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Your calling purpose passion

Your Calling,
Passion & Purpose

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Your Calling, Passion and Purpose

Introduction

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:” (Proverbs 23:7).

How are you today?
Christian motivational author Zig Ziglar would answer, “Better than good!”

In his same-titled book Ziglar presents the three “P’s” of an inspired life: “Passion, Peak-performance, and Purpose.” He motivates us to clear our mind of failure-prone thinking, to redefine our understanding of success. When we combine our purpose with our passion, peak performance will be the result.

“And whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men,” (Col. 3:23).

What is your passion in life? And how do you approach it? Has God given you a vision for the ministry He has planned for you? Do you have yet unfulfilled dreams in these areas? “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6).

You have a calling. Are you willing to hear it? Making your life count is not so much about what you do as how you do it. And why. Equipped ministers know their spiritual purpose in life and God’s calling on their life. They understand for Whom they live and breathe. Like the Apostle Paul they believe to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Calling, passion, purpose — three essentials for success in any ministry, or life. This course could provide the inspiration, instruction and encouragement you need to become what God put you on this earth to be.

It’s time to get motivated for these last days.
Study. Apply. Love deeply.

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Better than Good
by Zig Ziglar

Introduction

  1. The power of should never be underestimated.
  2. What are three pillars to the “better than good” life?
    A.
    B.
    C
  3. Peak performance is dependent on , grit, , and a to do something until you can do it .
  4. Zig believes if you truly have a for something—and if you it’s your God-given in life—you can do it.
  5. Change takes and constant .
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PART I
The Passion of the “Better Than Good” Life

Chapter One
A Passionate Journey

  1. “The core problem is not that we are too passionate about things, but that we are passionate about things.”
  2. deserves far more credit than the records of history provide.
  3. A noble passion, when and , produces great and personal and offers huge to as well.
  4. David’s death showed Debbie that doesn’t always , that is the to one’s .
  5. Debbie believes dreams come from God and that the only way we have a of them ever being is if we to in and .
  6. The only way to move up from a place of mere survival to , and from stability to , and from success to , is to engage in a - field of that will enable you to bring significant to .
  7. George Washington Carver was a youngster who had all the odds stacked against him: born into , , suffering from ill and difficulties. But he was undaunted by .
  8. In his own humorous way, Carver noted that God told him the secrets of the would be beyond his range of expertise. However, God said, He would reveal to the young scientist the secrets of the .
  9. As a result of all his accomplishments, Dr. George Washington Carver was arguably the greatest of the century. His strong in was his light throughout all of his full life.
  10. Ultimately, to impact just person with our is to the .
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Chapter Two
Inspiration: The Fuel of Passion

  1. “It usually happens that the more a person the inspirations he receives, the more does he experience inspirations which increasingly of him.”
  2. If you think of passion as the flame that burns white hot in the of person, is the that keeps that flame alive.
  3. It’s a lifelong responsibility for us to up and the God has us. We’re not to be about it either. We’re to be about the , the , the we believe has in our .
  4. Passion will die without constant .
  5. The fastest way to build and develop your passion in a given area of life is to your , , and in it.
  6. God doesn’t come down and to us every how we are to use our , apply our and , and spend our . From our human point of view, He those to .
  7. The more of your time, talent, and treasure you invest in your passion, the more you will for it, it, and it from and that would to it you.
  8. The loss of education by is one of the results of our modern, - educational systems.
  9. Inspiration is better than it is .
  10. The passion for and is caught, not taught. Learning is by , not by .
  11. There is no better way to stay inspired than by spending in the of inspirational .
  12. There is no substitute for the “ ” environments in life.
  13. You’ll be surprised how many people—especially — would nothing than to have an for the they’ve been for .
  14. Apprentices grow up to become —and it’s the way stay for .
  15. The bigger the movement is in which we to get , the more we are.
  16. When you become part of something than are, you become . You become inspired to your . You become motivated to let others And that fuels your in ways that can’t be —it can only be .
  17. The power of the is one of the greatest resources in the human tool kit. It’s amazing that mental have such —but they .
  18. Bruce Barton said, “The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their miles and miles in of the .”
  19. God intended imagination to be used as a source of and .
  20. God created and how I to Him my in life. But the we for ourselves of the kinds of things we’d to can be powerful .”
  21. Zig says, “It’s the hope of heaven that the of God has , and what I based on those that makes me to go there.”
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Chapter Three
Stress: The Enemy of Passion

