Little things builf BIG things! - confidence is the key

So, did you hear about the quote

"Are you a slave to your mind OR
Is your mind a slave for you"

When it comes to confidence, there are few key things to consider 
read this up..it really helps! 

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"With confidence, you have won before you have started." -- Marcus Garvey
Confidence is often the single differentiator between people who get what they want and people who don't. Those who think and believe they can do something -- run a marathon, start an entrepreneurial venture, ask someone out (and have them say yes), win a competitive promotion, fit into their pre-pregnancy jeans, build a fun social circle, well... they do it.

Our mind is a very powerful tool, and the impact of our thoughts and words cannot be underestimated. Our thoughts create our emotions. Our emotions create our actions. Our actions create our life. Confident people have greater control over their minds and have tuned their mental station to one of "I can."

Here are nine things that confident people do that you can apply to your life:

1. Do not overcomplicate. You want something? Great! Create a plan to make it yours. Keep your eye on the prize and do not get distracted by other peoples noise or by your own ability to over-think.

2. Focus on what you want. Confident people keep a positive vision in mind of the future. They expect good things to happen to them, and as a result they do, as expectation is a very powerful force.

3. Act as if it's already yours. People who are self-assured allow their language and actions to be in line with their outcome. This inspires confidence in others.

4. Use words with intention. Consider the difference with two people discussing their new blog. One could be, "Yes, I am a blogger. You like vintage purses too? Awesome! We must connect -- check out the new images I posted at..." vs. "Well, I am trying to blog but am not sure I am doing it right (nervous laugh)." Who do you think gets the most views and shares?

5. Listen but don't pay heed to others opinions. Other people are well meaning and sometimes err on the side of caution. Confident people listen to other people but do not let their difference of perspective take them off track. It's your life!

6. Dedicate time to what matters. Confident people are happy to say no to things to make sure they have time and energy for their priorities. Funnily enough, people treat them with more respect as a result.

7. Act humble. Confident types don't talk endlessly about their successes. I was once at a large corporate event and I was speaking to an outgoing and likeable woman who said she "worked in publishing." I found out later that evening that she was the editor-in-chief of one New York's most influential magazines. Confident people let their success speak for itself and don't need to vocalize it.

8. Know failure is sometimes inevitable and don't fear it. Worrying about failure can keep us from doing anything at all. Confident people are still confident even when they fail. When the chips are down they know it will pass.

9. Repeat all of the above! Confidence building takes a lifetime. The more we practice confidence as an attitude, the easier it becomes.

The most successful and happy people are not born the most rich, beautiful or talented. They just believe in themselves and go for what they want. Confidence is also a highly attractive quality in others as we all secretly aspire to have more self-assurance. "I can" and "I can't" thoughts create very different emotional spirals, as the mind is very obedient and follows whichever path we direct it. Which do you choose?


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so which one will you choose?

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RE: The Game of Life

So I was browsing through them informative blogs and i stumbled across this very interesting piece..the game of life!
Life, if seen in a gamer context can be translated into this!
Most guys will get this, its logical and make sense..girls? I'm not too sure about that

What do you girls think? any feedback on this?

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Life is a game. This is your strategy guide

Real life is the game that – literally – everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide.

Basics

You might not realise, but real life is a game of strategy. There are some fun mini-games – like dancing, driving, running, and sex – but the key to winning is simply managing your resources.
Most importantly, successful players put their time into the right things. Later in the game money comes into play, but your top priority should always be mastering where your time goes.

Childhood

Life begins when you’re assigned a random character and circumstances:

The first 15 years or so of life are just tutorial missions, which suck. There’s no way to skip these.

Young adult stage

As a young player, you’ll have lots of time and energy, but almost no experience. You’ll find most things – like the best jobs, possessions and partners – are locked until you get some.
This is the time to level up your skills quickly. You will never have so much time and energy again.
Now that you’re playing properly, your top priority is to assign your time as well as possible. Every single thing you do affects your state and your skills:

This may sound simple, but the problem is you won’t always know what tasks to choose, and your body won’t always obey your commands. Let’s break it down.

