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But remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives you the ability to produce wealth and so confirms his covenant which he swore to your forefathers as it is today. Deuteronomy 8:18
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RED SEA REPORT
YES! There was a parting today!
There will be a parting everyday!
Unceasingly, extravagantly, abundantly and partingly!
GOD IS GOOD!
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Share the change and we will change our share.
Nehemiah received a lot of help to build the wall in 52 days.
If everybody would just lift one stone,
THE CHANGE WOULD HAPPEN IN THE BLINK OF A 52 DAY EYE!
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I AM A CONQUEROR and so are YOU.
It's a Red Sea Day in a Red Sea life.
We were made to walk through storms and climb mountains.
We were made to help each other.
We can sit in our pews and listen to stories about helping each other or.....
We can GO FORTH!!!
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Is your purpose in life to sit in a pew?
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If I always saw clear skies
I would miss the angel clouds.
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THE POWER OF UN
Give hope to the unloved.
Give grace to the unforgiven.
Give esteem to the unvalued.
Give receiving to the unaccepted.
Give faith to the unbelievable.
Give love unconditionally.
The Power of Un unites two into one.
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SELF VICTIMIZATION
As a victim,
do you continue to victimize yourself
by idolizing your victimization?
"They who make idols are like them; so are all who trust in and lean on them."
Psalm 115:8
The Victim became a Savior. There is freedom for victims at the Cross of Jesus Christ. He was tortured, died and was buried. HE ROSE AGAIN! He took all our shame away.
JESUS LEFT WHAT VICTIMIZED YOU IN THE TOMB!
Give Him whatever you are carrying and become a savior to others who need you. No, you cannot become Christ, but you were created to reflect His image and likeness.
"The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, the extravagant love of God, the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit, be with all of you." 2 Corinthians 13:14 MSG
"Receive and experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within yourselves." Philippians 4:23 MSG
"So, my friends, this is something like what has taken place with you. When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated way of life down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving you free to "marry" a resurrection life and bear "offspring" of faith for God. For as long as we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed us in. And this made us all the more rebellious. In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths. But now that we're no longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we're free to live a new life in the freedom of God."
Romans 7:3-5 MSG
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GOD's PROMISES:
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let itbe fearful." -John 14:27
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The two trees began separately and became one.
They continued to grow separately as one.
Reaching ever upward into God's spaciousness.
They supported each other in their own uniqueness.
As a man and a woman become one,
they still support each others individuality.
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PUTRID PAIN IS HEALED AND THE HEART IS MADE FRESH
Healing requires movement.
Wounds must cross over the threshold of your heart.
Speak them, write them, shout them let them flow.
Ezekiel 47:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
"8Then he said to me, These waters pour out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah (the Jordan Valley) and on into the Dead Sea. And when they shall enter into the sea [the sea of putrid waters], the waters shall be healed and made fresh."
A heart that is deadened by wounds can flow into new life.
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Do you seek an explanation
or do you seek understanding?
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Father I pray for loaves from The Breadbox. You have seen the labors and You have heard the cries of Your people. Give them manna of discernment and bread of wisdom. Cause them to become hungrier and thirstier for more of you. We desire to become spiritually insatiable people. Let Your Word go forth as seed into hearts of fertile ground. Let revival burn in their bosoms and fan the flames of contagiousness. Fire! We cry Holy Spirit fire! Burn away the chaff that separates us from Your Glory. Please help us to become a people who will never leave or forsake You or each other.
Selah.
In the Name of Jesus, Amen
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Narrowing of thought
creates
spaciousness in your soul.
In the expanse of your life, there is good and there is bad.
All things work together for good if you allow them.
To grow a muscle, it has to be broken down to grow larger muscle. There will be brokenness in your life, it does not define you. Make the choice to accept brokenness as the emotional fitness plan that will enlarge your heart into a spacious place where love keeps growing. Open the door of your heart to God.
"Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends." Revelation 3:20
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Don't give up!
If we could only see what God sees when He looks at us our hearts would rejoice!
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GOD MADE A NEW PROMISE.
"I will forgive their wickedness
and I will no longer hold their sins against them.”
"God made this new promise
and showed that the first promise was outdated.
What is outdated and aging will soon disappear."
