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Stop Asking for Help

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My pastor gave me a book to read the other day. I love books and I have more than I will get to in the next five years, but when your pastor gives you a book and encourages you to read it, it moves to the top of the stack, right? So this is it: The Green Letters  by Miles Stanford. I don't want to say it was a good book. I don't want to say I enjoyed it. Because here's my honest assessment: it smacked me in the face with TRUTH. Tons of it. I wish you could see all the pages, with my underlining, smiley faces, exclamation marks, and arrows. It's a mess.  Chapter 16, entitled "Help," has rocked my world and been the focus of my mind ever since I read it. After just the first sentence, I wrote this: "Yikes. This is something I've never heard."  So what was this earth-shattering truth that you're dying to hear? [Warning: your jaw is about to hit the floor.] "For most of us, it is time to stop asking God for help. He didn't help