Do it to please them or do it to please Him? Getting good counsel to make good decisions is crucial because underneath those decisions is what it says about who you want to please. There are many who mean well, but whose path leads away from what pleases Him. This is why it helps to […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Decide To Please Who?When someone messes up, attention is drawn to the mess for commentary and analysis. That degree of spectating should also be attached to the amazing and miraculous work of a person in a hopeless and helpless condition have their situation reversed completely. When someone does something like that it should be the cause for celebration […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Look What He’s DoneThere are the people that get the headlines. There are people for whom no lines will be written. They will not be written by the hands of man, but their efforts are seen and are being written by a hand of a greater value. Thank you, Lord, for those who may never be remembered by […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Not in VainIt is not good enough to apply the old thinking to the new day. There is plenty to treasure from the old season and there’s plenty to learn to help, but this new season requires a new mentality. Open to receive whatever the new season has to offer, keen to receive, discern, and apply. With […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: New Season MentalityIt’s challenging being your own harshest critic. Fault-finding and never being satisfied with accomplishments. This downplays the benefits of acknowledging achievements and being grateful. Noting what went well and seeing progress can help stimulate faith. It might be insignificant to others, but when you see it for what it is and give thanks to God, […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Celebrate Success Moving ForwardsWe are a work in progress. This phrase should be used just as much when things go right for us as when things go wrong. Each experience is is a part of the building project, if we’re conscious of what is being built and by whom. Wrong steps offer the opportunity for correction. Right steps […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Building and Fixing“I understand.” To hear those words from someone and see how true it rings from them is immense. Consider what it is to be understood and then given the time to work through and the space to develop on that. What a blessing that is. So rare and so valuable. And it is something we’re […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Time, Space & UnderstandingIt happens to be that a lot of their time was spent talking about what was wrong, how it was wrong and the bad feeling about the wrong. Such is their expertise in the area that it almost came across as their specialist subject. What was glaring in its omission was a focus on what […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Focus on the True“Do what you do best.” “What’s that?” One of the glorious things of a relationship with God is that He will instruct you to do what you do best, because what you do best is to obey Him. That’s you at your best because responding to instruction from your Creator is to be attuned to […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Responding To InstructionModern gadgets have their settings. Humanity have their settings as well. Sadly, most of the settings for humanity seem to revolve around being enslaved and addicted to that which highlights and hastens the downfall of humanity. This is why it is so good to know that Jesus looks at those who are oppressed and changes […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Set At Liberty
