Hello Everyone,

Another ingredient for having your cake and eating it to is embrace positive change. Jesus asks the man at the pool “Do you want to get well?”

The truth is, not all of us want to find abundant living. Oh we like it as a concept but when the rubber meets the road we just aren’t that interested.

You see:
Sometimes it’s easier to be a victim than to be a victor – Takes work, change, commitment, discipline, and energy to be a victor.

Sometimes being a victim becomes an excuse for not trying – instead of being an encouragement to try. It is an Excuse Not To Try

Sometimes being a victim gets us attention – people pay attention to us, show us they care

This idea of positive change always reminds me of the parable that Jesus tells about the prodigal son in Luke 15. You know the story.

The life of this young man changes when Jesus says “But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!”

You know something that I have observed about people “We change when the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change.”

You see the pig pen we know is better than the home that we don’t know.

It’s easier to stay in the pig pen that we know than to risk the change.

When will we come to our senses and understand that anything less than God’s best for us is slop.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phillip