More Than Just Words

Copyright © 2005 by Kenneth Morgan.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

More Than Just Words

Abiding in the Lord

Answering our youth needs

Before they turn to drugs

Are you available to the Lord?

As our soul prospers

Be careful how we treat one another

Be Encouraged

Bless the Lord at all times

Change your attitude and

change your destiny

Commitment through testing

Dealing with the thief

Desires of your heart

Fellowshipping with the Father

For God so loved the world

Friends are friends forever

Give thanks unto the Lord

Have Mercy

Humility

I will lift my eyes unto the Hills

Knowing God’s nature

Left thy first love

Humility in the life of Jesus

Humility in the teaching of Jesus

In times like these

In times of testing

It’s a Matter of Attitude

Learning to control your emotions

(Looking for somebody to love.)

Rejoice in the Lord.

Returning good for evil

Seeking God

The Call to God

The Dreamer

The Seventh Day,

The Work of the Anointing

This is the day

Victors and not victims.

Where do you stand with God?

Who Is A Christian

You can overcome the limitations Others put on you.

Chapter 2

Bear one Another’s Burdens;

Children Gone Astray

Don’t give up

Faith is the substance

Fullness of God

God is our refuge

God is speaking

God’s wisdom overcomes fear

God’s word is pure

Help I am a parent

I Can Do All Things

The good of the land

Life is a gift from God.

Look to the Lord when

Problems are most difficult

Nothing is too hard, for God.

Peace of the Past

In troubled times

Prayer builds knowledge in the Lord

Put Faith in God

He can handle anything

Remember God, by remembering

Those in need

Seek God Early

In Life

Strong In The Lord

The Only Just One

Prodigal Son goes astray

And returns home to his father

The words we speak:

They that wait on the Lord

Thy word is hid in my heart.

Unbelief hinders the flow of God.

Understanding who Jesus

Is will change you

United we stand

Walking in

God’s Dominion

Wanted Labors for the kingdom

We are blessed

Compared to some

This book is dedicated to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ, and to my wife Pearlene for all her support and encouragement and to my mother Ruth Winkfield for the gift of life, and to all of my family and friends it is my prayer that More Than Just Words will bless and enhanced your life.

Acknowledgments

This is for everyone that believed this would come true, with special thanks and respect for the following individuals that gave of their personal finances and time to help me through this process.

Mrs. Wanza Sanders

Mrs. Tamela Mills

Mrs. Jennifer Roberts

Mrs. Martha Banks

Dr. Thomas Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. John & Diane Grotheer

Mr. & Mrs. Rob & Candis Christopher

Photography By:

William T. Womack

Thomas S. Cromer

Alan Coleman, author of Firmly In His Hands www.firmlyinhishands.com

Introduction

‘‘The Morgan Collectibles Inspirations of the heart"

More than Just Words.

A God-given gift I became aware of through an inspired attempt to improve myself it seemed at first it wasn’t going to happen. But I held on to the value of what God had inspired in my life. I have always wanted to make a difference and to touch the lives of others. I believe that we all have a purpose that has been given us to fulfill. I wanted to make my mark in society, and to make a statement In life that you can be whatever you dream you can be. One day I began to write and Fulfillment came and I knew that my time had come. The gift that God had given me was beginning to bear fruit. My prayer is that your life will be touched and changed through these inspirational writings.

May God forever keep and bless you in this life.

Kenneth L. Morgan

Chapter 1

More Than Just Words

When I began to think about the title of this book, it gave me so much inspiration and desire to know that in the times that we are now living in words are powerful and should mean something to us. Words are not just something that we say but what we should live by. When we look at the written word of the Lord they are more than just words, they are the essence of life in which we can grow and be nourished. The written words of the Lord are not just words without meaning but also words with depth and insight, for guidance, direction, hope, and encouragement and, of course, help in troubled times that tells us Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but God’s word shall stand.

The written word of the Lord will bring about deliverance in the lives of those that the doctors say there are no more hope of natural cures. The written word of the Lord declares that He sent forth his word to heal them, and as I share some insight concerning these written words, it is my prayer that God’s spirit will give you the very thing you will need to bring about a transformation in your life.

It is also my prayer that you will be excited about a new revelation that God is bringing about in your life that will cause you to rise and walk in God’s holy word. Have you ever listened to someone and knew that their words were untrue but merely words of conversation? We should not be using words for the sake of conversation but for reality and truth. The word of the Lord says you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free and he who the son sets free is free indeed. The Bible also states, Not one part of my word shall fall to the ground, but it shall accomplish wherever I send it. There are no other words in the Universe that can withstand against the Holy Word of the Lord.

