POWER OF FORGIVENESS - MR. RULE's RESPONSE

"The man, who is truly forgiven and knows it, is a man who forgives." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

 

It’s amazing how much power the eleven letter phrase wields. "I forgive you," has the ability to release freedom, happiness and the power to lunch us forward, forgetting the past. Meanwhile, unforgiveness will bind and hold us captive to many evils: misery, unhappiness, and a cycle of anger and unease. Since we have all have felt pain, how then do we move past it? We can't change the past nor people, but we can decide how we want our future to be. Understand that forgiveness is really about the forgiver, not the forgiven. Forgiveness, is about, letting go, moving past anger or pain, and moving into a healthier place. How do we truly let go? It's not really about, "How", but "Who"? God's love in us makes it easier to forgive.

Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer." confessed to killing women in California. By his confession, he may have murdered as many as 60 women. He especially targeted prostitutes. At his 2003 sentencing, families of victims had the opportunity to address Ridgway directly. Many in anger, lashed out at him for the unimaginable grief he'd caused them. As he listened, unmoved, family members expressed their anger.

GOAL SETTING 2

"In the school of goal setting, you are either consciously living your life design, or you forfeit it the regulation of other people’s goals. Nothing more, nothing less" - Uka Francis 

Goal Setting II

God's master plan for creation, by design, didn't include life being run by miracles: but that life should operate by principles. The one person God intended to have control of your life, is YOU. Therefore, He laid down principles with which that control could be navigated. One of the greatest of such principles is that of. "Goal Setting." One wise sage said, "The successful person has no choice but to anticipate the future, to attempt to mold it, and to balance short-range and long-range goals."

In the United States, a worker was hired to tap the edges of the car door with a rubber mallet to make sure that they fit perfectly. The Japanese assembly line, however, had no such worker or machine to ensure that the door fit. Puzzled, the American executives asked the nearest Japanese worker how they made sure that the doors fit perfectly. The man replied, "We make sure it fits when we design it." Not only was the Japanese process more efficient, but Japanese car doors last longer and are more structurally sound in accidents compared to American doors. Why? Simple. "The Japanese engineered the outcome they wanted from the beginning of the process."

GOAL SETTING

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into visible." - Anthony Robbins

 

Goal Setting

Usually in the beginning of a new year, lots of people make New Year resolutions. Interestingly, a study was carried out and it revealed that:

25 percent of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions after one week.
60 percent of people abandon them within six months. (The average person makes the same New Year’s resolution ten separate times without success.)
Even after a heart attack, only 14 percent of patients make any lasting changes around eating or exercise.
This is how the story goes with resolutions. The alternative is Goal Setting. I have long understood that Goals setting is an amazing principle that facilitates growth on steady and consistent basis in life.

One wise man gave an illustration and said “Say you were to travel from wherever you are to Calgary. That’s the goal and you had never been there before. As you start in the direction (You'd not even know what direction to start, without first knowing where you are then, figuring where you want to go) and begin driving, it won’t be long before you come to a fork in the road (Just like life right, you start going in this direction and opportunities arise and you have to decide) you ether take the Hope/Princeton turn off or continue on the #1. Well with out a map you will end up guessing instead of looking at the map and saying, this is the route I want to take. That’s not too bad, because you will still get there by going the Hope/Princeton it will just take to hours, longer but when you get to Kamloops and you keep going straight instead of

GOD'S CHOICE

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years." – Simone Signoret 

God's Choice

Marriage is a beautiful thing, and deciding who to marry is a most important decision to ever make. The primary reason for marriage should be a conviction that that person's God’s choice: not just a good choice. In the quest for a spouse, sometimes nearly all available options will appear right in some way. Therefore, since you can't end up with all, there comes the need to allow for God's desire for you, and He can use any situation, or circumstance to show you that one. "Does God want you to remain single, or not?" That's an important question to first consider.

In 2000, 7 year old Tyrel Wolfe put together a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child. It was sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse, a christian organization. The shoebox went to a little Filipina, Joana at a suburb of Manila. The box had the photo of a little boy in a Cowboy's outfit holding a lariat. The boy had included his name and address, Joana wrote to say how the box impacted her, but he never received the letter.

HE'S GOT BIGGER JAWS

"If you can see the invisible, God will do the impossible." - Joel Osteen 

W4W

A young army officer was constantly being ridiculed by his colleagues and superiors for his faith. His captain decided to humiliate him one of those days, before the troops. "Hey, go park that Jeep in the front." The captain barked at him. "I cannot drive, sir!" Was the calm reply. "Then ask your God, for driving lessons." He retorted. "Show us that He exists." Obediently, he took the key and prayed as he walked toward the vehicle. Somehow, he entered the vehicle and parked it exactly as He was told. "Thank you God." He muttered as he walked back: to his surprise his captain, with the others were on their knees. Weeping. "We want to serve your God!" They said, amidst sobs. Astonished, he asked to know what happened. The captain knew that, it was IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to drive a car without an engine.

Sometimes it's usual to think of impossibility when we are faced with certain tasks. We should know God sees differently. There was a point in my life where, I was about to do something, and after my calculations I realized I was incapable of doing it. Just then, I heard in my spirit, "I want you to bite more than you can chew." Amazed, I asked "Why?" Then I got a shocking answer that I'll never forget. "...because, I have bigger jaws to chew for you." was God's reply.