Balance

Ron Gallo

Description

Balance is a collection of (3) volumes of gems that Author Ron Gallo has dug up to provide spiritual wisdom, knowledge and understanding of God’s word, to balance oneself. They will catch any readers eye and keep their attention for many reasons, one of which the book in three volumes is all written differently from other books,, with a different format and flavor that gets more tastier with each turn of the page.
Volume: One: “The Awakening”, here the author provides a vast treasury of Gems from his collection of Gods truths on living the Christian life. . Each one of the volumes compliments the other. All three volumes are written in short sentence/paragraph form, to capture the reader’s attention, with humor, and straight points that will enhance the readers walk with God.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Spirituality
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 22 novembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664196193
• Langue: English

Extrait

BALANCE
 
THE AWAKENING
 
 
VOLUME ONE
 
 
 
 
 
RON GALLO
 
Copyright © 2021 by Ron Gallo.

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           2021921801
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978-1-6641-9621-6

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978-1-6641-9620-9

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Rev. date: 06/22/2022
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 Your Outlook
Chapter 3 Points to Ponder
Chapter 4 Points to Ponder
Chapter 5 Points to Ponder
Chapter 6 Valuable Gems from the Treasure Box

Thought for the day: The spider teaches us patience as well as perseverance. We need to be patient and wait on God for all our matters.
CHAPTER 1
 
1.    Wisdom Gems for the Saint (Who Are You?)
As the twig bends, so does the tree.
—Virgil
Isn’t it funny how life comes full circle? Satan cannot create, he can only imitate. Satan will bring the same thing over and over again, but you must overcome any obstacle from your past. Whenever somebody shuts a door, it’s a sign that God will open a door.
—T. D. Jakes’ sermon “No Room for Distractions”
“The thing that brings the curse, brings the blessing.” Every battle has a blessing. Your greatest opposition will be your greatest opportunity.
Thought: “The weaker I have become, the stronger God has become in my life.”
Thought: After your last heartbeat and you kiss the world goodbye, your next beat will be in front of God. With no relative, attorney, or friend to represent you, you stand in front of God alone. You were born alone, will die alone, and face him alone. And God is not going to ask you how popular you were on earth, how many degrees you have (you can have more degrees than a thermometer), awards, trophies. How popular you were on Facebook. He is going to ask you the same question my wife, Joanne, would ask me: Did you have a relationship with me in the years I gave you on that planet I called Earth?
Our relationship with people is secondary to God. It’s amazing we have relationships with our family, friends, coworkers, which is fine, but he is the only one who provided the opportunity. Why is the Lord the last one we have a relationship with? It doesn’t make sense.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. (Mark Twain)
All he asked me to do is just be still (Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God”) on my web and wait on God. Just like he wants you to do.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react. Own your attitude so it doesn’t own you. See Psalm 42.
The main purpose of this book is to show you that you can have balance in your life, and we all need it. I like pecan pie, and I like scrambled eggs, but don’t put them together for me at a meal. Just like a level is used to balance a picture on a wall or anything else in construction, we need to be balanced. And the only way is through the good doctor Jesus’s prescription for our lives. It can be filled at a sound fundamental Bible believing/teaching church and through his word only, called the Bible, not in man’s way or in any other book other than the Bible.
Man wants to put and see God how they see him through their lens. I have a bulletin for them: Those people are seeing farsighted through a nearsighted lens. Their lives are all blurry, out of focus. See it through God’s lens always.
Everyone in life, both rich and poor (don’t let folks fool you), all go through their hardships. But God uses balance like he does in the universe, nature, and the insides of your human body to balance everything out. For example, the weather can be nice outside one day and disastrous the next. Crime, disease, killings, sickness, etc. are in our world. They’re all part of God’s balance. People usually eat something that they like and have a certain taste they enjoy. But there is a balance that comes with that. You may gain a pound, and we all have to excrete that.
Children cannot understand why things happen; we don’t expect them to. How can we as God’s children understand what he is doing? God will use both your friends and enemies to keep you on track toward your destiny. So don’t be upset at people that push your buttons. God is just using them to set you toward the destiny he has for you.
God uses everybody and everything, not just the people, situations, or places we feel are right. He doesn’t look at things the way we see them, like a parent toward a child. That’s why God made thousands of natural species and not just one: more than one planet, one cloud, one fish, etc. Why, he made more than one muscle, one vein, one bone, one organ, one brain cell to support your body.
Paul had to go through many hurdles, including a thorn in his flesh. We don’t know what it was, but God kept it generic so we can apply that thorn to our lives. Paul wasn’t asking for a gold fountain or money. He did so much for God, but God didn’t remove it and said to him, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” Paul’s thorn was a future testimony for all of us on God’s grace. Don’t you think the guy who wrote the Bible and went through adversities and the person who reads it would go through the same things? Even Jesus had to endure going to the cross and the Father’s mission for him. Well, are we better than Jesus?
We all have to endure our cross. Remember, we are all on a mission, God’s mission—his agenda, not ours. It’s his kingdom; and every king, president, or CEO thinks in a kingdom perspective: what’s best for the kingdom, company, business, departments, government, etc. The problem with our society is that we think individually and not as a whole. God thinks of the whole. So when good and bad things come, say to yourself, God is doing this because it’s not about you, it’s about the kingdom (Bishop T. D. Jake’s sermon “Pursuit of Purpose”).
See Job 2:10. Basically everyone went against Job, and he said, “How can I have the goodness of God, and not have adversity?” A coin has two sides, you cannot have it both ways. It’s easier to have faith when things are going good, but it’s when it’s not, that faith is put to the test. You learn not as much from God what he gives you that makes you smile but the things that make you sad.
In Proverbs 30, God asks us to look at the spider and the ant. Why would God ask us to look at something that nobody looks at? Because nobody looks at them, he wants us to see what we don’t see. One a frightful/ugly creature and the other walking on the ground; they are so small, who looks at them? If a famous person comes by, do we look at him/her because they are famous, or do we look at their image? He didn’t say look at the big, muscled man or the mountain. Anyone can see those. God wants us to see the opposite, the little things, the things you wouldn’t think mean much. That is where he works his miracles. Once you understand that, then you learn more about the Creator and his relationship to the creation and your life, your purpose, and the relationship he wants with you.
So we will look at the small creatures to see ourselves in this book. And how the Lord relates to them is what we can learn about ourselves and shows us the understanding of ourselves. God works in opposites. He works his glory in people and things that people don’t think of. Think of David who slew Goliath and Moses who couldn’t speak well. God used Aaron as his spokesman, the apostle Paul who was Saul killing Christians, etc.
2.    No Explanation (Explain Why)
If man is so clean, why does he produce so much waste?
We all look at a weather forecast to see what’s coming. Do you ever look at God’s forecast for you personally? Is it sunny, is it cloudy, or is a thunderstorm approaching? You will only find that out not through ordinary people but through the Bible, prayer, attending church, and letting God lead you and bring people in your life who will bring out your best but may critique you with love. Let God use them to help bring you through the process.
If we think about it, who are we? We are just a gift from God and are not ourselves. We were meant to serve him and have a relationship with him first, not with ourselves. We cannot explain why God does what he does. He is the infinite God. He said in Isaiah, “My ways are higher than your ways, my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.” Can we explain the universe or how marvelous the human body is? The wonders of this world, including nature? We are just like a child not being able to explain why a parent does what they do because, as a parent, they have the knowledge and experience. Now expound that so much greater into God’s realm. That’s why in Matthew, he said, “Be like little children.” Children and animals are innocent and humble—that’s how God wants us to be.
Just because we get a little taller and