It had the power to bring about our beginning, and it is still standing to this day. In fact, it will be with us in the end. Hearing the phrase, More than just words should cause us to take a look at what we speak and stand behind those words. The written word of the Lord declares that we are snared by the words of our mouth. We will have whatsoever we say, because the power of life and death is in the tongue.

I want you to take a look back over your life and think about the words that you have spoken over yourself, over your children, and those with whom we have came in contact with. There should be no surprise to us why our lives are in shambles because we have not yet taken to heart what God is saying and through our own hurt we have allowed it to be. We should never speak words like "I will never be anything because the word of the Lord says that as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

We need to realize that we are planting the seed for your own destruction. It is God’s plan for your life and the Universe He created for us to have joy and fulfillment in this life, and in the life to come eternity with him. Throughout the scriptures when all else failed God’s word was true. Jesus said, If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. According to Joshua 1:8, This book of the law shall not depart out of their mouth but thou shall meditate in it day and night that thou mayest do according to all that is written therein and then thou shall make thou may prosperous and then thou shall have good success."

As you go through life I pray that God will open unto you a door of utterance as you read and meditate on his word? If we can learn to hold God’s word in our heart then we will not sin against him. When we learn to obey his word our lives will be far more enhanced and fulfilled when we can totally look to God’s word for direction and purpose. We find that through God’s word we are all created and made in the image of God to walk in power and dominion and to subdue the earth. The word of God is the most power—fullest entity in the universe and nothing else can be compared to it. The word of the Lord says that heaven and earth shall pass away, but the word of God shall stand forever. The word of God will be to you whatever you will allow it to be when we can just believe that through his word all things are possible.

There is no slackness, shortness or failure in the word of God for it will prosper wherever he sends it. Now we must also realize that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I believe the more we can expose ourselves to the word of God the more active it will become in our life. The woman with the issue of blood was motivated by the words she heard about Jesus that her faith brought her to a place of deliverance. Blind bartamaus cried out as he heard that Jesus was passing by for the recovery of his sight. What we hear will cause us to take heart and change our situation or cause us to faint without the victory.

More than just words also should make us aware of the little things that we say today that will determine our tomorrow. We have to be so careful that we watch over our words to perform them because the word of God is true and will bring forth the things that we speak. I think a lot of the times we really do not have a true revelation of what God is saying, we only think that we do based upon our own intellect. And the enemy, which is our adversary according to the word of God, came to steal, kill and to destroy but God has said that I have come that you may have life and life more abundantly. All of us at some point in our lives have spoken things that we wish we could take back, but that cannot happen; once our words leave our mouth they are active and will produce life or death.

We need to be so careful because we can say things that we are not aware of that can be causing us problems and we want know what is going on. The words that you speak may be all right in the right context, but in the wrong context they will hinder and hold us back. I can look back over my own life and see where I have spoken words that I didn’t put much thought in until the Holy Spirit would open up my understanding and spiritual ears to really hear what I was saying. We live in a time that we are so quick to hear what others are saying but we are not conscious of what we are saying. It is so easy to just start doing something, I have in my personal life tried to condition my self to be positive and to be aware of the things that I may say and to make sure that I operate in faith and believe God and his word.

We can do things for years and not even be aware of what we are doing, now you may be saying to yourselves how can I make that statement when the holy spirit should be operating in my life, well the answer is very simple, the holy spirit can not make us aware of things that we are doing and that’s wrong if we don not see anything wrong with it. How can I be convicted about something if I don’t see anything wrong with it, I will continue to think that everything is find when it really is not.

At this point in our lives is when the enemy can really operate through us because we do not see anything wrong with a situation, when God through his spirit wants to make us aware of why we are standing still and not moving forward. But it is at this point in our life that we are not sensitive to the Holy Spirit to make us aware of what we are doing? I remember in my own life that one day I just begin to speak the word maintaining, now where it came from I don’t know, it just seem to have surface. I would be going through the course of a day and people would ask how are you doing, and I would say maintaining.

This went on for I don’t know how long, but I begin to notice that things were not going the way they should be going. Little things were not working and you know that if little things were not working than the big things weren’t. I went on for a period of time wondering what was going on, asking my self was I being put to