tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29637443308398638392024-03-14T08:23:56.736-07:00Fort Morgan Ministries Battle TacticsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12656238850843288227noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963744330839863839.post-89345660533892009512018-07-23T10:00:00.001-07:002018-07-23T10:00:16.605-07:00
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
Gospel according to…Job.</span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Yesterday I had a great opportunity to share the
gospel. I knew a few weeks in advance so I spent the time preparing my message.
I like to share how God is working in my life so I prepped to share the gospel in
Numbers. I struggled with it. I worked on it. I prayed about it. I wrote out
the message, rewriting it over and over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Saturday morning I had opportunity to sit down with
friends, share a great breakfast, a good cup of coffee and chat. We have been
talking for weeks how God uses people, events, struggles and even dogs to teach
us His ways. Then we got into Job chapter 1. That’s when the disagreements
started. Please note, contrary to popular opinion i.e the news, it is possible
for a group of people with differing opinions to discuss their differences in a
reasonable and rational way. This should be especially true when the group is a
body of believers in Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">However, the more we talked the more convinced I
became that God would have me speak on Job 1 on Sunday. Our disagreement centered
on whether God caused or God allowed the series of events that happened to him.
Every one of us who have been in ministry whether preaching, teaching, counseling
or discipling know how I felt. I had spent weeks preparing the message for
Sunday and now here it was less than 24 hours away and I was starting to read Job
1, intent to follow God’s lead and see what I could learn about the life of
arguably the <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>second most <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>persecuted man in history. Christ being the first.
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">You know the story but I hope my words challenge you
to look again at the life of Job. God’s own description of Job included his
upright character, his blameless lifestyle, his fear of God and his turning
from evil. Having God describe him like that humbles me. No one I know
including God would describe me that way. But what jumped out at me most and
what separates Job from most people I have ever talked to who have gone through
serious trouble was his response. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Worship!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the
name of the Lord! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We could get into many discussions on Job and we could
spend years studying this one great book. We could talk about <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>his wife’s response…curse God and die or the
counselors God sent to comfort him but I challenge you to look at the another
opposite response, from God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After sending (or allowing) all these ‘horrific’
things into Job’s life all at once, God didn’t pat him on the back, hug him and
say, it is ok Job, I still love you. How does this compare with how we respond
to those who come to us sharing their troubles? If someone comes crying to you because
of fear, anxiety, depression, worry, marriage problems, children problems,
financial problems, etc. how will you disciple them? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>God confronted
Job. Get dressed, stand up like a man and answer me…Where you there when the
foundations of the world were formed? After blasting Job for 3 chapters, Job
was crushed even more than he was after losing everything. He finally saw God
for who He is. There was nothing he could say. We all need to get to this
point. We need to help everyone God sends our way to get to the point of seeing
our absolute need for the Savior. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">He repented!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When he repented, God restored him twofold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I thank God for changing my direction, in 1987 when I
was headed for destruction and Saturday when He lead me to learning about Job. Pray
for me that I become blameless, upright, fearing God and turning from evil but
more importantly please pray that God teach me how to respond like Job in
worship and repentance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I love to share what God is doing and how He is
teaching me I thank John Ballard of Shell Banks for the opportunity to share
His Word. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">If for any reason, at any time I can help you in any
way my ministering friends, please let me know. I am here, for you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Please do me a favor and share this with your friends
in the ministry: pastors, ministry leaders, deacons, elders, teachers and those
active in making disciples. Thank you for all you do, for Him. </span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12656238850843288227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963744330839863839.post-88113646805638209632018-07-03T09:02:00.001-07:002018-07-03T09:02:42.899-07:00<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 10.66px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><i style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><u style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">The
Old Deluder </span></span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Six score and nine years before Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, Thomas Paine and John Adams penned the constitution John
Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the Old Deluder Act of 1647. It
established public schools in America to <i>teach
children to read the Bible and thus defeat Satan. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Imagine, the purpose of our schools was to keep children
from being deceived by Satan. Harvard was founded only 11 years earlier with
this stated purpose:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #502626; font-size: 17.33px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">After God had carried us
safely to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessaries for
our livelihood, reared convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the
civil government; one of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to
advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an
illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in
the dust.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">In the Harvard student handbook, you find:</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The purpose of your studies is to know God
and Jesus Christ which is eternal life. John 17:3</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Jesus is the foundation of all learning.