  1. “Blessed is the man who is too to worry in the daytime and too at night.”
  2. “The thief I see robbing more people of their passion than anything else is — in all its forms.”
  3. Stress suppresses the body’s system, interrupts your , and makes you to all manner of .
  4. List six ways to defend yourself against the attacks of stress:
    A. to worry
    B. in the
    C. insist on
    D. stay out of
    E. not
    F. have the first
  5. is a lot less stressful than worrying. The next time you are attacked by stress, the . Many times you will discover you are about something that doesn’t need to be about at all. Once you get all the , you may be glad you .
  6. Bonnie St. John Deane said, “People . Winners . Gold medal winners ”
  7. Getting up and getting back into the game removes the possibility of from failure.
  8. Removing from your life is a great defense against stress. Some things in life are absolutely and some things are absolutely .
  9. Do things with , know what is , practice what is , and make your accordingly. Your will remain crystal , you’ll live without , and, as a result, your will remain and .
  10. Materialism can blind us to . We think we can become of by virtue of our material when in fact we are to our condition.
  11. Oswald Chambers says the essential definition of lust is the belief that it is my to what I I it.
  12. The never-ending quest to good and good creates that completely the to create the perfect . We become , trying to good on the while on the .
  13. No one can live a passionate life when he is worried about bill and .
  14. Some people just can’t handle the unknown, so they remain up, confined to the of the instead of the of the .
  15. If fear is the dominant force in our life, we —through actions and events—seem to attract . On the other hand, if faith is the dominant force, it seems to about some things because what we , we inadvertently to .
  16. We have two choices for facing the future: we can face it with or with . The future is all about the , and we can let that us or us.
  17. After one has conquered the ultimate fear—the fear of —no fear is worth about.
  18. Next to love, has been described as the second most powerful emotion we can express.
  19. You cannot laugh and be , laugh and be , laugh and be . Laughter is truly God’s to .
  20. When you’re the first person to at , you leave little room for to at .
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Chapter Four
Watch What You Think

  1. “We can’t choose our relatives, but we can choose our , which us much more.”
  2. What you think about , what you think about the , what you think about , what you think about your in life— you think has an on the of you will .
  3. Fear is an open to whereas invites .
  4. Is it wrong for one who is weak to say he is strong? if he has every of strong, which the of did when they had on their in .
  5. Nothing is as infectious as and a outlook.
  6. Lisa really believes that adopting the attitude that life is “ than ” as she greeted her customers in New York was in of them positively to her.
  7. You should use the “better than good” phrase because you in your that is, indeed, “ than .”
  8. Sometimes, all it takes is a , a , or a planted in someone’s to his or her whole .
  9. Pictures simply do not have the to themselves in the human like do.
  10. The Bible says we ought to dwell on ( and on) things that are , honorable, right, , lovely, of repute, excellent, and worthy of .
  11. Besides the Bible, Zig encourages people to consume the of and .
  12. Andy Andrews credits the reading of the and two hundred with filling his with the of .
  13. If you feed the base, mind, that’s the one that’s going to your life. But if you feed the mind, the mind that feeds on and things, that’s the that will . The mind is always and will in we it. We just need to it the fare intended for it to live on.
  14. Zig says, “I work hard at myself from things that I don’t to be in my . My eye-gate and ear-gate are under constant when it comes to , movies, the , music , and material.
  15. You cannot dump garbage into a and expect the to be . You cannot the on demoralizing and expect your to be good, , pure, , and .
  16. Melissa Hovendick says, “I have continued to make the choice to constantly what I am in my , because I know the you make will you the of your —for the or the .”
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Chapter Five
Perception and Attitude

