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Maj Marty Hogan
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Survival always reminds me if a picture I used when I facilitated a wellness class. This was my first slide. Inspiration can be found in many places and survival is a great motivator. Happy Monday all, off on another adventure for the week. Will not be here much.

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SPC Margaret Higgins
SPC Margaret Higgins
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Maj Marty Hogan: Marty, I thank you for the great honor: of your mentioning my name first!
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Great meme !!!
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LTC Stephen F.
LTC Stephen F.
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I pray that the instincts of you and I are good and true and that we instinctively work to good instead of harm all of our days, my friend and brother-in-Christ Maj Marty Hogan.
LORD YOU designed each of us with unique capabilities, skills and YOU lead us through experiences in YOUR perfect timing.
Many of us have honed our fighting skills. I pray that YOU transform our physical combat skills into spiritual combat skills by YOUR Grace. Empower us to wield the sword of the Spirit [YOUR Word] that YOU have stored in our heart/soul.
I pray that YOU empower each of us to instinctively stand in the gap for our family and friends and anybody else YOU call us to help.
Give us ears to hear YOUR still and small voice. I pray for grace, wisdom, and compassion as we instinctively follow YOUR lead continually.
Enable and empower parents to train up their children to reinforce good instincts and by YOUR grace to transform bad instincts into good ones. Empower parents to recognize that stubborn can indicate persistence and delay in responding may indicate thoughtfulness.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.
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SGT Christy Waterhouse
SGT Christy Waterhouse
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Thank you for sharing this photo. You are exactly right inspiration comes in many forms.
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PO1 H Gene Lawrence
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Good morning my RP Family. We are finally dipping below the 100 degree mark today. My survival instincts kept me in the Air conditioned house , when not taking no a quick dip in the pool. I more often think about my survival in spiritual terms. I found an interesting article from February 2015 in Wisdom Hunters that I thought was quite insightful. I pray you find a blessing in it today. Have a blessed day and always.
Taken from wisdomhunters.com

February 1, 2015
Survival Mode
WRITTEN BY BOYD BAILEY
Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – February 1st, 2015

All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, O LORD, and consider, for I am despised.” Lamentations 1:11

Survival mode is relative. For some, it is searching for the next meal or nutritional survival. For others it is tangling with a teenager, or parent survival. For some, it is the struggle to define themselves, or survival of purpose. For still others, it is desperately seeking a way to make ends meet, or financial survival. For some, it is the healing of a broken and wounded heart, or emotional survival. For others, it is the ability to withstand conflict at home and work, or relational survival. For some, it is the unending and confining responsibility as a caregiver, or physical, emotional, and financial survival. And most important, for some it is the inner struggle with God and the meaning of life, or spiritual survival. Indeed, it is not all bad to experience a sense of desperation. It is when we are at the end of ourselves that we are most in need of the Almighty.

Sometimes, our circumstances strip us naked before our Creator. We feel exposed, vulnerable, embarrassed, and exhausted. It is an uncomfortable position. Life seems to be swirling out of control because we are in survival mode. We feel as if we are two steps away from total despair and depression, even to the point of contemplating suicide. Survival mode means we are on the verge of giving up. We are not sure the marriage is worth it anymore. We are not convinced that Christ is all that He is cracked up to be. Life stinks and we are just trying to get through another day. Our goal is to eke out a living and get by the best we can. Indeed, survival mode can become a way of life if there is not an intervention of eternal consequences. Therefore, do not become satisfied with survival mode; instead let the Lord love you through this. Scripture teaches:

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37).

The abundant life (John 10:10) in Christ is much more than survival mode. So, use survival mode to lead you to revival mode. Ask God to use this time of desperation to revive your relationship with Him (Psalm 85:6). Pray for the Holy Spirit to ignite your soul and revive your heart of intimacy with your Savior, Jesus. Repent from watering down the Word of God, and revive its application to your everyday life. Ask Jesus to transform your life into robust revival rather than sedentary survival.

Survival may be for the fittest, but revival is for the faithful. It is not those who “gut it out” alone who experience God, but those who invite the Lord and others into their inner circle of influence. Break the cycle of cynicism by turning your hurts over to Christ, your caregiver. Allow the gentle Spirit of God to lead you through survival to revival. Pray for a revival of relationships, finances, health, work, parenting, and emotional energy, then trust God with the results. Do not continually strive to survive. Instead, rest in Him to revive. A revived soul does more than survive. It flourishes by faith in God. Live through survival mode into revival mode. But do it all by the grace of God.

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Cpl James R. " Jim" Gossett Jr
Cpl James R. " Jim" Gossett Jr
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Thank You for the share Brother Gene...
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PO1 H Gene Lawrence
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LTC Stephen F.
LTC Stephen F.
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I pray that the instincts of you and I are good and true and that we instinctively work to good instead of harm all of our days, my friend and brother-in-Christ PO1 H Gene Lawrence and sister-in-Christ Linda Lawrence.
LORD YOU designed each of us with unique capabilities, skills and YOU lead us through experiences in YOUR perfect timing.
Many of us have honed our fighting skills. I pray that YOU transform our physical combat skills into spiritual combat skills by YOUR Grace. Empower us to wield the sword of the Spirit [YOUR Word] that YOU have stored in our heart/soul.
I pray that YOU empower each of us to instinctively stand in the gap for our family and friends and anybody else YOU call us to help.
Give us ears to hear YOUR still and small voice. I pray for grace, wisdom, and compassion as we instinctively follow YOUR lead continually.
Enable and empower parents to train up their children to reinforce good instincts and by YOUR grace to transform bad instincts into good ones. Empower parents to recognize that stubborn can indicate persistence and delay in responding may indicate thoughtfulness.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.
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PO1 H Gene Lawrence
PO1 H Gene Lawrence
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LTC Stephen F. - Thank you and Amen, my friend and brother-in-Christ.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Good morning COL Mikel J. Burroughs
There are so many funny memes and jokes about Mondays; humor is such a big part of survival skills for many, if not most of us. We poke fun at ourselves, at frustrations, at things we can't change and that allows us to go on. Anyone who reads my early morning coffee posts knows that I consider humor as important to my survival as coffee. What's yours?

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Maj Marty Hogan
Maj Marty Hogan
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That has a much deeper message if you thin about it. Great quote.
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Great meme from a great woman !
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LTC Stephen F.
LTC Stephen F.
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I pray that the instincts of you and I are good and true and that we instinctively work to good instead of harm all of our days, my friend and sister-in-Christ Lt Col Charlie Brown.
LORD YOU designed each of us with unique capabilities, skills and YOU lead us through experiences in YOUR perfect timing.
Many of us have honed our fighting skills. I pray that YOU transform our physical combat skills into spiritual combat skills by YOUR Grace. Empower us to wield the sword of the Spirit [YOUR Word] that YOU have stored in our heart/soul.
I pray that YOU empower each of us to instinctively stand in the gap for our family and friends and anybody else YOU call us to help.
Give us ears to hear YOUR still and small voice. I pray for grace, wisdom, and compassion as we instinctively follow YOUR lead continually.
Enable and empower parents to train up their children to reinforce good instincts and by YOUR grace to transform bad instincts into good ones. Empower parents to recognize that stubborn can indicate persistence and delay in responding may indicate thoughtfulness.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.
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