My Inbox of Daily Inspirations: 02/20/09

Today's Verse : Isaiah 30:18

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February 21, 2009

VERSE:
Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you
compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who
wait for him!

-- Isaiah 30:18
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THOUGHT:
God is slow to exercise his justice when that justice demands
his people's punishment. "Gracious and slow to anger" is a phrase
repeatedly used to describe God in the Old Testament. God longs to
be gracious and bless his people. He extends time for us to repent
and turn to him. In Jesus, God even gives us his own Son as the
atoning sacrifice for our sins. Let's hear the heart of God and
respond by turning our lives and our hearts to the God who longs
for us.

PRAYER:
Almighty God and Abba Father, how can I ever thank you for your
love and mercy demonstrated in the sacrifice of your Son for my
sin. Please forgive me for those times that I have not
intentionally and wholeheartedly shown my appreciation for your
grace in the way I live my life. Please perfect me by your Spirit
just as you have forgiven me and cleansed me by your grace. In
Jesus' name. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : Isaiah 30:18

February 21, 2009

VERSE:
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto
you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon
you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that
wait for him.

-- Isaiah 30:18
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Daily Wisdom KJV : Proverbs 12:2

A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked
devices will he condemn.

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ATTENTION: FUND BENEFICIARY,

Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001)
Website: www.FBI.gov
Date: 21/2/2009

ATTENTION: FUND BENEFICIARY,

This is an official advice from the FBI foreign Remittance / telegraphic dept, it has come to our notice that the C.B.N Bank Nigeria district has released 10,500,000.00 US dollars which was meant to transfer into your bank account by inheritance means.But now stopped and diverted by the FBI for further investigation.

The C.B.N Bank Nigeria knowing fully well that they do not have Enough facilities to effect this payment from the united kingdom to your account, used what we know as a secret diplomatic transit payment (s.t.d.p) to pay this fund through wire transfer, they used this means to complete the payment.

They are still, waiting for confirmation from you on the already Transferred funds which were made in direct transfer so that they can do final crediting to your account. Secret diplomatic payments are not made unless the funds are related to terrorist activities why must your payment be made in secret transfer, if your transaction is legitimate, if you are not a terrorist, then why did you not receive the money directly into your account; this is a pure coded, means of payment?

Records which we have had with this method of payment in the past Has always been related to terrorist acts, we do not want you to get into trouble as soon as these funds reflect in your account, so it is our duty as a world wide commission to correct this little problem before this fund will be credited into your personal account.

Due to the increased difficulty and unnecessary security by the American authorities when funds come from outside of Europe, and the Middle East, the f.b.i bank commission for Europe has stopped the transfer on its way to deliver payment of $10,500,000.00 to debit your reserve account and pay you through a secured diplomatic transit account (s.d.t.a). We govern and oversee funds transfer for the World Bank and the rest of the world.

We advice you contact us immediately, as the funds have been Stopped and are being held in our custody, until you can be able to provide us with a diplomatic immunity seal of transfer (dist) within 3 days from the world local bank that authorize the transfer from where the funds was transferred from to certify that the funds that you are about to receive from Nigeria are antiterrorist/drug free or we shall have cause to cross and impound the Payment, we shall release the funds immediately we receive this legal documents.

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We have decided to contact you directly to acquire the proper Verifications and proof from you to show that you are the rightful person to receive this fund, because of the amount involve, we want to make sure is a clean and legal money you are about to receive. Be informed that the fund are now in United State in your name, but right now we have ask the bank not to release the fund to anybody that comes to them, unless we ask them to do so, because we have to carry out our investigations first before releasing the fund to you. Note that the fund is in the BANK OF AMERICA right now, but we have ask them not to credit the fund to you yet, because we need a solid proof and Verifications from you before releasing the funds.

So to this regards you are to re-assure and proof to us that what you are about to receive is a clean money by sending to us Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) to satisfy to us that the money your about to receive is legitimate and real money. You are to forward the documents to us immediately if you have it in your possession, if you don't have it let us know so that we will direct and inform you where to obtain the document and send to us so that we will ask the bank holding the funds, the Bank Of America to go ahead Crediting your account immediately.

These Documents are to be issued to you from the World Local Bank that Authorized the transfer, so get back to us immediately if you don't have the document so that we will inform you the particular place to obtain the document in NIGERIA OR United Kingdom (U.K), because we have come to realize that the fund was Authorized by (H.S.B.C) Bank in London.

