Welcome to the blog of Pastor Alton Stone, from Simpsonville, SC. Pastor Stone is a retired Ordained Bishop of The Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee with over 45 years of pastoral ministry.

Monday, December 31, 2018

Getting Things Right (Part 1)

Getting Things Right (Part 1)


You are born with the ability to change your life no matter how much loss, sadness and difficulty you are experiencing.  You are born ready even though you don’t feel ready.  You are literally hardwired to reinvent yourself and overcome.  You don’t even have to learn to do it, you already know how.  You just need to focus your energy gradually and accordingly.  Learn with each small step forward, one at a time, one day after the next.

This is the journey God put you on and you can write the map to where you are going.  Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t, that you should just sit around and “wait” a little longer and that there is no way out right now.  There is a way, and you are standing right in the path. God created you unique.  When you start to know this and truly understand it, then you can be more in control of your life and what happens within it from moment to momentary His grace and glory.

In a very real sense, your life is created one day at a time by you and the people you choose to have around you.  This is crucial to know and remember.  You are the creator of yourself and your destiny in each moment by God's grace.  In a very real sense, what you choose to experience, and who you choose to share each experience with, influences your ultimate development in Christ.

In other words, you create your life by choosing the kind of story you want to tell every day.  You create it by the way you respond to difficult and painful circumstances, by the way you see the world, and by the people you choose to keep in your life.  Keep this truth in mind:
“You aren’t responsible for everything that happened to you, but you need to be responsible for undoing the thinking patterns these outcomes created. " 
What you focus on make you stronger in your life.  It’s time to change your response to what you remember, and step forward again with grace into the unknown guided by God's hand.

Every believer knows that death is not death to another believer.  When someone you love dies, it just means they exist in another way, in another place. You have access to that same place thru Christ.  Every day and every moment heaven should be real to you. Through the Word I have learned that death is just a word we use to describe the end of someone’s physical life, not the absolute end of them. Those absent from us are in the presence of the Lord is they served Him here in earth.

Quantum physics teaches that "Nothing and not nothing is one and the same.  The empty space next to you, is made the way you are made." One of the reasons this is important to understand that is simply that the spiritual kingdom you perceive around you is not really empty at all it, and contains far more than what meets the eye, including the loved ones you’ve lost.  They are still here but you can’t see them with your physical sense of sight.  Your eyes can’t see all the light that exists in that holy place.  Your ears can’t hear all the sounds that exist there either.  The people we think we’ve lost are right here inside all the space around us.  We really aren’t alone when we are alone.

There truly is a deeper reality or a deeper level of life that we can’t see from here, and it is where miracles originate from.  Where healing takes place.  Where everything gets created in the supernatural around us.  This deeper reality is in many ways more real than the one we perceive with our (flawed) physical senses a God you can bring everything you want from there to here.  This only seems impossible to you right now, but it isn’t.  NOTHING is impossible with GOD!

Not believing this is like trying to drive a car at night without the lights on.  There are always impossible obstacles and objects in front of us and around us that we can’t immediately see, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t there, or that they can’t affect us.  Please don’t forget it.  God mad you the driver of this experience called life, and you now know what you need to work on, to turn the lights back on for all of eternity. Get it right in the beginning and you'll never forget it.

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