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(TruthSeekerDaily) This is not about religion. This is about real life lessons that can be applied to your life in an
instant, and I highly recommend that you take them and apply them to your life immediately, you will notice the results.
Below are 12 powerful quotations from Christ Jesus with additional commentary from our friend Peter.
1. To Serve Is To Be Great
Whoever wants to be great must become a servant.
Here is the secret to great leadership. Leadership is not about rulership. It is about serving others. And in giving to
others you will never lack for any good thing in your life.
2. There Is A Cure For Worry
Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count
far more to him than birds. Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? All
this time and money wasted on fashiondo you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the
fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen colour
and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them. If God
gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowersmost of which are never even seendont you think hell
attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What Im trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so
preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to Gods giving.
To live a worry free life is a joy. Anxiety is a killer. So to be able to face each day, knowing that if the world can exist in
such beauty and splendour, there is nothing that you need to be concerned about. Take a fresh look at nature and get
the point.
3. Love Conquers All
Teacher, which command in Gods Law is the most important? Jesus said Love the Lord your God with all your
passion and prayer and intelligence. This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set
alongside it: Love others as well as you love yourself.
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if someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life. No more tit-for-tat stuff. Live
generously. Youre familiar with the old written law, Love your friend, and its unwritten companion, Hate your enemy.
Im challenging that. Im telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When
someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves,
your God-created selves.
When it comes to love we are given three directives: Love God. Love your neighbour. Love your enemies.
The first step forward to develop this love in your life is to learn to pray. I have found prayer to be an incredibly
energising practice. Now if this is not familiar to you, let me explain that this is not the point where you get all holier
than thou on me. Prayer for me is simply sharing my heart with one greater than myself. You will often find me talking
out loud as I pray, or sometimes Im simply speaking quietly in the depths of my mind to one greater than myself.
I was actually up at 3.30am this morning praying. That happens to me from time to time. But I also pray while Im at
work. I pray while I stroll beside the ocean. I pray in the car. I pray as an individual, and we pray as a family.
But what is prayer? Simply handing over lifes good and bad that were handed to one far greater than ourselves and
that even includes our enemies. Seems back to front to conventional thinking but I have seen many an enemy
turned around 180 degrees through the power of simply praying that good happen in their life.
had doubled his investment. His master commended him: Good work! You did your job well. From now on be my
partner. The servant with the two thousand showed how he also had doubled his masters investment. His master
commended him: Good work! You did your job well. From now on be my partner. The servant given one thousand
said, Master, I know you have high standards and hate careless ways that you demand the best and make no
allowances for error. I was afraid I might disappoint you, so I found a good hiding place and secured your money. Here
it is, safe and sound down to the last cent. The master was furious. Thats a terrible way to live! Its criminal to live
cautiously like that! If you knew I was after the best, why did you do less than the least? The least you could have
done would have been to invest the sum with the bankers, where at least I would have gotten a little interest. Take the
thousand and give it to the one who risked the most. And get rid of this play-it-safe who wont go out on a limb. Throw
him out into utter darkness.
Every one of us has been endowed with a specific gift or natural talent that requires use. If you fail to lose it you will
lose it. Whatever you do, dont compare yourself with the other guy or girl who seems to have been given a bunch of
talents. Use the one that you have and develop it. These represent your personal strengths, and like any muscle, the
best way to develop a strength in your life is by strengthening it. So at every opportunity use it and that way you will
never lose it. You will in fact enhance it and position yourself to become a leader in your chosen field of endeavour.
If there is one of these life lessons that you have developed in your life with great results, please feel free to share
how it has helped you.
Source of Quotations: Taken from The Message 1. Mark 10: 43, 2. Matthew 10: 26-31, 3. Matthew 22:36-39 &
Matthew 5:41-45, 4. Matthew 7:12, 5. Luke 11:9-10, 6. Matthew 7:1-5, 7. Matthew 5:37, 8. Matthew 6:3-4, 9. Matthew
6:14-15, 10. Matthew 12:35-37, 11. Matthew 17:20, 12. Matthew 25:14-30
Motivational Memo: To learn one must be taught. To teach one must first learn.