These Condition Is Valid until 25th of FEB.. 2009 after we shall take actions on Canceling the payment and then charge you for illegally moving funds out of Nigeria.

Guarantee: funds will be released on confirmation of the document.

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Final Instruction;

1. Credit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee.

2. Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared.

3. Beneficiaries bank in U.S.A., can only release funds.

4. Upon confirmation from the world bank / united nations.

5. Bearers must clear bank protocol and validation request.

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NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for the enhancement of public safety, welfare and security of Society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the Documents to us, we will charge you with the FBI and take our proper action against you for not proofing to us the legitimate of the fund you are about to receive.

The United States Department of Justice Order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI Identification Record to obtain a copy of his or her own Record for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division processes these requests to check illegal activities in U.S.A.

An individual may request a copy of his or her own FBI Identification Record for personal review or to challenge information on the Record. Other reasons an individual may request a copy of his or her own Identification Record may include international adoption or to satisfy a requirement to live or work in a foreign country or receive funds from another country, i.e. Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer, letter of good conduct, criminal history Background, etc)

Director Foreign Remittance / Telegraphic Dept(FBI)
James T. Burton.

3 inch is way too small

Like a steel rod

I AM WAITING UR URGENT RESPONCE.

FROM:DR JAMES TRASY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE
COMPANY

Dear Friend,
I feel quite safe and satisfy dealing with you in this Mutual Beneficial
transaction.
Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach
you through it because it Still remains the fastest, surest and most
secured Medium of communication.However, this correspondence is purely
private, and it should be treated as such. l also guarantee you that This
deal is hitch free from all what you may think of And I encourage you to
read it to the end so that you
Can understand it very well.I am DR JAMES TRASY, Executive Director in
charge of Claims and Indemnity of Prudential Insurance Company.I am
contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that will be attached to
this deal for the benefit of both of us.The Management and the Legal /
Treasury Department of This Prudential Insurance Company in a recent
meeting, Recommended that the account of MR. ROBERT FINKELSTEIN, who
maintained a Life Assurance Policy, should bedeclared Dormant and
confisticated Hence moving his unclaimed benefits funds to the Treasury
according to our Banking and Financial law.Recently, I came across a very
huge sum of money Belonging to a deceased person (MR.ROBERT FINKELSTEIN).
He is a foreigner, unfortunately He is now late as he was amongst those
that on the recent Plane crash during his visit to London This man was our
client and has Life Assurance Policy WORTH the sum of Forty Five
Million United States Dollars (US$45,000,000.00). Right now, the fund
is lying unclaimed in our custody and there is NO next Of kin mentioned
in his file and there is no how we can reach any of his relatives.
All efforts made by us to establish contacts with any other of his Relation
have proved abortive and unsuccessful. His Life Assurance Policy will
expire in the next few Months from the date of this letter. Just last week
we received an instruction from Ministry of Social Welfare to forward
particulars of all unclaimed benefits that will expire in the next few
months.Upon my personal finding on this matter, I kept this Information
secret to myself until now that I am contacting you. In
view Of the fact that the Deceased customer is a foreigner (from a
different Country), it is officially important for the involvement of a
Foreigner who will pose as a next-of-kin.I will use my exalted position in
this Insurance Company to present you as his Next of Kin as you can be his
relative, friend or Cousin and the Money (US$45Million) will be Safely
transferred into your own Bank account in your country.Please include your
telephone/fax number/ Home Address When Replying
this mail and I will give you more Information as soon as you indicate
your willingness To assist in this viable transaction.I will use my
exalted position here to get all Internal documentations to back up the
claims. The whole Procedures will last only 5 working days to get the fund
Retrieved successfully without trace even in future.Please I need the
following:
NAME: ----------------------
SURNAME: ----------------
SEX: ----------------------
AGE:-----------------------
DOB:--------------------
MARITAL:------------------
COUNTRY:-------------
CITY:------------------
STATE:---------------
ZIP CODE:-----------------
CONTACT ADDRESS-------------------
PHONE NO# :-------------------
MOBILE NO. -----------------------
FAX NO#-------------------------
OCCUPATION:-----------------
POSITION: -------------------
DATE:------------------------
The transaction will be done successfully and smoothly completed via email
and phone. Send your full name, address and telephone number to me via
email urgently today so that I will call you for discussions. I PROMISE
that you must be happy and shall rejoice greatly soonest for co-operating
with me in this transaction.After successful conclusion of this
transaction, we shall share the money 30-70 (30% for you and 70% for me).
I await your good response today.
Thanks and remain bless.I require you to maintain the confidentiality of
this transaction because it is important due to the fact that I am still
in active services to the Prudential Insurance Company. Your earliest
response to this matter is very important.

