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         (Dad:) Though you may not feel like you're much of a sample right now, or you don't feel very strong, or you feel like you're barely making it yourself, much less able to help anyone else--if you step out by faith and determine to be the sample that you know the Lord expects you to be, and that the young ones expect you to be, then He'll help you. As you decide to give your life for them, even if it kills you, the Lord will reward you. The Lord will pull you through and He will bless you.
         Just like the Bible says, no greater love has any man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. There's no greater way that you can show your love for the Lord than by laying down your lives for these kids--both your own kids and other young people who need help, who need a shepherd, who need someone to show them the way, someone to be a sample. Not in words, not in sermons, not in telling people what to do or what not to do, not in berating the young people, but in showing the way and being a sample--someone whom they would want to be like, whom they would want to emulate. Being a sample of love, of patience, of love for the lost, of a fervent desire to get out and witness and win the lost. If you determine in your heart to do it, I know the Lord will bless you.



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