Proverbs 2:3</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Since the Lord <b><i>only </i></b>gives wisdom, seek
Him in prayer.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Every student shall spend time <b><i>at
least twice a day</i></b> studying Scripture.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">He will be ready to give account of what
he has learned, applying spiritual truth. Psalm 119:130</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">He will carefully retain God and His truth,
so He does not give them over to a reprobate mind. 2 Thessalonians 2:11, Romans
1:28</span></span></div>
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that the Scripture references are not mine but put there by the board of
Harvard. </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Fast forward about 320 years (16
score) and if you were sitting in my second-grade class at Cahaba Heights
Elementary you would have heard our teacher share a devotion from the Bible,
then we would recite the 23<sup>rd</sup> Psalm and the pledge of allegiance
then the principal would come over the intercom and pray for our safety, our
learning, our families and the day God had given us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Now, 50 years later, not only have we
given up on teaching the Bible, but we have thrown out everything connected to
it while at the same time embracing secular humanism, atheism, psychology, and
almost all other ‘religions’. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">We tout it is progressive thinking
and we pat ourselves on the back for our wise rise to self-autonomy but the
very roots of this come from a very old source: Satan himself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">In Genesis chapter 2 God said, “</span></span><span style="color: #514d47; font-size: 17.33px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“You may surely eat of every tree of the
garden,</span><span style="color: #514d47; font-size: 17.33px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span><sup style="direction: ltr; font-size: 8.86px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: #514d47; font-size: 8.33px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 9.33px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">17 </span></sup><span style="color: #514d47; font-size: 17.33px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil </span><i style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><u style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><sup style="direction: ltr; font-size: 8.86px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: #72abbf; font-size: 6.66px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 6.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.esv.org/Gn3.1-3%253BGn3.11%253BGn3.17&source=gmail&ust=1530715416080000&usg=AFQjCNG0A9ogtxDUQtaqAfqwvAj5DXs6ag" href="https://www.esv.org/Gn3.1-3%3BGn3.11%3BGn3.17" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="ch. 3:1-3, 11, 17"><span style="color: #72abbf; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">l</span></a></span></sup></u></i><span style="color: #514d47; font-size: 17.33px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat</span><i style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><u style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><sup style="direction: ltr; font-size: 8.86px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: #72abbf; font-size: 6.66px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 6.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.esv.org/Genesis%2B2/%23f4-&source=gmail&ust=1530715416080000&usg=AFQjCNG214myIh8kCbQ2gGIzJBFEGX5j7w" href="https://www.esv.org/Genesis+2/#f4-" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="<span class="footnote-embedded">Or <i>when you eat</i></span>"><span style="color: #72abbf; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">4</span></a></span></sup></u></i><span style="color: #514d47; font-size: 17.33px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> of it you </span><i style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><u style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><sup style="direction: ltr; font-size: 8.86px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: #72abbf; font-size: 6.66px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 6.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.esv.org/Rm6.23%253BJm1.15&source=gmail&ust=1530715416080000&usg=AFQjCNGO7sYXtlXq369KCgH-DU0xIV82dw" href="https://www.esv.org/Rm6.23%3BJm1.15" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Rom. 6:23; James 1:15"><span style="color: #72abbf; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">m</span></a></span></sup></u></i><span style="color: #514d47; font-size: 17.33px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">shall surely die.” One rule. One tree. Everything else Adam and Eve
wanted to do or eat was theirs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">But Satan was crafty. He cast doubt
in Eve’s mind... ’Did God <i>actually say</i>…then
he created unbelief, you won’t die, you will become like God knowing good and
evil. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">The puritans who saw the benefits of
using the Bible for education, the framers of the constitution who viewed the
God of the Bible as authority for establishing our laws, the pastors who later
started the Great Awakening all looked not to some unknown or unknowable God
but the God of creation, for strength, for wisdom, for education, for
provision, for everything they needed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Society tells us, especially educators,
point quickly to the vast amount of knowledge we have accumulated in the last
150 years yet like Adam and Eve we bite the apple (Ever notice the Apple logo
with the bite out of it?) of temptation wanting to believe we can be like God
or even better. * We think we are smarter, having proved there is no God or
revealing Him now dead. We believe we are wiser for we now ‘know’ so much we
can’t seem to find in the Bible. We know we are more compassionate for we
continually must go in and provide for those who suffer through hurricanes,
tornadoes, fires, earthquakes and school shootings, since God won’t do it. Most
of all we know for sure there is no hell and no Satan to run it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Maybe, just maybe, our forefathers
were smart <i>because </i>they depended on
God for answers. Today, ironically, we declare our independence not only of
England 242 years ago but of the King who required we serve God the way he
wanted. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">I think maybe it is time for another
revolution, one where we repent and learn to worship God the way HE wants us to
worship. This Independence Day let’s declare our <b><i><u>dependence on Him. </u></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Here is the link to the movie
trailer, Monumental. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">It will challenge the American
history you learned in school. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Also, I have attached a copy of
America at the Crossroads, a study guide for those who seek to learn from
Scripture and apply it to the nightly news. The study guide is free, but you
can purchase the DVD teaching series at: </span><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.precept.org/&source=gmail&ust=1530715416080000&usg=AFQjCNHOYOePM56r53R5eu277rjxw57WgQ" href="https://www.precept.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">https://www.precept.org/</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">C.S. Lewis wrote Screwtape Letters,
his way of thinking through just how Satan ‘deludes’ us every day. I have
attached of copy of this great must-read classic. </span></span></div>
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of the books I am working on will be titled <u>I</u></span><u style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">à</span></span></u><u style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">god, </span></u><span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">taking
