Tag: God Bless
The Gift
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
CHRISTMAS STORY: Pa never had much compassion for the lazy or those who squandered their means and then never had enough for the necessities. But for those who were genuinely in need, his heart was as big as all outdoors. It was from him that I learned the greatest joy in life comes from giving, not from receiving.
It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was fifteen years old and feeling like the world had caved in on me because there just hadn’t been enough money to buy me the rifle that I’d wanted so bad that year for Christmas.
We did the chores early that night for some reason. I just figured Pa wanted a little extra time so we could read in the Bible. So after supper was over I took my boots off and stretched out in front of the fireplace and waited for Pa to get down the old Bible. I was still feeling sorry for myself and, to be honest, I wasn’t in much of a mood to read scriptures.
But Pa didn’t get the Bible; instead he bundled up and went outside. I couldn’t figure it out because we had already done all the chores. I didn’t worry about it long though; I was too busy wallowing in self-pity.
Soon Pa came back in. It was a cold clear night out and there was ice in his beard. “Come on, Matt,” he said. “Bundle up good, it’s cold out tonight.” I was really upset then. Not only wasn’t I getting the rifle for Christmas, now Pa was dragging me out in the cold, and for no earthly reason that I could see.
We’d already done all the chores, and I couldn’t think of anything else that needed doing, especially not on a night like this. But I knew Pa was not very patient at one dragging one’s feet when he’d told them to do something, so I got up and put my boots back on and got my cap, coat, and mittens. Ma gave me a mysterious smile as I opened the door to leave the house. Something was up, but I didn’t know what.
Outside, I became even more dismayed. There in front of the house was the work team, already hitched to the big sled. Whatever it was we were going to do wasn’t going to be a short, quick, little job. I could tell. We never hitched up the big sled unless we were going to haul a big load.
Pa was already up on the seat, reins in hand. I reluctantly climbed up beside him. The cold was already biting at me. I wasn’t happy. When I was on, Pa pulled the sled around the house and stopped in front of the woodshed. He got off and I followed. “I think we’ll put on the high sideboards,” he said. “Here, help me.” The high sideboards! It had been a bigger job than I wanted to do with just the low sideboards on, but whatever it was we were going to do would be a lot bigger with the high sideboards on.
When we had exchanged the sideboards Pa went into the woodshed and came out with an armload of wood—the wood I’d spent all summer hauling down from the mountain, and then all fall sawing into blocks and splitting. What was he doing? Finally I said something. “Pa,” I asked, “what are you doing?” ”
You been by the Widow Jensen’s lately?” he asked. The Widow Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband had died a year or so before and left her with three children, the oldest being eight.
Sure, I’d been by, but so what? “Yeah,” I said, “why?”
“I rode by just today,” Pa said. “Little Jakey was out digging around in the woodpile trying to find a few chips. They’re out of wood, Matt.” That was all he said and then he turned and went back into the woodshed for another armload of wood. I followed him.
We loaded the sled so high that I began to wonder if the horses would be able to pull it. Finally, Pa called a halt to our loading, then we went to the smoke house and Pa took down a hold side of a Deer and a fewTurkeys. He handed them to me and told me to put them in the sled and wait. When he returned he was carrying a sack of flour over his right shoulder and a smaller sack of something in his left hand.
“What’s in the little sack?” I asked.
“Shoes. They’re out of shoes. Little Jakey just had gunny sacks wrapped around his feet when he was out in the wood-pile this morning.
I got the children a little candy too. It just wouldn’t be Christmas without a little candy.”
We rode the two miles to Widow Jensen’s pretty much in silence. I tried to think through what Pa was doing. We didn’t have much by worldly standards. Of course, we did have a big woodpile, though most of what was left now was still in the form of logs that I would have to cut.
So why was Pa buying them shoes and candy? Really, why was he doing any of this? Widow Jensen had closer neighbors than us. It shouldn’t have been our concern.
We came in from the blind side of the Jensen house and unloaded the wood as quietly as possible, then we took the meat and flour and shoes to the door.
