Have you ever wondered why some people seem to make new friends so easily, while others find it so hard to form successful relationships with new people?

Researchers who study relationships have discovered that a big difference between those people who make new friends easily, and those who don’t, is that socially successful people tend to make eye contact with their conversation partners much more frequently than those who are less successful socially.

Many shy people never make eye contact at all. When speaking with others, people who are socially unsuccessful and who have a hard time making new friends, are more likely to look down at the ground, or look away. They rarely will look at the face of the person they are talking with.

If you have been less successful in making friends than you wish, you may be able to become much more socially successful by making this one simple change to your behavior.

Most North Americans, especially Caucasians, prefer to have a lot of eye contact when they are talking with someone. When a person doesn’t make eye contact with them, North Americans tend to assume that person is hiding something. The very phrase “shifty-eyed” connotes a person whose eyes dart around the room, implying that they are untrustworthy.

When you are having a conversation with someone and you want to leave a friendly impression, be sure to keep looking at that person frequently while you are talking. You don’t need to use a piercing stare, a friendly gaze will do.

If it really bothers you to look directly into another person’s eyes, you can look at the person’s face without focusing solely on the eyes. If you gaze generally at the eyebrow area or the bridge of the nose, this is close enough to the eye region that you will appear to be looking at the person’s eyes. You may find that it eases your own discomfort if you let your vision go slightly out of focus.

Whenever you are in conversation with someone, keep the majority of your focus on the other person. If you glance around the room too much, or look too frequently at other people, your conversation partner may assume that you are bored, or that you are looking around for someone else you would rather talk with.

If you have difficulty knowing exactly how to make eye contact, you can benefit from practicing in front of a mirror, or practice with another person.

Don’t stare at other people too intensely however! A very intense, unblinking stare can make your conversation partners feel very uncomfortable.

You can lighten the impression you are making by smiling more often, nodding, and by gazing at the entire face as well as the eyes. In addition, you can frequently glance away for brief periods.

When people get the sense that you are really paying attention to them, and that you enjoy talking with them, they will be much more likely to want to have conversations with you!

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*In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the endorsers. Sheridan.

*Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations should all be hanged, if so it could be at my decision–the carriers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears. Plautus.

*The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us. Boerhaave.

*Believe nothing against another, but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it. William Penn.

*Slanderers are at all events economical for they make a little scandal go a great way, and rarely open their mouths except at the expense of other people. Chatfield.

*What indulgence does the world extend to those evil-speakers who, under the mask of friendship, stab indiscriminately with the keen, though rusty blade of slander! Mme. Roland.

*Life would be a perpetual flea-hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations and suspicions which are uttered against him. Beecher.

*If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill. Sheridan.

*There is evil enough in man, God knows; but it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible, and fragrant with gentleness and charity. John Hall.

*Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver. Lavater.

*When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb. Saadi.

*Slander’s mark was ever yet the fair;/The ornament of beauty is suspect,/A crow that flies in heaven’s sweetest air,/So thou be good, slander doth but approve/Thy worth the greater. Shakespeare.

*How infrequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper! Sterne.

*To be continually subject to the breath of slander will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded. Colton.

*There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep. Sterne.

*Balm that tames all anguish, saint that evil thoughts and aims takest away, and into souls dost creep, like to a breeze from heaven. Wordsworth.

*In a sound sleep the soul goes home to recruit her strength, which could not else endure the wear and tear of life. Rahel.

*The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. Sleep is the half of time which heals us. Richter.

*Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast. Shakespeare.

*It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. A gentle failure of the perceptions creeps over you; the spirit of consciousness disengages itself once more, and with slow and hushing degrees, like a mother detaching her hand from that of a sleeping child, the mind seems to have a balmy lid closing over it, like the eye–it is closed–the mysterious spirit has gone to take its airy rounds. Leigh Hunt.

*Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but then it was catching flies. Jeremy Taylor.

*A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. George S. Hillard.

*Excess is not the only thing which breaks men in their health, and in the comfortable enjoyment of themselves; but many are brought into a very ill and languishing habit of body by mere sloth; and sloth is in itself both a great sin, and the cause of many more. South.

*A tender smile, our sorrow’s only balm. Young.

*Smiles are the language of love. J.C. and A.W. Hare.

*Softness of smile indicates softness of character. Lavater.

*Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them? Victor Hugo.

*A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself. Landor.

*It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost! Bruyere.

*Smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward. Jeremy Collier.

