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( I Sam 12:21/The Message)  Don't chase after ghosts and gods. There's nothing to them. They can't help you

( Charles Stanley) Integrity leaves no grounds for accusation

( Stanley) When loneliness engulfs us, the first thing we must do is to turn our focus away from what we don't have to what we do have. What do we have? God Himself. You  can never be alone once you have trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior. You share with Him the most intimate relationship possible-- an eternal, spiritual intimacy. The depth of that intimacy, to a great extent, is up to you. He is always there, desiring to move ever closer to you. Intimacy with God is always  the highest priority for our lives

( Wiersbe)  It has often  been said that the one thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history

( Wiersbe) God is never taken by surprise

( Wiersbe) How many times in our life do we get what we asked for and then wish we didn't have it?

(Wiersbe) For God's people not to pray is to sin against the Lord. Yet, if there's one thing lacking in our churches today, it is prayer

(Wiersbe) Each ministry needs a Samuel to remind them of the spiritual principles that never change: the character of God, the Word of God, the necessity of faith, and the importance of obedience.

( Wiersbe) Methods are many, principles ae few
                  Methods may change, principles never do

As the old Youth for Christ slogan expressed it: " Geared to the times, anchored to the Rock "

( David McCasland) We can't undo yesterday, but we can act today to influence tomorrow. Don't let yesterday's failures bankrupt tomorrow's efforts

( Bill Hybels)  Faith is the bridge between God's omnipotence and our experience of His power in our lives

(Hybels) In Gethsemane, sadness had never known such darkness, the earth had never before tasted such bitter tears, and the air had never been pierced with more agaonizing groans, Jesus traveled regions of sadness that never had been trod before by anyone else

( Hybels) At God's core is an intrinsic gentleness that seeks to bear our burdens

( Charles Swindoll)  Recounts the story  about the young manager interviewing the older successful executive and asking him the secret to his success. The older man  said , " Making good decisions ". The younger man then ask him how he learned to make good decisions and he replied, " Experience . " The young man then asked how he  got experience and the older man replied           "  Making bad decisions"

( Hybels) It's sobering, it's shocking, it's almost beyond belief, but it is one hundred percent true: every one of our actions and attitudes affects God

( Hybels) God invites us to convert some of the energy generated by our righteous anger into transforming actions

( Charles Stanely) We obey Jesus  not by gritting our teeth and doing what we hate, but by depending on His power to enable us to do what our love for Him compels us to do. Willing obedience leads to an intimate relationship with God

( Adrian Rogers) Heaven is the presence of all that is good and the absence of all that is bad. It is all that the loving heart of God would desire, the consumate work of God's creative genius