Daily Journal

November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!

I have so much to be thankful for! And grateful I will be today. I am choosing to forget the pressures, the stresses, the issues, anything and everything that may cause me to have negative thoughts.. A few quotes I have found that are working and helping me..



* The Word (Bible) has the ability to heal us everywhere we hurt.
* We can have lousy circumstances and a good attitude and be fine; we can have good circumstances and a bad attitude and be miserable. My attitude is my attitude. Circumstances or another person cannot change that.
* Do yourself a favor and forgive.
* Most of the ground that satan gains in the life of a believer is gained through unforgiveness..
* "Angry Christian" is an oxymoron.
* We have to get over caring about how we feel.
* "Put on mercy." We can choose to be merciful, which is not fair because we're giving something to someone they don't deserve. It's not about being fair. It's about doing what's right on purpose.
* Everything God asks us to do will benefit us in the long run.
* Regarding people who are hurting us: we need to become much more concerned about how they are hurting themselves.
* We can't do much about how others 'feel'. We can choose to think good thoughts, which effects how we feel. We can do something about the choices we make. When we do something long enough it will help change us.
* The Disciples were a mess, but Jesus kept forgiving them and loving them.
* Legalism looks at what people do. It wants to exact a punishment or a price. Jesus paid that price for us already.
* Mercy looks for the why behind the what. It wants to understand the hurts that make the other person act as they do and exercise compassion.

Your words can be a HEALING power in someone else's life, in your life.
Changing your words can TRANSFORM your life and the lives of others.
The words we speak do more than simply EXPRESS how we feel, the words actually affect our feelings and emotions and then our actions.
You can create the energy to turn your dreams into REALITY by knowing what to say when you talk to yourself.
A candle loses nothing of it's own LIGHT when lighting another candle.


Choose today and everyday after to be grateful and thankful for a loving, merciful, faithful and forgiving God. One who gave His only Son so that we may have eternal life!