Abilities

After the end of a long day is when I enjoy blogging. Today I travelled by car from Anaheim, California to Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Suprisingly, the tempatures at the beach were warmer than the tempatures in the desert by 10 degrees or so.

I want to take a subject each day and apply it to your life and then back each one up with some scripture. I will take as many thoughts and go from A-Z here in my blogg.

Today I will start with the Word Abilities. Although I do not claim to be a scholar, I have made my life a life of study in the word and trying my best to apply it in every day living. Many of you have told me you check into my blogg daily. So with this in mind, I am going to try to write more often.

Phillips Brooks was quoted recently as saying, "It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything".

Your effectivenes in life is not found in your similarities to one another but will be discovered in your differences from someone else. When you are different from someone else you will prove to be effective in life. Stop trying to be like everyone else and be who God asked you to be.

Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke, Bits & Pieces, March 31, 1994, p. 16.

What abilities do you have that others don't have, that you can use for the glory of God?
Where can your abilities best be used for the Lord Jesus?

I tell my children often, "Can't is the word used by loosers". We never use the word "can't" in our language. Philippians 4:13 says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me".

How can we be so sure that we can have great abilities? How can you be so sure that we can do or be something stronger than we think? "...because great is He that is in you than He that is in the world".

A test at school in the morning. A project at work that could get you fired or promoted. A final game of your favorite sport which could take you over or take you under. No matter what it is you face tomorrow, YOU can.

But brother Woods, you don't know what I am up against? You don't know how impossible this is! Paul addressed it this way, "What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31.

Jesus said in John 14:12, "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do she he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father".

Last year I ministered and spoke to 225 audiences nationwide. Over the years I have told those audiences that, really, Jesus never did any "miracles". We call them miracles but to Him, he was just doing the everyday works of His Father. To us, they are truly a miracle. We should understand that greater works can we do than even the "miracles" that Jesus did. Hard for the human mind to wrap itself around that one huh?

Again, Jesus says in Mark 11:23, "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that hose things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith." Your saying empowers your abilities.

Like so many reading this blog, I too have accomplished many great things in my life. However, I must humbly say that it is "...not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings.