KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING!
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
TEXT:
Matthew 6: 33 But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.
Acts 13: 22 --- I have found David the son of Jessie, a man after mine own heart, which
shall fulfill all my will.
Luke 6:37 ---- forgive and ye shall be forgiven: 38. Give and it shall be given unto you,
good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.
For with what ever you measure it shall be measured unto you!
Life has set this old boy to pondering again, thinking about life and death, friends and time.
We get so busy at Christmas, OR IN DAILY LIFE, we lose focus, we forget the main thing.
The Main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. By the way what is the main thing?
I wrote this for WADE M. HUGHES, my Dad’s 69th birthday. 2/7/1931.
DON’T FORGET HEAVEN!
BY Wade Martin Hughes, Sr
2/07/2000
Today, be reminded of something very important...
Don’t forget heaven.
You are busy, the journey has been long,
You are so very tired.
Lack of sleep and terrible dreams rob your rest,
Not all share your vision, with great enthusiasm & respect...
But don’t forget heaven.
Trials and tribulations press on every side,
Dark clouds virtually hide God’s plan from view....
Don’t forget heaven.
Sickness and pain and hurt, leave a seemly endless trail of tears.
You are not over the last wound, and you are wounded again....
Don’t forget heaven.
You feel like a failure and feel no one sees your kind deeds.
The trophy case is empty, the letters of recognition few,
At times you almost doubt your call....
Don’t forget heaven.
The money is not there, the budget looks bleak.
Debt grows, pressure builds...
Don’t forget heaven.
You can’t remember the last time there was a word of encouragement,
The medicine of laughter has been stolen from your heart,
Joy seems so elusive ...
Don’t forget heaven.
Loneliness smothers your breath of life,
Separation by death has taken a voice of support & wisdom,
Time has removed a friend.
Misunderstanding & rejection has brought a sense of loss ...
Don’t forget heaven.
Bars of bone imprison my soul and spirit,
When will I ever be free?
Don’t forget heaven.
Don’t forget heaven...
Our home is ahead, prepared by the Master.
A few more tears, a few more valleys,
A few more trudging uphill climbs,
See, Look there, the lights of HOME beckon for me....
Don’t forget heaven.
I am not going down,
My eyes peer over yon’ eastern hill,
The angel practices his "REUNION REVEILLE,"
The stable prepares the white horse.
My groom, my love makes ready.
The invitation has arrived,
"Come for all things all now ready!"
Friend, DON’T FORGET HEAVEN.
WE ARE ALMOST HOME.
DON’T FORGET HEAVEN!
Let’s meet at Jesus’ feet
The same time that separates us, will one day bring us together forever, until then we must ---
#1) forgive, ---- then be---
#2) faithful no matter what, ----
#3) faith, we must keep the faith, faith is an action word, not a reaction.
You, are special, you are unique. Friends are the flowers of life. Each one different, each one beautiful in their own way.
I thank God for friends.
The Main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
By the way what is the main thing? Do you know? Has life stolen your dream?
But we know that it is very easy to lose your dream. Looking from outside in, and the anointing tells me, our
enemy is trying or has stolen your dream. To be too honest, the enemy is trying to steal your dreaming ability.
My friend, we must get our dreaming ability back. No one else can take your dream, dreams are sold for bitterness,
unforgiveness, and from BIG DISAPPOINTMENTS. The biggest disappointments never come from others but when we
choose to become disappointed in self. I know the foot in the butt syndrome. I also know when you carry you can kick yourself silly.
When you kick yourself, you are also kicking Jesus.
God can? I ask you can God? Can God? or God can! It is up to you!
See, what God needs to do in you --- we must trust that all that has happened is part of a plan and a purpose.
We celebrate in our life’s, and thank God for all the precious memories.
The reason we get so down is, we are focusing on failures and negative circumstance.
My friends, we must let God! How do we let God?
We trust HIM, God does not throw away the clay, God wants to recycle us and our dreams.
The Main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
By the way what is the main thing? No sadder words of pen or tongue,
than the words WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN?
We lose sight of the goal?
Vultures circle for food?
Life has a purpose, as does death. We need God to restore our dreams. So you failed. So what?
Acts 13: 22 --- I have found David the son of Jessie, a man after mine own heart, which
shall fulfill all my will.
David failed and is listed in the Bible as a man after God’s own heart. I can see and feel your pain.
Death to our dreams will eventually kill us, but the resurrection power of God’s dreams bring new HOPE.
We need NEW HOPE? Death is not death if it brings us closer to God, we just go into the closet (the grave)
and change. Why not change here?
As graduation from the kindergarten qualifies one to go to the first grade, we must take HOPE and step-up.
The enemy will not give you HOPE. You must take HOPE and KEEP HOPE. So with God our HOPE knows ---
so death qualifies us to real life, abundant life.
