A DIRECTION FOR WINNING

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Even if you are not a golfer there is a good chance that you will have heard of the famous St. Andrews golf course in Scotland.

There are many stories that have come off those links but few with so great an analogy as the following.

A visiting dignitary was vehemently arguing with his caddy on how he should play a particular hole.

The caddy’s response was priceless, “Sir, you may choose whichever club you want and hit in whatever direction you wish. I am only trying to tell you how to win the hole.”

And Jesus said, “I am come that (you) may have life and that you may have it abundantly”

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DO YOU LIKE YOURSELF?

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One day a little girl was playing alone in her back yard.
The next door neighbor saw her and said, “Mary, where’s your mother?”

“Asleep,” replied the little girl.

“And where’s your little brother?”

“Oh, he’s asleep too,”

“Aren’t you lonesome?”

“Oh, no,” the little girl answered back quickly, “I like myself.”

But there are people who don’t like themselves. They have given up on being a decent human being and feel that now it is too late to do anything about it.

But it is never too late.

And when you pray and push your way toward improving a little each day then one day you will have gone miles even though it was only an inch or half an inch a time.

So pray the following prayer or one like it.
“God give me a push. God make me want you to give me a push.” You may come up with a different version of this prayer but all of us can be better and all of us need the help of our Almighty God.

And yes, the best way to be happy is to be nice and nicer…indeed so busy making other people happy nice automatically becomes a regular occurrence.

Nasty certainly isn’t all its cut out to be.

"The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink,but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." ~Romans 14:15+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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OUT OF THIS WORLD

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There are those who believe the church should mind its business and stay away from social issues.

It seems to me that this is asking the church to influence the world by staying out of the world.

Matthew 5:14-16
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

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LOVE IS A SMILE ON THE FACE OF A WORLD THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE A PLACE OF FROWN

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The little boy walked up to the lonely crotchety old maid and said, “Can I be your friend?”

She was never the same.

When the Destiny of little things is alive and well the world has a smile on its face that will not go away.

Proverbs 11:25 – “The generous person will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered.”

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HOW MUCH DOES IT WEIGH?

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There is the story of the man who weighed a human body just before and after death. And since he could measure no significant loss of weight he concluded there is no soul.’’

It might be well if he himself had been weighed before and after his opinion thus proving there was no weight to his opinion either.

"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
Matthew 10:28
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YOU ARE YOU OR ARE YOU?

Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)

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If you are to find and fulfill your destiny you must realize that you are the first of you and the last of you.

There is not and never has been another like you.

It is not your task to imitate someone else.

It is not your task to be pushed or pulled by anyone else.

It is your holy responsibility to pray a prayer something like this;
“God let me know who I am and be the best “I Am” I can be.

Gene Autry found this out when he first tried to break into show business he dressed like a city slicker and said he was from New York.

He never made it until he admitted he was just plain ole country boy Gene Autry.

George Gershwin was once offered a job with Irving Berlin as his musical secretary at almost three times the salary he was being given at the time, but with these words of advice, ”Don’t take the job. If you do, you may develop into a second rate Berlin.

If you insist on being yourself, someday you’ll become a first rate George Gershwin.

You know…if you’re always fussing with God about how destiny has treated you or is treating you, you’ll ruin what destiny has left for you.

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THE UPWARD VISION

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He was just a little boy but he was a very wise little boy.

He would have liked to have lived on a hill overlooking a harbor where boats moved in and out and at night with their beautiful lights reflecting off the shifting waters.

He would have liked to have been able to sweep his eyes across a valley and watch a lovely lake in the distance or a river winding its way across the landscape.

But he couldn’t. His view was a dirty rusty railing and beyond that the broken windows of his neighbors who lived beyond their broken brick walls.

He was surrounded by slums and slobs and sin and the noise of fights often reverberated from below.

But he didn’t mope. He didn’t shout out complaints into the night. He simply lay back and looked up at the stars.

He had learned quite early in his life an important lesson.

He had learned the secret of “the upward vision.”
PSALM 147:4
”He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by
name.”

ISAIAH 40:26
” Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all
these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls
them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty
strength, not one of them is missing.”

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