Category Archives: Life

When all else fails

Career, Life

Have you ever been in a situation that you just cannot seem to push through? You try and try but just can’t get the peg in the hole. It’s funny in that we pray for God’s will and even ask him to just “show” us his will. The funny part is that sometimes we don’t want to accept it when he shows us. We continue to push and push and get frustrated because it doesn’t work out.

We have a term in our business called “being a seller.” It means that in our business the most important thing in a transaction is to have a ready, willing and able seller. In real estate school they teach you to define it as a ready, willing and able buyer but that is not true. It’s the seller that you need.

So in life when that other person just won’t do what you think they ought to do or there is obstacle after obstacle that comes up, it may just be God standing there at the intersection with a stop sign trying to get you to stop. He knows what the turn options are and you don’t. Sometimes just pulling over and stopping is the most wise thing you can do. KT

How you imagine others

Life

Have you ever had a situation with someone else that may have not turned out the way you expected? It could be a slight by a person or someone did something that hurt you or some event happened and you think that other person was responsible. Get the idea?

The real funny part is that in your imagination, you see the other person tactically and strategically doing whatever you think they did. You think they said this or did that because they knew certain things would happen etc. let me tell you something. Other people are not smart enough to calculate a secretive way to hurt you. It is all your imagination and possibly a little circumstance mixed in.

The truth is, this is how your mind works and the imaginations Satan wants to stir up within you. It is how he steels your peace. If you think of the Navy Seals or the Army Rangers when they go into battle at night, they have these night vison goggles. Get this image. They land in the night and it is dark, then they pull down the night vison goggles, they can see clearly as though it were daylight.

Think about this spiritually and metaphorically. Symbolically what you need to do when these thoughts of someone else secretively trying to harm you, is to imagine flipping down your night vison goggles so you can see the enemy. When you do this symbolically, you can see what Satan is trying to get you to believe. Don’t buy it because almost 100 out of 100 times you will imagine things and events that are just not true.

I heard a pastor say one time, that if Satan can steal your joy, he will steal your goods. Don’t let him have his way in your imagination or in your daily life. If you do, it is like poison ivy that just spreads and spreads until you look up one day and say, how did this happen? So the answer is to head it off by not letting your imagination run free and you will find that you have more peace and more joy. KT

Finding Joy

Life

I believe Joy is a choice and not a response. I believe it is a decision and not an emotion. I believe joy is not a result of circumstances, rather it is a choice.

So the question is, how do I find joy with all that is going on with my life?

I am going to try to explain something that is very hard to explain. Boldness, confidence, self-esteem, and yes even joy can be jump started by a physical action. I was with a friend one time in Kentucky who is a lawyer. He was from Florida and we were meeting on a hotel deal in Louisville. Before he left Florida he had gotten a prescription from his doctor that he needed filled. I was driving and he said he wanted to go by the CVS to get his prescription filled. I proceeded to tell him that he would have to drop it off and then come back later to pick it up. He told me, it is all about how confident you are when you ask for it to be filled while you wait. So here we go into the CVS and I watched him boldly and nicely ask for it to be filled while we wait. !0 minutes later it was filled and we were back in the car heading for dinner.

I have thought about that many times since that day and while it is not true every time, you can usually carry a different tenor into a conversation if you simply act like it. It is hard to explain but I do know that if you start a conversation with boldness it usually sets a positive tenor for the meeting or conversation. I also know that if you start looking down and acting like you are unsure about what you are talking about, it usually sets the negative tenor for the meeting.

So back to joy. I believe if you act joyful your emotions will usually follow your physical actions. Sounds deep right? The term Boldness is referred to in the New Testament 42 times and I believe it is there for a reason. Many times, your boldness, confidence, self-esteem and yes even joy, takes it cue from how you physically act. So before you make a phone call, set an appointment or even start a day, decide that you are going to be bold about it and I believe you will see what I mean by setting the tenor of a situation. KT

Fear Not

Life

The commandment to “Fear Not” is the most used commandment in the bible. It is actually in the bible 365 times. I think it is also providential that there are 365 days in a year. Therefore, one commandment for each day is something to pay attention to.

God doesn’t want you to go a single day without hearing his word of comfort to fear not. The only explanation is to understand that God already knows everything going on with you. He knows how many hairs were on your head yesterday and also how many are on your head today. The bible also says his eye is on every sparrow and therefore as his child, you better believe he is watching over you. The meaning is that the sparrow is considered the most insignificant of all birds and if he has his eye on it, don’t you think he has his eye on you? KT