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Tetelestai (Jn 19:30)
“It is finished!” Gives us enduring perspective.

Grace Never Fails
This is absolutely true, no matter what man concludes to the contrary. If you don’t see the “good” in something, it is YOUR limitation, not God’s failure. Even discipline is grace. Doubt is not from God.

You Can’t “Catch” the Wind
How often do we find ourselves “striving after wind” (Ecc)? Yet, even knowing the impossibility of “catching” it, man chooses the path of futility over God’s righteous way. Why? Arrogance!

1Co 9:24 [Amplified]
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run [their very best to win], but only one receives the prize? Run [your race] in such a way that you may seize the prize and make it yours!

Satan’s Strategy
It’s not that Satan doesn’t want you to run a race - he just wants you to run towards a different finish line than the one the Lord has set before you (ref. Php 3:12-16).

Love Keeps Soldiers Soldiering
Love is the great motivator; and, “Love never fails” (1Co 13:8a).

Life In the Devil’s World
A change of circumstances doesn’t solve your problems. Your contentment is not a function of your circumstances. A new “place” guarantees new “problems”.

Sanctified Where You Are
God doesn’t make mistakes. You are where you need to be, right now. Rather than praying for deliverance from your circumstances, pray for deliverance WITHIN your circumstances!

Freedom In Acceptance
If we just accept the calling on our life, we are set free to commit our hearts, minds, and souls to the cause! It is in this place that we find the peace that our Lord has promised us.

Perspective
We believers have a purpose with eternal repercussions that most people don’t understand.

Don’t Give Up!
The devil’s world is trying to break your heart.

Have Faith Soldier!
Satan's system wants to take YOU captive, not just your grace blessings, and he wants to steal your heart and soul. But don't fall for the lies! They include horrible accusations against your Creator and Savior!

Job’s Friends “Good Intentions”
We learn from Job’s circumstances that even well-intentioned loved ones can be stumbling blocks to us. We mustn’t ever lose sight of who our Redeemer is, who our Deliverer is, who our Lord is! Faith places our trust in Him alone.

Grace Wins!
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus...for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. (Phil 1:6, 2:13)

True Wisdom
Includes knowing what you DON’T know. Too many people think that wisdom is knowing more, even inventing things in the absence of divine revelation. This is not wisdom.

Have Faith Soldier!
Are your hands finding something good to work hard at, for the glory of God? You are never retired - you are a soldier for the Lord Jesus Christ!

The Battle Hymn of the Republic
“What ever happened to this kind of American Patriotism in our beloved country???“ - PTEJC

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.

Chorus:
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.
Chorus

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemnors, so with you my grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.
Chorus

He has sounded from the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Chorus

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Chorus