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<br />sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-13490076210421704582015-05-29T14:06:00.001-06:002017-01-28T09:57:00.481-06:00Why Go to Africa to Help When there are So Many Here Who Need Help? Why I Go?<b><span style="font-family: "verdana";"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></b>Originally posted 5/29/2015<br />Reposted and updated 5/29/2016<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbjb7HUosoMCC0e7XZV-gNUOFYQ54rKV7fnR-1BVfbcWvz3qAZezFQonnHHWJwbgo4G6jissZXPKSFSuiK6sj_ShCz3Uz6rkwuXHdtzNf2hOjb4bwSpbz4EdGQMSqTqMTdxsjMxYMl2NM/s1600/bible+copyrighted+049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbjb7HUosoMCC0e7XZV-gNUOFYQ54rKV7fnR-1BVfbcWvz3qAZezFQonnHHWJwbgo4G6jissZXPKSFSuiK6sj_ShCz3Uz6rkwuXHdtzNf2hOjb4bwSpbz4EdGQMSqTqMTdxsjMxYMl2NM/s640/bible+copyrighted+049.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why Go to Africa to Help When there are So Many Here Who Need Help?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why I Go</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mark 16:15-16</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="bV" style="display: inline; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"> </span>And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.<span class="br"></span></span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"> </span>He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Matthew 28:18-20<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="bV" style="display: inline; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">18 </span>And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.</span><span class="br" style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">19 </span>Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span><span class="br" style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">20 </span>teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.</span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;">”</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2nOnW3j5w7j5L6Ar8677NED1GzY6mQCXOJZCobNYnbOhC4huJPqbVZzRMaIrimewWgS2uHL56mf3jTsguBhE26nOY42cPLhMh3y6xdsR9wH-EKPlvtzagoQCHE2miVCbEbO3ShFVdXk/s1600/Zambia+Medical+Mission+Kilinga+Maka+Medical++6-25-7-10-09+144+%252833%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2nOnW3j5w7j5L6Ar8677NED1GzY6mQCXOJZCobNYnbOhC4huJPqbVZzRMaIrimewWgS2uHL56mf3jTsguBhE26nOY42cPLhMh3y6xdsR9wH-EKPlvtzagoQCHE2miVCbEbO3ShFVdXk/s640/Zambia+Medical+Mission+Kilinga+Maka+Medical++6-25-7-10-09+144+%252833%2529.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 John 3:17<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Zambia<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Population: 13.3 million<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life Expectancy: 44.5 years<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">GDP: US$1248 per capita<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unemployed: 16.0%<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">81.5% earn less than US$2 per day<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why do I Go? </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 CORINTHIANS 8:9<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have had people to say, “Why go to Africa when we have so many people here that need so much help? Why would you want to go to Africa when you can help those here?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I spent many years working with the poorest of poor children in Texas. I have witnessed the poverty in the Texas. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been highly blessed to travel to Zambia five times.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been in the Eastern Province every time. I have also traveled from the Eastern Province to the Southern Province and to the Northwestern Province. Zambia is a country about the size of Texas. So, I have witnessed the extreme poverty that exists in Zambia firsthand. In Zambia, I have traveled to numerous villages and once spent eight days and nights in a remote village without electricity and running water. I have never witnessed poverty in the United States that comes close to the extreme, widespread poverty in Zambia. There are many, many people walking and riding bicycles up and down the roadways, out in the country, in the villages, and in the cities. It is mostly the men who ride bicycles. They are hauling goats, pigs, eggs, elephant grass, wood, tin, charcoal, sweet potatoes, their families, mazes, cotton, mattresses, you name it and they haul it on their bikes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been in peoples living abodes that have no window glass, no electricity, and no running water, very worn out furniture. But yet they are willing and eager to share the little bit of food they have with us. They prepare the food for us and they do not eat. The average income is $2.00 a day or less. Many do not even have this. They live completely off the land. This is a land of many people who do not have a Bible and do not have access to a Bible. If a Bible cost $7.00 and one has an income of $2.00 a day or less, where are they going to spend their money? How shall they hear? Romans 10:14 How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As an American it is so hard to comprehend this extreme poverty. We actually have no knowledge base to comprehend this extreme poverty unless we have gone and witnessed it firsthand. I can tell you but you won’t comprehend until you have built that new knowledge base. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When one has this knowledge base it will either change your life for the good or the bad. It is a haunting reality for me. 1 John 3:17 But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Proverbs 21:13 He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be answered. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the face of a four year old boy who brings his mother a hand full of field mice. I can tell you about her quickly snatching them out of his hand and hurrying off to later discover that she has put them in a pot of water to boil for lunch for her family.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about an old grandmother asking for help with her grandson with a broken leg whom she is carrying. I can tell you about the people who walk 20Ks or longer to get to the Medical Mission we do. I can tell you about the lady who told me she needs my glasses so she can see.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the hundreds of people who stand in the hot sun all day long waiting with hope to see the Doctor or Dentist and get some relief. I can tell you they do not eat anything all day long. I can tell you about the children with the extended tummies and no shoes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the abode without window glass or no windows at all. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the schools where we do the medical missions that have windows but no glass in them. I can tell you about the desk that are so wore out that we are afraid they will fall down if someone sits on them. </span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the hole in the floor at the door of the room that is three inches deep by ten inches wide, I can tell you about the toilet that stinks so badly you almost gag as you walk in to use the little hole in the ground. I can tell you about 45-70 students in a classroom that is 10 feet by 12 feet. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the smell of the people who are as clean as they can be without water, I can tell you about the clothes they wear that we would throw away and not even use as rags. </span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you but until you see, smell, feel, touch and let these things sink into your heart, you will not truly understand what I mean. </span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkUgfDAvYfoP3IvpSo40cDFL__rvWvf9e_MvcIX8CTS5gSo_uxhIZdyfZYIm7YFyq1Q282__hsf9GaxJkS-nZuyBe55zJQFaqqkkWmBU0cXVUujccvxbHEh44-KA6war1ZsBKfi9kCTQ/s1600/Picture5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkUgfDAvYfoP3IvpSo40cDFL__rvWvf9e_MvcIX8CTS5gSo_uxhIZdyfZYIm7YFyq1Q282__hsf9GaxJkS-nZuyBe55zJQFaqqkkWmBU0cXVUujccvxbHEh44-KA6war1ZsBKfi9kCTQ/s640/Picture5.jpg" width="548" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>We go to Africa to take the gospel of Christ to so many souls that have very little physical goods and a heart that is starving to death for the Good News. We can’t, not go. That is why we go. </b><br /></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ACTS 20:35<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” When we go, we always come home with the feeling that we are the ones who received the most blessings. They on the other hand are the ones who feel they received the most blessings. </span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now we have added one more cause to that list. We are going to try to alleviate the suffering and death of babies.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">This June 4, 2016 three of us are moving to Zambia to start taking care of babies who do not have a chance to live without divine intervention. We are not divine or anything special, nor do we have special powers. It is God who is mighty and awesome and He will provide the divine intervention. He has allowed us to go so many times and He has given us the love for the people in Zambia. </span></b></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">If you want to be apart of this work you may send a check for a tax free donation to: </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Attn: Ana Home</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Baker Heights Church of Christ</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">5382 Texas Avenue</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Abilene, Texas 79605</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">For a Free Bible study go to:</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><a href="http://www.worldbibleschool.org/">www.worldbibleschool.org</a></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span></b></div></div>sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-13481177829842663652015-05-29T14:06:00.000-06:002016-05-29T14:05:48.818-06:00Why Go to Africa to Help When there are So Many Here Who Need Help? Why I Go?<b><span style="font-family: "verdana";"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></b>Originally posted 5/29/2015<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="bV" style="display: inline; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">18 </span>And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.</span><span class="br" style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">19 </span>Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span><span class="br" style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">20 </span>teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.</span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;">”</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 John 3:17<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">17 But if anyone has the world’s goods
and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s
love abide in him?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Zambia<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Population: 13.3 million<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life Expectancy: 44.5 years<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">GDP: US$1248 per capita<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unemployed: 16.0%<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">81.5% earn less than US$2 per day<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why do I Go? </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have had people to say, “Why go to
Africa when we have so many people here that need so much help? Why would you
want to go to Africa when you can help those here?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I spent many years working with the
poorest of poor children in Texas. I have witnessed the poverty in the Texas. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been highly blessed to travel to
Zambia five times.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been in the Eastern Province
every time. I have also traveled from the Eastern Province to the Southern
Province and to the Northwestern Province. Zambia is a country about the size of Texas.
