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Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 2 - Issue 2 - April 2, 2002
Published every Tuesday evening
Hallelujah! Prayer works—again! You may recall that my brother was hospitalized a few days ago with a life threatening brain problem. Later that day his wife was told that, even should he survive, he would go directly to a nursing home for a vegetable-like existence. Well, old Beelzebub loses again! The very next day, after prayer went up, all life support was removed, all tubes removed, and he was sitting up, eating and asking for his clothes to go home!!! And some say God is dead—I say, p-tui!!!
And a hearty THANK YOU to all of you readers who lifted him up in prayer! You're the best!
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What does it mean—"Christ lives in me"?He expresses Himself through me.
CONTENTS:
Subscriber in the Spotlight
Feature Article
Today’s Chuckle
Today's English lesson
Marketing Mania
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera
ALLERGY RELIEF
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(The foregoing statement is required by the US Government, which should not be a substitute for your ability and right to think for yourself and make your own decisions!)
Allergies have plagued me for most of life. So when that season rolls in, I know it's just a fact of life, I'm going to suffer. Then along came Immunity Plus and Flu Buster. These products are AMAZING. No one would have believed the difference between how I looked the night of my last "attack" and then the morning after I have used these two products. I can't imagine ever being without them.
Thanks, Healing America, and thanks, Mom.
—Paul Fess
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God does not respond to prayer.
He responds to faith.
Prayer moves me to faith.
Faith moves God.
SUBSCRIBER IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The first subscriber to submit his or her personal profile sharing with the rest of us all about who he/she is, background, family, location, interests, hobbies, goals, dreams, etc., will be spotlighted right here next issue—and yes, an email and/or URL may be included!
This week's Subscriber in the Spotlight is Lil DeVore.
My name is Lillian DeVore. I'm married to Jim and have a 21 year old son, Tom. Jim is a civil service employee for the Air Force, and Tom is in the Marines. Tom is stationed in North Carolina, although he seems to be gone most of the time. After he returns from an exercise next week, he'll be going to Somalia for six months.
I retired from the Air Force a year and a half ago. My specialty was satellite communications. I was stationed in Mississippi, Georgia, the Philippines, Florida, Turkey, New Hampshire, Germany, Illinois, and Virginia. I've travelled to many places besides these, including England, Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, Austria, France, and Korea, as well as many places within the United States. We now live in South Carolina due to my husband's transfer. When he retires, we'll move to the East Coast of Florida.
We opened "Things From The Heart" almost a year ago. We built our website, http://www.ThingsFromTheHeart.com, from scratch. Jim designed the site and is in charge of search engine submissions. I post the products and order buttons and keep the site current.
I'm looking forward to reading your ezine and getting to know the other subscribers.
Thank you! Lillian DeVore
If I believe that God is capable of delivering me, I must believe that God will deliver me.
FEATURE ARTICLE
QUIT QUITTING
So you're a program junkie. You can't even remember how many you've joined and quit, joined and quit.
And you're not done yet. You're still looking, always keeping an eye out for that perfect vehicle that will catapult you into cash country.
Oh, you're optimistic—still. And you're open—still. And you're ready to make yet another investment—still.
I mean, you don't want to take a chance on passing up that opportunity of a lifetime where the grass is a more vibrant shade of green.
You tell yourself you're just being open minded and not content with the status quo.
You tell yourself you're a shrewd investor who's unwilling to put all his beans in one pot.
And yet . . . that little old pot with the gold that's supposed to be at the end of your rainbow still isn't in sight.
QUIT IT!!!!!! Quit QUITTING!!!!!
Get it in your head that no two programs are equal. There always will be some things about each one of them that overshadow another given program. Same with the disadvantages.
As long as you're in a program that has good, solid, honest products with a reasonable compensation plan proffered by a solid,
ethical company, and you've done your due diligence, for heaven's sake, stick with it!
In all probability, you will NOT get rich quickly. You may never even get rich slowly. But, if you plant enough seeds in that company over time, you WILL see a bountiful crop. It may not grow as fast as you'd like, but grow it will, if you keep on tending your seeds . . . and if you QUIT QUITTING!!!!!
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What is the ONLY dream given to a WOMAN in all the New Testament?
ANSWER: Pilate's wife in Matthew 27:19 "When he (Pilate) was sat down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
In the beginning there was not nothing.
There was something. That Something was God.
God created everything else.
TODAY'S CHUCKLE
Call to God
It seems a man in Topeka, Kansas decides to write a book about churches around the country. He starts by flying to San Francisco and working east from there.
He goes to a very large church and begins taking pictures, etc. He
spots a golden telephone on a wall and is intrigued with a sign
which reads "$10,000 a minute." Seeking out the pastor, he asks
about the phone and the sign. The pastor answers that this golden
phone is, in fact, a direct line to Heaven, and if he pays the price he can talk directly to God. He thanks the pastor and continues on his way.
As he continues to visit churches in Seattle, Denver, Boise,
Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, and on around the United States, he
finds more phones with the same sign, and the same answer from each
pastor.
Finally, he arrives in the South. Upon entering a church, lo and behold, he sees the usual golden telephone. But THIS time the sign reads "Calls: 25 cents." Fascinated, he asks to talk to the pastor.
"Reverend, I have been in cities all across the country, and in each church I found this golden telephone, and I have been told it is a direct line to Heaven and that I could talk to God, but in the other
churches the cost was $10,000 a minute. Your sign reads 25 cents
a call. Why?"
The pastor, smiling benignly, replies, "Son, you're in the South now. It's a local call."
