Jeremiah 29:11

Why? What is your purpose in life? What drives you? Jeremiah 29 Jeremiah 29:11 Update Good morning everybody. Tom Hale, the Hale Man here with another daily God blog today is May 31st 2012 and it is a little bit raining out, but it is sunny where you are at today. Hey, today's Bible verse is Jeremiah 29:11. For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil to give you future and a hope. Okay, today, I want to talk about the reason why, why are you living life. Why are you here? What are you doing? An excellent book to read that I read about a couple of years ago, it is called the Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren and it is an awesome book and it really help you get connected with God and what is your purpose is on earth here. For years and years, I am 49-years-old now, okay, for years before I became a Christian about 5 years ago I had just gone down so many different pathways thinking that oh this is it, this is what I need to do and then all of a sudden the world basically my friends, family, whoever or my thinking would pull me away from that one thing and put me over here thinking, "Okay, well this is what I need to do now." And then all of a sudden I get pulled from here over to here. Now, I am finding out, okay, you know that is fine because I gained a lot of experiences with all those many different things that I have done in my life, but the thing is I was not connected with God and I don't feel that I was doing and living God's purpose in my life. Now that I am, okay, I feel so on fire. I feel so good, who would have thought I as 48 years old would be speaking of here and doing his video blogs. I mean love it because I wanted to change you guys or I want to help change you through God and not just you, but the whole world I feel like. I am just so on fire to have men stand up for themselves and get this feeling back of who you are, who we are and what our purpose is in life right now and it only comes through God. It is not just listening to the world out there. It is not the media obviously. It is not anything else, but what I am getting at is you need to listen and pray every single day on that voice in your head, okay, the voice that says that you should do something or you shouldn't do something and making those decisions. It is a habit you need to just keep praying, but sooner or later you are going to hear the voice of God speaking in you just say, "Yes." And usually it is loud and clear, okay. If you ask something to God should I do this and I made it so loud and the feeling is so intense that you know what to do. You need to start doing that because to get your reason why you have to be walking down that path and the path is the path with God. Okay, so many different doors are going to open for you. A lot of these oak doors are open by God, okay and you need to pray on it to find out is this the right thing. This new path I should be taking, but more importantly is you need to just keep walking and keep doing what you are doing as far as walking down the path. There has got to be somebody out here too. There has got to be somebody bigger, smarter, stronger than you that is leading you down the path. Now I do Taekwondo and I am black belt but I didn't get that way from being taught by a yellow belt. I was taught that way by a teacher of a 7th degree black belt. He is way bigger, way better, way more skilled than I am, but it is a level that I had to keep going through to get to that path. Now once you are black belt there is a second degree, there is the third degree all the way up to I think it is 7th degree and those are really old guys that just basically have all the full knowledge and everything now. So basically that is how it is, you just have to keep on the path but you have to listen to the voices of God, you have to listen to and do what you think and what God is telling you to do as far as what your reason is in life and what your purpose is here. The main purpose though is basically serving others like I keep telling you guys. It is serving others and helping other people on earth and bringing God's kingdom to them and spreading God's kingdom throughout this earth and that is when I am on fire to do with you guys and we are going to get there one guy at a time, one thought at a time, right. I love you guys lots. I will talk with you later.

