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Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-9)
In 1972, the UNCF partnered with the Ad Council to launch a
public service advertising campaign encouraging Americans to support the
fund. The campaign slogan, "A Mind is a Terrible Thing To Waste,"
And it
is...a waste...to fill it with wasteful thoughts.
There are three types of people who come to the front door of
your home. Some knock and you talk with them as they stand
outside. Then they walk away.
Some knock or ring the bell and end up sitting in your
living room for awhile but soon they walk away.
And then there are those who do not knock...they live
there and they do not walk away.
How of the three how would you describe your God?
And God has a PIECE of your
mind...or as a permanent resident gives you PEACE OF MIND.
How
many people do you know who seem to have the special peace? You cannot put your finger on it but they
radiate it, respond to life with this peace backing them up, handle adversity
with a special strength...are you one of these people...it is there for all of
us...
Would
you like to have more of this kind of peace?
1.Get
the kind of amnesia that causes you to forget hurts and harbor grudges.
2. Don't
feed low self esteem by pumping up your jealousies.
3. You
have a physical problem that can't be changed and it is driving you to constant
despair? Fill your thinking with
thoughts of all the things you can do despite the physical problem. (At 84 this
old athlete has a number of athletic pursuits I can no longer pursue...but I
still have a greater host of things I still can do. I cannot run but I sure can walk (almost 3 miles
every other day. Before age caught up
with me I read a lot. Since age caught up with me...I read a
lot. I played the piano...I still play
the opinion. The TV picture is a bit
more fuzzy...but I can see and enjoy the TV picture, etc., etc. etc.)
4. There are a lot irritating people here in
South Florida. I get great pleasure out
of occasionally helping these people trade a trade in a frown for a smile. Is it something vastly complicated I
do? Not really? I simply say, "I hope you've had a good
day?" And by so doing they know
someone cared enough to ask them.
5. I
saved when I was younger. I knew that
tomorrow was coming. Procrastination
does not feed a bank account so I forced myself not to put off regularly
banking for tomorrow. I did this with
physical exercises too and spiritual exercises and it is a comfort to be ahead
of the game.
There is a famous scene in Peter Pan.
Peter
is in the children’s bedroom; they have seen him fly; and they wish to fly too.
They
have tried it from the floor and they have tried it from the beds and the
result is failure. "How do you do it?" John ask
And
Peter answers: "You just think lovely, wonderful thoughts and they lift
you up in the air."
Think
Jesus with His kindness and His love bearing sermons and how He dealt the sick
and the maimed. Think of the wisdom of
His words on the side of a mountain and His final words from the cross. Think these positive thoughts and other
positive thoughts about His time on earth and what it means for you also living
on this earth.
There
is peace in these thoughts...overwhelming...it happened...thank you God that it
happened thoughts...and such power and peace in the spiritual reminiscing.
Praise
the Lord for rightness and get on the same page with this rightness. Chose where you want to live even if you
stumble ere now and then.
Of such
is sunshine to sweep away the darkness.
Your
peace is uppermost in Jesus mind...it always has been.
Remember
the first words He spoke to His disciples after the resurrection?
"PEACE
BE WITH YOU!"
He didn't
say "Satisfaction be with you?"
For what will it take to satisfy you?
What satisfied you yesterday or last month or last year? Is it enough? Do you always want more money
or power or a rise in position at work or...is the list of what it will take to
satisfy you a list that never stops growing because essentially you are never
satisfied?
In
short, satisfaction cannot be found...the peace that passeth understanding can.
Take
Christmas morn and a little child. He or
she is so satisfied for a day or a somewhat longer period of time and then the
object of their satisfaction ends up in a closet or attic never to be thought
of again.
What
does the Bible say " When I
was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a
child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. (1 Corinthians
13:11)
Would
you be better off if by the help God you could reach a point where you are
satisfied with what you have?
Permanent
dissatisfaction to you? Easy to
find...just always want MORE...never reach a point in your life where you can
say, "I have enough."
True
peace?
