We sometimes fall into a pit of discouragement and can't find something to
be thankful for. When these moments of testing come our way, we are to 
remember the greatest blessing that we have been given which is called 
life. We are alive in this time in history seeing things that the prophets
of old could only have wished to see. We don't realize how blessed we 
truly are to simply be alive, but if we take a moment and think on our 
positives we will quickly see how blessed and favored we truly are. The
Bible declares in 1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen generation, a royal 
priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim
the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

I hope this message ministers to your heart to see that you are blessed and
have much to be grateful for; one blessing being that you are alive this day.


YOU WON THE LOTTERY

Valencia Mueller stops at Wagner's Food Pride and buys a single lottery 
ticket. She wins. “I had trouble catching my breath,” she says. “This only
happens in dreams or in the movies, not in real life.” I think she overreacted.

Even if Valencia Mueller had won the ultimate payoff against odds of 
54,979,155 to one, it would have been no big deal, because Valencia had 
already won a much bigger lottery against much greater odds. Valencia 
Mueller had been born.

I asked Ryan J. Sokol of the statistics department at Texas A&M University
to calculate the odds of a specific individual being born. Ryan estimated
the total number of fertile men and women in the world, calculated the 
number of different genetic possibilities a man might contribute, adjusted
for the number of hours of female fertility each month, and then factored
in a long list of other considerations.

The bottom line of Ryan's lengthy report to me said, “The chance that you,
meaning exactly you, would be born are 1 in 1.3 times ten to the twenty-
ninth power.” In other words, 130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 
one. You and I my friend, are two incredibly, amazingly, lucky people. We
both won the genetic lottery!

Compared with the odds against being born, the odds are very good that you
will be elected president of the United States. You have already won a 
lottery more amazing than human-kind could ever devise. You have already 
been awarded a prize far richer than anything the world has to give. You 
are alive. You are here. Make the most of it.

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints - Stanislaw Lec

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I 
sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations. Do not be afraid,
for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.” -- Jeremiah 1: 5 & 8

Author Unknown


Read and meditate on these scriptures:

Jeremiah 31:3 “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have
loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I
drawn thee.”

Isaiah 49:14-16 “But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not 
have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I 
not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My Hands; 
thy walls are continually before Me.”

Psalm 118:24 “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and
be glad in it.”

Romans 8:31-33 “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us,
who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up
for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who 
shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.”

All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible.


Today’s Selected Poem: POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES
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Today’s Selected Testimony: JESUS SAVES ALCOHOLIC UNCLE
Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/testimony58.htm


In Christ’s Service,

Dwayne Savaya
Gods Work Ministry