1. Deuteronomy 30:15-16
 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

2. An Idea Born in 1940
As the nation recovered from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, and prepared for World War II, America was and looked very different…

3. Cars and American flags line the main street of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1942

4. Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska in 1942

5. Distributing surplus commodities. St. Johns, Arizona, October 1940.

6. Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family
Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940.

7. Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, homesteader.

8. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders
Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940.

9. The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout.

10. Do you remember?

11. This could change your life…
One-a-day
This could change your life…

12. Notable quotes,
“I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” Charles M. Schulz
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” -- Abraham Lincoln

13. Notable quotes,
“One day at a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” -- Ida Scott Taylor (Frances Crosby)

14. One-a-day
When you feel overloaded, you are trying to deal with too much at once. 

15. IF life was like a basket…
In the “Basket of Life” there are three types of bricks we too often carry around?
The Past
The Future
Today’s

16. The basket is much lighter now…
Bricks for today
Can be divided into two piles,
Things you have no control over…
Things you can have an impact on…
The basket is much lighter now…

17. So why worry?
Matthew 6:27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Either take action or let it GO!

18. One-a-day
Live by this rule and I guarantee everything will get better in your life, whatever you apply this one simple rule to will be changed in a positive way.
Do one thing, everyday, to improve something, to make it better, to have a positive influence.

19. For example…
Your _________________ , what one thing can you do, today, to make it better?
Just One-A-Day…

20. God believes in today
Hebrews 3:12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

21. God believes in today
Luke 9:23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
Psalm 68:19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.

22. God believes in today
Proverbs 30:7-9 “Two things I ask of you, Lord; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Matthew 6:11 Give us today our daily bread.

23. God believes in today
Acts 2:46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

24. God believes in today
Hebrews 4:6 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, 7 God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

25. invitation God believes in you, today He calls you to come home…
What can you do, what must you do today, to be closer to God?

26. Deuteronomy 30:15-16
 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.