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Sell everything and buy wisdom!

Listen, friends, to some fatherly advice; sit up and take notice so you’ll know how to live. I’m giving you good counsel; don’t let it go in one ear and out the other. When I was a boy at my father’s knee, the pride and joy of my mother, He would sit me down and drill me: “Take this to heart. Do what I tell you—live! Sell everything and buy Wisdom! Forage for Understanding! Don’t forget one word! Don’t deviate an inch! Never walk away from Wisdom—she guards your life; love her—she keeps her eye on you. Above all and before all, do this: Get Wisdom! Write this at the top of your list: Get Understanding! Throw your arms around her—believe me, you won’t regret it; never let her go—she’ll make your life glorious. She’ll garland your life with grace, she’ll festoon your days with beauty.” Dear friend, take my advice; it will add years to your life. I’m writing out clear directions to Wisdom Way, I’m drawing a map to Righteous Road. I don’t want you ending up in blind alleys, or wasting time making wrong turns. Hold tight to good advice; don’t relax your grip. Guard it well—your life is at stake! Don’t take Wicked Bypass; don’t so much as set foot on that road. Stay clear of it; give it a wide berth. Make a detour and be on your way. The ways of right-living people glow with light; the longer they live, the brighter they shine. But the road of wrongdoing gets darker and darker— travelers can’t see a thing; they fall flat on their faces. (Proverbs 4:1-15, 18, 19 MSG)

Dear friend, listen well to my words; tune your ears to my voice. Keep my message in plain view at all times. Concentrate! Learn it by heart! Those who discover these words live, really live; body and soul, they’re bursting with health. Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts. Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust. (Proverbs 4:20-27 MSG)

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Create The Atmosphere You Want Surrounding You

Create The Atmosphere You Want Surrounding You

What do you do If someone is trying their best to treat you horribly? Why not return it with the environment you want yourself surrounded in.

I personally want to be in the atmosphere of love every second of the day! I want Love all around me. I want the very presence of Love with me, in me, and filling me to a constant overflow into every other area of my life. How about you?

If you want a humble, respectful and honoring environment to surround you and envelope you…then you need to be humble, respectful and honoring around everyone you are with.

If that is what you want then you need to create that atmosphere by loving, honoring, or respecting others that same way, unconditionally, in every situation.

Create the atmosphere you want surrounding you.

Get this principle working in your life as soon as possible. Practice it every day…living it out… through the mud and on up above the Rocky Mountains. You will see a magnificent change in your life. You have to walk this out every second of the day, at work, at church, at the store, whether your talking over a stout or hiking Spencer’s Butte with friends. …anytime your with people…live this out and your life will be surrounded by that atmosphere and those that want that kind of atmosphere too. Wherever you are, live out the atmosphere you want your life engulfed in.

So one might ask themselves… Do I want to be known as a person of love? Do I want the kind of relationship with my Lover that I have seen only in a handful of people, in my entire life? Do I want the same kind of intimacy that King David had with God, the nakedness of nothing hidden in his heart? Do you want that intimate loving relationship with God too? Love others with that very love you want wrapped in…like a warm and cozy blanket.

If Love really is the atmosphere I want myself surrounded in, then I have to treat people with love…no matter how I feel about how I am being treated. You have to treat people the way you want to be treated. This kind of love is not dependent on being loved in return!

Let the fruit (or atmosphere) show by planting seeds of the fruit trees (or atmospheres) that you want surrounding you. You will soon have fruit all around you.

Create the environment you want surrounding you.

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Give of yourself:This is how you win

Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for? (Mark 8:34-37 MSG)

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Faithfulness

Faithfulness

Do you love the master enough to be found faithful with what you are given, or do you feel the master is being to hard so you complain and offer excuses for your unfaithfulness with what you are given?

  • we must seek to understand the nature and purpose of Gods favor if we are going to put it to work successfully.
  • God, who is perfectly faithful, is looking for faithfulness in those who say they love him.
  • “And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn’t prepared and doesn’t carry out those instructions, will be severely punished. But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required. (Luke 12:47, 48 NLT)
  • To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. Now throw this useless servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ (Matthew 25:29, 30 NLT)
  • “‘Take the thousand and give it to the one who risked the most. And get rid of this “play-it-safe” who won’t go out on a limb. Throw him out into utter darkness.’ (Matthew 25:28-30 MSG)