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Thank you my friend and sister-in-Christ Lt Col Charlie Brown for posting our friend, former RallyPoint member emeritus, and brother-in-Christ Colonel Mikel Burroughs VFV Motivational/Inspirational Quotes & Message of the Day Friday, July 28, 2023.

Topic: Original Day
1. Each and every one of us is an original creation by the LORD. HE planned our birth, life and death before time began. As Jeremiah states, Jeremiah 29:11-13 '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. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.'
2. By God's grace, each one of us is unique and precious to the LORD.
3. As parents, we are role models for our children. God designed each of us to learn in unique ways. The LORD reminds us 'Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.’ [Proverbs 22.6 ESV] It is wise to seek guidance from the LORD to raise and train up our children. This also applies to spiritual children and those who educate and admonish them.
4. Every human being shares much in common with many and yet we are unique in our experiences; hopes, dreams, and fears; rewards and punishments; and growth in maturity.
5. I have long focused on what is unique to me [or so I thought] embodied in Duty, Honor, Country from my Alma Mater, USMA, West Point.
6. The Word of God is the only truly living book. God’s Word in unique in every sense. No other collection of writings has been completely written under the inspiration of God. ‘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 ESV]

Quotes;
1. Walt Disney 'The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.'
2. T. B. Joshua 'When you are wired to God in a unique way, nothing can separate you from the love of God.'
3. Barbara Sher 'What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.'
4. Joanne Raptis 'Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.'
5. John Keats 'Memory should not be called Knowledge - Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by Custom.'

Scriptures:
a. Genesis 1:27 ESV 'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.'
b. Jeremiah 29:11-13 '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. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.'
c. Ephesians 2:10 ESV 'For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.'
d. Psalm 51:10-12 ESV ‘Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.’
e. Hebrews 3:12-15 ESV 'Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
f. 1 Thessalonians 5:8-11 ESV‘But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.’

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LTC Stephen F.
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You are very welcome my brother-in-Christ PO3 Edward Riddle and thank you very much for voting up my comments and responses.
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PO3 Edward Riddle
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LTC Stephen F. - You're welcome for the UP votes Brother Steve. I figure it's the least I can do for my Spiritual Partner.
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SGT Richard Jones
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Amen! Well said, Sir.
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LTC Stephen F.
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You are very welcome my brother-in-Christ SGT Richard Jones -
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Good TED Friday afternoon Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Thanks, and same to you. It's been a bit of a crazy day. I wasn't scheduled for disaster duty but somehow...so I am finally back on! LOL. I do like the Melville quote Maj Robert Thornton
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Maj Robert Thornton
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Lt Col Charlie Brown one question, did you see my post yesterday?
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LTC Stephen F.
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I hope you appreciate the majority of your unique characteristics since you have matured well beyond adolescence. I expect you are aware that your hopes, dreams, fears, plans, loves and likes are unique to you. No doubt you are wise enough to recognize that each person is unique, and you understand that a genuine leaders focus is on serving those they lead, are led by and work with. Hopefully you are mature enough to appreciate that others have different preferences in terms of food, music, humor and opinion. No doubt you have helped others to grow in knowledge, skills, confidence in ability, and communication and listening skills. ‘Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. [2 Peter 2:16-17 ESV] my brother-in-Christ Maj Robert Thornton

I pray YOU bless each adopted son and daughter of God who reads or listens to this prayer to with sufficient humility, discernment, and motivate each of us to assist and encouraging those who rely on us to meet and exceed requirements. I am thankful that YOU bless parents with insight to train their children as YOU make it clear how unique and marvelous each child is. I pray for attentiveness and discernment for each parent as they raise the bar and encourage their children to meet it, then praise the child and raise the bar again for the training and education of their children – from tricycles, to training wheels to riding bikes; from learning the alphabet, to enunciating, to reading on their own, and increasing the level of what they read. ‘But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.’ [1 Thessalonians 5:8-11 ESV]

