Monday, July 27, 2015

Avoiding the Apple: Day 1 Giving God your Best Fruits

Introducing a New Series: Avoiding the Apple

So, as I mentioned last week I started doing devotions every morning for 7 days straight, and they have greatly improved my heart, mind, and sprit. I used various methods for my devotion all of which offered me great bible verses, food for thought, and practical plans of action that I felt instead of moving on to Day 8, I should delve deeper and share here, as I listen to a little Smokie Norful Pandora.

So what might I call this devotional recap? What better for my Don't Bite the Apple Eve readers than....Avoiding the Apple :) 

Day 1: Giving God the Best Fruits of Your Day 



This is the video I began with, and I loved it because it made me ask myself some tough questions that needed to be at the forefront of Day 1.


Key Points 
1. Is God an afterthought or your first thought?


  • Many times we like to believe that because God "knows our heart" we don't have to do things like go to church or do devotion because we think about God all day or pray every night. BUT doing these things can only strengthen your walk and your heart. 
  •  Ask yourself, what do I spend most of my time doing? What do I look forward to doing when I first wake up, what is my routine? 
  • Give God a place in your daily, weekly and monthly routine. You may not like church , but there are plenty of sermons and scriptures online that you can use to help show yourself and God that he is first, and most important maybe even more so than just attending church.

2.What will you leave so your loved ones will know how to follow God when your gone?



2 Peter 1: 12-15 Because the stakes are so high, even though you're up-to-date on all this truth and practice it inside and out, I'm not going to let up for a minute in calling you to attention before it. 
13 This is the post to which I've been assigned - keeping you alert with frequent reminders - and I'm sticking to it as long as I live. 
14 I know that I'm to die soon; the Master has made that quite clear to me. 
15 And so I am especially eager that you have all this down in black and white so that after I die, you'll have it for ready reference. 
  • As followers of Christ we take on the role of a parent, teacher, and friend. Meaning that what we do should be a reflection of what Christ ask us to do.
  • Helping bring others to him is the goal, so what will people say about you if you left today? 
  • Let your light shine!
3. A fool listens to himself and thinks he's right, but a wise person seeks council.



  • The only way to become stronger in the word is too....READ IT! Meditate on what you have learned and read versions like The Message that may explain it better for you.
  • Older people are wiser people, they don't know it all but making it up to this point in life they have seen a lot of pain, happiness, and love so their advice should be heard. 
  • Who's the first person you call when something happens bad or good? Lean on the lord for understanding and always thank him first!

In Conclusion: Slow down and praise him daily

Giving God the best fruits of my day for me meant waking up early. The precious extra moments of sleep that I didn't really need but indulged in, are now spent with my heavenly father, and it helps me wake up better than any alarm or newscast ever could. 


Maybe for you your best fruits are you breaks at work or the time in between your classes when you usually call a friend or get online. Maybe it's before bed when you watch Family Guy or listen to music, whatever it is, make sure it's truly your best because God will reward you and more importantly as I found, you will feel worth being rewarded. God Bless #DBTAE 


Sunday, July 26, 2015

I'm back and I'm not turning back!

Its a been a while since I've written a blog post, over a year to be quite honest. Every time I've had a moment I felt the spirit was speaking to me I have thought "Dang I should share this on DBTAE" but I won't lay out a list of excuses of why that never happen, I will just say that I'm back.


In the past year God has done so many dynamic things in my life, but I also have fallen back into old habits, distractions and sins that led me away from the lord and my work. Now as us faithful Christians know you will never lose the lord and all he taught you completely even when deep in sin, but that luke warmness is not what God wants to see, and now that I'm back on track I see how much more I could have accomplished had I been whole heartily submersed in his word.

 
The video posted above is a small part of the daily devotion I have been doing every morning on my journey back to being red hot in the holy spirit. Joe of chasegod.tv is a true man of God! I enjoy his videos because they are candid and approach issues that many young people wonder about but could probably never as their parents and pastors. He keeps it real and remains in the teachings of the bible and not of his own thoughts.

I have also been exploring a daily devotional video series by Inspiring You Today. Today I am on Day 7 and upon completing the final video I want to make a post with key points from each day to share with you all. Along with Joe, Inspiring You Today and of course a little gospel and tons of prayer, my daily devotion usually ends with a dynamic conference call that is truly changing lives.


Coach Stormy Wellington, who is now the #1 Network Marketer in the wold created this call and began with I believe 12 people and now the numbers have reached the 800's. The company that has allowed her to see so much success is called Total Life Changes, and they sell teas, diet supplements and things along those lines, but her morning call has nothing to do with pushing the company (I'm not a member his is not a secret plug lol) but everything to do with getting up in your face and making you ask yourself why am I not successful yet and serious calls to action in order to get out of your own way.

I will be sharing more and more about the things I do during my morning devotions, but I just had to come today and let everyone know that I am back. God has given me a big task to prepare for (I'll share soon) along with running my businesses, completing my final year at FAMU, Oh and I also work for Apple now, since I have started giving God the best fruits of my day things have become a lot more clear and so much easier. I've been tested...a couple time lol but I can only imagine how I would have came out had I not been on this path.
I missed blogging for Jesus, and I hope you missed reading my thoughts, I love to hear yours so like, comment, share and always remember Don't Bite the Apple Eve :) 
#DBTAE



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