The Power of Decided Determination

Aunt Velma Calvin's Determined

Wanted to sing in church the song - "I am deter mind" to her chagrin this was told later in life. She also told how they were going to sing in their church in a service and was testifying before of the song they were going to sing, "Swing Low" But instead her toungue got a little ahead of her mind and she said they were going to sing, "Sweet and Low"

Noah Webster in his first ever dictionary defined the word Determination as;

DETERMINATION, noun

1. The act of determining or deciding.

2. Decision of a question in the mind; firm resolution; settled purpose; as, they have acquainted me with their determination

3. Judicial decision; the ending of a controversy or suit by the judgment of a court. Justice is promoted by a speedy determinationof causes, civil and criminal.

4. Absolute direction to a certain end.

Remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of the will to the greatest apparent good.

5. An ending; a putting an end to; as the determinationof a will.

Jacob wrestling and Angel

Ruth Refusing To Return

Jesus' Walking to Suffer (I think in REAL DETERMINATION by Michael

Our Determination

God's people have always understood the importance of Determination

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They used to sing – I storm the Gates of Strife

In the early holiness/ pentecostal days Herbert buffam wrote, "I'm going thru, I'm going thru- I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few, I've started with Jesus and I'm going thru"

I am determined, I've made up my mind (Eb) Gospel Way Song Book #319 Audrey Meir © 1952 Hosanna Music I am determined, I've made up my mind I'll serve the Lord I'm leaving the pleasures of this world behind I'll serve the Lord I'll follow wherever He leads me I'll pasture wherever He feeds me I am determined, I've made up my mind I'll serve the Lord.

I've Made Up My Mind - McKamey's I found myself at a crossroad I knew the time was right For God's Holy Spirit Spoke to my heart that night He showed me my lost condition I bowed in full contrition And now I'm in a new position Since I made up my mind Chorus I've made up my mind no matter what others say I will follow Christ and walk in His ways Though the battle gets hard and the road gets steep, that's OK I've set my heart on becoming like Christ Dying with Him and raised to new life All the things of this world, I'm leaving behind, cause I've made up my mind Trouble came running to me so I had to make a choice Would I run or take a stand against this evil ploy? But after all God did for me And Jesus' blood that set me free I chose to walk in liberty and I made up my mind Repeat Chorus Tag - All the things of this world I'm leaving behind, cause I've made up my mind.