Eagles only enjoy the company of other eagles.

They never run with the

pigeons or turkeys. They're never caught hanging out with chickens or
flitting with sparrows.
Dr. Jim Strickhausen: "Your happiness is not dependant on someone else. Your
happiness and enjoyment, in this life, is what you put into it. God has already
given us the tools to be happy and enjoy life. Enjoyment is a choice, not a
surrounding.
We should be both TENDER and TOUGH. Tender on people. Tough on the devil.
Faithful church attendance is proof positive that YOU CARE about God, your
family, and your own soul. Frequent absence is proof that you don't!
Be like God... BE A PERSON OF EXCELLENCE in every way! Scripture Clips:
"the honour of his excellent majesty... Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him
out: he is excellent in power... how excellent is thy name in all the earth!... the
saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent... How excellent is thy
lovingkindness, O God!... Thou art more glorious and excellent... reprove me; it
shall be an excellent oil... praise him according to his excellent greatness... I will
speak of excellent things... The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour...
Excellent speech... a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit... written to
thee excellent things... he hath done excellent things... excellent in working...
excellent ornaments... excellent majesty was added unto me... an excellent
spirit... excellent wisdom is found in thee... preferred above the presidents and
princes, because an excellent spirit was in him... most excellent Theophilus... the
things that are more excellent... a more excellent way... a more excellent name...
a more excellent ministry... a more excellent sacrifice... a voice to him from the
excellent glory..."
A Spirit of Excellence will place you in high demand.
A Spirit of Excellence will bring you into favor with God and people.
Pursue excellence! Demand it of yourself and duplicate it in others.
Excellence attracts prosperity!

Excellence makes you feel good about yourself!

A trait of excellence is accuracy.
A trait of excellence is the habit of always finishing.
A trait of excellence is going the extra mile just to keep your word, even if it
means more work and time than you originally planned.
A trait of excellence is attention to detail.
A trait of excellence is paying attention to all the different aspects of your life and
keeping them in balance. (i.g. faith, family and finances)
A trait of excellence is giving special attention to your character development
through your Bible reading, prayer life and church attendance.
Are you hanging out with Winners or Losers? Believers or Sinners? Champions
or Cry-Babies? The Pure or the Impure? Goal-Setters or Time-Wasters? The
Moral or the Immoral? The Christlike or Cussers? Planners or the Short-sighted?
Those who bring the best out of you or those who bring the worst out of you?
With Pace-setters or Excuse-makers.
Does the following statement contain a hidden meaning? "BE CAREFUL WITH
WHOM YOU HANG!"
The TITHE is an awesome thing! At once it locates my own heart and then, in
turn, propagates His heart... to humanity!
The TITHE is a Statement Of Faith!
My TITHE is a Bold Statement! My TITHE says something! My TITHE is
speaking! It is making an announcement over a loudspeaker! Yes, My TITHE is
shouting to heaven, to earth, and to hell!

My TITHE is a photograph of my heart!

My TITHE is a FORCE... an ENERGY... with INVINCIBLE POWER to change
things!
My TITHE is both a LOCATOR and a POINTER!
My TITHE is a LINE DRAWN IN THE SAND!
Nothing so impacts eternity as the TITHE!
How many millions of souls have perished and are now burning in eternity
because some Christians failed to see the worth of TITHING?
Some Good Questions: Did the last hour on my clock count for Christ? Did I
redeem that time or waste it? Did I squeeze everything out of that hour that God
had for me? Did that hour accomplish anything eternal for my Lord Jesus? Did I
squander the last hour or did I seize it for God? I believe we will each have to
give an account to God in eternity, not only for every idle word spoken as Jesus
mentioned, but for every idle hour wasted. Eph 5:16 - Redeeming the time,
because the days are evil. Col 4:5 - Walk in wisdom toward them that are
without, redeeming the time. Ec 3:11 - God has made everything beautiful for its
own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people
cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.
Who has your children for the better part of the day? Who has the most influence
over your children? What are your children being taught and by whom? As
parents, we are responsible before the Lord to ensure that the children He has
entrusted to our care, are schooled in the proper environment. For them to grow
in the womb, they had to be surrounded by the right elements in the safety of that
womb and supplied the correct nutrients from the proper source. Now for them to
mature in character and knowledge outside the womb, they again must be placed
in a Christ-centered atmosphere and supplied correct academia that is only
based on truth and facts, not theories and manmade philosophy.
Make it your goal to so passionately love and serve your wife, that in doing so,

you become more and more like Christ Himself.

Strife is your enemy; resist the temptation to always have to be right!
Fear is your enemy; categorically refuse to give in to it!
Unbelief is your enemy; make up your mind to starve it to death by exercising
your faith in God's Word.
IT WILL COME TO PASS! Don't give up on the Answer to your prayer! The
Guarantee of your Answer is Himself seated at the right hand of the Father.
IT WILL HAPPEN! Don't give up on your Dream! The Down Payment to your
Destiny is Himself indwelling you.
Week 26 is a significant week in all our lives. The end of this week marks the
halfway point of the year. Lets give the Lord Jesus thanks for all the blessings
and victories of the first half of the year by recounting them aloud in His
presence. And lets also decide not to drag any excess baggage and failures from
our past into the rest of the year, by telling the Lord in each case that we are
giving the past to Him so that He can cast it into His sea of forgetfulness. Lets go
into the rest of the year with a fresh start, a clean slate, our hearts in anticipation
of favorable changes.
I am no good to my children unless I am good to my wife. I am no good for my
church unless I am good for my family.
Like a string the Holy Spirit PULLS you gently. The enemy, however, would
PUSH you roughly. The Spirit of God CARESSES & CARRIES you. The enemy
would COERCE you. The Flesh PUSHES - The Spirit PULLS. The Flesh
COERCES - The Spirit CARRIES. The Flesh ELBOWS - Spirit LEADS. The
Flesh DRIVES - The Spirit DRAWS. The Flesh SHOVES - The Spirit
SUGGESTS. The Flesh HURRIES - The Spirit RELAXES. Flesh OVERPOWERS
- Spirit EMPOWERS.
The Dependable Tither soon finds God a Reliable Provider.

