This Day With God – A Spiritual Journey

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You are made for God’s purpose. Over the last ten weeks, I’ve given some ideas and one example of a faith purpose God has given me. I believe that God has a purpose for everyone and my hope is that maybe a few ideas presented can be modified to help you achieve your own unique family, financial, career, fitness, and fun goals. God wants us to have fun else why would He set aside more days for celebration than for fasting?

Expect good to happen when planning with God. Your God given purpose might be to be the best parent or grandparent you can be. It might be to study and learn a discipline in college, grow in a career, or grow a business. It might be to find a mate for life, start a family, and be the best parent you can be. Whatever God given purpose you…

I arise today through a mighty strength
The strength of the trinity
A strength that guides me
A strength that encourages me

You are above me
You are within me
You are before me
You are below me

I believe You will show me the way
For each and every day
My promise to You will be kept
I’m inspired by all Your help

I see a successful year
And everything will be okay
I will never succumb
With You I can overcome

I can do everything
With the strength You bring
Good people hold me accountable
Together everything is possible

Power comes from You
I choose to live each day for You
I’m in Your hands
You give me great plans

By Mark Shields – © 01-01-2015
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Turning dreams into reality and fulfilling God’s purpose for us in life is not easy. It was not easy for Jesus to fulfill His purpose here on earth. Some obstacles we face in life may include hardships, trouble, embarrassments, disadvantages, impediments, dilemmas, and predicaments. Sometimes it’s hard to please people or hard to persuade people and it takes a lot of hard work to get things right. As we slide down the banister of life, we hope all the splinters will be pointed in the right direction.  Hope and desire can act as a bridge builder to span the gulf of silence between a person’s soul and the outer world. These qualities are available to everyone.

What pressures do you have? Is it something like meeting an impossible deadline? How do you deal with them? Sometimes a song can lift your spirits. In the Beatles song, “We Can Work…

Being able to create in your mind where you would like to go or what you would like to do can turn a dream into active plans that will help make it come true. The beginning to planning and taking action starts with sharp and clear pictures of each step, each obstacle, each solution, and each character trait needed. In a way, creating in your mind a picture of what you aspire to do moves the future into the present. A person is not surprised when it comes true because they’ve already seen and experienced it in their dreams.

I’m reminded of a story a high school baseball coach told his team the day before a tournament. It was a story of a person who was not well. The person was bed ridden for several weeks and since he loved playing golf, decided to rest in his bed dreaming about…