The "Colonel's" Motivational/Inspirational Quotes and Message of the day!
There are a lot of things in our lives we cannot control but one that we can is the effort we are willing to put into a project, a program or a relationship. I hear quite often that people want something but when you ask them what are they willing to do to get/achieve it, it's clear that they are not willing to put in the time and effort to make it happen. If you want something, if it is important to you, prove it by putting in the time and the work (time plus work equals effort) to make it successful. A halfhearted effort gives you half hearted results.
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Music video by Jars Of Clay performing Work. (C) 2006 Essential Records
LORD I pray that each of YOUR adopted sons and daughters who reads this prayer or hears it with clarity of focus on what our priority of effort, talents and resources needs to be. I pray that YOU enable us to see clearly and hear clearly what YOU know we should do – day-by-day and hour-by-hour. For most of us improving personal relationships is near the top if not the most important for each of us. ‘Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. [Philippians 2:3-4 ESV]
LORD, I thank YOU for pro-life executives, legislators and judges as well as intercessors and pro-life counselors. I pray that YOU bless those who support life from before birth throughout life and through death with endurances, grace and discernment. '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.' [Psalm 13913-14a ESV]
I pray for the peacemakers in every nation, town and family – especially those facing severe resistance to efforts to bring peace as radical progressives are doing their utmost to bring strife throughout this culture – critical race theory, defund police, and support radical socialism. I pray that YOU bless each peacemaker with endurance and grace. I pray that YOU restrain those focused on disrupting and withholding peace on earth as well as the spirit realm. ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.’ [Matthew 5: 9-12 ESV]
I lift the widows, widowers, orphans, those in hospice, and those who are imprisoned unjustly to YOU, LORD. I pray for each of these individuals and their family members that YOU will alert YOUR prayer warriors to intercede for these people. I pray that YOU guide good Samaritans to help these individuals. 'If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well.' [James 2:8 ESV] and 'Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.' [James 1:27 ESV]
LORD I pray for sufficient self-control, patience, and stamina for each of YOUR adopted sons and daughters to persevere through the challenges we will face through the summer and autumn. I am thankful that YOU are strengthening the character and fortitude of each of us as YOU prepare us. ‘For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. [2 Peter 1:5-9 ESV]
In this summer as POTUS Biden and the Secretary of Health and Human Service Merrick Brian Garland, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and their radical progressive cohorts support induced abortion to be a right and to be funded by the Federal government including abortion outside this nation. POTUS Biden and Nancy Pelosi claim to be Roman Catholics. I pray that YOU do all that is necessary to motivate them each to repent from their support for Federal funded induced abortion. YOUR patience is beyond our imagination ‘What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles. [Romans 9:22-24 ESV]
I pray that you and I heed the admonition of the LORD
a. ‘Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. [Luke 6:47-48 ESV]
b. Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” [Matthew 22:36-40]
I pray that you and your family members sleep well Thursday night and will awake refreshed and healthy on Friday morning.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs PO3 Charles Streich SPC Michael Terrell
Jars Of Clay - Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0041GDsqE
Today’s Message is: “Effort Day!” Why Not?
My PERSONAL QUOTE:
There is effort and then there is EFFORT! There is a big difference and that difference is when a positive attitude combined with focus, determination and a solid plan, yield the maximum success for a task, mission, or challenge... Go with the EFFORT!" - Kerry F. Harkins - August 5, 2021
"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." - John F. Kennedy
"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power." - Clint Eastwood
"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply." - Denis Waitley
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." - John Ruskin
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile." - Vince Lombardi
And when all is said and done, know this:
“Leaders! Effort leads to results!” — COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
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“Your effort on anything you do entails hard work and perseverance. You can’t sit back and hope that you’ll reach your goal. Objective, or end state – it takes energy and effort. That remind me of this this quote…
‘Don’t decrease the goal. Increase the effort.’ — Unknown Author
May your continued efforts lead to your success and happiness; may your mind, body, and soul be opened to grace, goodness, peace, forgiveness, and a continued bountiful life of purpose; and keep your family safe, secure, happy, and healthy.” — COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
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Music video by Jars Of Clay performing Work. (C) 2006 Essential Records
LORD I pray that each of YOUR adopted sons and daughters who reads this prayer or hears it with clarity of focus on what our priority of effort, talents and resources needs to be. I pray that YOU enable us to see clearly and hear clearly what YOU know we should do – day-by-day and hour-by-hour. For most of us improving personal relationships is near the top if not the most important for each of us. ‘Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. [Philippians 2:3-4 ESV]