So, I have witnessed the extreme poverty that exists in Zambia firsthand. In Zambia, I have traveled to numerous
villages and once spent eight days and nights in a remote village without
electricity and running water. I have never witnessed poverty in the United
States that comes close to the extreme, widespread poverty in Zambia. There are
many, many people walking and riding bicycles up and down the roadways, out in
the country, in the villages, and in the cities. It is mostly the men who ride
bicycles. They are hauling goats, pigs, eggs, elephant grass, wood, tin,
charcoal, sweet potatoes, their families, mazes, cotton, mattresses, you name
it and they haul it on their bikes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been in peoples living abodes that
have no window glass, no electricity, and no running water, very worn out furniture. But yet they are willing and eager to share
the little bit of food they have with us. They prepare the food for us and they
do not eat. The average income is $2.00 a day or less. Many do not even have
this. They live completely off the land. This is a land of many people who do
not have a Bible and do not have access to a Bible. If a Bible cost $7.00 and
one has an income of $2.00 a day or less, where are they going to spend their
money? How shall they hear? Romans 10:14 How then will they call on Him in whom
they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard?
And how will they hear without a preacher?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As an American it is so hard to
comprehend this extreme poverty. We actually have no knowledge base to
comprehend this extreme poverty unless we have gone and witnessed it firsthand.
I can tell you but you won’t comprehend until you have built that new knowledge
base. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When one has this knowledge base it will
either change your life for the good or the bad. It is a haunting reality for me. 1 John 3:17 But whoever has the world’s goods,
and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the
love of God abide in him? Proverbs 21:13 He who shuts his ear to the cry of the
poor will also cry himself and not be answered.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the face of a four
year old boy who brings his mother a hand full of field mice. I can tell you
about her quickly snatching them out of his hand and hurrying off to later
discover that she has put them in a pot of water to boil for lunch for her
family.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about an old grandmother
asking for help with her grandson with a broken leg whom she is carrying. I can
tell you about the people who walk 20Ks or longer to get to the Medical Mission
we do. I can tell you about the lady who told me she needs my glasses so she can see.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the hundreds of
people who stand in the hot sun all day long waiting with hope to see the
Doctor or Dentist and get some relief. I
can tell you they do not eat anything all day long. I can tell you about the
children with the extended tummies and no shoes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the abode without
window glass or no windows at all. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the schools where
we do the medical missions that have windows but no glass in them. I can tell
you about the desk that are so wore out that we are afraid they will fall down
if someone sits on them. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the hole in the floor at the door of
the room that is three inches deep by ten inches wide, I can tell you about the
toilet that stinks so badly you almost gag as you walk in to use the little
hole in the ground. I can tell you about 45-70 students in a classroom that is
10 feet by 12 feet. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you about the smell of the people
who are as clean as they can be without water, I can tell you about the clothes
they wear that we would throw away and not even use as rags. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can tell you but until you see, smell, feel, touch and let these things sink into your heart, you will not truly understand what I mean. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>We go to Africa to take the gospel of
Christ to so many souls that have very little physical goods and a
heart that is starving to death for the Good News. We can’t, not go. That is why we go. </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” When we go, we always come home with the feeling that we are the ones who received the most blessings. They on the other hand are the ones who feel they received the most blessings. </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now we have added one more cause to that
list. We are going to try to alleviate the suffering and death of babies.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">This June 4, 2016 three of us are moving to Zambia to start taking care of babies who do not have a chance to live without divine intervention. We are not divine or anything special, nor do we have special powers. It is God who is mighty and awesome and He will provide the divine intervention. He has allowed us to go so many times and He has given us the love for the people in Zambia. </span></b></span><br />
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I made these for the people who are in our Thursday night Bible Study group. I told them Some Bunny Loves You. They all got a kick out of that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8NmrB__nWJlTbofcdAp7kp0qr-mpTpsVQiSk-JOEmmPSINNTCFB2K7NMIHj7qGGDqnBaZIXXidKovn3x50RE-O_QZylrUBuWhco0XGKia3QODvM0cGNOemy6gw7OnjnuOz6L0nqRsgM/s1600/I+phone+6+pictures+021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8NmrB__nWJlTbofcdAp7kp0qr-mpTpsVQiSk-JOEmmPSINNTCFB2K7NMIHj7qGGDqnBaZIXXidKovn3x50RE-O_QZylrUBuWhco0XGKia3QODvM0cGNOemy6gw7OnjnuOz6L0nqRsgM/s1600/I+phone+6+pictures+021.JPG" height="640" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/227805052/sweet-swaddled-baby-dolls-this-listing?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">Personalized Swaddled Babies</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEq2WopjtKEL-vYuQu_vtk7AN8Jv9oIJ_6vBlWRSjLcCRFzFJzeNmXQ03E0SgFNqHVeiXiRy1bSa3eyek9pChQ-EEkS9N265eKS1FWOULMAwmjJDvddo-4v_5DYFenbf-hMnK4DOTHoI4/s1600/owl+and+horse+loviy+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><a class="sLink" href="http://esv.literalword.com/?h=29&q=John+1" style="color: #690000; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;">John 1:29</a></div><div class="sTxt" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the <b>Lamb</b> <b>of</b> <b>God</b>, who takes away the sin <b>of</b> the world!</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwj0vK5js6XGjpgUcK98LMdLstcz_k3ozJfd7twlFHvvZaCVOVV7OBqurU1lNUdwOOzPPArZ_Ge8mRWEvpZV4aQF9-kAeamGn2dgchv0NQpckGdfSejyU_DEx5KJcMGxuUCEmD0BKEaM/s1600/dylan+doll+and+lovies+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwj0vK5js6XGjpgUcK98LMdLstcz_k3ozJfd7twlFHvvZaCVOVV7OBqurU1lNUdwOOzPPArZ_Ge8mRWEvpZV4aQF9-kAeamGn2dgchv0NQpckGdfSejyU_DEx5KJcMGxuUCEmD0BKEaM/s1600/dylan+doll+and+lovies+002.JPG" height="636" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/225759297/handmade-soft-girl-doll-is-so-adorable?ref=shop_home_active_12" target="_blank">Personalized Baby Doll </a><br />This sweet personalized Baby Doll is too cute for words. You look at her and you expect to hear sweet sounds coming out her mouth.<br /><span style="text-align: left;">Psalm 139</span><br /><span class="bV" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;">13 For you formed my inward parts;</span></span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"></span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVNpt" style="display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left;">14</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">Wonderful are your works;</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">my soul knows it very well.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"></span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVNpt" style="display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left;">15</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">My frame was not hidden from you,</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">when I was being made in secret,</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">intricately woven in the depths of the earth.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"></span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVNpt" style="display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left;">16</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">Your eyes saw my unformed substance;</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">in your book were written, every one of them,</span></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; 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Just some fun Easter stitching. I made these for the people who are in our Thursday night Bible Study group. I told them Some Bunny Loves You. They all got a kick out of that.</div>
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The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the <b>Lamb</b> <b>of</b> <b>God</b>, who takes away the sin <b>of</b> the world!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Psalm 139</span><br />
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<span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">Wonderful are your works;</span></span><br />
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<span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bPt" style="display: block; margin-left: 5.8ex; text-align: left;">intricately woven in the depths of the earth.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;"></span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVNpt" style="display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left;">16</span></span><br />
