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Devotional…

The Eighth of November

 

From Spurgeon's

"Faith's Check Book"

 

313 - The Magnitude of Grace

 

He answered me, “I am all you need.

I give you My loving-favor.

My power works best in weak people.”

I am happy to be weak and have

troubles so I can have Christ’s

power in me.

2 Corinthians 12:9

 

Our weakness should be prized as

making room for divine strength.

We might never have known the

power of grace if we had not felt

the weakness of nature.

 

Blessed be the Lord for the thorn

in the flesh, and the messenger of

Satan, when they drive us to the

strength of God.

 

This is a precious word from our

Lord's own lip. It has made the

writer laugh for joy.

 

God's grace enough for me?

I should think it is.

Is not the sky enough for the bird

and the ocean enough for the fish?

 

The All-Sufficient is sufficient

for my largest want.

He who is sufficient for earth and

Heaven is certainly able to meet

the case of one poor worm like me.

 

Let us, then, fall back upon our

God and His grace.

If He does not remove our grief,

He will enable us to bear it.

 

His strength shall be poured into

us till the worm shall thresh the

mountains, and a nothing shall be

victor over all the high and

mighty ones.

 

It is better for us to have God's

strength than our own;

for if we were a thousand times as

strong as we are, it would amount

to nothing in the face of the enemy;

and if we could be weaker than we are,

which is scarcely possible,

yet we could do all things through

Christ.

Edited by H.C.

 

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Always take the high road,

it’s far less crowded.

- Charlie Munger

 

The best thing a human being

can do is to help another

human being know more.

- Charlie Munger

 

I met the towering intellectuals

in books, not in the classroom,

which is natural.

I can’t remember when I first

read Ben Franklin.

I had Thomas Jefferson over my

bed at seven or eight.

My family was into all that stuff,

getting ahead through discipline,

knowledge, and self-control.

- Charlie Munger

 

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From the Nov. 8^th Archives…

 

Voting is the foundational

act that breathes life into

the principle of the consent

of the governed.

- DeForest Soaries

Nothing is more important

in our national life than

the welfare of our children.

- Harry S. Truman

 

Choice of attention,

to pay attention to this

And ignore that,

is to the inner life what

Choice of action is to the

outer.

- W.H. Auden

 

Success is no accident.

It is hard work,

Perseverance, learning,

studying, sacrifice

And most of all,

love of what you are doing

Or learning to do.

- Pelé

 

The highest reward for

man’s toil is not what

he gets for it,

but what he becomes by it.

- John Ruskin

 

If you get, give.

If you learn, teach.

- Maya Angelou

 

Some cause happiness

wherever they go;

Others whenever they go.

- Oscar Wilde

 

We are not held back

by what we don’t have,

But by what we don’t use.

- Bob Goff

 

The unthankful heart...

Discovers no mercies; 

but let the thankful heart

Sweep through the day and,

As the magnet finds the iron,

so it will find,

In every hour,

Some heavenly blessings!

- Henry Ward Beecher

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

 

Could we change our attitude, 

we should not only see life

differently, but life itself

would be different.

- Katherine Mansfield

 

If people concentrated on

the really important things

in life, there’d be a shortage

of fishing poles.

- Anonymous

 

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Are You Walkin’ And A Talkin’ with The Lord

- Hank Williams Sr.

 

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