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Fall, 2001

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Just a Thought...
By Staff Writer Sharon Barrett
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers

Do you gossip? Do you tell others about someone else's business? God does not want us to gossip. We're to face one another and discuss what has happened to each other not to go around telling everyone you see what has happened. When you do this you are trying to get people to side with you, but not only that you are telling others to hate that person and to love you. I have to admit shamefully (shy smile and a frown) I have fallen prey to this myself. But with the grace of God I am working on it and God is helping me to succeed. How about asking God to help you if you have this problem.

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Short 'N' Sweet
Submitted by Bobby Lewis

* A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
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* A family altar can alter a family.
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* A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
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* Are you wrinkled with burden? Come on into Church for a faith lift!
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* Be ye fishers of men. You catch them and He will clean them.
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* Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
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* Do your best and then sleep in peace. God is Awake.
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* Don't put a question mark where God put a period.
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* Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord!
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* Fear knocked. Faith answered. No one was there.
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* For all you do, His blood's for you!
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* Forbidden fruits create many jams.
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* Give God what's right, not what's left!
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* Give Satan an inch and he'll be a ruler.
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* God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
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* God doesn't want shares of your life; He wants controlling interest!
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* God grades on the cross, not the curve.
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* God loves everyone, but probably prefers "fruits of the spirit"
over "religious nuts"!
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* God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
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* Having truth decay? Brush up on your Bible!
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* He who angers you, controls you!
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* He who kneels before God can stand before anyone!
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* If God is your Copilot - Swap seats!
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* Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
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* Man's way leads to a hopeless end! God's way leads to an endless hope!
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* Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.
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* Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!
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* Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
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* Prayer - Don't give God instructions, just report for duty!
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* Read The Bible ... It Will Scare The Hell Out Of You!
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* The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.
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* The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not
protect you.
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* This Church is "Prayer Conditioned"!
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* To be almost saved is to be totally lost.
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* WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning!
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* We don't change the message, the message changes us.
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* We set the sail; God makes the wind.
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* When God ordains, He sustains.
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* Wisdom has two parts: 1) Having a lot to say. 2) Not saying it.

Lydia’s Window
By Yolanda Magee

Hi, my name is Lydia and I have traveled across the world but it is here that I have settled down, in Manhattan, New York right in the middle of everything. This is my world when I am far away from the lands that I once knew. I no longer ride the train or fly across the world. Because some years ago, I was left crippled in a terrible accident and as a result I lost both of my legs. I was devastated because there was a stirring in my soul ever since I was a mere child to travel the world giving and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. But all of a sudden it appeared that perhaps that dream had all but died.

Now I would have to become accustomed to a different life. There were not many visitors in the months that followed and as time went on there were even less until now no one hardly ever comes, except for my nurse, Patria. So now it’s just me and this house that my aunt had left me and so quite naturally I chose to settle down here. This is my life, this window, my only link to the outside world and beyond.

I remember sitting in this window one day thinking about my life and how things had changed so very much. When like many other days I felt bound by my limitations, but somehow this day was different from the rest. I felt an urgent sense of expectation; As I peered from the window, something in side of me began to challenge me to see more, once again I peered out of the window looking from one side and then the other, even straining myself at times, but I saw nothing and so I sighed in desperation.

In the days that followed, I would do the same each day I waited as I believed God that he was faithful. Finally one day a man came passing by he looked to be in his forties or so, with salt and pepper colored hair, he had a distinctive look about him; about that time he looked at me and I looked back, soon he turned around to ask for directions, and before long there we were having a cup of tea there on the stoop.

I knew then that perhaps I would never ride a train across the country again or even go to foreign lands but it was here somehow this was where my life's work would be carried out, my window would be my world and all who traveled by they would find a place to rest.

There are no limitations in Christ
Take a look at what is limiting you and press the limits!

Heart to Heart Talks with God
By Yolanda Magee

Lord, here am I before you once again realizing that I am just a woman, flesh and bones, but God you made me, from the bone of a man and just as surely as I am here in this world I also know that one day this old body will die and decay and to the grave it will go but it is this spirit that will live on in glory

Lord, while I am down here, I know that I must be all that you created me to be and everything you have birth in this womb from without as well as within I am responsible for, so this day Lord, I vow that I will take nothing with me to the grave, but I will lay up my timbers in heaven everyday in prayer and thanksgiving always, always

So many times before you Lord, I've kneeled down to pray to search for answers to my weary soul, Knowing that you knew my request before the first word was sown. Yet somehow even then I still could not find the words to tell you how I felt I could not find the breath or the strength to release them and let it go and as I lie there before you Lord, so very many thoughts would come to mind and then in an instant they were once again gone, never again to be called upon but somehow God, in the mist of the silence you came, you answered without me ever knowing.

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