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Why? Why? </span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is hard to comprehend the poverty that the majority of Zambian people live in. How do we as Americans comprehend what it must look like for 80% of Zambian people to live on $2.00 a day or less? A lot of Zambians do not even have that $2.00. Their survival depends on what they can garner from the earth.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0pEESvUNEL7ko713Vyav3nisHmtbOQ31tNkOpuYLb7HOADklA78TVQg8ADQH5STTQ5Do71hIyfXJBGj_0Xxfne0_ShYYGZXq5tV8d7Boh1_ulqDGD9sAJLw1Tf7YY_jWLs5hyphenhyphenAH3d5I/s1600/Picture5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0pEESvUNEL7ko713Vyav3nisHmtbOQ31tNkOpuYLb7HOADklA78TVQg8ADQH5STTQ5Do71hIyfXJBGj_0Xxfne0_ShYYGZXq5tV8d7Boh1_ulqDGD9sAJLw1Tf7YY_jWLs5hyphenhyphenAH3d5I/s1600/Picture5.jpg" height="400" width="340" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copyright by Shelia Holmes</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For most Americans it is impossible to understand that the clothes on some Zambians back maybe the only clothes they own. When one looks at their feet, they are often bare. </span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do we as Americans understand that the field mice they catch may be the only food they and their family have for the day?</span></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1fqaG1raq2ayfb28exKtDtOl-PdTww-MxlhCNhfCD7de6ctvGzBoJsMUZuzEcsmwIiFdMN8BPuvNfbCip_UbnziBPuLBorQpvhgaGa6x5VO6tEVbmBljAZQYRPv6Yaar1GLsemNX_7WE/s1600/P7120087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1fqaG1raq2ayfb28exKtDtOl-PdTww-MxlhCNhfCD7de6ctvGzBoJsMUZuzEcsmwIiFdMN8BPuvNfbCip_UbnziBPuLBorQpvhgaGa6x5VO6tEVbmBljAZQYRPv6Yaar1GLsemNX_7WE/s1600/P7120087.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copyright by Shelia Holmes</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do we really realize that a lot of the water they have to drink and cook with is the same water they bathe in, wash clothes, cook with, animals drink from, and they carry on their heads for miles to get it to their village?</span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8m-SiMacsD4ptCgBgaMZWbh9qgg98-s4C9T5H0UF0xBuzFmcDIU7LGCQCexRKavIAJQS2F1-sAe-FeYoTq2Wh6girVqchCMlvXhwFYjOfd-Os7PVkba0GJXkIUbr9H47LEbVjKZZNrkc/s1600/4476.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRR_x0IX0QpLBkAsvsWurlXkckTFxcu7nbeZAD9lqNy2XZI6TR-B5xebge3Ie4mFDjgXDErtgk3VxR_HMaplmTe_S0UwfS7lP4GX-hI-HHaDW-dZ1pUlKmhvTihsoQzw28QZKBnsNAio/s1600/Zambia+2012+947.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRR_x0IX0QpLBkAsvsWurlXkckTFxcu7nbeZAD9lqNy2XZI6TR-B5xebge3Ie4mFDjgXDErtgk3VxR_HMaplmTe_S0UwfS7lP4GX-hI-HHaDW-dZ1pUlKmhvTihsoQzw28QZKBnsNAio/s1600/Zambia+2012+947.JPG" height="400" width="265" /></a><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8m-SiMacsD4ptCgBgaMZWbh9qgg98-s4C9T5H0UF0xBuzFmcDIU7LGCQCexRKavIAJQS2F1-sAe-FeYoTq2Wh6girVqchCMlvXhwFYjOfd-Os7PVkba0GJXkIUbr9H47LEbVjKZZNrkc/s1600/4476.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></div><b><b><b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Americans just do not have a knowledge base to understand. </span></b> </b></b></b><br /><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first time I went to Zambia I was so overwhelmed by the extreme and widespread poverty. Seeing truly is believing. It has changed my perspective. And I thank God.</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to the birthing kits.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What good can a piece of plastic, a scalpel, two pieces of string, two pairs of rubber gloves, two anti-bacterial wipes, four gauze, soap, a baby blanket, a tiny baby cap, an HIV/AIDS pamphlet and an Intro lesson the WBS do?</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plastic can provide a clean place for the mother to lie on to birth her baby.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rubber gloves can keep germs off the baby and out of the mother. </span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wipes can clean the birthing site as well as hands.</span></b> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">The clean string can be used instead of dirty elephant grass or a dirty rag to tie the cord. </span> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The clean sterile scalpel can be used to cut the cord.</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sterile gauze can clean the baby's mouth, eyes, ears, etc.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The gauze can help stop some of the bleeding of the mother. The HIV/AIDS pamphlet can inform them and others about AIDS prevention and the Intro lesson to WBS may very well lead them, as well as others to Christ.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think about what happens when they do not have these things. They have a dirty birthing site, dirty hands wiping the eyes, mouth, and nose of the baby. They have dirty hands handling the cord and using dirty elephant grass to cut the cord. Possibly they will never learn about AIDS prevention. </span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How will they hear if no one teaches them? Remember the majority of the people in Zambia have no Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many women have to trek to hospital on foot or go by bike while heavily pregnant. Some women who live in more remote areas cannot even make it to a health facility in time. These women are frequently forced to give birth at home in unsterile conditions and with little assistance. </span></b> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zambia suffers from an excessively high maternal mortality rate of <u>591 deaths per 100,000</u> live births.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More than <u>50%</u> of Zambian women receive no postnatal care at all. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2014/02/18/children-commonwealth-zambia-babies</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why take the time to gather supplies and make the Birthing Kits? Maybe we will get to be a tiny part of some ones precious birth. God knows the unformed substance of these children and He knows the number of their days. Maybe we will be a tiny part of God’s work in Zambia. Maybe He wants us to have the privilege of helping one of these babies survive so it can grow up to serve him. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some may have heard the story of Wellington’s birth on the side of the road on the way to the clinic. His mother and grandmother birthed him, wrapped him and carried him on to the clinic. Look what God has done with Wellington. What if he had not survived? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am reminded that God does not need anything from us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verses 26-27 sums up why we take the time and trouble to put together a simple Birthing Kit and go to Zambia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, <u>if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;. </u> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The focus is not on what we are doing, the focus is on what God wants us to do. Mark 16:15</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God does not need us to do His work but He blesses us by allowing us to participate in His mighty work. Thanks you God.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For a free Bible study go to:<a href="http://www.bigcountry.worldbibleschool.org/" target="_blank">www.bigcountry.worldbibleschool.org</a></b></span></div><span id="goog_1523656850"></span><span id="goog_1523656851"></span> <br /><div class="separator" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div>sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-22521024647781158662014-09-07T15:38:00.001-06:002014-09-07T16:01:47.017-06:00Why Do We Do What We Do???????<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm 139:13-14 <span style="font-size: xx-small;">NASB</span></span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For You formed my inward parts;</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You wove me in my mother's womb.</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will give thanks to You,</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A group of ladies from Baker
Heights put Birthing Kits together to send to Zambia for the 2014 Medical
Mission. </span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some people ask, "Why
don't you put this and that in? Why? Why? </span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is hard to comprehend the poverty that the
majority of Zambian people live in. How do we as Americans comprehend what it must look like for 80% of Zambian people to live on $2.00 a day or less? A lot
of Zambians do not even have that $2.00. Their survival depends on what they
can garner from the earth.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For most Americans it is
impossible to understand that the clothes on some Zambians back maybe the
only clothes they own. When one looks at their feet, they are often bare. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do we as Americans
understand that the field mice they catch may be the only food they and their
family have for the day?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do we really realize that a lot of the water they have to drink and cook with is the same water they bathe in,
wash clothes, cook with, animals drink from, and they carry on their heads for
miles to get it to their village?</span></b><br />
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<b><b><b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most
Americans just do not have a knowledge base to understand. </span></b> </b></b></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first time I went to
Zambia I was so overwhelmed by the extreme and widespread poverty.
