BIND
US TOGETHER, LORD
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Bind us
together, Lord,
bind us together with cords
that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together, Lord,
bind us together in love.
There is only one God,
there is only one King.
There is only one Body,
that is why we sing:
Fit for the glory of God,
purchased by his precious Blood,
born with the right to be free:
Jesus the vict'ry has won
We are the fam'ly of God,
we are his promise divine,
we are his chosen desire,
we are his glorious new wine.
B. Gillman
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NASA CALLS IT
THE EYE OF GOD
This was entirely too cool not
to share!
This is a real picture that
NASA TOOK WITH THE HUBBLE
TELESCOPE..
IT IS SIMPLY CALLED "THE EYE
OF GOD". TOO AWESOME TO DELETE.
It is WORTH SHARING
Cherokee Wisdom
An old Cherokee is
teaching his grandson about life.
"A fight is going on inside
me,"
he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two
wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false
pride, superiority, and ego."
He continued, "The other is
good
- he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness,
benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person,
too."
The grandson thought about
it
for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply
replied,
"The one you feed."
Five lessons to make
you think
about the way we treat people.
1. First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady.
During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop
quiz.
I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the
questions, until I read the last one: "What is the
first name of the woman who cleans the school"
Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning
woman several
times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would
I know her
name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank.
Just before
class ended, one student asked if the last question would count
toward
our quiz grade..
"Absolutely," said the professor. "In your careers, you will meet
many
people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and
care, even if
all you do is smile and say "hello." I've never forgotten
that
lesson. I
also learned her name was Dorothy.
2. Second Important Lesson - Pickup in the Rain
One night, at 11:30 p.m., an older African American woman
was
standing on
the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing
rainstorm. Her
car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride.
Soaking
wet, she
decided to flag down the next car. A
young white man stopped
to help
her, generally unheard of in those conflict filled 1960s.
The
man took her
to safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a
taxicab.
She
seemed to be in a big hurry, but wrote down his address and
thanked him.
Seven days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To
his
surprise, a
giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note
was
attached. It read: "Thank you so much for assisting me on
the
highway the
other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes, but
also my
spirits.
Then you came along. Because of you, I was able
to make it to
my dying
husband's bedside just before he passed away.. God bless
you for
helping me
and unselfishly serving others,"
Sincerely, Mrs. Nat King Cole.
3. Third Important Lesson - Always remember those who serve.
In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10 year
old Boy
entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a
glass of
water in front of him. "How much is an ice cream sundae?"
he
asked. "Fifty
cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled his
hand out
of his
pocket and studied the coins in it. "Well, how much
is a plain
dish of ice
cream?" he inquired. By now, more people were
waiting for a
table and the
waitress was growing impatient. "Thirty-five
cents," she
brusquely
replied. The little boy again counted his
coins. "I'll have
the plain
ice cream," he said. The waitress brought the ice cream,
put the
bill on
the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream,
paid
the
cashier and left.
When the waitress came back, she began to cry as she wiped down
the table.
There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were two nickels and
five
pennies. You see, he couldn't have the sundae, because he had to
have enough
left to leave her a tip.
4. Fourth Important Lesson - The Obstacles in Our Path.
In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then
he hid
himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock.
Some of the
king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and
simply
walked around
it. Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the
roads
clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the
way.
Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables.
Upon
approaching
the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to
move
the stone
to the side of the road. After much pushing and
straining, he
finally
succeeded.
After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a
purse lying
in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many
gold coins
and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the
person who
removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned
what
many of us
never understand! Every obstacle presents an opportunity to
improve our
condition.
5. Fifth Important Lesson
- Giving When it Counts. Many
years
ago, when I
worked as a volunteer at a
hospital, I got to know a
little
girl named Liz
who was suffering from a
rare & serious disease.
Her only chance of
recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion
from her
5-year-old brother, who
had miraculously survived the same
disease and had
developed the
antibodies needed to combat the
illness. The
doctor
explained the
situation to her little brother, and asked
the
little boy if
he would
be willing to give
his blood to his sister. I saw him
hesitate
for only a
moment before taking a
deep breath and saying, "Yes I'll do it if
it will
save her." As the
transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to
his sister
and smiled, as we all did,
seeing the color returning to her
cheeks. Then
his face grew pale and his
smile faded. He looked up at the
doctor and asked
with a trembling
voice, "Will I start to die right away?".
Being so young, the little
boy had misunderstood the doctor;
he
thought
the was going to
have to give his sister all of his blood
in
order to save
her.
Now you have 2 choices:
1. Delete this e-mail.
2. Forward it to
people you care about including the
person
that sent it
to you.
