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"Truth is not one of several alternatives one might or might not embrace according to one's personal preferance." -Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
Hey there ya'll. So, I am reading CHOOSING GOD'S BEST - by Dr. Don Rannikar and it is rocking my face off. I am realizing my mistakes in the past and seeing a lot of truth in this book...It's really cool. Thank you Mr. Heil/Suzanne Heil for giving it to me last summer. Ecc 3:1 Anyways, I just got off work from Porfi's and I am going to go with Sara and praise the Lord, go to Adoration, get some dessert somewhere - ??? I dunno, but it's be awesome.
God is so good. Today during my personal prayer, I meditated on two seperate scripture passages - Luke 1:39-45 and Psalm 23. Now, pretty much most Christians are familiar with Psalm 23. And I know that I know it very well; I actually remember meditating on it about two years ago in my personal prayer. The things that the Lord was speaking to me then through it, are so differant than now. BUt anyways, the first verse really touched my soul in a special way today. "The Lord is my Shepard, there is nothing I lack." Woah. No thing I lack. It really tied into Luke 1, because Mary truly trusted/trusts in the Lord like NO other person ever has. She is in total surrender and line with the will of God at all times. I mean, even Elizabeth said, "Blessed are you who believed what was spoken to youu by the Lord would be fufilled." Lk 1:45 Mary totally trusted in the Lord. Something that is also very beautiful about this passage is we see how the Holy Spirit is the inseperable Spouse of the Holy Virgin. People are filled with the Holy Spirit - wherever Mary goes.*
Anyways, a few neat quotes from Choosing God's Best... Gen 2:24, Ps 27:14, jer 29:11, gal 5:22-23, gen 2:18,
"God calls His people to a higher standard than the standard of the world. The basic deman of a Christian is the demand to be courageously differnt." -Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
"Let your heart take courage so you can resist following your own schedual and timing rather than God's, so you can resist the pressure of other people's attirtudes and opinions, and so you can resist your won fear of failing to find a relationship."-Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
"If you were satan, how would you tempt a person to sin? Youd probable take a legitimate need and encourage them to meet it in a illegitimate way."-Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
"God always saves His best for those who are willing to wait for it. That's when the Holy Spirit comes and leads us out of the old life and into a new and better one. Are you willing to wait for God's best?"-Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
"Truth is not one of several alternatives one might or might not embrace according to one's personal preferance." -Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
"In the middle of such massive changes in our culture of relationships one thing has not changed: God's standards. They are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. (Heb 13:8) GOd has sent us norevisions to His original requirements for sexual purity and no ammendments to His principles. He hasn't changed HIs view on marriage, and He still believe in lifetime committment. " (Gal 6:7-8)-Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
"God's standards were intended to spare our pain, not spoil our fun." -Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
"Singles who follow the world's principals for dating tend to experience a host of negative outcomes with their future mates, including a deep lack of trust, an inability to forgive, a tendency to withhold encouragment, an unsatisfactory sex life, and an inability to fully become one."-Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
"When we follow God's plan, we are healed and made whole, not scarred and shattered.... God can and will restore you to a place wher eyou feel whole, pure, and worthy of love from Him adn a future mate. God will clean away the grime of past relationships so youc an begin to see yourself the way He sees you. When you confess your relational sins, you are asking to HIm to wipe the mud from your soul and body....God's love covers a multitude of sins. If your future spouse has the love of Christ, they willsee beyond your shameful past and into your Blessed future. A godly spouse will keep their eys on the Perfecter of faith, and not your past failures. THey will be rejoicing about your furutre together not dwelling on a forgiven (by God) past. God's love will freely flow through your spouse to you." -Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
" Hate your relational sins, but love yourself the way God loves you.And when the deceiver tries to remind you of your shameful past, you remind him how God has forgive, loved and blessed your future. The wvil one will try to convince you that you are nothing more than a pauper, but in reality you are royalty, a child of the King.....Hang tightly and remember that the greater the devastation, the greater the resoration." -Dr. Don Rannikar, Choosing God's Best (Wisdom for Lifelong Romance)
col 2:8
Anyways, i gotta run - i was supposed to be at sara's an hour ago!
Peace in the Holy Family and Sacred Heart!
* - (Reading Luke 1, its also good to read Ex 40:35, 2 Sam 6:1 and tie in how Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant.) | 
