I read this bulletin posted by Pastor Owen a couple of days back.
There are people who can walk away from you.
And hear me when I tell you this!
When people can walk away from you:
I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you.
I mean hang up the phone.
When people can walk away from you let them walk.
Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.
The Bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us.
For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us.
2:20- But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
2:21- I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Hope deferred maketh the Heart sick, but when the desire cometh
People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.
And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead.
You've got to know when it's dead.
You've got to know when it's over...
Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay.
If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life,
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ......
If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and
If someone has angered you ........
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction.....
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents
If you have a bad attitude.........
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......
If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him......
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship.......
If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves.....
If you're feeling depressed and stressed .........
If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to......
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things.
GOD is doing a new thing for 2007!!!
Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then .
"The Battle is the Lord's!"
This reminded me of a poem long back, posted by
Dutchman(Antonio), and thought..how true this is!!
make you feel like a fool.
and how much love you had.
but keep your spirits high.
Friends are so easy to find,
they are just a click away.
But true friend are really rare..very rare.
When you find a true friend treasure them.
A friend in Christ will love you at all times.
Let friends who are like "Flighty Birds" fly.
True friends are the ones who stay when the going gets tough. They are priceless..
Here's what someone else wrote...
There are those who pass, like ships in the night
Who meet for a moment, then sail out of sight
With never a backwards glance of regret
Folks we know briefly, then quickly forget
Then there are those who sail together
Through quiet waters and stormy weather
Helping each other through joy and strife
And they are the ones that give meaning to life.
Be grateful to friends who stay by your side in tough times, in times of struggles.
Take time to thank God for your friends!!
