4 Reasons Why You Can Do It

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
Benjamin Franklin

It doesn’t matter what task that you have before, you can accomplish it. You are God’s nominee to get the job done. Don’t allow obstacles to stop you from being victorious. Here are four quick reasons why I believe you have what it takes:


1. You are alive

People that are alive have a very big advantage. They are not dead.
Because you are alive you have the opportunity to change your circumstance.
Because you are alive you have the opportunity to make it happen.
Because you are alive you have the opportunity to make a difference.
Because you are alive you have the opportunity to impact your generation.

There was a reason why Herod wanted Jesus dead.
There was a reason why the devil wants you dead.
Dead people are no threat to the living.
When you are alive you have the opportunity to get a picture of who you are.
When you are alive you have the opportunity to help someone.

Just because you are alive you are a threat to the enemy.
That is why there is always an attack against you.
You hear things like, “you aren’t anybody”, “you are crazy”, “you are never
going to be nothing”

Use your life to make it happen.

2. You Were Born Able

“11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.” (Exodus 4:11-12) God explained to Moses he made his mouth. No excuse is legitimate with God.

“ 30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.” (Numbers 13:30-31) When God says empowers people to say go and posses the land he’s telling you that the way is prepared, I gat this, just take over cause it’s yours.

How many times have you heard things that belong to other people and they don’t have it? This is because someone else took it over. When he said go posses the land, you think the all knowing God didn’t know that giants were going to be there. In any circumstance you have favor, giants or not.

3. You were chosen for it.

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;”(I Peter 2:9) Most definitely you were selected, picked out, chosen because God had his eyes fixed upon.

Out of all the choices in the world God chose you. When your father impregnated you mother you were created. It could have been someone else. You were the one to make it out of your mother’s womb. God chose you for a reason and you must consider yourself special. More special than candy actually you’re the Apple of God’s eye.

After all that don’t you think it will hurt God if you say I don’t want you? You were chosen for a purpose and God intends for you to fulfill that. God knows what he was doing when he made you. The choice you made can affect your journey (to better walk with God, life, relationships, better grades, scholarship, career, etc.)

4. God Has Your Back

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”(Is 41:10)

When people turn on you God will stand for you. You know why God allows it to look like you are failing or can’t do it? His strength is made perfect in weakness. The exciting part of the movie is when it looks like the bad guys win then all of a sudden…. You know what happens.

How do you see your life? By the media? It’s easy to give up around negativity. Don’t just stand by watching to see what happen. Who is going to reach this world if you don’t help?

5. You Have The Tools Needed

The Word of God
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4)
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
(Psalms 119:105)

The Name of Jesus
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
(Rom 10:13)

The Blood of Jesus
“ And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
(Rev 12:11)



Take care until…......and God Bless ya
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Are you ready to face eternity? If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of your life and desire to make that commitment now please repeat the following prayer:

Lord Jesus be merciful to me a sinner. I realize that I have sinned against you and come short of your glory. I confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and I believe in my heart that God has raised him from the dead. I pray for your forgiveness and ask that you save me now and accept me into your kingdom. Give me eternal life today.
In Jesus Name, Amen. Read more!

Issue # 25 - ‘O’ What a relief

As we move on to the later part of this year and the times to come more uncertain things and events are happening. Things we have never heard of or experienced. If you are paying attention to what is going on in the earth, tragedy is happening at a much faster rate. Destruction is happening all around us and no group is being left untouched in some way.

In the midst of all this, there is something that is very important that must be a part of your survival tool box. In these last days you need something that is going to help you look these things in the face with hope.

Today, tragedy may be at my house and tomorrow he finds himself visiting your house. Last time we looked at the word news, let me tell you bad news does not discriminate. Loss of jobs, labor disputes, recession, companies closing down, cost of living rising, increasing social ills, etc.

The best key for these issues is to be optimistic. Believe it or not that’s the key word for today. That’s one reason to appreciate the letter 'O'.

Optimistic:
1. Inclined to hope for the best, or to expect it.
2. Predicting improvement.
3. Believing positively.

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough".
Richard M. DeVos

According to a special report to CNN from Mayo Clinic, researchers continue to explore the effects of optimism on health. The health benefits optimism may provide are:

• Decreased stress
• Greater resistance to catching the common cold
• A sense of well-being and improved health
• Reduced risk of coronary artery disease
• Breathing easier if you have chronic obstructive lung disease, such as emphysema
• Improved coping ability for women with high-risk pregnancies
• Living longer
• Better coping skills

It's unclear why optimists experience these health benefits. But one theory is that having a positive outlook enables you to cope better with stressful situations, which reduces the effects of stress on your body.

