There is only "ONE" Creator.   Without GOD we can't, without us HE won't.

"I AM that I AM."  GOD doesn't do anything, because GOD is everything.  GOD is not the great I was, the great I will be, HE is the great "I AM." 

Call this power greater than anyone or anything whatever you choose.  But do call upon it.  Pray, think positive and expect an answer.  Call upon this time proven method, that down through the ages and into this modern time has shown itself to be the one consistent way to reach beyond ourselves to that which we hope for. 

There is no doubt that PRAYER, FAITH, HOPE, LOVE and for many, FORGIVENESS have awesome powers to calm the mind, heal the body and bring peace to the soul. 

So go to GOD first and then to man as GOD directs.  But before you do, put your trust in the spiritual side of your own nature through prayer, meditation, supplication, fasting, intuition, that gut feeling or however you seek your spiritual center.  Then follow that inner guidance as GOD guides you in seeking insight, treatment or answers to your most pressing concerns.  GOD is to loving to be unkind and HE is to just to be unfair.  GOD is never out of control.  GOD loves us just the way we are, but he loves us to much to leave us the way we are.

And always remember, you will receive as a result of prayer exactly what you "think" (Philippians 4:8), not what you say, because your thoughts affect your emotions.  If you pray for achievement but think defeat, your words are just an idle saying, because your heart has already accepted defeat.  But if you practice believing that even as you pray you are receiving GOD's boundless blessings for whatever you are asking, it will come to you.  Here is where your faith encounters your doubts.  So which path will you choose?

Just believe for what you want.  What you want is yours for the asking.  Your faith counts the act done.  Your level of faith depends on you.  Remember the power of GOD within you is greater than the power of evil out side of you.  GOD is not an absentee father, he has been and is always there for us.  GOD has given us free will but he won't force us to come to him, we are invited to. 

Life may be difficult in the natural, but a relationship with GOD gives us a supernatural way of living a new and fuller life.  When you learn to "hear" GOD's voice in your life, through prayer and discernment you are on your path to inner peace, healing and anything else that your heart desires.  GOD speaks to each of us in the language of our own personal beliefs.  GOD will never lead us astray or leave us feeling alone without his absolute divine presence.  GOD wants us to live long, live strong and prosperous lives. 

So how do you communicate with the absolute?  You open your heart and your mind.  Talk to this awesome higher power as though it were your confidant or your closest friend.  A relationship with GOD is not about Church or rituals.  And you don't need to be religious to feel a connection, but you do need to be in relationship with GOD to communicate and feel HIS presence. 

Religion is only a pseudo form of how humans try to fine GOD.  Religion does not save you.  GOD did not create or bring religion to mankind, GOD brought a kingdom to those who understand HIS will and for those who have faith and believe.  You must learn to develop an intimate relationship with GOD. 

So how do you build that relationship?  Make the commitment to draw near to GOD, the same way that you would with a person that you want to make friends with.  GOD tells us where to find HIM >> READ MORE . . .

• Spend time.  Set aside time to build a relationship daily, through prayer and reading the word of GOD. 
• Read the Bible - GOD talks to you when you read HIS word, you talk to HIM when you pray.  This is the owners manual for your life.
• Listening.  Find a quiet place and spend time alone.
• Talk.  Say what's in your heart.  Start your life over from this point on.  Ask GOD to forgive you for your mistakes and then forgive yourself.  He's always listening.  GOD is not limited in what he can do, GOD is sovereign, he created the universe and you. 
• Be truthful and honest.  Always tell the truth no matter what.  GOD does not judge or condemn us for our honesty even though people do.

Approximately 90% of the earths population believes in a power greater than themselves and an eternal life.  So you are not alone.  Remember, life is not about you, it's about what GOD does through you.  The miracles begin to happen when we allow GOD to work through us.  As humans, we will never be able to logically understand the methods and actions of GOD.  GOD is a spiritual being. 

GOD is not bound by the 5 senses of the human experience.  HE created the 5 senses.  When we come to end of ourselves and our personal logic, we then learn to just accept the gift of love from GOD and believe in that which is greater that we.  Give GOD your heart and he will give you new life.  If there is a distance between GOD and you, who moved? 

