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You won't lose any advantage by stating your objectives right up front. Laying your cards on the table at the onset will give both sides a clear picture of the objective you are trying to achieve, which makes the process much easier...-Seybert, Leaders........Genesis24:33 “Then food was served. But Abraham's servant said, 'I don't want to eat until I have told you why I have come'.”

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You won't lose any advantage by stating your objectives right up front. Laying your cards on the table at the onset will give both sides a clear picture of the objective you are trying to achieve, which makes the process much easier...-Seybert, Leaders........Genesis24:33 “Then food was served. But Abraham's servant said, 'I don't want to eat until I have told you why I have come'.”

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I have learned to love the darkness of sorrow, for it is there I see the brightness of God's face...-Madame Guyon........Genesis39:20,21,23 “Joseph's master took him and put him in prison. . . . But . . . tHe Lord was with him . . . and gave him success in whatever he did.”

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“From the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard.- Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. Give ear, O Lord unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon Thee: for Thou wilt answer me.”..- Daniel10:12.-Psalm86:5-7...

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It is not until a beautiful kernel of corn is buried and broken in the earth that its inner heart sprouts, producing hundreds of other seeds or kernels. And so it has always been, down through the history of plants, people, and all of spiritual life--God uses Broken Things...-LB Cowman, Streams..........Psalm51:17 “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.”

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Yet God strengthened them and protected them, even from themselves. Often, in His mercy He held them up when they otherwise would have slipped and fallen. And even in this life, they knew that all He did was done well. They knew it was good to suffer in this life so they would reign in the one to come; to bear the cross below, to wear a crown above; and to know that not their will but His was done in them and through them...-James Reimann, Streams in The Desert..........Galatians6:14 “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

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Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little...-Chinese proverb........Proverbs6:6-9 “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?”

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When faced with a decision-- decide. When faced with a choice-- choose. Sitting on the fence will leave you too tense--because you neither win nor lose!..-Barry Spilchuck........Proverbs15:19 “The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.”

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The person who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness enobles and satisfies. Don't put off the joy available from doing helpful and kindly things for others...-B.C.Forbes........

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You have no idea of where God is going to engineer your circumstances, no knowledge of what strain is going to be put on you either at home or abroad, and if you waste your time in over-active energies instead of getting into soak on the great fundamental truth of God's Redemption, you will snap when the strain comes; but if this time is spent getting rooted and grounded in God, you will remain true to Him whatever happens...-Chambers, My Utmost........John18:36“My kingdom is not of this world.”

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“Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain.- The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: He turneth it withersoever He will.- When a man's ways please the Lord, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.- The Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.”..-Psa76:10- Prov21:1.- Prov16:7.- Prov3:26...

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To love what you do and feel that it matters- how could anything be more fun?..-Katherine Graham........Proverbs9:6 “Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.”

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Live with an eternal perspective...-Joby Soriano........Colossians3:1 “If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness..-Ralph Waldo Emerson........Proverbs10:6 “Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.”

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You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional...-Joe Paterno........1John4:4 “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.”

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Goodness is the only investment that never fails...-Henry David Thoreau........1Chronicles29:12 “Both riches and honor come of Thee, and Thou reignest over all; and in Thine hand is power and might; and in Thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.”

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Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose and began to give freely, everything began to flow into my life...-Patti Labelle........2Chr29:13,14 “Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious Name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee.”

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Great hopes make great men...-Thomas Fuller........Jeremiah17:7 “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.”

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We do not need the grace of God to stand crises, human nature and pride are sufficient, we can face the strain magnificently; but it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint. To be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes...-Chambers, My Utmost........Jude “Building yourself up in your most holy faith.”

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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential. These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence...-Eddie Robinson..........1Chr29:11 “Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine; Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as head above all. Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious Name.”

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No one can stay on the mountaintop of favor forever, for there are responsibilities in the valley. Christ fulfilled His life's work not in the glory but in the valley, and it was there He was truly and completely the Messiah. The value of the vision and the accompanying glory is its gift of equipping us for service and endurance...-L.B.Cowman, Streams...........1Peter5:10,11 “The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To Whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”

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So to the heart that knows your love, O Father,//There is a temple sacred evermore,//And all life's angry voices causing bother,//Die in hushed silence at its peaceful door.//...- Harriet Beecher Stowe........Philippians4:7 “The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

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“The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.- Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? I Am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me: that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside Me. I Am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.- If God be for us, who can be against us?”...-Prov16:33.-Am3:6.-Isaiah45:5-7.-Romans8:31...

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It is always safe to trust God's methods and to live by His clock...-Samuel Dickey Gordon.............Daniel4:35.-Romans8:31 “He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, 'What doest Thou'?- If God be for us, who can be against us?”

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“There be many that say, Who will shew us any good?- What hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. All is vanity and vexation of spirit.- They have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.- When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them.”

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“A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.- A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.- Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.- Godliness with contentment is great gain. Having food and raiment let us be therewith content.”...-Luke12:15.-Psalm37:16.-Proverbs15:16.-1Titus6:6,8...

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Our “Father's house” is our home. And it is in the presence of the Lord. As believers, we know and understand that we are all travelers and not permanent residents of this world...-R.C.Gillie........2Cor5:1 “Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.”

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We have trouble accepting that someone who 'grew up' with us can be different from what they have always been, which is 'one of us'. Has sibling rivalry clouded your mission focus? Decide today that you'll accept it as unavoidable human nature and move on. Transcend Sibling Rivalry...-Seybert, Leaders........Mark6:3 “They scoffed, 'He's just a carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us.”

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“He changeth the times and the seasons: He removeth kings, and setteth up kings: He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.- Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled.”...-Daniel2:21.- Matthew24:6...

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“The Lord reigneth. Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at My presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?- Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another.”...-Psalm99:1.-Jer5:22.- Psalm75:6,7...

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“If God be for us, who can be against us?- Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. The very hairs of your head are numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”.....Romans8:31.- Matthew10:29-31...