I hope that you
will choose No. 2 and remember, "Work like
you
don't need
the money, love like
you've never been hurt, and dance like you
do when
nobody's watching."
Pass It
On!!!!!!!
Tea cup in the hands of the Potter
A cup of Tea - a beautiful story
There was a couple who took a
trip to England to shop in a beautiful
antique store to celebrate their
25th wedding anniversary. They both
liked antiques and pottery, and
especially tea-cups. Spotting an
exceptional cup, they asked "May
we see that? We've never seen a cup
quite so beautiful."
As the lady handed it to
them, suddenly the tea-cup spoke, "You don't
understand. I have
not always been a tea-cup. There was a time when I
was just a lump of red
clay. My master took me and rolled me pounded
and patted me over and
over and I yelled out, "Don't do that. I don't like it!
Let me alone," but he only
smiled, and gently said; "Not yet!!"
Then. WHAM! I was placed on a
spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun
around and around and around.
"Stop it. I'm getting so dizzy. I' m
going to be sick!", I screamed.
But the master only nodded and said,
quietly, "Not yet."
He spun me and poked and prodded
and bent me out of shape to suit
himself, and then...... then he
put me in the oven. I never felt such
heat! I yelled and
knocked and pounded at the door: "Help! Get me
out of here!" I
could see him through the opening, and I could read
his lips as he shook his head
from side to side, "Not yet."
"When I thought I couldn't bear
it another minute, the door opened. He
carefully took me out and put me
on the shelf, and I began to cool. Oh,
that felt so good!
"Ah, this is much better," I thought. But, after I
cooled he picked me up, and he
brushed and painted me all over. The
fumes were horrible. I thought I
would gag. "Oh, please! Stop it, Stop
it!!" I cried. He only
shook his head and said: "Not yet!"
Then suddenly he put me back
into the oven. Only it was not like the
first one. This oven was twice
as hot, and I just knew I would
suffocate. I begged. I
pleaded. I screamed. I cried! I was convinced
I would never make it. I was
ready to give up. Just then, the door
opened, and he took me out and
again placed me on the shelf where I
cooled and waited ------- and
waited, wondering "What's he going to do
to me next?"
An hour later he handed me a
mirror and said, "Look at yourself." And
I did. I said, 'That's not
me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm
beautiful!" Quietly he
spoke: "I want you to remember," he said, "I
know it hurt to be rolled and
pounded and patted, but had I just left
you alone, you'd have dried up.
I know it made you dizzy to spin around
on the wheel, but if I had
stopped, you would have crumbled. I know it
hurt, and it was hot and
disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put
you there, you would have
cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I
brushed and painted you all
over, but if I hadn't done that, you never
would have hardened. You would
not have had any color in your life. If
I hadn't put you back into that
second oven, you wouldn't have survived
for long because the hardness
would not have held. NOW you are a
finished product!
Now you are what I had in mind when I first began with you."
The moral of this story is this:
God knows what He's doing for each of
us. He is the Potter,
and we are His clay. He will mold us and make
us, and expose us to just enough
pressures of just the right kinds that
we may be made into a flawless
piece of work to fulfill His good,
pleasing and perfect will.
So when life seems hard, and you
are being pounded and patted and pushed
almost beyond endurance; when
your world seems to be spinning out of
control; when you feel
like you are in a fiery furnace of trials, try
this....
Brew a cup of your favorite tea
in your prettiest tea cup. Sit down and
think on this story -- and
then, have a little talk with the Potter.
Author Unknown
Blessings,
Nine
things God won't ask on that day...
1. God won't ask what kind
of car you drove; He'll ask how
many people you drove who didn't
have transportation.
2. God won't ask the
square footage of your house, He'll ask
how many people you welcomed
into your home.
3. God won't ask about the
clothes you had in your closet,
He'll ask how many you helped to
clothe.
4. God won't ask what your
highest salary was; He'll ask if
you compromised your character
to obtain it. performed your
job to the best of your ability.
5. God won't ask how many
friends you had; He'll ask how many
people to whom you were a
friend.
6. God won't ask in what
neighborhood you lived, He'll ask how
you treated your neighbors.
7. God won't ask about the
color of your skin, He'll ask about
the content of your character.
8. God won't ask why it
took you so long to seek Salvation;
He'll lovingly take you to your
mansion in heaven, and not to the gates
of Hell.
9. God won't have to ask
how many people you forwarded this
to. He already knows
whether you will or not.
Here is something to warm your heart
on a damp, dreary, chilly day!
A woman found the fawn
under her step (they think the doe might have been hit by a car).
