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Only clean living keeps you alive now and forever.

Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: Only clean living keeps you alive now and forever. My NOTES: “One person dies every 36 seconds of heart disease.“ CDC “Health is the freedom of not having to think about it.” Dr. Perlmutter documentary “It doesn’t matter where your feet were yesterday or where they are going to be tomorrow. It …

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Listen for God in the fire. He turns disaster into discipline.

Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: Listen for God in the fire. He turns disaster into discipline. My NOTES: “The ear cannot hear what the Spirit whispers.” (Tozer on the Holy Spirit) “The LORD spoke to you out of the fire.” (Perhaps we listen most when we are in the fire) Deuteronomy 4:10 (He) “brought you out of …

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Keep God on your team! Our best work comes out of working alongside our strongest teammate.

Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: Keep God on your team! Our best work comes out of working alongside our strongest teammate. My NOTES: Who will you look to for help if not someone stronger than yourself? C. S. Lewis Success is a team effort, one plants, one waters. “For we are co-workers in God’s service.” 1 Corinthians …

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Withering is natural, but doing it without Jesus is dreadful.

Share God With Us Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: Withering is natural, but doing it without Jesus is dreadful. My NOTES: “No sooner are they sown…they take root…then he blows on them and they wither…” Isaiah 40:24 “…everyone is but a breath,… in vain they rush about…” Psalm 39:4 “But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, when …

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When we degrade others with deceitful words, we disgrace ourselves in front of God.

Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: When we degrade others with deceitful words, we disgrace ourselves in front of God. My NOTES: Sometimes I read the Psalms backwards and the message is stronger. In Psalm 52 David is wrestling with betrayal and deceit from another: “Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: …” Psalm 52:5 “You …

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It’s God’s Spirit within our spirit that sustains us.

Quiet Time Takeaway: It’s God’s Spirit within our spirit that sustains us. My NOTES: “May I long for nothing but to know Jesus as King, Brother, Friend.” Valley of Vision paraphrase “Where the unbelief of God is most vehemently expressed, His presence is most profoundly revealed.” Henry Nouwen “Where darkness is the deepest, light shines …

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God’s Spirit helps us through music as praise. It can be our prayer and praise.

Share God With Us Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: God’s Spirit helps us through music as praise. It can be our prayer and praise. (Not sure on this… Still trying to figure out these notes, sorry.) My NOTES: “… music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, invents.” Ludwig Van Beethoven “Prayer is unrehearsed …

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It’s repentance that rips you into a piece of God’s remnant.

Quiet Time Takeaway: It’s repentance that rips you into a piece of God’s remnant. My NOTES: ”If I don’t live differently five days from now I won’t be any different five years from now…” “If my repentance doesn’t change me I’m doing the devils work for him by deceiving myself, he doesn’t have to do …

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God made creation for my enjoyment, not for me to worship.

Quiet Time Takeaway: God made creation for my enjoyment, not for me to worship. My NOTES: ”Whatever a man trusts in, from that he expects happiness.” Valley of Vision “We look for God where he can’t be found. We shop for God horizontally when He’s found vertically.” P. D. Tripp “It’s the cruelest lies that …

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If I’m not ‘real’ with others, with myself, with God- He will spit me out. He is God.

Quiet Time Takeaway: If I’m not ‘real’ with others, with myself, with God- He will spit me out. He is God. My NOTES: ”Blesses are those whose …hearts hearts are set on pilgrimage.” Psalm 84:5 “Pilgrimage can mean: ‘The course of life on earth.” Merriam-Webster “In the days of Noah and Lot, people were eating, …

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