From the Heart by B.Demaere

From the Heart by B.Demaere: Embrace Yourself (Psalm 54:4) :   Embrace Yourself Embracing yourself, we hear a lot about it these days.  What does it mean? Well, personally, I think relating to my m...

  Embrace Yourself Embracing yourself, we hear a lot about it these days.  What does it mean? Well, personally, I think relating to my mental illness it means that I had to pass from hating it to welcoming it as part of my life.   Make the most of every opportunity.   Use this weakness as a strength to push myself and motivate myself to be better in my life.   My mental illness is no longer a motivation to do wrong but to do right.   My mental illness is not a sin but a weakness that I can use as a stepping stool instead of a crutch.   This is my success story.   What is yours? Please leave a comment below. Embracing yourself is like giving yourself a big bear hug.   Not for what you have accomplished but for who you are.   You are a special person. I was watching a descriptive educational video at my church of the birth process inside the womb.   It was so interesting!   The conclusion I came up with is that anyone who makes it through the birth canal is in my eyes, A WINNER!

From the Heart by B.Demaere: Power of Teamwork (Nehemiah 3) :   The Power of Teamwork In any situation such as the home and work teamwork is very valuable. My wife and I have been together 35 years ...

  The Power of Teamwork In any situation such as the home and work teamwork is very valuable. My wife and I have been together 35 years and a great deal of that has been because of our love for each other and team spirit in our relationship. You can incorporate the team idea to anything.   Encourage to home environment to be a team by involving the whole family to play games and engage in team activities or sports.   In doing shores together.   Even family devotion or just time well spend together other than TV watching. What destroys team spirit is the individual use of surfing on electronic devices such as phones and laptops.   The loneliness has increased since people have touch on social media.   What we thought would make us more socialized has isolated us instead. After COVID we need to team up and be a society again. For example, in the book of Nehemiah in the Bible, chapter 3.   We see that a whole community of Israelites had united and worked together to rebuild th

From the Heart by B.Demaere: Priorities of Eternal Purpose (John 6:25-30) :   Priorities of Eternal Purpose (John 6:25-30) At the beginning of this chapter, Jesus had miraculously fed 6000 people with 2 fishes and ...

  Priorities of Eternal Purpose (John 6:25-30) At the beginning of this chapter, Jesus had miraculously fed 6000 people with 2 fishes and 5 loaves of bread.   Do you think that this would have been enough of a miracle for them to believe? Not really.   They wanted more.   More of what? Of Jesus or the miracles? Apparently, more miracles.   They wanted to believe in Jesus, but he did not do enough for them to believe in him. (John 6:30) He gently corrects them by telling them in the rest of the chapter that the bread he has which is his body is more than enough for them to believe because it is eternal in purpose.   Miracles Are only temporary and once you see one you must have another one.   The food they need must be eternal. It must be eternal if it is going to bring them spiritual satisfaction. As their human nature must have been fixated on the work of miracles that they would have to do Jesus points them out to God’s right expectation for them.   Simply to believe in the o

From the Heart by B.Demaere: Healing of a Paralyzed Man (John 5:3-18) :   Healing of a Paralyzed Man (John 5:3-18)   Jesus understands any disease and health issue.   He will not ignore anyone and the reason so...