Her Ridge Back dog is helping look after it. The family named the fawn
Bella.
Once she has regained her strength (she was not in good shape when the
family found her)
they are going to send her to some friends who (in the past) raised two
orphan deer and released them to the wild.
Right now she is being bottle fed. Their dog (Hogan) has basically
taken over.
The fawn even shares his bed.
Scroll down
for great pictures.
Analogy
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut
and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked
about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I
don't
believe that God exists."
"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.
"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God
doesn't exist. Tell
me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be
abandoned
children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I
can't imagine
a loving a God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't
want to
start an argument.
The barber! finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after
he left the
barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair
and an
untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said
to the
barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I
am a barber.
And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did,
there would
be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man
outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist!" answered the barber. "What happens, is,
people do not
come to me."
"Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES
exist! What
happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
If you think God exists, forward this on to other people! ---If you
think God does
not exist, just delete it!
IF GOD BE WITH US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US
Does
this count under Matt. 18:20?
For where two or
three are gathered together in my name,
there am I
in the midst of them.
Forgiveness
One day a man, his heart heavy
with grief, was walking in the woods. As he
thought about his life this day,
he knew many things were not right. He
thought about those who had lied
about him back when he had a job.
His thoughts turned to those who
had stolen his things and cheated him.
He remembered family that had
passed on. His mind turned to the illness he
had that no one could cure. His
very soul was filled with anger, resentment
and frustration.
Standing there this day,
searching for answers he could not find, knowing
all else had failed him, he
knelt at the base of an old oak tree to seek the
one he knew would always be
there. And with tears in his eyes, he prayed:
"Lord- You have done wonderful
things for me in this life. You have told me
to do many things for you, and I
happily obeyed. Today, you have told me to
forgive. I am sad, Lord, because
I cannot. I don't know how. It is not fair Lord.
I didn't deserve these wrongs
that were done against me and I shouldn't have to
forgive.
As perfect as your way is Lord, this one thing I cannot do, for I don't
know
how to forgive. My anger is so deep Lord, I fear I may not hear you,
but
I pray that you teach me to do this one thing I cannot do - Teach me To
Forgive."
As he knelt there in the quiet
shade of that old oak tree, he felt something fall onto
his
shoulder. He opened his eyes. Out of the corner of one eye, he saw
something red on his shirt.
He could not turn to see what it
was because where the oak tree had been was
a large square piece of wood in
the ground. He raised his head and saw two
feet held to the wood with a
large spike through them.
He raised his head more, and
tears came to his eyes as he saw Jesus hanging
on a cross. He saw spikes in His
hands, a gash in His side, a torn and
battered body, deep thorns sunk
into His head. Finally he saw the suffering
and pain on His precious face.
As their eyes met, the man's tears turned to
sobbing, and Jesus began to
speak.
"Have you ever told a lie?" He
asked?
The man answered - "yes, Lord."
"Have you ever been given too
much change and kept it?"
The man answered - " yes.
Lord." And the man sobbed more and more.
"Have you ever taken something
from work that wasn't yours?" Jesus asked?
And the man answered - "yes,
Lord."
"Have you ever sworn, using my
Father's name in vain? "
The man, crying now, answered -
"yes, Lord."
As Jesus asked many more times,
"Have you ever"? The man's crying
became uncontrollable, for he
could only answer - "yes, Lord."
Then Jesus turned His head from
one side to the other, and the man
felt something fall on his other
shoulder. He looked and saw that it
was the blood of Jesus. When he
looked back up, his eyes met those
of Jesus, and there was a look
of love the man had never seen or
known before.
Jesus said, "I didn't deserve
this either, but I forgive you."
It may be hard to see how you're
going to get through something, but when
you look back in life, you
realize how true this statement is. Read the
following first line slowly and
let it sink in.
If God brings you to it - He
will bring you through it.
Lord I love You and I need You,
come into my heart, today. For
without You I can do nothing.
Pass this message to 7 people
except you and me.
Running
through the Rain
A
little girl had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have
been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of
innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over
the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth it has no
time to flow down the spout. We all stood there under the awning and
just inside the door of the Wal-Mart.
We
waited, some patiently, others irritated because nature messed up their
hurried day. I am always mesmerized by rainfall. I got lost in the
sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the
world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child came
pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.
The
little voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all
caught in "Mom, let's run through the rain," she said.
"What?"
Mom asked.
"Let
's run through the rain!" She repeated.
"No,
honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit," Mom replied.
This
young child waited about another minute and repeated: "Mom, let's run
through the rain,"
"We'll get soaked if we do," Mom said.