*(Snow:) How beautiful it was, falling so silently, all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead. Longfellow.

*We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. Bruyere.

*Society is no comfort to one not sociable. Shakespeare.

*People are to be taken in very small doses. Emerson.

*Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth! Tennyson.

*I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out. Tauler.

*Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other. Rochefoucauld.

*The world either breaks or hardens the heart. Chamfort.

*The virtue most in request in society is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. Emerson.

*Society develops wit, but it is contemplation alone that forms genius. Mme. de Stael.

*Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for its character. Lowell.

*The upper current of society presents no certain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows. Macaulay.

*Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. Phillips Brooks.

*Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. Aristotle.

*Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts, but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together. Emerson.

*Society is a strong solution of books. It draws the virtue out of what is best worth reading, as hot water draws the strength of tea-leaves. O.W. Holmes.

*Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor. Tuckerman.

*It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern. Emerson.

*God having designed man for a sociable creature, furnished him with language, which was to be the great instrument and cementer of society. Locke. (Watch our language!)

*Society itself, which should create/Kindness, destroys what little we had got:/To feel for none is the true social art/Of the world’s stoics–men without a heart. Byron.

*An amusing lecture is as useful for the health as the exercise of the body. Kant.

*Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. Emerson.

*Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home. Countess of Blessington.

*The nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience. Colton.

*Society is, indeed, a contract…It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born. Burke.

Self hypnosis is a practice that essentially concentrates the mind on certain topics of your choice. It is regularly used to stop smoking, eat less and achieve personal goals. By concentrating our mind and imagining senses, thoughts and even images we can persuade our conscious and subconscious mind. By doing this we can easily tell ourselves that we do not need a cigarette or persuade ourselves that we don’t need to eat as much as we do. Self hypnosis can be used for many different things including to conquer fears or to overcome self doubt. It can even be used to quit habits and generally improve our outlook on daily life.

1- The first and most vital step towards self hypnosis is research and learning. You should find out as much as you possibly can on the subject so that you know what it is and what to expect. Without this knowledge it is very unlikely you will be able to make it work in any way. The Internet is a vast resource on many topics and self hypnosis is in no way an exception to this rule.

2- As you improve at self hypnosis you will discover the exact method that works best for you but you need to be able to go into self hypnosis. Doing this without any guidance can be difficult. First of all, when you are beginning, you should find a quiet and peaceful place to sit. You are best not trying it led down to begin with because you may fall asleep. Falling asleep isn’t a bad thing but it isn’t self hypnosis.

3- A mantra are personal words or sayings that you should quietly repeat to yourself while trying to self hypnotize. They will help you concentrate your mind. You should think about nothing but these words while you are saying them, this way you can relax your brain.

4- Tell each part of your body to relax. Start from your toes and work upwards. It is very important that you do this because you need to relax your entire body. Once you’ve done this you should ‘walk’ to your special place. Count each step and use the same amount of steps each time you self hypnotize. This will also help you concentrate your mind. Once you’re there you can begin your self talk.

5- When you’ve finished you need to count yourself out of self hypnosis. You do this by telling yourself you have had a fantastic relaxation and you are going to count up from one to five. Tell yourself that when you reach five you will be relaxed and fresh.

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Life is full of hidden secrets, elusive values and mysterious treasures, and yet the most obvious treasures are right there in our heart. We only need to listen to hear the Voice of God speak them into being. Or more distinctly, to hear Him speak them to us.

1. Be still and know that He is Lord of your life. Accept Christ as the foundation of life and spend time with your foundation, building on the principles He provides to keep you on the straight and narrow path to success.

2. Discover the purpose of life. Know the reason for which you were created and stand on that foundation and principle that keeps you moving every day. Grip your priorities firmly and never let them slip from your vision.

3. Create a Mission Statement. Write a Mission Statement for your life, and know what it says. You must have a purpose to go where you should, and to arrive there, you must know your Mission Statement and visualize it daily.

4. Learn to follow the Master. Once you have a plan for your life, it’s important to be accountable to that plan. The best way to accomplish this is to have a Mentor or Leader who will guide you along the path to achievement.

5. Manage your time well. Using a calendar or day planner, organize your days to accomplish your desired Mission. Measurable baby steps bring instant gratification that you can verify victoriously. Keep the energy up.

6. Write your Goals Down. Keep a list of goals in front of you, and a record of your accomplishments. By keeping the list before you, you can strive toward success, and by keeping a journal of your achievements, you can see how far you’ve come.

