All kinds of ‘fire works’ …

 As most folks begin to celebrate the 4th of July, fireworks are a part of our American tradition. From innocent sparklers to all kinds of sophisticated and fancy explosives, we find a way to add noise and light up the night skies. 

Light cancels the darkness and this time of years we get to see many colorful and amazing types of light. 

We also have another source of Light that dwells within us. 

The Holy Spirit lights up our life through Jesus and His fire work banishes the darkness that tries to take over and control our lives. 

All we have to do is open our hearts to Him and He will do the rest. …Check your experience… 

 “If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.” Big Book pg 76 

Lord, let us light up our lives with the fireworks You so freely provide us through Jesus, AMEN. 

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;” Isaiah 9:2 

MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 

Furniture Bank is in the hand-UP business and not the HANDOUT GAME! 

You can donate any amount for a tax deduction and tax receipt, even $20 a month helps, because $100 provides a new twin bed and bedding to make a house into a home for our clients and families escaping homelessness and hopelessness. 

We usually send 2 or 3 of these to every family we assist. 

Furniture Bank is a 501c3 public charity and every penny donated goes toward helping our families, veterans, and individuals in need. 

Visit our website http://www.furniturebank.us/arizona-tax-credit.html and click on the PayPal button for a secure transaction and tax receipt that will follow within 48 hours. 

Please help us help others! 

Have a blessed day y’all 

Our foundation is our strength…. 

“Have we skimped on the cement put into the foundation?” Big Book pg 75

 I am sure we are all familiar with the story of the 3 Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. 

The moral of the story is that we need to have a strong foundation and not take shortcuts or fall victim to poor influences when building our lives. 

We are faced with subtle challenges daily that can undermine our foundation if we do not pay attention. 

It’s not our place to judge or convict others, but it is our job to love others AS THEY ARE as God loves us AS WE ARE. 

Allowing yourself to believe anything other than this will weaken your foundation and leave you spiritually bankrupt. 

How is your foundation? 

Are the bricks of faith, truth, love, and hope in place firmly? ... 

Check your experience…. 

“Let your roots flow down into him and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.” Colossians 2:7 

Lord, let us be blanketed by your Word, covered in Your Truth, and love others as You continue to love us, AMEN. 

How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

Every penny goes to support Faith Through Works Fellowship ministries including Furniture Bank! 

Order today and help us help others! 

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Have a blessed day y’all! 

Got enough "stuff"? ... 

Years ago, I was asked to help a man who had some personal life issues. I was still kind of new to the ministry and was a bit confused from my initial meeting with him. 

I met a man who was obviously very wealthy and powerful. He owned a very public and successful business, had money, and was surrounded by more material wealth than I had ever seen. He had what seemed to me at the time, an army of assistants and employees catering to his every need. 

In my initial first 30 second assessment, this man had it all! 

Despite all this, I was sent to help and was amazed at what I learned as I got to know this man. He was filled with anger and loneliness. Even though he was surrounded by people, along with enough material wealth and possessions to make anyone envious, 

HE WAS MISERABLE! 

He had no personal relationships and had estranged most of his family over the years. I learned that money had become his God and that material things were his mistress. He had no real relationship with anyone. 

Long story short, I spent some time with him but it was obvious he was not having any of what I offered in my "Jesus bag and sobriety kit" as he came to call it during the few months I tried to help him. 

I was replaced by more senior ministers so I lost track of his progress, but I never forgot how miserable this extremely wealthy man was. I felt sorry for him because despite his power and wealth he was morally bankrupt and spiritually poor.

 ... How about you? 

How is your spiritual bank account and net worth?... 

Check your experience. .. 

"He is the Father, we are His children." Big Book pg 62

Lord let our true wealth come from the richness our Spirit gains from you and our relationships with those around us, AMEN. 

"We came into this world with nothing. For sure, when we die, we will take nothing with us.” 1 Timothy 6:7 

Looking to volunteer or plug into an existing helping opportunity in the Greater Phoenix AZ area? 

Visit Servants Hearts! 

It’s a free site to help connect folks with volunteer and helping opportunities! 

Furniture Bank and Spiritual Solutions Group are pleased to sponsor and share this free helping service from Faith Through Works Fellowship. 

