Well, I received a few requests for some scripture suggestions that are perfect for the pocket. Honestly it just depends on what you are dealing with at the time. My favorite spot to hunt down life changing scriptures for my wallet/purse/back pocket is Proverbs. I just believe that the Proverbs can turn you into a PRO. Just by applying what you learn in that one book you could become a PRO at relationships, business, money as well as developing the kind of character that will walk you into the life that you've dreamed of. But don't take my word for it, check it out. Try this:

(1) Read one chapter a day for the next 6 months. When the time has passed you will have read each chapter 6 times a piece. It's a painless way to keep hearing and hearing until you retain the heart of Proverbs.
(2) As you read write down your favorite scriptures and feel free to post these new favorites or life changing scriptures here for someone else to put in their pocket. This way we can help each other out. (And I know that some of you hate to post, so just shoot me an email, I will post it for you (anonymously, if you want to remain anonymous)
(3) In case you where wondering where to start, use the date. Today is the 11th so start reading PRO 11. Tomorrow will be the 12th so read PRO 12 tomorrow. If you miss a day just get back on the wagon and start with that day. For those months that are short a day or two just read all the remaining chapters on the last day of the month (it will never be more than 3 chapters on that day).

Here is one that I like, PRO 23:33 AMP
"[Under the influence of wine] your eyes will behold strange things [and loose women] and your mind will utter things turned the wrong way [untrue, incorrect, and petulant]." Alcohol and violence ended my marriage. A man (or woman) choosing to live by this could save their relationship.

Here's another, PRO 24:3-4 AMP
"Through skillful and godly Wisdom is a house (a life, a home, a family) built, and by understanding it is established [on a sound and good foundation], And by knowledge shall its chambers [of every area] be filled with all precious and pleasant riches." I want a certain kind of life. I want my family to flow. I want my home just so. This scripture lets me know that it's not just going to fall from the sky. I'll need to do something, get more Wisdom, develop more skill, build the kind of character that will give me the life I want and help me to keep it tight and right.

Anyway, it's your turn, you add some (pocket scriptures) . . .

I missed you guys last week. I am trying a new work out routine and it has me a little out of sorts in the morning. But I am excited about it.

In the meantime, I have been thinking about this F-A-I-T-H thing. Consequently the T and the H have changed. You can review the changes here.

As for today, have you ever found your mind overrun with ideas and dreams of things that you would like to have? And you think and think and think and pray (a little:-)) and dream and think some more about it until your mind or your heart explodes. Then you calm down, but it remains in the back of your head as something that you will get yourself as soon as you get a chance. The desire never goes away, you just store it away.

Our dreams, our righteous dreams, are so much more than the "things" that we desire and they should be honored with our full attention. At this point you have been FINDING & studying the promise as well as ASKING and confessing the promise. Those steps help you to identify the dreams that God will honor. And once you know that God is on your side, what is holding you back?

Now it's time to do things to truly INTERNALIZE who you say you want to be, what you say you want to do. There are two tools that I use all the time to anchor my dreams inside my heart because I don't want them to be passing fantasies, I want them to be real.
Tool #1: Pocket Scriptures
Tool #2: Focus Boards

Listen my alarm is ringing. It's time to go work out, so I'll finish this on the next post.

In the meantime, I hope you guys have some vacations planned. I know I need that time to regroup and reset my personal compass. I use it to rest and reevaluate my life, and to determine whether or not I am taking the baby steps and grown up strides to get me to the places that I want to be in this lifetime.

"See" you next week.

MizJAI

He knew what she wanted, but he was waiting for her. She smiled at him and looked down. She laughed at his jokes and danced around the real issue. This is how she was. Certain and exact about what she wanted from people. Slow and unclear about asking. People usually just covered her. They often read her mind and gave her what she wanted. After all, she was pretty and nice enough and this just seemed to work for her.

Of course they weren't reading her mind for real, they were reading her body language. And whether Miran realized it or not, she had become used to this, never-really-speaking-up, things-just-kind-of-happening-for-her type of existence. It made her a little prideful. But it was subtle to her, she couldn't feel it happening. She simply became use to getting what she wanted regardless of what she did. But Les was different.

Les Morrison was the kind of man who enjoyed the company of beauty. The thing is nobody could tell it by the company he kept, because what he found beautiful in people was often a little hidden to the naked eye. Besides, he didn't need visual stimulation. He could barely see as it is, couldn't drive and declared legally blind. The clincher, he was 'gorgeous'. In crown 'gorgeous'. Can't look at him too long or I'll go blind 'gorgeous', and it was all lost on him which made him even more 'gorgeous'.

He found his pleasure in the voices and the texture of the words. He could hear the weight of convictions when people spoke and because of that he often knew when they where being real. And Miran was holding something back and he knew what it was and he could help her, but he would not if she did not ask. "I hope she asks," he thought to himself, never wanting to keep a good thing from anybody.

Are you like that with God, you never take the time to speak up and ask Him for what you really want. So you kick at the rocks and hold your hopes and heartaches to yourself. When they simply need to be spoken to the One in your life who knows just what to do with you.

"Father don't let me be a fool."

"Help me to make my business work. Teach me new things."

"Show me how to use this 'power to get wealth.'"

"I keep choosing the wrong men, show me how to love, show me how to live. Don't let me get me jacked up."

God made you, surely He is strong enough to deal with you, the real you. Oftentimes we pray these big grandiose prayers, when all we need to do in order to be heard by God is speak to Him honestly, listen for the answers consistently and our lives will change dynamically. He is not like everyone else that you have been dealing with--you must ask for "it". If you ask for any promise that he has already spoken to you through the Word, then you can trust that you will receive it.

Try it and see what happens . . . and in the next post we'll uncover the second even more life changing part of this prayer thing. It's the kind of information that can make or break your faith. And when your faith falls apart, so does all your dreams.

MizJAI