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beensetfree

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25 Cents

The check-out person tried to scan the items, but they wouldn't
scan so she manually entered the prices. I noticed that she
only charged me 25 cents for the cake when it was 50 cents for
the larger size.

For a second I thought, "It's only a quarter; what's the big
deal?" But I couldn't do that, so I pointed out that she under
charged me.

She looked shocked that I spoke up; I guess because the error
was to the store's disadvantage. She smiled and said, "Thank you
for being honest." I walked out feeling a little lighter.

When I got outside, a man approached me and stopped me. He said
that he had had a bad day and felt that the world was full of
bad and dishonest people. But he was behind me in line and
heard me correct the lady and that because of my actions he knew
that there were honest people in this world. He blessed me and
walked to his car.

Now 25 cents is not much, it will no longer even buy a phone
call; but last Friday, 25 cents bought something that was
priceless.
 

septuagint

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The Silent Years

There are times when God will speak to you and then be silent
for an extended period of time. Silence does not mean you have
been forsaken by God. It simply means that God has spoken,
and now is the time to allow the word that He spoke to germinate
and come to pass.

Silence is not the same as peace. Silence is the absence of
noise, but peace is the presence of God! While you are going
through "silent years," you should focus on inner peace.

Inner peace produces outward confidence in the face of negative
circumstances so that we can go forward in the assurance that
even though tribulation is coming against us, we are more
than conquerors over it!

The Greek word for peace actually describes a spiritual
equilibrium no matter whatever may seek to upset us. The
biblical meaning of peace never denotes the absence of trouble.
Peace is not the absence of negatives but the presence of
positives. God's peace is inward and spiritual and never
predicated by contrary circumstances or negative events.

Poverty, sickness, death nor debt can override internal peace!

Silent years should indicate a time of reflection, introspection
and listening. The quieter we become, the more we hear.
However, we cannot rush the silent years.

Silent years are times of transition. Transition is always
uncomfortable and appears to last forever. We must ENDURE the
silent years! Whenever you see the word endure, it means that
there is no short cut through it. It must be endured.
You cannot circumvent what must be endured.

We are told to ENDURE unto the end. (Matt. 24:13)
We are told to ENDURE persecution and tribulation. (II Th. 1:4-10)
We are told to ENDURE hardness. (II Tim. 2:1-3)
We are told to ENDURE affliction. (II Tim. 4:5)
We are told to ENDURE chastening. (Heb. 12:7)

The key to being able to ENDURE is to see the END (ENDure).

Now, here are some things for you to question during the silent
years:

Is my life really submitted to God?
Am I submitted at home, work, church and to the government?
Have I learned my lesson?
What is God trying to teach me?
Am I humble enough to be teachable?
Has the fruit of patience been sufficiently developed in me?
Do I still have an appetite for the world in me?
Did I properly respond to the last thing God told me to do?
Have I attained a deeper faith?
Is my attitude right toward God and others?
Am I harboring unforgiveness?
What am I becoming?
Have I sufficiently developed and matured as a person?
Have I taken the time to minister to the Lord? (Acts 13:2)

During your silent years you should:

1. Practice and develop your gifts. Study.
2. Clarify. Define goals. Reorder priorities.
3. Serve (even while you are hurting).
4. Trust God.
5. Pray

Your silent years should change your life! You should come out
as a new person! When you come out, you should have a new level
of:

1. Knowledge
2. Responsibility
3. Authority/Power
4. Faith
5. Trust

Remember, problems never come to last, they only come to pass!

~by Bishop Dale C. Bronner~
 

beensetfree

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Generous Asset
I Am Only One

I am only one,But still I am one.

I cannot do

everything,But still I can do something;

And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

~Edward Everett~
 

beensetfree

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Generous Asset
TGIM


Thank God it's Monday!

I get to go to work today.

I am all too aware of the popular version of this phrase, TGIF,
but I'm thankful I get to go to work today.

If you'd prayed over as many prayer requests recently as I have
you would understand. You feel people's frustration from months
of looking for a job as bills run high and hope runs low.
“A job, a job, a job,” over and over in so many requests.

We often fuss and complain about what so many others are praying
for. We dread it, mock it, condemn it, and curse it.

Yet, it's the thing that puts bread on our table, clothes on our
backs, and a roof over our heads.

Yes, God is the provider of all but He commanded, "Six days
shalt thou labour, and do all thy work." God commanded a job.

It's the thing that we spend most of our waking hours involved
with. It's a shame if we dread what we do most in life.

