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Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. —MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZ It’s better to take the time to ask questions and to find the words to say what you really feel. Often we leave so much room for interpretation either because we are rushing or because we are afraid to speak the whole truth, but this is where miscommunications start.
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Demi Lovato (Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year)
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Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. —MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZ It’s better to take the time to ask questions and to find the words to say what you really feel. Often we leave so much room for interpretation either because we are rushing or because we are afraid to speak the whole truth, but this is where miscommunications start. So even if you aren’t sure about what someone means or how they feel, just ask them. Goal: When was the last time you assumed something and were wrong? Make a point to know the truth and not assume it.
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Demi Lovato (Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year)
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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!” — Mother Teresa —
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I.C. Robledo (365 Quotes to Live Your Life By: Powerful, Inspiring, & Life-Changing Words of Wisdom to Brighten Up Your Days (Master Your Mind, Revolutionize Your Life Series))
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Worry does no good and can impact your life in negative ways. I’m sure you have noticed how absolutely powerless you feel when you worry or you’re anxious and troubled, because worry is indeed completely useless. It is a waste of time and energy because it never changes your circumstances.
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Joyce Meyer (Trusting God Day by Day: 365 Daily Devotions)
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We can still fall into the trap of self-deceit today. It always begins through pride and arrogance, somehow thinking that our ways are superior to God’s ways. In this season when the church celebrates Jesus’ mighty work of redemption, let’s not miss the joy of complete obedience to God’s will and plans for our life.
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Darlene Zschech (Revealing Jesus: A 365-Day Devotional)
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Until my practice period was completed, I deliberately neglected everything else. That program of planned neglect, I believe, accounts for my success.
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John C. Maxwell (The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You)
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Do you realise that it is God who chose you, in Christ Jesus, before he put the earth together? His ultimate goal is to make you holy & completely blameless, by the time he has finished working with you. It's not always a quick process, following a quick line fit on a graph. You are on a journey, full of ups and downs, stopping and waiting; as God develops character in you. The specific characteristics, which God wants to develop in your life are: patience; long suffering; and trust. And God may need to make several attempts at developing these characteristics in all of our lives. Have you ever wondered why the journey with God, to develop such characteristics in our lives, takes so long? It's because such characteristics will stay with us for eternity.
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Christopher Roberts (365 Days With God: A Daily Devotional)
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PROPER USE OF TIME
Proper use of time means to complete the decided work at the right time. Those who leave today's work to tomorrow and tomorrow's work to the day after invite only problems for themselves.
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Sirshree (365 HAPPY QUOTES – DAILY INSPIRATIONS FROM SIRSHREE)
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In one study, elite violinists had separated themselves from all others by each accumulating more than 10,000 hours of practice by age 20. Thus the rule. Many elite performers complete their journey in about ten years, which, if you do the math, is an average of about three hours of deliberate practice a day, every day, 365 days a year. Now, if your ONE Thing relates to work and you put in 250 workdays a year (five days a week for 50 weeks), to keep pace on your mastery journey you’ll need to average four hours a day. Sound familiar? It’s not a random number. That’s the amount of time you need to time block every day for your ONE Thing. More than anything else, expertise tracks with hours invested. Michelangelo once said, “If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.” His point is obvious. Time on a task, over time, eventually beats talent every time. I’d say you can “book that,” but actually you should “block it.
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Gary Keller (The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results)
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When love is our purpose, when love is the goal, when love is our anchor, our lives and actions change to mirror the heart of our great God. When we love God with all our hearts, we trust Him so completely that we want His will in our lives because we know that is absolutely what is best for us. It’s not even a question. We no longer let other gods rule our life. We don’t demand our way and find ourselves on wrong paths. To serve others becomes the greatest joy, not the greatest burden.
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Darlene Zschech (Revealing Jesus: A 365-Day Devotional)
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I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Phil. 1:3–6 NIV)
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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It is because the ancients made astronomical calculations in base 60 that we still use this system for measuring time, dividing an hour into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds. In its path through the heavens, the sun takes roughly 360 days (actually 365.242199) to describe a complete circle, so it seems that the Babylonians divided a complete circle into 360 degrees (°).
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John H. Conway (The Book of Numbers)
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When I went to my room after breakfast, I made my bed, straightened the room, dusted the floor, and did whatever else came to my attention. Then I hurried to my violin practice. I found I wasn’t progressing as I thought I should, so I reversed things. Until my practice period was completed, I deliberately neglected everything else. That program of planned neglect, I believe, accounts for my success.