Look what has really happened, we just travel and are in the land of our dreams, no more tears, no more pain,
a reunion of the ages, to see JESUS face to face, and join the praises around the throne eternal. Of course, today
could be painful and we will share some tears, but may we also celebrate in that GOD DOES ALL THINGS WELL.
Get you an old songbook and look up a song called "ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME," this is our story.
Sing, "It is well, it is well with my soul ..."
HOW CAN WE SING THAT? UNLESS WE CATCH A NEW VISION, WE DREAM AGAIN.
Know, the same time that separates us will bring us together again AND THAT OUR GOD REIGNS. Don’t forget that.
Celebrate the HOPE IN JESUS, we will be together. We never lost our family, we know where they are,
we shall be WITH THEM. Maybe soon, Jesus will come and WHAT A DAY THAT WILL BE WHEN JESUS WE SHALL SEE,
I think our loved ones gone before have already been at Jesus’ feet and ask Jesus to touch His hurting family,
RECEIVE AGAIN DAILY A NEW DREAM. FORGIVE, BE FAITHFUL, AND RELEASE THE FAITH.
I am not very smart as anyone can see that, but I have developed a class which I call ... PHILOSOPHY 101.
The Main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. By the way what is the main thing?
Do you feel alone? Is your heart broken? Have others made bad choices, and then you get the blame?
Do you have a FIX IT MENTALITY? You want to be everyone’s messiah, and then stab you in the back?
FOR MY TIME writing this: I ASK YOU TO PONDER THESE POINTS ONE BY ONE.
I am learning these things.....
1) Nothing is as bad as it first appears. SO GET UP AND TRY AGAIN.
2) Good comes out of evil, I HAVE READ THE END OF THE BOOK THE ENEMY DOES NOT WIN.
3) Nothing can happen to you today that God can’t handle, QUIT ACTING LIKE AN ORPHAN.
4) The good news is the bad news is not true, SO WHY EVEN THINK ON THE BAD?
5) Time is a tonic, IF YOU REFUSE ANGER AND BITTERNESS, GOD WILL TAKE TIME AND BRING HIS PLAN ..
(Rom. 8:28.)
6) You deserve what you tolerate, you are a product of your own choices. CHOOSE LIFE AND WHOLENESS.
7) Life is a mirror, YOUR ATTITUDES COME OUT WHERE EVER YOU ARE.
8) It is not what happens to you that matters, it is what happens in you, THAT IS WHY YOU NEED THE BIBLE.
9) Problems neither make you strong or weak, they just show which you are, QUIT BLAMING OTHERS, FOR YOU AND
GOD ARE THE SOLUTION.
10) Tribulation is a test tube, YOU WILL GROW TALL STANDING IN MANURE.
11) It takes more faith to get out of the boat, than it does to stay seated? Yet the world will talk about the man that
dares to try, THEY WILL TALK ANYWAY, SO TRY HARDER.
12) Bury the past or it will bury you, BITTERNESS IS A CANCER.
13) You can if you want to .... DO YOU WANT TO..?
14) What you love you will find time for.... WHY NOT FIND MORE TIME FOR OTHERS AND GOD?
15) Trouble and sorrow and life are only temporary, THERE IS A TIME TO QUIT CRYING AND START
LAUGHING, I’ll cry if I want too is not smart.
16) If you hate stink, keep your garbage can clean, HIDDEN SIN DESTROYS GOOD MEN.
17) Do not entertain doom and gloom, GOD DELIVERS UNLESS YOU WANT TO STAY IN THE SEPTIC TANK.
Dad always said, "Don’t be to free with your advice, the smart already know it, and a fool won’t listen."
But I felt compelled to say lean back in the arms of the Lord and read JOHN chapter 14.
ASK GOD TO RESTORE YOUR DREAMING ABILITY, IF THIS DREAM FAILS, LETS US DREAM AGAIN.
IT IS HIGH TIME TO GET UP AND TRY AGAIN. YOU AGREE?
The Main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. By the way what is the main thing?
This will be your choice to decide what is important? I can’t tell you? But I can tell you, it is more than what your
mouth says, it is your action. TRY AGAIN! GIVE A LITTLE MORE! Triumph is just a little try and a lot of umph!
The person that loses their dreaming ability will always be doomed to sameness.
Please, God restore our dreaming ability. Where there is no dreaming tears flow.
Luke 6:37 ---- forgive and ye shall be forgiven: 38. Give and it shall be given unto you,
good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.
For with what ever you measure it shall be measured unto you!
GET UP AND GO AGAIN! HOPE AGAIN! DREAM AGAIN! FOCUS AGAIN!
My hands are so small, if you would tell others and pass on my work, you would be a team member and help me.
A friend and servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
