Mistake after mistake after mistake. Sometime I feel like that is the slogan for my life. But in making so many mistakes, I have come to find that my mind has attempted to lean toward telling me that everything I do is just going to turn out the same way. Our minds will tend to lean toward the most negative thoughts most of the time. This happens because it’s just easier that way. We must learn to train our minds to focus in the direction that we want when we are making attempts to move forward. We must not allow our minds to hit the replay button and play out all the mistakes we have made. If we allow our minds to replay them then it should only happen when we are looking at ourselves to make changes. To remember bad things in our past for the purpose of pulling ourselves down is not using our memory for the right reason. Concerning our memory, when we are pondering negative things that have happened, we should be pondering those things to see what we can do different.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

Looking back to learn is to appropriately move forward, but to look back and stew is to drive a car while constantly looking over your shoulder.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –      )

How good is your bounce back ability. I grew up playing sports all my childhood life and had an opportunity to continue doing so right on through college.  While doing so, I sustained several injuries that required me to sit out for short periods of time to rehabilitate. The question that always came up was this: How quickly would I be able to bounce back? The trainer would always tell my coaches that he is young, he’ll be able to bounce back. How quickly will depend upon his attitude when it comes to doing what he needs to do to get better. You see although I had a physical issue, my ability to bounce back from it was more about my attitude than anything else. So it doesn’t matter what the situation is that has caused us to be down, it will be our attitude that will allow us to either get back in the game quickly of  else out indefinitely.

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Scripture References:

Proverb 24:16 

for the righteous fall seven times and rise again,

This second, of this minute, of this hour, of this day will never happen again. Time is a weapon given to us to use to achieve our goals. It is also a gift given to us to share our lives with others. So don’t kill time, use it and watch your dreams come true.

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Power Statement:

It’s not just a matter of time, but it is a matter of what we do with it.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –      )

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The biggest lie that is circling around in the heads of a lot of people today is that nobody really cares. If we are not careful we will allow the media and the fact that things for a lot of us are tough right now cause us to be separated from everyone else. This is not only unhealthy but unnatural. We are designed to be with others. The only way to combat this is for us to do our part and reach out to someone today. Someone close to you, as well as some whom you have not engaged before.

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Scripture Reference:

Genesis 2:18a

And the Lord God said, it is not good that man should be alone;

Most of us work hard all year round to meet our obligations. But remember, the most important person in this equation is you. We need to make sure that we do something for ourselves first before we send off all of the fruits of our labor.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

You are the force behind your production so make sure you keep your machine well oiled.

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Everyone has their cut. But just a few of us are getting our share and a whole lot of everybody else’s. It is kind of simple like that. If we don’t stand up and posses what is rightly our, then some one else will. I heard once that there is enough wealth in the world for everyone to have twenty million dollars. What? I don’t have my twenty million, do you? If not, then somebody else does. What about your happiness or relationships. Are you pursuing your part in all that. If we live long enough, we all kind of reach a place where we start to take a look around and inventory our lives. Look around my friends and tell me what you see.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

Just because we are entitled to it does not mean we will actually posses it. We must take what it rightfully ours.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –      )

