what is wisdom?

Proverbs 3:18-"Wisdom is a tree of life to those who eat her fruit; happy is the man who keeps on eating it."

so...now that we know that...how do we put it in our modern day lingo?

let's see ..

**Wisdom is when you see an argument coming and you say, excuse me please, I gotta go.
**Wisdom is when you want to buy and this little voice says, do I really need it?
**Wisdom is when you are watching tv and a little nudging says, you should study your lessons.
**Wisdom is when you know how to say no...
**Wisdom is when you know how to say yes..
**Wisdom is when you develop how to listen, and talk less..

don't worry...I'm still working on these...have a pleasant day

is your mind a forest?

I have asked that, because in actuality my mind is like that sometimes...I remember years back when I was working as a journalist. I had an assignment to do a travel log for a group of islands in the South Pacific, upon traveling to the islands to see what should go on the report, I came back with so many ideas of how I should write the piece and how to highlight different things, long story short, when I wrote the report out and add the video to it, although the report was good I failed to put in the most important things that were important in drawing tourists, so this gentleman who has been a great helper to me came and said, can we meet? when I sat down in his office, he said, the report is good, but you forgot this and you forgot that and you should have done this and that, then your report would have been excellent. He said, your mind is like a forest, it's full of beautiful trees and running streams, lovely birds, etc...But! you need to know how to sit down, think and meditate more on what's inside the forest, then put down on paper what comes out of that quiet time and as you do that, put them in priority of what's important and what that will do for the forest and the community around it. That has become a practice that I am still trying to do each day...

**have a pleasant week-end..to you.

the transparency of our testimony

I have just finished watching a very old film powerfully acted out by veteran actors like Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon and others, the plot of the story centers around politicians in congress and how they work to bring each other down as well as put each other up by doing all kinds of things. The storyline is about a man played by Henry Fonda who was being nominated by the President to be the Secretary of State. There were senate hearings to see if this man will be confirmed and during these hearings it was found out that the man was involved with communism activities in the early days of his life. There were many things that happened all because of these confirmation hearings, the man was found guilty of lying when he said he was not involved in communism and in the hopes of having their man confirmed, some politicians fell into tactics that were demeaning and many skeletons in other people's closets, people who were involved in the hearings were opened up. But, the one thing that grabbed my attention was when the nominee went back to the President and told him to please withdraw his name and then he told the President he lied. He was invited by some of his college buddies to go to the communist meetings with them in his younger years. He went a couple of times and when he found out what the meetings were about, he never went back. but, because he entertained the thought of communism during his youth, his career in politics is now hanging by the thread,even though he was now in an influential position or as they say at the top of his game. His loyalty to his country was also being questioned. This is so like the devil, he will seduce our minds with lies and if we are not careful we can end up entertaining those lies in our minds and later on find that we should not have done it at all. The other thing that happens is, when we become born again christians and serving the Lord diligently, the devil will use someone to dig up those old lies to falsely accuse us to the point where our loyalty to our Lord Jesus Christ is questioned. Now, if you ever find yourself in that situation, than the transparency of your testimony is the best way to go..
(1) tell the truth for Jesus said it will set us free
(2) be steadfast for the Lord will give you the right words to speak
(3) Remember God's love for you, He will never leave you nor forsake you.

anointed by the Holy Spirit

did you know that there is music that has been anointed specially by the Holy Spirit? This kind of music will convict a man's heart before the sermon is preached, it will heal the sick before they are prayed for, it will bring comfort to a grieving soul before someone puts a hand over their shoulder and so forth...I am listening to that kind of music right now. Old fashioned sweet gospel music that transcends everything and takes you straight to the throne...that's why Psalms lived for thousands of years and will go on living because those songs were anointed by the Holy Spirit..so, in our modern times songs like, I know my Lord will lead me on, How great thou art, and many others will live on from generation to generation because they were anointed by the Holy Spirit. Time for a reality check in the church, is the music anointed by the Holy Spirit? I know this one thing even if the singer is not anointed, the anointing in the song will break the yoke of bondage...

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listening to one of my favorites: He washed my eyes with tears..
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a hui ho malama pono

unreliable

you know I have not used the blog for awhile, so I get up early this morning and tried to go on it and google says our e-mail is wrong as well as the password, oh well, even these mega companies like google are unreliable.
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I like God's word better, it was reliable in the past, reliable now and will be for our future generation. God is not man that he should lie.