SOME ENCOURAGING THOUGHTS

Here's another e-mail I'd like to share. Hope it blesses you as much as it did me.

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The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember:

• Noah was a drunk
• Abraham was too old
• Isaac was a daydreamer
• Jacob was a liar
• Leah was ugly
• Joseph was abused
• Moses had a stuttering problem
• Gideon was afraid
• Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
• Rahab was a prostitute
• Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
• David had an affair and was a murderer
• Elijah was suicidal
• Isaiah preached naked
• Jonah ran from God
• Naomi was a widow
• Job went bankrupt
• Peter denied Christ (3 times)
• The Disciples fell asleep while praying
• Martha worried about everything
• Mary Magdalene was promiscuous
• The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
• Zaccheus was too short
• Paul was too religious
• Timothy had an ulcer
• AND, Lazarus was dead!

Now, no more excuses! God can use you to your full potential. Besides, you aren't the message. You are just the messenger.

And one more thing:

• God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts.
• When you have a problem, God has the solution.
• Growing old is inevitable, growing UP is optional.
• There is no key to happiness; the door is always open.
• Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
• Do some math--count your blessings.
• Faith is the ability to not panic.
• Laugh every day; it's like inner jogging.
• If you worry, you didn't pray; if you pray, don't worry.
• As a child of God , prayer is kind of like calling home every day.
• Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
• The most important things in your house are the people.
• When you get tangled up in your problems, be still so God can untangle the knot.
• A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
• Carrying a grudge is allowing someone to live rent free in your mind.
• He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

Have a great day!!! The SON is shining and He can certainly use you!