#0002083

“Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light(Eph5:8).-We are not of the night nor of darkness(Thess5;5).- The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day(Prv4:18).- The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory(Isa60:19).- The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamb is the light thereof(Rev21:24).- They need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light (Rev22:5).- Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son(Rev22:5).”

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#0002084

While the hosts cry Hosanna, from heaven descending,/ With glorified saints and the angels attending,/ With grace onHis brow, like a halo of glory,/ Will Jesus receive His Own./’The light of the bright Morning Star(Rev22:16) will guide them upward along a brand-new path. The beams of that Star of the Morning will, like the Star of Betlehem, direct them to the presence of the King…-Horatius Bonar, Streams In The Desert….Psa30:5 “Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”

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#0002085

I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead them! I will comfort those who mourn(Isa57:18), bringing words of praise to their lips. May they have abundant peace, both near and far,’ says the Lord, who heals them(v19). But those who still reject me are like the restless sea, which is never still but continually churns up mud and dirt(v20). ‘There is no peace for the wicked,’ says my God(v21).”

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#0002086

“A just king gives stability to his nation, but one who demands bribes destroys it(Prv29:4).- The godly care about the rights of the poor; the wicked don’t care at all(Prv29:7).- The poor and the oppressor have this in common-the Lord gives sight to the eyes of both(Prv29:13).- The righteous despise the unjust; the wicked despise the godly(Prv29:27).- Greed causes fighting; trusting the Lord leadsto prosperity(Prv28:25).”

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#0002087

ABILITY is what you are capable of doing. . . MOTIVATION determines what you do. . . ATTITUDE determines how well you do it. . .-Lou Hltz……Phi4:13 “For I can do everything thrugh Christ, who gives me strength.”

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#0002088

“Go home to your family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful He has been(Mark5:19).- Our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ(1Jn1:3).- If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all(2Cor12:14).”

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#0002089

While you may not have thought about this, you can’t really know the will of God until you know Him. Knowing God’s will begins with a relationship with Him where you claim Him as your Father, confess you need of forgiveness, and allow Him to adopt you as His child. That is the most positive, energizing decision you can ever make. ‘My food,’ Jesus said, ‘is to do the will of Him who sent Me.’ He thrived on it. You will as well…- Sala, Refuge And Strength……Jn6:38 “For I have come down from heaven not to do My will but to do the will of Him Who sent Me.”

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#0002090

Do you know what God’s purpose for your life is? If yes, how are you going to finish the job? David prayed “Show me, O Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life(Psa39:4).” The question you need to answer is not how much time you still have, but what you are doing with the time you now have. Life can be cut short at any age. Identify your gifts and calling and then learn to prioritize so you have time and energy to accomplish what God put you on earth to do. You may leave undone the things that don’t really count, that take your time and energy and leave you too tired to love, to care, to rejoice, to bring blessings to others…-Sala, Refuge And Strength……….Rom10:12 “The same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.”

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#0002091

Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow…-Aesop……..Prv14:22 “If you plan to do evil, you will be lost; if you plan to do good, you will receive unfailing love and faithfulness.”

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#0002092

Only simpletons believe everything they are told! The prudent carefully consider their steps(Prv14:15). The wise are cautious and avoid danger; fools plunge ahead with reckless confidence(v16). Short-tempered people do foolish things, and schemers are hated(v17). Simpletons are clothed with foolishness, but the prudent are crowded with knowledge(v18).”

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#0002093

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one…-Mother Teresa…..Prv14:21 “It is a sin to belittle one’s neighbor; blessed are those who help the poor.”

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#0002094

He who has not looked on sorrow will never see joy…-Khalil Jibran………Psa75:9,10 “But as for me, I will always proclaim what God has done; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. For God says, “I will increase the power of the godly.”

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#0002095

“For in Him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring(Acts17:28).’ And since this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone(v29). God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now He commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to Him(v30). For He has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man He has appointed, and He proved to everyone who this is by raising Him from the dead(v31).”

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#0002096

Even if you’ve missed God’s plan entirely for years and years and years, that plan can still swing into operation the minute you’re ready to step up and step in, with God at your side…- Tony Evans……2Peter3:8,9 “But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn’t really being slow about His promise, as some people think. No, He is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent”

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#0002097

“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved(Joel2:32).”…..- So why don’t I call on His name? Why do I run to this person or that person, when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down to plot my own course and make my own plans? Why don’t I immediately place myself and my burden on the Lord? Straight ahead is the best way to run, so why don’t I run directly to the living God? Instead, I look in vain for deliverance everywhere else, but with God I will find it. And with Him I have His royal promise: ‘I will be saved’, and I never need to ask if I may call on Him or not, for the word ‘everyone’ is all encompassing. It includes me and means anybody and everybody who calls upon His name. Therefore I will trust in this verse and will immediately call on the glorious Lord who has made such a great promise…- Charles Spurgeon, Streams In The Desert…

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#0002098

Trust only movement…- Leo Buscaglia, Personhood…….Psalm138:7 “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me. The Lord will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.”

