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Morning Devotional...


"When Jesus heard it, He said to them, 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance'."
Mark 2:11




God has given your body incredible powers of healing and repair and you could almost say that we carry our very own doctor and pharmacy inside us.

When testing new medicines, one group of patients get the medicine and another group get a placebo. The placebo does nothing but no one knows who gets it. However, doctors have known for years that a "placebo effect" sometimes takes place For example, if the body thinks it is getting aspirin for a headache but is actually getting a placebo, the body expects the medicine to work and the headache will often disappear. Studies over recent years have shown that the body does produce its own painkillers. It has been found that one of these pain-killing chemicals made by the body can reduce pain as effectively as 8 milligrams of morphine or 80 milligrams of Demerol!

Studies on the body's built-in pharmacy have, so far, confirmed that the body is also able to treat coughs, anxiety, high blood pressure, depression, asthma, colds, arthritis, ulcers, high cholesterol, and even warts. Often, the medicines we take simply give the  body "permission" to do its own healing by giving us the belief we are going to get better.

Medicine is often the study of how the body solves problems - in other words, a study of the work of the Great Physician Himself!


Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus, You made us and You are the great Healer of both body and soul. I thank you for the wonderful abilities You have given my body to take care of itself. But without You, my soul has no healing. I trust in Your atonement for my sin. Amen.



Creation Moments

Pat, wonderful devotional.  So very true.

Our services.....this morning and tonight.....were great.  We have another church that fellowships with us on Sunday evenings, so there is always lots of music.  

Our services are always filled with worship songs.  We worship in music for a longer time than pastor preaches.  The worship has been so wonderful lately.  Wonderful because I can feel a fresh move of the Holy Spirit in our midst.    Just one Touch, and our hearts are eager for more.  Oh, I pray this lasts, and we don't get human plan in the way.   We were all blessed tonight.   Thank you, Jesus, for not giving up on us......thank you Holy Spirit for so lovingly tending the bride of Christ, and thank you, Father, for choosing us for Your Son.

  I'm going to look at your pictures, Janet.

   Night all.  I sat hear reading and smiling about your church services today.  Pat, sorry you are in pain.  How was church tonight?

Pat that is perfect.  A real "confirmation in Spirit" for me this morning. I gave a health problem to Jesus and He has confirmed He is in control...Amen!  Wonderful timing!
Sunday dog got me up at 4.45 a.m.  I had a cuppa and Devotional time with the Lord.  He was so near.  I had just been looking at the beautiful Heavenly picture He gave me when I was in the garden with Sunday...the sky was sprinkled with stars and the moon was so clear and bright.  Praise The Artist!

As I drank my early cup of tea, I read from "God's Treasury"...Spurgeon (O.K. Iain?)..

"The fire only refines; it does not destroy."

"We are to be brought through the fire, not left in it.
The Lord values His people as silver, and therefore He is at pains to purge away their dross.  If we are wise, we shall rather welcome the refining process than decline it. Our prayer will be that our alloy may be taken from us rather than that we should be withdrawn from the crucible."

The ref for the above is  Zech 13:9

Nita, I rejoice with you and Jane....Prayerfully.

My prayers and blessings,
Jenny

GOOD MORNING 11.56 AM in Holland

PAT thank you you for the devotional
the prayer is very good there say i AMEN on.

i am hoping that your tooth ache is over.

JENNY your little dog Sunday is early
our dogs must wait on us. but they are young and Sunday is how old?

PAPA JOHN i am happy to see you every day. You and your Cornelia are every day in my
prayers. GOD BLESS YOU BOOTH.

RUTH i love you but are you and SUE
mother and daughter

Yesterday in the church when our pastor was preach his sermon then a little child from just 3 years
started with sing Silent Night. That was laugh in the church.
BUT SONJA i was thinking on little Lila Mae so are little children what they are thinking that they do.
Mostly are the very little children in Holland to the
crech who is by the church. Next Sunday i must do the
crech with two others.

JEREMIAH 31 :3
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving kindness.

    GOD'S  LOVE

Only love.....God's love.....can give
fresh meaning to each day i live.

I wish you all a Blessde day
Bye love Ria

Good Morning All.

I forgot to mention that the youth minister, yesterday, during his sermon was brought to tears three times while preaching.  He is young...mid 20's...going to be a first time father this spring or summer.  He so wants everyone to come to Christ.  I wish they would put the sermons on the PCCC website so anyone or everyone could hear or read.  Hmmm!  That's an idea!!

It is above freezing today.  I had a couple of letters to put in the mailbox.  So while the coffee was making, I put on my boots and winter jacket and hat and took the letters out.  Wow!  When I got to where the wind could hit me, it was like a gale!  But it sure is making the snow yucky!  It almost looks like a sand dune.  Remember I am out in the open and some of the snow has been blown off the farm fields so the wind is blowing dirt and snow.  It looks weird seeing dusty snow.

Partly sunny today.  