How to obey your own commands

Many players find that when they choose to do something – say “go to the gym” – their body ignores them completely.
This is not a bug. Everybody has a state, which you can’t see directly, but looks something like this:

If your state gets too low in one area, your body will disobey your own instructions until your needs are met. Try studying when you’re exhausted and hungry, and watch your concentration switch to Twitter.
Your willpower level is especially important. Willpower fades throughout the day, and is replenished slightly by eating, and completely by a good night’s sleep. When your willpower is low, you are only able to do things you really want to.
Every decision you have to make costs willpower, and decisions where you have to suppress an appealing option for a less appealing one (e.g. exercise instead of watch TV) require a lot of willpower.
There are various tricks to keep your behaviour in line:

1. Keep your state high. If you’re hungry, exhausted, or utterly deprived of fun, your willpower will collapse. Ensure you take consistently good care of yourself.
2. Don’t demand too much willpower from one day. Spread your most demanding tasks over multiple days, and mix them in with less demanding ones.
3. Attempt the most important tasks first. This makes other tasks more difficult, but makes your top task more likely.
4. Reduce the need to use willpower by reducing choices. If you’re trying to work on a computer that can access Facebook, you’ll need more willpower because you’re constantly choosing the hard task over the easy one. Eliminate such distractions.

A key part of playing the game is balancing your competing priorities with the state of your body. Just don’t leave yourself on autopilot, or you’ll never get anything done.

Choosing the right tasks

Choosing the right tasks at the right time is most of the game. Some tasks mostly affect your state, e.g.

Others mostly affect your skills:

You need to put time into things that ensure a healthy state – like food and sleep – to keep your willpower high. And then you need to develop your skills with what you have left.
Some skills are more valuable than others. Good ones can open up whole paths like a tech tree:

Others are dead ends:

Combinations of skills are the most effective. It’s very hard to max out one skill to be the best – in fact, that’s often impossible. But it’s much easier to get pretty decent at lots of related skills that amount to something bigger, e.g.

See how psychology just helped you become both rich and attractive? You should study that.

Where you live

Your environment has a constant impact on your stats, skills, and your chances of levelling up.
It’s possible to play the game well almost anywhere, but it’s a lot easier in certain places. If you’re female and in the wrong country, for example, you can’t unlock many achievements.
The odds of anyone being born in their optimal location are virtually zero, so research your options, and consider moving early. Location is a multiplier to all of your skills and states.

Finding a partner

Attraction is a complex mini-game in itself, but mostly a byproduct of how you’re already playing. If you have excellent state and high skills, you’re far more attractive already. A tired, irritable, unskilled player is not appealing, and probably shouldn’t be looking for a relationship.

Early in the game it can be common to reject and be rejected by other players. This is normal, but unfortunately it can drain your state, as most players don’t handle rejection or rejecting well. You’ll need to expend willpower to keep going, and willpower is replenished by sleep, so give it time.
80% of finding someone comes down to being your most attractive self, which – like so much in life – just means putting your time in the right places. If you’re exercising, socialising, well nourished and growing in your career, you will radiate attraction automatically. The remaining 20% is simply putting yourself in places where you can meet the right people.

Money money money

Later in the game you’ll have to manage a new resource called ‘money’. Most players will find money increases throughout the early game, but that this actually introduces more problems, not less.

The most important rule of money is never to borrow it, except for things that earn you more back. For example, education or a mortgage can be worthwhile (but are not necessarily so, depending on the education or the mortgage). Borrowing to buy new shoes is not.
Depending on your financial ambitions, here are a few strategies to bear in mind:

1. Not fussed about money. The low-stress strategy: simply live within your means and save a little for a rainy day. Be sure to make the best of all the time you save though, or you’ll regret it.
2. Well off. Choose a career and environment carefully, and be prepared to move often to move up. You’ll need to invest heavily in matching skills, which will cost you time, and be careful not to abuse your state or you’ll burn out.
3. Mega rich. Start your own business. It’s almost impossible to get rich working for someone else. Riches do not come from work alone, they come from  owning things – assets – that pay back more than they cost, and your own company is a powerful asset you can create from scratch. Compound your winnings into more assets, and eventually they can remove your need to work at all.