a serious look at how we in America today think we are better than God.</span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12656238850843288227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963744330839863839.post-80998392804487782452018-06-15T11:19:00.001-07:002018-06-15T11:19:27.117-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">How My Father-in-law taught me to pick up chicks…</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Reminiscing on father’s day brings me to think fondly of my dad driving me to junior high in a dune buggy or taking my friends and I to the races at Talladega. My dad also taught me many things, how to work hard, how to be a good friend and how to enjoy life by doing what you love to do. I followed his lead. No, I absolutely did not become a mechanic. I lived much of my life as a landscaper. I love plants but I found myself mo</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">re and more talking to my customers not about the black leaves on their Crape Myrtles but about the blackness in our hearts. <br style="display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> But what I think of most on Father’s Day is how my father-in-law taught me to pick up chicks. Don’t laugh too hard. This system works. It is 100% guaranteed. I owe it all to Aubrey Tarpley. <br style="display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> When we moved down to Gulf Shores, my wife’s parents bought a house near us in a retirement community that has an assisted living facility on site. They were thinking ahead. You see my mother-in-law had an accident years earlier and along with Rheumatoid Arthritis suffered to the point of barely being able to get around. Soon they moved into an assisted living apartment where my father-in-law was seen kindly, gently, lovingly and respectfully helping her do everything. Everything. <br style="display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> His focus, at least for the last five years of her life was on her. His goals, his dreams, his adventures were put aside as he lived to encourage, uplift and love her, making her days and nights as pleasant as possible. <br style="display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> The staff, residents and visitors to the assisted living facility noticed. At Jean’s funeral and especially afterward I noticed an odd thing. The women flocked to Aubrey like starving bees to honey. I watched in shock as they actually lined up to console him, offering their assistance in any way. Hugging him, holding his hand even kissing his cheek they fawned over him. <br style="display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> I was so jealous. Not only the octogenarian residents of the upscale facility but the young nurses and friends of the family were eager to do anything they could to help him in his grief. <br style="display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> Don’t get me wrong I am very happy in our marriage and our lives recently have leaned in the same direction since my wife’s stroke. But I learned my lesson quickly and thoroughly. Before marriage dating was all about me and in fact much of the first half of our marriage was too. However, I am slowly learning to be as good and kind and loving and respectful as my father-in-law was. <br style="display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" /> On Father’s Day memories flood back. Memories of commitment, perseverance, dedication taught to me by the two fathers God gave me. Each in their own way pointing me toward the Father who loved me the most. The one Who died for me. You or someone you know struggles with their father or their attitude toward him. This provides a great opportunity to talk to them about their Father. We have resources available and we are willing to walk with you this Father’s Day.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12656238850843288227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963744330839863839.post-5707051779736127412018-05-28T07:17:00.000-07:002018-05-28T07:17:37.934-07:00<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Looking
out the window of<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>the SICU room at Pensacola’s Sacred Heart
hospital I saw the spot where nine years ago I put the star on top of the 75'
Christmas tree. My mind wandered back to the time when I cautiously stepped
foot into the small bucket of the 75' lift that would bring to completion weeks
of work on the tree seen around Pensacola.
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Inch by inch we moved up the side of the tree, every foot higher I heard my
heart beating louder. I couldn't do it, my knees were shaking so hard I thought
the<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>lift
would topple over. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Nine years later my knees were sore from spending
all night praying for my wife of 30 years. The night before I had come home
from my work at the rescue mission to find my wife laying passed out on the
floor near comatose from a stroke. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Once the paramedics got her in the ambulance and
to Sacred Heart they told me her blood sugar was over 1400, 14 times average.
The resulting stroke may have permanently damaged her brain. “If she makes it
through the night, there is a chance she will live, but she could be a
vegetable, we just don’t know yet,” the doctor told me. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Two weeks of ICU, a week step down, another week
in the hospital, three weeks in rehab, another eight weeks in a hospital bed in
our living room with rehab nurses checking her daily and a feeding tube that
lasted another two months resulted in an effective but costly and undesirable
weight loss program. We don’t recommend it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">We share this not to get your pity but to
challenge you to remember a time when all seemed lost, when nothing was going
right and the world looked dark. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">No one except maybe a crazed self-absorbed man
bent on ultimate divorce would ever pray, ‘God, please give my wife a stroke.’
Yet thinking back to that dreadful night on my knees at Sacred Heart hospital,
we have seen God at work, selecting just the right nurse, the perfect doctor, a
host of home health and rehabilitation folks to guide us through this difficult
time. Not only that<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>He continually
paraded in front of us our friends offering to help in very specific, very
direct ways. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Most of all though: He worked on our hard hearts.
You see prior to her stroke, even though I was working at a rescue mission for
homeless and addicted men and my wife was working as a seemingly lone Christian
in a very hedonistic organization, our hearts were far from Him. I can help
these guys, I would say. My wife would add that she too was alone making a
difference in her work. In both cases we didn’t acknowledge that He might need
to work on us too. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The men at the mission began reaching out to me,
gathering around to pray for me, bringing me an extra piece of chocolate cake,
coming into my office to comfort me. I was supposed to be the chaplain. I was a
biblical counselor yet God used those men to humble me and teach me His ways. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">My wife who had always had the perfect home, clean,
neat, always tidy discovered over the next few months what was really
important. We both turned to Him in fresh new waves of dependence and trust.
Doubts<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>crept in. What if she doesn’t get
better? What if she never goes back to work? What if another stroke kills her?