We knocked. The door opened a crack and a timid voice said, “Who is it?”
“Lucas Miles, Ma’am, and my son, Matt. Could we come in for a bit?”
Widow Jensen opened the door and let us in. She had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. The children were wrapped in another and were sitting in front of the fireplace by a very small fire that hardly gave off any heat at all.
Widow Jensen fumbled with a match and finally lit the lamp. “We brought you a few things, Ma’am,” Pa said and set down the sack of flour. I put the meat on the table. Then Pa handed her the sack that had the shoes in it. She opened it hesitantly and took the shoes out on e pair at a time. There was a pair for her and one for each of the children—sturdy shoes, the best, shoes that would last.
I watched her carefully. She bit her lower lip to keep it from trembling and then tears filled her eyes and started running down her cheeks. She looked up at Pa like she wanted to say something, but it wouldn’t come out.
“We brought a load of wood too, Ma’am,” Pa said, then he turned to me and said, “Matt, go bring enough in to last for awhile. Let’s get that fire up to size and heat this place up.”
I wasn’t the same person when I went back out to bring in the wood. I had a big lump in my throat and, much as I hate to admit it, there were tears in my eyes too.
In my mind I kept seeing those three kids huddled around the fireplace and their mother standing there with tears running down her cheeks and so much gratitude in her heart that she couldn’t speak. My heart swelled within me and a joy filled my soul that I’d never known before. I had given at Christmas many times before, but never when it had made so much difference.
I could see we were literally saving the lives of these people. I soon had the fire blazing and everyone’s spirits soared. The kids started giggling when Pa handed them each a piece of candy and Widow Jensen looked on with a smile that probably hadn’t crossed her face for a long time. She finally turned to us. “God bless you,” she said. “I know the Lord himself has sent you. The children and I have been praying that he would send one of his angels to spare us.”
In spite of myself, the lump returned to my throat and the tears welled up in my eyes again. I’d never thought of Pa in those exact terms before, but after Widow Jensen mentioned it I could see that it was probably true. I was sure that a better man than Pa had never walked the earth. I started remembering all the times he had gone out of his way for Ma and me, and many others. The list seemed endless as I thought on it.
Pa insisted that everyone try on the shoes before we left. I was amazed when they all fit and I wondered how he had known what sizes to get. Then I guessed that if he was on an errand for the Lord that the Lord would make sure he got the right sizes.
Tears were running down Widow Jensen’s face again when we stood up to leave. Pa took each of the kids in his big arms and gave them a hug. They clung to him and didn’t want us to go. I could see that they missed their pa, and I was glad that I still had mine.
At the door Pa turned to Widow Jensen and said, “The Mrs. wanted me to invite you and the children over for Christmas dinner tomorrow. The turkey will be more than the three of us can eat, and a man can get cantankerous if he has to eat turkey for too many meals. We’ll be by to get you about eleven. It’ll be nice to have some little ones around again.
Brother Miles. I don’t have to say, “‘May the Lord bless you,’ I know for certain that He will.”
Out on the sled I felt a warmth that came from deep within and I didn’t even notice the cold. When we had gone a ways, Pa turned to me and said, “Matt, I want you to know something. Your ma and me have been tucking a little money away here and there all year so we could buy that rifle for you, but we didn’t have quite enough. Then yesterday a man who owed me a little money from years back came by to make things square. Your ma and me were real excited, thinking that now we could get you that rifle, and I started into town this morning to do just that. But on the way I saw little Jakey out scratching in the woodpile with his feet wrapped in those gunny sacks and I knew what I had to do. So, Son, I spent the money for shoes and a little candy for those children. I hope you understand.”
I understood, and my eyes became wet with tears again. I understood very well, and I was so glad Pa had done it. Just then the rifle seemed very low on my list of priorities. Pa had given me a lot more. He had given me the look on Widow Jensen’s face and the radiant smiles of her three children.