Later life

Your options change as the game progresses. Marriage and children will reduce your time and energy, and introduce more random elements into the game (“Emergency diaper change!”). This makes it harder to develop yourself as quickly.
Older characters usually have more skills, resources and experience, unlocking quests that were previously impossible, like “owning a house”, or “writing a (good) novel”.

All players die after about 29,000 days, or 80 years. If your stats and skills are good, you might last a little longer. There is no cheat code to extend this.
At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again. Your past decisions drastically shape where you end up, and if you’re happy, healthy, fulfilled – or not – in your final days there’s far less you can do about it.
That’s why your strategy is important. Because by the time most of us have figured life out, we’ve used up too much of the best parts.
Now you’d best get playing.

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The "Now" - Coming out from the comfort zones and relization to change unto greatness

Whoa!!
Talking about finding things in the most unexpected places
I think I have finally found meaning and a very very sharp perspective of my life
I can totoally relate to this stuff that I have found..this article blew my mind!
And here I was looking for "travel tips" when I stumbled upon http://www.mavericktraveler.com
and gave me a sense of perspective of "now". 
Please read this article, all credits goes to him!

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Several months ago, I met up with an old friend. Like many of the great men with which I consider myself lucky to cross paths in life, I met him overseas — in Brazil. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that he was also traveling alone, brazenly grabbing the things that he wanted, whether they were fine women or crazy adventures, all while running a successful passive-income business on the side.

So, when I returned back to the States several months ago, he was one of the very few people whom I notified of my arrival. He’s one of the few guys in the world I can fully relate with and trust; an interesting and cool guy who’s always either hustling 18 hours per day, planning, building and launching a new business or looking for adventures in the most random corners of the globe. (I have other friends, but I’ve long learned that a one-sided conversation where I tell them my countless adventures and they just keep nodding isn’t a fun way to spend an evening.)

The plan was to have a couple of beers and reminisce about our old times. We met up and immediately began talking about where it all began: Brazil. After that, he told me about his recent two month trip to Colombia’s Caribbean coast. I told him about my European adventures, and what a fantastic time I had living in The Baltics this past summer. He was enthusiastic, asking me lots of questions and even making a few mental notes about going to Europe in the near future.

But, then something happened. We ran out of things to say about our past travels. We ran out of things to say about our future travels. Right there, in a split second, he did something completely unexpected: he switched to the present. He began talking about things that he was doing now. I fully expected that our whole evening would be spent talking about that night in Rio, or that night in Belo Horizonte, or that night in São Paulo, but as far as he was concerned, the past was firmly in the past. He was now busy living a new chapter in his life, and that chapter was right now and right here in New York, not inside the samba clubs of Brazil or the salsa clubs of Colombia.
Living in the present isn’t a bad thing, but what caught me completely off guard was my complete unpreparedness for the topic at hand. I felt like a high school student who got caught in surprise pop quiz. I felt ambushed. I didn’t know how to react. Truth is, I didn’t have any plans for the present. I didn’t know what I was going to do. In fact, that was probably one of the reasons why I really came out to meet him; maybe I was seeking some kind of guidance, some kind of support, someone to point me in the right direction. And here he was, a guy who always got shit done, a guy who always had all the answers.

I was searching for answers to my own emptiness and lack of direction (living in the past was the most obvious hint that I didn’t have anything better in the present). I was still mentally in that glorious old world and didn’t know how to adjust to this new one. Maybe I didn’t want to adjust at all. After all, in that other world I was free from planning concrete goals; I could eat, drink, and flirt with gorgeous women all day, every day. It was truly a carefree life. But in this world, I needed to get serious. I needed to set direction for the future. I needed to create my own reality. But where do I start? How do I bootstrap myself out of the past and into the present?