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John C. Maxwell (The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You)
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Such is the case with unseasonable rain. It is supposed to be hot summer, yet it is a day like midwinter. What is there to do but to accept it? Following cycles does not mean that you can then expect things to occur with precision and regularity. The actual ways that circumstances develop will always remain beyond complete regimentation. Nature doesn’t act according to human theories. Rather, our sciences are imperfect at analyzing nature.
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Ming-Dao Deng (365 Tao: Daily Meditations)
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O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. —PSALM 139:1–4 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. —2 CORINTHIANS 1:21–22 “No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.” —JOSHUA 1:5
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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The word “quench” in this verse is the Greek word sbennumi, which means to quench by dousing or to extinguish by drowning in water. It refers to the water-soaked shield of Roman soldiers. You see, before Roman soldiers went out to battle, they purposely soaked their shields in water until they were completely water-saturated. The soldiers did this because they knew the enemy would be shooting fire-bearing arrows in their direction. If a shield was dry, it was possible for it to be set on fire when struck. But if this vital piece of armor was water-soaked, the flames would be extinguished even if an arrow penetrated its heavily saturated surface. How does this apply to us as believers? Well, Romans 10:17 says that our faith is increased by hearing the Word of God. In Ephesians 5:26, the Word of God is likened to water. So as we regularly submit ourselves to the Word of God, we soak our faith with the Word just as a Roman soldier soaked his shield with water. And when our faith becomes Word-saturated or Word-soaked, it becomes just like the soldier’s water-saturated shield. In other words, it will be so heavily inundated with the water of God’s Word that even if a fiery dart pierces our shield, the huge amount of Word in us will extinguish the flames and put out a potentially damaging situation!
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Rick Renner (Sparkling Gems From The Greek Vol. 1: 365 Greek Word Studies For Every Day Of The Year To Sharpen Your Understanding Of God's Word)
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MY CONFESSION FOR TODAY I confess that I am “sealed” with the Holy Spirit. My contents are intact and in order. I am approved, endorsed, recognized, affirmed, sanctified, and notarized by the Spirit of God. Because God has “sealed” me, it is guaranteed that I am going to make it to my final destination. When demons see the seal of God on me, they know they are not to mess around with me! I am a special package, to be treated with special care. Angels watch over me and guard my safe passage from one place to the next. Evil forces may attempt to mess with me, but the seal of God guarantees that I’ll arrive safely and complete! I declare this by faith in Jesus’ name!
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Rick Renner (Sparkling Gems From The Greek Vol. 1: 365 Greek Word Studies For Every Day Of The Year To Sharpen Your Understanding Of God's Word)
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I DESIGNED YOU to live in union with Me. This union does not negate who you are; it actually makes you more fully yourself. When you try to live independently of Me, you experience emptiness and dissatisfaction. You may gain the whole world and yet lose everything that really counts. Find fulfillment through living close to Me, yielding to My purposes for you. Though I may lead you along paths that feel alien to you, trust that I know what I am doing. If you follow Me wholeheartedly, you will discover facets of yourself that were previously hidden. I know you intimately —far better than you know yourself. In union with Me, you are complete. In closeness to Me, you are transformed more and more into the one I designed you to be. “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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No one is completely defined by their knowledge or what they've accomplished. At the end of each of our lives, if you ask the people who knew us what they'll miss the most, it'll be the small ways we loved the people around us. It'll be the memories we made and the big mess-ups we walked through together. It will be our kindness, not our qualifications, that outlast us. It will be the time we unsuccessfully tried to wrap a puppy up for Christmas, not the perfect vacation we planned or the raise we got. It will be the fire we started by mistake in the house while trying to make indoor s'mores during a storm. We won't be missed because of the lectures we gave or arguments we won. We'll be missed because someone will want to call us to share a joy from the day and remember we're no longer there to share the celebration.
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Bob Goff (Live in Grace, Walk in Love: A 365-Day Journey)
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In the solitude of death, the young child or the mature adult can turn to another for comfort without feeling childish or dependent. The newly emancipated, self-sufficient young adult may have too much personal pride to allow himself to accept the support and the understanding he so desperately needs as he moves toward death. The specific emotional reaction of the newly mature young man to the prospect of personal death is RAGE. He feels that life is completely within his grasp so that death above all else is the great ravisher and destroyer. These mature young men who have worked, trained and striven to reach self-confidence and self-sufficiency now appreciate what they can do and what they can enjoy and that suddenly it will all end. They are so ready to live, to them death is a brutal, personal attack, an unforgivable insult, a totally unacceptable event.
