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A Heart of Compassion

I'd like to share with you a prayer by Pr Onesmus. This is the path of his latest devotional conviction.

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Lord, take a look at my hand.

Take a look at my heart.

Mold it and refine it and set me apart.

I want to run to Your altar to catch the fire,

to stand in the gap for the lost world.

Give me a heart of compassion for the world without vision.

Then I… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on November 14, 2009 at 11:19pm — No Comments

WHAT IS IMPORTANT? WHAT MAKES FOR SUCCESS?

What are the things that are important to us in society? What does the world say we need to succeed?

According to most societies, to succeed one needs to be learned (have a good education), to be self-made (strong, determined and confident), and to be well-born (come from good family). Africa is no exception to those expectations. However, what does God say?

Let's take a peak in the Bible and see. In 1 Corinthians 1, look at the ones that God chooses.

"For… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on October 31, 2009 at 12:26am — No Comments

THE ANSWER TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS!!!

WHAT IF ALL THIS IS RIGHT???

That should be the question we ask when we hear of a brother in desperate need. But I have discovered that the normal human reaction is...

"WHAT IF THIS IS WRONG? WHAT IF IT'S A HOAX? I WILL BE RIPPED OFF!!!"

So we close our wallets and our hearts to the need.

We become more concerned about protecting our precious money than we do about protecting our precious brother.

From some tough experiences… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on September 28, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

YOU CHART THE PATH AHEAD OF ME...

... AND TELL ME WHERE TO STOP AND REST.

Yesterday, I thinking how perfectly God fits things together, and I remembered a phrase that I'd read in the Living Bible years ago...

"You chart the path ahead of me..."

I managed to find a Living Bible on my shelf and looked it up. In Psalm 139:1-7 it says:

"O Lord, you have examined my heart

and know everything about me.

You… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on September 19, 2009 at 4:00am — 1 Comment

A NEW MINISTRY BIRTHED OUT OF ADVERSITY!!

MAY GOD BE GLORIFIED AS YOU READ THIS STORY! BE ENCOURAGED!!

"All things work together for good to those that love God and are called according to His purpose."

And someone has said that the more bitter the battle, the sweeter is the victory. This has definitely been the case for my friend, Pastor Atukwatse Onesmus, over the… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on September 5, 2009 at 7:00am — 2 Comments

SOMEONE ELSE'S ARMOR WON'T DO!!

"It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in princes." (Psalm 118:8-9, Amp.)

I know I shared these verses before, and that verse 8 is the middle verse in the Bible, but this morning, after mentioning about giants yesterday, my thoughts went back to David and Goliath.… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on September 4, 2009 at 8:48pm — 1 Comment

DO YOU HAVE A BIBLE?

Do you have a Bible?

Many of us will say, "Yes, I have a number of Bibles on my bookshelf."

And some will say, "No, but I want one so much."

But I have another question....

DO YOU HAVE GOD'S WORD?

The Bible is a wonderful possession, and full of wonderful truths,

but what good would all that be to us if it remained on the shelf?

And even a Bible in our hand will not help us win against… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on September 3, 2009 at 11:35pm — 2 Comments

DON'T LET THE DEVIL MESS WITH GOD'S TREASURE!!

God is GOOD..................... the Devil is BAD!!

God is LOVE ................. the Devil is HATRED!

God is TRUTH ................ the Devil is a LIER!!

It's the age old battle and yet some people will deny that it is there.

And what is the battle over? The PRIZE POSSESSION, which is US!!

Both God and the Devil are seeking our devotion.

The old song is true when it says....

"YOU'VE GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY!!"

So the choice is… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on September 3, 2009 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

My NEW MORNING!!

Praise the Lord for this new day!! His mercies are new every morning. Ahhhh!! We can start again, leaving yesterday's hassles behind, and tackle the things that bothered us then with a new vigour and a fresh mind. Thank the Lord for a refreshing sleep.

And as I sit with Lord on our front verandah, enjoying my morning cuppa, I marvel in this day. For us it is the first of spring. As I soak up the warmth of the morning sun, I also soak… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on August 31, 2009 at 7:04pm — 3 Comments

Ouch!! Pruning Hurts!!

