When Carlyle Marney became pastor of a large church with lots of "movers and shakers," he confessed to his friend Samuel Southard that he prayed this prayer about his weakness: "Lord, you have called me to manage hard-headed people. Control my temper- even if I can't help but cuss at least once a week." A year later Southard asked Carlyle if the prayer worked. "Oh yes," he replied, "although I'm already ten years overdrawn on the weekly cussing." We all have accounts overdrawn on God's resources. - Southard, Theology and Therapy: The Wisdom of God in a Context of Friendship
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