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Today's Verse : Psalm 84:11

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January 31, 2009


VERSE:
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and
honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is
blameless.

-- Psalm 84:11
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THOUGHT:
God doesn't hold back on his goodness! In fact, the Father loves
to give his children gifts. These gifts are all encompassing. These
gifts are gladly given. How do I know? Three ways: 1) I've been
repeatedly blessed; 2) I've seen what God has done to bless his
people through the centuries; and 3) his Word promises this to be
so.

PRAYER:
Father, I want to thank you for the many blessings you have
poured into my life. I want to list several of them by name today.
(Make your own list of things for which you are thankful.) Thank
you most of all Father, for the gift of your Son and my Savior,
Jesus. In his name I pray. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : Psalm 84:11

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January 31, 2009

VERSE:
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace
and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk
uprightly.

-- Psalm 84:11
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Psalm+84:11&translation=kjv

THOUGHT:
God doesn't hold back on his goodness! In fact, the Father loves
to give his children gifts. These gifts are all encompassing. These
gifts are gladly given. How do I know? Three ways: 1) I've been
repeatedly blessed; 2) I've seen what God has done to bless his
people through the centuries; and 3) his Word promises this to be
so.

PRAYER:
Father, I want to thank you for the many blessings you have
poured into my life. I want to list several of them by name today.
(Make your own list of things for which you are thankful.) Thank
you most of all Father, for the gift of your Son and my Savior,
Jesus. In his name I pray. Amen.

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Daily Wisdom NIV : Proverbs 4:25-26

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Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before
you. Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are
firm.

Proverbs 4:25-26, New International Version
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Daily Wisdom KJV : Proverbs 4:25-26

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Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look
straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all
thy ways be established.

Proverbs 4:25-26, King James Version
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Greeting from USA Embassy,

THIS MAIL IS ONLY FOR THE OWNER OF THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS

ATTENTION

This is to notify you that your consignment has been in our custody waiting for your comply before the delivery will be effected to your delivery address. We have been waiting for you to contact us regarding your consignment box which FedEx Express suppose to deliver to you

which was on hold by US Department of State Bureau and requesting for clearancecertificate which will be obtain from the origination of the consignment box before it will be released.

After the meeting held by our board of director which was concluded that the delivery of your consignment to you address must be complete withinthree working days upon your comply to our requirement which is by sending the sun of $145.00 to enable obtain the needed certificate and effect with the delivery of your consignment immediately.

Note that your consignment box has been arrived in US embassy and waiting to receive clearance certificate before the gate pass is given. Mean while you are advice to reconfirm the below information upon contacting us to avoid delivery to wrong person.

1, Your full name
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Once you notify us with the above information we will release your consignment to you,

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From Mr Williams Martins

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY & MINERAL RESOURCES SANDTON TOWERS , JOHANNESBURG P.M.B. 12701 SOUTH AFRICA. FROM THE DESK OF: MR WILLIAMS MARTINS.(CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER)

PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH  THE ABOVE  EMAIL ADDRESS
 
 
 

Tel:  + 27-83 77 295 43
Date: 30/1/2009
 

                                          
Dear Sir/Madam,

                                                 
                                        HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
           
                  US$20.5MILLION-BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP  
 
With trust and due respect,i write you this business transaction which i know will be of great interest to you I will begin by introducing myself to you as the Chief Accounting Officer,Department of Energy and Mineral resources, Republic of South Africa.
 
I have the privilege of having your name, courtesy of one of the International Business Journals here, and I am writing to solicit your sincere co-operation in order to redeem an investment interest currently being held under TRUST with the DEPARTMENT of ENERGY and MINERAL RESOURCES.
 
The said investment, which is, now valued at US$20.5M was originally purchased by MR.GARVIN MALUSI and leased in 1998 to LABROUTH INVESTMENTS LIMITED. At maturity of the contract in May 2000, several attempts have been made without success, to contact Mr. GARVIN MALUSI or any of his relatives in whose favour the cash value for the redeemed investment could be made.
 
As the Head of accounts in the Department, I have with my Director Genera l (DG) carefully initiated the process of filing a claim for the money with the hope of having the Fund transferred abroad for investment on our behalf and, we are hopeful you will agree with our intention to arrange payment of the claim in your name.We require that you let us prepare and file the claim for the money from this Department indicating your name as the appointed beneficiary of the FUND.
 
Upon approval of the payment of this claim, you will Beeped,TWENTY MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$20.5 Million) and since the money will be paid directly into your bank account to be nominated by you, y ou will have the responsibility to ensure that we receive our share of the money which I and my colleague have decided will be 65% while you w ill keep 25% as your personal commission, and 10% will be set aside for expenses that might arise during the cause of transfer.
 
I have to assure you however, that we are to make the payment of the Fund possible, provided you are ready to give us a very strong GUARANTEE that our share of the fund will be secured in your Hands and that you would not betray our trust in making the transfer of the Fund into your Bank account. 
 
This is a very safe and risk-free involvement as it is not prone to any Enquire since we are all active partners and will not want to loose our positions in Government and the Department.
 
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NB. Remember to include your private phone and fax number for easier communication.
 
