A thermometer tells what the temperature is.

A thermostat sets the temperature.

We cry out for change, but we have to learn to be like a thermostat and be the change you want to see.

You are the light . . . make a difference.

Matthew 5:16 (KJV) – let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

No man can bypass Jesus and go straight to our Father.

You have to go through Jesus.

He’s the only way.

John 14:6 (KJV) – Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

God opposes the prideful, but He gives grace overflowing to those who humble themselves.

James 4:6 (KJV) – but he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

The flesh sees pride as strength but humility as weakness.

Pride brings you down.

Humility honors you.

Luke 14:11 (KJV) – for whosoever exalted himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

We don’t want to give up control for anything.

It may be hard . . . but if you think about it, when you don’t, you’re giving satan control instead of God.

Submit yourself to God’s will, and the flesh will step back.

James 4:7 (KJV) – submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Let’s not want the best treatment for ourselves but treat others bad.

Whatever you want done to and for you, do it to others.

Matthew 7:12 (KJV) – whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

We have to stay in The Word of God.

Because the flesh is always at war with the Spirit to keep you from doing what’s right.

Galatians 5:17 (KJV) – for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Many follow trends of the world that can destroy you.

But few go the other direction that find life.

Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV) – enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

We have to truly think about who we serve.

If you’re not serving God, you’re serving satan.

You can’t serve them both.

Its one or the other.

Matthew 6:24 (KJV) – no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Many think that God is far away in some distant place.

He is always near.

Psalm 145 18 (KJV) – the Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.