But they were always replaced with support, encouragement and His provision. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Daily we would get new bills but miraculously there was always money to pay. God taught us to depend on Him
fresh each day. One such day, many months later I hesitatingly called Sacred
Heart. “We haven’t received a bill.” And every time I called they would say we
are still talking with the insurance companies, often it takes a year or so
before you receive a bill. Wow, what a relief, by then my wife will be back at
work and we will have saved enough to at least put a down payment on what we
owed the hospital. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The bill that would be over $100,000 even with
our insurance was something I admit woke me up at night. Finally, the one year
mark came and I forced myself to call.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The billing department clerk found my file and
said, sir, we show no payment is needed. What? What do you mean? I asked. She
said, your account is paid in full!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">That night as I led the chapel service I shared
how God had provided in such a wonderful and unexpected way but it was only the
beginning of the change that He is still working on since that horrible night
in the ICU at Sacred Heart. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">You see, He doesn’t want us comfortable, rich and
self-absorbed. He works to lovingly teach us to be dependent on Him for
everything. We need to stop and thank Him for loving us enough to not leave us
in our defiant, self-oriented mindset. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">It can start anywhere at anytime. An ICU room, an
oncologists office, a funeral parlor or a in the middle of a war, all work to begin changing
our lives to see them as He does. Are you listening? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">My favorite place of all time? Wherever I see Him working. It is Memorial Day and it is good and right to remember those who fought and died for our freedoms. In that vein you will find attached articles that deal with tough times in the hospital, family crisis and helping those with PTSD. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">One day soon I'd like to share a story of how God works in the most difficult of circumstances. Imagine you are at Pearl Harbor as the Japanese are bombing and later God asks you to forgive the man who bombed you. Could you? Would you? I know a guy who did! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">If this all sounds crazy to you, let's talk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Mother’s Day. A day of prayer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Two years ago we celebrated Mother’s Day with the
death of our Mom. Many of you won’t understand that. How can you celebrate in
the middle of grief? How can you commemorate Mother’s Day when Mom is no longer
with you? How can you ever get over losing someone so close to you? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">It is true it has been two years and there are still
times I wish I could pick up the phone and share my accomplishments, my pain
and my gripes, but mostly my gripes. Mom would patiently listen to my griping
about my boss, about my sore back, about my forgetfulness, about traffic, about
our unruly puppies, then she would laugh, adding, “it only gets worse.” Thanks
Mom. You really know how to encourage. But, she was right. She usually was. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Traffic has gotten worse. Aches and pains have
increased. Our newest puppies do not mind better. And yes I am more…What was I
saying? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">I may remember on Mother’s Day how much I miss her. I
may be reminded of her when my cell phone rings, or the roast comes out of the
oven (her recipe), or I get mad at the driver in front of me on the road yet
what I remember best is what makes Mother’s Day so special now. This Sunday
when we go to church, someone will pray. Prayer reminds me more of Mom than a
pink Azalea, a Blue Jay, a little black MG, or an episode of M.A.S.H. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">That is what makes her death so cherished to me. She
taught me how to pray. More importantly she taught me why to pray. Mom set
aside 3 main prayer times during her day. In the morning she would thank God
for all He does. This included: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Another day, breathing (something that comes hard
every second with Emphazema, Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis), her family. her
church, her friends, her life, God’s provision…this went on for an hour at
times. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Mid-afternoon she would pray for others, those who
asked her to pray for them, people others asked her to pray for (people called
her constantly to add __________ to her list). This could take a long time as
each prayer included details of the person being prayed for and usually led to
the person who asked for her to pray. This time was not about her. It was for
others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">At the end of the evening, as she lay down, she would
thank God for the day and add any new prayers but mostly she begged His
forgiveness for where she had failed Him today. Usually at this point she would
fall asleep, content in His forgiveness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">You might wonder what an 80 year old woman who spent
her day in prayer for others, focusing on their needs would have to ask
forgiveness for. Her evening prayers consisted of asking forgiveness for lost
opportunities mostly. “I forgot to thank that kind man who helped me with my
groceries today.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Don’t get me wrong, I could choose to remember how she
corrected me when I was wrong or made me come home earlier than other Mom’s
did. I could dredge up things she did that hurt me or stay focused on times
when she got angry. But, I won’t. I refuse to do that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Mom wasn’t perfect. As I got older, I had the
privilege to get to know her as an adult. What an honor. Best memories? Easter
Sunrise service at Brother Bryan Park, my prayer for snow New Year’s eve
1964…(she said you can’t pray selfishly like that)…second worst snowstorm in
Birmingham’s history…and praying with her at her apartment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">How awesome to hear my Mom going to the Father, for
me. She had done it thousands of times before. She was practiced at praying for
others. My prayer is she passed this passion for prayer on to all her family
and friends. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Thanks Mom. Love you! See you soon. </span></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12656238850843288227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2963744330839863839.post-31152696992138756292018-05-02T06:28:00.002-07:002018-05-02T06:28:25.128-07:00<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 10.66px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Burning Bush…Exodus 4</span></span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Do you ever turn on your computer
and click on something to open it, like Word or Facebook all you see is the
little blue cursor spinning. If your like me you get angry. You ask it to do
one simple thing, something it is designed to do and you see it still spinning.
Maybe you get frustrated and just reboot, starting over. </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Think God ever does that? Think He
ever gets angry at us just sitting there doing nothing when He has called us to
a specific task? I didn’t remember Him doing that but today I read Exodus 4.