Taken from Hebrews 8 - The Message
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RE-PREGNANT
The Holy Spirit wants to re-impregnate you with a new revelation. He wants your life to become a testimony of how He let your old life fall away and caused your new life to blossom. God is giving you a vision that will enlarge His kingdom.
He wants you to start carrying revival in your spirit.
The Message
Hebrews 8:6-13
6Jesus has been given a priestly work that is superior to the Levitical priests’ work. He also brings a better promise[a] from God that is based on better guarantees. 7If nothing had been wrong with the first promise, no one would look for another one. 8But God found something wrong with his people and said to them,
“The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah. 9It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, so I ignored them, says the Lord. 10But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying, ‘Know the Lord.’ All of them from the least important to the most important will all know me 12because I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.”
13God made this new promise and showed that the first promise was outdated. What is outdated and aging will soon disappear.
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WHAT IS THE CROSS?
The Cross is a place where somebody died.
The Cross is a place for what you need to let die.
The Cross is a place of selflessness.
The Cross is a model for all relationships.
The Cross is a fountain of cleansing energy.
The Cross is a place to clear your conscience.
The Cross is a place of renewing innocence.
The Cross is a place of forgiveness.
The Cross is a place to nail your bad habits.
The Cross is a place to leave your scars.
The Cross is a place to close open wounds.
The Cross is a place unconditional acceptance.
The Cross is a place of surrender.
The Cross is a place that lacked physical beauty.
The Cross is a place that reveals spiritual beauty.
The Cross is a place of physical defeat.
The Cross is a place of spiritual victory.
The Cross is a place of heartache and tears.
The Cross is a place where love removes fears.
The Cross is a place to reflect what you see.
The Cross is a place in your heart for eternity.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
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TOMB TALK
Your heart was not created to be a tomb of bad memories.
Your heart was created to be a place of new life.
The following sequence of events (in quotation marks) is taken from Luke, Chapters 23-24, The Message. The comments in parenthesis are mine.
(Death takes place.)
"Taking him down, he wrapped him in a linen shroud
and placed him in a tomb chiseled into the rock,
a tomb never yet used."
(Others see your death.)
"They saw the tomb where Jesus' body was placed."
(Instead of encouragement, some folks will commiserate in your death.)
"women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared."
(You are meant to be liberated from death into new life.)
"They left the tomb and broke the news"
(Some will doubt your new life.)
"Peter jumped to his feet and ran to the tomb."
(Perseverance will spread the news of your new life."
"Early this morning they were at the tomb and couldn't find his body. They came back with the story that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. Some of our friends went off to the tomb to check and found it empty just as the women said, but they didn't see Jesus."
(God will roll away the stone from your heart as you turn to Him.)
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When I cant wrap arms of understanding around You, I will rest my heart on Your unconditional acceptance of who You created me to be.
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SHROUD
If the shroud over you heart is dirt,
A seed can still grow.
If the shroud over your heart is stone,
God can roll away the stone.
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Desolation is preparation for new creation.
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Let the Son rise with a burning heat that will heal the heart.
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WATER INTO WINE, CRITICISM INTO INTERCESSION
"When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede."
Oswald Chambers
My Father in heaven, I am thankful that at least for this moment, You have turned my criticisms into intercessions. Help me in my misjudgment, teach me discernment Your way. Help me to accept others as they are and pray for what they can be. I ask You right now to take the critical spirit away from families today Lord. Help us to focus on gratitude, acceptance and intercession for each other. Plant hunger and thirst in our souls as You draw us nearer to You. Show us Your glory by helping us to love each other in greater ways. Amen.
Happy Thanksgiving
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Leaves into buds Trees into soil. Death and decay into new life. Water into wine. Vengeance into forgiveness. Fear into love. The present into forever.Just believe!
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Set personal boundaries. Discipline is meant to teach. Perseverance - ONE INCH AT A TIME! Accept people for who they are and change yourself.
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Yeah, though I stand in front of the Red Sea with the enemy behind me and nowhere to turn but You, I do turn to You. I know that Your goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. You speak new life in the face of death. You speak mercy into the face of tragedy. You speak grace in the face of guilt. You speak esteem in the face of shame. You speak perfect love in the face of fear. Remove the face of fear that we see reflected by past experiences. We need You to renew a right spirit within us. We want to see you face to face, we want to know you more.
1 Corinthians 13:12 (Amplified Bible)
12For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as [a]in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand [b]fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been [c]fully and clearly known and understood [[d]by God].
