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I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort...-Elizabeth King..........1Corinthians13:7 Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone...-Orison Marden........James1:3-5 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

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The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition...-Nick Seitz........1John4:18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

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What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us;it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with GOD...-«Charlene» M.Baldwin...... 1Peter5:6-7 "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you".

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FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD: 1John5:13-15 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His Will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of Him.

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Your training for a life of faith requires many areas of learning, including the trial of faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith, and the courage of faith. Often you will pass through many stages before you finally realize the result of faith--namely, the victory of faith. The 'everything' mentioned in Mark9 does not always come simply by asking, because God is always seeking to teach you the way of faith...-LB Cowman, Streams In The Desert........Mark9:23 Everything is possible for him who believes.

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Without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He Is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.- Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.- Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He shall say, Here I am....-Hebrews11:6.-James1:6,7. John4:23,24.- Isaiah58:9...

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Conscience is that faculty in me which attaches itself to the highest that I know, and tells me what the highest that I know demands that I do. It is the eye of the soul which looks out either towards God or towards what it regards as the highest, and therefore conscience records differently in different people... The one thing that keeps the conscience sensitive to Him is the continual habit of being open to God on the inside... There is no debate possible when conscience speaks. At your peril, you allow one thing to obscure your inner communion with God. Drop it, whatever it is, and see that you keep your inner vision clear...-Chambers, My Utmost........Acts24:16 So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.

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My sheep hear My voice. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with Me...- I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for He will speak peace unto His people, and to His saints: but let them not turn again to folly....-John10:27. Rev3:20.- Psa85:8

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Ask For Confirmation... Look for evidence that your idea is a good one... Gideon's famous request that God make the fleece wet and the ground dry was not motivated by defiance or disbelief. Gideon was eager to do God's will, and he wanted to make sure he was hearing God correctly... Taking the time to ask a few questions gave Gideon the confidence he needed to move ahead... He wanted reassurance that he was making the right choice...-Seybert, Leaders..........Judges6:36-37 Then Gideon said to God, 'If You are truly going to use me to rescue Israel as You promised, prove it to me in this way.

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He lives in us and shows Himself to a watching world through us. People can see that God is love and that Christ is Lord as we live in harmony with each other and in accordance with what God says in His Word. God's household is not a building but a group of people...-Life Application Bible NIV, Tyndale........Ephesians 2:19-22 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone. In Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit.

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What does it matter if external circumstances are hard? Why should they not be! If we give way to self-pity and indulge in the luxury of misery, we banish God's riches from our own lives and hinder others from entering into His provision... It obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne... Until we learn that all our fresh springs are in Him...-Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest........2Peter1:4 You may participate in the divine nature.

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If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius...- Michelangelo.......Psalm16:7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel.

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There is not enough daylight in one day to practice all the shots you need in golf...-Ben Hogan«Cris».........Matthew25:20b Master, he said, you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.

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Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace...-Dr Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace........2Corinthians3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing, as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.

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I describe people as being 'heavily invested in the past' when they do everything they can to maintain the status quo--even if it means being uncomfortable...Iron-necked, stubborn, and obstinate, they are powerless against the inevitable. The future is going to happen despite them... Your job as a leader is to maintain your focus on the future so that when it does arrive, you are ready to step in and lead those who are willing to follow...-Seybert, Leaders........Isaiah48:6-7 Now I will tell you new things, secrets you have not yet heard. They are brand new, not things from the past. So you cannot say, 'We knew that all the time!

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You only see, what you want to see/ How can I feel, what you want to feel/ You're frozen, when you're heart isn't open/...-Animal Planet Song.........Romans7:15-25 I don't understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I don't do it.

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You only see, what you want to see/ How can I feel, what you want to feel/ You're frozen, when you're heart isn't open/...-Animal Planet Song.........Romans7:15-17,24-25 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they simply ARE! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars and the moon-- all these ARE, and what a ministration they exert. So often we mar God's designed influence through us by our self-conscious effort to be consistent and useful. Jesus says Do not bother about being of use to others; believe on Me--pay attention to the Source, and out of you will flow rivers of living water... If you want to be of use to God, get rightly related to Jesus Christ and He will make you of use unconsciously every minute you live...-Chambers, My Utmost........Matthew6:28b-30 ...See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin...Will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

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Real Treasures are not what the Hands can Grasp, but what the Heart can Hold. Real Peace cannot be Found Outside Ourselves, but Within & with GOD...- R Romulo.......... Mathew6:26-27 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

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Let nothing be done, through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.- Charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me...-Phi2:3.- 1Cor13:4,5. Mat11:29.

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The pressure of difficult times makes us value life. Every time our life is spared and given back to us after a trial, it is like a new beginning. We better understand its value and thereby apply ourselves more effectively for God and for humankind. And the pressure we endure helps us to understand the trials of others, equipping us to help them and to sympathize with them...-A.B.Simpson........2Corinthians1:8 We were under great pressure,. . . so that we despaired even of life.

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Trials and difficult times are needed to press us forward. They work in the way the fire in the hold of a mighty steamship provides the energy that moves the pistons, turns the engine, and propels the great vessel across the sea, even when facing the wind and the waves...-A.B.Simpson........2Corinthians1:9 But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

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The word 'Enthusiasm' derives from two Greek words, 'En' and 'Theos', meaning inspired by God. Our lives need to be Inspired, Infused, Filled Afresh with God's goodness everyday...-Joel Osteen........Romans12:11 ...Never be lazy in your work, but serve the lord enthustiastically.

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My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might... My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me... I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.-- We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us...-Eph6:10. 2Cor12:9,10. Phi4:13. --Col1:29...

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I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.--The gospel of Christ . . . is the power of God unto salvation... The joy of the Lord is your strength.-- Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness...-Psa71:16.-- Rom1:16. Neh8:10.-- Col1:11...

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Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name: thou art Mine.-- The sheep hear His voice: and he calleth His own sheep by name. And the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice... The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His...-Isa43:1.- John10:3,4. 2Tim2:19...

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But I must live; I must make so much money; I must be clothed; I must be fed...- Jesus is not saying that the man who takes thought for nothing is blessed--that man is a fool...- Jesus is saying-- 'Don't make the ruling factor of your life what you shall eat and what you shall drink, but be concentrated absolutely on God. Jesus is saying that the great care of the life is to put the relationship to God first, and everything else second... Allow the Holy Spirit to bring us into harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these verses...-Chambers, My Utmost.........Matthew6:33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

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The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, nobler men and women; or they are making us more captious and fault-finding, more insistent upon our own way. The things that happen either make us fiends, or they make us saints; it depends entirely upon the relationship we are in to God. If we say--Your will be done, we get the consolation of knowing that our Father is working according to His own wisdom. When we understand what God is after we will not get mean and cynical. Jesus has prayed nothing less for us than absolute oneness with Himself...-Chambers, My Utmost............John17:21 That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in Me, and I Am in you. May they also be in us.

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Every right prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished. God pledged that whatsoever we ask in Christ's name, that is in oneness with Christ and His will, and in faith, shall be done...- Messages for the Morning Watch........Psalm37:5 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this.