GOD loves us unconditionally, but that does not mean that we are not responsible for the life decisions that we make.  Life has rules and laws, and when you encounter them in the context of your personal experiences, how you respond to them will determine your success or failure in life. 

For example, if you bring a child into the world, GOD has forgiven you for bringing that child into the world if you were not prepared at the time to do so, but you are not excused from your responsibilities to that child as their parent whether you are married or not.  You are still legally, financially and morally responsible to your offspring.  The government, taxpayers, family or friends are not responsible for your child.  

We must stay filled with hope and faith.  Deep faith in GOD is not a crutch, it is a foundation for everyday living.  Faith looks beyond the world of impossibilities into a world of all possibilities.  Faith opens your heart and mind and frees your spirit to be in the presence of GOD.  Don't believe the never and forever untruths about life. 

Every negative experience in your life did not come to stay.  Expect things to change because they usually do, nothing stays the same.  Just be prepared through your faith to move beyond the your negative circumstance and into the absolute positive possibilities of a hopeful future. 

As it has been said countless times "Tough times don't last, but tough people do."  Remember, it is true, that all things are possible when you believe and you have hope.  No hope, no faith?  See what you want through the eyes of your faith daily.  If you have no hope, you can't cultivate your faith.  You must develop tunnel vision when it comes to the hope and faith of your personal needs. 

Sowing the seeds of faith will yield you a hopeful future.  Practice gratitude by take every opportunity to be grateful for what you do have instead of what you don't have.  This is where GOD does his work.  Believe for the best in all of your circumstances.  Greet each day with positive expectancy for whatever you want.  What is impossible with man is absolutely possible with GOD. 

Don't live your life up set and frustrated about your circumstances.  Choose to live in faith, be in GOD's rest and know that you are in GOD's hands.  This is where you regain your power and place of peace.  Learn to embrace the place where you are even if you are not in the place where you want to be.  Just go with the flow, rise above it, stay in faith about the situation that you are facing. 

This is where GOD will do a working in "YOU" to develop the inner you.  GOD alone is guiding and directing you.  So don't try to figure it all out, just trust and have faith.  It is in the tough times that we grow.  Our faith will carry us through the problem, it won't deliver us from every problem. 

GOD not my will, but let GOD's will be done in my life.  GOD never closes one door without opening another.  But the key to that door is your faith.  GOD is merciful, and he does not always let us have our way for our own good.  Staying at peace in the mist of the storm is called spiritual warfare.  Trust and have faith in the good times and the tough times.  Like a loving father GOD will allow each of us to come to the end of ourselves and HE will still be there with open arms waiting for us.

Keep your hope alive by being a captive of hope and faith instead of doubt and worry.  If you do your part by believing and having faith, GOD will do the rest.  GOD isn't looking at our ability, he is looking for your submission and our availability.  We are the vessels that GOD is waiting to fill with HIS purpose. 

Life is conquered from within our minds, not from the hand that life has dealt us.  What we think is what we believe.  What you do is what you are.  When you change your thinking, your behavior will change.  You can't go forward in life if you keep looking at your past.  What you dwell on daily will affect your future. 

As children of GOD, we are but a link, in an unending genetic chain of events, but our lives are by no means an accident.  We are GOD's creation and we are truly loved.  The dark forces of life are just as real in the human experience and have come to kill and destroy not to give you abundant life.  Call this negative force what ever you choose Satan, Lucifer, the dark side etc.  

But if we allow ourselves to be captive by our negative thoughts and negative influences in our lives will be filled with ungodly experiences regularly.  We each are blessed with the ability to over come our negative circumstances.  Read this moving and encouraging story of John Foppe and see where faith against all odds can take you.  READ MORE . . .  

In the real world there are times when life will become very overwhelming.  We are never in control, even though control allows us to feel safer when we believe that we are.  But we can learn to control how we feel about what we are experiencing.  The only person that we can really change and have control over is ourselves, because we have been given free will. 