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Ronald J. Glasser (365 Days)
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We can prove that the Great Pyramid's base area (with a metric side of 440*0.5236) expresses a solar year through dividing it by the number of days per year, i.e. 365. As a result it delivers to us an area with a square side of 12 rendering such a square as a unit of measurement relevant to our model as John Michell anticipates throughout his work.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (The Mill of Egypt: The Complete Series Fused)
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The GP's Base Unit/Normalized Square (with a side of 12) is now associated with the day (instead of the year) and has half an area which equals to 72 (instead of 72*365). This sections the pyramid's surface line which extends from the middle of the base side to the top into 100 steps with each in an amount of 1.86 meters; a ratio which equals to the number of Aubrey Holes over 30 days (i.e. a month).
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (The Mill of Egypt: The Complete Series Fused)
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Make a baking soda at-home mask to remove blackheads. Any time you’re experiencing a breakout, you should look to this essential DIY mask. Simply mix together baking soda and water—just enough water to create a paste. Next, put the paste on your face and allow it to dry. Remove the mask with a washcloth and completely moisturize your face immediately.
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White Lemon (365 Days of DIY)
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, I am disposed to believe that it is to be found complete in each individual; and on this point to adopt the common opinion of philosophers, who say that the difference of greater and less holds only among theaccidents, and not among the forms or natures of individuals of the same species.
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Charles Eliot (The Harvard Classics in a Year: A Liberal Education in 365 Days)
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YOU NEED ME EVERY MOMENT. Your awareness of your constant need for Me is your greatest strength. Your neediness, properly handled, is a link to My Presence. However, there are pitfalls that you must be on guard against: self-pity, self-preoccupation, giving up. Your inadequacy presents you with a continual choice—deep dependence on Me, or despair. The emptiness you feel within will be filled either with problems or with My Presence. Make Me central in your consciousness by praying continually: simple, short prayers flowing out of the present moment. Use My Name liberally, to remind you of My Presence. Keep on asking and you will receive, so that your gladness may be full and complete. Pray continually. 1 THESSALONIANS 5 : 17 Up to this time you have not asked a [single] thing in My Name [as presenting all that I AM]; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy (gladness, delight) may be full and complete. JOHN 16 : 24 (AMP)
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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If we are to be pure and holy, we must first commit ourselves—mind, body, and spirit—completely to Christ. We can’t hold back any area of our life from Him.
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Billy Graham (Wisdom for Each Day: 365 Daily Devotions)
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We all hide behind masks, and role-playing Lady Bountiful is one of our favorites. What we don’t understand is that the most important missing link between gratitude and fulfillment is when the circle of generosity is never completed.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach (Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life)
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COFFEE AND TEA Recent research suggests that both coffee and tea consumption are associated with a lower incidence of dementia. Particularly interesting is the finding that those who drink two or three cups of coffee and the same amount of tea showed the greatest reduction, according to the figures released in November 2021 by the UK Biobank. This study analyzed coffee and tea consumption as related to stroke and dementia risk. Among the 365,682 participants, those who drank two to three cups of coffee per day and two to three cups of tea per day lowered their dementia risk by 28 percent.
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Richard Restak (The Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind)
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For anyone who says we’re culturally and technologically advanced beings not held in thrall by our environment consider how we start each year afresh simply because the rotation of the Earth around the sun takes precisely 365 days and we run our lives by the hour because the planet takes 24 hours to complete a rotation around its central axis.
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David Amerland (Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully)
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Some things are not meant to be forever. They are just meant to get us there. Every friendship, every job, every place we live, is just a bridge to learning something we need in order to become who we are to be. People leave us because their part in our journey is finished. We never complete anything without having a lesson to be learned. Good-byes always leave us with a piece missing, don’t they? Change is always difficult.
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Devon O'Day (Paws to Reflect: 365 Daily Devotions for the Animal Lovers Soul)
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All of God lives in Christ’s body, and God has made you complete in Christ. Christ is in charge of every ruler and authority. Colossians 2:9–10
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Dianne Neal Matthews (Designed for Devotion: A 365-Day Journey from Genesis to Revelation)
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People still try to blend Christianity with other belief systems, philosophies, or their own ideas. Colossians reminds us that Christ has already given us all we need for salvation and living the Christian life. We don’t need to look anywhere else; we already have the complete picture.
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Dianne Neal Matthews (Designed for Devotion: A 365-Day Journey from Genesis to Revelation)
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LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. —PSALM 139:1–4
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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We humans have a tendency to always want more. Therefore it is easy to forget to feel grateful and happy with the good that we already have. We should strive to feel a joy that is complete. Lack of joy with what we have is destructive both physically and spiritually.
