The Word of the Lord is... Temperance! Temperance means serenity. Serenity: What you can walk away from you have mastered.
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Author: Pastor Hanks
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Don't move until you see three green lights.....Be Temperate, wait for 3 green lights. Don't move if one of the lights is red...Red light, green light 1-2-3. The lights must line up! Green! Green! Green! Modify your responses with temperance. Grace under fire. Don't sweat the small things. Measure your issues. Measure your responses. Your issues are smaller than God...small things are anything bigger than God. Spiritually, You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them.
The 3 green lights are His Word, His Will, His Way. The lights must line up. Temperance in all things self-control (the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, esp. his sensual appetites) ejgkravteia, Egkrateia, eng-krat'-i-ah 
Function: adjective
Pronunciation: 'tem-p(&-)r&t
Etymology: Middle English temperat, from Latin temperatus, from past participle of temperare
1 : marked by moderation: as a : keeping or held within limits : not extreme or excessive : MILD b : moderate in indulgence of appetite or desire c : moderate in the use of intoxicating liquors d : marked by an absence or avoidance of extravagance, violence, or extreme partisanship -Text: 1 avoiding extremes in behavior or expression <rather temperate in his appraisal of the movie, calling it good but not great> -- see MODERATE 1 Related words controlled, curbed, disciplined, restrained, self-controlled; calculated, deliberate, measured; rational, reasonable; average, mediocre, medium, modest, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, so-so; normal, ordinary, regular, routine, typical, usual
Frederick Charrington was a member of the wealthy family in England which owned the Charrington Brewery. His personal fortune, derived solely from his brewing enterprise, exceeded $66 million.
One night, Charrington was walking along a London street with a few friends. Suddenly the door of a pub flew open just a few steps ahead of the group, and a man staggered out into the street with a woman clinging desperately to him. The man, obviously very drunk, was swearing at the woman and trying to push her away. The woman was gaunt and clad in rags. She sobbed and pleaded with the drunken man, who was her husband.
“Please, dear, please!” she cried as Charrington and his friends watched. “The children haven’t eaten in two days! And I’ve not eaten in a week! For the love of God, please come home! Or if you must stay, just give me a few coins so I can buy the children some…”
Her pleas were brutally cut off as her husband struck her a savage blow. She collapsed to the stone pavement like a rag doll. The man stood over her with his fists clenched, poised as if to strike her again. Charrington leaped forward and grasped him. The man struggled, swearing violently, but Charrington pinned the man’s arms securely behind his back. Charrington’s companions rushed to the woman’s side and began ministering to her wounds. A short time later a policeman led the drunken man away and the woman was taken to a nearby hospital.
As Charrington brushed himself off, he noticed a lighted sign in the window of the pub: “Drink Chrarrington Ale.” The multi-millionaire brewer was suddenly shaken to the core of his being. He realized that his confrontation with the violent husband would not have happened if the man’s brain had not been awash with the Charrington family’s product. “When I saw that sign,” he later wrote, “I was stricken just as surely as Paul on the Damascus Road. Here was the source of my family wealth, and it was producing untold human misery before my own eyes. Then and there I pledged to God that not another penny of that money shouldcome to me.”
History records that Frederick Charrington became one of the most well-known temperance activists in England. He renounced his share of the family fortune and devoted the rest of his life to the ministry of freeing men and women from the curse of alcoholism.
Your Windshield Size
look at the size of your Windshield.
Now...Look at the size of your rear view mirror.
Look at the size of your rear view mirror.
The size of your rear view mirror pales in comparison to the size of your windshield size.
Your past looms smaller than your Future....
The view from your rear view mirror
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