How to Stay Young and Fruitful All Your Life

Do you use miracle medicine to stay young? Exercise daily? Dieting? These may promise to preserve our mental acuity or physical appearance. But they fall short of the abundant life Christ wants to give you. According to Dr. Stanley, there are things that we should do to keep us young and fruitful throught out our lives.

1. Keep leaving. Those who want to be youthful can not carry around the weight of emotional baggage. Painful memories may come to mind, but don’t allow yourself to dwell on them. God doesn’t want you to focus on the past. Christians should enjoy the present and anticipate the future.

2. Keep Longing. Never stop thinking about what the Lord may want to do through you. People with no purpose in life will age faster than those inspired by God-given goals.

3. Keep Looking. Read His Word and expect Him to reveal spiritual truth. Pay attention to the voice of the Holy Spirit as He guides you moment by moment.

4. Keep Laboring. Today, many people want to work less than that. But God designed us to be active. Exercising our bodies—through manual labor and other physical activity—keeps them healthier.

5. Keep Leaning. Turn every burden and worry over to God.

6. Keep learning. Acquiring new skills or knowledge stimulates our minds. Research has discovered that people who stop educating themselves usually age faster.

7. Keep loving. A loving person always smile and happy. Happiness makes that aging process slower.

8. Keep laughing. It relaxes your body and helps release tension and stress.

9. Keep your language positive.

10. Keep listening to the Lord. When you pray, don’t do all the talking. Ask the Father to guide your life each day.

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God is With Us in Our Everyday Lives

Maybe you think that God doesn't want to "be bothered" with the details of your everyday life... stuff like tests, fights with your parents, and struggles with your friends. Well, if you thought that way, you'd be wrong! God is right beside you every moment of every day, and he wants you to talk to him about everything. If you'll do that, you'll find that he will become your best friend, one that will never let you down.

"The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

and his understanding no one ca fathom.

He gives strength to the weary

and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall;

but those who hope in the Lord

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.

God never stops wanting to hear from us about every aspect of our lives. So while we all must grow up, we never have to stop being God's child.

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God is with us Always

Nothing in this world is permanent. You are changing every day, and so is everyone else. Friendships that you thought would last a lifetime fade away. People you thought would always be there die. Nothing lasts forever. Nothing, that is, except God. When everything else seem to crumble around you, God is your solid place to stand. He never changes and he never goes away. His promises will never fail.

God loves us so much that he wants to share forever with us. He wants us to know eternal joy and peace with Him!

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Your Dad, The Hero

Check out some of Dad's amazing abilities!

Mind reading: He knows when it's report card day. He knows when you haven't done your homework. He even knows that it was you who broke the computer and not your little sister! Nothing can get past Dad and His amazing telephatic abilities, so you can forget trying to make up a believable lie. One good thing about this power - Dad also knows when you've had a bad day at school and need a trip to the arcade to cheer you up.

Super Strength: He can teach you how to bike all morning long and still have energy to help you with your math homework. Even when he's dead tired from the office, he'll still watch TV with you so you can both cheer for your favorite basketball team. Next time you "win" at arm wrestling, let Dad know you're on to him.

Teleportation: He drops you off at school. He picks you up at the end of the day. Once, he even magically appeared out of nowhere to bring you to the hospital when you broke a bone in soccer practice! Fast car? That's what he wants you to believe! Dad can actually slip between dimensions and travel through time to make sure he's always there for you!

Supreme Knowledge: How does Dad know all the capitals of the world - and the name of all the MVPs for the last 20 NBA seasons? You can go to him for any info you need and he willingly shares his years of knowledge with you - maybe he has a super computer chip in his brain...

Homing Sense: You're never lost with Dad around! He can find the teensiest street in the middle of nowhere. Just say the name of the place you want to go and his spectacular radar sense will know exactly how to get there! ery useful for secret missions to find the mystical treasure of the Feiry mountain - or where to go to snag that rare Pokemon card you've been trackling down for years!

Big Heart: Our favorite super power - and Dad's too. It's the source of all his other powers. Even if he doesn't defend the world from aliens or stop a villain from conquering the world, his big heart is what transforms him into a real superhero!

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