Remember GOD is always in control.  It is difficult for us as humans to understand the world from beyond our 5 senses.  GOD is a spirit who is our spiritual father and from that spirit comes all love and truth.  In contrast, the negative force is also a spirit and is ever present from which hate and lies spring forth. 

Our daily and collective life experiences will teach us what we need to know and how to live a full life.  But a calm sea does not produce an experienced sailor, life will have it's challenges.  It is our walk in faith that we must learn or relearn that will carry us thru these experiences.  Life is a true test of one's faith and convictions. 

Yet, we must each look within ourselves for that something that restores our soul daily, which then allows us to reenter the world and to face our many challenges in a healthy way.  Our search for a soul restoring experience that we truly long for can begin and end with our faith. 

We humans are spiritual beings trying to have a human experience, longing to find our way back home, where we will feel safe and secure in our fathers arms.  GOD does not judge us by the worlds standards, so we will never be good enough or we will never do anything bad enough in the spiritual eyes of GOD to gain or loose his love.  We are judged by GOD's law only.  Love and forgiveness are at the top of the list.  Remember people will always fail you and human truth is very unreliable. 

So our lives will not be renewed without the love, grace and the mercy of GOD daily.  It is a gift waiting for us to claim.  Living in the past ties us to a negative future.  That is why the power of love is so sought after and continuously sung and written about in every culture and past civilizations.  We all want to give and receive love unconditionally.  Because love truly does conquer all. 

Life is work.  And whose job is it to determine the course?  YOURS.  We've got to learn how to grow up without giving up.  Life is measured by what you had to overcome to get the success in life that you desire and deserve.  When you strive to overcome your daily life challenges and succeed, that is success. 

We all need a road map or a compass to direct out lives.  Without positive direction we will get lost.  Remember, your life is your job, not someone else's.  Where does that job begin?  It begins with how you think.  Renewing your mind daily elevates you to a place to realize your divine purpose. 

So what is your calling?  GOD has given each one of us a gift, a purpose and a mission in life.  And you don't have to give up your gifts, you just need repurpose your life with your GOD given gifts.  HE has also given us a brain to think with and a bottom to sit on.  Heads you win, tails you loose.  So get moving!  Remember, a career is what you pay for, a calling is what you're made for.  So what is yours?  How do you discover yours? 

Start with what brings you joy in a healthy GOD centered way.  Through prayer ask GOD to direct you and guide you along your path.  If you can't feel it at this moment, just believe it.  It's yours for the asking.  Start with forgiving and loving yourself and others.  This will open your life to receive your purpose, recognize your gifts and embrace your mission. 

What is GOD's message to each of us?  "Call" for what you need in faith.  Call the things that are not as if they already were.  Talk about the way you want to be, not what you are right now.  GOD wants you to believe it before you see it, that's called faith.  Call GOD's favor into your life.  If you are ill, "Let the weak say I am strong."  If you have no money, believe that you will be blessed to be a lender and not a borrower.  These things (problems, illness, issues, negative experiences) didn't come to stay, they came to pass.

To see your dreams come to pass, call into your life what GOD has promised you.  Change your inner self image with your words.  Say something positive about yourself daily.  Declare good things over your life right now.  Use your positive words to bless your life, because negative words will curse your life.  We all have dreams and desires, because GOD gave us these visions.  

Listen to your words, you are prophesying your future right now.  There is power in what we say.  Speak a blessing over your life.  Speak words of faith and victory into your own life daily.  Strive to have your best life right now.  Use your words to change your situation not tomorrow but right now.  Say daily, I am a victor not a victim.  Write down your visions and plant them into your daily life.

So with each breath that we are allow to take, we must in faith act in love.  Is it hard?  You bet it is.  Is the effort ultimately worth it?  Absolutely, without question!  Why?  Because that is the place that GOD has called us all to come.  GOD is love, GOD is hope.  Because it is in that place where we find peace that passes all understanding.  So how do you do it?  Fake it until you make it, practice makes perfect, put your best foot forward. 

Call upon every cliché that you have ever heard or learned reading GOD's word daily to get the job done.  What is the job?  Building "YOUR" faith to renew you mind daily.  You have to be willing to stand up, come out of the stand and get into the game that we call life with a new vision for yourself. 

