Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Dec 27, 2022
                
                
                
                    SUCCESS
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13
What is success? “The accomplishment of an aim or purpose.”
Success Quotes:
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. - William Lyon Phelps
If at first you don't succeed, remove
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 5, 2025
                
                
                
                    [185].  POEM MESSAGE – MOUTHS THAT SHAM REJOICING
When I was young we generally could trust what people said to us.  There was a great deal of honesty back then (1950s) but that has evaporated.  People tell us barefaced lies and that is now the way of the world.  That makes the Christian life
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 26, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Shohoiya Yokowai spent 28 years of his life in prison.  It was not a prison of bars & locks & wardens, but a self-imposed prison of fear.  He was a Japanese soldier on the island of Guam during WW2.  And when the American forces landed, he fled into the jungle & found a cave in which he hid for 28
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Apr 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Last year there was an article in “World” magazine about the Promise Keepers rally in Washington, D.C.  Here is a sentence from that article.  "If Promise Keepers hasn’t done anything else right in its brief 7-year history, it will still get enormous credit for this:  The more Promise Keepers has
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric Snyder on Oct 22, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Juan Carlos was a famous pirate. He was notorious for his thievery, and it was rumored that he had a very large amount of plunder buried.  
One day he was in Mexico and a man came up to him, pushed him to the ground and said “Juan Carlos tell me where all your money is buried or I will shoot you
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Yount on Oct 28, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Stanford Research Institute was studying the differences in vocational perceptions.  They
devised a short but succinct test.  The first to be tested was an engineer.  The researchers asked him: “
What does two plus two make?”  The engineer simply said, “In absolute terms:  four.”  After making
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Dec 2, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I’d like to read you a list of phobias that are out there today.  These are all very real, even if they might seem outlandish to someone who doesn’t have them:
Peladophobia: fear of baldness and bald people (by the way, if any of you here have that fear, we will have a healing service for you
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Barron on Jan 19, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    False Standard of Measurement  
A little boy came running to his mother, shouting, “Mother, I am nine feet tall.”  
His mother responded, “Don’t talk such nonsense.”  
“But,” he said, “I really am nine feet tall.  I measured myself.”  
“Well, how did you measure yourself?” asked his mother.  
“I
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Michael Green sums it up.  “How much we need the Holy Spirit in our church life!  Had it struck you that if the New Testament is right in the marrying up of the Holy Spirit with witness bearing, this might shed a flood light on the poverty of spiritual experience in many a church and many a
                    
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                    Contributed by Martin Wiles on Apr 30, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    INTO THE DAY
I got up early one morning
And rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish
I didn’t have time to pray.
Troubles just tumbled about me
And heavier came each task.
Why doesn’t God help me, I wondered,
He answered, "You didn’t ask."
I tried to come into God’s presence,
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                    Contributed by Ryan Johnson on Aug 26, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is a story is a guy  taking a class in  ornithology, the study of birds. 
The teacher has a reputation for being extremely difficult, so this guy  studies his brains out for the final.
He comes the classroom  feeling prepared, but instead of having normal test, there are 25 pictures on the
                    
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                    Contributed by John Beehler on Sep 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    This preacher got on the bus to go downtown. After sitting down, he noticed that the driver had given him a quarter too much in change. He wondered what he should do. After all, it’s only a quarter, he figured. By the time he reached his stop, he knew what he had to do. Telling the driver he had
                    
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                    Harold Sherman, wrote a book How to Turn Failure Into Success. In it he gives a “Code of Persistence”
a.	I will never give up so long as I know I am right.
b.	I will believe that all things will work out for me if I hang on until the end.
c.	I will be courageous and undismayed in the face of
                    
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