Seeing truly is believing. It has changed my perspective. And I thank God.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to the birthing kits.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What
good can a piece of plastic, a scalpel, two pieces of string, two pairs of
rubber gloves, two anti-bacterial wipes, four gauze, soap, a baby blanket,
a tiny baby cap, an HIV/AIDS pamphlet and an Intro lesson the WBS do?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plastic can provide a clean
place for the mother to lie on to birth her baby.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
rubber gloves can keep germs off the baby and out of the mother. </span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wipes can clean the
birthing site as well as hands.</span></b> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">The clean string can be used instead of dirty elephant grass
or a dirty rag to tie the cord. </span> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The clean sterile
scalpel can be used to cut the cord.</span></b></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sterile gauze can clean the
baby's mouth, eyes, ears, etc.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The gauze can help stop some of
the bleeding of the mother. The HIV/AIDS pamphlet can inform them and
others about AIDS prevention and the Intro lesson to WBS may very well lead
them, as well as others to Christ.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think about what happens when they
do not have these things. They have a dirty birthing site, dirty hands wiping
the eyes, mouth, and nose of the baby. They have dirty hands handling the
cord and using dirty elephant grass to cut the cord. Possibly they will never
learn about AIDS prevention. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How will they hear if no one teaches them? Remember the majority of the people in Zambia
have no Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many women have to trek to
hospital on foot or go by bike while heavily pregnant. Some women who live in more remote areas cannot
even make it to a health facility in time. These women are frequently forced to
give birth at home in unsterile conditions and with little assistance. </span></b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zambia suffers from an
excessively high maternal mortality rate of <u>591 deaths per 100,000</u> live births.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More
than <u>50%</u> of Zambian women receive no postnatal care at all. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2014/02/18/children-commonwealth-zambia-babies</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why
take the time to gather supplies and make the Birthing Kits? Maybe we will get to be a tiny part of some ones precious birth. God knows the unformed
substance of these children and He knows the number of their days. Maybe we will be a tiny part of God’s work in Zambia. Maybe He wants us to
have the privilege of helping one of these babies survive so it can grow up to
serve him. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some
may have heard the story of Wellington’s birth on the side of the road on the
way to the clinic. His mother and grandmother birthed him, wrapped him and
carried him on to the clinic. Look what God has done with Wellington. What if
he had not survived? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am
reminded that God does not need anything from us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Acts
17:24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of
heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He
served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to
all people life and breath and all things; <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verses
26-27 sums up why we take the time and trouble to put together a simple
Birthing Kit and go to Zambia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26 and He made from one man every nation of
mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed
times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, <u>if
perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each
one of us;. </u> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The focus is not on what we
are doing, the focus is on what God wants us to do. Mark 16:15</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And He said to them, “Go into all the world
and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 He who has believed and has been
baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Colossians
3:23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for
men,. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God
does not need us to do His work but He blesses us by allowing us to participate
in His mighty work. Thanks you God.</span></b></div>
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sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-55522423218213530292014-06-15T15:45:00.002-06:002017-01-28T09:57:00.607-06:00I Am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Psalm 139:13-18 NASB</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For You formed my inward parts;</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You wove me in my mother's womb.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I will give thanks to You,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wonderful are Your works,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And my soul knows it very well.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My frame was not hidden from You,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>When I was made in secret,<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh875k7NwBhcZmSX6vbl4EH6UKI3VdTdsMh29xeC61cERevgOfaceLu0BbxAjdnnlpWLi_Wz6t0ufws3TKRjxBeIumKJuIVFt8sico1GuWXDHbft4-SJ_GJ8tqyiVx-xQgHSkxdImC30eM/s1600/Zambia+2012+153+Lady+at+hills+view+and+her+baby+girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh875k7NwBhcZmSX6vbl4EH6UKI3VdTdsMh29xeC61cERevgOfaceLu0BbxAjdnnlpWLi_Wz6t0ufws3TKRjxBeIumKJuIVFt8sico1GuWXDHbft4-SJ_GJ8tqyiVx-xQgHSkxdImC30eM/s1600/Zambia+2012+153+Lady+at+hills+view+and+her+baby+girl.jpg" height="640" width="424" /></a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> And skillfully wrought in the</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>depths of the earth;</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And in Your book were all written </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The days that were ordained for me,</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>When as yet there was not one of them.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How precious also are Your</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>thoughts to me, O God!</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How vast is the sum of them!</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If I should count them, they would </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>outnumber the sand</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>When I awake, I am still with You.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We recently put Birthing Kits together to take to </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Zambia for Medical Missions. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Some Americans said, "why don't we put this and that in, </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>why don't we do this or that?" </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>They do not understand the poverty that </b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>the majority of Zambians live in, </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>$2.00 a day or less is what 80% of them live on. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Some do not even have that $2.00.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For most Americans it is impossible to understand the </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>extreme poverty that a </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">large percent </b><br /><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the people in the world live in. </b></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>They just do not have a knowledge base to understand. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The old saying, "seeing is believing" is so true.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The first time I went to Zambia I was so overwhelmed by the extreme, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">widespread poverty. When I came home, </b></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I could hardly bare to spend money on clothes or shoes. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I definitely had more than the clothes on my back </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and many pairs of shoes in my closet. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I was not walking around barefooted. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I still have a lot of trouble with that. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My closet has a lot less clothes than it used to. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>There are not near as many shoes as before. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I have more than I need.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Seeing truly is believing. It has change my perspective. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And I thank God.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Many Americans do not understand laying down </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>on the cold dirty ground to deliver a baby. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>They can not comprehend why we need to send </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>a few simple items in Birthing Kits.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What good can a piece of plastic, a scalpel, two pieces of string, two pairs of rubber gloves, two anti-bacterial wipes, four gauze, soap, a baby blanket, and a tiny baby cap do?</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> What good can those items possible do?</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The plastic can provide a clean place for </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>the mother to lay on to birth her baby.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The clean string can be used instead of dirty </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>elephant grass or dirty rag to tie the cord. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The clean sterile scalpel can be used to cut the cord.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The wipes can clean the birthing site as well as hands.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The sterile gauze can clean the baby's mouth, eyes, ears, etc.</b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The gauze can help stop some of the bleeding of the mother. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The rubber gloves can keep germs off the baby and out of the mother. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Think about what happens when they do not have these things. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dirty hands, dirty birthing site, dirty hands wiping the eyes, mouth, nose of the baby. </b></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dirty hands handling the cord and using elephant grass to cut the cord. On and on. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnNTXwLi_8bmrbM_WDvZkQycjUAO5foptSmlu20Hxz6oQj2T15atL6Fsa5ws57Y-qGZXVmiZTsxpIbQHmmxucsyrj3riUKiQyk_PQqm9G8JLKZVJYgxacNL_pDd3Op7qLa_uywyAZihs/s1600/girl+with+baby+and+water.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnNTXwLi_8bmrbM_WDvZkQycjUAO5foptSmlu20Hxz6oQj2T15atL6Fsa5ws57Y-qGZXVmiZTsxpIbQHmmxucsyrj3riUKiQyk_PQqm9G8JLKZVJYgxacNL_pDd3Op7qLa_uywyAZihs/s1600/girl+with+baby+and+water.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you Father that I was born in America.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>But most of all Father, Thank you that you have allowed me to travel to Zambia four times to have my perspectives changed.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you Father that you formed my inward parts;</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you that You gave me the Mother you did.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you that I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you Father for writing the days of my life in Your book.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>O, God how can I comprehend the depth of Your thoughts of me?</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you Father that You are still with me when I awake.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Father God, thank You for giving me another year to live and serve You.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>In Jesus Christ Most Holy and High Name I Pray.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Why take the time to gather supplies and make the Birthing Kits? Maybe, just maybe we will get to be apart of some ones precious birth. God has already known the unformed substance of these children and He knows the number of their days. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For A Free Online Bible Study Click Here:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.worldbibleschool.org/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>http://www.worldbibleschool.org/</b></span></a></div></div>sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-15949402588919587762014-06-15T15:45:00.001-06:002014-07-17T19:19:58.724-06:00I Am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Psalm 139:13-18 NASB</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For You formed my inward parts;</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You wove me in my mother's womb.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I will give thanks to You,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wonderful are Your works,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And my soul knows it very well.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My frame was not hidden from You,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>When I was made in secret,<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh875k7NwBhcZmSX6vbl4EH6UKI3VdTdsMh29xeC61cERevgOfaceLu0BbxAjdnnlpWLi_Wz6t0ufws3TKRjxBeIumKJuIVFt8sico1GuWXDHbft4-SJ_GJ8tqyiVx-xQgHSkxdImC30eM/s1600/Zambia+2012+153+Lady+at+hills+view+and+her+baby+girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh875k7NwBhcZmSX6vbl4EH6UKI3VdTdsMh29xeC61cERevgOfaceLu0BbxAjdnnlpWLi_Wz6t0ufws3TKRjxBeIumKJuIVFt8sico1GuWXDHbft4-SJ_GJ8tqyiVx-xQgHSkxdImC30eM/s1600/Zambia+2012+153+Lady+at+hills+view+and+her+baby+girl.jpg" height="640" width="424" /></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> And skillfully wrought in the</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>depths of the earth;</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And in Your book were all written </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The days that were ordained for me,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>When as yet there was not one of them.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How precious also are Your</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>thoughts to me, O God!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How vast is the sum of them!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If I should count them, they would </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>outnumber the sand</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>When I awake, I am still with You.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We recently put Birthing Kits together to take to </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Zambia for Medical Missions. </b></span></div>
