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From: "Linda Gosse" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Linda Gosse" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:57 AM
Subject: The Word For Today: Thursday July 20th


> "GOOD HATH...GIVEN US...A SOUND MIND." ( 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 )
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>                                       A SOUND MIND (2)
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> G.K. Chesterton once said of Abrah Lincoln: "This great man had one secret 
> vice that was far more unpopular among his followers than the habit of 
> drinking. He had the habit of thinking." Cultivate the company of good 
> thinkers: Solomon says, "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise" ( Pr 
> 13:20 ). When we submit our lives to Christ, He doesn't tell us to abandon 
> our minds; He tells us to "renew " them (see Ro 12:1-2 ). How do we win 
> someone to Christ? By attacking what they think? No, that allienates them. 
> We must do 3 things:
> (1) Convince them that we truly care about them.
> (2) Convince them that God truly cares about them.
> (3) Find their wounded area and apply the healing balm of God's Word to 
> it. When it comes to sharing our faith, a lot of us are only comfortable 
> talking to "down and outers." Hey, who's going to reach the "up and 
> outers?" Paul said, "I continue...witnessing both to small and great" ( 
> Acts 26:22 ). When Paul visited Athens he ended up on Mars Hill, where he 
> addressed some of the city's better minds. His words are a birlliant 
> display of a spirit sharpened mind at work. Paul was not a small parochial 
> man, but a man in touch with his world. He was comfortable in a backwater 
> town like Derbe, a business community like Ephesus, a political capital 
> like Rome, and an intellectual centre like Athens. "I am made all things 
> to all men, that I might by all means save some" ( 1 Co 9:22 ). So 
> discipline your mind, dedicate it to Christ's purposes and use it to touch 
> your world.
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> Linda("The Prayerwarrior/Angel") (\o/)
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