“There is no counterfeit without the reality.” – Oswald Chambers The Counterfeit Last week I talked about autosuggestion, or self-talk. Another word for it is “affirmations.” There’s nothing wrong with looking at the bright side, and refusing to get sucked into the negative that’s so prevalent in our world today. But self-talk as I was taught to do it is like Satan’s counterfeit of God’s truth. The counterfeit may look real, and it may even seem to have value for…
I am no good at sales or self-promotion. I never was a success at network marketing, though I tried off and on for many years. Twelve years ago, I was introduced to a way of inviting people that was nonthreatening, and generic. It didn’t matter if they ever joined my company – in fact, I wasn’t even supposed to tell them what company I was in. It was free training that would help them in any network marketing company, and…
“He will make us broken bread and poured out wine.” I think the first time I heard that was a couple of years ago, in a song in The Salvation Army Songbook, written by General Albert Orsborn – “My Life Must Be Christ’s Broken Bread”. I understood the words well enough, but not the concept. What did it mean? Then it began showing up in my morning reading of “My Utmost for His Highest”, by Oswald Chambers. If you’ve read…