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Alan Morinis (Every Day, Holy Day: 365 Days of Teachings and Practices from the Jewish Tradition of Mussar)
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I have fought the good fight. I have completed the race. I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7
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Dianne Neal Matthews (Designed for Devotion: A 365-Day Journey from Genesis to Revelation)
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No need for psychiatric contortions; no shock waves; no need to conjure up deep-seated anxieties and conflicts. It is combat exhaustion—instead of something ominous and mysterious. It is, quite simply, just having had too much. Of course, in more technical terms, combat exhaustion can be thought of as an abnormal reaction to the stress of combat, its manifestation being unique to the person who develops it, channeled into a specific form by the person’s own individual personality and background experience. But it is only one of many abnormal reactions. A soldier who has had too much might choose to surrender or convulsively go forward. He might panic and get killed; he could get himself wounded or wound himself; he might even go to the chaplain or decide on the relative safety of a stockade. He might—if he’s so disposed—develop psychosomatic complaints, get angry, or, in some cases, become totally unreasonable. He can become neurotic, begin to shake, refuse to move, or go completely hysterical. He might even become grossly psychotic—hold imaginary rifles, hear voices, or see his grandmother in every chopper that flies by. “You will be treating these men, and the treatment is simple. For most it will just be rest. In more severe cases, those soldiers whose functioning is beginning to be impaired, who can’t rest, you will medically put to sleep. They are given enough thorazine to put them out and left alone for a day or two. They too, though, like the troopers who are merely resting, stay near the aid station. The more disturbed patients, those troopers who for the moment may be truly disoriented, who have completely stopped functioning, who for any number of reasons appear to need more than a short rest, are sent to an evacuation hospital. But they are never lost to their units. Their group identity is never tampered with, and they know they will be going back. And they do go back. And they are accepted by their units. Believe me, the casual, yet efficient way it is all handled, the official emphasis on health rather than disease, and the lack of mumbo-jumbo have taken the stigma out of having had too much. To the men, it is just something that happens; and more important, it is something they realize can happen to anyone. It is handled that way and it is presented that way. “Gentlemen, it works.
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Ronald J. Glasser (365 Days)
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My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. —COLOSSIANS 2:2–3
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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Instead, as we lovingly speak the truth, we will grow up completely in our relationship to Christ, who is the head. He makes the whole body fit together and unites it through the support of every joint. As each and every part does its job, he makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Ephesians 4:15–16
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Dianne Neal Matthews (Designed for Devotion: A 365-Day Journey from Genesis to Revelation)
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who began a good work in you will complete it. Don’t give up. Press on. No matter how far you feel you’ve come—or how far you feel you have to go—don’t stop now. Even
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Darlene Zschech (Revealing Jesus: A 365-Day Devotional)
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may this be a year in which we come alive to the multiplied blessings you’ve already lavished upon us in the gospel. Already you have rescued us from the dominion of darkness and have placed us in the kingdom of your beloved Son, Jesus (Col. 1:13). Already you have blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Eph. 1:3). Already we are completely loved by you because of Jesus’ completed work on our behalf. As the year progresses, open the eyes of our hearts to see all these glorious riches more clearly and enjoy them more fully (Eph. 1:18–19).
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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Certainly the day is coming! . . . All arrogant people and all evildoers will be like straw. The day that is coming will burn them up completely,” says the LORD of Armies. Malachi 4:1
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Dianne Neal Matthews (Designed for Devotion: A 365-Day Journey from Genesis to Revelation)
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Even if today you feel completely unsure that things will work out, keep the faith. God is faithful to His promises.
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Darlene Zschech (Revealing Jesus: A 365-Day Devotional)
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In South Africa, I learned an important principle for all who want to move in a healing anointing and all who want to experience God’s healing in their own lives—thankfulness and rejoicing. Often, when we are prayed for, we feel a little better, but maybe we are aware we are not fully healed. We tend to look for instantaneous, complete healing instead of rejoicing in the fact that God has touched us. In that hospital, I learned to give thanks for every little bit of healing God gave as He gave it. I became grateful for every little step I could take until I was able to run and jump. With every step I took, I rejoiced in what Jesus was doing. I didn’t moan and say, “But I can only take a few little steps.” Rejoicing is so important.
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Heidi Baker (Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love)
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A fruitful pastor I know keeps a job description from God in his desk. The job description is eight pages long—every page completely blank. He has signed it on the bottom of the last page. Periodically, he pulls it out and reminds himself that God has the authority and absolute right to fill in those pages as He wills.
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Dick Brogden (Live Dead Joy: 365 Days of Living and Dying with Jesus)
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And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4:16–19 NIV)
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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In the summer of 2013, I chanced upon mention of the Harvard Classics while searching for an interesting MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) to complete. Being acquainted with The Great Books anthology and other guides such as The Intellectual Devotional, I found the Five Foot Shelf to be a fascinating concept, particularly due to the requirement of only fifteen minutes reading a day.