Pray for its growth to provide helping hearts and willing hands to our organizations that need help! 

http://aservantsheart.us

Have a blessed day y’all! 

Take time to listen instead of waiting to speak… 

Have you ever caught yourself on “auto-pilot” in a conversation? 

For me, it usually happens when during a familiar conversation or recurring situation. My mind tells me the answer before the other person even asks or finishes! 

Now maybe it’s different for you, but I catch myself going into auto- pilot mode when I start deciding what must be done even before I have really listened and or HEARD what the other person is trying to say. 

OK, so this is part of standard fare for raising kids under 5 when it comes to junk food and unsafe toys, we DO know the answers before they form the question, but this type of listening hurts us in all other aspects of our lives. 

Think about it. 

We like to be listened to, heard, and feel that we have been understood. 

It’s a spiritual principle that we need to treat others in the same way that we wish to be treated. 

So maybe this is the 3rd time Aunt Mabel has told you the story about her trip to the grocery with the wrong coupons. Perhaps by actively listening to her and building conversation around her story, she may finally feel heard and stop telling you the same story. 

 How do you listen? 

 Does the solution noise in your head drown out what the other person is trying to say? … 

Check your own experience and…

Take time to listen instead of waiting to speak. 

“We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing.” Big Book pg 50 

Lord, let us listen with our hearts and hear with You Holy Spirit that resides in us all, AMEN. 

 "To answer before listening-- that is folly and shame. Proverbs 18:13 

 MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 

Furniture Bank is in the hand-UP business and not the HANDOUT GAME! 

You can donate any amount for a tax deduction and tax receipt, even $20 a month helps, because $100 provides a new twin bed and bedding to make a house into a home for our clients and families escaping homelessness and hopelessness. 

We usually send 2 or 3 of these to every family we assist. 

Furniture Bank is a 501c3 public charity and every penny donated goes toward helping our families, veterans, and individuals in need. 

Visit our website http://www.furniturebank.us/arizona-tax-credit.html and click on the PayPal button for a secure transaction and tax receipt that will follow within 48 hours. 

Please help us help others! 

Have a blessed day y’all!

We are only as sick as our secrets… 

 Sometimes withholding information is good to do, like when it is not needed for the situation at hand or it could overwhelm or overload someone due to their current circumstances. 

Most of the time it pays to be transparent and not keep secrets because they have a way of coming to light, especially in this day and age with Phone video, Facebook, Snap Chat, Instagram, and all the other ways we socialize and communicate. 

The spiritual fact is that no matter what is on our hearts or in our minds, the Lord knows through the Holy Spirit dwelling within us. 

So maybe this doesn’t apply to you , but why is it that there are times when I think I can “pull one over” on the Lord, or feel that if I don’t look at it or pray about it He won’t know? 

I chalk it up to my weak self-will fueled by either pride or fear, depending on the motivator, but the truth is the longer I hold off from bringing it to the Lord, the harder it is for me to gain grace and be free. 

How’s this working out for you?.. 

Check your experience… . 

“…we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be on other questions.” Big Book pg 48 

Lord, let us open our hearts and minds to Your grace and guidance, AMEN. 

“For there is nothing covered up that will not be seen. There is nothing hidden that will not be known.” Luke 12:2 

How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

Every penny goes to support Faith Through Works Fellowship ministries including Furniture Bank! 

Order today and help us help others!

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pastor+mark+farley&ref=nb_sb_noss

Have a blessed day y'all! 

Some loaves and a few fish….. 

Sometimes when worldly needs and demands pile up we can begin to feel overwhelmed with responsibilities and requests that our minds have a hard time wrapping our heads around. When our heads do the math, it doesn’t always add up causing fear and anxiety. 

Just remember, if it is God’s will, it will happen, perhaps not the way we imagine, but it will happen.

Just look at the 4000 Jesus fed with a few loaves of bread and a tiny amount of fish! … 

“Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done.” Philippians 4:6 

Lord, let us bring our needs, wants, and desires to You in prayer and pray to WANT what we get and not to GET what we think we want! AMEN. 

"Our ideas did not work, but the God idea did." Big Book pg 52 

How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

Every penny goes to support Faith Through Works Fellowship ministries including Furniture Bank! 

Order today and help us help others! 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pastor+mark+farley&ref=nb_sb_noss

Have a blessed day y'all!! 