Ali is wanting her drink from the faucet...she has me trained well!!!  Inky is drinking from the faucet too.  Ali has trained Inky well, too.  At least, in drinking water.  

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"Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them."

We all have pc problems from time to time.  

Mine right now is.....

I used Microsoft Internet Explorer as my browser.  What do I have to do so that I can have more than 2 IE windows open.  When I want to post photos, I have to copy and paste the URL's on note pad because I have my import site open, then the Preview of the picture I want to post in order to get the URL.  Then I have to open up CP again, find Photographs Here, but then I have to Open a New topic again.  Very frustrating.  Thought I could use the History...arrow between my Back and Forward but it doesn't have the 'page' where I am creating a new topic.  

Very frustrating.

I am thinking I need something ticked or unticked in Tools/Internet Options but I can't seem to find it.

Can anyone help?

Please!!

Good Morning Everyone!

It's cold here today!


Etta Sue, as you are reading this, can you not go up to "File/New/Window"   and just click on that?  That will open a new window.  

Etta Sue I don't have that problem with XP. I usually only have two windows open when posting

Pat than  you for the devetional this morning. It is always very interesting what the body can do for itself when God is in control.

I looked out the window this morning and the drivers door on one of Gilberts cars was open. I remember that it was open late yesterday afternoon and I don't think he closed it. So I call ed to let them know. I hope nothing was stolen from his car.

TTYL

P.U.S.H.
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A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room
filled with light and God appeared.  The Lord told the man He
had work for him to do and showed him a large rock in front of
his cabin.

The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock
with all his might.  So, this the man did, day after day.
For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders
set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving
rock, pushing with all of his might.

Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out,
feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.

Since the man was showing discouragement, the Adversary (Satan),
decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the weary
mind:

"You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it
hasn't moved."

Thus, he gave the man the impression that the task was
impossible and that he was a failure.  These thoughts
discouraged and disheartened the man.

Satan said, "Why kill yourself over this?  Just put in your
time, giving just the minimum effort, and that will be good
enough.  That's what the weary man planned to do, but decided to
make it a matter of prayer and to take his troubled thoughts to
the Lord.

"Lord," he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service,
putting all my strength to do that which you have asked.
Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by
half a millimeter.

What is wrong?

Why am I failing?"

The Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you
to serve Me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to
push against the rock with all of your strength, which you have
done.

Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it.

Your task was to push.

And now you come to Me with your strength spent,
thinking that you have failed.

Is that really so?

Look at yourself.

Your arms are strong and muscled,
your back sinewy and brown;
your hands are callused from constant pressure,
your legs have become massive and hard.
Through opposition you have grown much,
and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have.

True, you haven't moved the rock.  But your calling was to be
obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My
wisdom.  That you have done.

Now I, my friend, will move the rock."

At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own
intellect to decipher what He wants, when actually what God
wants is just a simple obedience and faith in Him.

By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains,
but know that it is still God who moves mountains.

When everything seems to go wrong...just

P.U.S.H.!

When the job gets you down... just P.U.S.H.!

When people don't react the way you think
they should... just P.U.S.H.

When your money is "gone" and the bills are due... just P.U.S.H!

When people just don't understand you... just P.U.S.H.

P= Pray
U= Until
S= Something
H= Happens


~Author Unknown~

I have been feeling rather discouraged the last couple of days.  Then I received the above email.  I will keep pushing.

I am hearing some discouragement in some of the postings over the last little while.  I urge all of you to keep pushing! ! !

Love JudyB

Hi JudyB when you sent me that in my email this morning, McAfee kicked it out and I didn't get to read it so I am glad that you posted it here. Thank you, you don't know how much I needed that message. There has been something going on in my finances that caused me to be in need of a message such and this and had me feeling discouraged. I just have to P.U.S.H. and let God be in control.

Well Gilbert has brought me a book that he wants me to read before the elections here in the states, so that is what I am going to do.

TTYL

Good morning! How I thank you, PAT, JENNY, and JUDY B for the devotional thoughts here this morning!  I have had a restless night and didn't even want to get up this morning because of the heaviness in my heart and the questions in my mind.  First of all I received a devotional in my email that hit me right where I was hurting!    Then I came here and there was the rest of what the Lord wanted me to know today.  I will keep pushing, Judy, and I will "rather welcome the refining process than decline it" Jenny.  I know God is (ALWAYS) in control, Pat, and I will continue to remind myself of that as I worship through this day.  

Marilyn, I understand, only too well, what you are going through.  I am praying.

It is a beautiful sunny morning here, although the frost was pretty thick earlier.  This is the day the Lord has made and I WILL rejoice and be glad in it.

Love in Him,  Jane

I just thought I'd like to share some more along the same theme today... I received this in this mornng's email:
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Then He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; his truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler. Psalm 91:4 Amplified

We all know that a mother hen buries her chicks under her wings in the softest feathers of her breast. But I didn't know the full meaning of this until my husband and I raised some chickens.

