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There is tremendous wisdom in the saying, Love what you do; do what you love. God did not intend for our work to be a drag. He made us each unique and gave us a purpose so that we could experience life in all its fullness, as Jesus promised...-Seybert, Leaders............John10:10b ....I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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Live Abundantly... The secret is to live the life God intended for you, using the talents He gave you and seeking His purpose. When you finally stop trying to fit into a box you've made for yourself and begin to focus on God's plan for you, your fatigue and lousy attitude will begin to fade away... Jacob worked seven years for Laban in exchange for Rachel's hand. I'm sure he was physically tired at the end of each, but his attitude didn't suffer because he had a purpose. Jacob had his eye on the prize, and the days flew by... Are you living the Abundant Life? Do you need to make some changes?..........-Seybert, Leaders..Genesis29:20 Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.

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My blessed, fruitful, and victorious experiences of yesterday have no lingering value to me today. In fact, they can be swallowed up or reversed by today's failures, unless I see them as incentives to spur me on to even better and richer experiences today... Maintaining this fresh touch with God, by abiding in Christ, will be the only thing to keep the ugly and gaunt . . . cows and the thin heads of grain from consuming my life...-Samuel Dickey Gordon, from Messages for the Morning Watch........Genesis41:4,7 The cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads.

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Every highway of life descends into the valley now and then. And everyone must go through the tunnel of tribulation before they can travel on the high road of triumph...-LB Cowman, Streams........Judges3:9-10 When they cried out to the Lord, He raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel . . , Caleb's younger brother, who saved them. The Spirit of the Lord came upon him.

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The worst hunger today is not the hunger for FOOD, but the hunger for LOVE. - Mother Teresa...- John14:23 If any man love me, he will keep My Words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. And the only real failure is the one not attempted...-Raul Romulo........Romans8:22,23 The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, . . . groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

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I keep my thoughts positive, for my thoughts become my behavior. I keep my behavior positive, for my behavior becomes my habit. I keep my habits positive, for my habits become my values. I keep my values positive, for my values become my destiny...-Ghandi........1John4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement: because as He is, so are we in the world.

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Even Heroes have the right to bleed...-from the'Superman' Movie song......Hebrews13:20-21 The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His Will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to...-Thomas Hardy...........Galatians5:22 The fruit of the Spirit is peace.

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YAHWEH ROPHE, THE HEBREW NAME FOR GOD OUR HEALER. Exodus15:22-26; Luke6:18,19 I Am the Lord your Healer... He heals us-body, soul and spirit. And He gives us His power and authority to heal others in His Name...

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The HEART remembers all SPECIAL MOMENTS when goodness made a difference. May the LOVE you share with others return to you in countless ways!...-Raul Romulo........Ephesians5:1.-Galatians5:1 Be ye . . . followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love.- The fruit of the Spirit is love.

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Learn to say, Here's my idea. How can we make it better?... God plants seeds of vision in you; He wants you to take your skills as far as they will go. Don't hold back. God takes pleasure in watching His children do what He created them to do... He encourages us to dream big dreams and think grand thoughts... Go for it...-Seybert, Leaders........Isaiah55:8 My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts. And My Ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

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They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things... If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.-My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver... My son, give Me thine heart.--Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth... Keep yourselves from idols........1Tim6:9-11. Psa62:10.-Prv8:19. Mat6:21.--1Sam16:7. Prv23:26.--Col3:2...1John5:21.

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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of LOVE...-Raul Romulo..........Romans8:11 If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.

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A person who has Christ as his Master is the master of every circumstance. Are your circumstances pressing in on you? Do not push away, for they are the Potter's hands. And you will learn to master them not by stopping their progress but by enduring their discipline. Your circumstances are not only shaping you into a vessel of beauty and honor but also providing you with resources of great value...-LB Cowman, Streams In The Desert........Psalm25:14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him.

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Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare...-Japanese Proverb........Colossians3:3.-Psalm19:5 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.- which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

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This pivotal moment in Joseph's life highlights the perpetual struggle between those who see the need for change (the dreamers) and those who are heavily invested in the past (the settlers)... Settlers always seem to be in charge. By their nature, they stick around and establish roots. When dreamers come along and suggest there might be something outside the walls, they are thrown into cisterns. Dreamers always pay a price, but in exchange for the hazards, they are rewarded with the glory of a new idea before it's dented and bent by settlers who squeeze it into their visions of the past... Dare to Dream On...-Seybert, Leaders........Gen37:19 Here comes the dreamer! they said. Come on, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns.

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Tropical Cyclones are immensely powerful low-pressure systems capable of generating 10times as much energy as the Atomic Bomb... Also known as Typhoons or Hurricanes, Cyclones are storms that rotate around a moving center of low atmospheric pressure.They develop over tropical oceans, working up surface winds of more than 120kph. Sucking up vast quantities of water, producing torrential rains and flooding resulting in major loss of life and property damage. Blowing counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern. Often lasting up to 2 weeks, the 'eye' of a hurricane is circular with light winds and fair weather found at the center of a severe cyclone, and is 30 to 60 km wide...-PDInquirer..........Psalm68:34 Proclaim the power of God. . . whose power is in the skies

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TIME & THINGS don't really last. What matters are the people we care about and the values we dare to live and share...-Raul Romulo........John16:33 In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

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INTEGRITY: Uncompromising adherence to moral and ethical principles; The state of being whole or entire; A sound or unimpaired condition...-Websters........Proverbs10:9 The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.

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The Patience of Faith... Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and he stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says- I cannot stand anymore. God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. For what have you need of patience just now? Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. Though He slay me, yet will I wait for Him....-Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest....... Revelations3:10 Since you have kept My command to endure patiently.

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Adventure ahead! Trust God to show you the way... Mordecai encouraged the young Queen Esther to help rescue her people... Esther was naturally frightened to take this assignment. But God used her courage and faith to deliver her people...-Cindy Hess Kasper........Esther4:14 If you remain completely silent . . . deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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God has ventured all in Jesus Christ to save us, now He wants us to venture our all in abandoned confidence in Him...'Now this is eternal life: that they may know You'. The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power...-Chambers, My Utmost............Isaiah41:10 Do not be afraid for I am with you. Do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

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Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but Thine, be done.- Come, Lord Jesus.- Make no tarrying, O my God.- Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God....Luke22:42.-Revelations22:20.-Psalm40:17.-2Peter3:12...

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Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit.- After that you believed ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.- We walk by faith, not by sight.- If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.- Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward....1Cor2:9,10.-Eph1:13,14.- 2Cor5:7.- 1Cor15:19.- Heb10:35...

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When once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless, we cast off certain restraints, we cast off praying, we cast off the vision of God in little things, and begin to act on our own initiative. If we are eating what we have out of our own hand, doing things on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on the downward path, we have lost the vision. Is our attitude today an attitude that springs from the vision of God? Is there a freshness and vigour in our spiritual outlook?...-Proverbs29:18 Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint.

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Without solitude, we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of our false self...-Raul Romulo........Psalm46:1.-Psalm112:7 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.- These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.

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But soon or late the man who wins Is the one who thinks he can...-Walter D. Wintle........Matthew21:22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit...-Aristotle...........James1:12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

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There are no gains without pains...-Adlai Stevenson........Romans5:3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

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A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain...-Mildred Struven........Colossians1:28-29 We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I labor, struggling with all His energy, which so powerfully works in me.