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While you can’t do much about your ancestors, you can influence your descendants greatly.
From Psalm 127:1: “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.”
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You will never be given a task that you cannot handle. Your reward in life for learning the lesson is a bigger lesson.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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There is a difference between doubt and unbelief. Doubt is a matter of mind: we cannot understand what God is doing or why He is doing it. Unbelief is a matter of will: we refuse to believe God’s Word and obey what He tells us to do.
From Mark 9:24: “Immediately the father of the child cried out, ‘I believe; help my unbelief!'”
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We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.
From Proverbs 22:25: “Bad temper is contagious–don’t get infected.”
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It takes calm, thoughtful, prayerful meditation on the Word to extract its deepest nourishment.
From Joshua 1:8: “This book of law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it.”
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The challenge before us is to have faith in God, and the hardest part of faith is waiting.
From 1 Corinthians 16:13-14: “Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.”
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We often find in attempting to teach others, that we gain instruction for ourselves.
From Proverbs 11:25: “A generous person will be enriched, and one who gives water will get water.”
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The measure of a life is not its duration but its donation.
From 1 Peter 3:8: “Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind.”
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If my private world is in order, it will be because I absorb the Words of Christ into my attitudes and actions.
From Matthew 4:1-4: “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards He was famished. The tempter came and said to Him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.’ But He answered, ‘It is written: One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'”
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Make it a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it, never to lie down at night without being able to say, “I have made at least one human being a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day.”
From Ephesians 4:29: “Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.”
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