You Will Succeed At Everything You Do

What if you were able to see these words flash before you today? How would you feel? Will it give you a different outlook toward your situation and life? Would that cause you to attempt to do more things? Well then, it goes to show you that you do believe that you can have success. So affirmation is important.

Why do you get out of bed each day? It is because you are believing to see a better situation and life? Just to get out of bed each day takes strength and courage, especially when you had a dark night.

It’s not that easy to see hope and be optimistic when all you see is darkness or a dry environment. Thank God for the power to envision, this enables you to see with the eyes of God.

Imagine hearing the words it’s going to rain when you don’t see any clouds, or you are healed when pain is rocking your body and your health is failing, God shall supply all your needs when your needs list increases everyday.

Yes I understand negative thoughts and images will bombard you but you must still keep getting up out of bed. The minute you let your mind influence you to stop being optimistic, you are on your way to defeat.

Since you can only have one thought at a time, here are some affirmations to keep your thoughts positive:

• I always have a choice.
• Anything is possible.
• I create my circumstances, my circumstances don't create me.
• I can control my attitude towards life.
• Look at the little things in life that are good and it will make your life a WHOLE lot better.
  

Before you win anything in life, you win it in your mind first. So don’t let the enemy allow you to switch channel. Keep watching the film that God is showing you and eventually it will manifest. "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry". (Habakkuk 2:3)

No matter what the environment is around you, I’m sure you would rather be hanging on by the threads than not to be hanging on at all.

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Bible Readings:-
Romans 10:17
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Coming next week: The series continues…letter 'P'

Take care until…......and God Bless ya
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Are you ready to face eternity? If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of your life and desire to make that commitment now please repeat the following prayer:

Lord Jesus be merciful to me a sinner. I realize that I have sinned against you and come
short of your glory. I confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and I believe in my heart that God has raised him from the dead. I pray for your forgiveness and ask that you save me now and accept me into your kingdom. Give me eternal life today.
In Jesus Name, Amen.


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Issue # 11 - What’s it going to ‘B’ ?

From A - Z… the series continues… B

You enter a room with yellow & green decorations to attend an important function. The room is filled with people dressed in various colors. Conversations are heard all over the room as you
hear music playing lightly in the background. People are trafficking in and out of the room as you stand at the entrance.

As you look around you notice a few chairs remain at the left side of the room. You are escorted to that area of the room where you pick the chair of your choice. You decide to pick the very first one nearest you.

Immediately after you are seated, you are presented with a colorful program for this event. The cover reads "2008 Believers Convention". My, what a timely topic.

Yes, I agree. Today we are going to look at a word that shapes the mind and heart of many people. The decisions that you make depends on your outlook of this word. This week’s word from the letter ‘B’. It is the root word found on the cover of your program. It’s the word believe.

Believe :
1. To accept as true or real: Did you believe the news today?
2. To have firm faith, especially religious faith.
3. To have faith, confidence, or trust: I believe in your ability to solve the
problem.

Did you know that you just applied this word a few seconds ago. Yes you just made an important decision from it that could have caused an injury. Remember when you sat down? Why did you sit in that chair and did not check it? Can I answer that for you? Because you believed that it was going to hold you right? Now imagine that, believing and putting faith in something that you saw for the first time and didn’t think twice to inspect it.

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact" .

William James

I don’t think we have a problem believing, but what we have to believe in is where the challenge is. Isn’t it strange that we can quickly believe in something that was made by man.

For instance, you are in need of directions to get to a certain destination. You ask a stranger to help you. Immediately you do what they said because you believed what they told you. Isn’t that the kind of method that God wants from us? To believe him according to want he said.

Would You Ride In This?

A story is told of a great circus entertainer Charles Blondin who stretch a long cable across Niagara falls. He walked, ran, and even danced across the tightrope. Once he took a wheelbarrow across it and amazed the crowd by pushing it across the cable from one side to the other.

He then turned to the crowd and asked "Now how many of you believe that I could push a man across the cable in the wheelbarrow?" People cheered and held their hands high. They believed he could do it.

