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​Depression – My Turning Point

​Depression – My Turning Point

Take a stand. Do not let go!“Depression – My Turning Point” is the follow-up to my first Instagram video and email to you on depression. Go back and watch the video or read my first email to you on depression, if you haven’t seen them. The videos are posted on 2 Instagram pages. Click here: @shieldsofstrength or @JohnKennedyVaughan I wanted to follow up because I had hundreds of comments on that first post on depression, and I just know there are so many people who didn’t comment, who are fi …
15th Aug 2020 Kenny Vaughan
​True or False: Until You Love Yourself, You Can’t Love Others

​True or False: Until You Love Yourself, You Can’t Love Others

This is a serious falsehood.This subject gets me more 'unfollows' on Instagram than any other, but please think about it. It’s not my truth but it is a truth that set me free.Anyone who tells you to love yourself first doesn’t understand love. Neither did I for half of my life.Until you love yourself, you can’t love others is one of the worst lies we have ever been told. It’s like the perfect lie.The truth is if we love ourselves, we can’t love others. Because love puts something first. If I put …
15th Aug 2020 Kenny Vaughan
​Should You Do What Feels Right?

​Should You Do What Feels Right?

Should You Do What Feels Right?This truth will change your life: should you do what you feel is right?God didn’t give you feelings so you would follow them. My feelings could care less what is right.What is right to me is how you make me feel right now. You hurt me then I hurt you worse. You love me and I love you more until you hurt me.So. I’m letting you and my feelings control my life. All that leads me to fight for lies that destroy me; and leads me to encourage others to destroy their live …
24th Jul 2020 Kenny Vaughan
Seek Truth - Don't Act Out Of Fear

Seek Truth - Don't Act Out Of Fear

In these chaotic times, it is critical to remember that love is not rude or angry, but fear is; and seeking truth must always supersede our actions.“Anger is something we all feel, and those angry feelings are often beyond our control. I have never figured out how to stop feeling anger. Acting on our angry feelings, though, is something we often can control.“We can feel anger but still choose to be kind. Fear acts on the anger that it feels. Anger does not rule our lives when we feel it. Anger o …
18th Jun 2020 Kenny Vaughan

When to confront someone with the truth

The truth is way too important to ignore, but it’s also very powerful. So is God’s Word. When we have something so powerful, we should be carful how we deliver it. You don’t have to hit someone hard with a freight train in order to get their attention. Normally, all they have to do is see it coming, sometimes they need to be bumped by it, and as a last resort, they may need to be challenged with it. Our responsibility is to deliver the truth in a way someone is most likely to receive it. Not jus …
14th Oct 2019 Kenny Vaughan
Does love always do what others want?

Does love always do what others want?

If we really love someone, we tell them the truth as kindly as we can. Our goal is not to speak our mind or prove our point. It’s to help someone we love see the truth for their own sake. So we do all we can to communicate the truth in a way they are most likely to receive it. That’s the best we can do. After that we must trust God and pray they do as well. If someone is willing to tell you what they believe is the truth even if it offends you...they may just love you. Don’t be offended- be grat …
3rd Sep 2019 Kenny Vaughan
What brings life and what brings death?

What brings life and what brings death?

The truth is never hard to find, but it takes a lot of courage to be willing to look for it. It is always simple and easy to understand, so long as we are willing to set aside our own feelings. It’s found by digging deeper because if it’s true, the more we dig, the more truth we find. Lies, on the other hand, don’t want anyone digging into anything. So they respond with all kind of confusion and emotions, and pretend the truth is subject to them or their feelings. When we try to alter the truth …
3rd Sep 2019 Kenny Vaughan
Should we fight fear?

Should we fight fear?

Fear requires your help to hurt you. It’s bait is hurt and it’s greatest trap is self defense. Please don’t fight fear. It’s the wrong fight. It’s the fight for your fruit. The fight for your own destruction. The Right Fight is the fight for love. The fight for your roots not your fruit. The fight to love not to be loved. Matthew 16:25,”For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it; but if you lose your life for my sake, you will find it.” 1 John 4:18,”There is no fear in love. But per …
3rd Sep 2019 Kenny Vaughan
What to do whenever someone is rude to you

What to do whenever someone is rude to you

The trap is selfishness, the bait is offense, and the only way out is love. Love seeks the truth and sees life inside out. Fear sees life outside in. All fear cares about is what you do and how it makes it feel. Love also has feelings, but it stops and considers why you did what you did. It seeks truth and refuses to let offense lead it to be defensive. Fear is either the plaintiff or the defendant. Love sits on the jury of its own life. Luke 6:35, “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, …
23rd Aug 2019 Kenny Vaughan
How to know who you should marry

How to know who you should marry

Loving to be loved is not love it’s manipulation. If someone is loving us because we love them, then they may not be loving us at all. They may be loving themselves. It’s not always malicious either. Sometimes it’s all they know, and sometimes it’s all we know. That’s why it’s so important we love Jesus, because He will teach us how to really love. If the person who loves you hates their enemies, that’s a …
20th Aug 2019 Kenny Vaughan