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Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.
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Better to have trouble with man than trouble with God.
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You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose will prevail. PROVERBS 19:21
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Our salvation depends on not who we are but on who He is
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I was learning to recognize when God was speaking through someone. He repeats himself. He says it over and over because we are so stubborn, stupid and unwilling. And even scared. Even when he tells us not to be afraid, we set our minds about it, worrying and fretting about every little thing. I was shaken by what God expected us to do.
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Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people.
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It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.
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What do you want of God, Roman?" It was an imperious question from so small a boy, and was said with a curious blend of humility and demand. "I'll know when I face him." "Perhaps the answers you seek can't be found in something you can see and touch." Amused, Marcus smiled. "You have big thoughts for a small boy." The boy grinned. "A shepherd has time to think." "Then, my little philosopher, what would you advise?" The boy's smile faded. "W..
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Michael straightened. "I still married her, and I'd marry her again if I had it to do over." A simple statement, calmly and quietly delivered, but his eyes were burning with wrath."
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She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?
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None of them, not even he, seemed to realize they weren't just physical beings, that God had left a mark upon them by the simple fact of his creation. They preferred their idols, tangible, possessing, capricious characteristics like themselves, easily understood. They wanted something they could manipulate. God was inconceivable, intangible, incomprehensible, unexploitable.
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Jonathan closed his eyes. Oh, God, it's not the way I had things planned. But then, what of real, lasting value ever is?
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Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute?
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This god that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This god wanted all of her.
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We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You've tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I've seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God,
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Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. HOSEA 6 : 1
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She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.
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Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. PROVERBS 19 : 21
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We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.
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All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet.
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I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.
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In Christ, you are His child. You are raised up with Him. You are forgiven. In Christ, you are a new creation, the very temple of the Holy Spirit. You are delivered from the power of darkness. You are redeemed, blessed, holy, and sanctified. Even now, God is holding your child close. And in Christ, you will be reunited in love.
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Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.
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But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25
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If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.
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She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No other reason than that. People see the mark of the lion on her. They fail to see what it means.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heaven. MILTON
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If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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Spirit. And it will be that love,
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However this child was conceived, God will be the Father. My baby won't enter the world unloved or unwanted. If I can't feel a full measure of joy, I know the Lord will.
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Satan is an eternal being, like God. He may not know all things as God does or have God's power, but he knows our weaknesses even better than we do. He knows us intimately. He knows the evil desires of our heart and mind. He knows where and when to attack to gain the best advantage. Satan schemes and plays upon those things in order to separate us from God and bring about our destruction. Never underestimate him. Without our armor, we're vu..
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Blinding light filled the darkness. Someone clasped his wrist, lifting him, and in the midst of hell's cacophony, whispered, "I am."
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A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof.
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Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.
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The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.
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She was scornful. "He talks to you personally?" "He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don't bother to listen."
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A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
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was used to teachers just putting in time, not loaded with enthusiasm.
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Colors come from a phenomenon called scattering. The wavelengths of light and the size of the particles determine the colors.
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I see sunrise as God's good morning, and sunset as God's good night.
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He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.
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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, bring her into the wilderness, and speak kindly to her. Then I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. HOSEA 2 : 14 - 15 A
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suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead.
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Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?
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