How Knowing God should Change Your Life

Harold J. Sala - A well-known speaker

How Knowing God should Change Your Life, On the streets of Manila, dirty, brash, young entrepreneurs - called cigarette boys - dash between the cars, jeepneys, and buses. They compete with each other in selling cigarettes, candies, and gums. One such boy was struck by a vehicle and the contents of his display board were scattered on the pavement. In a moment, a man stepped quickly from the crowd of onlookers, helped the boy to his feet, and began to pick up the fallen wares.

Somewhat dazed and not sure what to say, the boy looked intently at the man's face and blurted out, "Is you Jesus?"

When your neighbors and friends look at your lfe, what do they see? When God touches your life, something should rub off: the mark of the Divine. God's attributes should be evident in the lives of His children.

The image of the Father should, in some way, be reflected in the countenance of the son.

Making the Gospel attractive isn't accomplished by making it easy but by making it desirable and authentic.

God is Never Late

Harold J. Sala - A well-known speaker

God is Never Late, God is precisely on time. His timing, however, is different from ours. He is bound neither by time nor space.

Have you learned that it is impossible to fully understand God's timing in our lives? D. Martin Lloyd-Jones wrote: "He may sometimes do the opposite of what we anticipate ... Yet it is a fundamental principle in the life and walk of faith that we must always be prepared for the unexpected when we are dealing with God."

God looks at life from a different perspective. He's the timekeeper, and when we think He is late, He's apt to show up, and then learn our time is in His hands.

When it looked like Jesus was late in arriving, He showed up and raised His friend Lazarus from the dead.

God is neither early nor late, He's exactly on time!

Quitters Rarely Win

Robert Kiyosaki - International Bestselling Author

Quitters Rarely Win, There is a young man who worked for me a few years ago. He was very bright, charming, had his MBA, and earned a lot of money. In his spare time, he and his wife tried many business ventures. They tried real estate, and failed. They bought her a small franchise, and failed. Then they bought a nursing home, and nearly lost everything when patients died unexpectedly. Today, both are back at work with high-paying jobs, but an unsettling feeling of inadequacy.

The reason I mention this young couple is because they failed to learn. They let the learning process beat them. When the going got tough, they quit. While it's commendable that they tried new ventures, they stopped when their problems seemed too big to be solved. They failed to push through their failure and learn from their mistakes. They failed to realize that the process, not the money, made them rich.

One of the toughest lessons I had to learn from my rich dad was to stick with the process until I won. When I ran into trouble at Xerox because I could not sell, I wanted to quit. Because I could not sell, I was not making money. In fact, it was costing me more to live in Honolulu than I was earning. Rich dad said, "You can quit when you win, but never quit because you're losing." Not until 1978, after becoming the number one salesperson for Xerox, did I quit. The process had made me richer, both mentally and financially. By overcoming my problem of not being able to sell, I was able to overcome my problem of not making money.

While working at Xerox I started my nylon wallet business in my spare time. In 1978, I went full-time into my wallet business. The business took off, and then failed. Again, I wanted to quit; and again, rich dad reminded me that the process is more important than the goal. Many times he reminded me, while I was deeply in debt, without much money, that if and when I solved this problem, I would never need money again. I would know how to build a business, and I would be a little more financially intelligent. But first I had to solve the problem in front of me.

Valuable Experience

Ralph Marston - Author of The Daily Motivator.

Valuable Experience, You are filled with valuable experience. The things you've done and learned and seen and lived through have left behind a unique and powerful substance of experience that is yours alone.

What a shame it would be for all that to go to waste. It is yours to make use of, yours to build upon, and yours from which to grow.

By making this present moment count, you also make all the past moments count even more. You cannot live in the past, yet you can continue to draw upon the value you created there.

Right now, you can benefit greatly from the things you've already done, whatever they may have been. By tapping into the value of experience and doing something positive and productive with it, you extend and expand upon that value.

Use this day to invest your wealth of experience into effective action. That investment will immediately begin to pay dividends.

Take action, and let your valuable experience guide that action. Get value from the past and use it in the present to create an outstanding future.