We gotta put it on... 

Have you ever noticed that we have to make many choices daily? 

We decide what clothes to wear, what foods to eat and even the routes to take to get us from place to place. Some requires a lot of thought and some very little, but either way we must give it our thoughts and make our choice. 

It's the same in our Spiritual life. 

Even though we are saved and promised eternal life when we take Jesus as our Lord and Savior, He still gives us the free will to choose our Spiritual walk daily. 

So how is that working out for you? 

Are you choosing to put on your Spiritual Armor daily and walk in His path? ... 

Check your experience. ... 

"walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress." Big Book pg 100 

Lord, let us put on Your Spiritual Armor daily and walk covered and protected, AMEN. 

"..and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.” Ephesians 4:24 

Looking to volunteer or plug into an existing helping opportunity in the Greater Phoenix AZ area? 

Visit Servants Hearts! 

It’s a free site to help connect folks with volunteer and helping opportunities! 

Furniture Bank and Spiritual Solutions Group are pleased to sponsor and share this free helping service from Faith Through Works Fellowship. 

Pray for its growth to provide helping hearts and willing hands to our organizations that need help! 

http://aservantsheart.us 

Have a blessed day y’all! 

Another type of "Book Learnin'"... 

We go to school for 12 or more years to get our education. Most of us get some sort of on the job training from our employers. 

A lot of us get many educational lessons from the school of hard knocks. And a few of us get on going education from our Big Book and its daily 12 Step practices. 

But what about Spiritual learning? I have yet to see it on any applications in the working world. 

The lessons I am finally learning on life come from the Bible and being in God's will and Word daily.

Maybe it's different for you, but my wisdom comes from applying the words in God's Book to my life. ... Check your experience. ... . 

"There had been a humble willingness to have Him with me and He came. But soon the sense of His presence had been blotted out by worldly clamors mostly those within myself. And so it had been ever since. How blind I had been." Big Book pg 12&13 

Lord let us walk daily in Your Will and Word to gain the wisdom we need, AMEN. 

"But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure and full of quiet gentleness. Then it is peace-loving and courteous. It allows discussion and is willing to yield to others; it is full of mercy and good deeds. It is wholehearted and straightforward and sincere." James 3:17 

Furniture Bank Continues to help those in need! 

Until we are clear from the world heath challenges, 

Furniture Bank is neither accepting nor scheduling pick-ups of donated items. 

We are using our cash reserves to order new items that can be drop shipped and delivered to our clients. 

Furniture Bank is a 501c3 public charity and every penny donated goes toward helping our families, veterans, and individuals in need. 

Please help us continue to help others! 

http://www.furniturebank.us/arizona-tax-credit.html

Have a blessed Day y’all! 

Static noise…

Back in the day before technology advanced to what we have today, we used to dial the radio to find a station and suffer through the static noise as we searched for the station we wanted. Over the years I have noticed that static noise has taken on a new approach with technological advances. 

 Have you experienced a pop up ad on your computer or television? How about the ads that interrupts the “free” Pandora Radio that we don’t want to pay subscription prices for? It seems static is all around us in the form of unneeded and unwanted sights and sounds. 

I have learned to tune it out by focusing on what I am trying to hear or see. We have the same challenge with our spiritual development too. 

Now maybe it’s different for you, but it seems that when I am trying to pray, study, or spend time in the Word, the worldly clamors of sights and sounds try to get my attention. I must truly focus my heart, mind, and soul to allow the Holy Spirit to fill me. 

How’s it working out for you?.. Check your experience… . 

“But soon the sense of His presence had been blotted out by worldly clamors, mostly those within myself.” Big Book pg 13 

Lord, let us tune our hearts, minds, and souls into Your Word and Your will, AMEN. 

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,” Romans 12:2 

 How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

Every penny goes to support Faith Through Works Fellowship ministries including Furniture Bank! 

Order today and help us help others! 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pastor+mark+farley&ref=nb_sb_noss

Have a blessed day y’all!

Actions or Intentions … 

Perhaps you are free of this, or have no issues with it, but it’s an age-old twist on our thinking that causes a lot of us to become resentful, jealous, envious, or even bitter. We want people to judge us by our intentions while we choose to judge others by their actions. It’s another condition of being human. 