So you're a Christian, you say? Do you care enough about other people
becoming Christians to finance the Gospel with your tithes and offerings? Don't
even TELL ME about being a Christian unless you SHOW SO by your obedience
to God to tithe, and to bring offerings over and above the tenth. Don't tell me you
are grateful for your salvation, while you have the audacity to rob God. Your
inaction, in this case, is speaking louder than your words.
The ACID TEST of your WORSHIP is your WALLET! Is your Money where your
Mouth is?
God will NEVER tell you to do something that will end in hurting you! God will
never command you to do something from His Word that is lifeless and dead.
God has no hidden agendas. He has no disposition to hurt you. If God tells you
to do something from His Word or by His Spirit's voice, He is setting you up for a
blessing. Your obedience will strategically position you to receive something
special from Him. God NEVER commands something that will DECREASE you.
If He demands something of you, He knows that your obedience to it will
inevitably INCREASE you in a thousand ways.
In America we have it so "made in the shade" that we can easily lose our
HUNGER & THIRST for the Lord. There are so many Plan B's and Plan C's
presented to us that we can be slowly seduced into a false state of security, not
depending entirely on God's Plan A. BUT GOD RESPONDS ONLY TO HUNGER
& THIRST. Without spiritual hunger and thirst there is not much space in our
hearts for Him to fill. As American Christians we must constantly be on guard
against slowly becoming Laodicean Christians like those in Rev 3:14-22 who had
lost their sense of desperation and need for the Lord's presence. Indeed we are
needy, but do we know it? Are we desperate for Him? Do we still pant for Him like
a deer pants for the water brooks? If not, we can change: Rev 3:14-22 - And unto
the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because
thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of
nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and
blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the
shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that
thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore,
and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also

overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Matthew 5:6 - "...they which do hunger and thirst... shall be filled."
Your children need massive doses of praise from you EACH DAY.
Your spouse needs the "touch" of your hands EVERY DAY.
Your spouse and each of your children need to hear you say, "I Love You!"
EVERY DAY on an individual basis.
Your spouse needs your constant reaffirmation of their worth.
Mike Murdock says: "You need your spouse! You need your pastor! You need
your children! You need your boss. You need your parents! You need the
significant others of your life!" So in humility before God recognize your success
in life is due in large part to the significant others He has placed in your life.
Discern their worth and thank God for each of them aloud.
It takes Internal Metal to win an Eternal Medal!
His grace will supply you the Metal to win His Medal!
Jesus is our Calm, our Balm, and our Alm! (Our Peace, our Healer, and our
Provider, see 3 John 2)
Jesus refuses to be second place to anyone or anything. Remember the
invitation to salvation was not "If thou shalt confess Jesus is SAVOUR and
believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Rather the invitation has always been "If thou shalt confess JESUS IS LORD..."
The issue is LORDSHIP. Are we allowing Him to be the LORD of every area of
our lives? As believers, we should prayerfully take an inventory from time to time
to make sure we are REALLY allowing Him to be LORD of every decision, every
relationship, every attitude, and every action in our lives. As someone has put it,
"If Jesus is not Lord of All, He is not Lord at all."

Do what Adam failed to do. Tell the devil to get off your territory! The Bible says
that God had given mankind authority over "every creeping thing." In Christ that
authority has been restored to us. The devil is a "creep" so rebuke him sharply in
the name of Jesus and give him no place, no permission, no activity in your life.
A married couple should have a date once a week and a romantic getaway
weekend no less than once every three months.
Petition is simple requests made to God in prayer. Supplication, as defined in the
Book of Hebrews, is prayer made to God with strong crying and tears. There are
times and situations that require supplication as opposed to petition, in order that
you get a full release of your emotions to God. Supplication is sometimes
required for a breakthrough; bringing the confident assurance to your heart that it
craves.
Supplicate or Suffocate! It's your choice! In a season of intense struggle you
have a choice. Supplicate in prayer with strong crying and tears until you receive
a breakthrough in your heart -or- just stay and Suffocate in your emotions and
drown in your mind.
To Serve or To Be Seen; that is the question! Which is your motive?
Right now your TITHE is plowing the ground of your children's and
grandchildren's futures.
Your TITHE is your INVESTMENT into the next half of your life.
Your TITHE is going into your future where it is opening doors that would
otherwise never be open for you!
Your TITHE is scheduling miracles onto your calendar!
Surprise blessings are being scheduled for you each time you write your TITHE
check!

AS I SEE, I WRITE AND WHILE I WRITE, I SEE EVEN MORE! Or is it the other
way around? AS I WRITE I SEE, AND AS I SEE I WRITE EVEN MORE! My
seeing affects my writing but my writing also affects my seeing. I don't have to
understand it, but O how I love the touch of the Masters Hand on my pen!