"No,
we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this morning," the young girl
said as she tugged at her Mom's arm.
"This
morning? When did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?"
"Don't
you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you
said, 'If God can get us through this, he can get us through anything!"
The
entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you couldn't hear anything
but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the next
few minutes.
Mom
paused and thought for a moment about what she would say. Now some
would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some might even
ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a young
child's life. A time when innocent trust can be nurtured so that it
will bloom into faith.
"Honey,
you are absolutely right. Let's run through the rain. If GOD let's us
get wet, well maybe we just needed washing," Mom said.
Then
off they ran. We all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they
darted past the cars and yes, through the puddles. They held their
shopping bags over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But they
were followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the
way to their cars.
And yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed washing.
Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions,
they can take away your money, and they can take away your health. But
no one can ever take away your precious memories...So, don't forget to
make time and take the opportunities to make memories everyday. To
everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A friend sent this to me to remind me of life. Hope you enjoy it.
HOPE YOU STILL TAKE THE TIME TO RUN THROUGH THE RAIN.
They say it takes a minute to find a special
person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an
entire life to forget them. Send this to the people you'll never forget
and remember to also send it to the person who sent it to you. It's a
short message to let them know that you'll never forget them.
If you don't send it to anyone, it means you're in a hurry. Take the
time to live!!!
Keep in touch with your friends, you never know when you'll need
each
other -- and don't forget to run in the rain!
God makes everything but unbreakable hearts.
You will never
look at a cup of coffee
the same way again
A
young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and
how things
were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to
make it and
wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and
struggling.
It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her
mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with
water
and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to
boil. In the
first she
placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the
last she
placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without
saying a
word.
In
about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished
the
carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs
out and
placed them
in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in
a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me, what do you see?"
"Carrots,
eggs, and coffee," she replied. Her mother brought her closer
and asked
her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were
soft.
The
mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it.
After
pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.
Finally,
the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The
daughter
smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then
asked,
"What does it mean, mother?"
Her
mother explained that each of these objects had faced the
same
adversity ... boiling water . each reacted
differently. The
carrot went
in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being
subjected
to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg
had been
fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid
interior,
but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside
became
hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After
they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which
are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks
on your
door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a
coffee
bean?"
Think
of this: Which am I?
Am I
the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity
do I wilt
and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I
the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes
with the
heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a
breakup, a
financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened
and stiff?
Does
my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and
tough with
a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am
I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot
water, the
very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets
hot, it
releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean,
when things
are at their worst, you get better and change the
situation
around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their
greatest,
do you elevate yourself to another level?
How
do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a
coffee
bean?
~Count
your blessings, not your problems.
Putting
others first
makes relationships last
~There
are moments in life when you miss someone so much that
you just
want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
~When
the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often
times we
look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one,
which has
been opened for us.
~Don't
go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth;
even that
fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes
only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that
makes your
heart
smile.
Dream
what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what
you want to
be, because you have only one life and one chance to do
all
the things you want to do.
May you
have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials
to make you
strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to
make you
happy.
~The
happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of
everything;
they
just
make the most of everything that comes along their way.
~The
brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past;
you can't
go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and
heartaches.
~When
you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was
smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling
and
everyone around you is crying.
You
might want to send this message to those people who mean
something
to you (I JUST DID); to those who have touched your life in
one way or
another; to those who make you smile when you really need
it;
to those who make you see the brighter side of things when you are
really
down; to those whose friendship you appreciate; to those who
are so
meaningful in your life. If you don't send it, you will just miss
out on the
opportunity to brighten someone's day with this message!!!
Don't
count the years - count the memories.
Life
is not measured by the number of breaths we take; but by
the
moments that take our breath away!
Things In
Life:
Three things in life that, once gone, never come back -
Time, Words & Opportunity
Three things in life that may never be lost -
Peace, Hope & Honesty
Three things in life that are most valuable -
Love, Self-confidence & Friends
Three things in life that are never certain -
Dreams, Success & Fortune
Three things that make a man or woman -
Hard work, Sincerity & Commitment
Three things in life that can destroy a man or woman-
Wine, Pride & Anger
Three things that are truly constant -
Father, Son and Holy Ghost
I ask the Lord to bless you, as I pray for you today;
to guide you and protect you, as you go along your way.
His love is always with you, His promises are true.
And when you give Him all your cares, you know He'll see you through
Prayer
Please
take a moment to relax your mind and humble your
heart to focus on Christ. Allow
God to be the only person on your mind
while you read this prayer. If
we can take the time to read long
jokes,
stories, etc., we should give
the same respect to this prayer. Friends
who pray together, stay together.