You know, Moses and the burning bush? As I read I counted eight excuses Moses
made. God kept answering them</span></div>
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<span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="direction: ltr; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>1. Who am I? (to do this for You)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">2. They won’t believe me</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">3. Throw down your staff….ok, pick
up that snake (uh, I’m Presbyterian Lord, no snake handling)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">4. Put your hand in your cloak,
becomes leperous, put it back, it’s restored (magician’s tricks Lord)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">5. Pour water from Nile and it
turns to blood (blood, gross, how about wine)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">6. I’m not eloquent (yet I know
how to use that big word properly)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">7. I’m slow of speech (who made
your mouth? Who makes people blind, deaf and mute?)</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">8. Please send someone else
(Anyone!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">At this point the Lord’s anger
burned against Moses. I will be your mouth, I will teach you what to say.<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>Right then, not coincidentally, Aaron who
speaks well, shows up.<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>Moses, you speak
to him, put words in his mouth. I will be with you both and teach you what to
do and say. </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Next time you see your mouse
clicker spinning, not doing what you ask it to do, be patient. What if He chose
to reboot you and start over like He almost did with Moses.<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>What if He chose to harden your heart to His
Word like He did Pharaoh, making you unable to hear, see or respond to Him? </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Beware. Some people just think or
write, while others actually do what God has called them to do and that is make
disciples. The assignments are seldom what we would choose to do. We will never
feel ready. We will always seem unprepared, thinking others are more qualified
than we are. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">You see someone struggling,
heading toward divorce, you find out someone in your church is sick, you know
someone who is running as hard as they can from God, living a life worse than
an atheist and you think, I need to get our pastor to go see my friends. </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">No, my friend, God is calling you
in those situations. It may not be a dramatic burning bush in the desert with
audible words from our Lord but God put those opportunities on your plate. When
your realize that you go through the same excuses Moses did. Who am I? They
won’t believe me. I’m not eloquent. I am slow of speech. Please, Lord, send
someone else. Or, at least let someone else go with me. </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Just remember, if He agrees to
send someone with you, He expects you to teach them what to say! </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #222222; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: 14.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Oh,
and as for the 'parlor' tricks of snakes and blood, He has given us much better
ones. He promises to put His Word in our hearts. He promises to bring to our
remembrance His Word stored in our hearts. He has given us the Comforter to
live in us, guide us, convict us, encourage us. Moses, on that day, had none of
those things. </span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #222222; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: 14.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Here
is a link to the scat version of Moses and the Burning Bush. Actually sang this
in front of the congregation at Briarwood, in high school, 1977. Singing, in
front of an audience….true fear! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Is God asking you to do something
you fear you are unqualified to do. Congratulations! He is inviting you into a
deeper walk with Him. Need help finding resources for handouts, or someone to
walk with you through counseling someone else, or just someone to talk through
this struggle with you? We are here to help. Let us know how we can work and
pray with you. We have attached two articles you will find helpful when struggling
with what God has called you do</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Our Needs, His
Desire</span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The dating
site said they would match you with someone completely compatible with you. The
lie starts there. If you are honest and answered all the questions you might
never get a date. Fear, anxiety and loneliness will surely follow. The
compatibility questions go something like this. What do you enjoy more, walks
on the beach, hikes in the mountains, a football game on TV or a tear jerker
movie? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Your perfect
date would be, a romantic candlelight dinner, a good movie followed by a long
walk, a night at the bar shooting pool or crack climbing Devil’s Tower? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Today you
can find a dating site designed for people with similar interests. Cowboys,
extraterrestrials, conspiracy, old people, wine drinkers all focus on the same
thing. All focus on putting people together who like the same thing, no matter
what that ‘thing’ is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Here’s the
problem and why these sites almost never work long term. If I am looking for
someone who likes mystery, bigfoot, astrologers who are Alabama fans then I am
looking for someone who I think pleases me. Therein lies the rub. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Since I am
being completely selfish in what I want, even when the ‘love of my life’ likes
the same things, once we move in together we find that our love is in love with
themselves just as much as we are. Even if we like the same things, sometimes
we won’t like them at the same time. Who ‘wins’? You want to go see the new
whodunit movie while your (in)significant other wants to watch the game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Since you
based your whole love life on what you want, what happens when you don’t get
what you want? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Consider
Hosea in the Bible. Wait, what does the Bible have to do with my love life and
my happiness? Everything, if you claim to be a follower of Christ. Hosea was
such a follower and God told him to marry the prostitute Gomer. He knew her
past, so did everyone else. Marrying her was not in his ‘compatibility’
quotient. Hosea up to this point had been seen as an honorable man in society.
Gomer was the woman guys went to when they weren’t feeling to compatible with
their wives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">God had His
reasons. The reason for the marriage was so Israel would see just how they were
acting toward God. They were acting like Gomers and prostituting their love for
God with gods of their own making. That is exactly what we do when we try to
build our lives on what we want and not on what God wants. Our needs come
first. Our desires come first. In short, we become our own gods and the God who
created us takes a backseat, a co-pilot seat or gets kicked out of our lives
altogether. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">More on
Hosea and Gomer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">But Christ
Jesus is the ultimate groom. He has perfect qualifications. He is exactly what
we need. He is kind, compassionate, loving, caring, not focused on self, taking
care of all our needs. He loves long walks and talks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">His
bridegroom (us) is the worst bride ever. Bridezilla they call it today. Our
focus is on us only. We are seen spitting on Him, beating Him, cursing Him and
killing Him to get Him out of our lives. Our hearts are only evil continually.
