Comments on: Outliers Need Opportunity to Succeed http://blog.compassion.com/outliers/ Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mike Stephens http://blog.compassion.com/outliers/comment-page-1/#comment-5647 Mike Stephens Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:15:14 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=2071#comment-5647 Chris thanks for the Post!!! It reminds me of a verse Proverbs 16:33 "Even the things that seem accidental were really ordered by Him!!!" (Amplified Bible) You can say economics, circumstances, people, places, timing, time, climate are the reasons but I believe the "REASON" is God, is Jesus, is the Holy Spirit i.e. the Spirit of TRUTH. How did I take a trip down to Nicaragua to visit the child I sponsor??? It was God. I earned money and had a desire to go, but many other Bible believing Christians encouraged me along the way. That is ALL God!!! Also apart from God we can do nothing!!! I like to think I choose to make things happen in my life that if it wasn't for me they never would have happened, but God pre-ordained the good deeds for me before he created the Universe so I could walk in them!!! Jesus chose to die on the Cross to be obedient to God, but Jesus' death on the Cross was told of by the prophets many years before it even happened!!! I believe our lives are similar God knows what will happen, what we will choose b/c he has ordered it to happen already. It is encouraging to me b/c God has A PLAN!!! Jeremiah 29:11 woohooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chris thanks for the Post!!!

It reminds me of a verse

Proverbs 16:33 “Even the things that seem accidental were really ordered by Him!!!” (Amplified Bible)

You can say economics, circumstances, people, places, timing, time, climate are the reasons but I believe the “REASON” is God, is Jesus, is the Holy Spirit i.e. the Spirit of TRUTH. How did I take a trip down to Nicaragua to visit the child I sponsor??? It was God. I earned money and had a desire to go, but many other Bible believing Christians encouraged me along the way. That is ALL God!!! Also apart from God we can do nothing!!! I like to think I choose to make things happen in my life that if it wasn’t for me they never would have happened, but God pre-ordained the good deeds for me before he created the Universe so I could walk in them!!! Jesus chose to die on the Cross to be obedient to God, but Jesus’ death on the Cross was told of by the prophets many years before it even happened!!! I believe our lives are similar God knows what will happen, what we will choose b/c he has ordered it to happen already. It is encouraging to me b/c God has A PLAN!!! Jeremiah 29:11 woohooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Carenita http://blog.compassion.com/outliers/comment-page-1/#comment-4591 Carenita Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:27:50 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=2071#comment-4591 Another secular book on self-achievement. Spiritual and moral elements are conspicuously absent from his hypothesis. Too bad. The topic of missed opportunity eludes the writer. Seemingly a "missed opportunity" is no opportunity at all. Maybe I'll finsih reading "the Shack" after all ;) Another secular book on self-achievement. Spiritual and moral elements are conspicuously absent from his hypothesis. Too bad. The topic of missed opportunity eludes the writer. Seemingly a “missed opportunity” is no opportunity at all.

Maybe I’ll finsih reading “the Shack” after all ;)

]]> By: Ian Durias http://blog.compassion.com/outliers/comment-page-1/#comment-4588 Ian Durias Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:56:09 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=2071#comment-4588 Well said, Chris! I've been planning to read this book. Even more so now. Well said, Chris! I’ve been planning to read this book. Even more so now.

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