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Successful Choices

July 16, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

Today, I’d like to share a guest post from my lovely wife, Melissa Manuel.

#Success tip series… An officer standing just outside Dave & Busters in Marietta,GA shared this uhhhh…Public Service Announcement?” I was inspired… after all, he was promoting an important element of success…making good choices. So many times in life’s situations we don’t count the costs before making decisions that may change the trajectory of our personal life and/or career. If you are currently faced with a potentially life-altering decision, push ego aside and thoughtfully consider the long-term consequences; both good and bad. You probably shouldn’t write it on your car though 🙂 think.create.breathe.repeat…MBM

Prepared for Success

November 24, 2024July 9, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

It was fifteen years ago that I began to serve as an Associate Minister under the leadership of Reverend H. Frank Centrallo. After some preliminary conversations where he assessed my abilities, he mapped my plan of development with the following statement. “Domecia, you’re pretty proficient in your knowledge of scripture so I won’t be teaching … Read more

Improving Communication

July 2, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

“Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by … Read more

The Sprinkler Effect

November 24, 2024June 27, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!” So He let … Read more

Preparing to Serve

November 24, 2024June 25, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

Now it came to pass the same night that the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it; and build an altar to the Lord your … Read more

Recovery

May 30, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

Hello everyone. On Saturday, May 25th I had emergency gall bladder surgery. I’m doing well and resting comfortably at home. I will not write on a regular schedule during my recovery the next few weeks. If you have any ideas regarding future topics please let me know.

The Altar of Our Hearts

May 21, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

In Judges 6 Gideon receives a visitor when he was threshing wheat in a winepress. They shared a lengthy conversation about Gideon delivering Israel from the oppression of the Midianites. When the conversation was over, Gideon asked the visitor to wait while he prepared a customary offering. Then something miraculous happened. Then the Angel of … Read more

What’s Your Price?

May 16, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to … Read more

God’s Purpose in Marriage

May 14, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

Later this month Melissa and I will celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary. We’ve spent almost half our lives together! We’ve shared so many memories, experiences, amd inside jokes I can’t imagine life without her. I’m thankful God put us together. I wouldn’t trade the benefits of emotional, physical, and intellectual intimacy we share for anything … Read more

Suffering and Encouragement

May 9, 2013 by D. J. Manuel

In the last post, “How Much Can You Take?”, we examined Acts 9:15-16. But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake.” … Read more