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Monday, May 2, 2011

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~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

A-S-K and prayer

Luke 11:9-10 (New American Standard Bible)
⁹"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
¹⁰"For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

Ask
Seek
Knock

This is what we are supposed to do with prayer.

What in your life do you need to ask God for?

~ Stacy Duplease
Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)
Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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http://alifeofseasons.blogspot.com
http://prayerguardusa.blogspot.com

Do you have any prayer requests?

If you do, I would be honored to pray about them for you.

Please send me an email to the address below in this blog post or attach a comment to the end of this blog post.

Make sure that you tell me if you want it to be kept private/confidential,--or if you want me to put it on this blog so others can pray about it for you.

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to allow God to use me for His purpose in praying for you.

God bless and have a Word-filled day.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Do you take prayer seriously enough? Part 2

Does your life reflect daily that you take prayer seriously enough? If so, how? If not, how can you change your life to take prayer a great deal more seriously?

Prayer journal your thoughts.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Do you take prayer seriously enough? Part 1

Grab your prayer journal and answer these two questions off and on for the next 24 hours.

Struggle and wrestle with these questions. Be thorough in your response.

~ Do you take prayer seriously enough?

~ How could you take prayer more seriously?

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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Local, National, and World News and Prayer

Take a look at your city, state, national, and world-wide news every day and pray for the things which are headlines and which grab your eye. Follow the Lord’s lead and pray for whatever weighs on your heart to pray about and make sure to keep track of these prayers in your journal.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Not praying for one another is sin

1 Samuel 12:23a (New American Standard Bible)

²³"Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you.

If that verse doesn’t encourage us to pray for each other, what does?

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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Have the mind of Christ

This is the verse of the day form BibleGateway.com for today:

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!” - Philippians 2:5-8

This is a good passage to memorize or keep on hand when dealing with the tough stuff of life. It’s a good passage to have in mind, and in your heart, when you pray.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

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Times of Trouble

Psalm 46:1 (New International Version, ©2011)

¹ God is our refuge and strength,

an ever-present help in trouble.

When we are dealing with times of trouble, storm, challenges, and so on, this verse can bring us a great deal of comfort. This is a verse we can offer others going through these difficult times and seasons and help bring them peace.

You may want to memorize it so it comes to the top of your mind when dealing with the storms of life—literal and figurative.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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Prayers for the storm

My prayers, mind, and heart are with the victims of the storm system of 300 miles of destruction in which over 130 tornadoes took lives, homes, businesses, and entire towns. This is one of the worst storm systems in the history of the United States of America.

Lord, be the refuge and strength for all the people involved.

My prayers are with a special person I know who reads this blog. Their family was involved in these storms. (I’m not putting names in an effort to uphold confidentiality for them and their family.)

Lord, comfort everyone involved. Wrap them in Your wings, place them in the cleft of the mountain and in a safe place. Hold them near. Guide them as they have to make decisions and be their way.

God bless everyone involved in these storms.

~ Stacy Duplease

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The grocery list prayer vs. prayer requests

So, what is the difference in the grocery list style of prayer and prayer requests? Is there a difference?

There is a difference.

The grocery list style of prayer is the, “I want list” just because you want list.

Prayer requests are intercession and petition. They are things truly, deeply on our hearts and minds. These are our prayers that others have asked us to pray, things God has told us to pray for others, and things that are deeply on our heart about our own lives.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

How often?

Let's analyze our prayer lives for a moment. Grab your prayer journal and pray for God to reveal the truth of what is in you mind and heart today before you read ahead.

Now, would you define yourself as a novice in prayer, an intermediate, a prayer warrior? Explain your response.

This next question will sound like the last one, but there is a difference.

Are you a private/airman, a lieutenant, a major, or a colonel in prayer? Explain.

How often do you pray?

How long do you pray when you do?

How do you pray? What does it look like? Write a summary and answer both those questions.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)
Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals
Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Monday, April 25, 2011

Pray to God about prayer territory

God has a specific territory each of us lives in, works in, and prays in (physically and spiritually).

Do you know what territory God has given you to pray? (Do you even know what I’m talking about?

Ask Him your purpose in prayer and what your territory is. Now is the best time to begin.

For some, the prayer territory is the workplace, their friends and family, the block they live on, the city, their state, their country, a specific country, a specific religion to convert to Christianity, the unsaved/lost etc. We are to pray for all of these things, every week at the very least, sure. That’s normal. But, one of these or a few of these things might be pressed even more so on your heart. God will share a passion about certain people, circumstances, or places in your life—or all three.

Pray to God to reveal to you what your prayer territory is.

