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(07/25/2001) how to live happily


Hello prayer warriors, Note: prayer warriors, I have just moved our list to topica. There might be some temporary problems for now. I've separated our lists into 2 lists because of the 500 limit for emails per list unless I get approval. It's a long story. But, we'll try this out for now. Let's hope that this works because yahoo has been giving me a lot of problems lately. 1. Prayer note: how to live happily [Philippians 4:8,9] Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. Happiness, many times, is a state of mind. The Word of God here says "THINK on these things". It is a choice. It is a choice of how we look at things and whether we decide to dwell on the positive or dwell on the negative. It is a choice whether we want to dwell in "peace" or dwell in "turmoil". Many times we are not happy because we choose to postpone happiness. We choose to postpone happiness because we don't want to live in today but we want to live in yesterday or tomorrow. You can decide to live in the past with guilt and regrets. You can't change history but you can definitely continue to live in it. Or, you can decide to live in the future, with lots of "what-if"s hanging around your head. You can be worrying about your future and you can let your fear get the better of you today. Or, you can decide to live today. Your today is an accumulation of the choices that you made in your yesterdays. And your tomorrow, is an accumulation of what you do in your "todays". Unfortunately, you can only live one day at a time and that day is "today". If we can't learn to be happy today, we will never be happy. The past is over and the future is not yet. Having said that I believe in living my future in my today. What does that mean? We need to have a vision of our tomorrows. And everyday, if we make the right choices to be happy and to live our lives abundantly, we are making a step to making our vision for tomorrow a reality. Our vision can guide us but it can only guide us one day at a time. With a vision in our hearts (not just in our mind), we will not live our lives without restraint and we will not waste our lives away. [Proverbs 29:18] KJV Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18] NIV Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; We only have a small cup of energy. Our energy should be focussed and not without restrain. And everyday, when we focus our energies into sowing into our lives, we will be enjoying the harvest "tomorrow" from the accumulation of the choices we make today. Don't wait to be happy and don't wait to do the right things. Learn to be content and to trust in God's ability to see us through because everyday, when we sow instead of wallow, we are moving closer to maintaining the chaos in our lives and closer to seeing God's vision in our lives fulfilled. Everyday, we have to make the right choices to think positively, to steer clear of negative energy-sapping thoughts and emotions and to live today with gratitude and with hope. You have a choice to stop living in your past, stop worrying about your future and start living today. 2. New prayer requests: i. pray for me -- tibbir76 http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1911&table=prayer ii. Pray for my daughter -- bernadean http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1912&table=prayer iii. Spiritual guidance -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1913&table=prayer iv. Please pray that I will forgive myself -- littleone http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1915&table=prayer v. Daughter -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1916&table=prayer vi. For my child -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1917&table=prayer vii. need prayers -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1918&table=prayer 3. Prayer update: i. Continue to pray for my mother (donna) -- debra 4. Number of prayer warriors: 889 We welcome f652, eastern woodland, lholm7, conrack50, jbenoit, julie angel, theresdv, bearycute, mandie, tommycks, cejwt, sculder and pastorkeno into our prayer group. One has unsubscribed & 4 emails have become invalid. Note: Please vote for the site each time you receive a prayer email. Our listing in Cross Daily has dropped to #12 and we are losing referrals because of our position and reduced visibility. To vote click here: http://mydevotion.com/mailvote.asp in Christ, Wai Hun
Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:42:14 PM waihun

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