The breakthrough came to me one evening while I debated whether to go for a run or not. Running, as far as I’m concerned, is a boring, monotonous activity, but it’s also the easiest and most effective way to engage in a vigorous physical exercise, especially given today’s sedentary lifestyles. There were many times in the past where I made all kinds of excuses, but something about that particular evening was different. It suddenly hit me like a ball of lightning that I’m a healthy young man with two legs and two arms. I’m not sick. I don’t have a fever. I don’t have bad knees. I don’t have a heart 
condition. I don’t have a lung condition. Physically, I have everything I need to be able to run any distance I wanted. The only thing that was holding me back was laziness (which was my way of saying that my time was better spent sitting on the couch and watching a mindless TV sitcom than investing in my own mind and body). Maybe when I’m 80 years old with bad knees, I wouldn’t be able to physically run anymore, but now as a perfectly healthy young man, not being able to take advantage of what I possessed hit me as the most illogical thing in the world. I went out and ran the longest distance in many years.

That evening sparked a revolution in my mind, forcing me to scrutinize and reexamine my thought processes and actions. An image popped into my head; I began to see myself as a nation which was blessed with countless natural resources, but didn’t have any form of government nor a well functioning economy to convert those resources into wealth. Imagine a country that has within its borders all the major raw materials: oil, wheat, sugar, copper, silver, cocoa, ore, diamonds but doesn’t have the machinery to turn those resources into goods or doesn’t even bother to trade these commodities with other nation. I realized that everything I needed was already in my possession, and that all I now had to do was begin extracting, harvesting, processing, marketing and exporting them.

I had everything: experience, health, intelligence, intimate knowledge of various subjects, but yet I was still looking outward for some magical potion that could somehow fill an obscure void and give me that little push into the right direction. That’s why I began seeking salvation and guidance from someone else, namely my friend. But how could my friend ever help? How could he give an answer to such an open-ended question as to what to do with my life? He was just another guy, a guy just like myself, who only differed from me in his unstoppable tenacity to implement his raw ideas into money-generating assets. We were like two countries with the exact same resources, except his country had a stable government and a robust economy and mine didn’t. He had guts, I didn’t.

Next, came the second part of the puzzle: how to stop looking for some opaque, nebulous, open-ended salvation from others, and instead be more concrete with what I need and how I should go about getting those needs satisfied. (The part about being more concrete with my needs made me immediately remember a couple of one-itis’es in my youth when I idolized women without being forward with what I really wanted: hardcore, monkey sex.)

Since people are inherently egoistic, I quickly realized that in order to get what I wanted, I need to give them something that they wanted in return. Successful people are successful precisely because they spend their time on things that yield them the maximum possible return. Doing lots of things for free would bankrupt them quickly. (I doubt my friend would meet me again if only to reminisce about some distant past that’s no longer relevant.)
The key to getting what you want is figuring out how to use what you already have in ways that are beneficial to someone else (who, in turn, has what you need). The important point is that you can only begin bartering with others once you’ve done a complete inventory of your present stock. It’s only after you know the true value of your own raw materials, will you be able to trade them profitably with other parties.

Armed with this understanding, I began to view myself as an efficient factory with two assembly lines: assembly line of my “outputs” (things that I’m able to synthesize and “sell”: my knowledge, experience, intelligence, skills, etc) and assembly line of my “inputs” (things that I’m “buying”: what I need/want/desire from others). Essentially, I realized that my success lay in seeing and presenting myself as a flexible microeconomic unit which could efficiently generate output while simultaneously processing input, instead of some insolvent opaque matter that only sought very abstract things like the meaning of life and salvation from everyone it interacted with. I even visualized myself being composed off various gears, like the ones you find inside a mechanical watch. The gears are constantly turning, with one gear spinning another, and so on.