I've found in business that it's not really the type of job
that makes the real difference, it's the attitude. I've seen
two people side by side, doing the same work, one in paradise,
the other in hell. It was viewpoint, NOT circumstances.

Even when the job changes, the pattern eventually repeats.

When I worked in a warehouse, I loaded boxes off trucks.
We didn't have a forklift, they used hand trucks.
I say they because I carried my boxes by hand. They mocked me.

"Why don't you use a hand truck?" they taunted.

I didn't use one because I saw the boxes as exercise, not work.
I moved more boxes faster by hand than they did with the hand
trucks. When I left work I didn't need to go to the gym. I had
already received my workout and gotten paid for it. It was a joy.

The other fellows left griping about how many trucks came in and
how hard they had to work.

Same boxes - different viewpoints.

I view my job now in the same manner as the boxes.
All honest work has value beyond money. You just have to be
able to see it and appreciate it. Even if you can't see any
value beyond the money, try going without that money for a year.

Boxes, driving, typing, managing, building, cooking, serving,
cleaning, creating, selling, growing, producing or whatever...

Thank God it's Monday.
 

beensetfree

Alfrescian (InfP)
Generous Asset
Different Kinds of Diamonds
============================

Many years ago, when my children were quite small, I was brought
to the realization that we don't always recognize our real
riches.

One morning, as my neighbor was visiting me with her children
and my children were running around doing what kids do, there
was a handy man putting a new floor in my kitchen.

He was very friendly and was talking to my friend and I while he
was banging away at the floor. He happened to notice the
diamond ring on my friend's hand and complimented her on it.
It was really quite beautiful.

At that point, I glanced down at my hand and I felt kind of bad
because I only had a wedding ring and no engagement ring. I
just kind of blurted out to the gentlemen that I didn't own a
diamond.

He looked at me and said, "Oh, yes you do. I see your three
children playing right now. Believe me when I tell you that
those are your diamonds."

Well, I learned something that day.

I also learned as years have gone by that my diamonds have not
lost their luster. They have all grown up to be happy,
purposeful, shining adults, and they continue to bring brilliance
into my life.
 

beensetfree

Alfrescian (InfP)
Generous Asset
Fiber or Toys?

"Enjoy your daily page very much. I wanted to wish you a Happy
Birthday and as 47 is 'middle age,' that is the time when you
choose your cereal for the fiber and not the toy!"

Although I laughed when I read it, I realized the deeper truth
of the statement. There comes a point in life and maturity when
you make choices not based on the frivolous things but on the
things that really matter.

The older you get, the better you can see which is which.
At least that is the way it is supposed to work.

The world gives us toys, things that look exciting but are not
the main point. The less mature you are, the more you get
things for the toy appeal, and the less you get them for the
higher purpose.

"The only difference between men and boys is the price of their
toys." That is a rather well known saying. Maybe the real
difference between men and boys is that real men need less toys.

It is not really a function of age. I've seen old men still
fascinated and focused on toys while neglecting the important
things of life and family.

Choosing a woman based on curves not character or choosing a man
based on cash not character; toys.

17, 27, 47 or 87, age doesn't really matter, only maturity.

Three dictionary definitions of fiber are:
1. Something that provides substance or texture.
2. Essential character or structure.
3. Basic strength or toughness; fortitude.

Three dictionary definitions of toy are:
1. An object for children to play with.
2. Something of little importance; a trifle.
3. A bauble

Fiber or Toys?

Good question.

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man,
I put away childish things."

1 Cor 13:11 KJV
 

Conqueror

Alfrescian
Loyal
Atheists Are In Denial Still

religion here are dying off and worship places like churches are fighting to survive due to falling numbers in believers. some of the churches had been sold off to be casino, art gallery or just residential place.


I hope some bad churches will close down if they are operating it like biz units. In fact, according to an article, theism actually exploded due to the Asians adoption for such worships and the western atheism is also dwindling by looking at their blogs and activities. Of course ! :biggrin:
 

Conqueror

Alfrescian
Loyal
Dreaming Ah ?

i did asked around trying to get some debate on religions and all can't get over the 1st hurdle;

CAN YOU PROOF THAT GOD EXIST?


Professor Antony Flew, who became a deist just six years ago after championing atheism for most of his life, died last Thursday after “long illness,” according to an obituary placed by his family Tuesday in the Times of London.

Flew, who was 87 at the time of his death, was one of the best-known atheists of his generation, arguing that people should presuppose atheism until evidence of God surfaces.

