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Hi dear friends, at present I am reading a book by Joyce Meyer entitled :Approval Addiction. I would like to share this passage with you because I find this happens to me quite often too. I like to put it this way:I used to be a full-time sinner, and once in a while I accidentally slipped up and did something right. But now...... I concentrate on being a full-time obedient child of God, but still make mistakes, but not nearly as many....There are times when I accidentally make mistakes, but it is not the desire of my heart to do wrong. I did not deliberately, knowingly commit sin. I do not habitually sin. ....but I do know that the attitude of my heart is right. I can be having an absolutely wonderful day, feeling very close to the Lord and quite spiritual. Then my husband comes home and says he does not care for the outfit I am wearing, and I suddenly become angry and defensive, telling him everything I don't like about him either. I don't intend for that to happen; in fact,...

"But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day!" (Habakkuk 2:3). We all hate delay, we are impatient! However, God uses delay to build our faith. In my experience, God will not start any thing until He is done with us. Rick Warren has remarked that: "Every believer must go through the University of Learning to Wait (ULW). Some of us are still working on our degrees from ULW!" Below are some examples from the bible quoted by Rick:- • Noah waited 120 years from the time he started building the ark until it began to rain. • Abraham was told he would be the father of a great nation and didn't have a child until he was 99. • God told Moses he would be the leader to lead his people out of 400 years of slavery, but then made him wait in the desert 40 ...

There is an old, old legend of a time when the people of the earth made loud lament. Every man felt that he had been given a heavier load to bear than his neighbour, and that, if he could trade troubles with his fellow-man, life would be made easier. The clamour went on so long that God arranged that, on a given day, each man should bring his burden to a certain place, and there shed it forever. But it was arranged that each man must choose for himself one of the lighter loads he had so enviously watched others carry. "What a day that was!" People came and threw down their old burdens, the aches and pains, problems and responsibilities. And then they pawed over the vast heap, each person weighing one and then another, only to find it heavier and more uncomfortable than his old load. In the end, it is said, each man took back his own familiar burden! The simple fact is that any burden is heavy if it is carried the wrong way. And any load, however light, becomes intolerab...

There is a lesson for us to learn from the eagle who sits on the edge of the precipice and watches the dark clouds overhead filling the sky with blackness. There he sits perfectly still, turning one eye and then the other towards the storm as the lightnings play back and forth. He never moves a feather until he feels the first burst of the breeze. It is then that he knows the hurricane has struck him. With a scream he swings his breast to the storm. It is the storm itself that he uses to soar upward into the black sky. He goes borne upon it. God wants this experience to take place in the lives of every one of His children! He wants us to "mount up on wings as eagles". We can turn the storm clouds into a chariot by using our wings! Spread out your wings and soar above the storm! Isaiah 40:31 Note: Picture drawn by a sister using color pencil. Isn't it beautiful?

The following is extracted from Mercola.com How does Microwave heat up your food? It heats your food by causing it to resonate at very high frequencies. While this can effectively heat your food it also causes a change in the chemical structure of the food that can lead to health problems. A study published in the November 2003 issue of The Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found that broccoli "zapped" in the microwave with a little water lost up to 97 percent of the beneficial antioxidant chemicals it contains. By comparison, steamed broccoli lost 11 percent or fewer of its antioxidants. When microwaving, carcinogenic toxins could be leached from your plastic and paper plates or covers and mix with your food.

Do you know you are custom-made? There's nobody like you in the whole world. You are unique. And the gifts, the abilities, the talents, even the interests you have, they were genetically encoded into you by God. You didn't have a say in what you were going to be interested in, what you are naturally good at. God made you with a specific mission in mind and He wants you to use the gifts He's given you in your work. The Bible says that you are God's workmanship. The Greek word used for workmanship is poema; that's where our word for "poem" comes from. You are God's poem! You are God's work of art. You are God's masterpiece. Your work is part of God's plan for your life and that is why, as you work, you worship God. Isn't this great!! Adapted from Rick Warren, the purpose driven connection

Dear friends, I would like to share with you another of Annie Johnson Flint's poems. This is a very encouraging and beautiful poem.(2 Corinthians:12:9) God hath not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our lives through; God hath not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain But God hath promised Strength for the day Rest for the labour, Light for the way Grace for all trials, Help from above, Unfailing sympathy, Undying Love You may wish to visit her at http://blessingsquietness.com/journal/homemake/ajf-annie.htm