The solution is pretty simple. 

We must own this twist of thinking and correct it through our own actions and efforts and not our intentions. 

Think about it; are we able to see the results of others’ or our own intentions? 

I INTENDED to lose weight…. I INTENDED to get my college degree…. I INTENDED to be a better husband and father….. 

It carries no lasting effects. 

Only actions on our part bring the desired and needed results. … 

Check your experience. … 

“It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.” Big Book pg 85 

Lord let us put actions behind our efforts to be better people, seeking Your will and not our own, AMEN. 

"let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 

Looking to volunteer or plug into an existing helping opportunity in the Greater Phoenix AZ area? 

Visit Servants Hearts! 

It’s a free site to help connect folks with volunteer and helping opportunities! 

Furniture Bank and Spiritual Solutions Group are pleased to sponsor and share this free helping service from Faith Through Works Fellowship. 

Pray for its growth to provide helping hearts and willing hands to our organizations that need help! 

http://aservantsheart.us

Have a blessed day y’all!

Pray to WANT what we get INSTEAD of to GET what we want!

Focus… 

It’s amazing to me how elite athletes stay focused on their game despite the distractions all around them, or how actors and artists keep their focus on their craft and avoid distractions. It’s a great testimony to how focus leads to the end result. 

Spiritually speaking, we have the same opportunity with our focus. 

Practice in prayer over the years has taught me that when I focus my prayer life on being in tune with God’s will for the person, place, thing, or situation I am praying for...

 

I get the blessing to be free from praying to GET what I WANT and instead I have the Spirit, 

heart, and mind to WANT what I GET from my prayers. 

How’s this working out for you? Check your experience… 

“praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” Big Book pg 59 

Lord. Let us pray to want what we get instead of praying to get what we want, AMEN. 

“Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion.” Ephesians 6:18 

 Furniture Bank Continues to help those in need! 

Until we are clear from the world heath challenges, Furniture Bank is neither accepting nor scheduling pick-ups of donated items. 

We are using our cash reserves to order new items that can be drop shipped and delivered to our clients. 

Furniture Bank is a 501c3 public charity and every penny donated goes toward helping our families, veterans, and individuals in need. 

Please help us continue to help others! 

http://www.furniturebank.us/arizona-tax-credit.html

Have a blessed day y’all!

"For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Luke 12:34 

I enjoy this verse because it brings me instant perspective along with a truthful reminder to watch my motives and efforts. 

When I am struggling, frustrated, stressed, and just plain mad reflecting on this verse gives me the path I need to take to find happiness and let go of whatever it is that is causing these negative emotions and feelings inside of me. 

Do I WANT to look at myself at times like this? 

Heck no! I like to sit in anger and resentment and focus on the wrongs that I perceive being done to me! 

I have learned that I must first look at my attitude in order to restore order to my mind and peace to my soul. 

I look at my motives first. I ask myself what I am trying to gain, get, or avoid through my actions, attitudes, desires, and behaviors. I next look at my efforts. Am I sitting in the negativity of the situation? Am I refusing to see the other side? 

Am I willing to accept this person, place, thing, or situation exactly as it is for this moment and refocus my mind toward the positive attitude I need to move on? 

This is when I learn firsthand where my “treasure” is. When I look at my motives and efforts, I can see where my heart is! 

Lord let us fill our hearts with the treasures of Your Truth, Grace, and Love, AMEN. 

“As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.” Big Book pg 63 

How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

Every penny goes to support Faith Through Works Fellowship ministries including Furniture Bank! 

Order today and help us help others! 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pastor+mark+farley&ref=nb_sb_noss

Have a blessed day y'all! 

Right actions... 

It's a fact of life that things don't happen unless we provide the efforts and actions. We have to work to support ourselves and our loved ones. We have to put the right foods in our bodies in order to be healthy. 

It's the same in our Spiritual life and growth. We have to provide the actions in the forms of prayer, grace, and humble motives so the Lord can see that we are freely providing our own efforts to meet His will. ...Check your experience. ... . 

"Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives." Big Book pg 86 

Lord let us come to you in prayer with open hearts and minds, AMEN. 

“And when you pray, .your Father in heaven knows what you need before you ask him." Matthew 6:7-8 

How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

Every penny goes to support Faith Through Works Fellowship ministries including Furniture Bank! 