And that’s precisely what he did until 2004, when he said “the findings of more than 50 years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.”

Like proponents of Intelligent Design, Flew concluded that a super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature.

In "Has Science Discovered God?" - a video released in the year of his conversion - Flew said biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce [life], that intelligence must have been involved.”

In an interview with The Sunday Times months later, Flew referred to the arguments of physicist and Jewish theologian Gerald Schroeder, who “pointed out the improbable statistics involved and the pure chances that have to occur."



Hello ! We have BOTH the science and the maths cards. So, it's Game Over for you guys. :biggrin:
 

Conqueror

Alfrescian
Loyal
Pleez Lah ! Another Excuse Again.

Flew's conversion itself has been the subject of controversy, following an article in the New York Times magazine alleging that Flew had mentally declined


The ones that are NOT using their brains are actually the atheists. Why ? You look at what they come out with all these years and you can see straightaway that they are hallucinating with the thought of promoting secularity to the apex blindly. And when they want science to do them a favour, everything went wrong. And in stead, it is actually telling them the opposite.

Science is a nature study. If the world is atheistic in nature, then they should have the ease of paddling along this 'river' without much resistance.

However, the world is proven to be a theistic one instead. And what does that mean ? This means that the theists happen to be paddling with the flow of the nature of this world. And hence, it is very easy for the creationists to take advantage of science and mathematics as proofs to indicate God's existence instead.

Be guided by the southern constellation and not the north one - Draco, the dragon, the serpent, the devil.



He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south. - Job 8


But, is Crux, the southern star one of them ? And see how Dawkins ran with all his might into a city called Agnosticism. LOL :biggrin:


draco_dragon_big.jpg
 

drifter

Alfrescian (InfP)
Generous Asset
[video=youtube;KMVKuMEEmcg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMVKuMEEmcg&sns=em[/video]



Fuck Your God (Sing-A-Long)
By Deicide
From Scars of the Crucifix

The song and the lyrics aren't very well synchronized. I'll try to fix that someday...

"I forsee at my end to be banished,
By your god for my life and branding
Never around, in the greatness of sorrow,
Screw your god and his UN writ moral.
Stifle god, and the idols of hatred,
Out of my heart, I have always been free,
One with no need all alone and satanic.
Wretched and Vile, fuck your god, de face him.
Who could believe in a lord that's demanding?
Hard to believe when we die we vanish,
In his deny and for all his creation,
Fuck your god and his righteous hatred.
You and your son, you are nothing but absence,
Something not there that controls this planet,
Only deceit do I see in your hallow
If you believe you will dwell in failure.
Fuck Your God, Holy mother for the whore she is,
Fuck your God, bible thumper preaching threats from hymn,
Fuck your god, his revival and the holy Ghost,
Fuck your god; only tell us what we need to know,
Fuck your god, pointing fingers and then do as me,
Fuck your god, you are nothing and you'll never be,
Fuck your god; it is Satan who in trusts my soul,
Fuck your god, where the Christians are I will not go.

Fuck his, commandments, and prophet's left stranded to die,
Not in my heart or my soul as I go through this life,
Good book of bullshit lay dirty with vengeance and lies,
Go fuck your Jesus and get- the- fuck out my sight.

Unity over flowing with anger,
It is our time to remove the savior,
Christians are weak and the bible is beaten,
Homage to god, in this world not needed.
Fuck your god an his annals of plager,
Falling apart and exposing the light,
I will not live by the words of their Jesus,
He did not die to protect or save me.
There is just blood in his book of deceiving,
Riddles and crap to his divine healing,
Fail is your faith and you blame it on Satan,
Christians can't see that their preys are wasted.
Not a slave to religion unrendered,
Falsified god and his Christ redempters.
Never to be in the presence of grandeur,
I am for me and forever after.

Fuck Your God, Holy mother for the whore she is,
Fuck your God, bible thumper preaching threats from hymn,
Fuck your god, his revival and the holy Ghost,
Fuck your god; only tell us what we need to know,
Fuck your god, pointing fingers and then do as me,
Fuck your god, you are nothing and you'll never be,
Fuck your god; it is Satan who in trusts my soul,
Fuck your god, where the Christians are I will not go."
 
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drifter

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[video=youtube;G3Z3mo7uGcY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Z3mo7uGcY&sns=em[/video]
 

drifter

Alfrescian (InfP)
Generous Asset
[video=youtube;6PEWkd7YyIQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PEWkd7YyIQ&sns=em[/video]
 
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