Daily Vitamin -"Dream"

Dream


Acts 16:9-10(TMSG)
⁹That night Paul had a dream: A Macedonian stood on the far shore and called across the sea, “Come over to Macedonia and help us!”
¹⁰The dream gave Paul his map. We went to work at once getting things ready to cross over to Macedonia. All the pieces had come together. We knew now for sure that God had called us to preach the good news to the Europeans.

We all have dreams, the question is do we remember them or even act on them. Some dreams are just bad pizza earlier in the day or stress in our lives. God gives us dreams, and ask us to join Him in what He's doing. In Paul's dream he knew God wanted him to go share the Good News of the Kingdom of God with the people of Macedonia. The dream gave him a plan to act on. Then he had to share it with those around him to help him accomplish the dream. What's your dream that God has asked you to join Him in? Who's going to help you accomplish it? In Habakkuk 2:2 write out the vision make it clear, so he who reads it may run with it (my version). So we need to let others hear, see, smell, taste of our dreams/visions, and those that catch them are the ones to help us accomplish them. A lot of the time we don't communicate them very well. I read a quote by John Maxwell that I Believe is very helpful

Any dream worth living is worth sharing with others. The person who shares his dream gets to watch it grow. The synergy of shared ideas often takes it to a whole new level. The dream becomes greater than the person launching it ever imagined it could be. And those who participate in it often adopt it as their own dream.

As you give others an opportunity to share your dream, paint a broad landscape for them so that they can catch your vision. Include . . .

• A Horizon - to show the incredible possibilities ahead.
• The Sun - to give them warmth and hope.
• Mountains - to represent the challenges ahead.
• Birds - to inspire them to soar like eagles.
• Flowers - to remind them to enjoy the journey.
• A Path - to offer direction and security.
• Yourself - to demonstrate your commitment to the dream and to them.
• Them - to show where they fit in and to communicate your belief in them.

When you are willing to share the dream by including others, there's almost no limit to what you can accomplish. The impossible comes within reach.

Today let's include others in our dreams, together we can change the world. be a blessing, Sir Gregory

Daily Vitamin -"Wisdom"

Wisdom

James 3:13-18(TMSG)
¹³Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here’s what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It’s the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts.
¹⁴Mean-spirited ambition isn’t wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn’t wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn’t wisdom.
¹⁵It’s the furthest thing from wisdom—it’s animal cunning, devilish conniving.
¹⁶Whenever you’re trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others’ throats.
¹⁷Real wisdom, God’s wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced.
¹⁸You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.

We all are looking to gain wisdom. How many of us look at wisdom as a piece of paper hanging on the wall, or how many books we've read, or how many seminars we have attended. James says to get along with others is real wisdom, God's wisdom. That some times is hard pill to swallow, I've heard it said that that working with people, your hardest commodity is "people". Why is that? We all have grown up in different homes with different circumstances all trying to accomplish the same goal. "To have people like us!" In the world we live in now, with mobile phone's, Internet, ability to travel great distance's quickly or even move rather simply. People moving and living around the world, with different belief system and cultures, living next door to people we don't even know, let alone were they are from. With texting, Skype or Face Time, Facebook, Twitter, Google, blogs etc.... We still haven't gotten much better at communicating or getting along with each other. Yet James says the way to get real wisdom, God's wisdom is to get along with each other! Do you want/need wisdom begin to look around at the people you interact with daily, are you at peace with them? Even in our own homes at times we need to ask are we walking in wisdom. The end of chapter 3 says to have a robust community we need to walk in dignity and honor towards others. We can change the world by starting to get along with people, especially with those God brings into your life. Start by being a friend to the unfriendly and see your world change
Be a blessing , Sir Gregory

Daily Vitamin -"Stand"

Stand
Then he was told, "Go, stand on the mountain at attention before God. God will pass by." and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn't in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper. (1 Kings 19:11, 12 MSG)

If you were told to go stand and wait, for God was going to pass by how would you respond? Would you go or stay. Let me tell you that God is going to pass by you today. So are you going to go out and wait for His whisper. Trust me it's worth the wait and He's not as scary as you think. Be a blessing today, Sir Gregory

Daily Vitamin -"Change"

Change

Mark 1:14-15(TMSG)
¹⁴After John was arrested, Jesus went to Galilee preaching the Message of God:
¹⁵“Time’s up! God’s kingdom is here. Change your life and believe the Message.”


 Ever thought about when the end will be? Why don't we put into practice that now is the end. John was put in jail, Jesus went on even saying times up the kingdom is here. I'm sure people though wow He's really off his rocker now. The Kingdom of God is here it's at hand, it's in you. Lets spend our days spreading the Good news that people can live in the Kingdom Now! its not just something in the by and by. Most people don't like change in fact the resist it if we would embrace it, renew our minds daily. Think on good things as in Philippians 4:8 puts it" Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse." Change you thinking to good stuff, bad things happen to good people, but don't think the worse first. remember"Daddy God is Big Enough" to handle our stuff and to help us out if we will trust him in them.   
                  