<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Some Americans said, "why don't we put this and that in, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>why don't we do this or that?" </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>They do not understand the poverty that </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>the majority of Zambians live in, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>$2.00 a day or less is what 80% of them live on. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Some do not even have that $2.00.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For most Americans it is impossible to understand the </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>extreme poverty that a </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">large percent </b><br />
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the people in the world live in. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>They just do not have a knowledge base to understand. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The old saying, "seeing is believing" is so true.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The first time I went to Zambia I was so overwhelmed by the extreme, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">widespread poverty. When I came home, </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I could hardly bare to spend money on clothes or shoes. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I definitely had more than the clothes on my back </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and many pairs of shoes in my closet. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I was not walking around barefooted. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I still have a lot of trouble with that. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My closet has a lot less clothes than it used to. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>There are not near as many shoes as before. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I have more than I need.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Seeing truly is believing. It has change my perspective. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And I thank God.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Many Americans do not understand laying down </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>on the cold dirty ground to deliver a baby. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>They can not comprehend why we need to send </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What good can a piece of plastic, a scalpel, two pieces of string, two pairs of rubber gloves, two anti-bacterial wipes, four gauze, soap, a baby blanket, and a tiny baby cap do?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> What good can those items possible do?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The plastic can provide a clean place for </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>the mother to lay on to birth her baby.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The clean string can be used instead of dirty </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>elephant grass or dirty rag to tie the cord. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The clean sterile scalpel can be used to cut the cord.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The wipes can clean the birthing site as well as hands.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The sterile gauze can clean the baby's mouth, eyes, ears, etc.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The gauze can help stop some of the bleeding of the mother. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The rubber gloves can keep germs off the baby and out of the mother. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Think about what happens when they do not have these things. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dirty hands, dirty birthing site, dirty hands wiping the eyes, mouth, nose of the baby. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dirty hands handling the cord and using elephant grass to cut the cord. On and on. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>But most of all Father, Thank you that you have allowed me to travel to Zambia four times to have my perspectives changed.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you Father that you formed my inward parts;</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you that I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you Father for writing the days of my life in Your book.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>O, God how can I comprehend the depth of Your thoughts of me?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you Father that You are still with me when I awake.</b></span></div>
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sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-72798609748624916932014-06-12T19:32:00.001-06:002017-01-28T09:57:00.632-06:00Open our Eyes So We May See You O God.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Originally posted on 6-8-2010 and re-posted 3-23-2012 and re-posted 6-12-2014</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All content and Photos are copyrighted </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZ16sBdl38V6Pn7xdRKmWntfzMe9FvBso8Z5O6I086-5Nu7e7998z5nd5aKjJrXzkbKnpgDKyHP-R5GmkH-uiEU-YDEb5caAGBU1srs0SeX67Iep-ZMvskJcejSwIaNGik6i2UgsaT_Q/s1600/Man+at+Kavalamanja+Glasses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZ16sBdl38V6Pn7xdRKmWntfzMe9FvBso8Z5O6I086-5Nu7e7998z5nd5aKjJrXzkbKnpgDKyHP-R5GmkH-uiEU-YDEb5caAGBU1srs0SeX67Iep-ZMvskJcejSwIaNGik6i2UgsaT_Q/s1600/Man+at+Kavalamanja+Glasses.jpg" height="302" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2 Kings 6:16-17</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Open our eyes Lord that we may see the armies of horses </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and chariots of fire all around us, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just as they were all around Elisha.</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Open our eyes to s<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">atan</span> so that we may see his tricks.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Satan puts blinders on us in many different forms.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He blinds us with too much to do in the name of work,</b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> rest, relaxation and recreation. </b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We neglect You.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He blinds us with problems with our children, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">families and friends.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We fail to see Your might and power.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We fail to praise and honor You.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He blinds us with health issues and steals our energy </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so we run out steam.</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We do not think we can service You.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He blinds us to put him first on our list. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Then all of the things of the world will be ours .......</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We put You last on our list, or not at all.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Open our eyes Oh Lord, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that we may see that You will defeat s<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">atan </span></b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if we only stand firm and pray as Elisha did.</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Open our eyes Lord that we may see the armies of horses and </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">chariots of fire all around us...</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ephesians 6: 12-13</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>but against the rulers, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">against the powers, </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">against the world forces of this darkness, </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Therefore, take up the full armor of God, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and having done everything, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to stand 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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Open our eyes Lord that we may see the armies of horses </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and chariots of fire all around us, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just as they were all around Elisha.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Open our eyes to s<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">atan</span> so that we may see his tricks.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Satan puts blinders on us in many different forms.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He blinds us with too much to do in the name of work,</b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> rest, relaxation and recreation. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We neglect You.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He blinds us with problems with our children, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">families and friends.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We fail to see Your might and power.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We fail to praise and honor You.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He blinds us with health issues and steals our energy </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so we run out steam.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We do not think we can service You.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He blinds us to put him first on our list. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Then all of the things of the world will be ours .......</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>We put You last on our list, or not at all.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Open our eyes Oh Lord, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that we may see that You will defeat s<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">atan </span></b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if we only stand firm and pray as Elisha did.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Open our eyes Lord that we may see the armies of horses and </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">chariots of fire all around us...</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>but against the rulers, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">against the powers, </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">against the world forces of this darkness, </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Therefore, take up the full armor of God, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and having done everything, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to stand firm.</b></div>