F - False
E - Evidence
A - Appearing
R - Real
TODAY'S ENGLISH LESSON
Seeing the same elementary mistakes over and over again has prompted this publisher to write an English lesson each issue.
Sadly, this mistake is seen with increasing frequency: using "add" instead of "ad."
The difference is so simple. To keep them straight, remember that an "ad" is short for "advertisement," which has only one "d."
"Add" (referring, of course, to an "addition") likewise is easily remembered, in that "addition" has two of the letter "d"—why is this so hard???
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MARKETING MANIA
A Writer's Personal Touch Can Make a Difference!
Featuring Donna Sweat, weekly columnist, and publisher of
Dee's Helpful Info. and A Real Home Business Newsletter.
I read articles every day and pick from the best to
offer my subscribers. I publish an all-article edition of
Dee's Helpful Info—ArticleZ 4 U Xpress.
I write when something pops into my head, which sets
off a chain of events that I cannot keep up with. I see articles on all sorts of topics and some very good writers . . . I am not one of them, by the way. I write my thoughts and back them with my own experiences.
I am not a professional writer, but a writer with feeling. I use them to prove a point or express the importance of whatever it is I am writing about.
Most people can identify with true feelings and common words, rather than fancy words that require a dictionary to find the
meaning. If you have read my articles before, then you know of my ability to amuse and yet inform my audience.
I write with my own words, and my vocabulary may not be proper or my commas in the right place . . . nor may my noun agree with my verb, and I even misspell words occasionally.
I do receive some very nice comments and some comments from those
I think are English majors. They take my writing apart and tell me I am not being professional. So I am not perfect, but who is?
I am not trying to be a professional writer. I am trying to help others avoid, and perhaps steer some clear of, pitfalls—and still inform in the most honest way I know how. I want their attention, and most will read if you can provoke a smile . . . perhaps a grin, or even a tear if necessary.
If one person learns something, then it was worth the effort and time I put into the article. This is what my website says and what my newsletter is about. "Providing services for success backed by
experience." Need I say more?
Try to be somebody with all your might. Find your purpose and fling your life into it.
INTERNET HINTS & TIPS
How to Change Your Browser's Start Page
The start or browser home page is the first page you
see when you start your browser. You can get to this
page by clicking the "Home" button on the toolbar as
well.
This resource gives you the steps you can use to
change your start page.
The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail.
"Impossible" is a word to be found
only in the dictionary of fools.
GUEST ARTICLE
It's Not a River in Egypt
by Dave Balch
I admit it. I've made some mistakes. Oh, sure, I talk
about all of the things that went right and that I did
pretty well with my home-based business, and that's true.
But I would be doing both of us a disservice if I were to
leave you with the impression that all is well in
"Home-based Business Land," that I live in a carefree
fairytale world of wealth and consumption, and that my bills
are all paid and will continue to be. No, it's not like
that at all. And it's only just recently that I identified
the problem. It can be summed-up in a single word: denial.
My business is centered around software that is dependent on
a technology that is slowly going away. I had a nice income
stream (customers pay an annual fee), but as my customers
drifted to new technologies my base of income eroded. I
could see it happening. For years I said "This gravy train
isn't going to last forever!" I chose to ignore it. Why?
Denial. Although I wasn't consciously aware of it, I took
the attitude, "I'll worry about it when it happens."
Suddenly the revenue is alarmingly low, and now I have to
deal with it. Had I dealt with it sooner, it would have
been much easier to fix.
A friend of mine recently went to New Zealand on a speaking
tour. She agreed to pay her own airfare and the organizer
("Peter") would pay for hotels and for her speaking
appearances, plus she would be able to sell her books and
tapes at the seminars. It was not until after she arrived
that Peter informed her that most of the seminars had been
cancelled. After she arrived! He knew that participation
was going to be low. He knew that they might have to
cancel. He didn't tell her, though, because he was in
complete denial.
Denial is what we do when we just can't face the truth. It
is very real, but it does nothing to fix the problem. Did
Peter's denial of the failure of his seminars change
anything? Did my denial of eroding revenue change anything?
YES! In both cases it made a bad situation worse.
Two things happen when you are in denial. First, you have
more anxiety because you haven't examined the situation
enough to know how bad it really is. No matter how bad it
is, it's easier to deal with if you know where you stand.
Second, there's a pretty good chance that delaying the
solution will make the problem worse, maybe even completely
unsolvable. By denying the problem, you may be passing up a
golden opportunity to fix it. Easily.
Do you have a situation that is too scary to deal with?
Deal with it anyway.
Do you have a situation that is too embarrassing to face?
Face it anyway.
Deal with it. Face it. Get it over with. You can't make
it worse; you'll only make it better. You'll feel better
too.
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http://www.TheStayAtHomeCEO.com to sign up, for information on speaking services, or for copies of past articles and newsletters. Comments and/or questions are always welcome at 1-800-366-2347 or Dave@DaveBalch.com.
INSPIRATION
This is pretty strange or odd how it worked out this way. Even if you are not religious, you should read this.
What is the shortest chapter in the Bible? Answer - Psalm 117
What is the longest chapter in the Bible? Answer - Psalm 119
Which chapter is in the center of the Bible? Answer - Psalm 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalm 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalm 118
Add these numbers up and you get 1188
What is the center verse in the Bible? Answer - Psalm 118:8
Does this verse say something significant about God's perfect will for our lives? The next time someone says they would like to find God's perfect will for his life and that he wants to be in the center of His will, just send them to the center of His Word!
Psalm 118:8 (NKJV) - "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."
Now isn't it odd how this works out—or was God in the center of it?
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