William Augustine

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.   Henri Nouwen What we are today is the result of what we have been thinking and the way we have lived in the past. Those who act wisely today will have wisdom in the future to make wise decisions. The same is true when we come to the subject of finances. Those who save wisely today will have plenty tomorrow. Those who spend everything they have today will have little or nothing in the future. It is a shortsighted person who thinks only of the now, doing as little as possible, for on payday he will have no way to avoid the poor quality and small quantity of his rewards. The nation of Israel had to learn this in a very personal way. Their waywardness and failure to do wh...

Keep Jesus First in your life.  Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you including a right mate (Matthew 6:33). Love God with all your heart. Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desire of thine heart. Trust in God for a right mate and you will have it (Psalm 37:4,5). When you seek God with all your heart, God will give you a right mate. Ask God definitely for a right mate:  Pray for God to bless you with a right mate. Ask, and it shall be given unto you;… (Matthew 7:7). This mean we must keep asking God for a right mate.  Ask of Me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. (Psalm 2:8)  When God answer you with a wonderful mate you will enjoy your married. A lot of People want easy way to be married without spending their time and pray for the right mate, that why a lot of families are collapsing. B...

Good thinkers are important in our time. Good thinker solve societal problem, good thinker bring new innovation, good thinker create job opportunity, good thinker bring revolution, good thinker they enjoy what other can’t enjoy, good thinker control and lead others. Think how you can become a good thinker today. Steps to develop your thinking: Find a place to think your thought: ideas come to people in different places. Discover the place that is good for you to think creatively. Find a place to shape your thought: as a creative thinker you must find a place that you will shape your thought. A place that you will ask yourself about your ideas and learn to write down your ideas on notepad. As you find a place to shape your ideas you need to be show humility, creativity, fulfillment, honesty and take charge. Find a place to stretch your thought: as a creative thinker you must find a place to stretch out your ideas with the right people. When you have ideas in the right pla...

In life we’re always waiting for something, waiting for a dream to come to pass, waiting to meet the right person, waiting to meet the right spouse, waiting for a problem to turn around. When it’s not happening as fast as we would like, it’s easy to get frustrated. But you have to realize that the moment you prayed, God established a set time to bring the promise to pass. God has a set time for you to meet the right person. There is a time for the problem to turn around, a set time for your healing, your promotion, and your breakthrough. It may be tomorrow, or next week, or five years from now. But when you understand that the time has already been set, it takes all the pressure off. You won’t live worried, wondering when this is ever going to happen. You will relax and enjoy your life, knowing that the promise has already been scheduled by the creator of the universe. May be you have been praying about a situation for a long time and don’t see anything happening. You could easi...

That’s what happened to a lady in the Scripture named Sarai. She had to change her “I am.” God promised Sarai and her husband, Abram, that they would have a baby. But Sarai was eighty years old, way past the childbearing years. Back in those days, if a wife couldn’t conceive and give her husband a child for some reason, even if it was the husband’s fault, the wife was considered to be a failure. She was looked down on greatly. There was a sense of shame in not being able to conceive a baby. This is how Sarai felt. She was eighty years old and never had a baby. She felt as though she had let Abram down. Her self-esteem was so low. I can imagine some of her “I am”s: “I am a failure. I am inferior. I am not good enough. I am unattractive.” Yet Sarai has this promise from God that as an older woman she was going to have a baby. God knew that it would never come to pass unless He could convince Sarai to change her “I am”s. it was so imperative that she have this new mindset that God...

I declare I am a people builder. I will look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them and to help them accomplish their dreams. I will speak words of faith and victory, affirming them, approving them, letting them know they are valued. I will call out their seeds of greatness, helping them to rise higher and become all that God created them to be. Do you know how many people have never been told: “you are a winner?” There are most likely people in your life right now, people you work with, people you play ball with, people that you walk with, people that you do business with, maybe even your own family members who are starving for approval. They are craving for you to speak the blessing over their life. You don’t know what it will mean when you affirm them, when you give them your approval, and let them know in no uncertain terms that you are proud of them and you think they will do great things. Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone needs to be appre...

When Jesus was being baptized by John in the Jordan River, He hadn’t started His ministry yet. He had never opened one blind eye, never raised the dead, never turned water into wine. He had not performed a single miracle. But a voice boomed out of the heavens, and God said, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” His Father was pleased with Him because of who He was and not because of anything he had or had not done. We tell ourselves, “If I could break this bad habit, I’d feel good about myself. If I could read my Bible more, if I could bite my tongue and not argue so much, maybe I wouldn’t be against myself.” You have to learn to accept yourself while you are in the process of changing. We all have areas we need to improve, but we’re not supposed to go around down on ourselves because we haven’t arrived. When you are against yourself, it doesn’t help you to do better. It makes you do worse. You may have a bad habit you know you need to overcome, but if you go arou...