TODAY'S PROMISE

"LORD, you are my God;
I will honor you and praise your name.
You have done amazing things;
you have faithfully carried out the plans
you made long ago."

 and
 "The poor and the helpless have fled to you
and have been safe in times of trouble."
(Isaiah 25:1 & 4 TEV)

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"The promises of the Lord can be trusted;

they are as genuine as silver refined

seven times in the furnace."

(Psalms 12:6 GNT)

1. Meditate on God's Promises.

2. Plead the Promises at the throne of Grace.

3. Act in Faith that God Will Perform His Promises.

(William Gurnall)

MY REFUGE

"God is our shelter and strength,
always ready to help in times of trouble.
So we will not be afraid,
even if the earth is shaken and 
the mountains fall into the ocean depths;
even if the seas roar and rage,
and the hills are shaken by the violence.
(Psalms 46:1-3 GNT)

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REAPING FROM READING

REAPING FROM READING

I do not read as well as you do.  But I have learned 

to read a little bit.  And over the years there have been

so many things that; encourage, inspire, motivate, or

even warn me, that I feel compelled to share some of

it with you.

Mrs Rosalind Goforth in her book,

Jonathan Goforth

mentions how she had an opportunity to see

Jonathan's Bible before they were married.

"Jonathan Goforth was called out of the room.

As he rose, he placed his Bible on the chair.  

Something happened then which I could never

explain, nor try to excuse.  Suddenly, I stepped

past four or five people, took up his Bible and 

returned to my seat.  Rapidly I turned the leaves

and found the book worn almost to shreds in parts

and marked from cover to cover.  I quickly returned

it to the chair, and returning to my seat, I tried

to look very innocent.  As I sat there, I said to 

myself, 'That is the man I would like to mary!'"

p.9

"He would never borrow, nor ever go in debt,

and God always honored His servant's trust in him."

p.106

TODAY'S PROMISE

"But the LORD says,
'Do not cling to events of the past
or dwell on what happened long ago.
Watch for the new thing I am going to do.'"
(Isaiah 43:18, 19a GNT)

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"The promises of the Lord can be trusted;

they are as genuine as silver refined

seven times in the furnace."

(Psalms 12:6 GNT)

1. Meditate on God's Promises.

2. Plead the Promises at the throne of Grace.

3. Act in Faith that God Will Perform His Promises.

(William Gurnall)

LESSON OF THE LITTLE ENGINE

The picture is a portable generator.

[Was a portable generator???]

The rest of it is over on the bench.

It was brought into the shop because it would not start.

I just hope the man brought it to the right place.

Trying to find parts for this thing has taken some real

research.  (Yes, even with a downloaded manual.)  It 

is beginning to appear that the generator is a product of

a factory over in China.  Thus far I have been able to 

find this basic generator, with slight differences in 

configuration or size, with more than one dozen brand 

names, and even no name.  And in several colors; Red, 

Blue, Yellow and Black.

Hey!  Just like people.  One manufacture.  God.

But a lot of different configurations and sizes.  And

distributed to a lot of different places.

It will not start because there is insufficient compression.  And,

the loss of compression is due to the abnormal wear (scuffing)

on the piston and rings.  You can see the scuffing areas on the

piston.  See the dark area at the lower left, and the larger one

in the upper right of the piston.  Also there are two smaller

ones on the other side of the piston.

In this photo you can see the scuffing even on the rings.

To get this detail I reverted to an old 2 MP Nikon CoolPix

950 camera on the shelf.  See, old stuff can still be used.

You will note that the original factory machining marks are 

still on the piston.  You can even still see the knurling from

the factory.   If this were a car, it would be a low milage car

with just several thousand miles on it.

Why the premature wear?

Was it a poor product?  No, in fact after reviewing the evidence

I have gained a lot of respect for this little engine.  You see the 

owner thought it was a four cycle or four stroke engine.  So he

did not put oil in the gas.  But, it was a two cycle engine.  So the

poor little engine did not have any lubrication during the ice storm

when he used it.

What's the point?

God made us to live in relationship to him.  He wants to dwell

in us.  If we do not have a relationship with him and his Spirit

dwelling in us -  we are going to be "trashed" too.  Just like 

this little engine with out oiling.

LOVING MONEY

"If you love money, you will never be satisfied;
if you long to be rich, you will never get all you want,
It is useless.
The richer you are, the more mouths you have to feed.
All you gain is the knowledge that you are rich.
Workers may or may not have enough to eat,
but at least they can get a good night's sleep.
The rich, however, have so much that they 
stay awake worrying."
(Ecclesiastes 5:11, 12 TEV)

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REAPING FROM READING

REAPING FROM READING

I do not read as well as you do.  But I have learned 

to read a little bit.  And over the years there have been

so many things that; encourage, inspire, motivate, or

even warn me, that I feel compelled to share some of

it with you.

In David Wilkerson's book,
AMERICA'S LAST CALL,
is a paragraph on p.115
that cut's close home.
It regards the Church in America.

"Today God sees prosperity and abundance pulling
his bride away from him.  She's growing more and 
more earthbound- richer, more comfortable, less
mindful of Christ  And now the Lord must move
quickly to wean her back to himself.  How will he
do this?  First, he'll remove everything that has 
preoccupied her time and attention.  he declares,
'All of this wealth may have been a blessing to my
bride at one time.  But now there's so much garbage
in my church, the only way to get her clean is to
rid her of all these worldly possessions!'" 



OUCH!