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12.12
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12.05
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New Beginning is a blog about inspirational topics to help you as the reader to increase self worth and information to help you to prepare for Today,Tomorrow ,and the rest of your life hear on earth as well as life after death.I hope you will find the topics of the articles relevant to what ever your situation’s are. Please don’t be afraid to ask questions or leave a comment.
2010
12.05
12.05
I am convinced that many of us can use this information in regards to Email filtering due to content.
Spam folder/content filtering (when an email ends up in the junk/spam folder instead of inbox) is generally email content based (unless it’s a very strict business/LAN special setup).
LAN = Local Area Network
The vast majority of your clients will be using online webmail programs like Gmail or email client software like Outlook to download email from a POP server. The type of default SPAM filtering done by these programs is content based unless a user has manually created special criteria for SPAM filtering.
Most of these programs have a ranking system which attributes a SPAM score to your email based on red flags such as:
• ALL CAPS IN SUBJECT LINE
• punctuation in subject line
• lots of/big images and not a comparable amount of text (try to include at least 1 paragraph per image)
• sales pitch related words like discount, blowout, special offer, deal of the century, FREE
• link text that says “click here”
• ALL CAPS elsewhere in the newsletter, also LARGE or bold font in the Email
• font color that matches background color exactly
• successive exclamation points
• Spelling out a full web address in the email like http://www.freewaytosuccess.net It’s better to use a smaller word/phrase/link like website.
eg: see our Website for the details
Here is a great SPAM checking utility (There are quite a few on the web) http://spamcheck.sitesell.com
Some programs may send all email to the SPAM folder if it isn’t from a recognized recipient, and in some programs like Outlook, this is a setting the user can choose to activate or deactivate. Here are a few links with instructions to send to recipients on how to add your
address to their safe sender’s lists and address books for several common mail applications:
http://wl.s4m2.com/index.php
http://enews.penton.com/enews/safesenders
http://www.safesenderslist.com
Content filtering is usually not related to bounces. A bounce never makes it to the inbox or spam folder.
Kind Regards,
Ash Mufareh
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Here is an additional list of words/phrases to try and avoid:
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Here is a link to the standard configuration for a popular spam fighting program called “Spam Assassin”…
this is a lot of information, and most of it will probably look like gibberish, but I just wanted to pass it
along in case you find it of interest. Most mail servers are not going to use this program to scan and reject mail..
it’s not that common for that to happen. In any case, you may be able to skim through it and take away a general/broader
sense of some things that spam filters may check for.
http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_0_x.html
2010
12.04
12.04
Follow the Signs
Key Bible Verse: Then I will go to the altar of God, to God who is my joy and happiness. I will praise you with a harp, God, my God. (Psalm 43:4, NCV) Dig Deeper: Isaiah 35
I have to assume [Mardoche] would have enjoyed eating his own food, because he doesn’t get much of it in the first place. Yet he made a clear choice that came from his own desire for happiness, and that choice was to give me what he himself could have enjoyed. He evidently weighed his options—either he could eat his food and be happy, or he could give some of it to me and be even happier—and he chose his own greatest joy.
You might think choosing our greatest joy is selfish in the same way that pursuing our own happiness each day can seem selfish. But Mardoche demonstrated otherwise, and John Piper [in his book Desiring God] has helped me to see that God means for us to maximize our joy by choosing that which will bring us our greatest pleasure: him.
God created us with a craving that longs to be filled. And when we fill this hole with anything but him, we realize none of it works: security, comfort, wealth, power, sex, success, popularity status … anything and everything we believe will bring us fulfillment. I think we misunderstand the point of the craving itself.
This is the purpose of our cravings: They are signs that lead us to [God].
* Chris Thomlinson in Crave
My Response: Today I will reflect on joys and pleasures that point me to God.
Thought to Apply: The believer in Jesus is essentially a happy man. … With such a God, such a Savior, and such a hope, is he not, ought he not, to be a joyful man?
* Octavius Winslow(pastor, preacher)
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2010
12.04
12.04
Key Bible Verse: “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”(Matthew 17:20) Dig Deeper: John 14:12-14
Many of my friends who have been drawn into God’s dreams [have at times] wondered: Do I have anything at all that can possibly help?
Taking whatever resources, talents, and abilities that have been entrusted to us, no matter how small, God’s dreamers step forward. We are startled to find that our tiny seeds of faith begin to grow. Our little becomes exactly the amount God needs to work his perfect will in our hurting world.
In my free time I could think of little else but creating schools [in Indonesia] in response to what God had shown me. I lay in bed imagining high-impact learning environments, places where caring Christian teachers would raise up their nation’s future leaders. At breakfast I talked excitedly with Cyndi, [my wife], about starting schools that would give impoverished children a chance to chase their dreams. The graduates would become trained communicators who, as undaunted leaders, would impact every domain of their society for Christ.
These were not simply fleeting ideas dancing in my head. Nothing this powerful had ever grabbed hold of my heart before.
- Paul Richardson in A Certain Risk
My Response: I will pray this question: “Do I have anything at all that can possibly help?” I will listen for God to whisper his answer.