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Charles Eliot (The Harvard Classics in a Year: A Liberal Education in 365 Days)
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Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 5:23)
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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carry it through to completion on the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6
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Dianne Neal Matthews (Designed for Devotion: A 365-Day Journey from Genesis to Revelation)
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THIS IS A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU MUST LEARN TO LET GO: of loved ones, of possessions, of control. In order to let go of something that is precious to you, you need to rest in My Presence, where you are complete.
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you. PHILIPPIANS 1:6
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Joyce Meyer (Trusting God Day by Day: 365 Daily Devotions)
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In general, repression had been good to Luka. As he’d discovered through talking with the copy of Ellie he’d brought with him from the San Francisco, repression had enabled him to function in circumstances where others might have given up. But repression was only one tool, and Luka now knew that the structures one built were often defined—or at least profoundly influenced—by the tools one used to build them. Repression was like constantly building upward in order to avoid the work of building out a more stable foundation, but eventually the instability compounded to the point where your life had no choice but to topple. Another problem with the past was that every year, it came back around. The cycle of the Gregorian calendar was like the constant rotation of a cylinder with 365 chambers, and the longer you lived, the more rounds filled those holes. Except these bullets were never fully spent, and rather than proving lethal, the wounds they left were a gradual accumulation of debilitating injury. A much better calendrical system would have been one where days never repeated; where lives were marked with infinitely incrementing integers, constantly leaving the things everyone wanted to forget further and further behind; where every second of every day was a chance to completely reinvent oneself out of newly created time that had no inherent knowledge whatsoever of the past. In the one year since Luka and Ayla had been alone together aboard the Hawk, they had each experienced a lot of anniversaries: the days they’d left their home pod systems as children; the times each had lost people they loved; the moments they’d been forced right up to the very edge of death—in fact, well past the point of peace and acceptance—only to be unexpectedly pulled back into the worlds they thought they were finally leaving behind. And the day that was
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Christian Cantrell (Equinox (Containment, #2))
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Jesus, we cry out for freedom today—freedom in our ongoing struggles with shame, both the shame we feel and the shame we give. Though our guilt has been completely taken care of by your work on the cross, Jesus, we still feel varying degrees of shame, and we act out in a variety of destructive ways. We vacillate between self-contempt and other-centered contempt, and both of these contradict and sabotage the very love by which, and for which, we were saved. Indeed, we need the freedom you alone can provide, Jesus.
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. (Phil. 1:6)
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. (Phil. 2:1–4 NIV)
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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Truly, there is no other Lord but you, Jesus. You are the Christ, the promised and present Savior. Through you the Father created the world, through you he granted salvation, through you he’s sustaining all things, and through you he’ll complete his great story of redemption and restoration. It is through you that I live and move and have my being, Jesus (Acts 17:28).
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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Glorious Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—I praise you for the incalculable riches of redemption you’ve lavished on us in the gospel. Father, for planning such a stunning salvation; Jesus, for accomplishing all things necessary for our complete salvation; Holy Spirit, for faithfully applying the work of Jesus to us. I wish I had adequate words to express my gratitude, but my words fail me.
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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For Jesus is our Joshua—the one who has saved us, is saving us, and one day will completely save us. Without any embarrassment or fear of cliché, I gladly affirm: Jesus saves!
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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Father, may this be a year of considering our lives worth nothing to us, if only we may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given us—the task of testifying (by word and deed) to the gospel of your grace (Acts 20:24).
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience [endurance] . But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect [mature] and complete, lacking nothing." [i.e. "But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed." (James 1:3,4) We
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Val Waldeck (His Eye Is On The Sparrow. 365-Day Devotional)
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and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power." (Colossiansl 2:10) That
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Val Waldeck (His Eye Is On The Sparrow. 365-Day Devotional)
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We only foolishly think there’s some set of circumstances, some person, some relationship, some change in our world, some sensual experience that can satisfy the restlessness in our hearts. But we’re made for you, Jesus—designed to be fulfilled and completed only by you. You are the most loving and tender bridegroom who cherishes a most unlikely and ill-deserving bride.
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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The power to obey comes from being moved and motivated by the completed work of Jesus for us. The fuel to do good flows from what’s already been done.
