Your Higher Power

March 18, 2025March 13, 2025 Jennifred Jones

Does your higher power have any power?

Does it have enough power to help you, to answer your questions, to lead you in the correct path for your life, to encourage you when you are down, to heal you when you are sick, and console you through loss?

Can it make anything happen for you?
What power does your higher power have?
Where does it get its power?
Is its power potent?
Can it lose its power?
Who gave it it’s power?

Does it have power all on its own or did someone merely say it has power or ‘give it power’?

Can a human being give a higher power power?

If it is a truly higher power, how can it receive strength from something ‘lower’ ?

We need to ask these questions. There are many kinds of higher powers spoken about today.

Where does your higher power fit in?

Avoid Rejection

March 5, 2025February 28, 2025 Jennifred Jones

Volunteer! Who would’ve thought?!

98% (my guesstimate) of stuff that needs to be done could be done by volunteer effort!

‘I don’t know what to do with my life.’ Everywhere I apply for a job I get rejected.’ ‘Every idea I suggest gets shot down.’ ‘Woe is me.’

Yet there is a whole array of work that needs to get done. Ideas that need to be thought about and worked on. So, get started! Volunteer – somewhere, anywhere, no other people needed to tell you what to do or when to start or quit. You’re on your own schedule! You set the pace and before you know it you’ll be talking with people who see you doing useful things and they’ll ask questions etc. In the meantime, you’re developing skills, keeping your mind sharp while thinking of better ways to help and do stuff. Go somewhere and say, ‘Hey, what can I do to help out here?’ ‘I know how to do this and that…’ You’d be surprised the reaction you’ll get. Begin there and go back again to help, and again and again. People will remember your good work.

All you are doing is being a helpful human being helping other human beings. Take a brief survey of your area, where you live, where you shop, your downtown, shelters, parks and so forth and go ‘sign up’ to volunteer.

My daughter-in-law says, ‘the world is your oyster’ …and there are many undiscovered pearls waiting to be uncovered. Get out your broom or rake or gardening gloves or wash rags and look for ‘work’. You will find plenty to do and your sense of satisfaction will be huge!

Don’t let these opportunities go to waste. Volunteers are wanted everywhere!

It’s Just Me…

September 16, 2014October 24, 2014 Jennifred Jones

‘I keep having thoughts that I should go talk to so and so, that I should go help so and so, that I should write an article, book, speak to this person, apply for this job, start this business, but that’s just me and I don’t want to be proud and do what I think, after all, it’s not about me.’ ‘My church doesn’t believe God talks to people anymore so I know it’s not Him…so I guess I’ll just ignore all these thoughts and go about my own way.’

‘Is this right?’

Well, God does use all the ‘ME’s’ out there. He has chosen to use people to speak through, work through, pray through, love through, care though. He doesn’t personally come down and wipe away tears, or sit in the living room and visit with us. He uses us…people. I haven’t heard God speak audibly to me, but now that God lives in my heart, I can hear Him through His word. I may be in a situation and need some wisdom or help, and I say a quick prayer to God, “Help, Lord, I need your wisdom.” And sure enough a verse of scripture many times pops into my mind, or I’ll remember something the pastor said in a message that is the answer to my prayer and everything ends up ok. John 14:26 says the Holy Spirit will bring to our remembrance that which He has spoken to us, so that is what is happening in my life here. Or, I’ll have the thought to stop by and see someone and it turns out they were in need of something that I could provide; sometimes it was just lending an ear, or walking to their mailbox for them, putting away their groceries or taking out the trash.

If we aren’t careful, we can be so concerned that ‘it’s just us’ that we miss many opportunities to do good to others, because we were afraid of stepping out on a ‘hunch’ we had… that could have been a real blessing to another person.

And I have found when the other person is blessed, so am I. The joy and happiness from helping another human being seems to take away my troubles and I feel light and refreshed inside!

Go out and do good to somebody today!