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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. —Abraham Lincoln There are countless Christian women who would love to be married and aren’t. There are also plenty of married women who have days when they’d rather not be married! One woman is overwhelmed by the demands of her high powered job as another searches, desperately, for employment. Excellence isn’t concerned with how you are compared to how others are. Excellence is concerned with how you are compared to the potential of how you are supposed to be. In other words, excellence has to do with God’s destiny for you. Are you progressively pressing forward and moving toward what He wants for you? Are you defining your decisions, thoughts, and actions by the highest quality and authenticity you have to offer? That is the measure of true excellence. At one time or another, all of us have wanted our situations to be other than they are. In the end, though, the King won’t ask us if we got everything we wanted. He will, however, survey what we did with what we were given. If that

Those of us who have received Christ are literally children of royalty.  —Beth Moore, Breaking Free One day a princess went hunting in the woods. When she returned, she was almost unrecognizable. The hair under her hood was tousled. Her clothes were torn. Her shoes were caked in mud. Her face was dirty. And she even smelled a little bit. After returning her horse to the stable, she approached the gates of the castle. Curtly, the royal guards turned her away. Pulling off her hood and standing a little straighter, she insisted, “It is I!” Recognizing her as the princess, the guards bowed and granted her entrance. Though royal privilege may feel foreign to many of us, it is, nonetheless, our inheritance in Christ! The woman who had suffered for eighteen years was a daughter of Abraham, and Jesus honored her birthright (Luke 13:16). As a kingdom woman, she could capture the ear and heart of God. In his letter to the Galatians, Paul wrote, “If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise” (3:29, ESV). The promise God made to Abraham—of covenant fidelity and blessing—is the same promise God makes to you. Even if this season of life has been hard for you, your face is dirty, and your hair is mussed, your right to claim

  The best thing that I can tell you to do if you are facing hopelessness is to listen to Jesus. Hear Him call your name. Like the woman who couldn’t straighten up, don’t quit.  —Tony Evans, Kingdom Woman Fans crowded into stadium bleachers were going wild. The high school basketball game was tied, and there were only fourteen seconds left on the clock. If the home team could sink just one more basket and keep their crosstown rivals from scoring, the varsity girls team would end their season undefeated. With eight seconds left, the home team’s star player was fouled while shooting. As she stepped to the free throw line, she heard the crowd begin to chant. It wasn’t wild, as it had been in the heat of the game. In fact, it was a pulsing whisper. The crowd was saying her name. Knees bent and eyes ahead, the girl pounded the ball on the ground twice to center herself; then her whole body uncoiled as she thrust the ball toward the basket. Swish! The crowd went wild. Then she did it again. And one minute later, fans burst onto the court still screaming her name. While they’d been cheering for the team most of the game, nothing compared to hearing the sound of her name at the end. Beloved,

A nation without God's guidance is a nation without order. Happy are those who keep God's law!” - Proverbs 29:18     Problems arise when people adopt the institution of government but dismiss the divine Ruler over government. Many people want, “God bless America” today. They just don’t want, “One Nation Under God.” The issue is that you can’t have one without the other. God has given us the freedom to choose whether or not we will be one nation under Him – whether we will recognize His rule and operate underneath it. But with that choice comes either “God bless America,” or not. God only promises to bless the nation who recognizes His authority. (Psalm 33:12) Freedom means you get to control the choice, but because God is the sovereign ruler over His creation you don’t get to control the consequences. He will rule by either endorsing your choice, or He will rule by allowing you to have the consequences of a decision made against Him.

Father!—To God himself we cannot give a holier name. —Marmaduke, in William Wordsworth’s The Borderers I could have been a casualty of men not fulfilling their God-given role to provide leadership and mirror God’s character. My father and mother were in constant conflict. Our home was filled with chaos. Divorce seemed like the only possible outcome. But what my dad modeled for me the year I turned ten forever changed my life. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus. He immediately became fired up about God and the Bible. My mom didn’t like my dad as a sinner, and she liked him even less as a saint. She did everything she could to knock my dad’s focus off of God and to make him stop loving her. But nothing worked. My dad loved her un¬conditionally. He was calm, consistent, and caring. Finally one night, she said, “I want what you have because it must be real.” The impact a father has on a home, a marriage, and on a church or community cannot be emphasized enough. My father’s impact dramatically altered the trajectory of my life and, as a result, has impacted countless more people. Men, you are

  Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life. —Oswald Chambers Adolescent male elephants have been running wild, attacking one another, other animals, and humans. Elephant aggression has become a big problem in many parts of the world in recent decades. As scientists have tried to figure out why, they’ve determined that elephant social structure has been destroyed, mostly due to poaching. Elder elephants are missing, especially adult male bulls, who are favorite targets of poachers. When South African park rangers flew in some adult male elephants, they flapped their ears, raised their trunks, and bellowed for days—and they restored order. The young males got in line and stopped their destruction. The same is true of humans. When men are absent or fail to lead, society erodes. It’s why nearly all the inmates at the prison I visit came from homes where the father was absent, neglectful, or abusive. It’s why overwhelming percentages of prisoners and high-school dropouts had absent fathers. Society’s problems are not just society’s problems. They are the church’s problems. They are our problems. Jesus proclaimed, “He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives” (Luke 4:18). Men, this begins in our