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                    PRAYED INTO THE KINGDOM
Chuck Sackett did not grow up in a Christian home.  But he joined the Boy Scouts and wanted to complete the “God and Country” merit badge.  So he walked a few blocks to a small church for several weeks.  He filled out his papers, and did what he had to do get that badge. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Ronnie  Brown on Jun 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The word impenitent means without repentance, without remorse. In one of my favorite movies, Indiana Jones is looking for the Holy Grail. He has certain clues that will take him through the deadly traps that lay ahead. The first clue is this: “The Breath of God. Only the penitent man will pass.”
                    
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                    THE UNCASHED CHECK
     If someone bought your house, and wrote you a check for say $10 000, you would have the deposit.  You could take that check, put it in your wallet, and carry it around for the next 20 years.  You would have the deposit.  But that would be silly!  You would technically have
                    
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                    FILLED UP ANEW 
Imagine a sponge that has been used to wash the dishes. It’s all full of dirt and food and old water. It needs to be filled with clean water! But how can you do that? Easy. You wring it out, rinse it off, and wring it out again. Only when you have done this can you fill it with
                    
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                    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on May 8, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ✎ When was the last time you fed a baby oatmeal?  Peaches or applesauce?  How about my all time favorite green beans or peas?  Regardless of what you may be serving when your baby does not want to eat his or her entire body gets engaged in the struggle.  The jaws become cast iron letting
                    
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                    FINDING REAL POWER
Someone has wisely said what it takes to find freedom in the power of the Holy Spirit. 
"It costs much to obtain the power of the Spirit. It costs self-surrender and humiliation and the yielding up of the most precious things to God. It costs the perseverance of long waiting
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Aug 31, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Is the reader a true believer? If so, has he found any improvement in his old nature? Is it a single whit better now than it was when he first started on his Christian course? He may, and should through grace, be able to subdue it more thoroughly; but it is nothing better. If it be not mortified,
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 21, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “The way to approach this, it seems to me, is to remind ourselves that the Holy Spirit is a Person.  The Holy Spirit is not just an influence.  So many seem to talk about being filled with the Spirit as if the Holy Spirit were some kind of liquid.  They talk about having an ‘empty vessel’, an empty
                    
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                    Contributed by David Schaal on May 20, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Perhaps an analogy will best clarify this. As Christians we may be compared with a reservoir for producing electrical power, like one of those you see when you drive down the canyon. When we accept Christ, construction of our reservoir is complete. We now have the potential to be useful and to
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Wafford on Apr 13, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	D. L. Moody said, “I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God’s law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. 
 	But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Wafford on Apr 13, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A.B. Simpson says in his book "A Larger than Christian life" and I quote: “It is all connected with a living person. We are not filled with an influence; we are not filled with a sensation; we are not filled with a set of ideas and truths; we are not filled with a blessing, but we are filled with a
                    
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