7. Eliminate excess from your life. By simplifying your life, you can more readily move toward your goals. Use the simplification process to bring focus and connection to your world.

8. All work and no play doesn’t create success. The old proverb about playing sometimes was true. We must rest and play and spend time with loved ones in order to find value in work. Are you exercising? Do you rest well? Do you enjoy play time with family and friends?

9. Use check points frequently. Evaluate your progress toward your Life Mission. Are you on target? Do you need to reschedule something important? Are you on track? And more importantly, are you still sure this is where you want to go?

10. Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Get started with your first steps. Don’t just plan your work, but get started on the working strategy that will make life enjoyable for you.

Open up your heart and listen for the voice that will lead you where your heart desires to go. Then follow the leader.

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Manifestation is the results of your thoughts. Sounds simple if you are already a manifestation student but do you really believe it and live by it.

What we focus on expands, so what are you manifesting?

Why not stop and think about it, what you are manifesting right now.

How do you feel about what you are manifesting and do you feel like it is your creation?

You may have some doubts about this but you are already an expert at manifesting?

Just look at everything around you and all the experiences that you have been having.

If we can move forward from that belief that we are already creating the things that are in front of us, we can also think that it is possible to change what we are manifesting.

So if manifestation is a given, then how do we change what we are manifesting.

Focus on what you want: Focus on the feelings of what you want and feel positive about it, positive about having it, feel good in your body and emotions.

The opposite of this is to focus on not having it and that we should have it. This is an important point so think about this for awhile. Think back to the experiences that you have had and how you felt about those things before they were delivered. Think about things that came easy and things that were difficult. Use you own experiences to take this point to a deeper level deeper.

Start to take inspired action towards having what you want. Inspired action means to take action with awareness of how it makes us feel as we move towards having what we want.

Taking action with awareness allows us to know when we are coming across some limiting beliefs and to recognize the negative voice that tells us to stop or change direction.

The simplest method to follow when we hit a negative belief, it to just ignore it and replace it with a positive one. This may take some repetition but it is well worth it.

There are plenty of other techniques for belief change which can be used at a later stage. Starting the ball rolling is the most important thing at first.

Continue to take action with awareness and you will know when you making the decisions that will support what you want. If you get off track, just laugh and get back on again.

Choose what resources you would like to help you and stay aware for their delivery.

Personal growth is a lot about knowing who we really are and using conscious manifestation is a great tool to learn a lot about ourselves. When you master conscious manifestation you will also realize at a deeper level that it was really you who created all those experiences.

Enjoy your manifestations!

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Listening is an essential part for effective communication. Without good listening skills, problems will eventually arise. One common problem is when we constantly seek to prove that our way is the best and only way. We are not interested in differing opinions of others, only in defending our own. We are always right, we do everything competently and we never make mistakes. We are also very lonely because being right is more important than developing an open and honest relationship.

If we are always proving that we are right and that our way is the best way, we are not listening. Our ideas and opinions hardly ever change because if the facts don’t fit our current beliefs then we just overlook them. If we start listening to others then we might have to admit that we are wrong sometimes. We normally get our way, but in the long run people will avoid and resent us.

The answer to breaking up this pattern is through active listening skills. Listening does not mean sitting still with your mouth shut. It involves our active participation. Listening is a commitment to understanding the thoughts and feelings of others. It is also a compliment because it tells others that they are important to us.

Listening skills can either make or break a relationship. If we are good at it, people will be drawn to us and our level of interaction will deepen. The techniques are easy to use and they will become second nature with practice. So here they are:

1. Maintain good eye contact. This shows them our openness and sincerity.

2. Lean slightly forward. This shows them our interest. It also reminds us to have an outward rather than in inward focus.

3. Ask questions when there is a need to clarify.

4. Move away from distractions.

5. Reinforce the speaker by nodding or by paraphrasing what they said.

6. Make a commitment to understanding what they are saying, even if we are upset or angry.

If we have been locked into the “always right” pattern for some time, then it will take some time to turn it around. The process may seem slow and frustrating but in the long run it will be worth the effort. We will feel better about ourselves, our relationships, our friends, our children and our job.

That right there is enough reason to start using these skills today. Have a nice day.

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Are you struggling to attract what you want? If you are, then you must understand one of the most important keys to the attraction process. That key is your ability to maintain a clear and strong razor link focus on what you do want.

