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From a chapter called Mobilization: the Power of Letting Go comes this insightful quote that will certainly challenge some leaders. H. Dale Burke is the author and he is in the middle of making a point that most leaders actually manage more than they lead.
… let me suggest that you follow what I call the [...]

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From The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

Myth: Car Payments are a way of life; you’ll always have one.
Truth: Staying away from car payments by driving reliable used cars is what the average millionaire does; that is how he or she became a millionaire.

USA Today notes that the average car payment is $378 over 55 [...]

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I have a Savior, He’s pleading in glory,
A dear, loving Savior, though earth friends be few;
And now He is watching in tenderness o’er me,
But oh that my Savior were your Savior, too.
Refrain
For you I am praying, For you I am praying,
For you am I praying, I’m praying for you.
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I have a Father; to me He [...]

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I just read a great book.
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Wow… I can’t believe that I’ve never heard of that book. It is EASILY one of the top 10 favorite books I’ve ever read. I can’t think of any other book I’ve read where I’ve felt such a close bond with the characters. My [...]

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of Creation.

Victor Hugo
(1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)

I wonder what else I have in [...]

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STAND FIRM
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.
Let’s join Epaphras who wrestled in prayer for his friends praying that they would stand firm in [...]

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Wow… it has been a long time since the last “Quote of the Period Only SQJ Knows”
In the last 24 hours I read a couple things that made me LOL because they described me…
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16th American President)
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views [...]

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PEACE
Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
These verses clearly tells us not to be anxious about anything. It later discusses the peace [...]

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DISCERNMENT
Philippians 1:9-11
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ–to the glory [...]

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PROTECTION
Twice in Jesus’ prayer in John 17:11-15, Jesus prayed that his followers would be protected from the evil one. Missionary teams are often the target of theft, vandalism, sickness, deception, car troubles, disunity and discouragement. Those issues can be traced back to the evil one who wants to see church planting efforts stopped in their [...]

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