"Then," asked Blondin, "would any of you please volunteer to be that man?" As quickly as the hands went up, they went back down. No one would volunteer to ride in the wheelbarrow and trust their life to Blondin.

I know that I am running out of time so I’m going to hurry up. My friend, real faith is activated when you act on what you believe. Could this be the reason why you are in your present position.? Is your belief getting the right results? What you believe in has no power until you demonstrate that you are supporting it.

Let me say, it’s time for the things that you believe God wants to happen for you to be seen. What wheelbarrow is God waiting for you to get in and risk your faith. If you truly trust God you have to get in and let him carry you over to the other side.

Coming next week: The series continues…letter 'C'

Take care until…......and God Bless ya
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Are you ready to face eternity? If you have not you accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of your life and desire to make that commitment now please repeat the following prayer:

Lord Jesus be merciful to me a sinner. I realize that I have sinned against you and come short of your glory. I confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and I believe in my heart that God has raised him from the dead. I pray for your forgiveness and ask that you save me now and accept me into your kingdom. Give me eternal life today.
In Jesus Name, Amen.

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Take The Limit Off Yourself - Pt. 2

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible”

Arthur C. Clarke

Today I begin with a story of a man born in 1925 to Japanese immigrants, graduated at 15 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he and his family were sent to the Manzanar Internment Camp in the California desert. He learned sketching techniques from two internees who were art directors at film studios.

After his release, he contacted Disney Studios, knowing little about the animation industry but remembering the name from his Manzanar tutors. Despite a lack of formal training, he landed an interview with Walt Disney Studios when he returned to Los Angeles.

Asked to bring in a portfolio of his work, he was puzzled. “I had no portfolio,” he told Animation Blast magazine in a 1999 interview. He didn’t have much of an idea what a portfolio truly was. He spent the weekend before his interview sketching anything he could think of — from knights to cowboys — and filled up his notebooks. The results landed him a job as an assistant illustrator at Disney, where he worked from 1947 to 1961.

That man was Iwao Takamoto, the artist who created the mystery-solving Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, among many other indelible cartoon characters.

In your efforts to make your dreams come true, what do you see? Well dreamer, before you are victorious you must see yourself victorious. If you don’t, then you will see the opposite picture. If you see yourself as a failure, then you will lean towards that picture and meditate on it. If you meditate on something long enough you will begin to believe it and live it. You need to be careful who you hang out with. If you want to be eagle minded then you need to stop hanging out with pigeons and turkeys. You will never go beyond your limit if you don’t change your mentality. Have you ever heard ? “as a man thinks in his heart so is he..”

Sometimes this calls for isolation and separating yourself from some people. Talking to the wrong people will cause you go in the wrong direction.. Wrong direction leads to wrong destination, Wrong destination -- > Unfulfilled purpose. Unfulfilled purpose -->Displeasing God. Displeasing God --> ………I’m sure you’re getting the picture. Separation doesn’t mean that you are no better than anyone, but you gatta do what you gatta do. When too much people are involved then there’s possibility of more negativity. Majority don’t always mean the right way. So if it comes down to just you and God then do it.

At times you have to be like a band or choir director, notice what happens. They take there position carry out their assignment, then sit down. Obviously there weren’t worrying about what the crowd thinks, whether you like it or not they did their job. God only wants to work with those who believe it can happen. Doubters and unbelievers don’t last long with God. Imagine God who speaks things into being and you telling God that it can’t work. I’m sorry but you won’t last in the kingdom like that. Serious people are willing to work on their own if they have to.

Dealing With Giants & Difficulties

The reason why some of us are not further ahead is because of the giants we see. We lose focus by meditating on how big the giant is. This is the devils way of getting fear to take hold of us. Fear will cause you to run when you are suppose to be still and stand still when you are suppose to move. Then there is the fear of not having enough for the dream, idea, goal to be fulfilled and completed. When we believe that we don’t have enough we stop dreaming. That’s an insult to God, it shows no faith, “..but the just shall live by his faith”. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJV)

Yes that means looking for that car, house , preparing to go in business, preparing to go to college and NOT having all the money. I hope you don’t believe that all the successful persons you have heard of just sat at home until they got all the money. When you begin to move towards the dream God will provide for it. Don’t you know that the God of the dream is also the provider. Will you be the reason why your dreams go unfulfilled? My friend there is nothing wrong with God, if any blame is to be taken the lot will fall on you but I pray you won’t let that happen.

