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July 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – "When I was 11, I read a teenage magazine for the first time and that is when it kind of clicked, ‘I should be like this’," says one young girl surveyed in a study by Girlguiding UK and the Mental Health Foundation, that has revealed three leading potential "triggers" for serious mental health problems in girls: premature sexualisation, commercialisation and alcohol misuse.

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“I will be their God.” Jeremiah 31:33

Dear Christian, what more could you possibly need? To be truly happy, you desire something that will fully satisfy you. Is this promise not enough? If you could pour it into your own cup, would you not say, as David did, “My cup overflows” (Psalm 23:5). I have more than my heart could wish for.

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Job 8:11 “Can reeds thrive without water?”

From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

A reed is spongy and hollow, like a hypocrite who has no substance or stability. It shakes to and fro in the wind, much like people more concerned with legalism and the form of worship than with any inner significance and who, therefore, yield to every outside influence. This is the reason a reed is not broken by a storm and why hypocrites are never troubled by persecution. While most of us would not willingly be a deceiver or be deceived, our text verse today is perhaps a good test to determine whether we are hypocrites. For example, a reed by nature lives in water and owes its very existence to the mud and moisture where it has taken root, but if the mud dries out, the reed quickly withers. Its greenness is absolutely dependent upon its circumstances, for an abundance of water causes it to flourish, while a drought destroys it.

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