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Friday, February 13, 2009

Is 13 your favorite number ?


Let me say right up front: I DON'T BELIEVE IN LUCK ! I BELEIVE IN PROVIDENCE GUIDED BY A SOVEREIGN GOD WHO EXPECTS US TO PREPARE IN EVERY WAY EACH AND EVERY DAY.Now having said that I wish you all good luck on Friday the 13th ( just kidding :))

Let me share with u some interest facts about this day that the Lord created along with the the rest:

  • Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor.
  • Butch Cassidy, notorious American train and bank robber, was born on Friday, April 13, 1866.
  • Fidel Castro was born on Friday, Aug. 13, 1926.
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal.
  • Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.
  • Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12."
Now let me share a few Friday the 13th facts

1. God created Friday and all the 13ths that come with it

Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.


2. Friday the 13th is a day that calls for a choice

Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve;....

3.
Friday the 13th is a day to brag about God

Psa 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

4.
Friday the 13th is a day not to be afraid of physical dangers

Psa 91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

5.
Friday the 13th is a day to be faced

Psa 102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

6.
Friday the 13th is a day of rejoicing

Psa 118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

7.
Friday the 13th is a day in which we may face God

Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the

As the old Roman said : Carpe Diem
















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