Thought to Apply: Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
- Corrie ten Boom (Dutch Christian writer, holocaust survivor)
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2010
12.04
12.04
Key Bible Verse: Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. (Hebrews 11:1) Dig Deeper: Hebrews 11:1-12:3
Like [scuba] diving, faith is initially counterintuitive. It defies human nature, which is why it is associated with risk. Diving into God is dangerous simply because his dreams for us are worth giving our lives for.
Instead of taking this jump, many of us won’t go anywhere near the edge. In fact we tend to cling to the surface. The only faith we have known is something like swimming in one of those plastic pools we sometimes see in a neighbor’s yard. This is the version of faith that occasionally flutters into our thoughts on Sunday mornings or when we remember to say the blessing over a meal. It doesn’t have much to do with Monday mornings, and it tends to evaporate under pressure. I know all about it.
I’ve confused faith with abstract theoretical preferences. I know what it means to be driven by guilt and to work myself to the bone for God’s approval. I’ve died a slow death from trying to figure out how to follow the rules. None of these have anything to do with the faith God is holding out for us. God calls us to something so much deeper—a faith that sets us free to be guided by his voice, to see our world with his eyes and respond with the passions in his heart.
- Paul Richardson in A Certain Risk
My Response: What might “diving into God” look like for me? What could be the risks of such a dive? What could be the blessings?
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2010
12.04
12.04
Key Bible Verse: Don’t fight the ways of God, for who can straighten out what he has made crooked? (Ecclesiastes 7:13). Bonus Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:7b-10
Is God really in control? Is he trustworthy? Will he help? While working on this book, I suffered a physical ailment that exacerbated a lifelong infirmity. The timing was very inconvenient and, for several weeks, would respond to no medical treatment.
During those weeks, as I continually prayed to God for relief, I was reminded of Solomon’s words [in today’s Key Bible Verse]. God had brought a “crooked” event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only he could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not he straightened my “crook” and relieved my distress? Did I really believe that a God who loved me and knew what was best for me was in control of my situation? Could I trust him even if I didn’t understand?
Trusting God is worked out in an arena that has no boundaries. We don’t know the extent, the duration, or the frequency of the painful, adverse circumstances in which we must frequently trust God. We’re always coping with the unknown.
When we fail to trust God, we doubt his sovereignty and question his goodness. In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense.
* Jerry Bridges in Is God Really in Control?
My Response: Right now, I need “eyes of faith” to help me deal with …
Thought to Apply: Faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. —Philip Yancey (author)
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2010
11.05
11.05
Hang on to Trust
Path of Most Resistance
Key Bible Verse: In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall (Psalm 18:29). Bonus Reading: Psalm 56:1-11
Fears keep us bottled up in our comfort zones. We wrestle with questions like, “What if God tells me to do something I don’t want to do? What if he asks me to go somewhere unfamiliar, or to do something that is financially radical?”
Fears are normal. God understands them. But we can’t let them hold us back from doing his will.
Once, our board of elders had identified a clear need, yet knew that moving to meet it might jeopardize our church’s entire future. Late one night, after lengthy discussion and a reaffirmation that we wanted to move ahead under God’s direction, we had a closing prayer time. The elder next to me prayed, “O God, I’m shaking in my boots. Please do whatever it is you want to do with this church, but I’m afraid of what that might mean.”
Trusting God doesn’t come easy to us. That’s why it’s called trust: because it goes against our natural inclinations.
Not long after that honest prayer, that elder sold his business so that he could leverage his last 15 or 20 years for ministry. He deliberately turned his back on our society’s biggest comfort zone—retirement—and sold out to invest his life in other people for the kingdom of God.
- Chip Ingram in Holy Ambition
My Response: To break out of a confining comfort zone, I need to …
Thought to Apply: Courage is fear that has said its prayers. —Karl Barth (Swiss theologian)
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2010
11.05
11.05
Quit Your Bellyaching
Attitude Adjustment
Key Bible Verse: The people soon began to complain to the Lord about their hardships; and when the Lord heard them, his anger blazed against them (Numbers 11:1). Bonus Reading: Numbers 11:10-20, 31-34
The kind of complaining that grates worst on the ear of God is complaining about adversity. “Why do I have to go through that? Why must I endure all this hassle when life goes so smoothly for them? I’m sick and tired of putting up with this; when will it all end? Why can’t my life be more like Bill Jones’?”
All of this nauseating noise rises to the ears of God until he replies, “Could you get away from me with that chronic complaining?”
Every one of us has a measure of adversity, and God himself is the one who measured it out to accomplish his eternal purpose for us. So, every person has something in his life that God doesn’t want to hear complaints about. By complaining about it, you’re forfeiting the grace that could help you through the trial. The very adversity you are complaining about is the thing God, in grace, wants to use to keep your heart close to his. God simply won’t tolerate repeated complaints about adversity.
Countless time in years gone by, Kathy and I have sat together while I’ve prayed, “God, I’m sorry for my attitude. It’s wrong. I know it’s not pleasing to you. Please forgive my complaining attitude and cleanse my heart.” The Lord has been so faithful to do that.
* James MacDonald in Lord, Change My Attitude
My Response: I’ll pray a prayer like James’s prayer.
Thought to Apply: One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled. —Vance Havner (evangelist)
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2010
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