Inspirational Messages

[jim]

hey Mazdamazda napagisip-isip mo na ba na maging GUIDANCE COUNSELOR hehehehehehe.... baka yun talaga ang para sa iyo official GUIDANCE COUNSELOR ng TSIKOT!!!! :D

nice messages. tinamaan ako dito "Ikaw ang nagbago, hindi ang mundo." tama nga naman , dapat bumalik ako sa simpleng pamumuhay.

[WeaponX]

Kaiyak naman. Very inspiring messages.

[ts1n1ta]

i like it. great messages....

[mazdamazda]

YOU ARE BLESSED!!!

What is God telling you with the problems He blesses you with?

The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you - depending on how you respond to them. Unfortunately most people fail to see how God wants to use problems for good in their lives. They react foolishly and resent their problems rather than pausing to consider what benefit they might bring.

Here are five ways God wants to use the problems in your life:

1) God uses problems to DIRECT you. Sometimes God must light a fire under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new direction and motivate us to change. Is God trying to get your attention? "Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways."

Proverbs 20:30

2) God uses problems to INSPECT you. People are like tea bags... if you want to know what's inside them, just drop them into hot water! Has God ever tested your faith with a problem? What do problems reveal about you? "When you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience."

James 1:2-3

3) God uses problems to CORRECT you. Some lessons we learn only through pain and failures. It's likely that as a child your parents told you not to touch a hot stove. But you probably learned by being burned. Sometimes we only learn the value of something...health, money, a relationship...by losing it... "It was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to your laws."

Psalm 119:71-72

4) God uses problems to PROTECT you. A problem can be a blessing in disguise if it prevents you from being harmed by something more serious. Last year a friend was fired for refusing to do something unethical that his boss had asked him to do. His unemployment was a problem - but it saved him from being convicted and sent to prison a year later when management's actions were eventually discovered. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good."

Genesis 50:20

5) God uses problems to PERFECT you. Problems, when responded to correctly, are character builders. God is far more interested in your character than your comfort. Your relationship to God and your character are the only two things you're going to take with you into eternity. "We can rejoice when we run into problems...they help us learn to be patient. And patience develop strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady."

Romans 5:3-4

Here's the point: God is at work in your life - even when you do not recognize it or understand it. But it's much easier and profitable when you cooperate with Him.

YOU ARE BLESSED....THERE'S NO NEED TO STRESS!!!

Success can be measured not only in achievements, but in lessons learned, lives touched and moments shared along the way....

[cutedoc]

if you happen to drop by a bookstore, grab a copy of books by Francis Kong, he is a great author and an inspirational speaker, he's christian pero when you read or listen to him indi very universal yung language niya, if you read chicken soup for the soul, i find this one better, tipong applicable sa everyday life

[mazdamazda]

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old University of Notre Dame lecturer. Conversation soon turned
into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned
with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic,
glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to
help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said:
"If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only
the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously
went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are
the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of
Life doesn't change."

"Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in
it."