More Spiritual Thoughts 2

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Go. This is the command of our Lord. Where? To the world, for it is the world that is on God's heart. Out there are multitudes for whom Christ died. And the minute you and I receive the light of the gospel, we at that moment, become responsible for spreading that light to those who are still in darkness. Granted, we cannot all go physically, but we can go on our knees.
~ Kay Arthur

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Each of us is an original. ~ Galatians 5:26 The Message

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Courage is grace under pressure.


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You have a ticket to heaven no thief can take,
an eternal home no divorce can break.
Every sin of your life has been cast to the sea.
Every mistake you've made is nailed to the tree.
You're blood-bought and heaven-made.
A child of God-forever saved.
So be grateful, joyful-for isn't it true?
What you don't have is much less than you do.
~ A Life Worth Giving

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Learn to be silent.
Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
~ Pythagoras

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Nothing comes your way that has not passed through the filter of His love.

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You are You-Nique

Each of us is an original. ~ Galatians 5:26 [The Message]

God made you you-nique.

Secular thinking, as a whole, doesn't buy this. Secular society sees no author behind the book, no architect behind the house, no purpose behind or beyond life. It simply says, "You can be anything you want to be."

Be a butcher if you want to, a sales rep if you like. Be an ambassador if you really care. You can be anything you want to be. But can you? IF God didn't pack within you the meat sense of a butcher, the people skills of a salesperson, or the world vision of an ambassador, can you be one? An unhappy, dissatisfied one perhaps. But a fulfilled one? No. Can an acorn become a rose, a whale fly like a bird, or lead become gold? Absolutely not. You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.
~ MaX Lucado, Care For The Common Life

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You have the power to change someone's life by the words that you speak. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue."
~Max Lucado; A Life Worth Giving

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Today's Thought

Get a pencil and paper and write down everything for which you are grateful to God for. Every gift, each blessing, anything you can think of. After a while you'll run out of paper and your pencil will wear down to a tiny nub, but keep going as long as you can.

Then take your list and item by item, line by line, tell God how much you appreciate what he has done in and through your life. Be excited about your gifts and talents, your abilities and assets. Be exuberant in your praise. Don't hold anything back. Unplug all the stops and let your praise pour forth. Your blessings are wonderful news.

Know how much you are blessed, and then show that you know.

[QUIET MOMENTS IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD, P 270]

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You can stand tall because God lifts you up. You can stride confidently because God walks with you.
[Quiet Moments In The Presence of God, p 34]

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There are always risks in freedom.

The only risk in bondage is that of breaking free.

~ GITA BELLIN

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Seek always for the answer within.

Be not influenced by those around you,
by their thoughts or words.
~ Eileen Caddy

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II Peter 3:8
One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

So remember when struggles come...THIS TOO SHALL PASS

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the letting go of the past and is therefore the means for correcting misperceptions.

~ Gerald G. Jampolsky

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"Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it." ~ Genesis 2:15

Innocence, not indolence, characterized the first family...

God unilaterally calls all the physically able to till the gardens he gives. God honors work. So honor God in your work.

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Who you are has nothing to do with the clothes you wear or the car you drive. The Master said, "Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot" [Luke 12:15, The Message] Heaven does not know you as the fellow who wears a nice suit or the woman with the big house or the kid with the new bike. Heaven knows your heart. ~ Max Lucado