For the rest of my life, whenever I saw any of the Jensens, or split a block of wood, I remembered, and remembering brought back that same joy I felt riding home beside Pa that night. Pa had given me much more than a rifle that night, he had given me the best Christmas of my life. Count your blessings everyday, slowly and thoughtfully.
Let us Pray!
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When I was a kid, we enjoyed the Christmas time because it was wend we got everything we wore out that year.
So for the Christmas we got a pair of new; or sometime not so new hand me down shoes. We got new clothing and sometimes that too belonged to your older brother or sister the year before.
And last but not lease we got a Toy, oh yes a toy. Christmas was also a time of year we could eat as much as we wanted.
Why because Mom always cooked the biggest Turkey she could find, but the problem was we just got finished eating turkey sandwiches from Thanksgiving and now you got another month of eating it again.
Somehow Mom made Turkey in so many ways it was always good to the last bite.
Mostly Christmas was a time of family coming together, sometime aunts and uncles who you did not know you had would come and visit and they always gave you a piece of money.
I can remember one Christmas more then any; it was the one we had nothing.
My Dad had a farm in Florida where we were living at that time and he had gone back to work on the Ships. So it was just my Mother and oldest step brother with all of us 6 kids left on the farm to keep it going till Dad came back home.
Sometimes he would go for 6 months some times up to a year we would not see him so money was hard to come-by at times. There was enough just no extra money for anything that year;
Mom had to make due with what she had. But you know somehow that was the best Christmas we had because I can still remember it and none of the others.
About two days before Christmas my oldest brother went out and cut down a pine tree that we set-up in the house. Then he had a bag full of pine cones, we ask what are then for, he said to have fun with and he got out some old paint. So that is what we did painted pine cones any colour we wanted and when they were dried we hung them on the tree.
Mom as normal got my brother to kill the biggest turkey we had on the farm and my brother managed to sell a few others to the city people who came looking. So there was plenty to eat and the extra money from selling Turkeys sue came in handy that year. That was always like Mom pulling a rabbit out of the hat again and we all got a Toy.
Christmas is a wonderful time of year. It is a time of giving, a time that we can visit family and friend that we might not have seen all year long. It is a time of getting back together and just remembering the past as we look forward to the future.
As in our Story many times our parents sacrificed and did with out in order to give to there Children things that they needed not things that they wanted.
God gives us things we need, things like forgiveness and eternal life.
- John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
When we choose to disobey God, when we turned our back and walked away from his love? When we rejected him and all his goodness, He still does not gave up on loving us.
When we sin and chose to die in our blindness and stupidly, God sent His Son his only Son to die in our place so that he could give us life once again.
For God so loved the world,
That little Verse of Scripture says a lot. In the days of Creation we are told that after God had finish his act of creation he looked out and saw everything he had make
In the book of Genesis 1: 31: we are told, God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
God did not just through us into a dead old world; every thing that came from the Master hand came with the best intensions.
God gave of the best that heaven could give in the creation of Mankind, in that we were created in the image of God. What an honour God places on Man to be made in the likens of his Creator
The Scripture goes on to say that he also gave his only begotten Son,
Not only did God love us but he had also planned ahead that in the event man would prove to be unfaithful, there would be hope for him.
Just how would this come about; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The plan for our redemption was not an afterthought, a plan formulated after the fall of Adam.
It was a revelation of “the mystery which hath been kept in silence through eternality.” Rom. 16:25, R. V.
It was an unfolding of the principles that from eternal ages have been the foundation of God’s throne.
From the beginning, God the Father and Christ knew of the apostasy of Satan, and of the fall of man through the deceptive power of the apostate.
God did not ordain that sin should exist, but He foresaw its existence, and made provision to meet the terrible emergency head on.
So great was His love for this world, that He covenanted to give His only-begotten Son, “that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
This could not be done by force. The exercise of force is contrary to the principles of God’s government; He desires only the service of love.
For love cannot be commanded; it cannot be won by force or by authority.
Only by love is love awakened. To know God is to love Him; His character must be manifested in contrast to the character of Satan.
This work only one Being in all the universe could do. Only He who knew the height and depth of the love of God could make it known.
