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Morning Devotional...



He sought God...and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.
2 Chronicles 26:5


At the age of sixteen, Uzziah came to the throne following the death of his father Amaziah. His 52-year reign started well, but in pride he went into the temple to burn incense, a task to which he was forbidden, and he was smitten with leprosy and died far from God.

May the sad end to his life remind us that when we seek the Lord we prosper and when we are in disobedience we suffer under the disciplining hand of God.

Remember, when Uzziah sought the Lord, he prospered.

It was as simple as that.
                                                                      --Arnot P. McIntee

Good morning all 10.45AM
Thanks Pat for your devotional this morning
i wish that i had a bible in English then it was easyer to
write for me about what i love in the bible.
But Dutch bibles are not cheap and i don't know of we can buy bibles in English here. But i think they are also not sheep.
It is really cold in Holland.
Jenny is it in England also cold?
This morning i have again pain in my back.
I hope it is going over this day.
My chiropracter also say to me i am readdy with you
monday i must back to him.
But when i do my exercises this day then it will be better.
Yesterday i have forgetten that. Yesterday i had no pain then i am not thinking on my exercises.
I was to busy i have clean up my house i think to long.
I think it is better for me that i do every day something.

Pat thank you that you have put my school pictures and
the pictures of the canadian and american war cemetry.

JudyB this day i call you i am missing John's mother and
i will speak to her.

But first i go walk with our 2 little dogs.

I wish you all a very good day
God bless you and He is with you all days from your live.
May be i come back this day
Bye for now  RIA

Morning folks. Well I went to my bed last night with a sore backside. the second time in a week! Thanks Chris!! LOL

It is amazing how things can change with a full nights sleep. I have the same pain this morning yet I am able to cope with it better because I have had a good rest.

Pain is not only stressful it is energy sapping. When my energy is low then I am weak and open to all sorts of attacks from the evil one. There is now much that can be done apart from rest, but what happens when rest does not come?

Pain is one thing, but sleepless nights is another. Seeing every hour on the clock, praying for relief, praying for an escape route, praying for my mind to stop spinning out of control.

Thankfully the Lord knows just how much we can take and He gives His beloved sleep. Often I have though that He has gone too far, but always I am wrong. He knows best.

I have decided now to write when I can and not to 'force' a devotion simply for the sake of doing so.
I found myself recently under pressure as I tried to think of things to write about.

I was beginning to lose my apetite for it and was no longer enjoying it. Now I will 'give' as the Lord 'gives' me and I am not going to set any times in between posts.

One other thing that was concerning me was this. Please do not think that if something that I have written 'hits home' hard to you that I am 'getting' at you. I am not like that.

I write to encourage my broithers and sisters in Christ. Sometimes when I have heard a sermon preached I think that the Pastor knows all about me and my sins and that he is deliberately picking on me!!

Well perhaps that happens through my writings. If is does then please be assured that I am not picking on you. The sins I write about are my own sins and the faults that I highlight are my faults and no one elses.

I love you all in Christ and I send a special thankyou for your prayers at this time.

God bless you all.

LOL

Your brother in Christ

Iain

10.25 a.m.

                                                                         Whatever you give us will be "Manna from Heaven"Iain. You re "letting go and letting God" take you on the next stage of your journey.  Sometimes a door seemingly has to close because the Heavenly Father has something different in store for us. May you see things more clearly. Take things steady dear Brother........In His Timing!  Spiritual indigestion is painful!

Ria, so you have two doggies....What are they?
I have my Sunday Dog and two lovely black long-haired cats. They are all rescued.

I am having a day of peace today and will not come back on. So I am sending love and blessings  in Jesus' Name to all you dear Ones.

Jenny.

Jenny later i send pictures of my dogs today
there are enough picture of me.
I have walked with dogs and now my back is a little bit
better.
Iain thanks for your words God bless you
I know what it is Iain have pain in the back and sleepless nights. That are very long nights.
RIA

                    THANK-GOD FOR

                 MARTIN LUTHER KING


           
May the Lord bless and keep his loved ones and all who seek to continue his work.

I am back today after a long drive to Don's doctor appointment yesterday.  Today, I had better get in the groove and work on this house - but first....

Pat S.:  Thanks ever so much for devotions today.  And, everything else you do.  

Jenny:  Hello to you - how nice that you are thinking of M. L.King.  I have a few mixed feelings about him but he was a person to challenge one's thinking about race.

Papa John:  It  is always good to see you posting.  

Ria:  It is impossible to move the government in any country sometimes.  Our major problem in this area is poor air quality and none of the elected local and state governments work hard enough on this fact.  Oh, there are just too many problems to name.  Wish you luck on finding an English Bible - they must have some available as we found the people in your country spoke excellent English.  