Let give you an idea of sharing with you my territory. Conveniently, my prayer territory is also my writing territory/audience, I discovered:

Christian prayer warriors/prayer guards

Prayer Journal Keepers

The military and military spouses on the military installation closest to me

The military kids

The military families

My small group and other small groups

My church

Teens to fall in love with the Bible, prayer, prayer journaling—and become prayer guards

Christian women

The lost/unsaved

The USA as a whole and government (law, upholding Constitution, budget/spending, taxes, upholding Christian values and will of God, etc.)

I will pray the other Prayer Areas of Operation on a daily and weekly basis, but the things above are the those closest to my heart.

Does that help?

I am still praying for a clearer and more precise image of my territory, but I have a start.

So, shall we pray about what God wants from us and our prayer territories? You may want to prayer journal your thoughts and prayers regarding this issue. It’s a big one—an important one.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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Thanks for the follow

Tammy, thanks for the follow!

Blessings,

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Prayer Guard USA: Order of Battle: PRAYER AREAS OF OPERATION OF MILITARY SPOUSE

Order of Battle: PRAYER AREAS OF OPERATION OF MILITARY SPOUSE

~ Myself

~ Spouse

~ Children

~ Home

~ Spiritual Warfare Specifics

~ Prayer Requests

~ News (Latest News Events Reported)

~ A-S-K Prayers

~ My work and peers

~ My spouse’s work and peers… Who he/she works for and what they do.

~ My children’s schools and peers

~ Wing/Unit

~ Chapel

~ Family

~ Friends

~ Military spouses on base/station/post in which you live/are assigned

~ Military on base/station/post in which you live/are assigned

~ The Block in which I live

~ My church

~ My city

~ My state

~ All the people in spouse’s occupation all over world

~ Spouse’s military branch

~ All branches of military

~ My government

~ My nation

~ The Church (all the Christian churches in the world)

~ World

~ Unbelievers/Lost

~ Christian Radio and Ministries

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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Prayer Guard USA Order of Battle: Which Battle Fronts Should We Pray? (Version 3)

How should we pray and what should we pray for—every day, weekly, monthly, and so on—and do so effectively? The Order of Battle is the answer to that question.

First of all, there are areas or locations where we fight. Those are our areas or locations of our battle (operation). Take a look below in order to see what these are specifically.

Then, there are the Battle Fronts (or waves). What are these? Our prayer lives consist of people, circumstances, places, the church, and the unbelievers/lost. Take a look below in order to see what these are specifically.

There are units of prayer within each of the Battle Fronts. Take a look below in order to see what these are specifically.

Order of Battle: PRAYER AREAS OF OPERATION

~ Myself

~ Spouse

~ Children

~ Home

~ Spiritual Warfare Specifics

~ Prayer Requests

~ News (Latest News Events Reported)

~ A-S-K Prayers

~ My work and peers

~ My spouse’s work and peers

~ My children’s schools and peers

~ Family

~ Friends

~ The Block in which I live

~ My church

~ My city

~ Military base/station/post nearest to my house

~ My state

~ Military of my nation: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Cost Guard, Reserves

~ Government: laws and spending/budget

~ My nation

~ Wars of my nation

~ The Church (all the Christian churches in the world)

~ World

~ Unbelievers/Lost

~ Christian Radio and Ministries

Order of Battle: The PEOPLE Battle Front

~ 1. Prayer Request Specifics (if I know of any)

~ 2. Spiritual Health

~ 3. Circumstances

~ 4. Mental Health

~ 5. Emotional Health

~ 6. Family

~ 7. Work

~ 8. Finances

~ 9. Busyness

~ 10. Their dreams and goals

~ 11. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

Order of Battle: The CIRCUMSTANCES Battle Front

~ 1. Identify the circumstance that needs prayer. Label it. Name it.

~ 2. Who does this impact directly?

~ 3. How does this impact you directly?

~ 4. How does this impact you indirectly?

~ 5. Why does it need prayer? What is the prayer?

~ 6. What do you HOPE happens? How do you hope to change regarding the circumstance?

~ 7. If it’s not God’s will to change it, then it’s also important to release the result of the prayer and circumstance to God. In other words, pray that His will be done.

~ 8. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

Order of Battle: The PLACES Battle Front

These are buildings, organizations, states, cities, schools, nations, etc.

~ 1. Identify the place. Name it. Label it.

~ 2. What specific prayer requests do you have, or have you heard about the place that comes to mind?

With each prayer request, look at each of the following:

~ 3. Who is there?

~ 4. What is the importance of this place?

~ 5. How does this touch your life directly?