7 Rules of Success

7 Rules for Success UPDATE Good morning everybody. Tom Hale the Hale Man with another daily God blog. Today is Wednesday, May 30th, 2012. Today's Bible verse comes from NLT translation which is Psalm 68:11 The Lord gives the word and a great army brings the news. What is the great word? The great word is the Bible. The great army is men like you and me changing our thoughts and ourselves one man at a time. These are my 7 rules that I try to live by. You can check these out and use these. Use your own for as long as you are doing something on a habitual basis, doing it as a habit. Number one, go to church weekly. This is showing up every week to church. Not just on Christmas, not just on the holidays when you want to go or when your wife or your family members say, "Hey, let's go." It is you being the man of the house, you taking control, getting the family up, driving them down there every week showing up. Number two, be part of men's group weekly meeting, okay. I have two of them that I go to. One is on Sunday morning. It is only 3 guys that I meet with. The other is on Thursday mornings and it is anywhere from like 5 to 8 guys that show up. We do life together. We read the Bible. Sometimes if we have problems, we raise that man up to God and pray for him and try to figure out and help him solve that problem so it is not going there and gossiping. It is something to help each other out and man I will tell you when you are around a group of guys on a weekly basis it changes your life, believe me, you will love it if you start doing it, if you are doing it, congratulations. Number three, no porn. No pornography, zip nadda, nothing, nothing on the internet, nothing in magazines, nothing. Okay there is a program out there on the web that is called Triple X Church, I highly recommend that you check it out because it is going to hold you accountable so no porn, nothing, because that will wreck your lives, right there. Number four, give and serve others all the time. I spoke to a couple of weeks ago how I have helped out my neighbor with his bark dust just for a couple of hours, one day and I went back and helped out again. His name was Guy and man he you know, he really appreciated that. What can you do on a daily basis or something to help others out instead of thinking of yourself first, it is not about you it is about other people, that is the mentality that you have to think because that is what God wants. Number five, exercise and keep in shape as you see with this daily blogs I usually do these right after I get them running or exercising. This morning I did P.9.ex. Yesterday I did like a 10 K or 5 mile run, 10 k run. It is eating right, being healthy because if you don't feel good how can anything come out of your mouth and mind that is right, okay so exercising and eating right and feeling good about yourself and living longer. You want to live as long as you want right. Number six, read Bible daily for 20 minutes, that is it— it is just the habit of reading the Bible every single day. There is a plan out there on the internet called youversoin.com that you can download into your iPhones or your phones, your smart phones and your iPads, but youversoin.com and I am on my second year right now reading the Bible from Genesis all the way to revelation, okay and it is basically 20 minutes a day or 15 minutes somewhere in there and it just keeps you in tune with the Bible and the holy spirit starts to work through you which makes all of these other things so much easier. Number seven, pray everyday with your wife, your girlfriend if you don't have one of those, family member, a friend or by yourself. I was just out camping with the guys and every morning I get up and I would say some prayers right there in my tent and man it made me feel so powerful and when I went to bed I did the same thing. Okay, so these are habits you have to in grain. You can't rely on the world out there, because the world is not God. You guys got to understand this. What is going on out there right now is you know what it is there is nothing to grab on to, nothing solid like God. I have never felt like more than a man that I have these past 5 years of my life by being saved and being a Christian, okay, but anyway just do these things I am going to talk to you guys again in another couple of days. Love you lots. Talk to you later.

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Bees and neighbors

Bees and helping your neighbor. HaleManTom Good Morning Everybody! Tom Hale, The Hale Man, here talking to you today again on another beautiful Happy Valley, Oregon day. Man, we have had a lot of rain and a lot of bad weather here. It is always like that here in the spring time though and everybody complains, I don't know why they do it but I even do it. I grew up here so "Hey, I just wanted to share with you a little story today, that came to my mind that I would really like to share with you right now and basically it comes from the scripture that I get from the Bible is Mark 9:35 and that is when Jesus sat down with his 12. He said, "Whoever of you wants to be first must come in last and serve everyone else." And that is the scripture I told. I think I said yesterday and the day before. Well, I am still stuck in this one right now because I want you guys to get this and it took me years to get this one. Okay, I am going to point over to my neighbor across the street. His name is Guy. He is a great guy and what he did is he was unloading a dump truck and loaded about $1,000 worth of barked dust the other day right in his driveway there and what he was doing is he was starting to shovel all the bark dust around the backyard and on the sides of his beautiful home there.And I woke up Saturday morning and what I had planned was definitely not what came out of it, I was going to do yard work here in my house and I got a lot of stuff to do here, but God really tugged in my heart to get over there with my wheel borrow and shovel and just start helping him out. I didn't know how long I was going to be there for, but of course Guy was pretty happy that I did show up and you know, we high five and it was all good. When I got done it was like 3 hours later and I was sweating really hard and it just felt good to help my neighbor out.Now what I wanted to share with you is this, believe me when I was over there so many different things went through my mind like why can't you be doing working on your own house doing your own things, your own chores, why aren't you out bike riding? You know you can just tell him some excuse and I am sure he would understand, of course he would, but that is not what happened. Those thoughts kept coming trough my mind but, God in my heart just said, "Stay here man you know there is going to be time where he might need you" but that is really not it, that name didn't come in my mind it is just I just felt like being there.So the moral of the story here is what happened, okay. I am going to walk over here and I am going to show you 2 days after that is aw this huge swarm of bees up on the side of my house and we are talking 10,000 bees. What they decided to do is they decided to nest up right under my deck. Okay, right up in there. Well, I would really don't want to spend the money to hire exterminator to come over and I sure as heck wasn't going to get up there and start to remove the bees myself, because I hate bees believe me. I can't stand them. I mean I would run from them. I have been stung so many times when I was a kid.Guess what the guy across the street has about 20,000 bees in the back of his backyard. He is like a bee keeper, okay so I went over there and lowe and behold he comes over all suited up and after a couple of trips he decides to vacuum them out with like a Shot-Vacadn I think he got the queen bee because they are all gone and he even came back and sealed everything up tight so he not only saved me money and time, but you know his heart was in it to come help me so I just want to share that with you that the real moral of the story is God works through us when we work with him.When we give our hearts to other people and not really think about the consequences and think about you know why am I dong this and try to justify this or that, if we just listen to God and put others first what she wants everything works out, see. I could have spent like 500 or a thousand bucks or whatever it cost to have that exterminated or I could have tried to do it myself and died by getting stung a million times but God was happy, Guy was happy too because you know he got the bees, he got them out of there and it was something that he enjoys doing.So get out there guys, help others don't think about it in your heads, what is going to happen or I kind of do this, stop justifying everything and just do what your heart tells you to do, every single day, all right, especially, today. Love you lots and I will talk with you later.