Order today and help us help others! 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pastor+mark+farley&ref=nb_sb_noss

Have a blessed day y'all!! 

When we mind what matters, what matters will be on our mind… 

It’s pretty easy to see what matters us. Just look at who we associate with and what we tend to do. 

The things that we focus on as well as the people places, things, and situations we seek are a great indicator of what matters to us. 

It’s a spiritual principle that what we allow to influence us shapes our attitudes, thoughts, behaviors, and ultimately our life. 

I learned long ago and it’s still shared in AA and most 12 step meetings to this day that...

 when we mind what matters, what matters will be on our mind… 

Check your experience… 

“Here was something at work in a human heart which had done the impossible.” Big Book pg 11 

Lord, let us fill our hearts with the things that matter most to us, AMEN. 

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21 

Looking to volunteer or plug into an existing helping opportunity in the Greater Phoenix AZ area? 

Visit Servants Hearts! 

It’s a free site to help connect folks with volunteer and helping opportunities! 

Furniture Bank and Spiritual Solutions Group are pleased to sponsor and share this free helping service from Faith Through Works Fellowship. 

Pray for its growth to provide helping hearts and willing hands to our organizations that need help! 

http://aservantsheart.us

Have a blessed day y’all! 

Check your motives and efforts..... 

Have you ever been in a situation where the harder you try the further behind you get? It's frustrating not only because you are wasting tons of effort, but also it is not very enjoyable. 

Have you ever considered that perhaps your motives for doing this may be based on the wrong things and that is why the efforts are not bringing results? 

My best example was trying to lose weight but never changing my diet. Sure…I go longer at the gym, yet I continue to eat more carbs and junk. 

Perhaps it's different for you, but I have learned to check my motives to make sure they are good and then see that my efforts match up... 

Check your experience... 

"We ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives." Big Book pg 85

Lord, let us check our motives to make sure they align with Your will for us and not our selfish wants, AMEN. 

"…and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper." 2 Chronicles 26: 5 

 Furniture Bank Continues to help those in need! 

Until we are clear from the world heath challenges, Furniture Bank is neither accepting nor scheduling pick-ups of donated items. 

We are using our cash reserves to order new items that can be drop shipped and delivered to our clients. 

Furniture Bank is a 501c3 public charity and every penny donated goes toward helping our families, veterans, and individuals in need. 

Please help us continue to help others! 

http://www.furniturebank.us/arizona-tax-credit.html

Have a blessed Day y’all!

The blame game... 

It's because of them, or they made this happen, leads to the famous, 'it's not MY FAULT'. 

Think about it, we all tend to have these feelings from time to time and it's very easy to garner support from others when we share this thinking. 

Now while it is true we cannot control what other people, places, situations, or things do or say,...

 We CAN control how we allow it to affect us in our actions and attitudes. 

This is why God allows us to keep our free will even after we turn it over to Him. He wants us to have the ability to use our gifts and grace to not become "sheeple" getting caught up in the emotions of the moment blaming them and they. 

Rather, He wants us to look inside ourselves and choose how we respond... Check your experience... 

"That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition." Big Book pg 85 

Lord, let us control how we react and respond using the grace You have given us, AMEN. 

"There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man." Mark 7:15 

How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

Every penny goes to support Faith Through Works Fellowship ministries including Furniture Bank! 

Order today and help us help others! 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pastor+mark+farley&ref=nb_sb_noss

Have a blessed day y’all! 

New day, fresh start, new attitude... 

Sometimes we get into the routine of our daily lives and what used to be exciting or fresh in our hearts becomes dulled by the daily monotony of habit and comfortable routine. Overtime, if not checked and renewed, these tasks, routines, and even relationships can suffer from our being taken hostage by monotony. 

There is a solution...

Even when our tasks and routines need to contain the same things, we can renew our spirits daily by simply turning our will and our lives over to the Lord daily! 

Come on ... Give it a try .... and as always... Check your experience… 

"This means a new attitude and spirit all around." Big Book pg 99 

Lord thank You for allowing us to our lives refresh ourselves and our lives through renewing ourselves daily with your Spirit, AMEN. 

"Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.” Ephesians 4:23 

Looking to volunteer or plug into an existing helping opportunity in the Greater Phoenix AZ area? 