  1. “Compare what you with what you , and you’ll be unhappy; compare what you with what you , and you’ll be happy.”
  2. is to life what altitude is to hot air ballooning—a way to remain from that have the to send us to the below.
  3. By adjusting your attitude, you can above that which seems and your instead of being taken where the of change .
  4. Unhappy people spend more time thinking about life’s events; they become and - in their thinking, and thus in their living.
  5. Happy people have a positive worldview that allows room for and along the way. They seek out and depend upon that bolster their on life; they are focused and centered on .
  6. When something disappointing happens to people with a positive perspective on life, they view it as an to the rule. For those people, the rule is that life is —it’s a great full of and .
  7. People with a negative perspective on life believe life is basically a experience, a string of interrupted only by the rare glimpse of . They believe those events confirm that they are , destined to their with every they take.
  8. Positive people don’t react to life; they . is positive; is negative.
  9. Responders recognize the seriousness of some of life’s events, but they see them as things that simply their course, not it . Everyone knows that life is not lived in a line from to . Life is a series of , always keeping the in view.
  10. For the Christian, life has nothing to do with or fatalism. God orchestrates all the events in our lives to achieve the of growing us before we grow .
  11. If we know God, the events in our life are coming to us through the filter of His —even the things that are often a of our bad .
  12. Optimists are full of . They believe they’re on this earth for a and have no intention of stopping until that purpose is .
  13. Optimists really believe the they are working toward is going to come to in one form or another.
  14. It is more than a cliche to say that the more you express for what you , the more you will have to gratitude for.
  15. People who lose their sense of are people who will live with a on their all their lives.
  16. Joy comes from that “God has a and I’m of it.”
  17. Attitude is a reflection of your , a sign of your that life is not about . Attitude is about and His for your life.
  18. If you have a bad attitude, you must have an change of to get a good one.
  19. is to be the fuel that propels us to peak performance.
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PART II
The Peak Performance of the
“Better Than Good” Life

Chapter Six
Develop a Passionate Plan

  1. Plan —it wasn’t when Noah built the ark.
  2. There is a tension in life we all wrestle with: how to find the middle ground, or , between the rigid pursuit of and remaining at the same time.
  3. Truly successful people don’t believe success is defined by material , climbing one certain or finally walking through one particular . They believe success is a way of that brings to God and contentment and to themselves.
  4. Successful people are those who have learned to their eye on the ball while remaining at all times.
  5. There is one sure way in life to never your peak , and that is never to !
  6. People pursuing the “better than good” know life is a , not a .
  7. Another reason not to your journey is because we all at different .
  8. We become the same way we become “better than good”—by having , taking action, learning as we go, and steadily, purposefully moving with hopeful .
  9. There are seven benefits that come when you combine passion with planning.
    A. You will stay on God
    B. You will live without
    C. You will be
    D. You will work
    E. You will welcome as part of your
    F. You will keep alive
    G. You will your God-given
  10. The degree of hope you manifest by through obstacles becomes a measure of your .
  11. List the four dynamics of strategic planning.
    A. Have
    B. Take
    C. as you go
    D. with hopeful
  12. If you will learn the of passionate planning, you will begin moving quickly toward peak . If you plan to be and trust God’s as your plan unfolds, you, too, will the “better than good” life.
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Chapter Seven
Setting Goals