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sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-78660687388360089312014-05-16T16:43:00.006-06:002017-01-28T09:57:00.654-06:00Out of Africa and Back Again.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnNTXwLi_8bmrbM_WDvZkQycjUAO5foptSmlu20Hxz6oQj2T15atL6Fsa5ws57Y-qGZXVmiZTsxpIbQHmmxucsyrj3riUKiQyk_PQqm9G8JLKZVJYgxacNL_pDd3Op7qLa_uywyAZihs/s1600/girl+with+baby+and+water.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnNTXwLi_8bmrbM_WDvZkQycjUAO5foptSmlu20Hxz6oQj2T15atL6Fsa5ws57Y-qGZXVmiZTsxpIbQHmmxucsyrj3riUKiQyk_PQqm9G8JLKZVJYgxacNL_pDd3Op7qLa_uywyAZihs/s1600/girl+with+baby+and+water.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I never get used to this sight of a young girl child with </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>a baby on her back and a water bucket on her head.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZhpcDp58dF2RZFIGDLUX730_OC03u8M_Ntcr_StwFCUxjn5wH9woiDUWIdDGvTsJRua9tczf5ooKa0q29ZcJ6AurAooDPXbFE5H_9x1vhcJQLhSDbLbIz4UOpnL9gfURU1VGfnwm9II/s1600/The+pews+in+the+church+building+at+Katete+Central+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZhpcDp58dF2RZFIGDLUX730_OC03u8M_Ntcr_StwFCUxjn5wH9woiDUWIdDGvTsJRua9tczf5ooKa0q29ZcJ6AurAooDPXbFE5H_9x1vhcJQLhSDbLbIz4UOpnL9gfURU1VGfnwm9II/s1600/The+pews+in+the+church+building+at+Katete+Central+2.jpg" height="640" width="428" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>One of the many buildings we have worshiped in.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyaqdKsrGUL0eBk4YEUL_TFaYtvCkwVgg-1ts14C-d_G8B5WtGLhAL9aioiYQm1YnJ_wyq5VrP1sKHqgSmdwwu4ulXrwc_noLDWAIn4kTg8veMSNhx-X-UNFYV3xJMCKqEZNiWFOJXGqY/s1600/Baptism+at+Musekaa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyaqdKsrGUL0eBk4YEUL_TFaYtvCkwVgg-1ts14C-d_G8B5WtGLhAL9aioiYQm1YnJ_wyq5VrP1sKHqgSmdwwu4ulXrwc_noLDWAIn4kTg8veMSNhx-X-UNFYV3xJMCKqEZNiWFOJXGqY/s1600/Baptism+at+Musekaa.jpg" height="435" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A Baptism (the main reason I go)</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My heart has been stubborn about being willing to go to Africa in the summer of 2014. </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trip has been planned for three years now but my heart has been hard and has said,"NO, I will not go in 2014." </b><br /><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One night as we laid down, </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked my husband if he had thought about going to Africa in 2014. I fully expected him to say no I do not want to go because I am getting my shoulder replaced. Instead he said, "I have thought about it." That really shocked me. </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He asked me if I had thought about going. I said, Yes I have thought about it and I do not want to go. You can go without me. He said, "I will not go without you." So, I said, "Does that mean I have to go?" </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One reason it shocked me so much is that when he went in 2003 he promised he would never go without me again. I knew that he had made that promise and that he would not break it. If he goes, that means I will go or he will stay home too.</b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When he went in 2003 I was as resistant as a spoiled brat child who wanted her way no matter what. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was asked to go with a group of men so there was no way one lone woman would fit in. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As plans were being made I dug my heels in deep. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pouted, cried, got mad, you name it I resisted with all my might. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like that spoiled child I said, "I have always wanted to go to Africa." </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On and On I went as the days and weeks ticked off to the dead line to buy tickets. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sunday before the deadline the lesson at worship was one that was undeniably from God to me. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also spoke to both of our hearts in a way that we could no longer ignore what had to be done. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did not say a word all the way home as our hearts burned like hot coals inside our chests. I almost chocked on my pride and selfishness.</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After we had changed from our "church" clothes into more comfortable clothes, he said to me, "Shelia, I cannot, not go." My heart burned in my throat. I felt so much shame as I admitted that I was standing in God's way. I choked the words out of my burning throat, "I know you have to go." This had been my thought on the way home as I tried to swallow my pride and selfishness. I was so ashamed of myself at the realization that I, by my childish behavior, had to admit that I was rebelling against God and not my husband.</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We both knew that I could not stand in God's way any longer. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We knew that he had to go and do whatever God wanted him to do. I knew that I had to do whatever God wanted me to do and accept what he wanted to teach me.</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not know why my heart has been stubborn against going to Zambia this summer. I cannot put a finger on the reason. I can only speculate. This has been a challenging year for us with our adult son who has dealt with a drug addiction for many, many years. This has been and still is a challenging time with my mother-in-law being sick and in and out of the hospital for the last two months. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On one hand I am so excited to be going back to Africa again, for the fifth time. On the other hand I am feeling a little stressed to think that the trip is so close to being reality. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I only asked to go one time. I know that if God is truly willing for us to go He will provide the way for my fifth trip to Zambia. Tickets are bought and plans are being made to go in a short time. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We shall see what the future holds. I am now willing and ready if God is. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We recently attended the funeral of a 90 year old lady who got into mission work when she was 65 years old. Her grandson read some of from one of her diaries she had kept about her mission work. He said Granny said, "You have to be willing to write a blank check and hand it to God. Let God fill in the amount. You have to be willing to do whatever God wants you to do." </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just write the blank check has become mine and my husbands motto. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have written a blank check to God about the trip to Zambia in 2104. We will soon know what He requires us to do. We just have to be willing to do it.</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Philippians 4:4-9</span></b><span class="bPara" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; font-size: 9pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">4 </span>Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.</span><span class="br" style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; font-size: 9pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">5 </span>Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;</span><span class="br" style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; font-size: 9pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">6 </span>do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.</span><span class="br" style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; font-size: 9pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">7 </span>And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.</span><span class="br" style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"> </span></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="bPara" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; font-size: 9pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">8 </span>Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.</span><span class="br" style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; font-size: 9pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">9 </span>What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.</span></b></span><br /><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="sTxt" style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; margin-bottom: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a class="sLink" href="http://esv.literalword.com/?q=Ephesians+2%3A10" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;">Ephesians 2:10</a> </b></span></div><div class="sTxt" style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; margin-bottom: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.</b></span></div></div><span class="bPara" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-53907678088613984572014-05-16T16:43:00.005-06:002014-09-07T13:45:03.618-06:00Out of Africa and Back Again.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My heart has been stubborn about being willing to go to Africa in the summer of 2014. </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trip has been planned for three years now but my heart has been hard and has said,"NO, I will not go in 2014." </b><br />
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One night as we laid down, </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked my husband if he had thought about going to Africa in 2014. I fully expected him to say no I do not want to go because I am getting my shoulder replaced. Instead he said, "I have thought about it." That really shocked me. </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He asked me if I had thought about going. I said, Yes I have thought about it and I do not want to go. You can go without me. He said, "I will not go without you." So, I said, "Does that mean I have to go?" </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One reason it shocked me so much is that when he went in 2003 he promised he would never go without me again. I knew that he had made that promise and that he would not break it. If he goes, that means I will go or he will stay home too.</b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When he went in 2003 I was as resistant as a spoiled brat child who wanted her way no matter what. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was asked to go with a group of men so there was no way one lone woman would fit in. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As plans were being made I dug my heels in deep. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pouted, cried, got mad, you name it I resisted with all my might. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like that spoiled child I said, "I have always wanted to go to Africa." </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On and On I went as the days and weeks ticked off to the dead line to buy tickets. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sunday before the deadline the lesson at worship was one that was undeniably from God to me. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also spoke to both of our hearts in a way that we could no longer ignore what had to be done. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did not say a word all the way home as our hearts burned like hot coals inside our chests. I almost chocked on my pride and selfishness.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After we had changed from our "church" clothes into more comfortable clothes, he said to me, "Shelia, I cannot, not go." My heart burned in my throat. I felt so much shame as I admitted that I was standing in God's way. I choked the words out of my burning throat, "I know you have to go." This had been my thought on the way home as I tried to swallow my pride and selfishness. I was so ashamed of myself at the realization that I, by my childish behavior, had to admit that I was rebelling against God and not my husband.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We both knew that I could not stand in God's way any longer. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We knew that he had to go and do whatever God wanted him to do. I knew that I had to do whatever God wanted me to do and accept what he wanted to teach me.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not know why my heart has been stubborn against going to Zambia this summer. I cannot put a finger on the reason. I can only speculate. This has been a challenging year for us with our adult son who has dealt with a drug addiction for many, many years. This has been and still is a challenging time with my mother-in-law being sick and in and out of the hospital for the last two months. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On one hand I am so excited to be going back to Africa again, for the fifth time. On the other hand I am feeling a little stressed to think that the trip is so close to being reality. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I only asked to go one time. I know that if God is truly willing for us to go He will provide the way for my fifth trip to Zambia. Tickets are bought and plans are being made to go in a short time. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We shall see what the future holds. I am now willing and ready if God is. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We recently attended the funeral of a 90 year old lady who got into mission work when she was 65 years old. Her grandson read some of from one of her diaries she had kept about her mission work. He said Granny said, "You have to be willing to write a blank check and hand it to God. Let God fill in the amount. You have to be willing to do whatever God wants you to do." </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just write the blank check has become mine and my husbands motto. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have written a blank check to God about the trip to Zambia in 2104. We will soon know what He requires us to do. We just have to be willing to do it.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="bPara" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; font-size: 9pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">8 </span>Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.</span><span class="br" style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="bV" style="display: inline; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="bVN" style="display: inline; font-size: 9pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">9 </span>What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.</span></b></span><br />