Whereas before I was like a land blessed with natural resources but with no government and no functioning economy, now I was an efficiently running factory, producing things that can be used to get what I want from others.
I ultimately realized that no one — not my good friend, not my parents, not the bartender, not my boss, not some cute girl, not even The Pope — had The Answer. I was asking the wrong questions. Everyone, after all, is simply trying to get by with what they have. Nobody has the answers to very abstract questions like the meaning of life. Construct a more specific question — the more specific, the better — and now finding someone with the answer is a much simpler task.

It all made sense. At the core, life is based on inter-human barter. I sell, he buys. I buy, she sells.

As time went on, I began to observe my environment in a completely new way, as though I was suddenly graced with x-ray vision. I began to see and feel the intricacies of each situation, no matter how simple or complex. I started noticing that certain people always magically get what they want, no matter where they are and what they are doing. But I’ve also noticed other people who are always stagnant, lost, confused, and forever struggling, as though the answers to their problems lie outside their realm; for, they are always seeking something, be it understanding, support, salvation, sympathy, empathy, compassion, or pity from someone else. If they only knew the right place to look.

James Bond - Sky fall (a personal review/ take)

Hey guys,

 

Sorry haven't been writing for a while. I was on a roller coster ride of my life.

Well here is my personal review of James Bond's 2012 move - skyfall! This review reflects my life and also, maybe your life in general too. There are seasons of our life where we might have encountered situations or scenarios like this.

 

I watched skyfall today, it was about James Bond. To my surprise, there no new fancy gadgets nor modern stuff this round. The car chase was old school and not only that, the actors seems old and unable...Of course we expect to see the unable man rise up to his feet and become the hero that he is. We know the end of the story...but he doesn't. We see his fight and struggles and feel his joy and pain.

 

Here they show the distruction of the old, as a new season picks up. I saw the distruction of his classic car, his old mansion that his parents left him, and his old wealth, his old caretaker, and his old handler die. It was heartbreaking to see his car being destroyed by the enemy. His house was destroyed but the enemy. His fathers only rifle was no longer useful to him anymore. His had to take care of his old care taker. And the thing he asked for is: ressuraction.

 

Such deep meaning to the show.

 

The end of the old cycle, the old chase, the grief and sorrows and in the end, after all the crying, the new season comes in. More exciting, more action and more drama, but we live for it! The old bad guys have died and passed away, in the hopeless situations, where death seems inevertable, just like this, the angel is there to save you! God's hand is upon you. If its not your time, it's just not your time!

Dream: Directions and Paths

I had a dream before waking up. It seems that the word for me was,

"if you ever loose sight of where your going,

look back to the past and remember why you came"

 

You can get good insight of direction and judge the situation well.

 

I guess I was very confused when I went to sleep,

My body was so tired yet my heart was anxious,

I couldn't sleep till the early hour of the morning as I had so much

Load of throughs that ran through my mind like the early traffic of 8.45 am

Where am I going?

Why am I doing this?

Where is my direction?

Which way should I go?

I am at a cross road,

Right or left?

North or south?

Vertical vs horizontal?

Do I swim like the fish in the deep sea?

Or do I sore like an eagle in the sky?

 

Do I plant my trees overlooking the morning sea,

Or do I root it in the dusky mountains?

Do I immerse with Informational Technology,

Or do I submit to the call of Arts?

Do I strive for the Mercedes Benz

Or that Audi car

Or should I get that proton saga?

 

Yet the sweet presence that is with me,

Told me that he doesn't see me as what people might say,

Who's to say who I am,

That tops the ranking of opinion over the one who created me?

Yes, all I hear is their voice,

Voice of people in the world,

Telling me what to do,

Deceit and hidden motives, agendas and plans

that underline their most concern voices,

But I come to that sound place,

That place of which I can hear His voice,

Holy Spirit is moving,

My physical ears can't seem to hear,

Any audible voice,

But the ears of my heart,

Rejoice for I have heard the voice if salvation,

And it's speakings and teachings for me!

