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So many times in our lives we have probably heard that "nothing changes if nothing changes", "if everything stays the same nothing changes".

These are such Duh statements and yet, we don't change. We allow our society to tell us,(those that should know better) what is ok or how we should do our faith. We allow people to tell us virtually what we are thinking and how we should do that.

I subscribe to a daily devotion called inward /outward it is from church of the savior. I want to share with you todays quote which drives this point home for me.


Behold the New

Elizabeth O'Connor

"The church is not going to be different until someone in it is different. God waits for each of us to hear, "Behold, I do a new thing--through you!" The question is always: Can we open our lives so that the Holy Spirit may descend and new power break that we may be the kind of person around whom renewal begins?"

Source: Call to Commitment 

If we are to change, I suggest that you start with you. Haver the courage to stand for what you believe, as Christ did. He died on a tree that we might have the ability to do so. It can all start when we don't do what society says is right, rather do what Christ has taught us is right. Just do the next right thing.

I received an email that has a great Billy Graham quote: 

'Heavenly Father, we come  before you  today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.   
  We know Your Word  says, 'Woe to those who  call evil good,' but  that is exactly what we  have done. We have  lost our spiritual  equilibrium and reversed our  values. We have exploited the poor and called it the  lottery. We have rewarded laziness  and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted  our neighbor's  possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and  called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it  enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free.  Amen!'   With the Lord's  help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God!'
 Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the  world. 

                                                 'One Nation Under God!     

Remember if we do this thing right, we just might get out of here alive. The price has already been paid - will you accept?