We all have a GOD shaped hole in our souls that only GOD can fill.  You can't fill it with food, alcohol, drugs, sex or anything else.  GOD is and has always been there just waiting for us to ask him in to fill our personal voids.

One of life's greatest challenges is to define ourselves and find our life's calling in a positive and "healthy" way.  We must at every opportunity, attempt to understand who we are and why we are here before we know where we are going.  No matter how your life started, you choose your path in life, because we have all been given choice.  As we choose, GOD reveals his plan for you.  If we make poor choices, our lives will reflect that choice and hopefully we learn better. 

We must learn to navigate the wilderness of our life experiences.  Life is filled with personal lessons that we must in turn pass on as wisdom to those who follow us on this magnificent journey that we call life.  We must find joy in life along the way by nurturing our visions and nourishing our soul, and not just our physical body.  Because happiness and contentment is not some future destination, it is what we should be striving for daily.

What is your life mapping message?  Ask yourself, who am I, what was I born to do?    We are not defined by what we have become by earthly standards.  We are somebody because we were born.  What were you told consistently from the time you can remember?  We can all reflect on the positive and negative mapping messages that we have received from birth. 

From birth, we all feel life is slowly eating away at who we are or who we are trying to become.  Many of us feel internally lost because the world, our families, our so called friends, strangers, people passing through our lives and our daily experiences, good or bad, have all created who we are right now. 

For many of us inner conflict will occur when we live our lives from only a single mind set and not from our hearts point of view.  We must attempt to stay connected to that something that rejuvenates us regularly and consistently for a healthier and happier future.  So how do we find that something?  Where do you begin to look? 

We must look at how to connect, and for some reconnect with our passion for life and learn to define the something that will feed our spirit.  We have all been given a special gift in life.  What is yours?  Happiness occurs when your greatest potential is in line with your true passion.  It is then that greatness, money or what ever your hearts desire is will follow.

GOD speaks to us in a whisper, but when you don't listen GOD begins to shape our lives with what we have learned to describe as life's hardships. 

What is your personal life's message?  Are you living the life you truly love?  So how do you live the life that you want?  Here are just a few suggestions on how to live your best life.

• Learn to listen to your inner voice, that is GOD speaking to you in your present circumstance or situation.
• Be open and ready to change when you get the message.
• Plan - have a plan for your life, write it down.
• Focus on how you will accomplish your best life, this is your primary job.
• Now, stick to the plan that you've outlined for yourself.  Remember, you can do this.

We don't live in a society with a true rights of  passage ritual which would guide us into renewing ourselves as we mature from our youth with ease and acceptance into adulthood and beyond.  Growing up in a so called civilized society is a hit or mis / hap hazard set of experiences for most people. 

The clear cut lines that define life experiences of times gone by are slowly being erased.  So we must learn how to find and to connect with our inner selves by reaching out to others with like minds and understanding where ever we find them. 

In places of worship, on our jobs, in school, in our families or where ever you feel a positive connection with others that will feed your spirit in a positive way.  Who you are right now is who you take into every new encounter and experience that you have.  When a person meets you, they meet your past and your present. 

To be human is to be flawed, that is why we can not judge others, or we to will be judged.  So in spite of our flawed nature, what message do you want to give the world  and all of the new people that you will meet?  Everyday is a new day.  The choice is yours each day.

We must condition our mind, cultivate and change our inner vision for success.  We must tell ourselves that we are worthy, even if we may not feel like we are.  This elevates your self esteem.  Then make every effort to make what you tell yourself true by changing your behavior.  Change for each of us, positive or negative, starts in our mind. 

We must develop an attitude of faith with positive actions.  See yourself overcoming the negative forces that come your way each day, because they will come.  Focus on the positive possibilities and solutions of every experience that you have in your life.  This is where your passion for life can begin.

Emotional Intelligence.  We must learn to be emotionally intelligent with our daily decisions and experiences.  Emotional intelligence is the ability to learn how to navigate our ongoing feelings, positive and negative, that we have and deal with on a daily basis.  We must learn to remain calm and emotionally stable during difficult times.  We can partner with GOD on our own behalf, we then learn to be in the process of HIS will for us. This can be the beginning of learning mental and emotional survival skills for your life. 