Dear
Lord, I thank You for this day. I thank You for my
being able to see and to hear
this morning. I'm blessed because You
are
a forgiving God and an
understanding God. You have done so much for me
and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything I have
done, said or thought that was
not pleasing to you. I ask now for
Your
forgiveness.
Please
keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to
start this day with a new
attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me
make
the best of each and every day
to clear my mind so that I can hear
from
You.
Please
broaden my mind that I can accept all things.
Let
me not whine and whimper over things I have no control
over. Let me continue to see sin
through God's eyes and acknowledge it
as evil. And when I sin, let me
repent, and confess with my mouth my
wrongdoing, and receive the
forgiveness of God.
And
when this world closes in on me, let me remember
Jesus'
example -- to slip away and find
a quiet place to pray. It's the best
response when I'm pushed beyond
my limits. I know that when I can't
pray, You listen to my heart.
Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue
to bless me that I may be a blessing to others.
Keep me strong that I may help
the weak. Keep me uplifted that I may
have words of encouragement for
others. I pray for those who are lost
and can't find their way. I pray
for those who are misjudged and
misunderstood. I pray for those
who don't know You intimately. I pray
for those who will delete this
without sharing it with others. I pray
for those who don't believe. But
I thank you that I believe.
I
believe that God changes people and God changes things.
I
pray for all my sisters and
brothers. For each and every family member
in their households. I pray for
peace, love and joy in their homes
that
they are out of debt and all
their needs are met.
I
pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no
problem, circumstance, or
situation greater than God. Every battle is
in
Your hands for You to fight. I
pray that these words be received into
the hearts of every eye that
sees them and every mouth that confesses
them willingly.
This
is my prayer.
In
Jesus' Name, Amen.
Just
repeat this phrase and see how God moves!!
Lord
I love you and I need you, come into my heart,
please.
Pass
this message to 8 people except you and me.
Don't
ignore and God will bless you. Know that you are
already blessed by the person
who sent this to you.
+++
A sick man turned to his
doctor, as he was preparing to leave the
examination room and
said,"Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what
lies on the other side."
Very quietly, the doctor
said, "I don't know."
"You don't know? You, a
Christian man, do not know what is on the other side?"
The doctor was holding the
handle of the door; on the other side came
a sound of scratching and
whining, and as he opened the door, a dog
sprang into the room and leaped
on him with an eager show of gladness.
Turning to the patient, the
doctor said, "Did you notice my dog?
He's never been in this
room before. He didn't know what was inside.
He knew nothing except
that his master was here, and when the door
opened, he sprang in without
fear. I know little of what is on the
other side of death, but I do
know one thing... I know my Master is
there and that is
enough."
May today there be peace
within you. May you trust God
that you are exactly where you are
meant to be.
Barns
A stranger came
by the other day with an offer that set me to thinking.
He wanted to
buy the old barn that sits out by the highway.
I told him right off he
was crazy.
He was a city type, you could tell by his clothes, his car,
his hands, and the way he talked.
He said he was driving by and saw
that beautiful barn sitting out
in the tall grass and wanted to know if
it was for sale.
I told him he had a funny idea of beauty.
Sure, it was a handsome building in its day.
But then, there's been a
lot of winters pass with their snow and ice and howling wind.
The
summer sun's beat down on that old barn till all the paint's gone,
and
the wood has turned silver gray.
Now the old building leans a good
deal, looking kind of tired.
Yet, that fellow called it beautiful.
That set me to thinking. I walked out to the field and just stood
there, gazing at that old barn.
The stranger said he planned to use the
lumber to line the walls of his den
in a new country home he's building
down the road.
He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful.
Only
years of standing in the weather, bearing the storms and scorching sun,
only that can produce beautiful barn wood.
It came to me then.
We're a lot like that, you and I.
Only it's on the
inside that the beauty grows with us.
Sure we turn silver gray too ...
and lean a bit more than we did
when we were young and full of sap.
But
the Good Lord knows what He's doing.
And as the years pass He's busy
using the hard wealth of our lives,
the dry spells and the stormy
seasons, to do a job of beautifying our souls
that nothing else can
produce.
And to think how often folks holler because they want life
easy!
They took the old barn down today and hauled it away
to beautify a rich
man's house.
And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off to Heaven
to take on whatever chores the Good Lord
has for us on the Great Sky
Ranch.
And I suspect we'll be more beautiful then for the seasons we've been
through here ....
and just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our
Father's house.
May there be peace within you today.
May you trust that you are
exactly where you are meant to be.