Do you ever recall attending a great work shop or reading a good book and feeling over joyed and inspired to apply all that you learned? Only it was not so easy and shortly after leaving that workshop or putting that book down you forgot everything. All of your great intentions go unrealized year after year as your daily routine becomes a parasite to your real desires. Everyone has experienced this frustration and most will never learn how to change this to begin attracting what they deeply desire.

If you have a typical 9-5 job you can relate to the anxiety that it takes to get up in the morning while you time yourself to shower, dress, eat and rush out to make it on time. You may hardly notice anything along the way that does not have something to do with your commute. The routine has become such an integral part of your daily life that it keeps your mind in a very deep hypnotic state. When you arrive to work, that anxiety does not leave. Instead it’s fuelled by all the work and the worry to please your boss and co-workers. It’s a vicious cycle and your mind which is your most precious tool is under siege.

Is it any wonder that most people feel trapped, hating their job and life conditions? Since law of attraction will give you more of what you focus on you continue the cycle of attracting more of the same old conditions. Year after year you remain stuck in the same old cycle because you have not learned just how to program your mind to permanently focus on attracting what you want.

Here are 5 techniques to keep your mind sharp and empowered through out the day so you can redirect your attention to the new conditions that you want.

1)Write down your vision on index cards and carry them with you.
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4)Send yourself prewritten timed email reminders, so that they pop up in your inbox throughout the day.
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INSPIRATION can be a powerful thing. It can keep you going when all around you cries out “quit!” It is even more powerful than motivation, as motivation gives you your basic reasons to keep going–it tells you why you want to do what you do, because motivation is based on goals. These, in turn, may be based on necessity want or desire. But inspiration fills those reasons with hope, possibil- ity and enjoyment and keeps the “grind” from becoming too grindy.

But just what does inspiration consist of? I posit two elements: vision and mission. Proverbs 29:18 says ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.” A vision is the first step toward turning your motivation into inspiration. A person with a vision sees down the road. He can sense what it will be like six weeks, six months, a year, two years, five years and more ahead.

But how do you get a vision?, you ask. First of all, you need to narrow your perspective. You can’t attempt to “ride off in all directions at once,” so to speak. Try to decide what it is you are looking for, so you’ll know it when you see it. In other words, try to have in mind some general goals as to where you want to be six months a year, etc. from now. These goals will not only form the basis of your motivation but should also serve to limit to an extent the scope of your activity.

Next, try to locate and choose an opportunity (business, career or job) which you feel is right for you. This may be easier said then done, as there are many choices which sound good. You may come upon an outstanding one right away, purely by chance. If so, latch onto it. But you will probably have to pick several at first and study the things which each one offers and try to evaluate the potential of each one as you see it. Settle on the one which you feel has the most potential with the least amount of hassle (preferably one that is totally Internet driven as opposed to one where you have to spend time calling potential prospects by phone).

Once you have chosen your company, stand behind it in every way and don’t quit or change your mind. B.C. Forbes said “Without loyalty, nothing can be accomplished in any sphere…” Think of yourself as being in it for the long haul, no matter what. And try to envision, based on what you know, how things will be down the road. Keep that picture before your mind, and never doubt. Napoleon Hill said “What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve,” and the Bible says, in Hebrews 11:1 “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Once the vision is firmly implanted in your mind, let it become your driving force. Let the vision excite you with the possibility of its fulfillment and you will automatically begin the next step–you are on a mission. Your mission is to bring about the realization of the vision. If you keep the vision in mind, you will move forward in the mission, accomplishing enthusiastically step by step that which is necessary to bring the vision into reality. You will have developed a sense of excite- ment, importance and urgency which will keep the fires of inspiration burning in your heart and moving you ever onward and upward.

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We are living in a day in age where we have to decide what God is really saying to us. We are living in a very difficult period of time because most people have no clue as to what is right and what is wrong. The Holy Bible was written for times such as these . This is not the first time that society has become corrupt and it certainly won’t be the last time. At times like these, we have to really open up the Bible and do exactly what it tells us to do. If we don’t then we will be lost. The Bible is made up of laws and circumstances that are said to lead us into righteousness.

We have to believe that God makes sense in a troubled world. He wants to lead us. You must also understand that God may lead you into something totally non-traditional and new regime. This means that not every person will do the same exact thing as their forefathers have done. You don’t have to do the same thing as your Dad did and his dad did before him. You have to accept that we are living in some pretty bizarre times and that God is trying to give us new opportunities. If you are walking with God now, then don’t expect him to tell you exactly what you are going to be doing. God often leads us into things step by step and you have to be open to whatever it is that God wants us to do with our lives. I can tell you that life is not easy and we will often loose sight of it if we are not careful.