I AM WAITING YOUR REPLY TODAY.
Best Regards,

DR JAMES TRASY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY
+447035968867
trasybrimley@yahoo.com.hk

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Don't Give Up

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�Neither this man nor his parents sinned,� said Jesus, �but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.� John 9:3 NIV

Sometimes we can't understand why bad things happen to good people, even the people of God. We see Christians suffer; we ourselves suffer. We look around to see what God is up to...and quite frankly....sometimes the reason is hard to find.

I don't know about you, but I have had my share of hard times. I have witnessed firsthand the difficulties that life can often bring. I have seen loved ones suffer; felt the loss of a friend. I know what it is like to see your checkbook with negatives down every page of the register. I have experienced what seemed like defeat.

Sure, I'll admit, sometimes, really many times, it is difficult to see what purpose God has for these trials. Then He comes through again. Once again He does what appears to be the impossible. My faith is restored and I have strength to go on again.

I sit back and realize that He was at work all the time; that He had a plan bigger than my problem. I recognize that God is still in control.

Dear friend, precious child of God, don't give up. Keep pressing on! God will not let you down. He is working all things for your good, so that His power might be displayed in your life! His glory will soon be revealed again!

You are on the verge of witnessing another miracle....and to God be all the glory for the great things that He will do!

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Pass It On, by Phil Ware

Emotion. Disaster. Passion. Heartbreak. Love. Tragedy. Comfort. Death.
Surprise. These all collide in our daily lives. We often have little or
no preparation for these radical changes in the seasons of our lives.
So we hang on. We pray. We struggle. We mourn. We cry out. We stumble.
And by God's grace, and the support of others, we endure and come
through our season of pain, struggle, grief, and loss.

On Monday, I shared an article about God comforting us so we can
comfort others. God has always blessed His people so they could bless
others in His name (Genesis 12:1-3). God is looking for people to be
conduits of His blessing. In situations of anguish, sorrow, loss,
grief, and pain, God is looking for those who have received His comfort
to share it with others.

Stephen Corbett,* our Southern Hills communications guru produced this
clip to help drive home the message of sharing the comfort we have
received from God with others (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

If you have received this message by email, you can view the video
on the web:

Let's pass it on!

I would love your comments on what you think about this video and also
give you an opportunity to look at a couple of other video resources, a
Scripture graphic of 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, and PowerPoint slides you can
use with your own presentation of this message. You can find these on
my blog:
http://thephilfiles.com.

God is the God of all comfort, so let's take the comfort we have
received and pass it on!

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* Stephen is the producer of the now famous "Stethoscope" video that
has received nearly 3 million views on YouTube and special coverage on
MSNBC. His creative eye and his work with people help bring Scripture
principles to life. His work blesses our church and helps provide us
with powerful and emotive images on which to hang biblical truth.

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(c) 2009 Phil Ware <phil@heartlight.org>. All rights reserved.

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* Stethoscope Video: Is it In You?
http://www.thephilfiles.com/2008/10/21/is-it-in-you/
* Comfort in any Season
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200902/20090216_comfort.html
* You Should Have Shown Mercy
http://www.heartlight.org/wjd/matthew/0831-wjd.html
* Southern Hills Church of Christ
http://www.southernhillschurch.org

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Friday, February 20, 2009

MORNING:

"God, that comforteth those that are cast down."
-- 2 Corinthians 7:6

And who comforteth like him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed
child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear choice
words of comfort; he is like the deaf adder, he listens not to the
voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. He is drinking gall and
wormwood, and comfort him as you may, it will be only a note or two of
mournful resignation that you will get from him; you will bring forth
no psalms of praise, no hallelujahs, no joyful sonnets. But let God
come to his child, let him lift up his countenance, and the mourner's
eyes glisten with hope. Do you not hear him sing-

"'Tis paradise, if thou art here;
If thou depart, 'tis hell?"

You could not have cheered him: but the Lord has done it; "He is the
God of all comfort." There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in
God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is
Jehovah-rophi. It is marvellous how one sweet word of God will make
whole songs for Christians. One word of God is like a piece of gold,
and the Christian is the gold beater, and can hammer that promise out
for whole weeks. So, then, poor Christian, thou needest not sit down in
despair. Go to the Comforter, and ask him to give thee consolation.
Thou art a poor dry well. You have heard it said, that when a pump is
dry, you must pour water down it first of all, and then you will get
water, and so, Christian, when thou art dry, go to God, ask him to shed
abroad his joy in thy heart, and then thy joy shall be full. Do not go
to earthly acquaintances, for you will find them Job's comforters after
all; but go first and foremost to thy "God, that comforteth those that
are cast down," and you will soon say, "In the multitude of my thoughts
within me thy comforts delight my soul."