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You name it and they have shot it in their vain.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may never know which one has struggled for over 20 years with a terrible drug addiction.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may never know which ones in the picture have struggled with that person who has had a horrifying drug addiction. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The choice is one out of three. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Which one is the one? </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The woman in the middle? The man on the left? The man on the right?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They all look like fine upstanding citizens. They do not look like your common thief. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They do not look like someone who would lie about anything to get their next fix. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They do not look like some one who would stick a needle with a syringe full of cocaine in their arm, ankle, or wherever. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truth is, drug addiction comes in all colors.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truth is, drug addiction comes in all sexes.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truth is, drug addiction comes in all economic classes.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was once told, "You cannot always tell who is an addict."</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who can stop an addict from being an addict?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is a very good question.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can you?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can I?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am finding that I cannot stop the addict in the picture. So, there is a clue. I am not the addict. That leaves two in the picture who may or may not be an addict.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who can stop an addict?</span></b></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hate the word addict. How can a person be described as "he is an addict". What, how can that be? How can you say, "He is an addict." He is a man. He is <u>(insert name). </u> So how can you refer to him as addict as if that is all there is to him? </span></b></div>sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-88904662423885680092014-05-15T15:14:00.001-06:002014-05-15T15:18:09.963-06:00What Does Addiction Look Like???????????????<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you look at this picture of this "happy" family you may never suspect that one of the people in the picture has struggled a long term addiction. You name it and they have shot it in their vain.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may never know which one has struggled for over 20 years with a terrible drug addiction.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may never know which ones in the picture have struggled with that person who has had a horrifying drug addiction. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The choice is one out of three. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Which one is the one? </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The woman in the middle? The man on the left? The man on the right?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They all look like fine upstanding citizens. They do not look like your common thief. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They do not look like someone who would lie about anything to get their next fix. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They do not look like some one who would stick a needle with a syringe full of cocaine in their arm, ankle, or wherever. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truth is, drug addiction comes in all colors.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truth is, drug addiction comes in all sexes.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was once told, "You cannot always tell who is an addict."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is a very good question.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am finding that I cannot stop the addict in the picture. So, there is a clue. I am not the addict. That leaves two in the picture who may or may not be an addict.</span></b></div>
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Yes, you heard right. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>After his Dad finished his education they moved back to Zambia. His Dad was a Head Master at a High School. Sounds like a high paying job. Not by the U.S.A. standards but by the Zambian standards it was a good job. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Shortly after the Mwanza's returned home to the Southern Province of Zambia a group of four men from our congregation traveled to Zambia on a fact finding trip. My husband asked Mr Mwanza why he did not stay in the United States. He said to him, "With the degrees you have, you could make a lot of money in the U.S." Mr Mwanza said,"I never intended to stay in the U.S. I only came to get my degrees. The dream that Mrs. Mwanza and I have had for a long time it to go to the Eastern Province of Zambia to evangelize it. There is a great need to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Eastern Province and that is what we plan to do."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since the Mwanza's returned to Zambia a preacher training College- The Chipata Bible College-has been built in the Eastern Province of Zambia. There have been six Mission trips to the Eastern Province of Zambia. There are 10 full time paid preachers in the Eastern Province. There are many who have graduated from the Chipata Bible College and have gone out on their own and planted churches and preach with or without pay.</b></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Goodwin has grown in to a fine Christian young man. He is 17 years old now. He teaches the children's Bible class at the Hills View Church that meets at the Bible College. He is the top student in his class at school. He scored in the very top on the National Test that Zambia gives all students. He wants to get an Engineering Degree from college. There is only one problem he needs surgery on one of his eyes. He has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus" target="_blank">Keratoconus</a> and he needs immediate surgery to correct it before he goes blind. You may go to this link to read more about how to help. However: Please do pray and thank you so very much. <a href="http://fellowshiproom.org/2014/02/23/eyesight-goodwin/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">http://fellowshiproom.org/2014/02/23/</a><a href="http://fellowshiproom.org/2014/02/23/eyesight-goodwin/" target="_blank">eyesight-goodwin/</a></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For a free Bible Study: www.bigcountry.worldbibleschool.org </b></span></div>sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-50092720121876496922014-02-23T16:34:00.002-06:002014-02-23T16:45:36.816-06:00Appeal: To Save the Eyesight<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My husband and I have known Goodwin Mwanza since he was an infant. </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While Goodwin's family was in our town they worshiped and worked with our congregation <a href="http://bakerheights.org/">bakerheights.org</a>. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>His family lived in our town for three years while his Dad worked three jobs and got three college degrees. Yes, you heard right. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>After his Dad finished his education they moved back to Zambia. His Dad was a Head Master at a High School. Sounds like a high paying job. Not by the U.S.A. standards but by the Zambian standards it was a good job. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Shortly after the Mwanza's returned home to the Southern Province of Zambia a group of four men from our congregation traveled to Zambia on a fact finding trip. My husband asked Mr Mwanza why he did not stay in the United States. He said to him, "With the degrees you have, you could make a lot of money in the U.S." Mr Mwanza said,"I never intended to stay in the U.S. I only came to get my degrees. The dream that Mrs. Mwanza and I have had for a long time it to go to the Eastern Province of Zambia to evangelize it. There is a great need to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Eastern Province and that is what we plan to do."</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since the Mwanza's returned to Zambia a preacher training College- The Chipata Bible College-has been built in the Eastern Province of Zambia. There have been six Mission trips to the Eastern Province of Zambia. There are 10 full time paid preachers in the Eastern Province. There are many who have graduated from the Chipata Bible College and have gone out on their own and planted churches and preach with or without pay.</b></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Goodwin has grown in to a fine Christian young man. He is 17 years old now. He teaches the children's Bible class at the Hills View Church that meets at the Bible College. He is the top student in his class at school. He scored in the very top on the National Test that Zambia gives all students. He wants to get an Engineering Degree from college. There is only one problem he needs surgery on one of his eyes. He has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus" target="_blank">Keratoconus</a> and he needs immediate surgery to correct it before he goes blind. You may go to this link to read more about how to help. However: Please do pray and thank you so very much. <a href="http://fellowshiproom.org/2014/02/23/eyesight-goodwin/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">http://fellowshiproom.org/2014/02/23/</a><a href="http://fellowshiproom.org/2014/02/23/eyesight-goodwin/" target="_blank">eyesight-goodwin/</a></b></span><br />
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sheliaszambiajournalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03873545940220870837noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019735094967958081.post-30756405431542989442014-01-08T14:42:00.002-06:002017-01-28T09:57:00.739-06:00Create in Me a Clean Heart Oh God. Psalm 51:10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nHHgAOYHqeV5J33HUEw6g_CFGFCagdqCflLKJn7cvc6uRkb5L6Iblw-7WtbCQ3b0hxo60NMcudaoal1KRJGyefLmacwje8Eol9tTA8XI6RTo_U_McCwBY7eU-aPmcd85QrQL3VcroWI/s1600/banner+tutorial+and+proctor+trip+113.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nHHgAOYHqeV5J33HUEw6g_CFGFCagdqCflLKJn7cvc6uRkb5L6Iblw-7WtbCQ3b0hxo60NMcudaoal1KRJGyefLmacwje8Eol9tTA8XI6RTo_U_McCwBY7eU-aPmcd85QrQL3VcroWI/s640/banner+tutorial+and+proctor+trip+113.JPG" height="424" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I chose Mark 12:30 as my bible verse for 2014 </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to learn to serve God </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>with all my heart, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>with all my soul, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>with all my mind and </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>with all my strength. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I also chose this scripture because </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I like that it says with all my strength.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matthew 22:36-40 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">says;</span></b></span></div><div class="passage version-ESV result-text-style-normal text-html " style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="text Matt-22-36" id="en-ESV-23906"><span class="versenum" style="vertical-align: top;"> </span>“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”</span> </b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-37" id="en-ESV-23907"><b><span class="versenum" style="vertical-align: top;"> </span>And He said to him, </b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-37"><span class="woj"><b>“You shall love the Lord your God </b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-37"><span class="woj"><b>with all your heart </b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-37"><span class="woj"><b>and with all your soul </b></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="text Matt-22-37"><span class="woj">and with all your mind.</span></span> </b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-22-38" id="en-ESV-23908"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This is the <u><i>great and first </i></u>commandment. </b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-22-38"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If the greatest commandment </b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Matt-22-38"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is to love the Lord my God with all my heart,</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> soul </span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and mind, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have to study God's Word to</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-22-38"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> learn what this truly means.</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="text Matt-22-38"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I need a clean heart to accept God's Word.