Augustine wrote the answer
to the question 1500 years ago in his famous prayer: “You have made us for
yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you.”
While
making money to help finance my Seminary days I briefly sold vacuum
cleaners. The principal behind a vacuum
is that nature abhors a vacuum...so you turn on a vacuum cleaner...there is a
big empty space and in cleaning up a room you fill it with all kind of trash.
We do
that with our lives...we claim we are unhappy because we have empty spots that
need filling...and we start filling them...with messy thoughts and messy
deeds.
What is
our problem today? We are too often
ruled by public opinion than by God.
Giant
lines formed by folk trying to find the peace of prosperity...and I am not
talking about prosperity of the soul.
I am
talking about a me first philosophy that places selfishness on the throne meant
for God.
And flames destroy homes and a people stand in
their blackened front yards and say what perhaps they have not thought about so
deeply until the tragic burning took place. " Well, we have our lives and
that is what is important."
And
that is indeed important...and they are too important to waste...too important
to cry out with a hollow voice "I
am the captain of my fate. I am the
master of my soul."
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Peace
is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr
- Martin Luther King, Jr
Don't agonize. Organize.
Those who are at war with others are not
at peace with themselves.
- William Hazlett
- William Hazlett
QUOTE
BELOW IS FROM WYRICK'S WRITINGS
There
is no other organization in the world like the church. It is a breed unto itself. It is a congregation of sinners, not a
country club for saints. To become a
member you have to profess your unworthiness.
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING TO TAKE YOU THERE
(These are selected sermons from over 50 years of ministry and as a worldwide evangelist Rev. Wyrick preached them all the United States and all over the
world)
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A new quote below from Rev. Wyrick's 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM
LINCOLN...available on
amazon.com, barnes and noble and many other book sites) (read the rave reviews below)
Everything
that happened in the war was not of blood and pain and hate. The best in man sometimes rises out of the
worst. More than likely the story of
what happened one cold day during the terrible battle of Fredericksburg reached
Abe’s ears and pleased the heart of this forgiving President. It was a dreadful battle that cried out for
some miraculous act of empathy.
A
Sergeant Richard Kirkland of Company E Carolina Regiment made a request of his
commanding officer that was almost denied.
He had looked too long at the tortured, twisted dead and dying men and
could finally stand it no more. He
sought startling permission to take water and aid to those dressed in both Blue
and Gray.
“You
may get a bullet in the back of your head, son,” he was told. The soldier replied that he wanted to go
anyway.
“May God protect you,” said Major General J.
B. Kershaw. A short time later, men on
both sides of this field of agony and despair, watched in awe as the young man vaulted
over a bloodstained stonewall and walked unarmed and seemingly unafraid among
the dead and dying. They saw him kneel
down and cradle a fallen Union soldier in his arms, offer him a drink of water,
rest his head on his knapsack and cover him with his own overcoat. And then move to another soldier nearby. This time it was a Confederate soldier.
Again
and again throughout that long, pale December afternoon, just eleven days
before Christmas, Sergeant Kirkland returned with water until every living
soldier, from both the North and the South, had felt his compassion and
concern.
General Kershaw later wrote that not one
shot was fired during that time. That
never had he heard such silent respect.
“…no doubt,” his pen etched, “all the trumpets of heaven resounded on
this monumental day.”
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CLICK ON www.go60.us
IT WILL TAKE YOU A NEW WEBSITE FOR SENIORS....click on
"Voice" on the home page and then on the list of authors click
on Neil Wyrick
Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has
written for this web site are: REFLECTIONS
·
Here Comes Summer (July 2012)
·
Spring (May 2012)
·
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
(April 2012)
·
Wayward and Windy (April 2012)
Just
remember that “the pain of discipline will cost you pennies, whereas the pain
of regret will cost you millions.”
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How can we keep our faith from being a weak and fruitless thing? How can we not be foolish little men and women groveling in the dark shadows of overeager egos.
Well, first we must do more than just pray. We must believe in our own prayers.
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Anxiety
out of proportion makes us become like a centipede trying to put his best foot
forward.
