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    Some of the physical strengths and weaknesses that we have began forming in us even before we were born. Then as children we had little or no control over how healthy we would become.
     Eventually we began making choices that would influence our health. Today we are the sum total of our heritage, plus the many decisions we have made.
     From Adam and Eve we inherited our desire to sin. During our lifetime we have made decisions that determine the people we are today. We have made decisions that have caused us to be weak or strong in our spiritual life.
     We may be tempted to blame other people for our present relationship with God, but that would not help us.
     The good news is that from this moment on you have the potential to make decisions that will help you grow stronger in spirit. How strong? There is no limit.
     I hope you have made a decision to begin a new life by believing in Jesus as your Savior. Then you have the potential to become more like Jesus. You have the same Holy Spirit to help you that other Christians have. I recommend that you carefully read and often repeat: Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might (Eph. 6:10 KJV).
    We are limited only by the power of His might!
    I have often marveled at the eternal value of what some Christians have accomplished. They often

wrestled with the question of what it was that God wanted them to do. Why were they so successful? As I've studied their lives I've seen that they studied the Bible to learn what Jesus taught and did. He taught us to give a cup of water to a thirsty person. No big thing, just something we could do. He went on to teach us to give our lives to Him, to do His will. That was a big thing.

by Merlin Carothers

What you and I do, often boils down to what we can do. What we actually do is often the result of what we have done in the past. If we, for example, have spent our lives in living for ourselves, our decisions may still be based on that principle. If we have been willing to help others we become more open to the Spirit of Jesus. His Spirit whispers, Do this and you will help that person. We help them the best way we know how and He says, There are
two other people you can help.
Gradually we hear the voice of God giving us more

opportunities. Often the thought comes, "I can't do that." But we can say, "With God's help working in me I can do anything He wants me to do" (see Phil. 4:13). Jesus
frequently told and showed His disciples what they could do if they believed.
Our opportunities to do God's work are far greater than we may have realized. The time we still have on earth can give us more of the peace and joy that Jesus offers. All we have to do is do what we can to help others know Him. He loves to work with willing workers and He offers us His strength, power and joy to work in and through us!
Have you made too many mistakes, are too old or too ill for God to help you do something important? No! I remember how ill my grandmothers were before they died but in their last days here on earth they said things that have influenced my whole life. Until we breathe our last breath God can find ways to use us for good if that is what we want to do. During Jesus' final minutes on earth He gave eternal life to a confessed criminal hanging on a cross beside Him.

Whenever I think of the Holy Spirit, I'm reminded of God's great love for us. For example, when I read in Genesis 1:2 about the Holy Spirit hovering over the face of the water, I think of God's love, breathing order into chaos. How about when God made Adam? I picture Him kneeling down to where man was and breathing life into his body. Job 33:4 says: The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. On the other hand, if He were to withdraw His Spirit, we would surely perish (see Job 34:14).
II Timothy 3:16 tells us that all Scripture is "God-breathed". Can you picture the Holy Spirit whispering His words into the minds and hearts of the writers of the Bible? Today, the Holy Spirit still whispers to us, in order to inspire us, correct us, or to guide us into paths of righteousness. Isaiah 30:21 expresses it this way: Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "this is the way; walk in it." We call this the still, small voice of God. When Elijah had run from Jezebel in I Kings 19, he went to the mountain of God.

by Mary Carothers

     There he waited for the Spirit of the Lord to speak to him. He heard God's voice, but not in the wind, the earthquake, or in the fire. God came to him in a still small voice.
     In Old Testament times when the Spirit of the Lord came upon certain men of God, it means that the Spirit of God was "breathed" into them. The breath of God was given to meet the particular need.
     When Jesus appeared to His disciples after His
resurrection, He breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit (see John 20:22). This is given to every believer the moment we believe in Jesus as our Savior.
    On the Day of Pentecost, as recorded in Acts 2:2, wasn't the "Mighty Rushing Wind" the very breath of God, breathed with powerful love upon the early disciples? The Church was brought to life that day, as God breathed His life-giving breath into it.
     One last time the Bible tells us of the breath of God helping and blessing His children. In II Thessalonians 2:8, we are told that the Lord Jesus will destroy the anti-Christ with the breath of His mouth.
     The breath of God! Like Adam, we cannot live without it. If we want to have spiritual victory while in this body, we must have the breath of the Holy Spirit flowing into us.

The Foundation of Praise has received a donation in memory of:

RITA MARY MAY By her son Ronald May and Family of Vista, CA	THE MOUSSALLI FAMILY By Daisy Moussalli of Detroit, MI
GLENN J. INGRAHAM By his wife Mary of Vestal, NY	ADELE HEINRICH POWERS By her niece and goddaughter Magdalena Nelson of Minneapolis, MN

The Foundation of Praise has received a donation in honor of:

HAROLD BROOKS
By Jean Canfield
of Lamar, CO

JOHN & JOANNA ANDERSON
By their daughter Bonnie Ryland
of Issaquah, WA

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