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Posted on 06/05/2017 6:01:36 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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To: Kathy in Alaska
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Fifteen-Minute Challenge
June 6, 2017
Turn my heart toward your statutes.
Psalm 119:36
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, longtime president of Harvard University, believed that ordinary people who read consistently from the worlds great literature for even a few minutes a day could gain a valuable education. In 1910, he compiled selections from books of history, science, philosophy, and fine art into fifty volumes called The Harvard Classics. Each set of books included Dr. Eliots Reading Guide titled Fifteen Minutes A Day containing recommended selections of eight to ten pages for each day of the year.
What if we spent fifteen minutes a day reading Gods Word? We could say with the psalmist, Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word (Ps. 119:3637).
Fifteen minutes a day adds up to ninety-one hours a year. But for whatever amount of time we decide to read the Bible each day, consistency is the secret and the key ingredient is not perfection but persistence. If we miss a day or a week, we can start reading again. As the Holy Spirit teaches us, Gods Word moves from our minds to our hearts, then to our hands and feettaking us beyond education to transformation.
Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end (v. 33).
I turn to You, the Author, to teach me as I read Your Word today. I want to hear from You, to know You, and to grow closer to You.
Join the Fifteen-Minute Bible Reading Challenge! Visit Facebook.com/ourdailybread.
The Bible is the only Book whose Author is always present when it is read.
Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible. Each new section starts with a successive letter from the Hebrew alphabet (known as an acrostic poem). The major emphasis of this psalm is to celebrate the usefulness and value of the law. In Psalm 119 the author uses a variety of words to describe the laws and commands of God. Eight times he mentions meditating: on Gods decrees (vv. 23, 48), deeds (v. 27), precepts (vv. 15, 78), laws (v. 97), statutes (v. 99), and promises (v. 148). Meditation is the act of thinking deeply about something, focusing intently on an idea. We really get to know the commands of God by meditating on them. Reading is the necessary first step, but once we have read His Word, meditating on it throughout the day helps us to keep it in our minds.
Do you want to learn more about spending time with God? Read In His Presence at discoveryseries.org/q0718.
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:01:54 PM PDT
by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Great job remembering this historic day in American Military might and patriotism when the Greatest Generation began their liberation of Europe.
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:03:59 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(The Paris Accord was an attempt to get America to sign onto the new World Religion.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Hi Everybody!
((((HUGS))))
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:05:50 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: PROCON; Kathy in Alaska
Agreed!
It is a beautiful Presentation.
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:07:32 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Kathy in Alaska; All
Gen Eisenhower’s D-Day Letter:
” My Fellow Americans:
Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without restuntil the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Mens souls will be shaken with the violence of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at homefathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with themhelp us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, toostrength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting momentlet not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peacea peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy will be done, Almighty God.
Amen.”
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:10:36 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: The Mayor
Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
Hope you made it through Monday ok.....I haven’t yet.
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:11:42 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian..the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
Funny.
The Med and the North Of Africa are on fire again,
Come to think of it when were they not?
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:15:04 PM PDT
by
mylife
(the roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Thank you for this, Kathy...
My father would’ve loved this....He was there.....
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:16:00 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Funny.
The Med and the North Of Africa are on fire again,
Come to think of it when were they not?
When was the Channel quiet? The Bosporus straits?
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:18:30 PM PDT
by
mylife
(the roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Hats off to the Greatest Generation!
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:21:13 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Trump = A glorious amalgamation of Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Theresa May needs to find her inner Churchill.
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:27:20 PM PDT
by
mylife
(the roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Thank you Kathy— for posting this canteen remembrance. Have posted a timeline for the invasion, by the hour and minute- from the UK Telegraph. By now the 101st and 82nd Airborne US paratroopers had jumped behind the beachheads of Normandy- brave men. And the Brit Horsa gliders had come in at 90 mph- to take Pegasus and Horsa bridges in 15 minutes (the germans were caught asleep!).
Here’s to their memory, and to Freedom!
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:34:46 PM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: PROCON
Hiya, Pro...a very important day in our history.
We got some rain overnight, so I don’t have to water tonight. Hurrah!!
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:37:39 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian..the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: left that other site
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...did the rain stop?
Did you and Penny get in a good walk?
We got enough over night and this morning so I don’t have to water the lawn tonight.
To: Kathy in Alaska
It rained ALL night and day today, for the last 24 hours and still going.
The grass is quite green, I must say.
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:49:38 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:56:07 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: left that other site
Thanks, ML, for Gen Eisenhowers D-Day Letter.
On my way home.....Mom duty.
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