Don’t Ever Say This To Someone
Lucy said to Charlie Brown “You, Charlie Brown, are a foul ball in the line drive of life! You’re in the shadow of your own goal posts! You are a miscue! You are three putts on the eighteenth green! You are a seven-ten split in the tenth frame…You are a missed free throw, a shanked nine iron and a called third strike! Do you understand? Have I made myself clear?”
People need to know what they can be. It doesn’t take a smart person to tell me what I am bad at. It takes a genius to see what I am great at and give me an opportunity. When I was in school I walked out of a room because I was afraid to speak in front of people. It took a genius named Chris Fortener to notice a gift that I was afraid to use. Is it possible that God put you on earth to help someone else succeed? I know I have a voice because other people told me to speak. Now you might not need to be told to speak, but I did. Give someone what they are having are hard to getting themselves…Courage to do what they were born to do!
Phyllis Pendleton and 
jp 2:41 pm on July 10, 2008 Permalink |
I resonate these sentiments. This week has been all about God revealing himself to me in the very fact that we have two options in our lives. We can embrace the words that Christ speaks over our lives, or we may accept everything else that people say. It is imperative that as we hear the voices of many waters that we will be able to acknowledge the words from water of life. Realizing that anything not from God or not in alignment with the Truth is a lie. God does not lie to us, he always speaks truth. The enemy will always come to distort the truth in our lives and uses words as our greatest sabotage. I love to recall that in Genesis when the first people bought a lie, God didn’t ask them about their disobedience, he first wanted to know, “Who told you that you were naked?” God is always about the revelation of truth and as a result the truth will release freedom in our lives and be freed from the consequences of the lies that we have allowed to consummate our lives and situations. If we know the Truth, the Truth will set us free. Thanks for your post.
Phyllis Pendleton 12:42 pm on July 20, 2008 Permalink |
Amen! What we need are more encouragers. The Lord has shown me that it is actually a gift from God to be an encourager. Giving people “courage to do what they were born to do” is being an encourager. I encourage all to look for opportunities to give someone a compliment!!