Because you feel the trials are more difficult, it doesn’t make God nervous about him being able to come through for you. Before God gave you that dream, it was already provided for. You was fix up before you started, but you still have to go through your faith test. Here’s what happens, God give you his report (word), then the devil gives you his report. Then comes your part “who’s report will you believe?”.

Will you pass? or will you fail? To pass means to hold on to your faith until manifestation comes, to fail means to give up. God is in the business of producing successful students, because he is a God of excellence and productivity. Keep moving towards your dreams.

Coming Soon:

The series...From A - Z

Take care until…......and God Bless ya
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Are you ready to face eternity? If you have not you accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of your life and desire to make that commitment now please repeat the following prayer:

Lord Jesus be merciful to me a sinner. I realize that I have sinned against you and come short of your glory. I confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and I believe in my heart that God has raised him from the dead. I pray for your forgiveness and ask that you save me now and accept me into your kingdom. Give me eternal life today.
In Jesus Name, Amen.
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Take The Limit Off Yourself

“Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead”

Lily Langtry

I know you have ideas, dreams, desires, goals, vision inside of you that are burning to be fulfilled.Whether it’s starting a business, going to college, becoming a doctor, changing career,
writing a book just to name a few. Then all of a sudden you are faced with opposition and then you begin to hear so many voices speaking opposite to what you have been dreaming about. Do any of these sound familiar? “You’re to young, not enough money, no one ever did it before, to many people failed at it, you will look crazy, it won’t last”.

Now before this, you had high expectations and believed it was all possible until you faced these oppositions. You even saw yourself living it out until YOU started to allow these voices and thoughts to distract you. These comments come from friends, family, parents, young people, Christians, colleagues, etc. Now all of these people together are not as effective as when it comes from you. Even the devil himself cannot be a greater obstacle than you.

It is when you begin to say “I can’t, and it will never work, nothing good will ever happen to me, my family is like this, I will always broke”. My friend you can be your greatest enemy. The greatest fight you will ever come to face is the one with yourself. That’s the one you cannot run away from. When someone commits suicide it is the result of an individual agreeing to turn on oneself.

If the power of life and death is in the tongue, then you need to be careful of what comes out of your own mouth. This is how you begin to put a limit on yourself and box yourself in. What you also do is tie God’s hand from operating in your life.

Before we go any further let’s take a look at what this word limit means. Limit:- (1) The point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed (2) To confine or restrict within a boundary or bounds.

I know my time is running out so let me move on quickly. When you begin to put a limit on yourself, you carry yourself to a certain point and don’t believe you can go any further. Or is it that we don’t want to make the effort to go any further because of the obstacles. Let me ask you some questions. How did you get where you are now? Did you had to go through obstacles? Were you faced with opposition? Didn’t it start with an idea or dream? So if you came from that place to this place overcoming obstacles then why can’t you move from this place to the next place? Why are you limiting yourself?

Who did the desire come from? If it came from God then who do you think will give you the ability to fulfill it? Who do you think will supply all that is needed to carry it out? The reason why you are doubting is because you believe that you are going to do it own your own.

Have you ever heard “..Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts”. Zechariah 4:6 (KJV). Have you ever heard “…greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world”. I John 4:4 (KJV) , or “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help”. Psalm 121:1 (KJV) Have you ever heard “For with God nothing shall be impossible”. Luke 1:37 (KJV).

When Mary heard that she was going to give birth to the Son of God she was frightened and could not understand it. Imagine if that was to happen today, boy what would be the reaction of people? But she submitted herself to God for him to have his way. This was a supernatural encounter. If you are willing to trust and work With God he can make it happen.

So if you were thinking about aborting that dream you better get out of that abortion clinic Now. Don’t focus on the natural circumstances or surroundings, just the fact that you have it circulating in your mind and your heart makes it a possibility. You just need to make up you mind and say I will make it happen.

Take care until…......and God Bless ya
http://jamesedgecombe2.blogspot.com/


Are you ready to face eternity? If you have not you accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of your life and desire to make that commitment now please repeat the following prayer:

Lord Jesus be merciful to me a sinner. I realize that I have sinned against you and come short of your glory. I confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and I believe in my heart that God has raised him from the dead. I pray for your forgiveness and ask that you save me now and accept me into your kingdom. Give me eternal life today.
In Jesus Name, Amen. Read more!