Food For Thoughts

This is Wednesday June 18^th, 2008

Good morning and may you have an inspiring and fulfilling day.

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Quotes for the Day:

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current.
Source Unknown

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Source Unknown

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Today’s Thoughts

PRIDE'S FEAR OF FAILURE & REFUSAL OFTEN PREVENTS US FROM REACHING OUT TO LOVE OTHERS.

The truly loving are truly humble, & the truly humble are truly loving! You've got to admit, an integral part of love is humility! It takes humility to be affectionate & to receive affection. If you want to really fall in love & accept real love, you have to be humble enough to forsake your pride & receive it! Because humility & love are totally inseparable. You cannot have love, real love, & not be humble, & you cannot have genuine humility without a lot of love! You cannot be proud & have real love!--And you cannot have real love & be proud! Real love has to be very HUMBLE!

This is true even of our relationship with the Lord! Once we have learned that God really loves us & Jesus died for us & that He cares for us, we have to yield & humble ourselves to receive the Lord's Love. It's a humbling thing!

But there's perfect rest in humility, because humility has love & faith without fear. (1Jn.4:18) Love doesn't care what other people think, it just loves in SPITE of what they think! So be humble!--And LOVE! (1Pet.4:8)

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Prayer Requests

Maybe sometimes the Lord just lets us have a problem so that He can give us the answer! He likes to have us pray and find out we can't always solve all our problems and that we need His help! After all, if we could figure it all out and solve all our problems, we wouldn't need Him! So the Lord lets us have a little problem now and then to show us we need Him and we have to pray. He likes to give us answers to remind us that we're dependent on Him and we need Him. He likes us to appreciate His help and to love Him for it--like a father!

God makes a promise: Faith believes it; Hope anticipates it; Patience quietly awaits it!

On-going prayer list.

I am listing below the prayer requests that are ongoing. That is, we are still praying for these people and their needs while we wait for the Lord’s answers.

1. Please pray for Nick and his wife Sue. Sue is 7 weeks pregnant and has been told that there is a 90% chance her baby is seriously brain damaged. They are waiting for some test results. They already have 2 children and one is a Downe`s baby.

2. Please also pray for Cora who has been suffering from breast cancer for 5 years . She now has a lump in her neck and it was found to be malignant.”

* If any of you have some prayer requests please send them in. *

Love in our Precious Savior,
Tony