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MR. WILLIAMS MARTINS.
 
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Mustard Seed Thoughts: Whatever Your Stress...

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By: Ron Edmondson Mustard Seed Thoughts
And she, greatly distressed, prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. 1 Samuel 1:10 NASV

Hannah loved the Lord. She wanted a child so much and could not understand why her womb had been closed. She was provoked by her counterpart Peninnah, Elkanah�s other wife. With her heart heavy, Hannah cries out to the Lord.

Dear friend, when you are going through the trials of life, where else can you turn? God is waiting today for some of you to cry out to Him in distress, so He can answer your prayer.

Several years ago, I remember hearing of a dear woman whose son was involved in a serious accident. He was in a coma, hanging on to life by a single breath. The doctors were baffled, and the mother felt that she was at her end. The pain was almost more than she could contain.

Days quickly turned into weeks with no progress one way or the other. Friends from church would come by the hospital, each one offering to pray for her sick child. The mothe r began to prepare for the worst, not sensing that the boy would ever return to normal.

One day, sitting at the boy�s bedside, where she had been almost consistently since that first dreadful day, she cried out to God, really for the first time. She asked God why He had allowed this to happen to her child. Why had all the prayers of her friends not been answered? She sensed in that moment God tell her that He was waiting for one more prayer... that of the mother. She had simply not prayed. She had let others call to God on her behalf. She had instead spent her time trying to worry her son back to health. Almost instantly after her prayer, the boy opened his eyes and began a speedy road to recovery.

I can't verify the accuracy of this story, but I do know this. God did hear Hannah's earnest prayer, and He WILL hear yours.

Whatever your distress, call on the Lord today. It could be the prayer He's waiting for.

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Air Traffic Controller, by Tom Norvell


Recently I thought of our Christian walk being like flying a plane.
There are times when a pilot flies in the daylight hours and gets to
see exhilarating vistas. The scenery from a plane can be breath taking.
There are times however, that our Christian walk is tough and not so
exhilarating, and we are simply persevering. I thought that this could
be compared to a pilot who is in the middle of a storm, or flying at
night. In a storm or at night, a pilot must rely on his instruments. He
may not see anything that gives him a point of reference, but his
instruments will not lie to him, he must simply follow them. When we
are going through a tough time, we must simply rely on God's Word, and
do what it says, no matter what.

My dad was an air traffic controller much of his life. He would see
planes on the radar, communicate with them, and give them direction on
where to fly, and at what altitude. He would also help them land. He
told me a story one time about how a man was up in a plane with someone
else as the pilot. The pilot had a heart attack and was not able to
continue to fly the plane. The passenger then called in to my dad, in a
panic, because he didn't know how to fly. My dad was a pilot in World
War II so he could help this helpless passenger. My dad gave this man
step by step instructions and he landed the plane safely. He was very
grateful to my dad, as you can imagine.

We are disoriented and don't know what to do.

When we are going through tough seasons in life, there are times that
we are afraid and panic. We are disoriented and don't know what to do.
Sometimes we have been relying on someone who is no longer able to help
us. God is like a really good air traffic controller. We are on his
radar and He is watching us and keeping us safe. If we need His help,
all we have to do is call out to Him, and He will help us "land our
plane" safely!

For He Himself [God] has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake
you" (Hebrews 13:5 NKJV).

We can trust in and rely upon Him.

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* Steady, It Could Be God
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200505/20050529_couldbegod.html
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MORNING:

"When thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the
mulberry trees, then thou shalt bestir thyself."
-- 2 Samuel 5:24

The members of Christ's Church should be very prayerful, always seeking
the unction of the Holy One to rest upon their hearts, that the kingdom
of Christ may come, and that his "will be done on earth, even as it is
in heaven;" but there are times when God seems especially to favour
Zion, such seasons ought to be to them like "the sound of a going in
the tops of the mulberry trees." We ought then to be doubly prayerful,
doubly earnest, wrestling more at the throne than we have been wont to
do. Action should then be prompt and vigorous. The tide is flowing-now
let us pull manfully for the shore. O for Pentecostal outpourings and
Pentecostal labours. Christian, in yourself there are times "when thou
hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees." You
have a peculiar power in prayer; the Spirit of God gives you joy and
gladness; the Scripture is open to you; the promises are applied; you
walk in the light of God's countenance; you have peculiar freedom and
liberty in devotion, and more closeness of communion with Christ than
was your wont. Now, at such joyous periods when you hear the "sound of
a going in the tops of the mulberry trees," is the time to bestir
yourself; now is the time to get rid of any evil habit, while God the
Spirit helpeth your infirmities. Spread your sail; but remember what
you sometimes sing-

"I can only spread the sail;
Thou! Thou! must breathe the auspicious gale."

Only be sure you have the sail up. Do not miss the gale for want of
preparation for it. Seek help of God, that you may be more earnest in
duty when made more strong in faith; that you may be more constant in
prayer when you have more liberty at the throne; that you may be more
holy in your conversation whilst you live more closely with Christ.

