When we allow ourselves to walk with our heads down. We are allowing the situation to defeat us. When this happens, our dreams are in jeopardy of being aborted. We must get our heads up so we can see where we are going and what’s coming our way.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Comment:

The ground is not the limit, the sky is.

Rhon Johnson  (1966 –       )

Today lets keep it simple. Many times it is just one word that drives the matter home. Make the pledge to follow through with the changes you have committed to making this year. This is the time of year when people begin to drift back into their old behaviors from the previous year after vowing that things are going to be different. Make the pledge and stick with it.

Rhon Johnson

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You will feel better about you when you can trust your own words.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –       )

Today, you have the opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life. Don’t let the opportunity pass you by. Someone needs the gift of caring and recognition that you hold in your hand. Give it and watch God use it to encourage someone past their thoughts of insigniciance .

Rhon Johnson

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Power Comment:

In my mind, I didnt matter until you said hello.

Do you know how special you are? Many of us, myself included have those moments when we don’t feel good about who we are. Some of us suffer from this daily. I mean, it is a constant foreboding that we just can’t seem to shake. We look at all the wrong things to determine our value. Things like am I smart enough, pretty enough, tall enough, small enough, or wealthy enough; the list goes on. God says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made and that we are the apple of His eye. It doesn’t matter who our parents are, what our financial status is, where we live, or our educational level. God loves us. Its is simple, people are all basically the same when it comes to most issue about life. They want to know that they matter. Let me tell you,  you do matter and you are very special.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

You are the most important person you know!

Rhon Johnson (1966 –       )

What a tough topic to discuss for some of us. We live in a world that is screaming at us almost twenty-four seven. Many of us dread time alone, without television or radio playing in the back ground. It is hard enough to get the right information we need for our lives without having all those loud voices screaming at us daily,  Voices saying, “Listen to me, I have instructions for your life!” Fortunately for me, I grew up as an only child and had learned to practice the art of being still and silent. When I regularly get alone and quiet,  I can hear Gods instructions for my life. I have had many major mess ups in my life; And I can track every last one of them back to a period of time when I allowed myself to drift away from taking time out to be alone and silent. You see, when we get quiet, we can hear the gentle voice  God speaks to us in. So today, I am encouraging us all to take time to be silent. God wants to speak to us about the issues in our lives.  But He will not compete with all the other voices that yell and demand our attention, as if they have the solutions we long for. Remember this my friends, talking to God should be us listening more than we speak.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

Prayer is an open conversation between you and God, which means God wants to talk too.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –       )

I am reading a book now, and the author tells a story about a trip he took to Alaska. The guys that went along with him all got the chance to go on a tour. On this tour, the guide took them on a trail where the grizzly bears would often venture down to feed. As they came upon the trail they noticed that there were large foot prints that had smaller footprints in side them. The tour guide told them that the cubs walked in the footsteps of their fathers. What a powerful story, and wouldnt it be nice to know exactly where to step every step of the way? We have that availible for us, but it is difficult at times when there is so much in the world telling us that this is they way we should go. God has provided a way for us. I will admit that I have gone my own way and even the way suggested to me by other. Each time I have ended up somewhere I didn’t want to be. I still step off wrongly and have to find my way back to the path as we all do. But I hope that as I write everyday it help some find the path and others to stay own it. There is safty within those steps.

Rhon Johnson

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Scripture Reference:

Psalms 37:23a

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord:

I have a lot of opportunities to talk to people everyday. I also have the privilege of speaking to groups at a time concerning any given subject. As I talk with people I usually tell them a good story that helps drive home the point I’m trying to make. Everyone likes a good story. Jesus was  was and still is a great story teller. When we read about His time here on earth we see that He often told his disciples stories to help them understand the point he was making. Words that are masterfully put together can paint a beautiful picture and give someone complete clarity concerning a situation they need to act upon. The answer to the problem is always found in the story.

Rhon Johnson

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ScriptureReference:

Matthew 13:34a

All these things Jesus spoke unto the multitude in parables;

It’s really not what others say about us that makes the difference,  it is what we say and believe about ourselves. Growing up I was told that if you talked to yourself you were crazy. But now I talk to me all the time. We are going to listen to our own voice more so than any others. This is why it is important to know what to say to yourself.  The words that we need to be speaking over our lives is the words of God. Gods word in our mouths, spoken over our lives will produce what meaning those words posses.  Whatever our situation is, there is a word for us. We just need to find it in His Word, and then speak it over our life.

Rhon Johnson

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Scripture Reference:

Isaiah 55:11

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return onto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

There is so much that one person can go through in a single lifetime. Many things happen that would seem to cause one to cash it all in and give up. But know this my friends. If we survived it, then God still has great plans for our lives. Regardless of what it looks or feels like, the fact that we are still standing is significant. We are still in the game and we can and will win.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

God is never defeated. Though he may be opposed, attacked, resisted, still the outcome can never be in doubt.

Father Andrew

I have written on this subject before, but now I would like to go a little deeper. This weapon is not the atomic bomb, nuclear missiles, or any other weapon of mass destruction. This is a weapon that at first may seem to be insignificant because we most often have no clue as to how it works. It is the weapon of prayer. Just in the last twenty four hours, I have had conversations with two people in my circle that were having problems that seemed to be out of their control concerning  issues with their children. As I listened to them explain their situation, I could hear in their voices that they felt helpless. I took the opportunity to explain to them that what they were experiencing was a spiritual battle that required a spiritual weapon. Prayer is the most powerful tool that we posses to counter the things that rise up against us and our families. If you don’t believe that prayer is vitally important then you need to read the story of Daniel. Daniel prayed and got no answer for twenty one days because a powerful dark force known as a principality raged a battle against the messenger angel of  the Lord to keep Daniel from getting the information and resources he had prayed for. Our enemy knows the power of prayer and is encouraging us not to pray by raging war on the messengers that deliver our answered prayers which in turn causes delays that cause us to believe that prayer is a waste of time. The result of prayer is the release of God’s power in our lives. And as the prince of Persia found out when he was bound up by one of the chief prince angels of heaven, there is absolutely no match for the power of God when it is released on our behalf through prayer. Therefore we should open our mouths and pray.

Rhon Johnson

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 Scripture References:

Ephesians 6:12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Proverbs 18:21a

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: