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  Start With Gratitude
Your Memory Re-plays Your Past. Your Imagination Pre-plays Your Future.
Today's Word
For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them]. ~Philippians 4:8
Today's Thought
Make gratitude your first response and it will soon become an empowering perspective from which you can achieve great things. Rather than looking for something to criticize, look for things to genuinely praise. Make the most positive qualities the first things you notice in people, in your surroundings, and in the situations which come along.
There are positive sides and negative sides to everything. The negative aspects will have little trouble asserting themselves. They need no help from you. Don't overlook them, but don't give your energy to them either.
Put your focus on finding a reason for gratitude. It's there, no matter what. From that you can build and grow, move ahead and prosper. Make it a habit on a moment by moment basis. Ingrain it in your very being. Let it become second nature to you to seek the positive and you will indeed find it. It's an approach which will bring delightful substance to your relationships and powerful effectiveness to your pursuits.
Lead with gratitude and you'll truly be even more grateful for the richness of living which most certainly will follow.
Today's Prayer
Father In Heaven; Empower me to make the lessons of "Thanksgiving" life principals instead of just an annual holiday! Let this week be the start to a NEW Positive me! Teach me to not give my focus or energy to negative things. Keep me focused on the bright & the right. In Jesus Name. ~Amen                      

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  Obeying For A Blessing
Today's Word
Oh, that they had such a [mind and] heart in them always [reverently] to fear Me and keep all My commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children forever! ~Deuteronomy 5:29
Today's Thought
When God tells you to do certain things, He's not trying to put you in a straight jacket or rain on your parade. No, He's just setting you up for a blessing! Think about that for a moment. On the other end of anything He asks you to do, you'll hear the words, "that it might be well with you."
Living in peace, instead of always going to pieces, is easier, once you learn to listen to God and respond immediately. Don't hesitate. Don't negotiate. Don't rationalize. And whatever you do don't run, for the only thing that's worse than running from obedience is running smack-dab into the consequences of disobedience. Ask Jonah!
Listen, "To obey is better than sacrifice" (1 Samuel 15:22). Sometimes you'll have to sacrifice certain things in order to obey God. But it's better to sacrifice them than to ignore the promptings of His Spirit, forfeit His blessings, and live stressed out.
God will sometimes require things of you that:
1. He doesn't seem to require of others.
2. He won't explain, and you can't understand.
3. When you've obeyed, you won't see any immediate benefits.
But if you're convinced that He has a unique plan for your life, and that He loves you unconditionally, you'll abandon yourself to Him in trust, knowing that in the end "it will be well with you."
Today's Prayer
Father In Heaven; I won't Hesitate, I won't Negotiate, I won't Debate.. I will Obey. I choose to believe that You have a Plan for me and mine. In Jesus Name. ~Amen.

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  Thanksgiving
Today is the day we traditionally pause to take stock of our blessings, to remember and give thanks.
The first Americans to celebrate Thanksgiving were primarily thankful for their survival. They were pioneers in a new world and were daily faced with the harsh realities of life without any of the comforts of civilization.
Today, most of us are fairly confident of our survival from day to day. Our material "blessings" are more abundant, in both quality and quantity, than those of the original Thanksgiving participants. Survival is no longer a big concern for most of us -- we are, thankfully, fairly confident that there will be a meal on the table tomorrow, and the next day.
Remember to pause and thank God for His Provision & Plan.....They have brought you to Where you are, and made you Who you are!
There's one blessing, though, that hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. And that is the blessing of community. All the other people in our lives. Life would be pretty meaningless without them. We could have all the material luxuries in the world, and most of them would be worthless without anyone to enjoy them with.
It is the members of our community that give life its variety and character. We all depend on each other for creating the stuff of life. Think of all the people whose efforts go into everything you have, everything that entertains you, everything that sustains you physically, and everything that comforts you...
Without each other, none of us would be "Who" we are.
So when you Give Thanks Today, let's not forget to be Thankful for each other.
For Family...For Friends....For a Church Family...For Your Community...
Our community, no matter how it is defined, gives us each the power and support to be the best that we can be.
So find someone in "your" commune today and just walk up and HUG THEM..
From Deb & I
HAPPY THANKSGIVING.    

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  Un-Thanked People?
Feeling Gratitude And Not Expressing It Is Like Wrapping A Present And Not Giving It. ~William Arthur Ward
Today's Word
I thank my God every time I remember you. ~Philippians 1:3
Today's Thought
When Rev. William Stidger taught at a well-known university, he once reflected upon the great number of un-thanked people in his life; those who helped nurture him, inspire him, or who cared enough to leave a lasting impression on him. One was a school teacher he'd not heard of in many years, but he remembered that she'd gone out of her way to instill a love of poems in him. As a result, Stidger had loved poetry all his life. So he wrote her a letter of thanks.
The reply he received, written in the feeble scrawl of the aged, began, "My Dear Willie." He was delighted. He was now over 50, bald and a professor. He didn't think there was a person left on the planet who would call him "Willie" ... I cannot tell you how much your note meant to me. I'm in my eighties, living alone in a small room, cooking my own meals, lonely, and like the last leaf of autumn, lingering behind. You will be interested to know that I taught school for 50 years, and yours is the first note of appreciation I ever received. It came on a blue-cold morning and cheered me as nothing has in many years." Not prone to cry easily, Stidger wept over that note.
She was one of the great un-thanked people from his past. You know them - we all do. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless....... Got any un-thanked people?
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Today's Prayer
Father In Heaven; Kindle in me a heart of gratitude for those who have touched my life, and taught me valuable life lessons. At this season of Thanksgiving, lead me to someone who has been Un-Thanked and allow me to shower them with Thanks! Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone, so Use me to be a Grateful Giver. In Jesus Name. ~Amen.               

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  Timing
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. ~Louis E. Boone
Today's Word
But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. ~Matthew 6:33
Today's Thought
The time is never perfect, yet the time is always right. If you're waiting for the perfect time to take action, a time when all conditions will be ideal, a time when your prospects for success are guaranteed, that time will never come. Circumstances are never perfect. There are always plenty of reasons not to act.
Yet, if anything is going to get done, it must be undertaken in less than perfect circumstances. When you accept that there will never be a perfect time, then the time is always right. Circumstances, whatever they are, will work for you, when you go to work in spite of them.
The unfavorable conditions, such as they are, are things that can be overcome. Right now is not perfect, but it's what you have to work with. You either use it, or you lose it forever. Now is not the perfect time, but it is the right time to begin reaching for your goals. Do it now, or regret it later.
Today's Prayer
Father In Heaven; Forgive me for looking at circumstances instead of You! Help me Today To Step Out In Faith. To Claim the Promise of Your Provision & Protection. I will Put Your Kingdome First and Trust You for the rest. In Jesus name. ~Amen.            

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Prelude to the Bowl Judgments

¹Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.

²And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. ³They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:

"Great and marvelous are Your works,

Lord God Almighty!

Just and true are Your ways,

O King of the saints!

⁴Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name?

For You alone are holy.

For all nations shall come and worship before You,

For Your judgments have been manifested."

⁵After these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.

⁶And out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, clothed in pure bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands.

⁷Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.

⁸The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

           

           
   ** Nancy**
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 GOD'S WORSHIPPERS
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
Pero la hora viene, y ahora es, cuando los verdaderos adoradores adorarán al Padre en espíritu y en verdad; porque también el Padre busca a tales que le adoren. Dios es espíritu; y es necesario que los que le adoran, le adoren en espíritu y en verdad.  Juan 4:23-24
"ADORADORES DEL SEÑOR"

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