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Good Thursday morning Col Burroughs and Posse. Glad to see you back on line today.
Whatever happens. Some people are better at this than others. They seem to go with the flow and accept graciously what comes their way. Others complain and blame those around them for what they don't like. What I find is that what happens to people is pretty much what they created, and we can't be responsible for those outcomes. We can give a helping hand; we can assist in creating new ways to look and respond to things but we can't do it for people nor should we. Sometimes we have to step back and just let whatever happens, happen.






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Good morning Sir. Deal with speed bumps of life and accept them. Have a great day. I've got a C&P Exam this morning and I can hardly walk. So this should interesting. Just another speed bump.

Whatever happens certainly happens for a reason.
1. The LORD God is the source of everything that happens. Nothing can happen to us outside of HIS specific will.
2. It is wise to thank God for the good, the bad and even the ugly

Good Thursday, June 17, 2021 morning to you my friend COL Mikel J. Burroughs

Quotes:
1. Michael Hyatt 'One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this - What does this experience make possible'
2. Roy T. Bennett 'Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities,
3. Harvey Mackay 'Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it.
4. Turn problems into opportunities. Instead of being stuck on what happened, change your mindset and attitude to find solutions. Tell yourself that it’s going to get better. Karan Gaur
5. Paulo Coelho 'None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.'

Scripture:
a. 2 Peter 2:22 What the true proverbs says has happened to them 'The dog returns to its own vomit and the sow after washing herself returns to wallow in the mire.'
b. Jeremiah 17:14 ESV 'Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.'
c. Jeremiah 29:11-12 ESV ‘For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.’
d. Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
e. 3 John 1:2-4 ESV 'Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.'
f. James 1:2-4 ESV ‘Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.’
g. Luke 14:27-28 'Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost'
h. James 1:12 ESV 'Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
i. Galatians 5:22-24 ESV 'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
j. Hebrews 12:6-7 ESV ‘It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons’
k. Psalm 139:13-16 ESV 'For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.'



I pray that YOU bless each adopted son and daughter of YOURS who reads this prayer or listens to it with a heart sensitive to YOU holy Spirit. Guide each of us to pray for who and what we need to and motivate prayer warriors to intercede in Spiritual Warfare. I thank YOU for the defensive armor of God and the offensive Sword of the Spirit. Enable us to wield YOUR Word respectfully with grace and demonstration of love to each we interact with. ‘For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts. [Hebrews 4:12]
LORD I lift up the most vulnerable in society to YOU including preborn children, disabled children especially those labeled as autistic, homeless families and veterans and the ministries which help these people and those who care for them, including pregnant mothers-to-be. I pray that YOU do all that is necessary to turn mothers to be from seeking induced abortions. I pray that YOU motivate counselors to speak compassionately and respectfully to the pregnant women and girls. Help them to understand the value of human life and to place their trust in YOU. 'For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.' [Psalm 139:13-16 ESV]
LORD I lift the trustworthy and conscientious leaders in government, military, business, & industry; managers, and anybody else who interacts with large numbers of people in-person or virtually to YOU. I pray that YOU bless each with knowledge and skill to resolve problems between plans and execution, timelines impacted by resources, and corruption including bribes. Give them eyes to see the corruption and other obstacles to improving operations. ‘But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. [Matthew 13:16-17 ESV]
Remember the admonition of the LORD ‘It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons’ [Hebrews 12:6-7 ESV]


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