Life's Perspectives: Wisdom for Everyday Living

By Kenneth L. Fairbanks

"Life's Perspectives, Wisdom for Everyday Living'' provides readers with practical application to spiritual and motivational concepts, empowering life situations and instructional solutions. This book can help all that have been adversely affected by dead religion and negative experiences. The wisdom expressed herein allows the average person to take control of their own lives. Purging old hurts, pain and destructive thinking from the minds and hearts of those that would experience new freedom and a productive mind-set. Life's Perspectives challenges the reader to press beyond the juvenile gospel to the place of personal peace and safety.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490739038

Kenneth L. Fairbanks

Kenneth Fairbanks was born and raised in Decatur, AL. He currently serves as Senior Pastor at Faithworks Ministries located in Greensboro, NC where he also serves on the policy level of several community organizations. In 2008 Pastor Fairbanks became CEO for Faithworks International Pastoral Alliance also headquartered in Greensboro, NC. Accomplishments like well projects to completing campus for 2000+ orphans called Morga Star Academy located in Nairobi Kenya. It is the second largest in the country with the largest number of orphans that have lost their parents to HIV-AIDS. God has given him vision for many other projects in the future. Kenneth Fairbanks is a great visionary and has compassion for ministry and for all people. One of his greatest assets is his ability to sense the heart and pulse of God. When he speaks he does not speak as men speak, but listens intently to the voice of the Spirit of God, and then shares God’s heart with his creation.

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CONTENTS

Missed Opportunities

The Silent Killer

Holy Intentions

Rebellion And Redemption

A Garden In The Valley

The Road Less Traveled

Subtle Deceptions

Abiding In The Shadow

Our Steps Are Ordered

Whitewashed Tombs

In Plain Sight

Don’t Go To Jerusalem

The Strength

To Keep Believing

The Decision To Continue

The Precepts Of Men

God’s Timing Is Perfect

Paying The Price For Victory

The Weight Of Wait

Without A Cause

Dying On The Vine

Imagination Is

The Devil’s Playground

The Dangers

Of Complacency

When Night Falls

This Is The Reason I Came

Don’t Resist The Process

The Tongue

Fear: The Gateway To Sin

The Terrors By Night

Baptism Of Suffering

Stoking The Fire

Upward Call, Downward Craving

The King’s Meat

A Human Point Of View

Death Before Dying

Catering To My Dysfunction

Failure To Launch

Get It Together

Save A Life, Destroy A Soul

Delayed Obedience

A Firm Foundation

The Way To Peace

The Power To Forgive

Moses Mentality, Joshua Calling

Alone In The Wilderness

I Will Make You A Sign

Death Of A Giant

Surviving The Test Of Being Overlooked

The Solace Of The Secret Place

Trusting God

Bitter Wine

MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

With all power in his hands, Jesus being filled with grief approached Jerusalem. He was grieved because he knew what the future held for the city that God loved so dearly. The ministry of Jesus was centered on Jerusalem, and his heart ached for his people. As he approached the city, his followers began to say, Bless the King who comes in the name of the Lord. But in that same crowd were some of the Pharisees, which said, Teacher, rebuke your followers for saying that. Is it not amazing that in this present day, Pharisees are still in the crowd. Why is it that some people work so hard to control others? Can you imagine walking through the crowd excited about Jesus and able to see him in the distance? You heard about the signs and wonders and miracles, and now you have the opportunity to see Jesus in person. But there’s just one problem—there is someone in the crowd that wants to silence your enthusiasm. The Pharisees were not concerned about the signs or the wonders or the blind that had their vision restored; they could care less about the lepers that were healed. They were only concerned with their own status and maintaining their places of power over the people. Be careful when your relationship with God delivers you from vain religion. Those that seek to enslave you with their counterfeit power always bring rallying accusations against the truth. They did not fear Jesus because they did not know Jesus. We must never allow the temporary to rebuke the eternal. The Pharisees asked Jesus to rebuke his followers for saying that God had sent him. Jesus replied that if they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers. We too must guard against the rocks crying out for us.

But as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city here he began to weep. How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late and peace is hidden from your eyes. Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls an encircle you and close in on you from every side. They will crush you into the ground and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place because you did not except your opportunity for salvation. (Luke 19:41–44, NLT)

THE SILENT KILLER

Doctors adviseus to all get a physical checkup frequently. Because God gave our bodies the ability to continue to work, play, and even rest when there are underlying problems, there may not always be signs to indicate the source of internal or external deficiencies. People have sometimes gone many years with major hidden illnesses. Only when our problem has become critical and the internal has worked his way into the external do we seek outside help. In the same manner, unbelief attacks our faith like a silent assassin. Subtly it begins slowly eating away at the fiber of our beliefs, weakening the foundation over time with no clear indicators.