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Tullian Tchividjian (It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News)
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I DESIGNED YOU to live in union with Me. This union does not negate who you are; it actually makes you more fully yourself. When you try to live independently of Me, you experience emptiness and dissatisfaction. You may gain the whole world and yet lose everything that really counts. Find fulfillment through living close to Me, yielding to My purposes for you. Though I may lead you along paths that feel alien to you, trust that I know what I am doing. If you follow Me wholeheartedly, you will discover facets of yourself that were previously hidden. I know you intimately —far better than you know yourself. In union with Me, you are complete. In closeness to Me, you are transformed more and more into the one I designed you to be. “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” MARK 8 : 36 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. PSALM 139 : 13 – 16 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 CORINTHIANS 3 : 17 – 18 September 17 YOU WILL NOT FIND MY PEACE by engaging in excessive planning: attempting to control what will happen to you in the future. That is a commonly practiced form of unbelief. When your mind spins with multiple plans, Peace may sometimes seem to be within your grasp; yet it always eludes you. Just when you think you have prepared for all possibilities, something unexpected pops up and throws things into confusion. I did not design the human mind to figure out the future. That is beyond your capability. I crafted your mind for continual communication with Me. Bring Me all your needs, your hopes and fears. Commit everything into My care. Turn from the path of planning to the path of Peace. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 PETER 5 : 6 – 7 In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. PROVERBS 16 : 9 Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. PSALM 37 : 5 (NKJV)
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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I DESIGNED YOU to live in union with Me. This union does not negate who you are; it actually makes you more fully yourself. When you try to live independently of Me, you experience emptiness and dissatisfaction. You may gain the whole world and yet lose everything that really counts. Find fulfillment through living close to Me, yielding to My purposes for you. Though I may lead you along paths that feel alien to you, trust that I know what I am doing. If you follow Me wholeheartedly, you will discover facets of yourself that were previously hidden. I know you intimately —far better than you know yourself. In union with Me, you are complete. In closeness to Me, you are transformed more and more into the one I designed you to be. “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” MARK 8 : 36 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. PSALM 139 : 13 – 16 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 CORINTHIANS 3 : 17 – 18
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able. ABLE TO DO immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.—Able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.—Able to help those who are being tempted. Evening Able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.—Able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy.—Able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day. Who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”…“Yes, Lord.”…“According to your faith will it be done to you.” 2 TIM. 1:12. Eph. 3:20. 2 Cor. 9:8. Heb. 2:18; 7:25. Jude 24. 2 Tim. 1:12. Phil. 3:21. Matt.
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Various (Daily Light on the Daily Path: A Classic Morning and Evening Devotional to Grow Your Faith (A 365-Day Devotional))
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Sometimes other people fail to give us the recognition we deserve; sometimes they completely overlook us. When we feel stuck in a life of drudgery, we can be confident that our difficulties and suffering won’t last forever. If we submit to God and trust him to control the events in our life, he will honor us at the right time. It might be during our earthly life or when we stand before him in heaven, but either way believers are in for a major promotion.
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Dianne Neal Matthews (Designed for Devotion: A 365-Day Journey from Genesis to Revelation)
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Finishing Well Requires Mountains of Grace. The mountainous problems that surround us are made flat in the end by God’s grace (4: 7). Our salvation is by grace through faith, as is our completion. Only God’s grace gets us through this fallen world pure. Grace never denies or circumvents our efforts and intentional discipline, but neither can we rely on our efforts to get us to the end sin-free. Those who finish well have not had more luck or been more determined than those who stumbled at the end. They have simply been graced by God. When we breathe our last breath, we should use it to shout “Grace!
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Dick Brogden (Live Dead Joy: 365 Days of Living and Dying with Jesus)
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Practice self-affirmations every day to keep a positive perspective. Here are some examples: I trust myself completely. I am a smart and talented go-getter. I am calm and relaxed no matter what the circumstances. I am at peace. I will not worry, no matter what comes my way today. I can do anything I set my mind to.
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Stephanie Tourles (365 Ways to Energize Mind, Body & Soul)
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Customer can store unlimited data with the help of this script. In this script there are two sections available. First admin dashboard and second one is Master Control. In this service customer can check in which country our service is available or not. As an admin customer can add city or state in which the service should be available or not. In this script customer can check full detail info for example like: - Receiver detail, pickup dates, delivery dates and shipment details.
Admin Dashboard: - As an admin customer can cheq. How many users are registered in a day? In shipment active and shipment undelivered option as an admin customer can cheq how much shipment delivered and undelivered are available in a day or week. In payment option customer can cheq how many payments received or not received in a week. As an admin customer can check all Web enquires which is received by customer through E-mail. In this active or inactive quote option admin can manage all transporter posted shipment quote, admin can make active or inactive quote.