~ 6. How does this touch your life indirectly?

~ 7. How is God working in that place presently?

~ 8. How is the enemy at work in this place?

~ 9. How is this place glorifying to God? Pray for more of that.

~ 10. How does this place not glorify God? What change does it need in order to glorify God?

~ 11. What is the spiritual health of this place?

~ 12. How does this place build the people up within that place? Pray for more of that.

~ 13. How does this place tear down the people up within that place? Pray for less of that.

~ 14. Pray anything else that God puts on your mind.

~ 15. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

Order of Battle: The CHURCH Battle Front

Pray this 1^st for your church. Then, once you do this, pray for your denomination. Then, pray these things for the Church as a whole.

~ 1. Prayer Request Specifics (if I know of any)

~ 2. Spiritual Health

~ 3. Circumstances

~ 4. Mental Health

~ 5. Emotional Health

~ 6. Family

~ 7. Work

~ 8. Finances

~ 9. Busyness

~ 10. Their dreams and goals

~ 11. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

Order of Battle: The UNBELIEVERS/LOST Battle Front

List all of the people in your life that are close to you that are lost. Then, list people that you consider friends. Then, list the people you come to in your life and are acquaintances. Then, pray these things for the unbelievers of your block, city, church, state, nation, and world.

~ 1. Prayer Request Specifics (if I know of any)

~ 2. Spiritual Health

~ 3. Circumstances

~ 4. Mental Health

~ 5. Emotional Health

~ 6. Family

~ 7. Work

~ 8. Finances

~ 9. Busyness

~ 10. Their dreams and goals

~ 11. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Hope you had a Happy Easter

I hope you had a special and memorable Easter!

~ Stacy Duplease

Saturday, April 23, 2011

When is the best time to pray?: pj4life thought to ponder

Now.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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Happy Easter

Have a very happy and blessed Easter, everyone!

He is RISEN!

~ Stacy

A real life example

If you haven’t read the last two blog posts I’ve done today, please do so now. They will come to play in this blog post. They are about prayer and challenging times. I need to give you the background about why I did those blog posts, and why I’m doing this one.

I am going to keep this very vague for now. It’s in an effort to keep my privacy, but I still want to be as transparent as I am able. It’s to show you what God has done and how the enemy is already working through this blog and blog book. It’s to encourage you.

Yesterday, my husband and I were dealt a very good news/bad news situation. Very much so. It’s something that could have hurt us deeply. It’s life-changing. It’s a life challenge that can make or break a couple—and could make or break the lives of each individual—and could change their faith. It came out of the blue, on the one hand, and wasn’t a surprise on the other.

However, we were I prayer about it—and we had people in prayer about it.

It ended up being the good news/bad news scenario. It’s the stuff that nightmares could be made of. It will be a difficult long-term journey because of the results of this life season.

However…

God showed up! We refused and refuse to get in His way.

The peace of God washed over us like a river and we were able to remember that HE is in CONTROL. Our God is able.

Now, let me give you more of a background. I am emotional. I am a worry-wort. I tend to try to control things. I tend to get in the way of God. I tend to doubt. These are all the thorns in my flesh I have to work on fighting back every minute of every day.

The moment we were hit with the bad news scenario, the peace washed over us. How? We were bathed in prayer. That’s how. Prayer changes things and it changes us.

We used it as an opportunity to stop and wait and see how God would work and would respond. We didn’t give in and try to take care of it ourselves. In the process, God showed us how He knew about this all alone and has orchestrated our lives accordingly. He has a plan. He says that, no, it’s not the easy road, That would have been easier. But, the road is more of a scenic route. It will take longer, but we’ll see more beauty along the way. We’ll learn more lessons and will have more opportunities to draw forever closer to Him and His Word—and pray more. All of these are blessings—not challenges. Opportunities. Not something to dread.

Someday, I will share with you the specifics. You need to know the full story of what God has done. It’s amazing. Just not yet.

The other shoe fell. The sky fell.

But, God says that He’s got this.

The path will be a challenge in every way. Literally. But, we’ll get through—with God and with one another as a couple. It will strengthen us individually and as a couple—and has already.

It’s also giving me a real-life example of how prayer works. Prayer changes things.

The prayer I would have had even a month ago was for this NOT to happen. It was a great fear of mine. People need to have counseling after something like this. There should be grief here. There should be questions and doubt. But, God swooped in and said, “I’ve got it. I have a plan.”

Who am I to get in His way?

Who am I not to watch the glory of God—and say, “Go ahead! Use me!”