 

Today it came in a dream,

Before I awoke and before I awake,

Half in my deep slumber,

Before I pollute my ears with the world again,

Sweet sweet directions,

Conforming and affirmation,

So ever assuring and soothing,

My word today was:

 

"if you ever loose sight of where your going,

look back to the past and remember why you came"

And I looked,

Pondered,

Even wondered,

The real core reasons,

I detached all the hidden motives,

Agendas and dark plans in my heart,

And looked at the innocents,

Of pure reasons of my intentions,

For I have come to know true love,

A force that fills my empty void,

To filly my empty eye sockets,

To walk in supernatural lights,

Mids' the natural tangible darkness,

Mike Cheong

 

Psalms 127:1-2

Friends and readers,

 

Here is one of the greatest truths of all time, and it is written by King David himself when he was crying in the wilderness. In his bitter tears and mournful cries, this revelation of realization dawned upon him.

 

Psalms 127:1-2

If the LORD does not build the house,

the work of the builders is useless;

if the LORD does not protect the city,

it does no good for the sentries to stand guard.

2 It is useless to work so hard for a living,

getting up early and going to bed late.

For the LORD provides for those he loves,

while they are asleep.

 

How true, without the Lord, nothing can be done

Can the tree grow its vines without the branch?

 

Have we tried lately to finish up something but it can never be done?

Planning to write that song, but it can never be sung?

Planning and trying to run for that race but can never seem to enter its tracks?

Is it because you have not asked?

Or is it your own will and strength that comes from the flesh desires instead of the will of God?

Who knows the will of God?

Well, you sure won't if you don't have a relationship with him...

You will be as clueless and banging to open a door which is locked

Pressing the doorbell of an empty house, hoping for an answer

To suit your better own desires and fill those void empty feelings in your heart.

 

Enough with the self hatred and self pity

The Lord says to come out from that "pity party" that you are throwing

Step out in faith from those influences that are negative and brining you down.

It's time you seek him, for the word of promise says in Jeremiah 29:11 that

"God has a perfect plan for you"

Don't you want to know it? I encourage you...when you are at your lowest

And when you think you are serious enough....get to seeking him

Je wants you to find him!

 

Not in the noisy streets,

Nor the quiet mountain place,

Nor in streams of rushing water,

But at the bottom of your hearts cry

That is genuine,

Not from hatred and self loath,

Not from your pity party,

Certainly not from self desperation,

But from a true heart seeking the truth and light.

 

And He will throw you a party!

He will bring that party to you!

You will begin to meet all sorts of powerful people

That came from the same darkness you did but

Managed to persevere in faith and walked through it

Till they reached the light of salvation

They have exciting stories!

You will have one too!

Be excited, persevere and carry on your walk in faith

Seek him, and you shall find Him!

 

Matt 7:7 ""Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will find, and the door will be opened to him who knocks."

 

Let us hold on to the word, the promise of God and TRY. That's the first step and it's good enough.

I tell you this, if you were to open the doors of your heart and stop talking and start listening with YOUR HEART, God is just waiting to rush in!

 

Be encouraged!

 

How to reach God and encouragement

Dear friends and readers,
I would like to share with you part of my journey again.

Today as I went to my room to pray because i felt so hungry for God and i really needed him at this point of my life and got the word as a i opened up my bible (asking the Holy Spirit to lead me to the page that God had desired me to read) on psalms 32 on confession and forgiveness. I am reminded of a sin when I was praying and it was :
I have put humans (men) as my saviour instead of Jesus. And that was my sin.
And at the church camp I also got this message and repented but today I was reminded of it again and I was "happy to confess and ask for forgiveness." This is the key:

Your sins block your way to the father. Happy are those who confess and are forgiven.

Only then God will be "out hiding place and will save me of all my troubles" and I will sing praises to him!
In psalms 32:8 "The LORD says, "I will teach you the way you should go; I will instruct you and advise you."

That means the Holy Spirit will lead me and I have access to God's instructions, meaning his will! So if I follow the perfect plan of my father, I will gain the promises of Jeremiah 29:11

"I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for. 12 Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me, and I will answer you. 13 You will seek me, and you will find me because you will seek me with all your heart."

