Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is Make Your Life Count.

This is a week that allows and indeed encourages nostalgia.

We remember our nation's birth, our founders, great documents, and great leaders.

Today, I want to use some thoughts and writings from a great contemporary leader and author, Quinn Shearer.

Quinn is a true mother in the faith and one to whom I owe a great debt of honor.

Had it not been for her efforts, it's quite possible that I would not be writing, give him 15 posts today,

and that I would not have written any of my 20-plus books.

Quinn says of her Holy Spirit inspired goading me,

goading of me to write, quote,

it was my privilege to encourage Dutch to finish the book he had gone to Colorado to write. I'd give him notebooks all the time.

One for his car, one for his nightstand, one for his pocket, one for his office, one to take to the

mountain cabin hideaway. I prayed diligently for his book to come forth and encouraged him

to finish." End quote. Encourage is a nice way of saying it. When Quinn has heard from the

Lord regarding something, she grabs it like a bulldog

with a bone. I had attempted to write a few times and failed miserably. It wasn't time and

God had not yet awakened the gift in me. This caused me to doubt my abilities.

However, Quinn believed in me when I didn't believe in myself.

And she not only encouraged me with 500 notebooks, she took me on as a prayer assignment.

Thank God for Quinn Shearer.

Quinn was born in 1933, the worst year of the Great Depression.

When unemployment was 25%, food shortages abounded, and wage earners earn about $20 weekly.

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