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by | January 29, 2013 · 3:24 pm

live a kind life and be kindhearted

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Live with Authority, speak in authority, do all you do with authority and for God. Be kind, live a kind life and be kindhearted for that is what God wants all of us to be. Love and live life in his love, love others through him and let them feel the love God has for all. Be rid of fear and do not spread fear for it is the work of the devil. Fear keeps us from serving God more than it does anything else. Spread the Gospel (Good News) so everyone can know of God’s love for us all.  Accept the gifts and blessings God give you and be thankful for all you have received.

God Bless you all.

Ray Barbier

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by | January 21, 2013 · 5:47 pm

Be careful and watchful of your words

Sometimes we say things in jest, sometimes we may think we are being funny but we are being hurtful. The words we speak can do such good and can also do so much harm. Once you hurt someone through your words it takes a lot of effort and time to make things right again. So I say be careful and watchful of your words and remember what may be a joke or what you say in jest can be misinterpreted and/ or taken wrong. It is better not to joke around and jest in a negative way for eventually someone will take it too far or get hurt.

 Just some words to the wise from someone who has been on both sides of the negative jesting and has experienced both the hurt and accidentally hurt others. Sorry I am for the mistake of  not seeing the harm it could do or remembering my experiences with the pain it can cause.

Peace to all

Ray Barbier

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by | January 18, 2013 · 6:22 am

Try to do the right thing if possible

IMG_1254To love one another, to be as brothers and sisters wanting nothing but each others company and friendship. This is how we are supposed to be and some of us do value such and try to live in such a manner. The problem is the self/id/ego tends to get in the way, we value our individuality so much we tend to forget the unity we are meant to have with one another. A person may stand alone, but when that person falls there is no one there to help them up or try to catch them. We should be caring, compassionate and loving towards ourselves and others regardless of the differences we have as a species. God commands us to love one another and that is not limited to fellow Christians but also to all other humans regardless of religious beliefs or lack of belief. We may not have to love their choices or their sins, but we are to love them. For their choices and sins are between them and God not between us and them. Leave the Judging, condemnation and punishments to God who is the only true Judge and be forgiving, understanding and full of the love God gave you.

Don’t let your personal desires, feelings and convictions affect anyone besides your own self. Try to avoid letting anger or self interests to control your actions and try to do the right thing if possible. For we all are sinners and have sinned therefore none of us are worthy of the kingdom of god without his loving grace. No person is greater or lesser than another, no one is without fault or sin. So love one another as equals, love one another as family and give thanks for the grace we all have received.

Look within your own mind and heart and see the sins and transgressions you have committed before you go pointing fingers at your brothers and sisters shortcomings. Remember we are all in this together and not one of us stands above or below another. Bless one another and be good to one another

Ray Barbier

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by | December 8, 2012 · 9:40 pm

Thank you for being a part of my life

006To all my readers, friends, family and extended family, I pray that you have a merry Christmas. I also pray that in the new year to come you find peace within yourself, love for all living things including yourself. May you be guided by the hand of god and may his love fill your heart and lives. Know that I love every single one of you and that I know I have been blessed to have all of you in my life. I know I may not always have expressed how much you meant to me in the past because like everyone else I allowed the madness of modern life to keep me from the people and things that matter most. Thank you for being a part of my life and may God bless you all.

I know many of you will never see or read this post but I know within my heart you will feel it within your heart.

Merry Christmas to All

Ray Barbier

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by | December 3, 2012 · 9:20 am

I’m Free

“So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.” Galatians 4:7 

God is really with me :) I love my devotion today. Last week was just another struggle of my life as a Christian. I wasn’t able to attend on almost all of my commitments in church  mainly because of the worldy things over powering my lifestyle. (The spirit is willing but the body is weak)

I let the online world slaves my system which cause me not to attend my commitments. It consumed my entire time without bearing productive fruits. But don’t get me wrong, I don’t blame neither our internet connection nor the online world for my struggle. It was all because of me. That I let my body rules my spirit in which I know that my spirit should always rule my body.

Today’s devotion tells me not to let wordly things rule my life. Since I am free.

Yes, I learned another lesson. Thank you God.

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by | November 18, 2012 · 9:53 am

What I don’t like about myself I try to change and what I like about myself I try to improve.

004Sometimes I let what other people think of me bother me more than it should. If someone likes me or not is something I can not control and knowing that makes me see that they are going to think what they may no matter what I do or say. So do I really care if others lie me or not, well I would be lying if I said no, but it isn’t as important to me as it used to be for sure. All I can do is to try to be someone who I would like and try to be someone I could be proud of being. IF I am neither of those then I have a problem, I may not always love myself but what I don’t like about myself I try to change and what I like about myself I try to improve as well. It is an ever going challenge to improve oneself and to grow emotionally and spiritually.

Be who you are and make who you are someone you could respect and love.

Ray Barbier

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by | November 8, 2012 · 5:01 pm

I write to Inspire, I write to Express

016I write to inspire, inspire myself as much as those who are kind enough to read my posts. I write to express the thoughts and the heart God gave me and to remind myself where my blessings come from. I write with the hope that someone may find my words useful is some way and to help me discover who I truly am within. I write because I love to write and to write is my way of showing love to myself and others. I am far from perfect and so are most of my ideas expressed in most of my posts. I claim no authority nor do I proclaim to be anything but an average man.

Thank you all for reading, liking, commenting and visiting my humble blogs.

Ray Barbier

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by | November 6, 2012 · 1:28 pm

Put away those excuses for they are weightless and empty.

p10213God is calling his people, Jesus is pointing the way. Answer the call to compassion, the call for forgiveness and for love. Be the loving, compassionate person God has planed for you to be. Stop letting the ways of the world keep you from your potential and put away those excuses for they are weightless and empty. Make time to be the dad, mom, brother, sister, child and friend you are supposed to be in Christ. Do your best to be what God has set before you to be. Be the teacher, preacher, advisor, thinker and/or healer he has prepared you to be.

God has set plans for your life and so have you. Are your plans compatible with God’s? If not then better make new plans and follow God’s Will.

Ray Barbier

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by | November 2, 2012 · 5:58 pm

My own self

p10104 There has been times in my life I allowed my low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence to stop me from getting a good job or just getting a job done. The only thing that stood in my way of getting the job or doing the job was my own self. Like others I allowed my fears, insecurities and self-doubt to limit me and keep me from the possibilities that were before me. It is so easy to excuse your way through life, never to face change and never to leave your comfort zone. The cost of living in such a way in the end is quite high, you miss so much of life and you never get to experience life as the person you were born to be.

I have learned you can blame others for the bad things in your life all you want, but the truth is that you alone make the choices that creates what your life is like, going to change into and ultimately will become. It is your choice if you allow others to influence and/or control aspects of your life. Others only have the power that you allow them to have over you and your life.

tpl0008So it all boils down to what choices you make and what external influences you allow to play a part in your life. The choice is always yours, even when you choose to allow others to make a choice for you.

Your life is the sum of the experiences you have had and the choices you have both made and avoided.

Ray Barbier

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by | October 31, 2012 · 10:14 am

Thank you God for life

p10329 A new day has dawned, the old day has become the past and another chance at life is here at last. Thankful I am for the blessing of life and the things it shall bring. For the morning, for the day and for life my heart shall sing. Thank you God for life, for the things you have given me and even those things you have taken away. Thank you God for my life, thank you God for yet another day.

Life is a grand gift and blessing we all have been given, Be thankful for each moment God has blessed you with

Ray Barbier

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