I Choose

God's Warrior · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject: I Choose

I Choose Author Unknown

I Choose Love...
No occasion justifies hatred -- no injustice warrants bitterness.

I Choose Love...
Today I will love God and what God loves.

I Choose Joy....
I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will
refuse temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker.
I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings,
created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less
than an opportunity to see God.

I Choose Peace...
I will live forgiven. I will forgive so that I may live.

I Choose Patience...
I will overlook the inconveniences of the world, Rather than
complaining that the wait is too long. I will thank God for a
moment to pray, instead of clinching my fist at a new assignments,
I will face them with joy and courage.

I Choose Kindness...
I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich,
for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God
has treated me.

I Choose Goodness...
I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will
see the good in others when it is hard to find. I will confess
before I will accuse, I choose goodness.

I Choose Faithfulness...
Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their
trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not
question my love, and my children will never fear that their
father will not come home.

I Choose Gentleness...
Nothing is won by force, I choose to be gentle. If I raise my
voice, may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may
it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

I Choose Self-Control...
I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will
soar, I refuse to let what will rot the eternal.

I Choose Self-Control...
Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,

Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control...
To these I commit my day, If I succeed. I will give thanks.
I will seek God's face. And then when this day is done, I will
place my head on my pillow and rest.

God's Warrior · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:13 am Post subject:

What Guide Do You Read?

They lie on the table side by side
The Holy Bible and TV guide.

One is well worn and cherished with pride.
Not the Bible, but the TV guide.

One is used daily to help folks decide.
No, not the Bible, but the TV guide.

As the pages are turned, what shall they see.
Oh, what does it matter, turn on the TV.

Then confusion reigns, they can't all agree
On what they should watch on the old TV.

So they open the Book in which they confide.
No, not the Bible, but the TV guide.

The Word of God is seldom read.
Maybe a verse as they fall into bed.

Exhausted and sleepy and tired as can be.
Not from reading the Bible, from watching TV.

So then back to the table side by side,
Lie the Holy Bible and the TV guide.

No time for prayer, no time for the Word,
The plan of Salvation is seldom heard.

But forgiveness of sin, so full and free,
Is found in the Bible, not on TV!
Author Unknown

God's Warrior · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject:

DYING TO SELF

When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you do not sting and hurt with the insult, but your heart is happy being counted worthy to suffer for Christ's sake..........that is DYING TO SELF.

When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, when your advice is disregarded and your opinion is ridiculed, and yet you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even to defend yourself but instead take it all in patient, loving silence........that is DYING TO SELF.

When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder and irregularity, or annoyance; when you stand face to face with waster, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and you endure it as Jesus endured........that is DYING TO SELF.

When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any society, any clothing, any interruption by the will of God........ that is DYING TO SELF.

Author Unknown

God's Warrior · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

DELIVER ME JESUS ---from the desire to be praised, honored, glorified, preferred, consulted, or approved.
Deliver me, Jesus, from the fear of being humiliated, criticized, forgotten, ridiculed,
maltreated, and from the fear of what others think. O Jesus, give me the grace to desire:
that others would be loved and esteemed ahead of me, that in the eyes of the world they
would increase while I decrease, and praised while I pass by unnoticed; that others would
be preferred in all situations; that others would become more than myself - in order that I
would be as holy as You want me to be. Charles de Foucauld.