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But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Hebrews 13:16
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SURRENDERFUL
Pursuing God is surrendering self.
It's a wonderful day in the Surrenderhood!
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WHEN I CAN'T SLEEP
I think I've been up for over an hour now, but who keeps track of sleepless hours. I usually end up in my Bible and I use the time on the clock to point me to a particular Scripture verse. It was around 4:30am when I looked up these verses from Acts 4:29-35 The Message
"29-30And now they're at it again! Take care of their threats and give your servants fearless confidence in preaching your Message, as you stretch out your hand to us in healings and miracles and wonders done in the name of your holy servant Jesus."
31While they were praying, the place where they were meeting trembled and shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak God's Word with fearless confidence.
32-33The whole congregation of believers was united as one—one heart, one mind! They didn't even claim ownership of their own possessions. No one said, "That's mine; you can't have it." They shared everything. The apostles gave powerful witness to the resurrection of the Master Jesus, and grace was on all of them.
34-35And so it turned out that not a person among them was needy. Those who owned fields or houses sold them and brought the price of the sale to the apostles and made an offering of it. The apostles then distributed it according to each person's need."
I am going to go back to bed and think about healings, miracles, wonders, fearless confidence..... "They shared everything"....."not a person among them was needy." Yeah, Jesus loves me.....Jesus loves you and so do I.
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"Families are given the opportunity to share with other families. Children carry the seeds of giving in the rushing river of their souls. As they grow, the seeds of giving germinate and are dispersed through their actions."
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A MORE EXCELLENT WAY
Selfless
The Way of Love
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
The Message
1 Corinthians 13
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IT'S NOT TIME TO GIVE UP.
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Did not our heart burn within us on the road and while He opened the Scriptures to us? Luke 24:32
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"Through brokenness you are given a greater capacity to love."
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The love you give is louder than the love you hide.
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I will surely bless you.......... Gen 22:17
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"We desire to produce Thanksgivings by sharing
the gratitude that we have been graced with."
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NEVER MIND "WHERE'S THE BEEF?" WHERE ARE THE GAP STANDERS?
"I looked for someone to stand up for me against all this, to repair the defenses of the city, to take a stand for me and stand in the gap to protect this land so I wouldn't have to destroy it.
I couldn't find anyone. Not one.
So I'll empty out my wrath on them, burn them to a crisp with my hot anger, serve them with the consequences of all they've done. Decree of God, the Master."
Ezekiel 22:30-31 The Message
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BUFFALO, NEW YORK
Runnin' down the street on the soles of my feet,
Smilin' and wavin' to all the souls that I meet.
I'm lookin' for Jesus in every pair of eyes I greet.
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"Brokenness is the womb of fertile ground
where forgiveness is conceived and
a greater capacity to love is created."
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LABOR PAINS
Labor pains begin with conception
and end at the final redemption
with a heavenly reception.
A Parent's love of a child occupies the space between "the Alpha and Omega. The the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” (Rev 22:13) A child needs to know that a parent will never leave them or forsake them. You may be a parent who has bad memories of the person who helped you create that child. It doesn't matter whether the conception and creation of that child was done in love or lack of love. If you harbor bad memories and resentment, consider them labor pains. If I asked you if you would do it all over again and go through the pain of a broken relationship to give birth to that child, you would probably say YES! Change your perspective of resentment. Let the waters of resentment break and let the labor pains of acceptance burst forth.
Brokenness is the womb of fertile ground
where forgiveness is conceived and
a greater capacity to love is created.
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Pursue peace with all people.......Heb 12:14
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"The most powerful gift that you can give anybody is the gift of prayer. Asking God to bless somebody is one of the most beautiful expressions of love that you can give or receive. I am going to pray right now for all of you who have found their way to this study on giving and receiving."
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"In the process, your heart will grow and a larger heart has a greater capacity to share love."
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This is an opportunity to give something of yourself
that will help a young person feel valued and esteemed.
You have the power to give a young person the
swagger of confidence that comes from the peace of inner healing.
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The difference between destructive and creative is found in your perspective.
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PRAYER PAINT
Prayer paints a new perspective.
Faith is your paint brush, prayer is your paint.
Perseverance is the pattern with which you paint.