  1. “I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do , but still can do . I will not to do the something I can do.”
  2. List the four different truths about setting goals.
    A. the goal
    B. obstacles to the goal
    C. Keep your on the goal
    D. Set an goal
  3. Goal setters often take the image they’ve in their mind and reduce it to .
  4. Don’t picture the . Paint a in your mind of what you want to .
  5. In the achieving of your , it’s not what others believe you can ; it’s what believe you can do.
  6. Success does breed . It increases our and keeps the fire .
  7. The ultimate purpose for achieving goals in this life: to and help others and make this world a better place to .
  8. The lesson to from this chapter, you cannot - God!
  9. When your number one in life is to to yourself and put God first, you can rest assured you have set a goal that will last a .
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Chapter Eight
Failure: Life’s Refining Process

  1. “The men who try to do something and are infinitely better than those who try nothing and .”
  2. In Bruce Larson’s book My Creator, My Friend, he makes this insightful statement: “Quite often the absence of immediate is the mark of a genuine .”
  3. The author’s new definition of a “failure”: a slow who refuses to give ; a slow starter who doing what he is at whether anyone it or not.
  4. There is a significant connection between , peak performance, and .
  5. For Peter, the formula of his life looked something like this:
    Passion > > Potential > >
    Failure > > Peak Performance
  6. Failure is one of life’s greatest as long as we are not by it—as long as we from it.
  7. Here are some of the best lessons to learn from failure:
    A. Failure teaches us to on God.
    B. Failure teaches us .
    C. Failure teaches us that we can’t always get what we .
    D. Failure teaches us to make a in our course of action.
    E. Failure teaches us .
    F. Failure teaches us .
    G. Failure teaches us that we can .
  8. If you accept the notion that failure is just a stop on the way to the winner’s , then you are prepared for the “better than good” .
  9. The quickest way to get one hundred down the of life is to take step number .
  10. Presidents Washington and Lincoln teach us that Failure plus equals !
  11. Answer T for (True) or F for (False):
    Vice admiral James Stockton considered his being a POW as a failure.
    A young person who fails a math test is not a failure.
    The Biblical story of Job reminded Mr. Ziglar that life isn’t always fair.
  12. Not only is a failure not a , it is also not a .
  13. History abounds with of people who had something of real but who gave up too.
  14. When you have a you believe in with all your , stay the !
  15. You can achieve peak performance in the arena of your dream, if you do not let temporary quench your passion.
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Chapter Nine
“Better Than Good” Habits

  1. “The best way to stop a bad is never to it.“
  2. With the cultivation of every good a bad habit .
  3. When decisions are consistently by logical and inspirational , a commitment that produces is the result.
  4. George Eliot said, “It’s never too to become the you could have been.”
  5. It is not where you —it’s where you want to and your willingness to to get there that will make a .
  6. If an average reader will twenty minutes every , he or she will read twenty two-hundred-page each year.
  7. Marie Wachlin of Concordia University found that 98 percent of English teachers biblical gives students distinct educational .
  8. It is always in your best long-term interest to do your very best—to get in the habit of being a peak performer. And here’s how:
    A. The “Day Vacation” Plan
    B. The “No Other ” Plan
    C. The “Live and the Job” Plan
    D. The “Don’t , be ” Plan
    E. The “I Am Who I ” Plan
  9. Health is holistic. You must seek to be in all areas of your life if you are going to be a peak .
  10. Give your to God before you sign off at night and let Him on them while you’re deeply.
  11. The essence of self-discipline is ourselves in the of success.
  12. Develop the of going the extra and you will be the same way.
  13. Carl Bard said, “Though no one can go and make a brand- new , anyone can start from and make a brand-new .”
  14. The only way to overcome the power of negative or immoral imaginations is to fill your with positive and moral .
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Chapter Ten
The Power of Grit

