Monday Morning Motivations Broderick Ellison

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”I was watching a video the other day about how much money one should save for retirement to be considered “successful” and I found myself on edge just listening to the numbers.How do we NOT be anxious when anxiety is being normalized?And not just with our wants, but with those things we consider necessary to live.A constant fear of losing a job, or finding a job, or...

“...And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.”If we aren’t careful, we can look at this story and say… That’ll NEVER be me. I’ll never be like the prodigal son…Simply because we incorrectly understood what actually made him “prodigal”.We ...

"... So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.”As I was working out one morning, I was listening to one of my favorite gospel artists, Hezekiah Walker, and I came across a song called “99 and a Half”, and in this song he sings, “Lord I’m running, trying to make 100 because 99 and a half won’t do” and as ...

“The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith!’He replied, ‘If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.’ “Complicated Situations.When I said that, almost immediately something came to your mind.For some it’s a job.For others it might be a person… an entanglement or situationship… whatever your word of choice may be.And for others it might be forgiveness, like it was for the disciples i...

“When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first...”What are you replacing your bad habits with?… more bad habits?Does accomplishment come i...

"Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’The sick man answered Him, ‘Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.’Jesus said to him, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk.’ And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked."Res...