Happy Birthday to Angela

Welcome to new posters.  

Jerry:  It is 9:30  A.M. where you are - time to wake up!  

May our God give a truly good morning to each of you!  In reading Iain's post this morning, I'm reminded of something I once read from, I believe, C.H. Spurgeon.  He said, "Do not let the pulpit drive you to the Word, but let the Word drive you to the pulpit.  Dear brother, it is when you write about your experience with God that we all profit.  Do not "force" the writing.  God will do that for you.

Iain I am sending prayers for relief from pain and for a happy, peaceful, and profitable day for you today.

Greetings to Pat, Ria, Jenny, Carol, Al and the rest who will pop in later.

I will go to Mom's and work on sorting her stuff again today.  Big job.

I am going to post some PRAISE reports over in the prayer thread.

God bless!

Good morning everyone.  It is good to see Pat with her good devotional thoughts, along with Ria, Iain, Jennifer, Al, Janet and Carol.

Iain, sorry about your pain and sleepless nights.  I can sympathize with you as one who suffers arthritis in the spine as well as bulging disks.  Fortunately I have medicine which helps me to cope with pain and also I have learned to avoid things which I know are going to make it worse.  I get comfort from Paul's statement in  
2 Corinthians 12:7-9

"And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."  

I hope you all have a nice day.  Tomorrow we are leaving for a week in the mountains of northern Georgia so we have some packing and last minute things to get done today.

--- Papa John              <)))><<

 

Hi everyone.  Another beautiful day here in Georgia, a bit warm but at the moment the sun is shining but a few clouds are rolling in and we may have some showers this afternoon.

Ria, your comment about wanting an English Bible made me think that you can easily access the full Bible from several websites without charge.  Here is a link to the webpage I maintain for our church and if you click on the link to the left that says "Devotional Links" and scroll down you will see listed a number of Bible resources.  www.wpcsnellville.org.

Iain, I think you have made a wise decision in not trying to push yourself in your writing.  We will look forward to your words when you feel God's hand in your work.  

I am going to do a little shopping with my wife and she is ready to go so will stop for now.

Papa John and Cornelia
I wish you a very nice week in the mountains.
God bless you
RIA

Since I hadn't opened a subject for prayer for Darrel, I will tell you our praise report here!

After a good exam and another treadmill stress test, the doctor pronounced Darrel's heart "just fine!"  The fainting spells and shortness of breath he has been experiencing are caused by a blood pressure med he was given to help his prostate.  The dr. took him off that, told him to see a urologist, and sent us on our way.

GOD IS SO GOOD---ALL THE TIME!

Larry, I can't get that link.   I get page not found.

Good Morning to one and all:

Thanks Pat for today's devotion and it is great to see Iain posting what is in his heart. I am still praying for relief from your pain dear Brother.

Ria tell us about you dogs.

I am to the doctor this morning in a bout an hour. It is my first visit to a new doctor up here and the first visit to any doctor in about a year. I am taking along the list that the Nurse at the senior center made for me.So I will let you all know the results of my visit later on today.

Be Back later.

Well, folks, it's good to see the conversation here already today.

I must tell you of my experience yesterday.

I had many errands to run, some of them involving driving on our busy highway 401.  I also went to the Building Box and then to Home Depot to price a certain item and then I was on my way home on the highway from Cambridge to Guelph when I came to a red light with a very long tractor trailer/semi in front of me.

I applied my brakes and nothing!  My foot went to the floor boards!  I prayed!  I pumped the brakes a bit and got stopped and momentarily thought that perhaps my foot had also touched the gas pedal at the same time causing the car to go forward (with very large feet, this sometimes happens!).

Well, when I got going again, I thought to myself (and the traffic was very heavy since it was just about 6 pm) "There's another light at Whitelaw Rd. and then that large hill so I'm going to try these brakes again."

NOTHING!   My foot went to the floor board and no pumping would work.  Well, I was in sort of heavy traffic so I used my gears and went down to first gear and got way off the road, put the hood up, flashers on and tried to figure out how to get across the heavy traffic across the road to a body shop to phone my son, Andrew.

I managed it finally and we called CAA and they came and towed my car to Carline where it sits!  I have no idea yet about the damage this will do to my wallet!!!  So, I'm here without wheels.  I'm so glad that I didn't have a trip to London, etc.  I'm so happy that God was with me and that this didn't happen on the Highway 401!!!  

Anyway, now I'm waiting for the phone call!