EVENING:

"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance."
-- Ephesians 1:11

When Jesus gave himself for us, he gave us all the rights and
privileges which went with himself; so that now, although as eternal
God, he has essential rights to which no creature may venture to
pretend, yet as Jesus, the Mediator, the federal head of the covenant
of grace, he has no heritage apart from us. All the glorious
consequences of his obedience unto death are the joint riches of all
who are in him, and on whose behalf he accomplished the divine will.
See, he enters into glory, but not for himself alone, for it is
written, "Whither the Forerunner is for us entered." Heb. 6:20. Does he
stand in the presence of God?-"He appears in the presence of God for
us." Heb. 9:24. Consider this, believer. You have no right to heaven in
yourself: your right lies in Christ. If you are pardoned, it is through
his blood; if you are justified, it is through his righteousness; if
you are sanctified, it is because he is made of God unto you
sanctification; if you shall be kept from falling, it will be because
you are preserved in Christ Jesus; and if you are perfected at the
last, it will be because you are complete in him. Thus Jesus is
magnified-for all is in him and by him; thus the inheritance is made
certain to us-for it is obtained in him; thus each blessing is the
sweeter, and even heaven itself the brighter, because it is Jesus our
Beloved "in whom" we have obtained all. Where is the man who shall
estimate our divine portion? Weigh the riches of Christ in scales, and
his treasure in balances, and then think to count the treasures which
belong to the saints. Reach the bottom of Christ's sea of joy, and then
hope to understand the bliss which God hath prepared for them that love
him. Overleap the boundaries of Christ's possessions, and then dream of
a limit to the fair inheritance of the elect. "All things are yours,
for ye are Christ's and Christ is God's."


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My Utmost For His Highest : "The Dilemma Of Obedience"

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THE DILEMMA OF OBEDIENCE

And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.

1&nbsp;Samuel 3:15
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God never speaks to us in startling ways, but in ways that are easy
to misunderstand, and we say, "I wonder if that is God's voice?"
Isaiah said that the Lord spake to him "with a strong hand," that is,
by the pressure of circumstances. Nothing touches our lives but it is
God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

Get into the habit of saying, "Speak, Lord," and life will become a
romance. Every time circumstances press, say, "Speak, Lord"; make
time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is
meant to get me to the place of saying, "Speak, Lord." Recall the
time when God did speak to you. Have you forgotten what He said? Was
it Luke 11:13, or was it 1 Thess. 5:23? As we listen, our ear gets
acute, and, like Jesus, we shall hear God all the time.

Shall I tell my "Eli" what God has shown to me? That is where the
dilemma of obedience comes in. We disobey God by becoming amateur
providences - I must shield "Eli," the best people we know. God did
not tell Samuel to tell Eli; he had to decide that for himself. God's
call to you may hurt your "Eli;" but if you try to prevent the
suffering in another life, it will prove an obstruction between your
soul and God. It is at your own peril that you prevent the cutting
off of the right hand or the plucking out of the eye.

Never ask the advice of another about anything God makes you decide
before Him. If you ask advice, you will nearly always side with
Satan. "Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood."

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WALKING IN THE SPIRIT

Romans 8:1-8
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Dear Father,

Thank you that there is no condemnation for me now that I am in
Christ Jesus. Through the principle of the Spirit of life in him I
have been set free from the principle of sin and death.

You, my God, did what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not
do. You sent your own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for
sin. Through him you condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the
just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in your people, of
which I am one.

Help me walk not according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit. Set my mind on your Spirit, so I might live by your Spirit
and find life and peace.

It is in the name of Jesus, who gives his Spirit, that I pray
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Starting Signals


Jesus heard that John was put in prison. So Jesus went back
to Galilee. Jesus did not stay in Nazareth. He went and lived
in Capernaum, a town near the lake (Lake Galilee). Capernaum
is in the area near Zebulun and Naphtali.

-- Matthew 4:12-13 (ERV)


KEY THOUGHT:
"Runners take your mark ... get set ... BANG!" At the firing of the
starter's pistol, the runners burst out of their blocks and the race
begins. Lying behind the start of the race are years of training,
qualification races, hours of practice and conditioning, and
preliminary heats that brought the runners to the starting line. Once
there, they are ready to hear the signal for the race to begin. As
Matthew tells us the story of the Good News of Jesus, he spends the
first four chapters helping us see how Jesus prepared for his ministry.
Then suddenly, Jesus hears the signal: "John has been put into prison."
He then moves from the obscure hamlet of Nazareth into Capernaum, the
bustling commerce city of the northern Sea of Galilee. It is now his
time to start. Jesus goes where he is needed -- where there are many
people. He identifies himself with people seeking God's great work of
deliverance through the Jews -- as a Jew he takes part in John's
baptism of expectation and preparation. He is ready to faithfully serve
both his Father and those who need him, no matter the cost. His
ministry begins.


TODAY'S PRAYER:
Almighty and patient Father, I confess that at times I grow anxious and
frustrated with how long things take that are holy and righteous and
needed. Yet I see in your greatest servants, an incredible investment
in preparation and testing before they were equipped to serve. Please
give me patience to wait for your timing and courageous wisdom to know
when the time has come to move with your grace and then to act
decisively. In Jesus' name I ask for this grace. Amen.

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