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Akshay
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The next gift came from a Jewish teenager named Miriam, who was known to her family and friends as Mary. Her Christmas present was selflessness, the complete surrender of ego and will needed to bring Heaven down to earth.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach (Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life)
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Time helps to heal wounds, yet scars remain. Only God can remove the scars in our hearts completely.
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Gift Gugu Mona (Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration)
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Purgatory as Process Nothing unclean shall enter it. — Revelation 21:27 “In following the Gospel exhortation to be perfect like the heavenly Father (cf. Mt 5:48) during our earthly life, we are called to grow in love, to be sound and flawless before God the Father ‘at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints’ (1 Thess 3:12f.). Moreover we are invited to ‘cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit’ (2 Cor 7:1; cf. 1 Jn 3:3), because the encounter with God requires absolute purity. “Every trace of attachment to evil must be eliminated, every imperfection of the soul corrected. Purification must be complete, and indeed this is precisely what it means on the Church’s teaching on purgatory. The term does not indicate a place, but a condition of existence” — St. John Paul II (General Audience, August 4, 1999).
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Susan Tassone (Day by Day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory: 365 Reflections)
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I confess that I am filled with enough desire to make significant leaps forward in my life. I am not going to stay the same as I have been in the past. I am getting up and moving forward. I’m stretched out toward the goal and completely committed to achieving the dream God has for me. I will not stop, nor will I allow anything to distract me from reaching out to become ALL that God has planned for me to be! I declare this by faith in Jesus’ name!
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Rick Renner (Sparkling Gems From the Greek Vol. 1: 365 Greek Word Studies For Every Day Of The Year To Sharpen Your Understanding Of God's Word)
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Our lives can be likened to building a wall or knitting a blanket: to reach the desired outcome a series of small repetitive events
must take place. Brick by brick or stitch by stitch, the work seems painstakingly slow. From the back, it looks plain and knobby, but
the front, with varied patterns appropriate for different stages in the construction, emerges over time as a beautifully crafted piece of work. In this hidden way, God involves himself in our lives, each day another row of bricks or stitches made from the events of the day, each year 365 rows. And how many rows will complete the picture? We do not know when the work of our lives will be finished, but we know that all these small things have the power to work together in completing the fascinating, intricate, and extraordinarily beautiful individual that God sees deep within every man, woman, and child he has created.
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Annette Goulden (Rooted in Love: Louis and Zélie Martin Models of Married Love, Family Life, and Everyday Holiness)
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Our lives can be likened to building a wall or knitting a blanket: to reach the desired outcome a series of small repetitive events must take place. Brick by brick or stitch by stitch, the work seems painstakingly slow. From the back, it looks plain and knobby, but the front, with varied patterns appropriate for different stages in the construction, emerges over time as a beautifully crafted piece of work. In this hidden way, God involves himself in our lives, each day another row of bricks or stitches made from the events of the day, each year 365 rows. And how many rows will complete the picture? We do not know when the work of our lives will be finished, but we know that all these small things have the power to work together in completing the fascinating, intricate, and extraordinarily beautiful individual that God sees deep within every man, woman, and child he has created.
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Annette Goulden (Rooted in Love: Louis and Zélie Martin Models of Married Love, Family Life, and Everyday Holiness)
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Nothing that once made us feel happy and fulfilled is ever lost. There’s a golden thread that runs through each of our lives. We just need to rediscover this thread before the joy of living completely unravels.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach (Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life)
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Dreaming, not expecting, allows Spirit to step in and surprise you with connection, completion, consummation, celebration. You dream. Show up for work. Then let Spirit deliver your dream to the world.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach (Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life)
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When the Holy Spirit is ignored or rejected, religious people are forced either to do their own creating or to fossilize completely.
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A.W. Tozer (Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional)
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Preparatory steps are necessary in all the arts. They are also necessary in life if we want to live authentically. Every twenty-four hours we are given a fresh canvas to prime, to make ready for the vision. Quieting our minds, carving out time to dream and express ourselves with our Gratitude and Illustrated Discovery Journals, becoming aware of our true preferences, and slowing down to concentrate on completing one task at a time—these are the preparatory steps we need to take if we wish to experience contentment.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach (Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life)
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A satisfactory spiritual life will begin with a complete change in relation between God and the sinner; not a judicial change merely, but a conscious and experienced change affecting the sinner’s whole nature.
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A.W. Tozer (Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional)
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It takes basic skills to become our own First Responders, ready for the next crisis. We need to have a plan and supplies in place so we can evacuate if necessary or completely cope at home for at least several days.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach (Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life)
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I have come to believe that he was so completely yielded to God, so completely and fully taken up with the Presence of the Holy Ghost that all of nature was friendly to him….
