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-/\/\----------------------------------------------------------------- \ / Charles Spurgeon's MORNING & EVENING http://www.heartlight.org/ --\/------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, November 4, 2009 MORNING: "For my strength is made perfect in weakness." -- 2 Corinthians 12:9 A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God's warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, "I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory," defeat is not far distant. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength. He who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned wrongly, for "it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." Th...

Hi Everyone. I received this message last night from my friend, Paul Pierson. Please be praying for him. In the short time that I have known him, he has truly impacted my walk with the Lord. He is watching for the Lord to do something amazing. Join with me in praying God would be glorified in this. Below is his message: -------------------- Subject: Kidney Update So 6 weeks ago I scheduled a check up with my doctor to see how my kidneys were functioning, before I planned on leaving for Thailand. That was last week. If you read my last email, you know I was diagnosed as Stage 4 Renal Failure. Basically that means I have 19% kidney function. Not good. If you have 15% kidney function, you start dialysis and then, if your kidney's don't start working, you get put on a kidney transplant list. This stage is called Stage 5: End stage renal failure. End being the key word. So I'm 4% away from from Stage 5. Or so I thought. I went to my new kidney specialist this morning and I ...