Sometimes we have to go through the storms of life before we realize our purpose or to whom or what group of people we are assigned.   God strategically places people in our life to stretch us and to help shape our character so that we can become the person we were created to be.  How we respond when we realize our purpose or receive our life assignment determines the consequence(s) of disobedience or the pouring out of blessings.

Juanita Shanks, President, FAILSAFE-ERA

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It's Here

• 2010 Community Resource Guide - 1st Edition  

Our lives are like seasons

 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.   Winter gives way to spring, spring to summer, and summer to fall.   You have a bright future ahead, sometimes when things are not looking hopeful, when it looks dead, you are simply out of season.  Brighter seasons are right around the corner. 

      FAILSAFE-ERA meet on the1st Saturday of each month

from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at the

 Bragg Hill Family Life Center

400 Bragg Hill Drive 

 Fredericksburg, VA  22401

“Freedom is the privilege of those who are willing to obey.  It is a privilege which carries many responsibilities.  It is not an automatic right.   Jesus said, “…You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).  Truth makes us free because it gives understanding.  Understanding helps us accept the necessary conditions, restrictions, and discipline which must prevail if there is to be true freedom.  To obey the truth of God’s Word makes us free from the slavery of evil habits, desires which harm us, and behavior which dishonors the Lord.  Liberty is not the result of human achievement.  It is the result of obedience to God.  Disobedience means loss of freedom.

If freedom is to be real and lasting, it must be controlled by love.  Freedom to do as one pleases, without regard for others or for the circumstances, is destructive.  Christian liberty is freedom to love and to serve.  It is abused when it is made an excuse for loveless behavior or inconsiderate action.

Real freedom is found in serving God.  With our minds centered on Christ and what He would have us do, the self-centered desires and degrading habits of life are crowded out.  Life is complete and happy when we surrender ourselves to God, whose yoke is easy and burden is light

(Matthew 11:30)

Lucille Sollenberger

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"You are free to be free"

Everything is under God’s control.  Everything has a purpose.  Remove your confidence from man and trust in God.                Juanita Shanks