1/1-1/7/12

1/1/06
… put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; …be made new in the attitude of your minds; and …put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.   Philippians 4:22-23

New Year’s Prayer
May God make your year a happy one!
Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain, but by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes;
Not by making your path easy,  but by making you sturdy to travel any path;
Not by taking hardships from you,  But by taking fear from your heart;
Not by granting you unbroken sunshine,  but by keeping your face bright, even in the shadows;
Not by making your life always pleasant, but by showing you when people and their causes need you most, and by making you anxious to be there to help.
God’s love, peace, hope and joy to you for the year ahead.  Anonymous

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1/2/06    
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 1 Peter 2:2

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.  EdwinArlingtonRobinson

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1/3/06   
Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. Exodus 34:14

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.  Mignon McLaughlin

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1/4/06  
The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.  Ecclesiastes12:10

Living is learning the meaning of words. That does not mean the long ten syllable words we have to look up in the dictionary. The really great words to master are short ones…work, love, hope, joy, pain, home, child, life, death.  Halford E. Luccock

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1/5/06   
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.  Matthew 6:34

Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a weakness we must ask Him to pardon; for He’s told us to take no care for the morrow.  C. S. Lewis

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1/6/06 
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.   Ephesians 6:17

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.  Rita Mae Brown

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1/7/06
I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:  Proverbs 24:32

Just when you think you’ve graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.  Mary H. Waldrip

12/25-12/31/11

12/25
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem two thousand years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.  Henry Van Dyke

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12/26
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?”  Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.  Matthew 18:21-22

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes

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12/27
You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.  Psalm 18:28

I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”; and he replied, “Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way!” King George VI

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12/28
David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” 1 Samuel 17:32

God is preparing his heroes.  And when the opportunity comes, He can fit them into their places in a moment.  And the world will wonder where they came from.  A.B. Simpson

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12/29
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  Matthew 7:3

You have enough baggage to carry without carrying the sins of others.   Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

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12/30
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.  Frances Ward Weller

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12/31
There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. Proverbs 23:18

Leave the broken, irreversible past in God’s hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him. Oswald Chambers

12/18-24/11

12/18
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.  Isaiah 26:3

There are moments when everything goes well, but don’t be frightened.  Jules Renard

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12/19
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Romans 15:13

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.  Augustine

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12/20
O LORD my God, I called to you for help and you healed me.  Psalm 30:2

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?  Horace

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12/21
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. There were no needy persons among them.   Acts 4:32,34

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.  I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.  George Bernard Shaw

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12/22
Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.  Romans 15:7

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick.  Bill Lemley

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12/23
Jesus said, “It is finished.”  John 19:30

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.  Richard Bach

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12/24
He died at a good old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth and honor. 1 Chronicles 29:28

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.  Danny Kaye

12/11-17/11

12/11
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.  John 13:35

A good character is the best tombstone.  Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.  Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.  Charles H. Spurgeon

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12/12
But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.  Job 36:15

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. Henri Frédéric Amiel

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12/13
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. Revelation 21:4

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.  Seneca

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12/14
Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house ofIsrael? ’ Ezekiel 33:11

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.  St. Augustine

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12/15
Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for.  Job 6:8

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.  Joseph Addison

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12/16
Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path.  Proverbs 23:19

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.  H. Jackson Browne

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12/17
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.  Isaiah 40:28

I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me.  Author Unknown

12/4-10/11

12/4
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.  Psalm 34:8

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.  WilliamButlerYeats

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12/5

Our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. 1 Thessalonians 1:5

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.  G.K. Chesterton

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12/6
What is wrong with the people? Why are they weeping? 1 Samuel 11:5

No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being.  When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, “You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.”  He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right.  Bertrand Russell

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12/7
They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green. Psalm 92:14

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.  Stanislaw J. Lec

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12/8
Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.  Exodus 23:30

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.  Plutarch

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12/9
This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.  Jeremiah 22:3

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? Pierre Troubetzkoy

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12/10
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.  Mark 11:25

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  Mahatma Gandhi Be Strong!  Forgive!

11/27-12/3/11

11/27
But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”  Numbers 20:12

Our distrust is very expensive.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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11/28
And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts.  1 Chronicles 28:9

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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11/29
See how the lilies of the field grow.  Matthew 6:28

God hides things by putting them all around us.  Author Unknown

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11/30
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe. Proverbs 29:25

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.  Mary Manin Morrissey

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12/2
It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good.  Galatians 4:18

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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12/2
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?   Tell me, if you understand.  Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!   Who stretched a measuring line across it?  On what were its footings set,  or who laid its cornerstone-  while the morning stars sang together  And all the angels shouted for joy?  Job 38:4-7

A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all.  Edwin Lewis

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12/3
They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.  They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.   Psalm 78:10-11

Don’t worry about what you do not understand… Worry about what you do understand in the Bible but do not live by.  Corrie Ten Boom

11/20-11/26/11

11/20
When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted.  Psalm 138:3

To play it safe is not to play.  Robert Altman

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11/21
Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.  Romans 4:20-21

Dear God, Help my unbelief. When I’m in pain, I forget that you care about me. I forget that you have helped me through my trials. I forget that you hold me in your arms to keep me safe. I forget that you are feeling my pain with me.  I forget that you love me, I forget that I am important to you. Show me your presence – let me feel your enveloping love. Heal my hurting soul. Thank you for staying with me even in my unbelief. Timothy Dailey