So I am greatly encouraged by this. Hope this encouragement has spread to you as well friends.

Life Sharing: journey to becoming an overcomer

Friends and dear readers,

 

At this point of my life, I have come across so much things on my mind and I guess one thing is to discover and acknowledge the greatest hinderence of this time. Mr. Fear. I would like to share with you part of a journal I have in this journey of life we all must walk on. Be encouraged, like how I was.

 

"Yes, the word "take courage. really strikes me as I was reading so much of material on learning and being empowered to overcome fear and giants in my life.

And then I was lead to open to 2 chronicles 16 and what strikes me was verse 8 "didn't the Ethiopians and the Libyans have many chariots and cavalry troops? But because you relied on the Lord, He gave you victory over them" and then I was glad because this is what the lord says when he said : "I am for you". And then I looked at another chapter of the same book and what strikes me was chapter 15:7 "But you must be strong and not be discouraged. The work that you do will be rewarded." it says BE STRONG! And the word of prophecy over me was "take courage" and that the word "take courage" kept repeating.

And then I open up the word again and there it was! Under the book of "3 young men" (good news bible, catholic ver), where they (the 3 young men) were thrown in the furnace, at the middle of the big fire, where by the fire did not lick them nor burned them at all. And they were singing of the praises of God (verse 63) on praise, honor, worship, singing, his goodness and mercy that endures forever. Amen!

And the. I turned to Eccleiastes chapter 3 "a time for everything" and again I am reminded about the seasons of God in our human lives. A time to sow, a time to reap, a time to cry, a time for joy, a time for mourning and time for dancing. Chapter 3:9 says: "9 What do we gain from all our work? 10 I know the heavy burdens that God has laid on us. 11 He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does. 12 So I realized that all we can do is be happy and do the best we can while we are still alive. 13 All of us should eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for. It is God's gift. 14 I know that everything God does will last forever. You can't add anything to it or take anything away from it. And one thing God does is to make us stand in awe of him."

And that's all we can do, stand in awe and praise the Lord and trust that he has our best interest at hand. Take his word today and claim it as the promise made by the God of promises, that whoever shall believe in him shall not die but have eternal life"

 

Sounds too good to be true? Cheesy? Like a promise made by a prince to a princess (envision a poor beautiful girl from the village that the prince of the rich kingdom had chosen to be his lover that had come and saved her from her poor life to live in the kingdom. The place that everyone talks about, the place of which news comes from, the place that all finances comes from) don't you wish sometimes that these fairy tales comes true for you? Get to know this God of Promises and claim it! No, it will not work like a microwave oven and you will be instant princess (or prince for that matter) but owever, work on it because it works!

Here is the secret....we have a helper and is ABLE. This helper is able to help us and the more we build a relationship with this helper, the more we are able to move! Eph 3:20. Check it out....share the secret!

Be

Be

Be thankful,
For the pillow you put your head on,
Is in your room and not like,
The man who sleeps on the streets.

Be great-full,
For the meal you have eaten,
Was not from the dumpster,
Where the desperate must steal from,
To survive by filling their stomachs.

Be merciful,
That one day you too might slip and fall
And my need the help of someone
To save you

Be weary,
That you may not be tempted on account of pride
And find yourself trapped
In a bondage of what you may have perceived
Of initially of good and beneficial

Be excellent,
And do your best in everything,
For you have skills and talents,
Why not use it to your best and bless?

Be wise,
That you reveal the right thing to the right person,
The one who has evil intentions
Will use it to your disadvantage.

Be at peace,
For we have angels dedicated to watching over us,
Be sensitive to communicate to them,
And thank them for their duty.

Be confident,
Say what's on your mind and do it,
Ponder on your actions and when sure,
Launch your plans and never look back.

Be firm,
On what is good and the principles you stand for,
For this is what makes a man,
It is the scent produced from his beliefs.

Mike Cheong