SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY…“Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction?...Indeed the sovereign Lord never does anything until He reveals His plans to His servants…” ~Amos 3:3,7
DESPERATE FOR AGREEMENT…There are many circles of humanity that are desperate for the attitude of agreement to touch them. There are families in which each person is insisting on their own way. Companies are struggling because their people haven’t grasped the power of agreement and hold to their personal views like they’re gold. Churches struggle with the same problem…and we actually have the playbook on unity…the Bible. But our humanity gets in the way and we cancel out the power of agreement with almost as much regularity as those who are uninformed of this attitudinal value. There must be agreement! We don’t have to like everything about a direction to embrace it and enable it for the greater good. Contrary to popular opinion, the universe doesn’t revolve around what we want. Even God limits Himself to the paths of agreement and works His plans on the earth only after revealing them to us and gaining our agreement. Wow! He knows that until the attitude of agreement has been forged, even His efforts will be mis-spent. We live in a ‘my way’ culture in which most people navigate their way through it insisting upon what ‘they want’. Is it possible that this deep individualism has made us blind to a deep need in our families, churches & work-places that are desperate for agreement? ~verlon
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"What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”
ReplyDeleteMother Teresa of Calcutta quotes (Albanian born Indian Missionary and Founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. 1910-1997
"And since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let each exercise them accordingly" (Rom. 12:6).
"Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit" (1 Cor. 12:4).
"As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God" (1 Pet. 4:10).
"And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord" (1 Cor. 12:5). "There are varieties of effects, but the same God" (1 Cor. 12:6).
"When you see the differences as an asset in God's will and act as one despite the differences- there is unity in Christ as one...Division is a worldly manifestation of man trying to make a ear an eye...." Angelos
"If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?" (1 Cor. 12:17).
William Shakespeare
ReplyDelete"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
While I may only see,You hear, and we can work together! Then seeing and hearing as one in Christ undivided we succeed."United we stand divided we fall".The alternitive leaves one blind and the other deaf.
Easy for the Hunter to pick us off...
"Όταν τα πόδια κινούνται γρηγορότερα από το υπόλοιπο σώμα .. ένα προσγειώνεται σε πισινό του." Άγγελος
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ReplyDelete"Εάν βρεθείτε στην άκρη σας ως αποτέλεσμα της ταχείας πόδια; Ο φόβος του Θεού δεν έχει τεθεί κάποια μαξιλάρι εκεί ώστε να μπορείτε να καθίσετε και να προβληματιστούν σχετικά με το πώς έχεις αυτό τον τρόπο. Στη συνέχεια και πάλι σε αρμονία με τα μάτια, αυτιά, τα χέρια, και πόδια του σώματος ενός, μπορείτε να αρθεί πάνω, και ξεκινήστε ξανά. " Άγγελος