LORD, I thank YOU for pro-life executives, legislators and judges as well as intercessors and pro-life counselors. I pray that YOU bless those who support life from before birth throughout life and through death with endurances, grace and discernment. '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.' [Psalm 13913-14a ESV]
I pray for the peacemakers in every nation, town and family – especially those facing severe resistance to efforts to bring peace as radical progressives are doing their utmost to bring strife throughout this culture – critical race theory, defund police, and support radical socialism. I pray that YOU bless each peacemaker with endurance and grace. I pray that YOU restrain those focused on disrupting and withholding peace on earth as well as the spirit realm. ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.’ [Matthew 5: 9-12 ESV]
I lift the widows, widowers, orphans, those in hospice, and those who are imprisoned unjustly to YOU, LORD. I pray for each of these individuals and their family members that YOU will alert YOUR prayer warriors to intercede for these people. I pray that YOU guide good Samaritans to help these individuals. 'If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well.' [James 2:8 ESV] and 'Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.' [James 1:27 ESV]
LORD I pray for sufficient self-control, patience, and stamina for each of YOUR adopted sons and daughters to persevere through the challenges we will face through the summer and autumn. I am thankful that YOU are strengthening the character and fortitude of each of us as YOU prepare us. ‘For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. [2 Peter 1:5-9 ESV]
In this summer as POTUS Biden and the Secretary of Health and Human Service Merrick Brian Garland, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and their radical progressive cohorts support induced abortion to be a right and to be funded by the Federal government including abortion outside this nation. POTUS Biden and Nancy Pelosi claim to be Roman Catholics. I pray that YOU do all that is necessary to motivate them each to repent from their support for Federal funded induced abortion. YOUR patience is beyond our imagination ‘What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles. [Romans 9:22-24 ESV]
I pray that you and I heed the admonition of the LORD
a. ‘Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. [Luke 6:47-48 ESV]
b. Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” [Matthew 22:36-40]
I pray that you and your family members sleep well Thursday night and will awake refreshed and healthy on Friday morning.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs PO3 Charles Streich SPC Michael Terrell
Jars Of Clay - Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0041GDsqE
Music video by Jars Of Clay performing Work. (C) 2006 Essential Records
LORD I pray that each of YOUR adopted sons and daughters who reads this prayer or hears it with clarity of focus on what our priority of effort, talents and resources needs to be. I pray that YOU enable us to see clearly and hear clearly what YOU know we should do – day-by-day and hour-by-hour. For most of us improving personal relationships is near the top if not the most important for each of us. ‘Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. [Philippians 2:3-4 ESV]
LORD, I thank YOU for pro-life executives, legislators and judges as well as intercessors and pro-life counselors. I pray that YOU bless those who support life from before birth throughout life and through death with endurances, grace and discernment. '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.' [Psalm 13913-14a ESV]
I pray for the peacemakers in every nation, town and family – especially those facing severe resistance to efforts to bring peace as radical progressives are doing their utmost to bring strife throughout this culture – critical race theory, defund police, and support radical socialism. I pray that YOU bless each peacemaker with endurance and grace. I pray that YOU restrain those focused on disrupting and withholding peace on earth as well as the spirit realm. ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.’ [Matthew 5: 9-12 ESV]
I lift the widows, widowers, orphans, those in hospice, and those who are imprisoned unjustly to YOU, LORD. I pray for each of these individuals and their family members that YOU will alert YOUR prayer warriors to intercede for these people. I pray that YOU guide good Samaritans to help these individuals. 'If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well.' [James 2:8 ESV] and 'Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.' [James 1:27 ESV]
LORD I pray for sufficient self-control, patience, and stamina for each of YOUR adopted sons and daughters to persevere through the challenges we will face through the summer and autumn. I am thankful that YOU are strengthening the character and fortitude of each of us as YOU prepare us. ‘For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. [2 Peter 1:5-9 ESV]
In this summer as POTUS Biden and the Secretary of Health and Human Service Merrick Brian Garland, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and their radical progressive cohorts support induced abortion to be a right and to be funded by the Federal government including abortion outside this nation. POTUS Biden and Nancy Pelosi claim to be Roman Catholics. I pray that YOU do all that is necessary to motivate them each to repent from their support for Federal funded induced abortion. YOUR patience is beyond our imagination ‘What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles. [Romans 9:22-24 ESV]
I pray that you and I heed the admonition of the LORD
a. ‘Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. [Luke 6:47-48 ESV]
b. Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” [Matthew 22:36-40]
I pray that you and your family members sleep well Thursday night and will awake refreshed and healthy on Friday morning.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs PO3 Charles Streich SPC Michael Terrell
Jars Of Clay - Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0041GDsqE