In today’s society, many people don’t know how to make use of their skills. A lot of jobs are hard to come by and you may find it difficult in your heart to work in your calling. It’s not easy to find a job that is suitable for you to work in right away. You have to understand that God has to make the job up for you and at times you may not know exactly what he is doing.

God opened my eyes to becoming a psychic when the church slammed the door in my face. In many churches, you have men and women that want to control the way that God tries to do things. They invent new ideas such as: a minister has to have credentials and education. The spirit of the Lord moves upon the hearts and the minds of people that He has chosen in unique ways and often he does not want us to attend traditional schools. It is a fact that many seminaries ruin their future pastors before they even graduate. Many seminaries do not teach the gospel and the church often forces you to attend seminary in order to become a pastor for its church. It’s a shame that so many good people are ruined before their time is come to preach. There was a time in history when men and women could just preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and have the ability to lead others as well. The Church has become a nightmare in today’s modern day society.

I wish that I could say that attending a seminary today is a good thing. I know that it is not a good thing and at times you have to ask yourself why you would even bother attending. You have to understand that God makes us into what we are to become tomorrow. Don’t’ think that some seminary is going to lead you to the truth. You don’t need a seminary to find Jesus. You can already have Jesus by just asking him into your heart.

I believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and I also believe that God governs all of the gifts. There is a lot of jealousy in the church today and a deceptive spirit. We are living in a day in age that a person would get jealous of your anointing and tell you that you are not called to do something because in reality they fear that you will be better then they are. The deception is great in the church today. We are living in a day in age where the church is being treated more as a business, and then it is an actual calling. We have too many pastors leading congregations that shouldn’t be leading congregations and to many evangelists that are riding around in fancy cars and living in mansions while their congregational members don’t even have food on their tables or jobs. It’s a sad fact that jealousy exists in the church today like never before.

If you are looking to fulfill your ministry calling, then try something that nobody else has tried before. If you really believe that God has called you to preach the gospel, then He will provide for you. You have to have faith and you have to believe that God is going to open doors for you. Don’t put any limitations on God. Don’t say to him that you have to have a church with a pulpit and a large congregation. Forget about those dreams. God is awakening the church in a new way. Don’t follow the Old regime ways because they simply do not work.

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1 Peter 3:10-12 (New King James Version)

“ 10 For whoever would love life

And see good days,

Let him refrain his tongue from evil,

And his lips from speaking deceit.

11 Let him turn away from evil and do good;

Let him seek peace and pursue it.

12 For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,

And His ears are open to their prayers;

But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.”

If you want to see good days you need to do a few things Peter says.

You have to stop speaking evil.

That’s goodbye to speaking about other people. That’s goodbye to saying bad things about others. That’s goodbye to bad attitudes and bad behaviour and rudeness.

That’s being nice to the salesperson that approaches you in a shop when you are only looking and don’t want to be sold anything.

That’s being polite to that waitress that forgot your order or who can’t understand you and places the wrong order.

That’s being nice when your steak is not cooked right.

That’s being nice when someone tears strips off you.

That’s telling the truth.

That’s being honest with God. Don’t tell God you love Him and disobey Him. Do you know who loves God?

John 14:21 (New King James Version)

21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Don’t sing to God and deny your poor neighbour. Don’t say you love God and disobey Him, and deny Him what He is due.

Malachi 3:7-12 (New King James Version)
7 Yet from the days of your fathers

You have gone away from My ordinances

And have not kept them.

Return to Me, and I will return to you,”

Says the LORD of hosts.

“But you said,

‘In what way shall we return?’

8 “Will a man rob God?

Yet you have robbed Me!

But you say,

‘In what way have we robbed You?’

In tithes and offerings.

9 You are cursed with a curse,

For you have robbed Me,

Even this whole nation.

10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,

That there may be food in My house,

And try Me now in this,”

Says the LORD of hosts,

“If I will not open for you the windows of heaven

And pour out for you such blessing

That there will not be room enough to receive it.

11 “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,

So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,

Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”

Says the LORD of hosts;

12 And all nations will call you blessed,

For you will be a delightful land,”

Says the LORD of hosts.

Tithe you 10% to your church, and then give more and more to God. It’s clear that you don’t tithe in the USA.