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A.W. Tozer (Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional)
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The best way to control our thoughts is to offer the mind to God in complete surrender. The Holy Spirit will accept it and take control of it immediately. Then it will be relatively easy to think on spiritual things, especially if we train our thought by long periods of daily prayer. Long practice in the art of mental prayer (that is, talking to God inwardly as we work or [relax]) will help to form the habit of holy thought.
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A.W. Tozer (Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional)
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Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not a waiting passivity until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Lets’ be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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Anonymous (NRSV, The Daily Bible: Read, Meditate, and Pray Through the Entire Bible in 365 Days)
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The meaning of self-denial is not an infliction of personal torment nor penance, but it is simply the giving up of the very principle of living for ourselves. It is completely changing the direction of our being and will, so that no longer in any sense do we act with reference to how anything will affect us, but our one thought is how it will affect God or others.
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A.W. Tozer (Tozer on the Holy Spirit: A 365-Day Devotional)
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One million diagonal units of the Great Pyramid's base equal to the length of the Great Pyramid's Squared-Volume Side (SVS). And when we apply the 365~366 days count to the barque's RC Squared-Length Diagonal (SLD), i.e. SQR(44/0.5236), we get the GP's prime magnification (2*2*2*5) factor; and that is how the solar barque got its name as the boat of a million years.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (The Mill of Egypt: The Complete Series Fused)
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Even when your body is still, your mind tends to race—anticipating future problems and searching for solutions. You need to remember that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Me. Remind yourself of this glorious truth frequently, whispering: “Jesus, You are my Treasure. In You I am complete.
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Sarah Young (Jesus Always, with Scripture References, with Bonus Content: Embracing Joy in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional))
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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!
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I.C. Robledo (365 Quotes to Live Your Life By: Powerful, Inspiring, & Life-Changing Words of Wisdom to Brighten Up Your Days (Master Your Mind, Revolutionize Your Life Series))
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Time helps with wound healing, yet scars remain. Only God can remove the scars from our hearts, completely.
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Gift Gugu Mona (Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration)
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Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.—1 JOHN 4:11–12
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Sarah Young (Jesus Always, with Scripture References, with Bonus Content: Embracing Joy in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional))
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Piercer of Doubt and Kindler of Courage, bless this woman, my dearly beloved Reader. Thank you for your clarity and compassion. Thank you for Divine Completion. We ask for the gift of Grace today to finish whatever we started and abandoned so long ago; to let go of the ghosts that harass our days and haunt our nights.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach (Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life)
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Today the name of Jesus Christ is often mocked, despised, and even hated. But one day Jesus will get all the honor he rightly deserves. Jesus redeemed the world by living a sinless life, dying for the sins of the human race, and rising from the grave. Because of the victory Jesus won, he alone has the authority and the credentials to oversee the completion of human history. We
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Dianne Neal Matthews (Drawing Closer to God: 365 Daily Meditations on Questions from Scripture)
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Willow Lane
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I praise you for healing all my diseases—diseases in my body, heart, and mind. Though I wish you would completely heal me before you return, nonetheless, I have this sure hope: one day I will be perfectly whole. Praise the Lord, O my soul, for present, ongoing, and a secured complete healing!
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. EPHESIANS 4 : 1 – 6
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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Because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. (Heb. 7:24–25 NIV)
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Scotty Smith (Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith)
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COME TO ME with your gaping emptiness, knowing that in Me you are complete. As you rest quietly in My Presence, My Light within you grows brighter and brighter. Facing the emptiness inside you is simply the prelude to being filled with My fullness. Therefore, rejoice on those days when you drag yourself out of bed, feeling sluggish and inadequate. Tell yourself that this is a perfect day to depend on Me in childlike trust.
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Sarah Young (Jesus Calling, with Scripture References: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®))
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Dear friends, our God continues to wrap us in His grace that we may perform our vows and keep our hearts pure and passionate in complete humility and service for now and evermore.
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Darlene Zschech (Revealing Jesus: A 365-Day Devotional)
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He who began a good work in you will complete it. Don’t give up. Press on. No matter how far you feel you’ve come—or how far you feel you have to go—don’t stop now. Even if you miss the mark terribly, today is a new day. Live for “that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed” you.
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Darlene Zschech (Revealing Jesus: A 365-Day Devotional)
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Not all of us celebrate Kwanzaa, but the courage to embrace authenticity with joyous unrestraint is certainly something to celebrate by lighting a candle, raising a glass, and doing something completely unexpected that lifts our spirits. “We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other,” Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin believed. “We need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach (Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life)