Our motives revolve around getting what we want. Every dating site today
profits from our lust for self. Even ‘Christian’ dating sites don’t ask
questions like, how will you respond when your mate leaves you for a prostitute
on your honeymoon? Or, how will you show your love for your mate while they are
beating you and humiliating you in public? <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Christ did
exactly that. He showed His love by dying for the very soldiers who flogged
Him. He went through crucifixion for the apostles He called while they were
running from knowing Him. He died for us despite the fact that we show our hate
for Him daily with our lies, our disowning actions, our selfish sins. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[Philippians 2:1-11 ESV] 1
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any
participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by
being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one
mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count
others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his
own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among
yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of
God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied
himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the
point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name
of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The world
will see us as Christians when we start acting like it. We have that
opportunity every day. We can show that type of love toward our spouses even
when they are not taking care of our perceived ‘needs’. In fact, that is the
best time to show it for they and the world won’t understand what you are doing.
They will ask, how can you put up with her? Why do you stay with him? Here is
your chance to be the counselor, the disciple maker God called you to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I stay with
him or I put up with her because God puts up with me. God forgives me. God set
my example. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">You say
wait, hold on. I am not married. This doesn’t apply to me. Not true my friend.
You have the opportunity to reach and teach other unmarrieds of this truth.
How? Live it. This will create questions among your friends. Why won’t you go
out with Freda? Why does her lifestyle bother you? Don’t you want to get
married? What are you looking for anyway? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Divorced?
You have an even better opportunity among those who know what you have been
through. Your friends will tell you to get back in the game. They will try to
match you up with friends of friends. If you see yourself as the unselfish
Christlike person in your former marriage you might want to reconsider. Look at
your life, contemplating on the verses above and see how you match up to the
perfect Groom. Has your life been completely selfless? Have all your actions
during and after the divorce been one of love toward your ex? Pray that God
will change you now so that you can now make a difference. What if your friends
and family began seeing a Christlike life in you, one that mirrors His totally
selfless acts. A life that shows Christ’s love through you to your former
spouse? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Then you
have an opportunity. Why are you being nice to him now? Why are you giving her
more child support than she asked for? You have changed. What happened? Here’s
your chance to share the work God has done in you. This is your chance to make
a difference in your children, and your children’s children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">God exalted
Jesus after He was obedient, after He went through hell. Why do we think we
deserve better? Why do we think we can bypass the hard stuff? Maybe we think we
are better than God.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Notice God’s
purpose. So that, at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, and every tongue
confess that Jesus is Lord. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Kneel now,
for the right reason. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I have
included Steve Gallagher’s Deny Yourself compliments of Chapel Library in
Pensacola .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.chapellibrary.org/files/7514/7041/7394/dyou.pdf"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #72abbf; font-family: calibri;">http://www.chapellibrary.org/files/7514/7041/7394/dyou.pdf</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">To dig
deeper in how to live as God intended in marriage here is an article from my
friend Dr. Abercrombie of the Biblical Counseling Institute. </span></div>
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<a href="https://bcinstitute.com/marriage-gods-way/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #72abbf; font-family: calibri;">https://bcinstitute.com/marriage-gods-way/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Have you
ever had to take a completely different direction in life? Things were going
smoothly when all of the sudden you got fired, or had a serious illness or some
other life changing event? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Peter
convinced the other disciples that the thing to do when that happens is to just
go fishing! I’ve never been much of a fisherman but I have lost a job and been
confronted with life changing events. Most of us do what Peter and his friends
did.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We run back to what we know, what
is comfortable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We catch up
with the story in John 21. Understand, Peter and the rest of the disciples had
walked with Jesus for three years. They heard the parables, saw the miracles,
were even there to have all those things explained to them. Jesus told them
many times what He was about to go through, yet when the scene went down they
all scattered. They denied knowing Him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">After His
resurrection the disciples saw Him many times yet still we see Peter convincing
his friends to ‘go back to fishing’. Before Jesus, that was all they knew.
