Inside Out

We will never succeed in changing our outward behavior unless we first allow God to transform us inwardly. If we are ever going to improve our self-control, we first have to have Jesus Christ in control of our lives. We need to have Jesus take over our whole being: body, spirit, heart, will and mind. The person who knows and enjoys self-control is the person filled by the Holy Spirit and transformed to want to live God's way.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

12 Ways to be Happy

• Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
• Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
• Don’t take yourself too seriously. Don’t think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
• You can’t please everybody. Don’t let criticism worry you.
• Don’t let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
• Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
• Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
• Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, enmity, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.
• Have many interests. If you can’t travel, read about new places.
• 10. Don’t hold postmortems. Don’t spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don’t be one who never gets over things.
• Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
• Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.
• And I could add number 13: To know lasting happiness, get to know Jesus.

Today's Bible Verse

"Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools." Ecclesiastes 7:9