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Let the world worry about the Bird Flu... steadfast and sure.
Psalm 91:7 “A thousand may fall at your • Because God is my Strength, no matter
side and ten thousand at your right hand, what happens, I’ll consistently praise Him.
but it shall not come near you.” • Because He is my Source, I’ll consistently
Let the world waste its days worrying live in peace.
about what cannot be changed... • Because He is my Refuge, I’ll be filled with
As for me and my house I choose the joy.
words of King David in Psalm 16:8, “I have And when the world sees my joy - the world
set the Lord always before me; because He who is running this way and that way - will
is at my right hand I shall not be moved.” want to know the Source of my
David is saying that God is his Source of consistency.
strength and because this Source is so If you want every day to be the best day of
powerful, it does not matter what the world your life... Consistency is the Key!
does, the Hand of God will hold him www.jhm.org

“Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be
established” (Proverbs 16:3).
“Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans
12:1).
The mind has been likened to a room where visitors are
entertained. All visitors to one’s threefold being come first
into the mind. Thoughts are the most common visitors. They
enter the mind, take root, and then possess the whole man.
When a thought knocks at the door of your mind and is
admitted and entertained, it produces a variety of reactions.
FEAR dashes into the mind and captures us and holds us
prisoner.
PASSION enters the mind. It is entertained for a while, but
later possesses the whole being and leads to sin and shame.
ANXIETY and NERVOUSNESS appear, drive off rest and
keep us sleepless all night.
DOUBT - full of death as hell itself - let in and consulted with
blows out every light and fills the room with darkness.
TROUBLE - many-faced, many-sided, big and Thank God there is a way of
squatty - will fill the mind, stay all day, and return in deliverance from these tormen-
the morning by the time you open your eyes. ting thoughts. The way is through
CARES - weighing a thousand kilograms each - the precious blood of the Lamb of
come to unload in the room. God once slain. The spotless
The old SELF, under God’s judgment and refusing Lamb of God has shed His most
to die, wants to stay around all the time. It has a precious blood for you, to cleanse
ready sword of protection and pitying attendants on and cover and keep you, not only
hand if it is hit, wounded, slighted, or knocked from sin and sickness, but also in
down. SELF wants the best chair in the mind and the mind, from torment and distrac-
most attention: notwithstanding the fact that it is tions as well! [From: “Daybreak”]
the most unwholesome visitor. SELF is under God’s
everlasting curse; yet it continues to lurk around,
lavishing selfish thoughts.