TODAY'S PROMISE

"The Lord also will be a refuge for the

oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble."

(Psalms 9:9)

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"All wisdom in the world is childish foolishness

in comparison with the acknowledgement of

Jesus Christ."

-Martin Luther

JESUS DID IT AGAIN

That is some body's shoulder.  I did not want to 

make you sick, so I did not show you mine.

You see, I am an old, old, old man.  About the age

of your great grandfather or older.  That means that

a lot like a car with two or three hundred thousand 

miles on it, I'm falling apart.

Last night I went to bed feeling good, real good.

Had a good day.  No pain, hunger or anxieties and

had even soaked in the tub a while.  What could 

go wrong?

Some time during the night I woke up noticing a

lot of pain in one shoulder, unless I held my arm 

just right.  If I moved it at all there was intense

pain.

I do not know what went wrong.  It had not been

injured or strained during the day.  Possibly rolling

around during the night I dislocated something.  I

do not know, but it sure did hurt.

You can image the joy of "trying" to get dressed 

this morning with one hand.  While trying to get

my shirt on it was impossible to get that one arm

back far enough to go in the sleeve with out it

"killing" me.

While attempting to get that arm into it's sleeve

and the pain so severe I "begged" Jesus to help 

me.  And just about that quick I felt something

snapped, or popped and things when back to 

working again.  Even the soreness was pretty

much gone by the time I had my first cup of 

coffee.

THANK YOU JESUS.

INCOURAGEING PRAYER QUOTES

TODAY'S PROMISE

"Whoever confesses that Jesus is the

Son of God, God abides in him, and

he in God."  (1 John 4:15 NASB)

THE FIRE

This was not the motorcycle, but it was very similar to it.

One of my motorcycle friends sold me an old motorcycle

that had quit on him and he could not get it running again.

I wanted to fix it up for a special purpose.

Now I have to admit, I created my own problem.  The

Scriptures tell us:

"Pride goes before destruction,

And a haughty spirit before stumbling."

(Proverbs 16:18 NASB)  

You see, our little motorcycle group would be meeting

just a few days after I got the bike in my shop.  And I

knew my friend would ask me about the bike.  So, I

want to be able "casually" to say, yep, I got it running.

(That was pride.)

The result was I tried a little too hard with starting fluid

etc. to make it fire up.  Well it at least backfired catching 

number two carburetor on fire.

There was about half a tank full of gas in it and a 

carburetor burning in under it is not good.  So I 

tried beating it out with a rag.  That did not work.

Then tried blowing it out with my mouth.  I have 

done that on cars and it worked.  But all I did was

singe my lips.

Finally I spotted the fire extinguisher in the shop.

Went over and grabbed it, pulled the pin out and 

squeezed the trigger. NOTHING.  It had been 

sitting around too long.

Back to beating the fire with a rag.  I was getting 

tired and thought about just pushing it out of the 

shop and let it burn up.  But my car was sitting there.

And if it was pushed a little farther it would go do

a small incline to the house.

I was wore out and desperate.  In desperation I 

cried out loud enough they could hear my in heaven,

"Jesus help me."

The words were barely out of my mouth when he

did.  The fire went out in a couple of seconds.

Do you get the point?

My God hears and answers prayer.

TODAY'S QUOTE

WHAT KIND OF FOOL

WHAT KIND OF FOOL DO YOU THINK I AM?

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If I told you the structure above just happened.

It took a long time.  Many years.  But it just

sort of grew there.  It has not finished developing

yet.  But perhaps another hundred years will be

sufficient to complete it's development.

You would tell me I am a fool.

And you would be right.

Or,

the airplane below.

It is more complex.  But it just happened.

It even learned to fly all by it's self.

No help from anyone.

Again you would call me a fool.

And you would be right.

But you want me to believe that the humming bird

below which is much more complex and even has

life came from nothing, but developed over time into

what it is just by chance.

WHO IS THE REAL FOOL?

"God is not a man, that he should lie,

Nor a son of man, that He should repent;

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not 

make it good?"

(Numbers 23:19 NASB)

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"God proved His love on the Cross.

When Christ hung, and bled, and died,

it was God saying to the world, 'I

love you.'"

-Billy Graham  

GOD KNEW BEST

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Many, many, many years ago before you were even

born I was just a dumb kid in high school.  You know,

 that stage of life where all I could think about was; 

eating, cars and girls.  Well, maybe the other way

 around.

In high school one year I wanted to take the "physics"

class.  My reasoning was simple enough, maybe I

could learn something to make my old car go faster.

But, the class was full.  I needed one more class so I

let them talk me into taking "typing", maybe because

there was girls in it.

Now I am at the other end of life.  I should have died

ten or more years ago.  But do you know what?  I see

now that "typing" class has been more useful to me 

than any class I ever took in high school.  I have 

have had hundreds of opportunities to thank God that

I had to take than class rather than the one I wanted to.

God was way ahead of me.

Thank God for that.

TODAY'S PROMISE

"And let us not be wearing in well

doing: for in due season we shall

reap, if we faint not."

(Galatians 6:9)  

MESSED UP LIFE

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Why let Jesus Christ fix your messed

up life when instead you could spend

the rest of your life complaining about

it?

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"If all things are possible with God,

then all things are possible to him who 

believes in Him."  

-Corrie Ten Boom  

PEACE

There’s a peace in my heart that the world never gave,

A peace it cannot take away;

Though the trials of life may surround like a cloud,

I’ve a peace that has come here to stay!

All the world seemed to sing of a Savior and King,

When peace sweetly came to my heart;

Troubles all fled away and my night turned to day,

Blessed Jesus, how glorious Thou art!

This treasure I have in a temple of clay,

While here on His footstool I roam;

But He’s coming to take me some glorious day,

Over there to my heavenly home!

Refrain:

Constantly abiding, Jesus is mine;

Constantly abiding, rapture divine;

He never leaves me lonely, whispers, oh, so kind:

“I will never leave thee”—Jesus is mine.

-Anne S. Murphy

TODAY'S PROMISE

"Better it is to be of an humble spirit

with the lowly, than to divide the 

spoil with the proud."

(Proverbs 16:19)

   

TODAY'S QUOTE

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                            “Anyone can build an altar; it

                         requires God to provide the flame.

                        Anyone can build a house; we need

                      the Lord for the creation of the home.

                                                                                         - John Henry Jewett