Being thankful is a superpower. Ponder about the many things in your life for which you are grateful. Thankfulness and gratitude will see you through a lot of life's significant difficulties. Difficulties will occur, and many of them are not preventable. Still, your attitude and the degree of impact of those times will be significantly affected by your ability to remain deliberately thankful. Are you thankful? List five things for which you are grateful. Make time to ponder about the many things you have to be grateful for every day. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

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Ponder about being Thankful

Ponder about human weakness and frailty. How we love to hide and deny our weaknesses. To admit to weakness we falsely assume is a statement of incompetence or powerlessness. What are your weaknesses? How can you turn your weaknesses into a strength? You can turn your weaknesses into strengths, but it will take some thought. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Weaknesses

What occupies your thoughts? Do you spend endless hours being consumed by worry? Where is the best place for you to separate yourself and spend time pondering in solitude? When did you pause to ponder last? Will you stop and ponder today? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Thoughts

Ponder about things that affect all of us. Does your stuff own you? What does your stuff say about you? Do you have issues getting rid of stuff? Are you generous with your things, or are you hanging on with all your might? What do you value? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Stuff

Ponder about Observations

We are all separate individuals, but we share many things in common. Ponder about issues we all share in common. What are the typical things you share with others? Do you consider what is going on with those around you? What is essential to your neighbor? What is vital to your children or your spouse? This poem is about the importance of thinking about your role in your family. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Shared Issues

Ponder about cultural and social issues and concerns. How is your community changing? What are your cultural values? Where are your culture and society headed? What do you believe? How are you contributing to your community? You exist to make your world a better place. Think about that. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Social Issues

Ponder about critical human qualities and characteristics. What kind of person do you want to be? What would you like others to say about you at your funeral? What do you want your children and grandchildren to remember about you? What are you doing to become that person you want to be? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Human Qualities

As human beings, we are much more than just mortal mammals. We are spiritual beings. Do you think of spiritual things? What does it mean to you that you are a spiritual being? Ponder about spiritual concepts. Think about things that are bigger than you! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Spiritual Things

What has power in your life? What scares you? Ponder about major life issues and characteristics, like bitterness. I spent several weeks meditating on Psalms 37 and the power of bitterness. Bitterness has such destructive power, more power than cancer, or heart disease, but it does not seem to cause much fear. We should be more afraid of becoming bitter than we are of getting terminal cancer. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Issues

We live in a world full of wonder, most of which we will never discover. Ponder about things you may have always wondered about, even if it seems silly. Give yourself a gift and look up and embrace the wonder around you. You will be surprised by what you might discover. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Wonder

Put aside all pretense and make it your goal to be authentic.  Taking time to ponder will foster authenticity. A manufactured, false image will only foster incorrect, meaningless, pressure-filled connections with others. If you want meaningful, genuine relationships, you need to be authentic. So, what does the path to authenticity look like in this crazy, fast-paced, noisy world? Only in silence and solitude will you find authenticity. It is in solitude where isolation will make you stronger.  Without silence and solitude, you will be a faint reflection of those around you, not thinking or believing for yourself, a finger puppet of the masses. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Ponder about Pondering

This podcast is an excerpt from the book "Fodder for Ponder" available on Amazon as an ebook and paperback.  This series encourages the listener to pause in solitude and take time to enrich themselves by pondering. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Fodder for Ponder Introduction

If you follow Jesus and begin to use your voice, you will face adversity, lots of hardship. John 16:33 (NKJV), “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”  How you react to these tribulations will determine how close you can get to fulfilling God’s plan for your life. You will need the mindset of a warrior.  1 Timothy 1:18-19 (NKJV), “This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck,” 2 Timothy 2:3-4 (NKJV), “You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.”  Warriors act righteously. They know what is right and what is wrong and act accordingly. A warrior is courageous in defending righteousness. A warrior is benevolent, respects others, and treats others with honor. A warrior is honest and sincere. A warrior is self-controlled, disciplined, and able to follow orders.  Do you have what it takes to be a warrior? I am not talking about a physical combat warrior but a spiritual warrior who has the strength and stamina to seek God, tear down strongholds, and use their voice. God is looking for men and women who are willing to be His warriors. Most Christians are content just wearing their team colors and cheering from the sidelines. God did not call and equip you to be a casual fan; He called you to be in the game. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Godly Grit 48 - Stand!

Our culture has devolved into an individualistic, self-centered, “all about me” society. We have lost our contention with God as well as our compass to find our way back to God. We have turned our backs to God and pursued selfish interests with passion and rage. We may still have “In God, We Trust” stamped on our coinage, but it is gone from our hearts. As a society, we have rushed down this disastrous path as fast as we can, and we are a mess. As a disciple of Jesus, if you hope to survive this upheaval, you will need the comfort, guidance, reassurance, and power of the Holy Spirit. Your communication connection to God is through the Holy Spirit, who is present to interpret God’s Word and to pray on your behalf. You will need your storehouse filled with the Holy Spirit.  This upside-down, crazy world you live in is hurting profoundly and needs your God-given Holy Spirit empowered voice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/richard-hindmarsh0/support

Godly Grit 47 - Storehouse 10 - The Holy Spirit

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