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Job 27:7

"Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous."

One of the most difficult situations to deal with in life is personal attacks. I have found that when others do wrong they will go to any measure, including personal attacks, to get what they want. I watched a political operative during an election cycle say that anything is on the table as long as they won. When you're an honest person, it is hard to understand why people will lower themselves to the lowest degree in their personal attacks.

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Job 14:7

"For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease."

My wife has a pretty decent green thumb. She takes care of the flowerbed at our house because if it was up to me the flowers would probably all die. At the end of every fall, I watch her cut back some of the plants in the flowerbed. To be honest with you, every year I think she is going to kill them because she cuts them back so much. Yet, it always amazes me how the next year when springtime comes those flowers that are cut back begin to grow and blossom into pretty flowers. If she had not cut them back, they would not give those pretty blossoms.

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Esther 4:13

"Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews."

Having a false sense of security only hurts one person: you! Esther had false hopes that the problems in her country would not affect her because she was the queen who lived in the palace. Mordecai reminded her that just because she lived in the palace didn't mean that she would get away with her life. Mordecai understood that eventually it would get out that she was a Jew, and that Haman would do all he could to have her killed as well.

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The 02/15/15 FBC Hammond bulletin is now up at Baptist City!

A prince was put under a spell so that he could speak only one word each year. If he didn't speak for two years, the following year he could speak two words and so on.

One day, he fell in love with a beautiful lady. He refrained from speaking for two whole years so he could call her "my darling." But then he wanted to tell her he loved her, so he waited three more years. At the end of these five years, he wanted to ask her to marry him, so he waited another four years. Finally, as the ninth year of silence ended, he led the lady to the most romantic place in the kingdom and said, "My darling, I love you! Will you marry me?"

And the lady said, "Pardon?"

From Kim Komando

Ezra 5:10

"We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them."

Oftentimes when I am riding up an elevator to my hotel room, I see a certification letter inside the elevator that certifies that the elevator meets the codes required by that state for public elevators. That certification letter is not only to put the customer at ease, but it is to also validate that the business is following the guidelines established by that state. Certainly an elevator can work without the certification letter, but the certification letter validates the workings of the elevator.

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2 Chronicles 34:3

"For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images."

Josiah was one of the youngest kings to rule Israel. In the verse above, he was only sixteen years of age when he began to make major changes in the country. These changes that he made were nothing more than establishing early patterns by which he would rule the kingdom and live his life.

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