After all this, they still did not understand, Jesus’ teaching and death and
burial and resurrection had little impact on them. They were doing what we do,
running back to what we know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Their results
were about like mine. After three years in ministry, something happened to test
my resolve to continue. I did attempt to go back to landscaping but like Peter and
friends, I ‘caught’ nothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Also like Peter,
right at that moment Jesus was standing on shore watching and tells them how to
quickly correct their error. Throw your nets on the other side of the boat, and
they caught more than they could haul in. Their efforts all night has been
fruitless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Imagine the
disciples coming on shore and the fire was laid with fish already cooking. That
breakfast at Galilee was thanks to the ultimate provider for us all. May I add
a new name of God? The chef of heaven! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I have
fished a few times and I have cooked over an open fire many times but having
the chef of heaven lay out a breakfast for me at a time when I am starving
physically and spiritually was something I hadn’t experienced until I was in
the boat with Peter, so to speak, running back to what I knew how to do, rather
than what God wanted me to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Peter had
denied Christ three times in one night. I have far exceeded that and you have
too. But Jesus restored him three times, once for each time. He will do it for
you and I too. Jesus didn’t just forgive him. He challenged him to feed His
sheep. He pushed him to get busy doing what He had been telling him to do all
along, follow His example. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Die to self,
live for others, feed the needs, be ready at their most vulnerable point. His
implied promise was that as Peter and friends did as God commanded them, He
would bless their efforts. Check out Peter in Acts 3-4 and you will see the
change believing will make. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">No longer
was Peter denying Christ. No longer was he encouraging others to go back to
fishing, or living as if the resurrection didn’t matter. He was preaching in
the synagogues and on the street corners to every Jew, Greek, Gentile or
Samaritan who would listen. He spoke with courage. He spoke with boldness. He
spoke with conviction. Gone were the fears of failure, rejection, reprisal.
Gone were fears of what others would think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">That change
only happens when <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>we quit focusing on
ourselves and focus on Him. It requires God opening our hearts to be receptive
to Him. It means God opening our minds to see ourselves as the completely
incapable, hopelessly dead worms that we are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When that
happens, and only when that happens can we see the feast laid before us, the
great catch that awaits us. God never called us to be comfortable, He calls us
to be dependent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">May He open
our eyes to see our need of Him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Happy Easter
my friends. He is Alive! Jesus loves you and I do too. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In writing to you this month, God
impressed on me the many connections between having a good healthy landscape
and being a productive part of a thriving church. A new book “ A Weed Free
Life” will come out of my past landscape experiences and my current digging
into His Word. Please pray I am diligent in this work. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Blooming is Hard
Work</span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Imagine you
walking with a group of friends along the brick lined pathways of Bellingrath.
The azaleas are in full bloom. You see their beauty, you smell their fragrance.
The day is perfect. Light breezes lift Tanagers and Warblers along the banks of
the Fowl River. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">As you and
your friends walk among the blooms you may never consider just what it takes to
bring about such beauty. For Bellingrath at least this show that elicits such
interests doesn’t just happen. Many people, much planning, fastidious attention
to detail and a multi-generational determination must be taken year-round for
this two-week span of Azalea bloom to burst forth on our senses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">William
Barrick, executive director for Bellingrath must think not about today, not
about next month but must look at the big, long range picture. You must put the
right people in place who will share your vision. This thinking must be shared
throughout the organization. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This is
especially true for Chuck Owens who manages maintenance and nursery work. For
example, pruning should begin directly after the blooms are gone to encourage
next years blooms. This must be done by someone who knows when to cut, where to
cut and how to cut. A full complement of preventative maintenance techniques
carefully blended with well timed, proven, precise pest management are
necessary throughout the year. An ounce less insecticide and the pests kill the
plants. An ounce too much and the spray kills the plants and affects a very
delicate eco-system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Consider the
headache associated with letting the public know when to come see this
spectacle. Sally Ericson, Bellingrath’s marketing director, struggles with
knowing when best to promote one of the biggest events of the year. Unlike the
Christmas lights, the Azalea bloom is dependent on light, rain, or lack of it,
temperature highs and lows, soil conditions and much more that is out of her
hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">For 85 years
people thronged to Bellingrath in anticipation of the beginning of spring
heralded by the 250,000 Azaleas showing off God’s handiwork. Try to apply all
this to your church and to you personally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The time to
think through how to answer someone who has lost a child to a gunman in their
school is not the day you see it on the news and get the call from your friend.
Some might think best at improvisation but in truth, most of us are not the
Robin Williams, Jackie Gleason type of people. We work best when we plan, think
then act. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">All days are
not the perfect spring day stroll at Bellingrath. Some days have hurricanes,
some months have financial strain, some years have sickness. We simply can’t
act like the Ostrich and put our heads in the sand every time something
difficult comes up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Azaleas have
a host of problems. They are picky about how much or how little light they get
and even what kind of light it is. They are pickier about the soil they try to
grow their roots in. It can’t have too much clay, it can’t be too wet and more.
