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"I won't share my secret with just anyone," Green replies, lowering his voice so the other shoppers won't hear.  "But since you're a good and faithful customer, I'll let you in on it.  Fish heads.  You eat enough of them, you'll be positively brilliant."

"You sell them here?" the customer asked."

"Only $4 apiece," says Green.

The customer buys three.  A week later, he's back in the store complaining that the fish heads were disgusting and he isn't any smarter.

"You didn't eat enough," says Green.  The customer goes home with 20 more fish heads.  Two weeks later, he's back and this time he's really angry.

"Hey Green," he says.  "You're selling me fish heads for $4 apiece when I can get the whole fish for $2.  Youi're ripping me off!"

"You see?" says Green.  "You're smarter already."





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God - you're my God!  I can't get enough
of you!  I've worked up such hunger and
thirst for God, traveling across dry and
weary deserts.  So here I am in the
place of worship, eyes open, drinking
in your strength and glory.  In your
generous love I am really living at
last!  My lips brim praises like
fountains.  I bless you every
time I take a breath; My
arms wave like
banners of
praise to
you!
Psalm 63:1-4
The Message



Because You Prayed

Because you prayed I can be strong
I found my hope in the Lord,
my strength is renewed,
I can soar on wings like an eagle, I can run and not grow weary, I can walk and not be faint.

Because you prayed I can be calm
He quiets me with His love
and clothes me with His peace.

Because you prayed I can be useful to others
God filled my heart with living water
and turned my thirst into a fountain,
bathing others with His Spirit,
freeing captives,
healing wounded souls.

Because you prayed our land is enriched
The hills are clothed with gladness,
the valleys are mantled with grain.
He cares for the land and waters it.
He softens it with showers
and blesses its crops.
He crowns the year with bounty. . .
Because you prayed


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Matthew 7:7
Don't bargain with God.  Be direct.
Ask for what you need.

Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer you.
I'll tell you marvelous and wondrous things
that you could never figure out on your own.

Isaiah 65:24
Before they call out, I'll answer.
Before they've finished speaking,
I'll have heard.

James 5:16
Make this your common practice:
Confess your sins to each other
and pray for each other so that
you can live togther whole and healed.
The prayer of a person living right with God
is something powerful to be reckoned with.

John 14:13, 14
From now on, whatever you request
along the lines of who I am and what I am doing,
I'll do it.  That's how the Father will be seen
for who he is in the Son.  I mean it.
Whatever you request in this way, I'll do.




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