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It's
an old joke, I went to the doctor and I said, “Doc, when I do this, it hurts.”
And the doctor said, “Then don't do that.”
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How many things have you been anxious
about that were things which you knew before you got into them were probably
going to create some problems for you?
And if you asked your doctor, or your minister, or common sense and your
God, all of them would have said, “Don’t do that.”
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To buy into the
community of accountability we have to realize that like bikers we are divided
into two categories. Those who have fallen and those who will fall for anything. None of us are perfect.
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Think
on it this way, some philosopher of old wrote it and it endures because there
is so much truth in it… every right
implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a
duty
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Some
of the sermon titles posted recently
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Before you decide
to purchase or not purchase his book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.... view his Award Winning One Man
Dramatization of Lincoln (since he wrote the script
for this drama it will give you an insight into what you will find in the book
itself)
Available on
Amazon.com in printed form and on Amazon Kindle Books. and at
many other sites
TO VIEW THE LINCOLN
One Man DRAMA and 3 other dramas; Ben Franklin, Martin Luther & Charles
Wesley
click on the
following URL
http://www.speakerneil.com/
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BELOW
ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS
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A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY
OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED
Two stores faced each other across a very
busy street. Their owners were in constant competition
with each other. One day, the owner of
one store put out a sign that read – If
you want it, we have it!
Almost immediately the other owner put out a
sign –If we don’t have it, you don’t
need it!
A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY
OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED
WHO ARE
YOU?
NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?
Who are you? Whose are
you?
You influence and are influenced
according to the answer you give.
Are you are the flavor of the month because
you are determined to be like everyone else no matter what? If so, consider being more independent in our
thinking and actions...because God wants you to grow up.
It may be easier being someone's shadow but
wouldn't you really rather be a sun.
QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED "Who
Are You? Whose Are You?"
This is an old quote, and a romantic one
as well but, nevertheless, can anyone say of you, “I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.”
QUOTE FROM THOUGHT PIECE POSTED
ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED
" WHEN A NATION STRAYS TOO FAR FROM BEING MORAL IT IS WELL ON IT'S WAY
TO BECOMING A MESS
James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it,
to him it is sin.
Someone once said: “A
belief is what you hold, a conviction is what holds you!”
So what holds you,
constructs you, leads you with a push when needed?
Quotes
POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITING ENTITLED WHO
ARE YOU?
NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?
In a Peanuts
cartoon strip Peppermint Patty is shown talking to Charlie Brown.
“Guess what, Chuck? It’s the first day
of school and I got sent to the principal’s office.
And it’s your fault!”
Charlie Brown responds, “My fault? How
could it be my fault? Why do you say everything is my fault?”
To which she declares, “You’re my
friend, aren’t you, Chuck? You should have been a better influence on me.”
In the comics, it’s funny… but in real life it’s much more
complicated.
Would you like to read the entire thought
piece? Then... TO TAKE YOU TO THE WYRICK'S WRITING'S
SITE
click on
the following
Yes, God loves you the way you
are but he loves you too much to let you stay that way.
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Click on the URL below to WATCH NEIL IN
HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN,
CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER
To
Order and Read
Neil's 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
GO TO amazon.com
QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book
STILL RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.
"Positive,
powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation
of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."
Lt.
Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)
"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is
an extremely well written book that investigates what might be
termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very
readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and
with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'
William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and
Wild Thorn
"Wyrick has authored a wonderful
examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly
religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of
information."
Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian
minister
"When it comes to invoking religion in
support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of
Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest
theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human
works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore
the mantle of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was
doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the
midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he
distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's
'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk
out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book
for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick
compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety
transcends politics."
Dr.
Donald W. Shriver
Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
"V. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham
Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history.
Should have a wide readership."
James
H. Smylie Professor
of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
"Neil
Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably
the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United
States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often
expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a
Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this
faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that
Lincoln would need in full measure as he led the United States through
the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is
very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick
makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed
them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."
Daniel Allen Butler, author
of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The
Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard
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