</b></span></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Psalm 51:10</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Create in me a clean heart, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>O God, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And renew a steadfast spirit within me. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ezekiel 36:26</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And I will give you a new heart, </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and a new spirit I will put within you. </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and give you a heart of flesh.</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>God is the one who can create a new heart in me. </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He will remove my heart of stone </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and give me a living heart of flesh.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm 139:23</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Search me, O God, and know my heart!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Try me and know my thoughts!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romans 8:27</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And He who searches hearts knows </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Prov-3-5" style="position: relative;">In all your ways acknowledge Him,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and he will make straight your paths.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James 4:7-8</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Submit yourselves therefore to God.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span class="text Jas-4-7" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleanse your hands, you sinners, </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and purify your hearts, you double-minded.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm 119:11</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have stored up your word in my heart</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that I might not sin against you.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Colossians 3:16</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom</span>,</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b> with thankfulness in your hearts to God.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Hebrews 4:12</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> For the word of God is living and active, </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> sharper than any two-edged sword, </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> of joints and of marrow, </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> and discerning the thoughts and </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> intentions of the heart.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God is the only one who can give me a clean heart. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> He is the only one who can remove my old heart of stone.</span></b></div><div class="heading passage-class-0" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father keep my heart from any evil </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">so that I will live with You forever.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father, create in me a clean heart </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">and make me like You in all my ways.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father, I pray that I will love You and </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">You only with all my heart, </span></b><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">and all my mind,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">and all my soul.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father I do not want to love any other God but You.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father, please make Your living word dwell in my heart, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">my mind and my soul all the days of my life. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father, I please remove any unworthy thoughts </span></b><br /><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">from my heart, soul and mind.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="text Ps-139-23" id="en-ESV-16263" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Search me, O God, and know my heart!</span><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-139-23" style="position: relative;">Try me and know my thoughts!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-139-23" style="position: relative;">Thank You for creating a clean heart in me God.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Thank you God for searching my heart and</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"> knowing my ways and thoughts. </b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Thank you for revealing Your will to me </b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">through </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Your Holy and inspired word. </b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">In Jesus Most Holy Name I pray, Amen.</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">If you want to learn how to serve God </b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">with all your heart just </b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">click on this link for a Free Bible Study.</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; 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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I chose Mark 12:30 as my bible verse for 2014 </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to learn to serve God </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>with all my heart, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>with all my soul, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>with all my mind and </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>with all my strength. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I also chose this scripture because </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I like that it says with all my strength.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matthew 22:36-40 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">says;</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="text Matt-22-36" id="en-ESV-23906"><span class="versenum" style="vertical-align: top;"> </span>“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”</span> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-37"><span class="woj"><b>“You shall love the Lord your God </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="text Matt-22-37"><span class="woj">and with all your mind.</span></span> </b></span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-22-38" id="en-ESV-23908"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This is the <u><i>great and first </i></u>commandment. </b></span></span></div>
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<b><span class="text Matt-22-38"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is to love the Lord my God with all my heart,</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> soul </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and mind, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have to study God's Word to</span></b></div>
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<span class="text Matt-22-38"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> learn what this truly means.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-22-38"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I need a clean heart to accept God's Word.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Psalm 51:10</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Create in me a clean heart, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>O God, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And renew a steadfast spirit within me. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ezekiel 36:26</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And I will give you a new heart, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and a new spirit I will put within you. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and give you a heart of flesh.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>God is the one who can create a new heart in me. </b></span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He will remove my heart of stone </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and give me a living heart of flesh.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Search me, O God, and know my heart!</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Try me and know my thoughts!</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romans 8:27</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And He who searches hearts knows </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what is the mind of the Spirit, </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>because the Spirit i</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>ntercedes </b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Proverbs 4:23</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep your heart with all vigilance,</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for from it flow the springs of life.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matthew 5:8</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Blessed are the pure in heart, </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for they shall see God.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Proverbs 3:5-6</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trust in the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> with all your heart </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Prov-3-5" style="position: relative;">and do not lean on your own understanding.</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Prov-3-5" style="position: relative;">In all your ways acknowledge Him,</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and he will make straight your paths.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James 4:7-8</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Submit yourselves therefore to God.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span class="text Jas-4-7" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleanse your hands, you sinners, </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and purify your hearts, you double-minded.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm 119:11</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have stored up your word in my heart</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that I might not sin against you.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Colossians 3:16</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom</span>,</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b> with thankfulness in your hearts to God.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Hebrews 4:12</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> For the word of God is living and active, </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> sharper than any two-edged sword, </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> of joints and of marrow, </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> and discerning the thoughts and </b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> intentions of the heart.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God is the only one who can give me a clean heart. </span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> He is the only one who can remove my old heart of stone.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father keep my heart from any evil </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">so that I will live with You forever.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father, create in me a clean heart </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">and make me like You in all my ways.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father, I pray that I will love You and </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">You only with all my heart, </span></b><b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">and all my mind,</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">and all my soul.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father I do not want to love any other God but You.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father, please make Your living word dwell in my heart, </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">my mind and my soul all the days of my life. </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Father, I please remove any unworthy thoughts </span></b><br />
<b><span class="text Prov-4-23" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">from my heart, soul and mind.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="text Ps-139-23" id="en-ESV-16263" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;">Search me, O God, and know my heart!</span><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-139-23" style="position: relative;">Try me and know my thoughts!</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-139-23" style="position: relative;">Thank You for creating a clean heart in me God.</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Thank you God for searching my heart and</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"> knowing my ways and thoughts. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Thank you for revealing Your will to me </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">through </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Your Holy and inspired word. </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">In Jesus Most Holy Name I pray, Amen.</b></div>
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