A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers
him from them all;
Psalm 34:19 NIV
Wouldn't it be great if we could escape all the troubles and
woes of life on this earth? It isn't going to happen! Life promises us a life of troubles.
Life is painful. Though life will bring us grief and sorrow, we do not have to go it
alone. God will be with us and deliver us. Thank God for sticking close to you in your
troubles.
As sure as God puts his children into the furnace of affliction, he will be with them in
it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
November 22
"Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his
wife" (Genesis 16:3 NAS).
It's a sad story of lack of trust and patience. Sarai compounded it by blaming God for her
barrenness. In-stead of waiting for God to unfold His plan in His good time, Sarai took matters into her human hands and got on with getting her husband the promised heir. There is no record of Sarai
consulting with God before they both went about doing God's work--they thought. The story that unfolds is quite grievous. God works out His intentions in His time, not ours...
Pat Nordman ©
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"Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep." - Hosea 12:12 |
"The power of his resurrection." - Philippians 3:10
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Was not the toil of Jesus for his Church the toil of one who was under suretiship obligations to bring every believing one safe to the hand of him who had committed them to his charge? |
It would take a volume to set forth all the streams of living water which flow from this one sacred source, the resurrection of our dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; ...
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...and by his light I walked through darkness! JOB 29:3 NIV
Noise by Pat Nordman
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I work in a library. Several years ago I decided one day to peruse a back issue of the Congressional Record, a most interesting document that we get daily. Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie was (he may still be) the Chaplain of the Senate. I started reading his prayer and decided to copy it since I am an apostle of silence. We live in a world that is plastered with noise. My friends are telling me that I am becoming a fanatic about the noise we can't seem to ignore because it assaults us on every side. I would like to share this wonderful prayer:
Isaiah 30:15 tells us, "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength." There is no way on this blathering, blasting earth we can enter the Heart of God unless we go to the Mountaintop with Jesus! That means shutting off the computers (yes, Pat, you too!), TVs, radios, telephones and all the other paraphernalia that shouts at us. The last straw is the car that talks to us!
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