Wisdom and Knowledge

"Knowledge puffs up; love builds up."

Go to God First

When sick, ask God for healing before you go the doctor. When depressed, ask God for energy before you seek a mental health professional. When poor, ask God for your needs before you seek financial assistance. No, he won’t always help you, but He will do it often enough to have amazing faith-building stories, and your whole life will be a testimony to God’s provision.

One for My Children

The Kimes self-confidence is both our blessing and our curse. We will step out and do things that no one else will do and be assured of our own success. However, eventually, the people around us get tired of warning about the cliff we have been skirting for so many years. When we finally fall, they will only return to say, “I told you so.”

I Wish I Obeyed This Advice I Came Up With

Just when everyone is clamoring after you and needing you so they can get close to God—that’s when you need to take a break to rest in God. Don’t wait until you are so exhausted you can’t hear God’s voice. Turn off the phone, lock the door, get off the computer, and stay quiet before God. Don’t return until God says, “Go”.

Enemies and "Friends" of God

Loudly pray blessings on those who undermine all you do for Jesus—it’ll really bug them. Pray quiet blessings of repentance on those who in Jesus’ name undermine the good you do for Him—God will speak to them in a way you cannot.

Prayer for the Prayerless

Pray for those whom no “good Christian” would never in their right minds pray for. As soon as you meet someone who seems ignorantly opposed to God’s ways, begin praying for them. It may take years, but God will grasp that person and never let them go.

Heretics v. Hypocrites

Don’t weep for those who loudly reject Jesus and embrace his opposite—they have never really left Him. Rather weep for those who in Jesus’ name do the actions Jesus opposes—they have never really known Him. And they cause the world to forget who He really is.

Intimacy With God

God isn’t just demanding our respect and gratitude—He wants us to welcome Him on earth. Create and sustain a place and time where God can dwell in your life and He will always be there for you.

Seeking Peace

Never seek or demand peace or well-being for yourself—that is the surest way to never find it. Seek well-being for God and for those around you, and peace will follow you wherever you go.

The Spirit World

The spirit world is all around us, influencing us, creating the atmospheres in which our actions breathe. However, the natural spirit world on earth promotes chaos and death. Only the one who seeks the Holy Spirit lives in an oasis of peace.

Choose to Listen

The one who listens is more powerful than the one who speaks. Although they never get any credit, the listeners are the ones who create good in the world. The one who listens to other humans grant space for them to discover themselves. The ones who listen to creation opens up new worlds previously undiscovered, although right before our eyes. The one who listens to the Spirit creates a highway between heaven and earth.

Question Education

Most education is a crock. Learn what you need to live on. Learn how to survive on what you do well. It may require some suffering and quite a bit of poverty on the way, but make it a goal to live on what you love to do.

Depending on Others' Self Control

Control yourself, because you can’t depend on anyone else controlling themselves.

Spiritual Slavery

“Do you know what makes people really spiritual? It is when they become enslaved to God and are branded with his sign, the sign of the cross, signifying that they have surrendered their freedom to Him. Then He can sell them as slaves to the entire world, as He himself was sold.”

-Teresa of Avila