This article has something to say about the truth of how people are doing.

Church tithing continues to ebb

By Chrissie Thompson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
October 13, 2006

Church members continue to give less of their income to churches despite increases in membership, according to a study released today by Empty Tomb Inc.

“The church as an investment in people’s lifestyles is losing market share,” said Sylvia Ronsvalle, co-author of the study, “The State of Church Giving Through 2004.”

Church members gave 2.56 percent of their income in 2004, down from 3.11 percent in 1968, according to the last study on data analysed by Mrs. Ronsvalle and her husband, John L. Ronsvalle. Both figures are well shy of the biblical 10 percent tithe.

Church giving increased from 1998 to 2001, recovering to early 1970s levels before decreasing to the current average.

The study also found more than 85 percent of contributions to churches funded the general operations of the local congregation, while about 15 percent went toward “benevolence,” which was defined as for “the broader mission of the church, beyond the local congregation.”

“Both of these numbers raise the question, ‘Has the church lost its vision?’ ” Mrs. Ronsvalle said. “Is the church turning into a club, or does the church see itself as salt?”

Brian McAuliffe, chief financial officer and director of operations at Willow Creek Community Church, thinks increasing church attendance may cause per capita giving to decrease.

“A lot of times people who are new to churches don’t understand giving back to God,” he said, whose South Barrington, Ill. “It may take a couple of years before someone feels comfortable and says, ‘Yes, I really believe in this, and I want to give to support that.’ “

End of quote.

Jesus said that if salt loses its saltiness what is it good for except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

It may scare you if you are not tithing and trusting God with the 90% of your income that a trampling is prophesied for people in the outer court, those that are not set apart and holy for God.

Revelation 11:2 (New King James Version)

2 But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty two months.

So Jesus and John both prophesied that unsalty Christians are going to be thrown out.

Jesus prophesies that the people trusting in their money are going to be vomited out.

Revelation 3:16 (New King James Version)

16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

A person needs to tithe or he lacks faith in God. For many years I only gave my money to poor people, now I tithe and give extra to the poor.
Don’t worship God and disobey His Son or His commandments. Don’t lie to God.
11 Let him turn away from evil and do good;

Let him seek peace and pursue it.

Do you know what evil is?

James 4:17 (New King James Version)

17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Not tithing is a sin. Every week you go from this point on without that 10% tithe to your church is sinning. Every time you don’t have mercy on the single mothers and young children without full-time fathers with time and money you are sinning.

James 1:27 (New King James Version)

27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Keeping oneself unspotted from the world is spending your money on the Kingdom and seeing other people saved and not buying the best of everything at the expense of the poor that you know, and the tithe to your church.

This is the Word of God, and tithing is not redundant, as churches still have expenses and so the priesthood, although now replaced with shepherds and prophets and Apostles, still need your money. Reading this and not obeying it is making you a person that deceives themselves.

James 1:22 (New King James Version)

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

So give to the poor, come out of the world with its buy buy buy mentality and sow into the Kingdom of God.

12 For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,

And His ears are open to their prayers;

But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.”

The Lord will not even hear your prayers if you are not obeying Him. He will from this day close His ears to you if you do not repent and change your ways.

John 9:31 (New King James Version)
31 Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.

There are many sins you are doing right now, you need to turn from sin or else you are still a sinner. You need to do more then worship God; you need to obey the commands of God.

You need to stop coveting and wanting the best the entire world can offer you. You need to invest in the things that will increase the Kingdom.

If you are tithing 10%, consider spreading this message to every person in your church. Go and photocopy it and let your pastor hand it out, and it will cause a great shift and blessing for your church.

If you are not tithing you are saying you trust your money more then God, and you are serving Mammon and not God. You can only have one Master.

May this penetrate your heart.

Let me pray.

Father you know I take no pleasure in preaching a hard word of rebuke and a word that makes a person either repent or leave my teachings forever in disgust. Father I know your Spirit gave me the words to say and the Scriptures to use, and even the right words to do the search on the internet for that quote. Lord I pray that you convict the reader’s heart and have them step out in faith and start to tithe. Give them the courage to tithe 10% of their net income for a year until they see how You provide and then move onto giving up to 20% and more. Father speak to their spirits and lead them to my teachings that will help them. Help them break from the world and away from false teaching and help them become clean and unspotted from the world.
In Jesus name I ask with a happy heart in faith that some people will find repentance.

Amen

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