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Men Rising Up!
Good morning guys, Tom Hale here with your daily God blog, and I am coming to you from beautiful Happy Valley, Oregon. I think today is May 9th, Wednesday. I just got done with my 10k run here in Happy Valley. It is about 5.2 miles. Getting ready for a marathon in October, my wife and I are going to be doing that and I am also doing what is called the Spartan Race here coming up in about 2 weeks. It is like a 5k obstacle course run that I am going to be crazy enough to get involved in, but the point is it is not about those races it is about just doing what I am doing everyday right now and just getting in shape or trying to stay in shape and eat healthy. So basically what I wanted to talk to you guys about today is starting these blogs. I don't know how often I am going to be doing it, but I feel like doing them everyday right now. I feel there is a huge uprising that needs to be done with the men in this city Happy Valley, Portland in Oregon and basically the rest of the country and because it is not just here, it is everywhere. I feel that the guys. I don't now I don't feel much for a lot of the men out there right now. I feel a lot of guys are broken. Broken, meaning their hearts are broken, they are not real men, real guys doing guy things for 45 years I was one of those guys, I am 49 now, but about 3 years ago I got baptized and a little before that I started going to church for the first time in my life and it has totally changed my life because all before that it was just all about me.You guys know what I am talking about. Go in seminars if you can, rah, rah, rah, I am the greatest and you go home and who is your leader. You know you are y our own leader, right. Now, God's your leader, you guys need to get that straight. I got it straight and it has totally changed my life. You know I used to look at guys like me when I didn't know God and I used to say, "Oh you know he is— he has a crutch" or "he has a Bible thumb" you know "he can't do it on his own" well you know what I am changing that around now and I look at it the other way is I see guys like I used to be for 45 years as the Weak ones, the guys that couldn't give in and say, "You know what? There is a God. There is somebody greater, so much greater than me, that loves me that is going to give his heart to me, but already has given his heart and his soul to me" and anyway that is where I am coming from right now.And what I wanted to talk to you about is it is just daily life, daily things that happen whether you are with your wife, whether with your girlfriend or if you are not that point in your life where nobody is in your life, it is okay. And what I am trying to do is just speak to you guys form my heart. I have been through all of those things, most of all those things without a girlfriend, without a wife or now with a wife and what God is just telling me and just screaming in my ears right now is for the guys just to raise up and take back what is going on or this country and the way we do it isn't by going out and just say, "Hey, I am the greatest, look at me" and we become successful. No, we become successful by giving, by giving ourselves to others. To our wives, to the church, to whatever we have going on everyday and how do we do that?Well, right now like I am thinking the first thing that comes to my mind is my wife. You know, what do I do, instead of sitting there and complaining about how she is not fulfilling my needs what am I doing for her? Making the bed, am I doing some laundry, am I you know I can already hear it right now where guys are going, "Oh man, how are you going to do that you know that is her job." Well maybe it is or maybe it isn't it doesn't matter, but at least you can help out a little bit. I am not saying do it all the time. I am saying give, okay, like this morning, do the dishes, maybe you won't do them for another two weeks or something, but do something for your wives or girlfriends or for your families, if you are 18-years-old and you don't have anybody yet except for your immediate family.Get in the house and do some chores even if it is not chores that day, then at least just saying good morning and having a good attitude, right? So basically that is where I am coming from is for all the men just to take responsibility and just to start giving of themselves and boy, I will tell you if you just start doing one of those things a day, you know how everybody says, "Oh, you know do one random act of kindness a day" and when I used to think of that I used to think of, okay, well I will let somebody through the stop sign first when I am driving. That is my one random act of kindness." How about starting with yourself and your family, okay because when you start doing it that way it bleeds off to others and it becomes a habit. It becomes the person that you are and the person that God wants you to be come and it just starts snowballing from there because you start doing it one thing and the next starts happening.And the way we become warriors, okay, men, every man that I know and has ever, have ever known has wanted to become a warrior, okay. You become a warrior, by getting down and dirty in the mud everyday, you get down and dirty by doing what you don't feel like doing, okay. That is like opening the car door for your wife or your girlfriend everyday, no matter what. Why don't you start doing that, okay? How about that one today? Open the car door or door for your wife or your girlfriend today and if you don't have that to do, then at least do something around the house, okay, all right. I love you guys a lot and we are going to take this back, I will talk to you later.