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“Watch Your Attitude Because the World is Watching You!”

“In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). It’s easy to be thankful when things are going well. For sure it is right to give thanks on those happy days when the bills are paid, the family is well, the car starts, and everyone is kind to you. It is in times when life is hard and the trials are deep that people will take note of how you react. You might not be thankful for the situation. However! You can be thankful in the situation.

You can be thankful for the promises of God.
You can be thankful for the provision of God.
You can be thankful for the power of God.
You can be thankful for the protection of God.
You can be thankful for the people of God.
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“You’d Make a Great Pediatrician!”

She was so frustrated with her very impatient husband. That morning he was grumbling about the coffeemaker taking so long. He was frustrated the clerk at the grocery store was taking such a long time. On the way home, he was annoyed by hitting the third traffic light red and having to wait. Finally his wife quietly said, “Honey, you would have made a great pediatrician. You have very little ‘patients’!”  James 1:4 reminds us “But let patience have her perfect work…”

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“We All Appreciate Your Patience”

When patience is the most difficult, it the most appreciated by everyone around us! Anyone can appear to be patient when things are going well. It is in those moments when life is hard that patience is best demonstrated. “Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD” (Psalm 27:14). www.michaelpeck.org

“My Fretting Keeps Me Busy!”

Someone has likened our times of fretting and worrying to the movement of a rocking chair. It takes effort. It keeps me busy. It takes me nowhere! “And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ” (2 Thessalonians 3:5). Patience! May my love for the Lord and my patient waiting for Christ be a blessing to those around me.
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Today is a gift from God. Throughout the day He will give a number of His gifts to you, and you will be especially blessed if you don’t get so busy that you miss them. Be watching for His blessed gifts that will come down from Him.”