What’s your motive?... 

This question was given to me years ago as I was learning how to pray, and I still use it to this very day. 

The suggestion is to pray to WANT what I GET and not to pray to GET what I WANT. 

I can’t tell you how many times over the years I have become confused and have prayed TELLING God about a desired specific outcome with detail, based on my thoughts, emotions, and motives on getting that specific result instead of becoming open and willing to learn God’s will for me and the lesson I need to learn for the situation causing me to pray. 

When I pray for understanding and wisdom, things go well. 

When I pray for specific things focusing only on how those things will make me feel, well, … 

I am still waiting!…

Think about that today and please… 

Check your experience… 

“…praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” Big Book pg 59 

Lord, let us pray to understand Your will for us in the requests we make instead of demanding our own way, AMEN. 

“When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” James 4:3 

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 What’s on your agenda?.. 

We are busy folks, and we rely on schedules, calendars, appointments, and other tools to keep us on track and on time. It’s a part of our lives and culture. 

Have you ever taken a moment to consider who or what drives our need to have these daily, weekly, and monthly agendas? 

Sure, I get it, we need to stay organized, and we all are juggling many balls in order to make this life thing work. 

But wouldn’t it be nice if instead of just our yearly vacations, we could set our own agendas according to our spiritual needs? 

It’s part of a healthy routine to carve out time for daily physical fitness as well as spiritual time. 

So…. what is on your agenda today?.. 

Check your experience… 

“For the first time, he lived in conscious companionship with his Creator.” Big Book pg 56 

Lord, let us set part of our daily agenda to spend time with You and Your Word, AMEN. 

“God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure” Ephesians 1:5 

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 Are you serving or being served?.. 

This is a thought to consider as we celebrate Labor Day today. 

It’s easy to sit and be served. '

In non COVID-19 times we experience this at restaurants, hair salons, doctor visits and other things where we are the customer. 

We gain from receiving these services. 

However, it’s not always easy to serve others. 

Even when we are passionate about what we do, there are those few people or certain situations that try our patience and make our skin crawl. 

Nevertheless, we gain from performing these types of services. 

What about serving others for no gain? 

This is where we are asked to help another person who we may or may not even see or know, but they will benefit from our labor and service. 

It’s a thankless task with no direct reward for us… or so it seems! 

Serving others helps yourself, when your motive is selfless, and your efforts are to be of service with no personal gain…. 

Check your experience… 

“Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us.” Big Book pg 77 

Lord, let us serve others with the motive of helping and not gaining, AMEN. 

“A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.” Proverbs 11:25 

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 We gotta provide the effort to gain results… 

We go to the drive thru to pick up our coffee, food, and even groceries. 

Heck, even now we have apps that will preorder our coffee, meals, groceries, and other things for us! 

Press a button and it is done. 

Wouldn’t it be great if we could press a button and fix our flaws and shortcomings? 

Believe me, if there truly was an app or an instant fix for permanent weight loss, I would be all over it. 

Despite many claims by money motivated folks, this is not part of our reality right now. 

So, I will have to look inside myself and continue the day-by-day work on my character flaws and defects. 

The good news is that along with the encouraging support from many friends, family, and my 12 Step Fellowships, there is spiritual support from Jesus, IF I am willing to work for it. 

I don’t know about you, but everything else I have given over to God has improved, so I am suiting up and showing up to allow the Holy Spirit to also help me become healthier inside and out…

Check your experience… 

“We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.” Big Book pg 46 

Lord, let us open our hearts and minds and be willing to allow You to mend us through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, AMEN. 

 “Come close to God, and God will come close to you." James 4:8 

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 Being transparent… 

Isn’t it nice when it turns out that things and people ARE what they seem? 

We don’t get to experience much of that today, but it sure is refreshing when we do. 

It seems to be a cultural norm that either we are only seeing and hearing what we want to, or we are being shown and told only what others think we want. 

It sure gets confusing. 

It’s a spiritual principle as well as a biblical truth that we are at our best when we do what we say and say what we do. 

Living transparently allows us to be us all the time and not have to switch characters and remember what roles we need to assume for different people and situations… 

Check your experience… 

“There is action and more action. Faith without works is dead.” Big Book pg 88 

Lord, let us be transparent in our daily lives, learning to be the best we can be through seeking and doing Your will, AMEN. 

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 

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 Words have power, IF you let them… 

Let’s think about words for a minute. 

While there is much attention given to negative words and a lot of advice on how NOT to use them or let them influence us, we don’t tend to see much attention given to positive words. 

Think about it, when was the last time you recall borrowing, copying, highlighting, saying or writing words that can build you or others up. 

What about influential words or phrases? 

How many of those words do we remember or have somewhere handy that we can read and reflect on often? 

Now maybe it’s different for you, but I need to see, read, say, and recall positive influencing words.

Because of this my home, office, and electronic devices are filled with phrases that encourage, inspire, and guide me daily. 

These give me power and assurance that despite the person, place, thing, or situation I am facing I can rely on the Holy Spirit in my heart and Jesus to stay with me and show me the way. 

How are you using your words?.. 

Check your experience… 

“In our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself.” Big Book pg 50 

Lord let us use our words to inspire ourselves and others, AMEN. 

“Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body” Proverbs 4:20-22 

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 We GET what we GIVE… 

This is a fact and it's based on the spiritual principle that we will get out of it whatever we put into it, no matter what the situation or opportunity is. 

If I give positivity and focus outward on others, I receive grace and peace. 

If I give negativity and focus inward, then I get the negativity back in some form or fashion. 

It’s always a blessing to me to get to spend time with friends and catch up on their lives. Whether I am hearing of the good things or the challenges, I find my heart listening to learn the source. 

I think it’s a part of our human nature and experience here in this life that no matter what, either good or not so good, we have a part in it that we need to look at. 

It never ceases to amaze me that the ones who are receiving the most blessings are giving the most of their time and sharing their resources with others. Along with that, those of us that are hurting the most are having a hard time being of service to others. 

Now maybe it’s different for you but over the years I have learned that when I am experiencing challenges and or hard times, it is a good time for me to shift my focus away from me and seek out another person to help. 

Sure enough, my situation improves, and things get better. 

How’s it working out for you?… 

Check your experience... 

“Think of what you can bring to it.” Big Book pg 92 

Lord let us look to see what we can do to help others instead of seeing what we can get from them, AMEN. 

“Not returning evil for evil or insult for insult but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.” 1 Peter 3:9 

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