  1. “Most of the important things in the world have been by people who have kept on when there seemed to be no at all.
  2. Persistence enables you to other as you go along.
  3. Charles Goodyear was an Bible student and church member who believed his “noble obsession” was a from God.
  4. If one believes in a personal , then determination and grit replace and a sense of insignificance.
  5. It is not criticism based on that is most destructive; it is emotional .
  6. Studies suggest that determination people to incredible of creativity.
  7. In the vast, vast majority of cases in life, only one person’s is on the accomplishment regarding your goals: .
  8. Passion without will only find the that are lying on the .
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Chapter Eleven
Redefining Success

  1. “God does not want us to do things. He wants us to do things extraordinarily .”
  2. When Mr. Ziglar became a Christian on July 4, 1972, his first priority became his relationship with , then his , and finally his .
  3. For Mr. Ziglar , true success is knowing God is and his family is happy and .
  4. The problem with for our goals is that goals never get .
  5. Successful people find the between ignoring and accepting .
  6. In the first two hundred years of our country’s over 90 percent of the educational was of a religious, and ethical nature.
  7. The Founding Fathers got it right when they built on the solid of God’s .
  8. One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal of as a great virtue.
  9. Tolerating behavior that flows from sinful establishes a that leads to moral .
  10. A primary responsibility of the older generation is to the one coming after by modeling .
  11. Don’t fail to include “role model” as one of your of success, starting with your own .
  12. Dr. Washington said, “I have that success is to be not so much by the position that one has in life as by the obstacles which he has while trying to succeed.”
  13. The greatest pursuit in which the human being can lose is the of God.
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PART III
The Purpose of the “Better Than Good” Life

Chapter Twelve
What Is the Purpose of Life?

  1. “Get the of your life from God, then go about your and be .”
  2. The Intelligent Design movement grew out of the of part of the scientific community to find in nature that “Someone” or “Something” our universe.
  3. If every part of our body has a , then it stands to reason that God us for a .
  4. Without in life we are like the proverbial who is all dressed up with no to go.
  5. Life is a journey toward …toward …toward performance…toward .
  6. If it weren’t possible to and do what you were to be and do, you wouldn’t feel about not doing it!
  7. If you don’t grab of the purpose God created you to , it will be a !
  8. In 1776, one gave America the language instead of German.
  9. We cannot see into the , but we can have that the acts God calls us to are significant and meaningful and need to be out.
  10. All you need to find and accomplish God’s in our life is God’s permission and —not anyone else’s
  11. When you combine your with your , peak performance will be the .
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Chapter Thirteen
Discover Your Calling

  1. “Life is not just a few years to spend on self- and career advancement. It is a , a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher . God’s calling. This alone gives true to life.”
  2. The more you know about your in life, the easier it is to callings into the “” and “” piles.
  3. Nothing worthwhile in life was ever without a compelling to achieve it.
  4. We need to become to those in life that our values and our .
  5. Even if we are in what we are doing, we should be continually for ways we can make an uplifting to our world.
  6. Man’s greatest calling comes when he and confirms that what he was put on this earth to do is a genuine of other people.
  7. If you see your work as a , rather than just a , then it is no longer a toiling .
  8. When Zig Ziglar his life to Christ and started studying and teaching principles in his public speaking his career .
  9. Most of us have so many that we through life of the times when purpose and passion meet and a broad boulevard named Calling.
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Chapter Fourteen
People and Purpose

  1. “You can make more in two months by becoming more in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in .”
  2. Better health is only one of an infinite number of why healthy are so important.
  3. If we do what God has asked us to do by our neighbors as we love ourselves, we will never for strong, healthy relationships.
  4. People who want to be continuously and enjoy a “better than good” life need to have the - advantage.
  5. The number one cause of a decline in on the job is marital at home.
  6. You should yourself with the people you can.
  7. Answer T for (True) or F for (False):
    Individuals who receive regular recognition and praise increase their productivity.
    More than twenty-two million workers in America are extremely positive, raising productivity.
    Sixty-five percent of Americans received no recognition in their work place.
    Nine out of ten people said they are more productive when they are around negative people.
  8. No one can fulfill his or her in life without being trustworthy and .
  9. It’s more important to care people than it is just to care them.
  10. If you have an you are sustaining you will never be completely .
  11. God wants our to be our to lead us to Him.
  12. A large part of our own comes when we out with compassion to .
  13. We were made to live at with so we could then live in with .
  14. People who seek to their highest purpose in life are those who and keep winning relationships.
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Chapter Fifteen
Change Somebody’s World One Act at a Time