The leaves of fall represent the never ending colors of God's love. He desires that none of us should perish. That's why He created the buds of Spring. You are budding now. Pray for commitment to growth in whatever areas of your life that are starting to bud. God loves buds. God loves you. Go bud!
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It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Jesus loves you and so do we.
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REPAINTENANCE
An act of love that paints a stony heart with a new coat of flesh.
The color of an unrepentant heart is dark and stony.
God loves you even as your heart is dark and stony.
He gave His Son so that He could give you a heart of flesh.
Repent and use truth to paint the Way that leads to Life.
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Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.........
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THE WRITERS INK HORN
I walked with Jesus this morning.
He dipped into His Writers Ink Horn and wrote on the walls of my heart.
He spoke to me as He wrote: "Embrace brokenness." He said. "A broken heart is the only way for me to create a larger surface to write upon your heart. Your heart is a muscle that can become larger by breaking it down."
His Ink Horn was filled with His own shed blood poured out
from His own broken heart.
Here are some of the words He wrote:
"I will love you always and I will never, ever leave you or forsake you."
"I have forgiven you and now you must forgive yourself."
"I have forgiven others and now you must do the same."
"Look for love in everyone you meet. If you don't find it, give it."
"I have placed seeds of love within your soul, be sensitive and let them grow."
"I am your Friend, I will carry your backpack as you climb the mountains of life."
"Through brokenness, you will be given a greater capacity to love."
He stopped writing and He stopped speaking and just smiled.
His smile created a mist in my soul that watered the seeds of His words.
Selah
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SUDDENLYISTIC
The state of living in constant expectation of suddenlies.
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MEMORIES of ACCEPTANCE
Have you ever felt anxiety well up within your soul when you recall a bad memory? Do you still blame somebody for stealing what should have been a happy memory? Part of forgiveness is accepting someone for who they are. If you accept them for who they are now (you cannot change them,) then you should accept them for who they were then. Accept the memory as something that was destined to help you grow. Accept the bad memory as a good beginning of a new acceptance of total forgiveness.
Philippians 3:13 (CEB)
" Brothers and sisters, I myself don’t think I’ve reached it, but I do this one thing: I forget about the things behind me and reach out for the things ahead of me."
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PAINTIENCE
Developing patience can be painful.
Waiting for growth. Waiting for healing. Waiting for restoration.
Waiting for provision. Waiting for revelation. Waiting for wisdom.
Kneel on your spiritual weight bench and lift your prayers to
Jehovah Jireh, The Lord Who Provides. You are growing stronger day by day.
Your words can lift weights:
"I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME."
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"The truth is; we've given young people a message in a way that provides a life in prison, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
It's time for a message of the Way, the Truth and the Life."
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Aren't shepherds supposed to feed sheep? You drink the milk, you make clothes from the wool, you roast the lambs, but you don't feed the sheep. You don't build up the weak ones, don't heal the sick, don't doctor the injured, don't go after the strays, don't look for the lost. You bully and badger them. And now they're scattered every which way because there was no shepherd—scattered and easy pickings for wolves and coyotes. Scattered—my sheep!—exposed and vulnerable across mountains and hills. My sheep scattered all over the world, and no one out looking for them! Taken from Ez 34 (MSG)
First we kill children before they come out of the womb (Abortion.) Next we kill children when they come out of the womb alive (partial birth abortion.) Then we destroy their spirits with our negative words and abuse. Now, when they react in fear to our negativity and kill someone, we will sentence them to life. Who started the chain that causes young people to be linked with evil? Did young people invent, guns, pornography and a violence glorifying media? I just heard a former gang member tell another young boy how Jesus lead him away from the violence of the gang. It's time for a message of Life instead of a message of life imprisonment.
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. I expect to climb higher mountains.
I expect to see brighter sunrises.
I expect to to do greater things.
Why?
Because the Son has risen and gone to His Father
and He said we will do greater things.
Today is the day for you to cross the believing line
etched in the middle of your heart.
Just believe
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The line has been drawn, will you cross it?
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"An emotionally stable student is more likely to be able to
concentrate and achieve academic proficiency.
A student who believes in their own ability to achieve
positive results is less likely to engage in disruptive behavior."
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Where there is no wood, the fire goes out and where there is no talebearer, strife ceases. Proverbs 26:20
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The trail to spiritual destiny travels over
the mountain peak of unlimited opportunity.
Yield. Let go. Surrender.
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