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11-22
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.  2 Corinthians 9:8

In all His dispensations God is at work for our good. In prosperity He tries our gratitude; in mediocrity, our contentment; in misfortune, our submission; in darkness, our faith; under temptation, our steadfastness; and at all times, our obedience and trust in Him. Anonymous

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11/23
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7

God will not lose heart! From creation to now, God has never given up on his stubborn, rebellious children and He never will. He is constantly loving, constantly caring, constantly creating ways to remind us that He is there and He is aware, achingly aware of our hearts and our desperate need for Him. He sent His Son, a sign of his utter, total, reckless heart of love that would do anything to woo us back into His arms. K Walden

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11/24
Know that the LORD is God.  It is he who made us, and we are his ;  we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.   Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.  For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;  his faithfulness continues through all generations .  Psalm 100:3-5

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.  WilliamJenningsBryan

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11/25
Even while these people were worshiping the LORD, they were serving their idols.  2 Kings 41:17a

You can’t in most things get what you want if you want it too desperately.  Anyway you can’t get the best out of it.  CS Lewis, A Grief Observed

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11/26
Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.  Psalm 86:11

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.  Mary Catherine Bateson

11/13-11/19/11

11/13
See now that I myself am He! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.  Deuteronomy 32:39

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature.  A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.  Harry Crews

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11/14
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.  Ephesians 4:14

Adversity is like a strong wind.  It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.  Arthur Golden

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11/15
Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.  Psalm 4:1

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.  Garth Brooks

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11/16
Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from his evil way. Then I will relent and not bring on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done.  Jeremiah 26:3

A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.  Author Unknown

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11/17
I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.  Psalm 104:33

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in theGobidesert.  He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.  He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself.  He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.  W. Beran Wolfe

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11/18
The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.  Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.  Isaiah 57:1-2

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.  Socrates

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11/19
But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish.  Jonah 1:3

Remember this.  When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold.  When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness.  This is also the case when people withdraw from God.  Augustine

11/6-11/12/11

11/6
For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.  1 John 5:4

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.  Charles C. Noble

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11/7
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.  2 Timothy 1:7

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.  Mark Twain

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11/8
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.   I Corinthians 3:2

As men cherish young plants at first and fence them about with hedges to keep them from hurt, but when they are grown they remove these things and leave them to the wind and weather, so God sustains His children at first with props of inward comforts, but afterwards He exposes them to storms and winds because they are better able to bear them.  Therefore, let no man think himself the better because he is more free from troubles than others; it is because God sees him not fit to bear greater.  Richard Sibbes

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11/9
After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. Revelation 7:9

Jesus, the Compassionate One, covers our sins with the mantle of His love!  Be as tender towards those who sin as the Master was, He remembers that we are dust; remember this of others.  I will not find fault with you, my friend, if I can help it, because you will be one day without fault before the throne of God!  If God will so soon remove your faults, why should I take note of them?  Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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11/10
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.   Luke 18:1

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.  Josh Billings

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11/11
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.  Psalm 62:5

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you.  Augustine

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11/12
The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.  Daniel 9:9

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.  Abraham Lincoln

10/30-11/5/11

10/30
Please, my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. Numbers 12:11

Not only does sin have consequences, but also each time we sin, we reinforce a pattern that becomes harder and harder to break. If we persist in sin with the thought that one day we will get right with God, we should remind ourselves that God may still be there to forgive and restore but we may not be. Author Unknown

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10/31

O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.  Jeremiah 5:3

God whispers to us in our pleasure but shouts to us in our pain.  C.S. Lewis

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11/1

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.” Matthew 21:21

Christ said we could move mountains if we had faith. But He didn’t say we wouldn’t need a shovel.  Joyce Vollmer Brown

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11/2

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 1 Corinthians 15:33

You can no more blame your circumstances for your character than you can blame the mirror for the way you look.  Anonymous

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11/3

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.  Matthew 16:24:25

It is never said in Scripture that we can have “Christ and…”; it is always “Christ or…” Christ or Caesar, Christ or the world, Christ or Antichrist.  What is your or?  Billy Graham

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11/4

You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,  things too wonderful for me to know.  Job 42:3

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei

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11/5

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.  Philippians 3:12

If you are going through hell, keep going. Sir Winston Churchill

10/30

Please, my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. Numbers 12:11

Not only does sin have consequences, but also each time we sin, we reinforce a pattern that becomes harder and harder to break. If we persist in sin with the thought that one day we will get right with God, we should remind ourselves that God may still be there to forgive and restore but we may not be. Author Unknown

10/31

O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.  Jeremiah 5:3

God whispers to us in our pleasure but shouts to us in our pain.

C.S. Lewis

11/1

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.” Matthew 21:21

Christ said we could move mountains if we had faith. But He didn’t say we wouldn’t need a shovel.  Joyce Vollmer Brown

11/2

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 1 Corinthians 15:33

You can no more blame your circumstances for your character than you can blame the mirror for the way you look.  Anonymous

11/3

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.  Matthew 16:24:25

It is never said in Scripture that we can have “Christ and…”; it is always “Christ or…” Christ or Caesar, Christ or the world, Christ or Antichrist.  What is your or?  Billy Graham

11/4

You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,  things too wonderful for me to know.  Job 42:3

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei

11/5

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.  Philippians 3:12

 

If you are going through hell, keep going. Sir Winston Churchill