They are susceptible to a host of insect and disease problems, yet they are one
of the most preferred in our landscapes because of their beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Consider
this; Azaleas bloom best when they are under a little stress. Like most
blooming plants if they were given exactly what they wanted they would look good
and healthy, but their blooms would be sparse and spindly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Let’s make
it personal. Do you complain that our schools are becoming crime scenes? How
have you been a ray of light in that darkness? Do you gripe about the music in
the church or the lack of depth in the pastor’s sermon yet do not take time to
prepare for worship through prayer and study of Scripture? Do you relish a time
of pruning in your own life, knowing that His cuts will bring the blooms, or do
you run from God’s correction? As you read His Word daily do you make note of
how these words apply to you? Do you see ways you could, lovingly, share some
thoughts on depression or grief with one who has lost a family member? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In short,
what happens at Bellingrath seems to be magical. The truth is it takes daily
challenging work, monthly planning and a generational perspective to show off
what God has done. We need to put that kind of thought, prayer and eager
anticipation of the beauty He is working in all of us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This month
we want to provide links to reference material dealing with learning<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>how best to grow in your Christian life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Here is a free .pdf download of Coming Back to God by Patrick Morely </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">who wrote
‘Man in the Mirror’. </span></div>
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<img border="0" height="66" src="file:///C:/Users/Jeff/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image004.png" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025" width="102" /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Also, you can
receive a copy of ‘Man in the Mirror’ from us free. Just let us know you would
like it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #385623; font-family: "beach thin" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Fort Morgan Ministries</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #023160; font-family: "beach thin" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">FortMorganMinistries@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "beach thin" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #385623; font-family: "beach thin" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Jeff Sutherland</span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: #01103a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Fight the good fight
of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made
the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 1 Timothy 6:12</span><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "beach thin" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I
am NOT a painter (Paint Seminary)</span></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I am not a painter, a carpenter, a plumber, an
electrician or a mechanic. Handyman describes my grandfather, my dad and my
brother, not me. Three things brought me to be repainting inside our home. It
hadn’t been painted since we moved in 14 years ago, paint was on sale and I had
the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I gleaned all I could from the very helpful hardware
man. His experience and encouragement led me to be walking out confidently with
15 gallons of paint. In talking to him I found, more importantly, he was a fine
Christian man and member of a church I had not yet introduced myself to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">As I began painting it was soon obvious that painting
well meant far more than sticking the brush in the can and slapping the color
on the wall. I got paint everywhere. The carpet, the tile, the counters, the
cabinets and most of all, me. Three days after painting the hall a friend said,
oh, you’re painting, as he looked at the paint still on my elbows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The final straw happened yesterday. It was late in the
day, I was tired and as I was finishing the kitchen trim work the large cup I
was using to hold paint, slipped from my hand and covered the linoleum with a
fresh coat of high gloss white trim. After muttering things about my clumsiness
and unwillingness to continue trying to do something God surely didn’t gift me
to do, I asked my wife if it might be time for new flooring in the kitchen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Then, I begrudgingly got down on my knees and began to
clean up the mess. It dawned on me this is the best way to clean up any mess,
on our knees, humbled and needy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">You see God will bring us through many trials and
troubles to get us to the point of humbling ourselves before Him, confessing
our need of His forgiveness and in short, this works best on our knees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This is a very simple story with a vast number of
applications but look closely at what you are going through right now. Whatever
it is, consider, how God may be using your situation simply to get you back on
your knees, humbled and dependent on Him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">How much paint must we spill before we get in the
right position to once again serve God? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">People ask me often what<span style="color: #385623; margin: 0px;"> Fort Morgan Ministries </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>is all about. This story is a good example.
Our desire is to share with others how God is working in our lives, prayerfully
challenging others to see how God is working in their lives. He is at work in
my life and yours in a hundred different ways every day. Do you see it? Try
this, when I lost my beloved yellow lab Bacchus, I asked God to use that grief
to teach me about Him. Today, ask God to show you how He is using the struggles
you are going through to turn you back to Him. Plead with Him to give you
wisdom you can share with others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Spilled paint can become an opportunity to bow before
God. A dented fender can be an opportunity to show His love to someone who
might not understand it. A stubborn pet who won’t learn to shake can show you
just how you are walking before God. A sick child will force you to focus on
them and not yourself. Burned dinner can be a chance to take your wife out on a
much needed date night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">If you are having trouble seeing how the things in
your life are God’s way of dragging you back to Him, let’s talk. If you can see
it clearly share it with others, including <span style="color: #385623; margin: 0px;">Fort Morgan Ministries. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We are here to walk along side you in your Christian
walk. Let us know how we can help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This month we want to share how the idea that God is
actively at work in our lives started.</span></div>
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<img alt="" class="a-dynamic-image" data-a-dynamic-image="{"https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HYuxISxJL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg":[225,346],"https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HYuxISxJL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg":[324,499]}" height="200" id="imgBlkFront" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HYuxISxJL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="130" /><img align="left" height="200" hspace="12" src="file:///C:/Users/Jeff/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" width="130" /><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This
book came out of the grief we felt for the loss of our beloved pet. Writing it
was very therapeutic but more than that, the idea that God works through pets,
children, bosses, automobiles, wind, rain, hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, gun
violence, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>loss, grief, struggle,
temptation, addiction and more. He uses friends, church, weddings, funerals,
beautiful mountain scenes, great vacations, awesome sunsets, even beach loving
wives to teach us about Him and His ways. We challenge you to ask God for His
wisdom, showing you just how and why He is working in your life and everyone
you know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We would be happy to send you a copy of Pet Seminary
to get you started. Let us walk with you in this awesome journey to get to know
Him better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Here is a link to the first chapter. </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/PS%201.1.docx"><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\PS
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Here is a link to how to begin digging into His Word. </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/how%20to%20study%20precepts.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\how
to study precepts.pdf</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Here is the best link we have found to open a world of
new Bible study opportunities. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.preceptaustin.org/"><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.preceptaustin.org/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Here is a short book from AW Tozer on “The Pursuit of
God”. </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/Pursuit-of-God-Ebook-MyVerge.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\Pursuit-of-God-Ebook-MyVerge.pdf</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Thank you for the opportunity to walk with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">jeff sutherland</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #023160; font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">FortMorganMinistries@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "Beach Thin",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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