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You're Gonna Make It, Just Hold On!
I remember reaching out and nobody would help me. No friend, no family--nobody. I called and asked one friend of mine for $20 so that I could have food for the week. He told me that he was coming to bring it, but it took him six days. I had all of these hopes and dreams but all I could see were those four walls. I didn't know how I was going to get there, but something in me would keep...
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Motivation Monday w/ Les Brown May 13
Most people don't give because they don't understand the abundance in life. So they go through life holding back, holding back on life; not understanding that what you hold back from life, life holds back from you. So most of us go through life not giving and we're cheating ourselves. I strongly believe that each one of us showed up to contribute something to life and that if we don't do it, it will not be done. You are part of an equation and you are needed..
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I Once Was Lost But Now I'm Found
We go through life and into places searching for something of value, something that will satisfy our desire or deep longing, but instead we find the same ‘old’ things and they aren’t what we’re looking for or what we want. We look in “box” after “box”; situation after situation, person after person, one thing after the other. We know what we think we want or at least have a vision of it—it’s beautiful and valuable and will complete our deepest desire..
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Are you a Checklist Christian?
No matter how many "goodie-goodie" things you do, they will not make you more or less righteous. No matter how long your checklist of works is, it alone, will not get you into Heaven. Joining the choir won't make you righteous and neither will feeding the hungry or praying three times a day. God expects you to do what is right and appropriate. He does not expect you to be perfect. Just by being His child you are already acceptable in His eyes.
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