Upon the world’s dark night the Sun of Righteousness must rise, “with healing in his wings” (Mal. 4:2). {RC 23.3}
17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
To all who have accepted Christ as a personal Savoir, the Holy Spirit has come as a counsellor, sanctifier, guide, and a witness.
The more closely believers have walked with God, the more clearly and powerfully have they testified of their Redeemer’s love and of His saving grace.
Romans 8:
39: Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In the beginning, God was revealed in all the works of his creation. It was Christ that spread the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth. It was His hand that hung the worlds in space, and fashioned the flowers of the field.
“His strength settled fast the mountains.” “The sea is His, and He made it.” Ps. 65:6; 95:5. It was He that filled the earth with beauty, and the air with song.
And upon all things in earth, air, and sky, He wrote the message of his Father’s love for Mankind.
So I ask you this Christmas before you open the first present. Take time and thank God for all the gifts he has giving you.
Take time to thank Jesus for taking your place on the cross and dyeing in your place in order to give you the gift of eternal life.
We did not have all the things that Kids have today, but the little we had we knew and understood the price of what it cost. And that was the sacrifice of our parents
Instead of toys this year just give to your Children something more, give them a box of Love and let them see in you the Gift of Gods forever Love.
There is an old song I remember that went something like this; Iam getting nothing for Christmas Mom and Dad are made, Iam getting nothing for Christmas cause I ant been nothing but bad.
Truth is we were all bad, but God loved us so much he gave us the greatest Gift Heaven could give. His Son Jesus
God Bless and have a very marry Christmas
Elder Tim McNab
A Dogs Blessing
A Dogs Blessing
What do you do when people call you names!
No one likes to be called a dirty name even if it is just joking or playing a round
Why! Because names hurt, don’t they.
Sometimes people say the cruelest thing not even realizing they are hurting someone else.
If you lived in Honduras where I grew-up and there left for a few years, and then went back this is what you might expect hear.
People who new you would say, Boy look at how fat you got, Well SHOULD I GET OFINDED HERE OR WHAT!
In their way of talking it is a complement, meaning man you really look good.
But if I did not know that, I might have gotten insulted. And said I will never go back there again.
Well, what if you got accused of doing something you did not do. No matter where you go people would look at you and say, yep that the guy, HE did it.
Did what? I did not do anything. I was just blame for it. I took the fall.
It is hard to prove that you are innocent when every one thinks you are Guilty
Church is a place where we should feel safe because we are around other who believed like we do, and we feel like we are all part of God’s Family.
And yes it is true when someone you trust hurts you by saying something or calling you a Name that you’re Mother did not give you it really hurts; sometimes it hurt to the bone. Specialty when it is at church.
Jesus would not do that would he, would He, well would HE?
So we know we need to be very careful
Even when telling the truth. You can hurt someone feelings.
Have you every had a sister in the church come to you and say “How do you like my new hat”.
That’s a Hat ! O yes I see now, O yes love it, it’s really you.
All the time you are thinking it looks more like a Birds nest.
Well you know I can’t lie, so I must tell the truth. I will just hurt the person feeling.
There are ways to tell the truth, and not hurt someone.
One way is to change the subject. By saying “well how many hats do you have”. Or find something about it you like. May be the cooler, You know I love that color blue.
God has giving us wisdom, and we should use it and be careful of the tongue.
It only take one second to hurt someone and forever for the hurt to heal!
We don’t know where a person is in life, they may be on the edge of life and death and the very thing we say to them may be the stick that will push them overboard.
And then that Soul is lost forever
Now I have a question for you,
What would you do if someone called you a Dog?
Don’t tell me just think about it while I go on with the sermons. Let usPray.
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I am going to pose another Question to you:
Faith !
Exactly what it is?
Confidence, Trust, Reliance, Assurance, Conviction, Belief, Devotion, Loyalty, Commitment, Dedication.
I think that sum it up!