Papa John, enjoy your days away in the mountains of Georgia.  Wish I could come too!  LOL


Great to see you both, Ria and Jenny!    I'm glad that the heat spell is over for you.  How's the water damage, Ria, from the broken dyke?


I'm praying for you, Iain.   I am so blessed by your writing.  I'll just wait patiently until you feel able to write again.  I'm just going to go back and read over some of your past devotionals.  Having experienced a bit of what you are going through due to nerve root damage as a result of an accident, I sympathize with you.


Great report on Darrell, Janet!  Glad to read that.  Yes, this will be a difficult day sorting things with your mother.


Carol, how's Don's hand?  Is it any better?  What did the doctor say?


Al, thanks for your little comment to Iain from Spurgeon.  He was a very wise and wonderful preacher.


Now, I hope that Angela saw her birthday cards.  Maybe we'll hear from her a little later on.


I must go and run the vacuum around.

TTYL

Brother!!!!

I just thought maybe the War in Iraq had started all over again--and right here in Guelph above my hourse here!  I was just clicking the "Post" button to post the above message when all of a sudden, the sound of aircraft was deafening!

Geordie started to bark and the cat, Lauren, ran to her crate and jumped into it.

I went to the back door and there right above the trees were 10 jets streaming across the sky.

Ohhhh, there they are again!  LOL

Well, I presume that this "show" was the Canadian Snowbirds precision flying team getting in formation to fly over the Canadian National Exhibition.  But I'm not sure though!  What a noise!  They've flown over my house twice in the last few minutes!

LOL

Firstly, a huge thank you to all for my birthday wishes yesterday.  How nice that you noticed.  

We had a pretty bad day in our household yesterday.  We were really feeling Satan's work on our lives.  So, I shipped my daughters off to my ex-husband and called a family meeting (I'm living in a household with my Mom (Anne Coughey for those who've noticed her here), my Dad, my brother Luke and my daughters.  Well, thankfully we were able to work through our problems and ended the evening with some much-needed family prayer time.  

Because of the turmoil in the household I never did get to log on to see my birthday cards.  I surely wish I had!

I must say I'm very touched by Iain's postings.  I pray the Lord will continue to speak through him to us in His time.

BTW, I too heard the jets Pat, but I didn't get outside quickly enough to see them.  They certainly set my heart to racing.

Have a great Thursday everyone!!

oh, dear Pat,  what a trying time.

Praising the Lord that you are alright.

Papa John, thanks for sharing your post on Paul.

I think Judy was asking about that bible verse on NEM yesterday.

Hope she sees it--makes clear the "thorn in the side"..


Heading for the prayer forums.

Short week; I will be heading to Penna. until Tuesday.

Can hardly believe summer is over and my dear grandson left for college.

Oh, how I remembered his birth and now he's off to college.

He is such a good boy, graduated high school bearing turned  17 when he graduated; and now a young man heading out in pursuit of becoming a lawyer.

Good Christian heart beating inside of him and I just gave his future to the LORD.

Please keep him in your prayers whenever you get a chance.

Love in Christ,
Joyce

It was strange, Angela.  There were 10 jets flying in formation but with a space and one lonely jet flying below the rest.  I wonder if that's to do with a loss of a pilot at one time or other.

It sure had MY heart racing.  

Glad you saw your cards, Angela.  Get your mother posting in here, ok?  I know that she'll enjoy the fellowship.

Joyce, don't you have internet access yet in PA?  Sure hope you do.


Well, I think we're all going to get fat on the parties coming up!  I just took a peek at the September calendar above.  Click on it and you'll see!

Pat, sorry to hear about your car woes.  If you need a lift anywhere, give me a shout.  I'm not back to work until next Wednesday and really have no plans at all to speak of.  

First of all, my days are mixed up.  


Angela!!!

Kay!!!

BERGUS!!!

Pat they have closed the dike now they are putting
the water back But they must that do very easy.
But the people can not back in their houses
They all have water in their houses.
Ria

For Jenny:






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HYMN HISTORY:

Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

One of the surprises about devotional verse of the mid-nineteenth century is the way in which it sold. Edition after edition of verse by writers who would not be accounted poets in the strict sense were bought up. Anna L. Waring's poems had that welcoming experience. At the age of thirty in 1850 she published her "Hymns and Meditations", a small book of nineteen hymns which by 1863 had gone into ten editions, and contained thirty-eight hymns.

A Glamorganshire Welsh woman, her poems have the phrase and turn of one who not only had a genuine piety but knew how to express it. Four of her hymns have found permanent recognition: "My Heart Is Resting O My God", "Go Not Far From me O My Strength", "Father I Know That All My Life and In Heavenly Love Abiding".

