THE WHOLE WORLD STINKS
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr
Kyfingers@aol.com
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I love Hebrews 11:36 -- trials/cruel mockings/scourgings/bonds/imprisonments/ stoned/ sawn asunder/ tempted/ slain with swords/ afflicted/ tormented/ lived in deserts and caves ---
Heb. 11:38 OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY. How are you thinking? You think you can? Nature does not require perfection, but growth is required for continued life.
Today I ponder how easy it is to make a mountain out of a molehill?
We can let our emotions play games with our heart?
Many carry a chip on their shoulder instead of a Cross?
Many are critics and grumblers instead of being doers and praisers?
Many are spectators and couch potatoes?
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he...
I love this illustration:
There was an old man that took a nap everyday.
He had a mischievous grandson.
One day as the old man slept, his grandson got some
Limburger cheese. (Limburger cheese is a pungent
semisoft surface-ripened cheese.)
The grandfather had a long handlebar mustache.
So His grandson rubbed the Limburger cheese into his
grandfathers mustache.
Later the grandfather awoke, and said, my this
bedroom stinks.
So he went into the frontroom and sat in the
recliner.
After a few minutes, granddad said, my the
frontroom stinks.
He went into the kitchen to fix a sandwich, he
noticed the kitchen stank terrible.
So he went out on the front porch, he noticed the
pungent odor and stated even the frontporch stinks.
So he took a walk toward town, and grandfather made
a brilliant observation:
MY, I THINK THE WHOLE WORLD STINKS!
What a powerful illustration.
This illustration describes where many of us are in our daily walks?
Does the whole world stink? Or could we possibly be carrying a pungent odor of problems every step we take?
Problems, tears, pain, discouragement, depression, hindrances, obstacles lurk all around us.
We can offer a thousand excuses why we can’t do anything.
We can see all the hypocrites gathered around the church. Or we can arise to every situation and see the God of opportunities?
The option is up to you! How are you thinking?
Giving releases miracles.
(Luke 6:38)
If you don’t like what you are getting? ---
Change what you are giving.
We let our emotions dictate our feelings and our giving.
Many that will read this have constructed big dams that are barriers preventing the free flow of the Holy Spirit.
Sin, bad attitudes, and negative words restrain God’s plan.
While you cannot change many situations, GOD GAVE US THE ABILITY TO CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE AND THUS CHANGE THE SITUATION.
We cannot let the world change us!
We cannot expect God to change the whole world and us stay the same?
We need to either wash our mustaches or shave them off? As you think?
Phil. 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Do you believe that?
Should the weak say I am strong?
Should the broken homes head toward divorce?
Should the sick just lay down to die?
WHY CAN’T WE DEVELOP A VISION AND DREAM BIG?
I love this little poem, I don’t know the author.
AS A MAN THINKETH:
TODAY I WILL THINK LIKE A DYNAMIC SERVANT OF GOD, BECAUSE I AM WHAT I THINK.
I AM NOT WHAT I THINK I AM, I AM WHAT I THINK!
I AM NOT WHAT I EAT, I AM WHAT I THINK.
CLOTHES DO NOT MAKE A PERSON, I AM WHAT I THINK. THEREFFORE, I WILL KEEP MY THOUGHT PROCESS ACTIVE AND OPEN TO THE VOICE OF GOD!
How do you overcome a Spirit of Failure?
How can we surmount an inborn fear of inferior feelings?
How can we overwhelm doubt and worry?
We must grow and mature.
We need to develop a dream and a positive mental attitude.
We must change our "Thinking Patterns." Our faith must move us from fear to FAITH.
1) How many Bible characters appeared at some time to be a big failure?
Stephen, a great deacon and preacher’s helper.
Stephen took the load off the minister, so they
could pray and study.
Yet, as stones were flying and there was no divine
rescue, Stephen looked like a failure.
Yet, his vision was beyond the stones.
Samson, appeared a blind, sin destroyed individual,
yet Samson could see more blind than he did with
20/20 vision.
One preacher in jail, was released by an angel;
one preacher had an earthquake to release him.
John came out of jail head first.
Yet as John decreased, Jesus increased.
David was a terrible failure of sexual sin and
impurity.
Yet he wrote the masterpiece on repentance &
forgiveness, Psalms 51, and David is recorded a man
after God’s own heart!
Moses gave up position and the palace of Egypt,
Yet Moses sees the Holiness of the Almighty at the
burning bush in the desert.
I love Hebrews 11:36 -- trials/cruel mockings/scourgings/bonds/imprisonments/ stoned/ sawn asunder/ tempted/ slain with swords/ afflicted/ tormented/ lived in deserts and caves ---
Heb. 11:38 OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY. How are you thinking? You think you can? Nature does not require perfection, but growth is required for continued life.
2) The same stone is either a precious cornerstone or a stumbling block!
(1 Peter 2:4--8)
John 6:66, when the gospel got hard, many turned
back.
What think ye?
You can sing in prison and rejoice in suffering...(Acts 5:41)
It is your choice. It is not the devil’s choice.
Get up and try again.
Cut the umbilical cord to sin and failure. Think --- You can!
3) What drains you, must feed you and make you stronger.
When the youths and strong shall fail and faint, Isa.40:30--31.
Success comes in a CAN, I can.
Failure comes in I can’t.
Small tools can do big jobs. You will never rise in public, higher than you reach in your prayer closet.
It is not what makes you mad, it is what you allow to make you mad.
At first you make your habits, then your habits make you! Think --- you can!
4) You cannot fail if you keep trying!
Rom. 8:6.
God has to be our only motive. We must slay over-
ambition. Seek God’s Divine Will.
You must yield to God’s will in you and through you.
Think-- you can!
5) You are not the problem! You are part of the SOLUTION, GOD IS THE OTHER PART.
God gives you the ability to change.
When you change, the situation changes.
Many things come by stubbornness and hardness of heart. (Divorce and many other things.)
As long as you give and forgive there is hope!
Talk it up or shut up!
They conquer who think they can.
2 Tim. 4:7.
The only thing that is worse than a quitter, is one that never tries.
James 1:25.
Our enemy’s goal is to get us to quit reaching toward the mark.
The bird does not sing because it knows all the answers, he sings because he knows the song.
Do you know the song? What do you think? How about praise? Think--- You can!
6) Come fresh.
If you are country, you know that for a cow to continue giving milk, it must come fresh. To come fresh, the cow must visit the bull.
The cow gives life and then continues to give milk.
If the cow does not come fresh, it goes dry.
Are you dried up?
Proverbs 15:13. Think you can?
Well, it all depends on if you want too ---?
Dream again.
Reach higher.
It is better to aim for the stars and hit the moon, than it is to hit a mud puddle every time?
Set goals and think. Let go and let God.
Think--- You can!
His servant,
Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Kyfingers@aol.com
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