If You Are An Old 'Car Guy' Then The Chiltons Manuals Were Your Best Friend. Back In The Day When Cars

If you are an old 'Car Guy' then the Chilton’s Manuals were your best friend. Back in the day when cars were purely mechanical, these manuals provided step-by-step instructions on how to repair every part of a car from the distributor to the differential. So in order to fix a car, having this 'car bible' was a must.

However, there is a 'Life Manual' that also provides step-by-step instructions on how to heal everything, from loss to life, and that is God’s “Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth” Manual and that is the BIBLE. In it you will find everything you need to fix everything in life from head to toe.

Like today’s scripture reference exhorts us, keep the Bible in front of you at all times, and speak its words out of your lips because when you decree and declare its Promises and Principles you will indeed have “Great Success”…and no sockets or wrenches are required!

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Fred Rogers of the iconic 'Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood' is an American treasure of wholesomeness and goodness. As a child, if you are old enough to remember, you couldn’t wait to tune in to his TV show! While always delightful to watch, you unknowingly and innocently would learn strong character values and good manners by his example that would stick with you for the rest of your life.

His influence caused me later in life to develop two Christian character and etiquette books that I taught to children and teens, and like 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, 'the joy of seeing the light bulb go on in kid’s eyes when they discovered something wonderful about God and Jesus gave me a joy beyond measure, all because of his example.

On one of his programs, with the kindness and poise he always displayed, he softly said to the audience...

“I’d like you to close your eyes for ten seconds and think of ten people who have greatly influenced your life. I’m going to watch my clock.”

As he did, the camera panned across the audience. All eyes were closed, and some had tears streaming down their faces. Everyone was deeply touched by this precious man’s calm, kind and centered demeanor. His soft, yet purposefully intended suggestion caused them to pause and reflect upon their lives, and how deeply those in their pasts had touched them.

Likewise, pause right now from your busy day and close your eyes and ponder — Who has greatly influenced YOUR life? Who has made a real, even profound difference and guided you to become who you are today? Make a list of each one that has because just like today’s scripture, these people have given you instruction that has made you wiser. Thank God for them, because you are who you are today because of those that have come before you.

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The great hockey player Wayne Gretsky once said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take,” and in a related thought later also said in essence, “I don’t go to where the puck IS. I go to where IT IS GOING TO BE.” In both of these, there is a strong exercise of faith in both visualizing and believing that he will succeed when he puts both of these strategies into action. This same principle is also true in our spiritual walk.

God has given us many promises in the Bible and if you apply Gretsky’s thinking and don’t take the initiative to seize those promises, they will not just simply come to you. Applying your faith and believing is the spiritual equivalent to 'skating to where the promise is and will be.' Once you do, then and only then will you be able to receive those promises.

Professional athletes are disciplined to work out, go to practice each day, learn their plays, and study the strategies of their opposition. We likewise have to exercise the same disciplines in our life by daily getting into the practice of reading God’s Word, understand His 'playbook' and apply His wisdom and know the pitfalls and dangers of the opposition we all face in life. However there is one last vitally important element that must be present and that is that you have to BELIEVE you are going to win and receive that in your heart!

God has so much to give us, and we can and will receive it, but we have to do our part because –

“Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please him: for He that comes to God MUST BELIEVE that he is, and that He is a rewarder of them that Diligently Seek Him.” - Hebrews 11:6

BELIEVE and you will RECEIVE!

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by Dr. Jeanne Sheffield Estrada

What’s the very first thing you do in the morning?

Do you grab your cell phone and plop down in your computer chair to check your email? Yes! It’s easy to do and not be aware of what we fill our minds with at the start of our days as well as continuing to our minds for the rest of the day and night!

What would life look like instead if you filled each morning first with God? When you do, the rest of your day will look different! Your mind will be renewed with peace, joy and hope instead of anger or stress.

When you spend time with God and being in His Word it puts everything into a true perspective. Your soul will be filled, your mind refreshed and renewed, and your stress can be replaced with His peace. The good news is that you have the power to choose when you are intentional with your time.

God’s REWARD is waiting for you. Open up the present by being in the present and opening His Present - the REWARD of HIS WORD to you.

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When I was five years old there was a very steep rocky cliff near my house. One day I sat on the edge of this precipice wondering how far I could scoot off the edge, so I moved down a few inches and all was fine. So I slid down a little further and it seemed easy to get back up if I wanted to.

So far so good.

I slid down a LITTLE MORE... but then the rocks under my behind slowly started to be a little slippery! Although I carefully tried to scoot back up, each time I did I slid a few inches more until finally I was going down the slope at a steady - then quick rate until it was as slick as a slide in the playground!

Fortunately I ended up at the bottom, crying hysterically, but safely winding up in an old man’s backyard terrified at what I had done, and wondering how I could get back up to the top. The kindly elder gentleman managed to pry my name out of me between my tears, looked up our home phone number in the white pages (remember those?!?) and called my mother to come pick me up.

Secret sins in our life are just like that slippery slope. While things may start off innocently enough and are 'So far so good ' like flirting with a co-worker behind your spouse’s back, experimenting with drugs, or secretly doing things you know are wrong. Before you realize it, it gets to point where you are in too deep - and just like being on that rocky slope - you can’t get back and it keeps accelerating until you keep sliding down to your doom.

Although you crash into the bottom of your slippery slope and it seems like there is no way back up to the top, there is a solution!

“Then I confessed my sins to you (and) I did not conceal my wrongdoings. I decided to confess them to you, and You FORGAVE ALL MY SINS.” Psalm 32:5

God is quick to forgive and restore you back home. His number is in the book of the 'White Pages of the Bible,' Call on Him, and HE will restore you to the top.

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Pastor-Teacher Wayne Estrada

There is nothing like a fresh, sunshiny bouquet of flowers and likewise, a newborn baby is fresh and vibrant too, but be they babies or bouquets as time goes on they both shall wither and die. Then the question is: WHAT’s NEXT?

Job framed this eloquently in today’s scripture verse in that while the middle of the three stages of life may also be a flowering field in the sunshine, it can also be “Full Of Trouble” as well — as anyone that has been alive can attest! However when the flower of our field through life ends and the only flower left are the ones on our grave, the question then is indeed “What’s Next?”

The GOOD NEWS (literally 'Gospel') is that Jesus has conquered death and the grave and HE ALONE has the keys that can eternally free you from “Death and Hell” (Revelation 1:18) but in order to be unlocked from these two things “You must be Born Again” (John 3:7) and the way you do that is by agreeing with God that Christ is your only hope.

Friend, for you, the “What’s Next?” does not have to be Eternal DEATH, but Eternal LIFE. But how do you get there? Simple.

Agree with God that you are a sinner and ask Him to Save you from death and the grave and He will, then commit yourself to make Him #1 in your life, and not yourself.

Remember! That middle square called 'LIFE' will one day end, and only YOU have the power to walk through an unlocked door to the goodness of God’s blessing of eternity waiting for you. Do You believe this? And if so, will you do that today?

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