EVENING:

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted of the devil."
-- Matthew 4:1

A holy character does not avert temptation-Jesus was tempted. When
Satan tempts us, his sparks fall upon tinder; but in Christ's case, it
was like striking sparks on water; yet the enemy continued his evil
work. Now, if the devil goes on striking when there is no result, how
much more will he do it when he knows what inflammable stuff our hearts
are made of. Though you become greatly sanctified by the Holy Ghost,
expect that the great dog of hell will bark at you still. In the haunts
of men we expect to be tempted, but even seclusion will not guard us
from the same trial. Jesus Christ was led away from human society into
the wilderness, and was tempted of the devil. Solitude has its charms
and its benefits, and may be useful in checking the lust of the eye and
the pride of life; but the devil will follow us into the most lovely
retreats. Do not suppose that it is only the worldly-minded who have
dreadful thoughts and blasphemous temptations, for even
spiritual-minded persons endure the same; and in the holiest position
we may suffer the darkest temptation. The utmost consecration of spirit
will not insure you against Satanic temptation. Christ was consecrated
through and through. It was his meat and drink to do the will of him
that sent him: and yet he was tempted! Your hearts may glow with a
seraphic flame of love to Jesus, and yet the devil will try to bring
you down to Laodicean lukewarmness. If you will tell me when God
permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan
has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must
sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver
will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep
us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of
the lion and the paw of the bear.

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My Utmost For His Highest : "The Initiative Against Dreaming"

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THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DREAMING

Arise, let us go hence.

John 14:31
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Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but
dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. After Our Lord
had said those wonderful things to His disciples, we might have
expected that He would tell them to go away and meditate over them
all; but Our Lord never allowed "mooning." When we are getting into
contact with God in order to find out what He wants, dreaming is
right; but when we are inclined to spend our time in dreaming over
what we have been told to do, it is a bad thing and God's blessing is
never on it. God's initiative is always in the nature of a stab
against this kind of dreaming, the stab that bids us "neither sit nor
stand but go."

If we are quietly waiting before God and He has said - "Come ye
yourselves apart," then that is meditation before God in order to get
at the line He wants; but always beware of giving over to mere
dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave Him to be the source of all
your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has
said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one
you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is
what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is
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LIVING IN LOVE

Romans 12:9-15
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Dear Father, empowering God,

Let my love be genuine for everyone in heaven and on earth. Help
me hate what is evil at all times and everywhere. Help me hold fast
to what is good, the old and the new.

May I love my fellow disciples with brotherly affection. May I
show them greater honor than they show me.

Let my zeal not cool. May it blaze with energy from your Spirit.

May I rejoice in hope and be patient in tribulation. Let me be
constant in prayer. May I contribute liberally to the needs of your
holy people. Help me be very hospitable.

And Lord, help me to bless those who persecute me. Help me to
bless them, not to curse in return.

In the name and authority of Jesus I boldly come, asking these
things according to his will. Amen.

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Righteousness!

"I tell you that you must do better than the teachers of the
law and the Pharisees. If you are not better people, then you
will not enter the kingdom of heaven."

-- Matthew 5:20 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
Jesus repeatedly and even deliberately enters into conflict with the
Pharisees and Scribes in Matthew's Gospel. Why? Why are Jesus' most
scathing denunciations directed at those most recognized as the
religious in his society? Jesus is concerned because God's truth often
got lost in their arguments over theoretical and picky religious
subjects. Their goal seemed to revolve around trying to justify
themselves and their actions without displaying the righteousness and
grace of God. Jesus wants his disciples to demonstrate the intent of
the Law in our lives. He wants us to display the heart and character of
God as his children in our daily lives. He wants his disciples to be a
new generation that has living the righteousness and grace of God as
its consuming passion.

TODAY'S PRAYER:
Father, I want to be righteous. I want to live my life in a way that
reflects your love for the lost, your compassion for the broken, your
passion for holiness, and your disdain for hypocrisy. I know that this
holy life is not possible on my own, so please cleanse me and make me
holy by the power of your Spirit. Please bring forth the righteous
character of your Son in me. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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