By the time we are a young adult, we know already what we need to know in life to be successful.  We know good from evil and bad from good, because GOD has given us that innate understanding.  But it just needs to be awakened, renewed, revitalized or rediscovered. 

We need to gather from our personal relevant life experiences what it took for us to make it through our trials and our achievements.  We must learn to own our experiences and value them without becoming self focused, discouraged or bewildered because no man or woman is an island, we truly do need each other.

When we feel stuck in our actions or our thinking, and we surely will experience this at some point in our lives, we must learn to get unstuck.  We must learn to overcome our circumstances by reaching out and connecting to that higher power and believing that what you need will be there waiting for you to claim.  This is the place where we can and must take responsibility for our lives.  Here is where we need to spend time with ourselves and do some personal work from within. 

We must recondition our thinking, reinvent ourselves, relearn something that didn't work for us, reevaluate what went wrong, critique what went right, reawaken our sleeping giant, deal with your dark thoughts, get help if you need to (i.e. a personal coach, pastoral or mental health counseling etc.) and access your true feelings from every source within you. 

And then change those negatives into positives or turn on the light in that dark place within your mind and have a light bulb moment.  But when you have been in that negative inner place for so long and you can't seem to find your way out, pray for divine intervention and ask GOD to deliver you from your lack the capacity or inability to do.  GOD is the source of all things.  GOD is not looking for perfection in us, GOD is looking for potential in us.  Man (human) is only the source that GOD works through to manifest his will.  Just keep the faith and never loose hope. 

Your loyalties.  What gives your life meaning?  Where are your loyalties?  Is it your job, your work performance, your profession, the person that you keep trying to please or pursue?  That habit that you can't seem to break?  Where should your loyalties be?  Your family, your children, your health, your future, yourself?  Your faith? 

What are you here on this earth to do?  The road map for your personal journey is inside of "YOU."  The journey is yours to discover.  Life is a journey and you choose to create your own map (by using your own understanding) or you can use the map (scripture) that GOD has given to you to traverse life's countless experiences. 

Either way it is a challenge, but with the later you do have an advantage.  When you have difficulty keeping the faith, just remember GOD's divine plan and learn to hear his voice in all of your experiences.  Ask yourself, what is the world / life trying to pull out of you holistically and creatively.  What is your passion? 

What do your positive, spiritually enlightened feelings tell you to do?  Off the top of your head, answer this question.  What will fulfill your life right now.  Not who, but what?  That is your beginning.

Free yourself.  Don't look at where you've been, look at where you can be.  What you use to be is over and what you will be has just begun.  Feel free to be just who you are right now.  Feeling that we have no choice in our lives is a very paralyzing experience.  But you do have a choice (remember, we don't have control, only GOD does, but we do have choice). 

Even if you do nothing, that is a choice.  So how do you begin to improve your life from where you are?  Start with one easy doable thing that you know you can accomplish.  Empower yourself with positive actions behind the daily choice that you make to change your life.  What ever that is for you. 

Then take time for yourself regularly, take a walk, go fishing, pray, go swimming, go play basketball, reconnect with an old friend, recommit to your family by spending quality time with them, join a place of worship.  Just slow down, let go of the negatives and embrace the positives of your life experiences, even if it is a very small thing. 

But most of all reconnect with "YOU."  Do something that feeds your faith, mind, spirit and soul and not just your physical body with food, promiscuous behavior, drugs, alcohol or your personal negative self soothing thing of choice. 

So take time for your life, reshape your spirit by claiming or reclaiming the essences of "YOU."  Joy and happiness occurs along your daily path, not in the future when you retire or when you save enough money or when you meet that special someone.  And remember GOD is faithful and loves us unconditionally even when we are faithless.  Faith turns out before you know how the situation will turn out. 

So feel the love right here, right now.  Renew your dreams, renew your faith, see your life's vision with new eyes and a new purpose from within and act on it each and everyday ;o).  Because life is not a dress rehearsal!