Faith is total Trust in Jesus Christ and his sacrifice on the cross, where I have Conviction through Belief that it is he who can save to the up-most. I am Confident that through him Jesus, that Loyal Christians will have the Assurance that through there Commitment, Devotion and Dedication Relining on him we will have eternal life.
Yep that’s Faith.
Let’s explore a little about Faith.
Acts 14:
8: And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
9: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
Why is it that some people pray and get healing and other pray and do not receive healing?
Why did not Jesus heal every one he passed?
Does God inflict pain and suffering unto us because of our sin’s?
Or because of Sin do we inflict suffering upon our self.
We are told that we must have Faith. The Bible said
Heb:11:1: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
One day a Man told HMS Richard that he did not believe that there was a God. HMS Richard asked the Man why that is. Because I can’t see Him!
Well HMS Richard said Sir. You know, I don’t believe you have a Brain. The Man said pardon me Pastor. Well I can’t see it, so how do I know you have one.
It is not by sight or by hearing or by feeling that we know God! It is only by Faith.
Faith that if God said it I am going to do it. I am not going to let anything get in my way of serving God.
STORY: How many of you like to go Boating?
Yea that what I am talking about, just kicking back letting it all loose, having FUN.
Well in Jesus day’s people did not go boating for Fun, why because it was work and a lot of work.
There were only two ways of making a boat go forward.
#1. Was Wind power, and #2 was elbow grease.
Story of Peter in a Boat: One day Jesus sent his disciples on a head of him onto the other side by boat. That night the weather got bad…
Peter getting out of the boat took a lot of Faith and then he started walking on the water with his eyes fastened on Jesus.
Matthew 14:
30: But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. Or lost his Faith
When he took his eyes off the Savior he lost his Faith
We today are no less different then Peter, if we take our eyes off of Jesus for only a second we will perish in this Sea of sin.
31: And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Or Why did you doubt
Peter cried out from within his soul JESUS please save Me! Only then did the Son of God reach out and took the hand of faith that called on his name.
As we cried out in despair, as we cried out in trouble, when we are at our last rope JESUS please save ME there we find the hand of Jesus reaching to grab hold of the faith that called in his name, ready to heal, ready to save, and ready to forgive.
You see we can’t judge, why, because only Jesus knows the heart, only he can hear the faint cried from deep down in the soul of man, the cry for help that cry for forgiveness.
Jesus is never late my friend he is always on time. Your life may be one minuet till midnight your mind may be in the darkest darkness but the love of God will always be come through.
Jesus looked at Peter and Said, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
O thou of little faith, why for even a moment would you doubt God?
Do we sometime hear the same words, when we pray asking for God to help us?
How many times have we prayed and it seamed as if God does not hear what I am saying.
Is it because he did not hear or because I did not believe he would hear.
Matthew 9: A Woman of Faith
20: And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Did touching Jesus garment do anything? No! “So what did, She had Faith in the one called Jesus”
Who was this Woman? And what was her problem?
She was sick and for the passed 12 years she spent all she had trying to get well. Going from one doctor to another, trying one new cure and then another and still nothing worked.
Sounds a lot like us today don’t it. We try everything else first and when nothing seams to work we rub a little Jesus on it and it goes away.
Finally in her desperation she turned to the only real source of healing, Jesus. She listened to him talk each day and felt herself being drawn to him, until at last unbelief gave way to Faith and Faith turned into action and this Child of God was healed.
Faith turned into action! That is what happens when you believe things start to happen because of your Faith. If you are looking to see it you won’t, if you are looking to feel something it will never come, only as you Believe will it happen. Why because it is Faith.
Jesus said who touch me. There were many people there but Jesus knew the touch of Faith, he understood the hand that had reached out unto him. That is why he told Nickcodeanus and if I be lifted up I will draw all Men unto Me.
Lk:6:19:
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Is there any different to day in how God works with his people. They could reach out and physically touch him, what about us.
We can physically reach up and touch him in faith. We can grab hold of his garment and say I will not let go till thou has blessed me. The problem is we don’t have time to wait
Luke 8:48 (KJV). And He said unto her, “Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.”
This woman hade Faith my friend and She was healed.
