Draw closer, Listen carefully

Not long ago I heard a story about a young man and an old preacher.

The young man had lost his job and didn't know which way to turn.
So, he went to see the preacher.

Pacing about, the young man ranted about his problem.
Finally, he raised a clenched fist and shouted,
" I've prayed to God to say something to help me.
Tell me, preacher, why doesn't God answer me?"

The preacher, who sat across the room , spoke something so
hushed it was indistinguishable. The young man stepped
across the room, "What did you say?"
The preacher repeated himself, but again in a tone as soft
as a whisper. So the young man moved closer still and said,
" Sorry, I still didn't hear you."

With their heads bent together, the old preacher spoke again,
" God sometimes whispers, so we will move closer, to hear Him."
This time the young man heard; and he understood.

We all want God's voice to thunder through the air with answers.
But God's is the still, small voice...the gentle whisper.

Perhaps there's a reason. Nothing draws human focus quite like a
whisper. God's whisper means I must stop my ranting and move
closer to Him, until my head is bent together with His.
And then, as I listen, I will find my answer.
Better still, I find myself closer to God.

Yes, "They" Said It...

Subject: I feel smarter already !!!!!!!





(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as
Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: 'I would not live forever, because we should not live forever,
because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever,
but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,'
-- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest .
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'Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
world, I can't help but cry I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but
not with all those flies and death and stuff.'
--Mariah Carey
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'Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of
your life.'
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for
federal anti-smoking campaign.
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'I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.'
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
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'Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates
in the country.'
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC

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'That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and
I'm just the one to do it.'
--A congressional candidate in Texas
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'Half this game is ninety percent mental.'
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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'It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it.'
--Al Gore, Vice President
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'I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix '
-- Dan Quayle while campaigning

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'We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?'
--Lee Iacocca
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'The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein.'
--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
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'We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
people.'
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor .
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'Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we
received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply
if there is a change in your circumstances.'
--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina
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'Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas.'
--Keppel Enderbery
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'If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as
they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And
the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.'
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
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Feeling smarter yet?


Send it on to your brilliant friends.

I just did !!

Obedient to God

1. ENJOINED » See COMMANDMENTS
2. ENJOINED » See DUTY
3. ENJOINED » See LAW
4. EXEMPLIFIED » See BLESSINGS, CONTINGENT UPON OBEDIENCE
5. EXEMPLIFIED » See COMMANDMENTS
6. FILIAL » See CHILDREN
7. INSTANCES OF » Noah (Genesis 6:9,22;7:5; Hebrews 11:7)
8. INSTANCES OF » Bethuel and Laban (Genesis 24:50)
9. INSTANCES OF » Jacob (Genesis 35:1,7)
10. INSTANCES OF » Moses (Numbers 27:12-22; Hebrews 3:2,3)
11. INSTANCES OF » Moses and Aaron (Exodus 7:6;40:16,21,23,32)
12. INSTANCES OF » Under the preaching of Haggai (Haggai 1:12)
13. INSTANCES OF » Caleb (Deuteronomy 1:36)
14. INSTANCES OF » Joshua (Joshua 10:40;11:15)
15. INSTANCES OF » Reubenites (Joshua 22:2,3)
16. INSTANCES OF » Gideon (Judges 6:25-28)
17. INSTANCES OF » David (1 Samuel 18:14;25:28; 1 Kings 11:6,34;15:5; 2 Chronicles 29:2; Acts)
18. INSTANCES OF » Elisha (1 Kings 19:19-21)
19. INSTANCES OF » Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:6; 2 Chronicles 31:20,21; Isaiah 38:3)
20. INSTANCES OF » Josiah (2 Kings 22:2;23:24,25)
21. INSTANCES OF » Asa (2 Chronicles 14:2)
22. INSTANCES OF » Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:3-6;20:32;22:9)
23. INSTANCES OF » Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:16)
24. INSTANCES OF » Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:4,5)
25. INSTANCES OF » Jotham (2 Chronicles 36:22,23)

Father Hood of State Street

You Want to Go Where? In Our Car?
Richard sent you a message.

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Re: libro di faccia

I AM the troll of my household! The ogre of State St. - The spoiling fool of
adolescent schemes - The only denier of childrens wishes - the intolerant of
days and the worst papa' in the world.
A solid head-butt will afford me a much needed sleep, so I welcome it.
I am compartmentalizing, of course, and remain much in love on the eastern front
while the afore mentioned battle rages with kids in the west.
I am therefore much loved and much hated - and much in demand for cleaning
dishes.
Viva your mass! In all forms - intellectual, emotional and physical - it has
always over come me.

James 4 [Amplified] Tender Reminder to me ..."

[SOURCE]

1WHAT LEADS to strife (discord and feuds) and how do conflicts (quarrels and fightings) originate among you? Do they not arise from your sensual desires that are ever warring in your bodily members?

2You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. [I John 3:15.]

3[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.

4You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world's friend is being God's enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.

5Or do you suppose that the Scripture is speaking to no purpose that says, The Spirit Whom He has caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be welcome] with a jealous love?(A)

6But He gives us more and more grace ([a]power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully). That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it).(B)

7So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you.

8Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual adultery].

9[As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins].

10Humble yourselves [feeling very insignificant] in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up and make your lives significant].

11[My] brethren, do not speak evil about or accuse one another. He that maligns a brother or judges his brother is maligning and criticizing the Law and judging the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but a censor and judge [of it].

12One only is the Lawgiver and Judge Who is able to save and to destroy [the One Who has the absolute power of life and death]. [But you] who are you that [you presume to] pass judgment on your neighbor?

13Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money.

14Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].

15You ought instead to say, If the Lord is willing, we shall live and we shall do this or that [thing].

16But as it is, you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong.

17So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.

1 Corinthians 10

12Therefore let anyone who thinks he stands [who feels sure that he has a steadfast mind and is standing firm], take heed lest he fall [into sin].

13For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not [b]adjusted and [c]adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to [d]a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently. [Ver. Amplified, SOURCE]