Where you one of the truly blessed ones that had your dad engaged in your life while you where growing up? By engaged, I mean that not only was he there but he was involved in every aspect of your life. Did he talk to you while you were still in your mothers wombs? Was he there the route you on as you fought to enter into this world on the day of your birth? Did you get to see the proud look in his eyes as he gazed down upon you after they swadled you in a blanket and handed you to him just moments after your birth. Were you allowed to grow without a foreboding of fear constantly hovering over you. If  you can answer yes to these questions, then good for you. But for many of us we have no idea what  it feels like to experience this. To tell you the truth, I really had not given much thought about it until I looked into my sons eyes one day while we were discussing sports. I saw something in his eyes that I couldn’t explain. It was a look of confidence about his life.  There is nothing on his life that is pulling him away from what he needs to be doing at this time in his life. Basically, no drama, he was able to grow physically, mentally and spiritually without fear of any thing because he knew his dad had it covered. What a parallel, A fatherless dad fathering his son. All the things that I needed and desired, I am giving to my son. But I couldn’t, no matter how hard I tried , understand how he was feeling, having his dad completely engaged in his life. I will never have that, I said to myself and began to make attempts to push it out of my mind. But every time I engage my son and I see that look in his eye, I am reminded of how I feel as oppossed to what I see happening to him, and  again I try to put myself in his shoes and feel what he is feeling for just a second. I engaged my kids becuse I don’t want them to feel what I feel. Nevertheless, this has not been my end, I am finding out that I do have a father and that he has engaged me. He was there for every major event in my life, good or bad. I just have to learn to trust and believe Him just the my son trust and believes me.  He is not visable to me,  nor have I heard his audible voice. But now as I look back  I can see where His presenence was engaging in every area of my life. In this world my biological father failed to paint me a picture of manhood. He did not engage me, and take me throug the process of initiating me as a man. Many of my brothers here in America and around the world take the apperance of men, but have not crossed over because they have not been established by another man. I want each of you to know that if this applies to you, don’t through in the towel. We have a father that is ready to establish us. But becuse we have been trained by the absence of an earthly father, we are clueless as to how we are to trust and except this establishing. He appears to be absent just like our biological fathers because we can’t see him or physically touch him. He does not call out to us the way a natural father would do so, but He is there, and we must train our eyes to see him, listen intenetly to hear Him, work hard to obey Him, and more that anything, we must learn to trust Him.

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Power Statement:

I am who He says I am.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –       )

Some April Fools jokes are just down right dirty. I have seen some people really get their hopes up to only be harshly let down by the practical joke.  But sometimes we prank our selves by not paying attention to warning signs in our lives. I know I’m guilty of this. It is a little difficult to see it for yourself when we are standing right in the middle of it. But still the signs are there and we tend to ignore them until something bad happens. We tell ourselves that it will be okay hoping that it will just get better all by itself. What a dirty trick to play on yourself. Look it in the the eye and address it, it will be just fine.

Rhon Johnson

Power Statement:

Who’s pink elephant is this that keeps following me around?

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Everybody has been somewhere and everybody is going somewhere. Everything that lies between where we have been and where we are going to end up is what I call “The Ride.” Are we enjoying the ride, or are we so disturbed over some part of our past, or maybe to wound up about our future? We must learn to enjoy the ride. I know that some of us have had some horrible things happen to us, but none of those things define us as a person. Every day that we allow to past by without enjoying it tarnishes our past and causes us to be more stressed about our future. The ride, bringing us from something while taking us to something. The problem with the ride for many is this. We can’t believe that we are going to end up where we want, because that place looks nothing like where we came from. Hey, it makes know sense to set out on this journey and when the ride is over we step out and find that we are in the exact same place we started, or if not, somewhere very close to it. It is really a good idea for us to figure out how to enjoy the ride. To enjoy the ride makes everything a building block, regardless of what it is. To enjoy the ride is to get our heads out of the clouds negativity and start seeing that everything is a building block, an instrument that can be used to steer us in the direction that we we want our lives to go. But to be down about who we are, where we came from, and where we are right now, is like dying from malnutrition with the food in our mouths and refusing to swallow it. We decide what kind of ride we have no matter what. It is our decision to enjoy the ride. 

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

If we know where we’ve been, then we should have some idea as to where we want to go.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –        )

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Scripture Reference:

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live:

Do you ever find yourself saying I don’t know a lot. There is a tendency to say this when we are faced with questions or situations that seem to beyond our level of knowledge. If we are not careful, this can end up being our way of handling everything that comes to us that we don’t immediately have solutions to. We can find the solution to just about every issue that arises. We live in a time were information is literally at our finger tips. We also have prayer. God has the aerial view to everything going on in life and if we can tap into His all knowing, seeing all ability, then we can begin to navigate ourselves toward the best possible solution.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement: 

When you really don’t know, pray and find out.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –      )