July 28, 2017 www.PositiveChristianity.org presents Positive Daily Inspiration SPEAKING OF RELIGION "God has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life…" 1 Corinthians 3:6 You come to your minister, or priest to hear a talk about God. Clergy are just a spark plug. If you came to see me practice piano, you would not learn how to play the piano. You yourself have to practice it yourself every day. You have to practice the presence of God yourself too. No one can do it for you. The good news is that the prayer line is open. The good news is that you can have God's help whenever you want it. Practice the presence of God in your own life, don't just read about it. Kahlil Gibran said this when he was speaking of religion: “And they said to an old priest, ‘Speak to us of religion.’ And he said, ‘Have I spoke of anything else this day? Is not religion all deeds and all reflection, and that which is neither deed nor reflection but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul? Even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom, who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupation? Who can spread his hours before him saying 'This is for God and this is for myself. This is for my soul and this is for my body'? Are all your hours wings that beat through space from self to self? He who wears his mortality but his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his songbird in a cage. The freest song comes not through bars and wires. And he to whom worshipping is a window to open but also to shut has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn. "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter it, take with you your all. Take the plow and the forge and the mallet and the lute, the things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight, for in every sense you can't rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures. And take with you all men. For adoration you cannot fly higher than your hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair. And if you would know God, be ye therefore not a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see them. Playing with your children, look into space and you shall see Him walking in a cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning, descending in the rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers and then rising and waving His hands in trees." What you think about God says more about you than it does about God. If we think God is way up there and we can never reach God that speaks of us and our own limitations, our own shut window. It does not speak about the God Truth of the open connection that is always with us ... if we would just pray and listen. POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER: Dear God, help me this day to know You more. I desire to know You in a personal way. Thank You God for being in my life. POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I live my truth. I walk the talk. POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller POSITIVE DAILY INSPIRATION TELEVISION CHANNEL - free service http://www.youtube.com/PositiveChristianity POSITIVE PRAYER TELEVISION CHANNEL - free service http://www.youtube.com/prayerAmerica POSITIVE MEDITATION TELEVISION CHANNEL - free service http://www.youtube.com/PositiveChurch NEED PRAYER? Reply - Positive Christianity will start praying with you, daily, for an entire month. There Is Never a Charge for Prayer. FREE Encyclopedia of Prayers: http://www.positivechristianity.org/prayersearch.php FREE Positive Daily Inspiration is available by Facebook, in our homepage archives, or Get Positive Daily Inspiration direct in your email inbox every morning. Text POSITIVEMINISTRY to 22828 to easy, free subscribe. Donating – we sincerely bless you in prayer for your willingness to give back: Instant online donation: http://www.positivechristianity.org/donatepc.htm By mail: Positive Christianity Box 7993 Woodlands, TX 77380 GOD BLESS YOU, Christopher Ian Chenoweth Reply - if you have a prayer need, Positive Christianity will pray with you daily, for an entire month. There Is Never a Charge for Prayer. GOD BLESS YOU, Make It a Great Day !_______Christopher Ian Chenoweth