Self Improvement Site
On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
Articles from Mary Wilkey | Selfgrowth.com
- What I Don't Understand About Christianity - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2012 from Mary WilkeyWhy do pastors preach to their congregations? Instead, in my opinion, they would be much better off ... and keep all the members of their flock ... if they would teach instead of preach. Again, in my humble opinion, preaching is what needs to be done only until the people see the light and ...
Views: 1138(1 vote) - How to Have Your Computer Cake and Keep Your Family, Too! - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from Mary WilkeyYour family comes first - or does it? Since you've been spending so much time with your new home computer, is your family showing signs of jealousy? Do they compete with this inhuman time hog for your time? Or, at least, do they FEEL they have to? And what can you do about it? After all, ...
Views: 1274 - Making it Easier to Have Faith - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from Mary WilkeyMany times I've heard non-believers say that exercising faith for healing (or anything else) is a denial of fact. Au contraire! Let's get this thing straight, once and for all... faith does not deny fact. Faith changes fact! When a believer declares he is healed of, say, a sprained ...
Views: 1172 - Squelching Your Senses to Succeed Spiritually - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from Mary WilkeyIt takes a measure of faith to pray... I mean, you wouldn't be praying to the Lord if you didn't actually believe that He is there, that He hears, and that He is able to provide you the answer you seek, would you? So now we need to build on that measure of faith by reading and studying the ...
Views: 1164 - This Whole Self Esteem Thing - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from Mary WilkeyTrophies should be earned, not awarded indiscriminately! Theoretically, in the interests of "fairness," certain "educators" decided some years ago to prevent "bruising" little egos, playing God really, and doing them a giant disservice, in that they are not being prepared for the real ...
Views: 1212 - Anyone for a Prayer Sandwich? - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from Mary WilkeyThis is a little formula for effective prayer that, if you will follow it, will bring about the desired results. For the first slice of "bread" in this sandwich, you are to "enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise." (Psalm 100:4) Acknowledge Who He is, e.g., ...
Views: 2765 - Make It a Point! - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from Mary WilkeyI've always had a sneaking suspicion that the "Waltons" had it right, with that extended family of theirs. I mean, think about it. They were always there for each other. They had lots of people they could talk to and confide in—every day! They never had to travel hither and yon for ...
Views: 1089 - Are You Game? - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from Mary WilkeyMatthew 5 is one of the hardest chapters in the Bible to live up to. Why? Because it expands on the Ten Commandments. The Lord tells us, in His own words: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law [the old Testament], or the prophets [of the old Testament]. I am not come to destroy, but ...
Views: 1289 - The Tide Has Turned . . . Enough Already! - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2012 from Mary WilkeyPreface: The writer aims to be upbeat and to emphasize the positive and what's right with this ol' world, but sometimes negatives have to be recognized and identified for what they are, so that the gears can be set in motion to correct them. Looking for a few good men . . . and a few is what ...
Views: 1841 - Miracles - They Still Happen Today! - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2012 from Mary WilkeyWhile watching television recently, T. L. Osborn and his wife, Daisy, came on telling about a mother who had brought her little boy to one of their healing crusades, somewhere in India, I believe. Anyway, the little boy had no eyes. Not even sockets. Nothing. But the mother believed that ...
Views: 1543 - Guard Your Thoughts - And Your Words! - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2012 from Mary WilkeyBoth are things, you know-your thoughts and your words. It may seem a nearly impossible task to take control of your thoughts, as they seem to run rampant throughout your waking hours. It's a matter of changing habit. And although simple, it isn't exactly easy. Let me give you an ...
Views: 1634 - In My Innocence - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2012 from Mary WilkeySometimes I'm very naive. My brother-in-law always says that I've led a sheltered life. And even though I'd been around the block a few times, I was totally unprepared for what I got myself into back in 1989, which situation continues to this day. I guess I tend to take most things at ...
Views: 1283 - Faith for Healing ... or Anything Else - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2012 from Mary WilkeyTelling you to have faith would be like telling you to have money. It just doesn't work that way. Faith grows like a flower. You have to plant it in good soil. Then you have to water it with good water every day. You have to feed it the nutrients it needs to optimize the blooms. If you don't ...
Views: 1171 - Extreme Kids - Pampered or Abused - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2012 from Mary WilkeyUnless you're a hermit or an ostrich, you have noticed how mean, thoughtless, and rude today's kids are. Of course, I'm speaking in generalities. Yes, we can compare them to us "perfect" kids of yesteryear, who routinely addressed adults as "ma'am" and "sir," and who behaved in many other ...
Views: 2005 - Are You Tripping Over Your Tongue? - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2012 from Mary WilkeyChanging your word patterns is a lot easier than changing your thought habits. Getting good at anything requires practice, and changing speaking habits is no different. First, we have to make ourselves aware of wrong speech. If you've been a Christian for quite awhile, the Lord probably ...
Views: 1444 - Let's Make Believe - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2012 from Mary WilkeyAs a child, we all do a lot of "make" believing. Recently, I've given some thought to that. After all, we are told to "become as little children," right? One of the things that children do (besides laughing a lot, which we also should do) is to pretend, to make believe that given objects are ...
