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Death comes suddenly, are you ready for it? It has been a rough few weeks for me emotionally. In the last three weeks two of my friends died suddenly. On was on vacation and collapsed in his hotel room. One died in his sleep. His wife went in to find out why he wasn’t up yet and found that he had died. Both of these men were only in their 60s when the Lord determined their time on this earth was over and it was time to bring them home.

Are you ready for when your time runs out? Too many of us live as if tomorrow is guaranteed. We put off our dreams and goals for later thinking someday we will get to them. For far too many someday never comes.

It is so very important that we make the most out of our limited time in this life. We need to make every day count because we do not know how many days the Lord is going to give us on this earth. He wants us to be good stewards of all He gives us, including the days He gives us to live this life. That is why having a life roadmap is so vitally important. It helps you live a life of purpose, making the most out of every day of your life.

A life roadmap is a vision for where you want to go in life and a step-by-step plan for getting you there. I like to think of it as the AAA Trip-Tik for your life. A life roadmap sets you up to achieve your life purpose and to fulfill your God-given potential so even if your life ends sooner than you expected you will have accomplished much with the time God has given you.

Have you been living life or has life been living you? Do you feel like you are stuck in a rut? Do you feel lost or out of control? Or maybe you just want to accomplish more with your life than you have up to this point. I’d like to help you crystallize your vision and develop your life roadmap.

I will be leading a series of Life Roadmap Retreats where I will help men and couples create a roadmap for their life. The retreats will be unique in that they are limited to just three men or couples at each retreat. These retreats will be a weekend for you to get away from the daily busyness of life and focus on your life’s purpose, your passions and your calling.

The first retreats for men will be in November. Beginning next year we will offer more retreats for men and some for couples. If you are interested in attending one of our Life Roadmap Retreats visit www.MinistryHaven.com/LifeRoadmap to register or to find out more information.

Everyone plans their wedding but few plan their marriage. Everyone plans their vacations but few plan their life. If you don’t plan your life then life will plan it for you. Don’t be one of those who go through life without a plan, without a vision and without a purpose. Check out our Life Roadmap Retreat and get your life on the right road, the one God wants you on.

Helping you live life abundantly,

Life Coach Ken

Life is full of paradoxes. For example, in order to keep your life you must lose it, and in order to lead you must serve. One of those paradoxes that is misused a lot in our society is, in order to gain you must give. Giving to gain is a biblical principle. Two good biblical examples are Proverbs 11:24-25 and Luke 6:8.

“One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.” – Proverbs 11:24-25

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” – Luke 6:38

Giving to gain is a fact of life. Where this fact of life gets messed up is when our motives are wrong. If we give just so we will get, then this law breaks down. God never rewards a “what’s in it for me” attitude. If we serve just so people will follow us, no one will. If we give just so we will get, we will get nothing.

The heart of the matter is the heart of the matter. If you have a giving heart from which you give due to an honest caring for the needs of others, then you will be blessed. If you give and then think God owes you, you are in for a rude awakening.

There are a lot of people proclaiming the “name it and claim it” philosophy who will misuse these and other Bible verses about giving to gain. They teach all you have to do is give $100 and you’ll get $500 or $1,000 in return. That is not what God promises.

God is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him and His will for their life. Live according to His standards and these paradoxes make sense and come true. Live according to the self-centered, “what’s in it for me” attitude and you will miss out on so much more than the material blessings you were hoping for. When you focus on what’s in it for you, you miss out on the best God has planned for you. You miss out on a true relationship with Him.

So be generous, share the material blessings God has given to you. Give from your abundance and you will be blessed. Give from your poverty and you will be blessed even more. In all cases, give out of a grateful heart for your relationship with the Lord and you will be blessed for eternity.

Helping you live life abundantly,

Life Coach Ken

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Giving to Gain