The easy way is rarely the best way. We tend to miss a lot of scenery, a lot of stories along the journey, a lot of lessons that could be learned, and the joy of watching God work—with the easy way. Give me the hard way. I want to be used for the glory of God. It’s pretty magnificent!

To Him be the glory, honor, and praise!

I pray this is an inspiration to you.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Your prayer life will definitely be tested: a warning about prayer

I guess now is the time to warn you about the bad news about prayer. But, the good news is that you know you’re doing it right, and are doing the right thing regarding prayer, when this warning comes to pass as more than a warning—and becomes reality.

So, what is the warning?

Your prayers and faith will most definitely be tested. Without fail. Undoubtedly.

The more you read this blog, and the more you apply it to your life, and the more serious you get about this thing called prayer, the more tested you will be at times. It’s those times which give you ample opportunity to put into practice what you’ve learned.

I hope you know that I am being very serious about that.

You can choose to focus on those challenges as something awful and challenging. Or, you can look at it as an opportunity to practice—prayer. The choice is up to you.

Look at my last blog that I wrote today—the one before this one. If you already have, look at it again and prayer journal about it again. Pray about these prayer opportunities now so you can overcome later. Make your life easier. Make it where you become more faithful and more dependent on God, His Word, and prayer between now and during that time of challenge—rather than have be the chance to fall apart. Prayer can change this. Use it now. It’s a weapon and a tool to help you be proactive and keep you from being reactive during those times.

Re-read this blog post during your times of challenge. I know I will.

Prayer journal your thoughts and about your action plan about how you’re going to deal with your hard times, your life of seasons, now—rather than later.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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The challenging times: pj4life thought to ponder

How do you handle the challenging times? How do you handle the pain? How do you handle it when nothing ever is easy and that things always have to go the hard way? How do you handle things where it seems like the shoes keep falling, and falling, and falling?

Do you pray first or react first?

Do you trust God and keep praying?

Do you trust that God will provide all the answers—all in due time?

Be absolutely honest with yourself when you think about these things. Make sure to pray about them. Your prayers today, right now, will influence the next time you go through any of these times. So, pray up. Do it now before you go and do the things you know you shouldn’t. Give God the opportunity to orchestrate things, according to His purpose, according to His timetable, and in His way.

Take several minutes now, or as soon as you can, to prayer journal about these things. Take some time to prepare for the next challenging season. It can, and WILL, make all the difference.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Every prayer journal entry

Whenever you do a prayer journal entry, make sure to do the following:

~ 1. Number it. That way, you can refer to it by number if you refer to it again. It saves time when you write and journal.

~ 2. Date it. And also write the day.

~ 3. Write the time you wrote the entry.

~ 4. Leave space to write the answers to prayer. Sometimes, you don’t get the answer all at once. Sometimes, it builds. Make sure to leave plenty of space for the answer—if it’s a paper journal. If it’s a digital journal, you don’t have to worry about doing that.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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The people you pray for: pj4life thought to ponder #15

15. Make a list of everyone you have in your life in your prayer journal. Start with the following list:

List of Family Members to Pray for:

~ Mom

~ Dad

~ Siblings

~ Grandparents

~ Great-Grandparents

~ Aunts

~ Uncles

~ Cousins

~ Nieces

~ Nephews

~ Grandchildren

~ Great-Grandchildren

~ Family/Friends (Those friends who are close(r) than family)

Other people in your life:

~ What friends do you have?

~ What acquaintances do you have in your life?

~ Co-workers

~ Online buddies

~ People you text

~ People you email

~ People from church

~ Government

~ People at the grocery store you see on a regular basis

~ People at a restaurant you frequent

~ Your hairstylist

~ People at your doctors’ offices and dentist offices

~ Lost/unbelievers in your life (list them here—even if they are listed previously)

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Keep Laughing

It’s important to laugh as well as be serious. It’s okay to laugh with God from time to time.

But, it’s more important to be able to laugh at yourself. Cut yourself some grace. You won't become a perfect prayer guard (warrior) overnight. It takes a lifetime of practice.

How do I move from praying 5 minutes a day to praying without ceasing?

I have a few tips on how to do this.

~ 1. Have a Daily Quiet Time. (Start off with 5 minutes a day and increase by 10 minutes per week until you are having a Daily Quiet Time of 1 to 3 hours per day/7 days per week.)

~ 2. Develop cues to help you pray:

Pray every time you look at a clock.

Pray every time you take a sip of something to drink.

Pray at a red light.

Pray when driving.

Pray as you brush your teeth and take a shower.

When you do dishes or laundry, pray.

~ 3. Memorize verses of the Bible. Any time you do this, you’re praying. Also, recite old memory verses.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

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