The nineteenth century would have voted for the first named as her best hymn, but the twentieth, judging by the popularity of its choice, goes for "In heavenly love abiding". Not a robust or a bold hymn of discipleship, but one of calm and complete gospel assurance.

Wherever He may guide me,
No wants shall turn me back;
My Shepherd is beside me,
And nothing can I lack:

His wisdom ever waketh,
His sight is never dim;
He knows the way He taketh,
And I will walk with Him.
 

Karma ~ Congrats on the 2nd!!!  Will check it out later.  Did it!  The gristmill is awesome.  Not many of them left today.  Very suiting for 'In the Past'.

Carol ~ I do believe that Jerry was up today by 9:30AM.  Progress!!!

Jery used to post from this site and I thought it was fitting to post it today.

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DOES GOD STILL HEAL TODAY?

"Therefore confess your sins [and faults] to each other and
pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer
of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16,
NIV).

When it comes to divine healing, there is never a shortage
of quacks. There are faith-healers and there are
fake-healers. And when it comes to some TV so-called
evangelists, I sometimes wonder which ones are in the
majority.

Among us ordinary people some claim that God still heals
today. Others aren't sure. Some agree that God can heal but
they don't believe he will heal them. Others say that if
it's God's will, or if we have enough faith, God will heal
us. And some say we are as sick as we choose to be.
Personally, I like the saying I heard the other day:
"Christians shouldn't be any sicker than they ought to be."

Regarding faith, as Jesus pointed out we only need faith
the size of a mustard seed to receive God's blessings.
Furthermore, if I understand it correctly, the faith of the
faith-healer is just as necessary (perhaps even more so) as
that of the one being prayed for. With fake-healers when a
person they pray for (often prey on) isn't healed, they
pass the blame onto the sick person telling them they just
didn't have enough faith. Yeah, right!

What James is saying is tremendously important in that to
be healed of many ills, we need to first confess our sins
and faults. What the Bible taught 3,000 years ago and what
modern medical science has confirmed is that "A joyful
heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the
bones."

When we fail to resolve past hurts, bitterness, guilt,
anger, hostility, a critical spirit and so on, and bury,
repress, and deny these negative emotions, we never bury
them dead but very much alive. Either we confront and
resolve these issues in a creative way or they will express
themselves in a destructive way. This can be through any or
all of the following ways: (1) emotionally in depression,
anxiety, fears, stress, and/or through impaired
relationships; (2) spiritually in our relationship to God,
feeling that he is distant or we get angry at him; and/or
(3) through a physical illness. Regarding the latter, what
we often don't realize is that many of our ills are either
caused by or greatly aggravated by these super-charged
repressed negative emotions.

To be healed we need to follow God's instructions and
confess and resolve all of our sins, our negative spirit,
and all of our super-charged repressed negative
emotions--the things that make us sick. As Peter said, "Get
rid of all malicious behavior and deceit. Don't just
pretend to be good! Be done with hypocrisy and jealousy and
backstabbing" (See 1 Peter 2:1-2, NLT). Repressing these
things does not get rid of them.

Then some illnesses are simply because we live in a sinful,
broken world and are all affected. Some ills, too, are
allowed by God to help us grow. The Apostle Paul had some
ailment that he prayed three times for God to heal. God
didn't. Through this, Paul learned the efficiency of God's
grace which helped him to live with his problem.

Jesus said to those who were infirmed, "Do you want to be
made well?" As I've said before, wishes don't wash. We need
to genuinely want to be made well and accept personal
responsibility for doing our part in the healing process.
God doesn't go against his own laws. We either resolve our
sins and issues or suffer the natural consequences.

Speaking personally, in my youth I was taught that
Christians should never be angry and that you can't trust
your feelings--so I learned early in life to repress and
deny my pent-up negative emotions. By the time I was in my
early 30s I suffered from painful bursitis in both
shoulders and miserable hay-fever. But when I got into
recovery and resolved my anger, hurts, grief and fears, I
was healed. I haven't suffered from either bursitis or
hay-fever in years, for which I am very thankful.
 
Thus I believe it is true that "Christians shouldn't be any
sicker than we ought to be."

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, in any of my problems,
conflicts or ills, please help me to understand the nature
of my issue so that I will know if there is anything that I
can and need to do to be healed. Help me not to settle for
anything less than what you have for me. Thank you for
hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus'
name, amen."

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(c) Copyright by Richard (Dick) Innes, 2003

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"Children can be a great comfort in your old age.  And they help you get there faster too."

Ria, that is so sad about the people having flooded houses.  Water can be so damaging to so many family treasures.