          Resistance to change

If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious     warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage--as if it were God! Although Jesus' first preached message is clearly "change!" (as in Mark 1:15 and Matthew 4:17), where he told his listeners to 'repent,' which literally means to 'change your mind,' it did not strongly influence Christian history. This resistance to change is so common, in fact, that it is almost what we expect from religious people, who tend to love the past more than the future or the present.

Richard Rohr

 

Take a look around today and see were you need change make the changes. Then Change the sign over your life to "No Vacancies" to sin, or stinking thinking., and be a blessing today, Sir Gregory

Daily Vitamin - "Traded"

Traded
Genesis 25:29-34(TMSG)
²⁹One day Jacob was cooking a stew. Esau came in from the field, starved.
³⁰Esau said to Jacob, “Give me some of that red stew—I’m starved!” That’s how he came to be called Edom (Red).
³¹Jacob said, “Make me a trade: my stew for your rights as the firstborn.”
³²Esau said, “I’m starving! What good is a birthright if I’m dead?”
³³Jacob said, “First, swear to me.” And he did it. On oath Esau traded away his rights as the firstborn.
³⁴Jacob gave him bread and the stew of lentils. He ate and drank, got up and left. That’s how Esau shrugged off his rights as the firstborn.

What an interesting thing to trade your birthright for a bowl of soup. We think this is a ridicules, stop and think how many times we have traded, the things of God for a few minutes of pleasure or compromised our belief's to get ahead with a little money. Told a white lie so we would look better. I could go on and on! What seems silly to us giving up our right for some soup. We do all the time, thinking we will die, or the what if question. Jesus came and redeemed our birth-right back, He didn't just trade for it He gave up His life. So we could carry on!

Hang up a sign"Not for Sale" over your life and be a blessing, Sir Grgeory  


 

Daily Vitamin -"Eyes"

Eyes

Matthew 13:16-17(TMSG)
¹⁶“But you have God-blessed eyes—eyes that see! And God-blessed ears—ears that hear!
¹⁷A lot of people, prophets and humble believers among them, would have given anything to see what you are seeing, to hear what you are hearing, but never had the chance.

We have physical eyes that we see with, but what about our true vision? We walk around in the dark, to the Spiritual world. God has given us eyes to see what He is doing to see the future, to have faith, hope and love. To be able to look to God for direction, to see people as they truly are, to have vision for the future, to see new invention, creative ideas. To take our faith in God and even move mountains

 Matthew 21:21-22(TMSG)
²¹But Jesus was matter-of-fact: “Yes—and if you embrace this kingdom life and don’t doubt God, you’ll not only do minor feats like I did to the fig tree, but also triumph over huge obstacles. This mountain, for instance, you’ll tell, ‘Go jump in the lake,’ and it will jump.
²²Absolutely everything, ranging from small to large, as you make it a part of your believing prayer, gets included as you lay hold of God.” 

Wow! Can you even imagine what ability's we have if we truly would trust God and open up our eyes to see what He has for us. Instead of the worldly coming up with the creative inventions, movies, music, technology and even more. God's people being those that lead. instead of those that are behind. He did say we were the head and not the tail, didn't He?  

Extraordinary Vision

We are the result of people who did not see the world as others saw it. In the midst of sweatshops, they saw workers rights. In the midst of slavery, they saw freedom. We are here because of people who had the extraordinary vision and the courage to stand up and do something about it. To me, what you see in the world is less a matter of the facts that are there, than more being a reflection of who you are. Your attitude about the world says nothing about the world, but speaks to your character.

 

Cory Booker  

Let us have vision like the quote above. So we may be a blessing to those around us and to the world we live in! Sir Gregory 

 

Daily Vitamin - " Change"

Change
Hebrews 13:8(TMSG)
⁸For Jesus doesn’t change—yesterday, today, tomorrow, he’s always totally Himself.

Change is an everday thing. We change our clothes, cars, foods we like, hair style/color friends, jobs, our thoughts the list goes on and on. I have a saying that goes "The God who Never Changes is always changing-us" He had a plan for us from the begining of time, He is always working on us to complete that plan. He's rarley forcefull but does give us gentle nudges. I would suggest that you take some time today. Look around and see all the changes that have taken place in the last year, month or even a day ago. Then look and see in what areas have you changed or didn't! (Most of us don't like change so we resist the very One who is trying to help us make the changes we need most despartly.) Then spend some time with Daddy God and ask Him were do I need to make some changes. Don't make changes just for the sake of change. Then start the journey with Daddy to fulfill your Destiny -His plan- for you to Change the World.

Remember He is our constant. Be a blessing today Sir Gregory