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More than just getting out your checkbook, you have gifts you can contribute. God has given each of us spiritual gifts that can help advance His kingdom. Whether it's teaching, encouraging, serving, showing hospitality, or extending mercy, each ability can yield great dividends. Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents...-Joe Stowell........Colossians1:29 To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

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In a thousand trials, it is not just five hundred of them that work for the good of the believer, but nine hundred and ninety-nine, plus one. This promise spans from the smallest detail of life to the most important. Paul does not say, 'We know that in Some things,' 'Most things,' or even 'Joyful things' but ALL things.'...-George Mueller..........Romans8:28 We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.

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Then when God orchestrates all things . . . for the good, it is a beautiful blending... Separate tones, notes, and even discords are required to compose melodious musical anthems; a piece of machinery requires many separate wheels, parts, and connections...But taken together, combined, and completed, they lead to perfect balance and harmony...-J.R. Macduff........John13:7 You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.

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Behold, I make all things new If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. .. Rev21:5 2Cors 5:17 Ezekiel 36:26

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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us- David RiesmanColossians4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

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As Grandma used to say, Pay attention to your own knitting. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus emphasizes the wisdom of maintaining a focus on our own agendas. He teaches us to focus on problems that we are responsible for and not to waste time on those we cant control The result is a crop of reactive and shortsighted ideas Mind Your Own Business-Seybert, LeadersLuke6:41 Why worry about the speck in your friends eye when you have a log in your own?

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Blessed is he who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence of that fact- George EliotProverbs10:20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value.

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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know human beings- ConfuciusProverbs10:20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value.

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap-Ludwig Wittgenstein..Proverbs10:21 The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of judgment.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing- Oscar Wilde Proverbs11:12 A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue.

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We live by encouragement, and we die without it-slowly, sadly, angrilyCeleste Holm..Proverbs11:25 A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

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If you dont say anything, you wont be called upon to repeat it-Calvin Coolidge Proverbs11:14 For lack of guidance a nation falls, but many advisers make victory sure.

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There are two types of people. Some people are into results and some people are into reasons, reasons why they cant produce results-Drucker 2Peter1:10 Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

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A true friend is one knows you are a good egg even if you are a little cracked-Raul Romulo.1Thessalonians5:19 Quench not the Spirit.

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It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions-Jeremy Taylor<>.Hosea6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.

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If I am devoted to the cause of humanity only, I will soon be exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter, but if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity though men treat me as a door-mat. The secret of a disciples life is devotion to Jesus Christ, and the characteristic of the life is its unobtrusiveness. It is like a corn of wheat, which falls into the ground and dies, but presently it will spring up and alter the whole landscape. Jesus did not say-make converts to your way of thinking, but look after my sheep, see that they get nourished in the knowledge of me-Chambers, My Utmost.John21:16Take care of My sheep.

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Mark10:29-31 I tell you the truth, Jesus replied, no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for Me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fieldsand with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

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When we have doubts or are facing difficulties, when others suggest courses of action that are conflicting, when caution dictates one approach but faith another, we should be still. We should quiet each intruding person, calm ourselves in the sacred stillness of Gods presence, study His Word for guidance, and with true devotion focus our attention on Him-James Reimann..Isaiah30:21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying This is the way; walk in it.

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Before, us cousins used to leapfrog one another; now I see brothers and sisters lifting each other up-John Palanca. Romans15:13.-1John4:13 The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.- Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

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Through whose eyes do you see the world??? HP2Corinthians5:17-Romans8:15 If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, al things become new. Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us-Benjamin Franklin<>1John3:21,22 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

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Enjoy Your Work. Ecclesiates reminds us that no one will bring us back to enjoy life after we die, so we should be happy in our work-Seybert, LeadersEcc3:22 I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work.

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Who then can be saved???The DisciplesMark10:29-31 I tell you the truth, Jesus replied, no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for Me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fieldsand with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

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I thank God for stitching friends into the fabric of my Life, their colorful patterns and personalities and richness to who I am. Precious threads-Raul Romulo..John16:7 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life-Greg Anderson..Psalm31:15 My times are in Thy Hand.

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A successful person will profit from mistakes and try again in a different way-Dale Carnegie..Psalm5:8 Lead me O Lord in Thy Righteousness; .make thy way straight before my face.

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Cut your losses and cut them fast; do not listen to reason or emotion, just say good-bye -Edward JohnsonPsalm37:5 Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.

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The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom-Jack Nicklaus Proverbs3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.

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If you have been shrewd in finding out the defects in others, remember that will be exactly the measure given to you. Life serves back in the coin you pay. Whatever judgment you give, it is measured to you again-Oswald ChambersMatthew7:2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use it, it will be measured to you.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy-Robert Louis Stevenson..Ecclesiastes3:12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.

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Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans-John Lennon..Ecclesiastes5:18 Then I realized that it is good for a man to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him for this is his lot.