I expect that you have great respect for the noble values that United States attempted to live up over the centuries particularly true and justice. I hope you are increasingly fair in your treatment of individuals, speech to and about others, and transactions. I hope your foundation is rooted solidly in the atonement of the Christ. I pray that you and I are motivated to seek justice for others. ‘Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” [Psalm 82:3-4 ESV]

I lift up deployed service members, other government agency members deployed, POWs and MIAs and their family members to YOU. Dear LORD. I pray YOU bless each deployed member with wisdom, discernment and endurance and guide them as they plan and complete missions. I pray that each family member of those deployed, POWs and MIAs is blessed with a peaceful night, ‘He has sent me to heal the broken hearted because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.’ [Luke 4:17-18 ESV]

I pray that you slept well Friday night along with those you love and that each of you awake refreshed and healthy on Saturday, July 29, 2023 morning.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.
FYI PO3 Charles StreichPO3 Edward RiddleSPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D SSgt Kelly D.
Psalm 33 (Stand in Awe) [feat. Benjamin Ady] by The Psalms Project - Lyric Video
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LTC Stephen F.
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You are very welcome my brother-in-Christ Maj Ronald Scarpa -
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PO3 Shayne Seibert
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I'm an original, and one of a kind. That doesn't always lend itself well to leadership, but I've made it work in ancillary ways. I don't have direct control or management over any particular area, but I make my impact on new employees and advancing employees. Picking those that I think show potential skills that I can pass on my knowledge to and watching them grow with that knowledge is worth all of my efforts.
All leaders work toward the goal of advancing the company, and you can't grow or have continuity if the leaders who have done the hard work can't share their experiences to the next generation.
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LTC Stephen F.
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I hope you appreciate the majority of your unique characteristics since you have matured well beyond adolescence. I expect you are aware that your hopes, dreams, fears, plans, loves and likes are unique to you. No doubt you are wise enough to recognize that each person is unique, and you understand that a genuine leaders focus is on serving those they lead, are led by and work with. Hopefully you are mature enough to appreciate that others have different preferences in terms of food, music, humor and opinion. No doubt you have helped others to grow in knowledge, skills, confidence in ability, and communication and listening skills. ‘Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. [2 Peter 2:16-17 ESV] my brother-in-Christ PO3 Shayne Seibert

I pray YOU bless each adopted son and daughter of God who reads or listens to this prayer to with sufficient humility, discernment, and motivate each of us to assist and encouraging those who rely on us to meet and exceed requirements. I am thankful that YOU bless parents with insight to train their children as YOU make it clear how unique and marvelous each child is. I pray for attentiveness and discernment for each parent as they raise the bar and encourage their children to meet it, then praise the child and raise the bar again for the training and education of their children – from tricycles, to training wheels to riding bikes; from learning the alphabet, to enunciating, to reading on their own, and increasing the level of what they read. ‘But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.’ [1 Thessalonians 5:8-11 ESV]

I expect that you have great respect for the noble values that United States attempted to live up over the centuries particularly true and justice. I hope you are increasingly fair in your treatment of individuals, speech to and about others, and transactions. I hope your foundation is rooted solidly in the atonement of the Christ. I pray that you and I are motivated to seek justice for others. ‘Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” [Psalm 82:3-4 ESV]

I lift up deployed service members, other government agency members deployed, POWs and MIAs and their family members to YOU. Dear LORD. I pray YOU bless each deployed member with wisdom, discernment and endurance and guide them as they plan and complete missions. I pray that each family member of those deployed, POWs and MIAs is blessed with a peaceful night, ‘He has sent me to heal the broken hearted because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.’ [Luke 4:17-18 ESV]

I pray that you slept well Friday night along with those you love and that each of you awake refreshed and healthy on Saturday, July 29, 2023 morning.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.
FYI PO3 Charles StreichPO3 Edward RiddleSPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D SSgt Kelly D.
Psalm 33 (Stand in Awe) [feat. Benjamin Ady] by The Psalms Project - Lyric Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA7a6t0Dny0
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