  1. “People need the most when they deserve it the .
  2. Words of encouragement are like the stuff that is sprayed on the baton to each runner to get a firm .
  3. Winston Churchill said, “We make a living by what we ; we make a life by what we .”
  4. All it takes to set up the potential for a positive with another person is a .
  5. Nothing is more important to the future than the and young of today.
  6. Every one of us is a living to the young around us. That which they , they will .
  7. Make yourself to God, He will put in your path the people He wants you to .
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Chapter Sixteen
Let Love Be Your Guide

  1. “Love talked about can be easily turned , but love demonstrated is .”
  2. Loving God and then our neighbor is an of our love for .
  3. When love people, amazing things can .
  4. The willing human heart finds ways of that easily obstacles such as poverty and .
  5. The only way children will learn to be of love as adults is if they have been of unconditional as children.
  6. The absence of by one’s father can be in time by the love of the Father.
  7. When you yourself the way God does, you won’t just that you are loved, you’ll loved as well.
  8. Answer T for (True) or F for (False):
    Beth Moore tried to concentrate on the Word to keep from being concerned about the man in the wheelchair.
    Beth begged God to let her witness to the man.
    God did not want her to witness to the old man. He wanted her to brush his hair.
    Beth did not obey God and brush the old man’s hair.
    The old man knew Jesus as his Saviour.
    Beth felt this was a God moment she would never forget.
  9. If we will let love be our , we will see and like God.
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Epilogue: The Promise
of a “Better Than Good” Life

  1. If we will take certain today, in light of the , our lives could be radically different and .
  2. If we are attentive, , and, preferably, as we go through life, we’ll more near the than we did at the .
  3. If you will today to God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength through a relationship with His Son, Jesus Christ, you will not your past and you can forward to your because it will be “better than good.”
  4. When Mr. Ziglar began to see his work as an of God’s work, there were hardly enough in the day for him to what he wanted to get done.
  5. Living a life filled with and is a lifelong journey, a road that ends in at an eternal destination.
  6. There is a tendency to if a person is generally , or does enough good for others during their life, they will a place in heaven.
  7. Christianity is not a ; it is a with a person—Jesus Christ.
  8. Jesus Christ came to earth—to be our —to the price you and I could never .
  9. No life is as as the life lived in intimate with God.
  10. Copy the rest of five of the “I am doing better than good because…”
    statements that you find especially helpful to you: (see Pages 241-242)
    A.

    B.

    C.

    D.

    E.
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Use Your Bible

(KJV)

Match each of the following statements with the Scripture that best says it:

1. If God be for us, who can be against us? A. Colossians 3:23
2. Jesus came to give the more abundant life for us. B. Proverbs 20:18
3. The kingdom of God is within you. C. 1 Corinthians 10:31
4. God gives us the spirit of power, love & a sound mind. D. Ecclesiastes 3:17
5. We are more than conquerers through Him! E. 1 Samuel 30:6
6. Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord. F. 2 Timothy 1:7
7. Do all to the glory of God. G. Colossians 3:17
8. Press toward…the prize of the high calling of God. H. Romans 11:29
9. Every purpose is established by counsel (good advice). I. John 10:10
10. David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. J. Romans 8:31
11. Make your calling and election sure. K. Philippians 3:14
12. There is a time for every purpose and every work. L. Romans 8:37
13. The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. M. Luke 17:21
14. Called with a holy calling, according to His purpose. N. 2 Peter 1:10
15. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks… O. 2 Timothy 1:9
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