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WEEKLY POWER SURGE…
with
John Young
Build you week on a solid foundation, a Bible
verse, an inspirational thought and a positive
prayer.
26th
January 2008
Power Verse……
“Don't
fret or worry. Instead of worrying pray.
Let petitions and praises shape your
worries into prayers, letting God know
your concerns. Before you know it, a
sense of God's wholeness, everything
coming together for good, will come and
settle you down. It's wonderful what
happens when Christ displaces worry at
the centre of your life." (Philippians
4: 6, 7 The Message translation)
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I
don’t know where you are today, but I have a
sneaky suspicion that you, like me, might have a
few uninvited intruders crowding into your life
and you would welcome some divine
reinforcements. If so, don’t hesitate to call
for help. Tell your Heavenly Father you are
running out of hope, and energy and ideas……and that
your need is “not……words taught by human
wisdom, but…….those taught by the Spirit,
combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual
words……For who has known the mind of the Lord,
that he should instruct him? But we have the
mind of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 2: 13, 16)
You
may have cancer, so what can you do? You dial
Heaven 999 and tell God you have an emergency
need. “I have cancer Lord, and I need wisdom.”
And at that very moment He will begin to make
deliveries.
Amazingly, you will
soon discover that your greatest enemy is not
the disease, but subtle, slippery feelings of
despair, the thief of peace.
So change your mindset, start to exercise your
faith and begin to rely on God’s daily delivery
service to get you through, one day at a time.
I
read of an enthusiastic Christian believer by
the name of Don Richardson, who lost his battle
with cancer, and the following piece was
distributed at his memorial service.
Cancer is limited……
It cannot cripple love..........
It cannot corrode faith..........
It cannot eat away peace..........
It cannot destroy confidence..........
It cannot kill friendship..........
It cannot shut out memories..........
It cannot silence courage..........
It cannot invade the soul..........
It cannot reduce eternal life..........
It cannot quench the Spirit..........
It cannot lessen the power of the resurrection..........
You
cannot deny that you have the disease, but you
can deny despair from taking control. Wherever
you are, whatever your circumstances, call on
God for His daily delivery of wisdom, strength
and grace. But more…..His peace. Some of the
final words Jesus left with His disciples, which
are appropriate for us today, were these…….
“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to
you; not as the world gives do I give to you.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it
be afraid.” (John 14:27.)
Each morning, with
God’s help, slam the door on despair. If you
don’t, it will slip in and rob you. And you will
soon find a peace missing.
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Prayer…..Lord,
I’m finding life tough at the moment. I’m
asking You for a delivery of
powerful possibility thinking,
so that I can have a clearer picture of how
to cope with my current situation. I pray
for the authentic experience of Your peace,
presence and power. |
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