Views: 2005 - Where to Put the Word - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2012 from Mary WilkeyRealize that there are different places to put the Word of God. Most thinking people put it in their minds. But guess what? In many cases it just stays there and never reaches anywhere else. That's like having a teaching degree and then not working as a teacher. What good is all that ...
Views: 1225 - The Ride of Your Life - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2012 from Mary WilkeyTo quote from Catherine Ponder's book, "The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity," " . . . the masses today are lonely—lonely for a spiritual way of life that isn't just theory and doctrine, but one that works to produce health, harmony, and abundance in their lives." In one sentence, that awesome ...
Views: 1129(1 vote) - Are You a True Believer? . . . Really? - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2012 from Mary WilkeyMost people who purport to be Christians would answer in the affirmative. Upon reflection, however, I wonder how accurate an affirmative response would be for many. What I'm getting at is, those of us who claim to be believers have no trouble accepting our salvation, have no trouble ...
Views: 1264 - Does the Very Idea of Hell Offend You? - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2012 from Mary WilkeyGood! It should! Because it's an offensive place. But that is putting it mildly, so if you mind being offended, just consider how much you will mind when you end up there! Oh, you don't want to go there? Great! I don't either, and that is exactly why I serve our Lord and ...
Views: 1228 - What do You See When You Speak to a Crowd? - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2012 from Mary WilkeyDo you see their eyes? Do their eyes make you feel self conscious? Do you see their ears? If you are addressing the crowd, what are they thinking about what they are hearing . . . and are they really listening? Do you see their mouths? What are they saying, or how are they planning to ...
Views: 1068 - The State of Humanity in America - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2012 from Mary WilkeyOne of our residents came to me a couple of years ago on behalf of her nineteen-year-old son, who had shown up the night before quite unexpectedly. She had not seen him in months. He had hiked for about ten miles and had waited for hours for her to return from work. He was unemployed, had ...
Views: 1510 - What Happens When We Pray - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2012 from Mary WilkeyMost of the time, to the human senses, nothing apparently changes during prayer. Yet, that simply is not true. A lot is happening in the unseen and unheard realm. Although this brief discussion focuses on Christian prayer, it can be modified to apply to any belief system. There is an old ...
Views: 1415 - For the Love of God, How do I do That? - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2012 from Mary WilkeyMany people do not seem to understand how a person can actually love God. That's because they think of God as an invisible being far away in the clouds somewhere. They ask themselves, "How can I possibly love someone I've never seen and cannot touch?" First of all, He can be seen if only ...
Views: 1228 - Bird Brains ... Fascinating! - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2012 from Mary WilkeyGod uses birds to teach, if only we will learn from the birds ... doves .. eagles ... we can learn a lot from these "bird brains." Although there are more than 9,000 bird species in the world, still blue jays do not mate with cardinals, nor do robins mate with sparrows. Birds have been ...
Views: 3306 - Some Thoughts on the Bible Versus Other Revelations - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2012 from Mary WilkeyWhy do some people insist that we read only the Bible and not other books, articles, etc. about the Word of God? The Bible, of course, must be the ultimate authority, as the inspired Word of God. But to disregard other people's thoughts (which also, by the way, may be inspired by God) is to ...
Views: 1192 - Why We Don't Pray - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2012 from Mary WilkeyLately, I have been hearing this discussed more and more. Prayer is work, no doubt about it. But prayer works ... no doubt about that either! Why, then, would any Christian in his right mind neglect to go to the Lord in prayer? Especially when we realize that our dear Lord has put ...
Views: 1170 - Never Doubt the Love of God - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2012 from Mary WilkeyResist evil by facing it, not by turning your back and running from it. (The enemy will flee from you … you do not flee from the enemy!) Prayer then should be relinquishing your will to His. Do what you can, and let Him lead as you obey and follow … trust and obey. Let His will take ...
Views: 1438 - From the Physical to the Spiritual - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2012 from Mary WilkeyThis article discusses ways to help develop spiritually ... from the outside (limited) world to the inside (unlimited) one. "Many Nobel Prize winning physicists recently have proven beyond doubt that the physical world is one large energy ocean that flashes into and out of being in a ...
Views: 1245 - How to Find Out if a Church is Dead or Alive - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2012 from Mary WilkeyWhen you go to your church, do you look forward to it, or do you dread it and just force yourself to go out of obligation? Or maybe you are just seeking to be blessed and glean from it all you can, without ever contributing in any way. When I attended a certain church years ago, I would look ...
Views: 2238 - On Becoming as Little Children - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2012 from Mary WilkeyThink about it. Children are close to their parents. The younger they are, the closer they are, not only emotionally, but they are prone to stay close physically as well. As they age, most children separate themselves more and more from their parents, both physically and emotionally. This is ...
Views: 1690 - Blessing & Blessings - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2012 from Mary WilkeySome years ago I discovered a small but powerful little book in a second-hand bookstore. (Don't you just love second-hand bookstores?) The little tome first attracted me, because its cover was a soft green velvet, not the usual paper stock variety. I know, I know, you can't tell a book ...
Views: 1754 - It's Not Only What You Say, But How You Say It! - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2012 from Mary WilkeyYou might think that that title refers to using proper English or to the tone of your voice. If you do think this, you are wrong. Oh, these things are important, but they are not the point of this article. The point is, if you are trying to capture your God-given healing, you need to make ...
Views: 1218