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“ Good News!
Not everyone is good at sports, so maybe it was a ‘ A
subject in school that you had a hard time with. '
When you finally understood it, didn’t it make you
feel so good to see an A or a B on your report card?
Maybe it is cooking. People who win prizes for their
food at the fair did not start out making the winning
dish. They had to perfect it—add different ingredients,
take some away, and add just the right amount of
sugars or spices.
This is the same thing! If it was easy, where would
the sacrifice be? If we can put blood, sweat and tears
' i i f” , into school, our jobs, or hobbies—things that will not
3 I l ‘ , be in Heavenuhow much more should we want to put '
' . .1 that blood, sweat and tears into winning our eternal [E TRIVIA
K ’ lVIE '
IDS ’ l have always said I’m in “the School of God.” This by
W'Ison Casey
by Theresa Murray “i9 ’3 my “bOO‘ Camp ’.mY "ammg' When
I lead the 1. Is the book of Colossians in the Old or
theresa@masoncoumy com Bible, I learn HOW to train my body, and my mind,
' and then I can’t stop, or I could “lose those muscles.” New
Testament or neither?
“Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but We DeVef want to
stop training, or forget how) or the“ 2 Whose first Chapter begins
only one person gets the prize? 50 run to Win! All it Will be harder to wm
the race. We don’t want to “ ' _ ' ’
athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to 81V9 UP! Now It
came to P353 In the thlrtleth
win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an But we can’t see the
finish line! We can’t even see year, in the fourth month m”? Ezra,
Eze_
eternal prize. . the prize, except for some descriptions a few prophets , ,
50 1 run with purpose in every step. 1 am not just . gave us. Tell me, if
you could see Heaven, and all of 1091, Mlcah, MalaChl
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shadowboxmg. I disc1pline my body like an athlete, 113 glory, WOUIdn t YOU
waflt that Prlze- 3. From Exodus 10) what was blown out
tramng It to do what It ShOUld- OtherWISG, I fear Wouldn’t YOU want to
run into Jesus’s arms and hear , .
that after preaching to others, I myself might be “Well done!”? Of
Egypt by a strong west Wlnd? Rivers,
dlsquahfied' 1 Corinthlans 9:24'27 NLT That’s where faith comes
in because it is the Locusts, Sinners, Nightness
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE! substance of what we hope for, the evidence of
what _ .
I heard that great phrase mentioned the other day in we can’t see 4'
In 1 ChronlCles> Who kllled a 1/2'
a song, and it really got me thinking-are we keeping If we treat our bodies
like the athletes treat theirs, foot tall Egyptian giant? Beniah, Gideon,
our eyes fixed on Jesus, or do they wander here and we will always be
“in training.” 80, when we preach B h
there, as we get distracted with exciting things of the to others, We
don’t walk away, and forget to train. lannes, aruc .
world, losmg our focus, and lagging behind. We train‘harder so we are not
hypocrites, or get 5_ From GeneSlS 28, what Clty was the
We can get back on course and keep runiiingl! The dlsquallfle‘j-
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great news about this race is there can be more than Have you ever heard
the phrase “Practice what you Slte 0f laCObS famous dream? LaChISh)
one winner!! In fact, we could ALL win if we choose preach?” We can be
more believable if we are living perga, Haran, Bethe}
to! How amazing is that? like we are trying to win this race. We can show
other I
It's hard, I know but, if you really look at your life, People the
Proper (Taming (0015- If we are in118 the 6- In COIOSSIanS 4, What CltY was
home to
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W111: Others W1“ Want ‘0 lOm U3 and Philemon; Berea Shechem Beersheba
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