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There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today

When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!