Thursday, April 30, 2020
A Breath Away
A Local Christian woman who came close to death sent me this
to share with you. A Poem that God gave her after a close call.
Psalm 23:4---Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me.
Death is a scary word,
For those who don't know the Lord,
Fear is like a two-edged sword.
I lay in my hospital bed
Had a pillow for my head.
The world seemed sunny and bright,
As I closed my eyes that night.
I lay in bed, not knowing I was close to death,
Would I draw another breath?
God showed his Grace and might,
He let me take a breath that night.
If you fear death,
Before you take your last breath,
Go on your knees before God’s throne.
Ask forgiveness and change your ways,
Eternity is just a breath away.
Sandra Rowan
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Joy, A Way Of True Life
1 Peter 4:13---But
rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his
glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
No way can
you have a life full of joy????
No way can
you have joy in all the pain, suffering, problems, and other stuff we have to
live with or live through????
Ah, but the secret to a full life, especially a life full of joy is to live in spite of the
darkness.
Instead of
living in reaction to the darkness, live in spite of bad things happening and
live before bad things happen.
Win Christ's
prize by reacting to pain by praising God.
Win Christ's
prize by reacting to problems by praying to God.
Win Christ's
prize by reacting to darkness with hope by keeping the flame of hope alive
within you.
In spite of
all the stagnation and sometimes desperation put upon you by the darkness,
construct and build as God wills.
In the heart
of God, there is always joy.
To have a life full of joy, have a heart full of God in spite of the pain, suffering,
problems, and stuff we have to live through.
In the heart
of God is all joy, when you say, "Please Lord, let your joy be in me"
then He will answer you and He will place His joy within you.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
A Letter to the Weary from Jesus
Life can be full of challenges at
times.
But no matter what we face, we can be assured that God is always with
us.
He knows our way.
He cares.
And we are never alone.
Matthew 11:28-30--- Come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavily laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of
me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For
my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Dear Child,
I heard you cry last night.
I was there in the darkness when the
tears slipped down your face and your heart broke within you.
Did you think I didn’t see and didn’t
care?
Do you really think I don’t know-how
tired and weary you really are?
Child, I’ve been with you when life
has dealt its bitterest blows. I’ve watched you handle all the sorrow and all
the pain.
But you are weary now, and I can see
the broken spirit and the faded hopes and dreams.
Please don’t forget that I care.
My touch and caress can restore and
mend your broken heart and kindle the flame of hope once more within you.
Let Me love you.
Takedown the barricades around your
heart and lean on Me.
I am not tired and I am not weary and
I have the strength enough to carry you if you will let Me.
You are not alone, and you have never
been, for I am your friend and I will never, ever leave your side.
Trust Me!
Your Friend, Jesus
Monday, April 27, 2020
YOU HAVE CHOICES TO MAKE
Life for
many people is like riding a raft down a river without any poles or oars.
For many
people, life runs to extremes.
The
circumstances of life can be like riding on raging rapids or like being stuck
in a stagnant pool with no movement.
An essential truth of life is that either you control life or life will control you.
There is,
for many people, no choice over their circumstances and they have no voice to
express their pain.
An
eighty-five-year-old person in a nursing home, it would seem, has few choices
about life.
However,
there are a few choices a person confined to a nursing home can make.
A nursing
home resident can love God, love others, and pray.
The reality
for every person is that if you don't have a handle on life, life will handle
you.
There is
always a choice about how you will be.
You may not
have a choice about what you do in a circumstance, but you do have a choice
about the kind of person you are.
You may be
caught on a raft on a raging river with no control over where you are but you
can control how you respond to that circumstance.
The great
tests of life are the tests that require humility, courage, love, compassion,
mercy, and forgiveness.
You control
the result of your test.
You pass or
fail based upon what you desire.
You have a
choice about being a child of God.
You have a
choice about loving God with all your heart, all your soul, and with all of your
might.
You have a
choice about accepting Christ into your heart and life.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
A Deep Faith
1st Peter 1:7---That the
trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth,
though it is tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory
at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
A deep faith
results in our having a guiding light in our life.
This guiding
Light, the Holy Spirit, produces wisdom.
Many of the
decisions we make every day, even the decisions of seeming insignificance,
require wisdom.
Wisdom is
not something with which we are born.
Wisdom is
acquired.
Deep faith
produces within us a hunger to know about God and about how to live our life
according to His guiding Hand.
Deep faith
produces within us a starting point for acquiring wisdom.
Persons of
faith should always want to do the right thing.
We should
always want to do what God wants from us.
As we hunger
and thirst to do the right and the smart thing, we acquire wisdom.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
What Is Right And Wrong?
Isaiah 5:20--- Woe unto them that call evil good,
and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
We have been desensitized to the
gruesome ideas of abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and scientific
experimentation.
We no longer treasure life.
We consider life to be expendable,
unless, of course, it is our own.
Many dark forces in the world come
against us to convince us life is not worth living.
Many forces in the world come against
us hoping we will cave in and give up our Christian Faith.
However, we have a force of Light,
Love and redeeming glory within us called the Holy Spirit.
May we always depend on the Spirit of
the Living God to carry us through these dark times when people want to make
what is wrong right and what is right wrong.
Friday, April 24, 2020
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