I want to tell you a story about another Woman who hade Faith, her story is told in the Gospel of Matthew 15: 21-28
One day Jesus said to his disciples lets go for a walk, the Bible says that Jesus went and came unto the cost of a place called Tyre and Sidon.
21: Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
What was Jesus doing here; he had never before gone out of Judea, why now.
So as they were walking guess what started to happen, someone recognized him as Jesus. People all over knew who he was, except for the Jewish Leader that is.
So as he was walking a Local Woman came out when she heard of him.
22: And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
What was so different with this Woman then anyone else, who here would have came out to see Jesus. She had a problem and could not do anything about it. But she recognized in Jesus that he was someone who could do something about her problem.
More then likely she had never seen Jesus before; she only could hear the Stories that people told coming out of Jerusalem, Stories about a Man of God who could heal with just the power of his Word. Perhaps she heard the Stories about how Jesus fed over 5000 Men plus Woman and Children with only two small Fish and a few loafs of bread, or about how he held 10 Men all at one time who had the incurable disease of leprosy.
We are not told how this Woman knew about Jesus we are just told her story. She saw Jesus and she went to ask him for help.
23: But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
Now this just does not sound like Jesus does it. This Woman was asking for help pleading with him even crying after him for help. And what is Jesus doing Nothing
It did not turn her away she just kept coming.
There is nothing worse that someone who cries all the time. We call them winners; in fact my wife is always telling me if I would like some cheese with that wine, I am not to sure what she means by that.
In other words after a wile you just get tired or just fed-up with there Constance cry. But that was not the problem here was it.
No; Jesus knew who she was, but Jesus also wanted to teach his Disciples a lesson to see what they would do in this type of situation.
The Woman was not a Jew or a descendent of any Jewish family. The Jews had nothing to do with those people who were not part of the promise giving to there Father Abraham.
Jesus finally gives this Woman an answers look at verse 24
24: But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
So Jesus told her to go away I am not going to help you. I am here to help only those who are the children of the promise.
25: Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
The heart of Jesus was yearning to help this poor child of God, but he must first teach his disciples a lesson. They would need to know how to treat other after he is gone from them.
At first when you read this part of the Gospel, you would come away with the through that Jesus did not want to help this woman. But if you study the lesson closely you must first ask a question. What was Jesus doing in this part of Palestine anyway, he had no business for being there, very few if any Jews so why was he here.
There is always a reason when Jesus does something. Jesus knew this child of God needed help and so he walked all the way there to help her.
Listen to what Jesus now tells her.
Matthew 15: 26
26: But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
I am not sure I read that right, I know some where I must have made a mistake!
Any one in here has a different version of the Bible.
What does your say
Just about all Bibles will translate this scripture exactly how Jesus said it.
But why?
If this was you, what would you have done. You are in need of some help so you go to this guy who has help many of others but when he gets to you he calls you a Dog.
Listen: He is saying I am not going to take the Blessing that belongs to the rightful airs of the Father and through it to a Dog.
But this lady was different you can see that in her answer to Jesus.
27: And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
What she is saying is Lord I am not looking for one of those big blessings just a little crumb Blessing and I will be satisfied.
Jesus could not help but to honor this Woman.
28: Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Great is your Faith Woman you will have what you are looking for because you have the Faith to believe you have received it.
And the Bible said that from that very hour, her daughter was made whole.
Would you have passed the test,
Don’t answer the question to me, answer it to Jesus. Do you have the faith that if some one would call you names to bring your case before Jesus and seek his strength
We know from God word that trouble times are just ahead of us and we will need Faith to get through it.
But we need not fear all we need it to Believe, Jesus will take care of the rest.
Remember that the closer to the flame the hotter it gets it is at that point that only Faith can take hold and move forward. It is at that point that Jesus will pick you up and carry you through the trials until you can stand again on your own. My friend all I can say is thank you my Lord and savior for giving me just a Dogs blessing.
God Bless and Keep you all and don’t worry when the world calls you names just be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the Masters table to his blessed and loving Children