February 8, 2010

The People Around You Matter

“Surround yourself with good people who balance out your weaknesses with their strengths.”

- Thomas F. Frist, Jr.

The people we spend the most time with, the ones who are the closest to us, have the greatest influence on our lives. (See Proverbs 13:20 .)

Surround yourself with good people who will accept you, challenge you, help you, love you, are different from you, encourage you, inspire you, respect you, bring out the best in you, appreciate you, care for you, motivate you, forgive you, surprise you, listen to you, trust you, amaze you, stand beside you, understand you, need you, and who will be completely honest with you.

And see what happens!

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February 6, 2010

Today’s Quote 2/6/10

“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”

- C S Lewis

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February 5, 2010

my new e-newsletter

I am launching a new e-newsletter soon. It will feature encouraging quotes, meditations and wisdom from Scripture, and other ideas and resources to help make your life better! I will send it out 2-3 times per month.

If you would like to receive it just send me an email: neilwestbrook at gmail dot com.

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February 2, 2010

the Lemonade movie

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February 1, 2010

Turn Your Battles Over to God

What battles are you facing in life right now?

There is a story in the Bible about a king named Jehoshaphat who once faced a huge battle with surrounding nations. (2 Chronicles 20:1-2) He was incredibly out numbered and according to the Scripture he “was afraid.” Did I mention that he was only 35 years old when he became the king and had to deal with this problem?

This was going to be the biggest battle he had ever faced in his life. So he came up with the very best strategy to make sure that he would win the battle…prayer.

Yep. He prayed. Or let me put it this way – he put his face down on the ground and prayed like crazy because he knew that there was no way in this world that he was going to win this battle by his own strength or power!

Actually the Scripture says this,

“Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.” (2 Chronicles 20:3-4)

So not only did he pray like crazy, but he asked everyone else involved to pray like crazy too.

What battles are you facing that you know you will not win by your own strength or power? Why not turn them over to God? After all, he wants to see you win.

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January 31, 2010

Are you still growing?

“Have you stopped growing?”

A few years ago I was standing in line at the grocery store with my son, Parker. Without me realizing what he was going to say he turned to an elderly woman behind us and said, “Have you stopped growing?”

I don’t think she really heard him. I was totally embarrassed! Earlier in the week we had discussed how we stop growing, physically, as we get older.

What about you? Are you still growing? Intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, relationally? We may stop growing physically, but we never really have to stop growing!

“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!” (2 Peter 3:18)

Keep growing! I hope you have a great week!

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