Do IT Now! #1

The Lord said to me,.."I will test my people with a plumbline. Amos 7:8 (TLB)

The Plumbline is a blog to encourage the Body of Christ.

Do IT Now! #1

James 4: 14 How do you know what is going to happen tomorrow? For the length of your lives is as uncertain as the morning fog-now you see it; soon it is gone. TLB .

WHAT IF..You were told that you had only six months to live--What would you do?  What changes might you make in your life? You might write letters to friends expressing your appreciate and love for them. Perhaps you would seek out people whom you have wronged and ask for forgiveness. The bad news might jog your memory of an old debt and thus you would repay that which has been overlooked.  What might be the first thing you would do tomorrow? 1 Chron 29: 15 For we are here for but a moment, strangers in the land as our fathers were before us; our days on earth are like a shadow, gone so soon, without a trace. TLB

THE POINT DEAR FRIEND IS,  DON'T WAIT TILL YOU ONLY HAVE SIX               MONTHS TO LIVE.  

DO IT NOW!

JESUS HAS GIVEN US A GLORIOUS GOAL

John 15:7-8 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. NIV

John 10: 10 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. NIV.  God's expectation is for His children to possess: 1) Fulness of Life. 2) To be productive Fruit-bearers. 3) To be 100% sold out to the Lord Jesus Christ. The key to meeting this mandate is understanding the WORD; HEARING the Word and HEEDING the Word! Matt 7:24 "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. NIV

Matt 7:7-8 7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. NIV

Matt 7:13-14 13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. NIV

Luke 11 :28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the (\ word of God and obey it." NIV

John 14: 15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command. NIV.

Victory, Overcoming, Successfulness are directly connected with being ACCOUNTABLE, RESPONSIBLE AND OBEDIENT.

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU SAID TO SOMEONE, "HAVE A GOOD DAY!" . These words imply that fate or circumstances control your destiny. Which Is Just not True. We need to start saying, "Make It A Good Day!"

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW said, "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are, the people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can't find them, they make them..,"

JOHN WOODEN chalked up a string of NCAA Championships as r">. coach of the UCLA Bruins basketball team- he says, "Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else!"

You see friends, EACH of us must accept the RESPONSIBILITY for our own lives. Our lives are not determined by: Luck, Fate, The Stars, Heredity, The Weather, Your Spouse, Your Parents, Your Boss, Circumstances, or The Economy. When we'll accept our responsibility then our hearts will be charged with COURAGE & PERSISTENCE. There is NO other way to say it. You are responsible for what you are and what you have become. PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT, SUCCEED OR OVERCOME ARE THOSE WHO ACCEPT ABSOLUTE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEMSELVES AND PERSIST.

CALVIN COOLIDGE said, "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION ARE ALL POWERFUL.. ·

NAPOLEON HILL said, about Thomas Edison and Henry Ford - "...1 found no quality save persistence in either of these men that even remotely suggested the major source of their stupendous achievements..." 

THOMAS EDISON said, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration... "

To Be Continued