Visit Servants Hearts! 

It’s a free site to help connect folks with volunteer and helping opportunities! Furniture Bank and Spiritual Solutions Group are pleased to sponsor and share this free helping service from Faith Through Works Fellowship. 

Find a place where your helping hearts and willing hands can assist your local organizations that need help! 

http://aservantsheart.us

Have a blessed day y’all! 

Inward peace… 

Have you ever noticed how many products out there that are marketed to us to either provide a solution or bring comfort to help us with our stress, pains, and general discomfort? There are a few products that I use that help me. I have a special brand of shoes I wear for my duck feet. I have a special pillow for my weird neck, and even ergonomic office products to help me with my posture. 

These items bring my body peace but how do we find that inward peace? Like most of us I have sought my inner peace through a myriad of outer solutions, but the only thing I have found that works and continues to work no matter what is my relationship with Jesus and the peace He brings me through His Holy Spirit in me. 

Worldly clamors will continue but I can always look inward and know that there is peace in my heart if I seek it… Check your experience… 

“We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.” Big Book pg 84 

Lord, let us know that the peace of mind and heart You have given us remains in us as long as we seek it, AMEN. 

“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” John 14:27 

Furniture Bank Continues to help those in need! 

Until we are clear from the world heath challenges, Furniture Bank is neither accepting nor scheduling pick-ups of donated items. 

We are using our cash reserves to order new items that can be drop shipped and delivered to our clients. 

Furniture Bank is a 501c3 public charity and every penny donated goes toward helping our families, veterans, and individuals in need. 

Please help us continue to help others! 

http://www.furniturebank.us/arizona-tax-credit.html

Have a blessed day y’all! 

Roots and all… 

Weeds have the amazing ability to grow anywhere. Even here in Arizona, weeds find places to take root and thrive. 

I particularly enjoyed watching a root grow on an overpass I use many times weekly. Over the year the city crews would come and do the landscaping and gardening but even though the weed was cut, it continued to grow back taller and thicker. I am sure I will be cut back again and unless the root is removed, it will continue to grow and thrive. 

We also have weeds that take root in our hearts and like other weeds; they will continue to grow as character defects until we remove the root. 

Think about it, bitterness, jealousy, and fear take root in us and from them weeds of anger, pride, greed, lust, and all kinds of negativity grow from them. 

If these are left to grow then they influence not only our attitudes, but then spread to our behaviors and characters. When this happens the weed grows stronger and is harder to remove. 

However, we do have a great weed killer that is environmentally friendly! 

When we ask the Holy Spirit to help us look at our character defects and then ask Him to remove them root and all, we become free for these weeds!.. Check your experience… . 

“I ruthlessly faced my sins and became willing to have my new-found Friend take them away, root and branch.” Big Book pg 13 

“Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.” Hebrews 12:15 

Lord, let us turn our hearts over to You and allow Your grace and mercy to clear the weeds of fear, bitterness, and self-will from us roots and all, AMEN. 

How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

Every penny goes to support Faith Through Works Fellowship ministries including Furniture Bank! 

Order today and help us help others! 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pastor+mark+farley&ref=nb_sb_noss

Have a blessed day y'all! 

What is your power source? … 

Red Bull, coffee, Protein shakes, Power Bars, and all sorts of other products promise us energy. Many other products promise to enhance our power. Bodybuilders and folks into fitness and exercise routines gain physical strength and stamina, but, …. 

WHERE do we really get our POWER from? 

We see stories from time to time in the mainstream media of folks doing superhuman feats to save another or help someone in danger. 

I bet if you take a look at the events in your lifetime there has been a few times where you have had to “dig deep” to find that extra needed effort to complete a task or endure an unpleasant situation. 

Where did that power come from? 

Honestly, I know I am lying to myself if I try to claim it came only from me. I know for fact that through my faith in God and my walk with Jesus that God equips me with the power I need. 

How about you? … 

Where does your power come from? …

Check your experience. … 

“We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves.” Big Book pg 45 

Lord thank you for giving us the power we need to not only accomplish the task or endure the situation, but also to allow You to work through us to help others, AMEN. 

“With God's power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine.” Ephesians 3:20 

How about a daily dose of hope and inspired thought? 

Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 

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