The chicks are not even visible under the mother's wings. If one peeks out she pushes it back in. A good mother hen is vigilant because chickens are vicious creatures. They will eat each other and especially will eat baby chicks. The mother hen has to fight off the predators in her own flock and she will attack then violently if they go after her chicks!! Then there are other predators: snakes, possums, etc. I have seen a mother hen scare away a dozen chickens, screeching and pecking and flapping her wings. She is a fearsome sight.

The hen is not merely a warm place of hidden protection. She is the shield and buckler - the armed defense, the fighting force.

Such is the picture God draws of Himself, for us.

It is no good just being a " hearer " of the Word, we must be DOERS also.



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Date: 2/9/04 5:00:55 AM GMT Standard Time
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February 9    

The Holy Spirit: Some Other Time

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I
do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because
I go to My Father.  
--John 14:12

"You will receive power" (Acts 1:8a). "Eagerly desire the greater
gifts" (1 Corinthians 12:31a). Anything that God has ever done for a
soul He will do for anyone else, if the conditions are met. The Lord
who blessed these men that I spoke about, and the thousands who
followed them but whose names are not known, is willing to do the
same for us as He did for them.

Unbelief says: Some other time, but not now; some other place, but
not here; some other people, but not us. Faith says: Anything He did
anywhere else He will do here; anything He did any other time He is
willing to do now; anything He ever did for other people He is
willing to do for us! With our feet on the ground, and our head cool,
but with our heart ablaze with the love of God, we walk out in this
fullness of the Spirit, if we will yield and obey. God wants to work
through you!

The Counselor has come, and He doesn't care about the limits of
locality, geography, time or nationality. The Body of Christ is
bigger than all of these. The question is: Will you open your heart?  
The Counselor, 121.

"This thought is very convicting, Lord. I know I've been guilty of
praising You for Your power and goodness, while secretly doubting
that You were really going to work in my present situation. Forgive
me that duplicity, Lord, and give me faith to believe You for Now,
for Here, for Me. Amen."

Like I said yesterday I have nothing on mind right now so if you have onything fun or interesting to talk about I be  happy to talk.

how is everyone today?

Can't wait to get some replys

Not verry many people at all post in the lower forums.

Hmmm.. why is that? just wondering

I am here Mullet (Zachery) how are you doing

Chris thank you very much for: The Holy Spirit; some other time very good.

We have the hole day rain hail and snow showers and
it is cold

Bye for now
RIA

Well, I think we should liven it up in here by doing some singing.  What do you all think?







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HI Ria!!! ((hug))

RIA I'm doing good, thank you
How are you?

In swimming My mom timed me in swimming I got 15 seconds on a twenty five yard in practice(With a flip turn in the middle of the pool. I love swimming!!

Zachery, what up?!

Almost time for papers.  

PAT thank you very much for the hymn
Blessed Assurance. It is a very nice hymn
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Saviour all the day long.

I have singing with the musik but one dog look at me
it is of he is thinking what is she now doing.

Bye Love Ria

HI SONJA (((((HUG))))HOW ARE YOU DOING.

ZACHERY I ALSO LOVE SWIMMING.

BYE RIA

Great fish, Zach!  Great job swimming too.

Hi Ria and Soni!

HAHAHAHA!  I'm singing too, Ria.  I love that rendition.  She's a great pianist.

  :DI can't wait to do papers I get to ride in our  new truck!!!!!!!!

Ria, I am doing pretty good.  I am getting ready to go deliver papers with the kids.

How is your day going?  How is your dad?  
You want help with loading pictures still?  I have this cool new site that will let you upload photos and then post them on cp.

hey everyone,
I'm back in from school getting ready to go work at a supper until it's time for class. oh what fun!(not really) well i'm off ttyl
Sarah

Hello Pat, Zachery, Soni, Ria, Sarah,

Just popping in to see what's up.  I don't want to miss anything.

It's soooooooooo cold here tonight. I am so thankful for my feather under-quilt., It's made a great difference Pat. Like you, I can't afford to leave heating on all night., a nice hot water bottle and bed socks.  God is good!

Thank you for the "uplifting" hymn and music dear Pat.

I am off to do a little bit more of the rug.  It's a bit heavy on my wrists so I am going to make a toy rabbit also for a break in between.

Good night Ria, God Bless.Sleep tight.

I will see you all tomorrow.
Love Jenny.

Hello Pat,

        How have you been? The last several week, I've been occupied with job searches and just taking care of business. I apologize for being remiss in corresponding with you on a more regular basis. I will make an effort to check in several times a week.  I've missed talking to you. Have a great day! Melvin

SONJA my fahter is doing good only he can not good more walk that is very bad but in march
he will be 79 years old.

But is was cold today
it is now 2*C but a lot wind.
The last night we have again had a big storm.

But now i close the computer it is being bedtime in Holland  but my bed is warm that is so nice.

Zachery i am doing good thank you boy

Jenny i wish you also a very goodnight

Till tomorrow  Bye love Ria