every moment of every day for us to come to Him to just hang out with Him. that's why He created us in the begining. Start today and give Him your ordinary moments of each and every day, ask Daddy God to go with you on this journey we call life!
Be a blessing, Sir Gregory
The sacredness of ordinary
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. We can do this even at the most difficult moments. Everything we see, hear, taste, and smell has the power to strengthen and uplift us.
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