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#0002099

Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring(Prv27:1). Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth—a stranger, not your own lips(v2). A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier(v3). Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous(v4). An open rebuke is better than hidden love(v5)! Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy(v6). A person who is full refuses honey, but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry(v7).”

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#0002100

This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all(1Jn1:5). So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth(v7). But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin(v7). If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living the truth(v8). But if we confess our sins to Him. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness(v9). If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that His word has no place in our hearts(v10).”

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#0002101

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation…- Henry W Beecher<……..Luke6:32-34,37 “If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them! And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you get credit? Even sinners do that much! And if you lend money only to those who can repay you, why should you get credit? Even sinners will lend to other sinners for a full return.- You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.”

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#0002102

“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is His ear heavy, that it cannot hear(Isa59:1).- In the day when I cried Thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul(Psa138:3).- As I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came swiftly to me at the time of the evening sacrifice(Dan9:21).- Hide not Thy face far from me; put not Thy servant far away in anger: Thou hast been my help, leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation(Psa27:9).- Be not Thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste Thee to help me(Psa22:19).”

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#0002103

“Do not be troubled; trust in God and trust in Me(Jn14:1). In my Father’s house there are many rooms. Otherwise I would not have told you that I go to prepare a place for you(v2). After I have gone and prepared a place for you, I shall come again and take you to Me, so that where I am, you also may be(v3). Yet you know the way where I am going(v4). Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we don’t know where You are going how can we know the way(v5)?’ Jesus said, ‘I am they way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me’(v6).”

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#0002104

Oh, if only we would worry less about our problems and sing and praise more! There are thousands of things that shackle us that could be turned into instruments of music, if we just knew how to do it. Think of those people who ponder, meditate, and weigh the affairs of life, and who continually study the mysterious inner workings of God’s providence, wonderings of God’s providence, wondering why they suffer burdens and are opposed and battled on every front. How different their lives would be, and how much more joyful, if they would stop indulging in self-centered and inward thinking and instead would daily lift their experiences to God, praising Him for them. Oh, that we might sing morning and evening, offering up song after song of continual praise throughout our day…- Cowman-Reimann, Streams……2Chr20:22 “As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men . . . who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.”

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#0002105

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers…- Earl Nightingale……Psa63:6-8 “I lie awake thinking of You, meditating on You through the night. Because You are my helper, I sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings. I cling to You; Your strong right hand holds me securely.”

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#0002106

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart…- William Gurnall…..Rom8:9,10 “But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to Him at all. And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. The Spirit of God, who raised Christ Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, He will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.”

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#0002107

Our work is here is brief but its reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes away like a shadow…- Clare of Assisi…………..Psa111:7,8 “All He does is just and good, and all His commandments are trustworthy. They are forever true, to be obeyed faithfully and with integrity.”

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#0002108

“And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world(1Cor15:19).- Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen(Heb11:1).- That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him’(1Cor2:9). But it was to us that God revealed those things by His Spirit. For His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets(v10). No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thought except God’s own Spirit(v11). And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us(v12).-And when you believed in Christ, He identified you as His own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom He promised long ago(Eph1:13b). The Spirit is God’s guarantee that He will give us the inheritance He promised and that He has purchased us to be His own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify Him(v13).”

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#0002109

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide…-Cicero…..Ecc5:13 “I have seen a grievious evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner.”

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#0002110

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit…-Mark Twain…..Ecc7:8 “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.”

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#0002111

It is I; be not afraid(Jn6:20).- When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death(Rev1:17,18).- I even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins(Isa43:25).- If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous(1Jn2:1).”

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#0002112

Never act from obstinacy but from knowledge. All obstinacy is an excrescence of the mind, a grandchild of passion which never did anything right. There are persons who make a war out of everything, real banditti of intercourse. All that they undertake must end in victory; they do not know how to get on in peace. Such men are fatal when they rule and govern, for they make government rebellion, and enemies out of those whom they ought to regard as children. They try to effect everything with strategy and treat it as the fruit of their skill. But when others have recognized their perverse humor all revolt against them and learn to overturn their chimerical plans, and they succeed in nothing but only heap up a mass of troubles, since everything serves to increase their disappointment. They have a head turned and a heart spoilt. Nothing can be done with such monsters except to flee from them, even to the Antipodes, where the savagery is easier to bear than their loathsome nature…-Baltasar Gracian Aphorism218, Art Of Worldly Wisdom, by JJacobs…..Psa116:13 “I will lift up the cup of salvation and praise the Lord’s name for saving me.”

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#0002113

I feel the same way about managing that I do about investing: It’s just not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results…-Warren Buffett…….James4:2 “You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what other have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.”