This is a shot of my once busy-blossom (grevillea) tree near our front step. This is the tree where I got many bee and lorikeet photos from.

Sadly, this past summer, our tree hasn't had many blossoms, and the branches and limbs were looking pretty sad...

Time for a pruning!!

Now it has lots of new shoots coming up, and I'm looking forward to more great shots when it flowers again in a couple of months.

As I… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on June 23, 2009 at 12:09am — No Comments

GFA - Grip, Focus, Attitude!

(From my study in James - I'm up to chapter 4, verse 4...)

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?

About this FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD, here's some thoughts I wrote down...

** First is about our GRIP!!

How tightly do we hold on to things?

This reminds me of the story of the monkey with his hand stuck in the peanut jar. He wouldn't let go of the peanuts!! If he let go, his… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on May 27, 2009 at 7:23pm — No Comments

Pleasures Forevermore!!

Man, that sounds like paradise!! Who in our society wouldn't want that?

David uses this phrase in Psalm 16:11 ...

"You will show me the path of life;

In Your presence is fullness of joy;

At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

We can see here that God is not a kill-joy! But many think of Him as being a God of restrictions, where you can't do this and you MUST do that. So instead, they blindly… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on May 26, 2009 at 5:45pm — 1 Comment

Doing Good, but WHAT Good?

We read in the Bible that Jesus went about doing good. (See Acts 10:38.) That included many, many healings and deliverances. And because we are Christ's, we too will only want to seek to do good to others.

However, there is a trap!! We must be careful not to get so caught up in good works, that we are not doing God's work.

Let's look how Jesus handled all this when He was on earth. Even though He was God, He was human like us, with the limitations of a physical body. He… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on May 22, 2009 at 7:52pm — 1 Comment

Shirley and Marcy

May Shirley Goodnest and Marcy be with you today and always.

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A Mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn't want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe.

So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, so he… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on April 16, 2009 at 3:30am — 1 Comment

The Middle Verse in the Bible

“It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” (Psalm 118:8, Amp)

The next verse is similar:

“It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.” (v.9)

Say, isn’t that what the Bible is all about? Isn’t it so we will come to know our Maker and put our trust in the One who made us? Besides, He wrote the manual! He knows us, and He knows what is best for… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on April 6, 2009 at 5:09am — No Comments

Child's View of Thunderstorms

A little girl walked to and from school daily.

Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the elementary school.

As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with lightning.

The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school and she feared the electrical storm might harm her child.

Full of concern, the mother quickly got into… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on March 24, 2009 at 6:46am — No Comments

A Smile - Hymn No. 365!!

A minister was completing a temperance sermon.

With great emphasis he said, 'If I had all the

beer in the world, I'd take it and pour

it into the river.'

With even greater emphasis he said, 'And if I

had All the wine in the world, I'd take

it and pour it into the river.'

And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he

said, 'And if I had all the whiskey in

the world, I'd take it and pour it into

the river.'

Sermon… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on March 24, 2009 at 6:43am — No Comments

Time for This Story Again!!

Something a little light-hearted, but I'm sure there are some lessons we can learn from it...

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ONE day Henny-penny was picking up corn in the cornyard when--whack!-- something hit her upon the head.

'Goodness gracious me!' said Henny-penny; 'the sky's a-going to fall; I must go and tell the king.'

So she went along and she went along and she went along till she met Cocky-locky. 'Where are you going,… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on March 21, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Be REAL!! Be KIND!!

(In our Jesus Discovery Group, we are currently discussing "Grace and Truth" [John 1:14-18]. "[Jesus] came from the Father, full of grace and truth." The OT equivalent is "Mercy and Truth", so I thought I'd share these blog posts which I posted in August 07.)

Let not mercy and truth forsake you;

Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet of your heart,

And so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man. (3:3-4,… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on March 20, 2009 at 1:29am — No Comments

Freedom from Rules and New Life in Christ

(Due to some teaching that comes across in blogs, I thought this was an appropriate scripture to add here... Colossians 2:6-23, NLT. God's Word says it better than I can. May you know the freedom that is found only in Christ.)

6 And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. 7 Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with… Continue

Added by Jeanette B on March 17, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

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