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Morning Devotional...


The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
Psalm 19:7

In what ways is the "law of the Lord (i.e., the Word of God) perfect"?

First, it is perfect in the sense of being inerrant, containing no flaws, inconsistencies or contradictions.

Second, it is perfect in the sense of being complete and all-sufficient to meet man's needs.

Third, it is perfect in the sense that it reveals God, who is perfect in His character and in all His ways. God's Word is a perfect revelation.

As the instrument of the new birth (1 Pet. 1:23), if believed, it converts the soul.

Has it converted your soul?
--W. Ross Rainey

I have just received an email from Spaceman-Spiff to say that the upgrade is done and there were no unforeseen happenings.

I'm so happy, more than I can say,  to have been able to get this help from this wonderful fellow.

Thank you Pat for that calming medley before bed.  Good night everyone and I hope and pray that everyone has a great day today/tomorrow.

Thought I would pop in to let you all know we made it home safely.  

I am tired.  I will talk with you all in the morning.

Soni

It's So-o-o good to see you home safely, Soni!  

How are you?  How did our Troy do?  I hope he won big time!

Hi Sue!  Glad you liked the music.  I had it playing here for a long time.  


Hi Paulette!

Yes Pat. "Precious Holy Bible"

"In the early 1980s none of us had a Bible.  Between all of our hundreds of church memebers we had just one New Testament.

A little later we started to receive Bibles as a result of "Operation Pearl", when foreign Christians boldly brought one million Bibles into China on a boat.

The Bibles we received were all wet and we had to dry them in the sun and separate the pages, but we didn't care.  These gifts were more precious than gold!"

Deling, Brother Yun's wife.

Good Morning  11.16 AM in Holland

PAT thank you for the devotional this morning and the very nice musik.

Fryday i have told about a student who has shoot death his teacher.
PAPA JOHN you have writen that is also a lot in America
but sometimes we are saying Holland is being a little
very little America. Also the policy conditions are more
and more going in American style.
And now have get teachers a letter with there in a bullet.
Also there is find again in Holland a parcel with there in a little
bomb.
But i say the hole world is chanching

SONJA i am happy that you are safely
come home ;)

Janet also nice to see you i hope you
have a nice time.

Yesterday it was a beautiful day but now we have again RAIN in Holland. 7* C.

Isaiah 48:17
I am the Lord your God, who directs
you in the way you should go.

LIGHTING EVERY STEP

Lord, light my every step upon life's journey
  Whether I'm walking or standing still.
changing courses or pressing straight ahead,
       may i live every moment
       close to You, in Your love.

I WISH YOU ALL A BLESSED DAY
BYE LOVE RIA :)

Good Morning from California 4:40 a.m. I couldn't get back to sleep after getting up to take some Ibuprofen for the pain in my elbow and wrist, which started to hurt again yesterday in church. I decided to stay up and fix a cup of coffee now the pain is gone but I am not going back to bed.

I am enjoying the music Pat  so nice, thank you.

Soni happy that you made it back home safe and sound. Is there any news on your Brother?

I heard from Billy Carper over the weekend and will post a prayer request for him.

TTYL

 :) Good Morning everyone, It's been a while since I have posted but I have been to Colorado and came home sick but am feeling somewhat better now. The weather in Colorado and all across the mid west was wonderful and I had a good trip. The day I was in Denver I was walking around in shirt sleeves. What a difference with the temp of home. I managed to stay ahead of a weather front coming home which was good.I see you folks have been busy on CP as it took me some time to catch up on all the news from when I left on my trip. Judy keeps me up to date as well while I am on the road so you may not hear from me for a while but I do keep up on the events that are going on, and please be assured that you folks are prayed for. I'm going to go for now, some things to do.
God Bless.

Good morning Bonesy, Marilyn, Pat, Sue, Ria and Jenny!
I had a great weekend.  

Troy won first in the 50 freestyle and 2 seconds in I think 100 free.  He did good!

We had a great time with my family. It was the first time we all had been together in about 22 years.  It was busy in my mom's little house.  I took lots of pictures.  I am getting them ready right now. Fun!

My brother is doing much better.  He was a little wore out but that is to be expected.

I will be back later.
Soni

Hi everyone.  We have a sunny morning but it is chilly here today.  We are suppose to have colder weather for several days.

We had a good church service yesterday and then enjoyed dining out with several other friends.  I came home and rested a little and then watched football.  

Pat, that is indeed a beautiful medley of hymns and am listening to it as I work here on my computer.  Isn't it comforting to know that the word of God is perfect and something we can truly rely on.  Everything else seems to be changing in our societies and not for the better, in my view.

Sonja, glad to read that you were home safely and look forward to details of your weekend and learning how Troy did in his swim meet.

Jenny, reading your excerpt from the book about Brother Yun makes me realize how much we take having the Bible for granted.  

Ria, we have had a number of incidents in the USA where students have attached teachers or other students.  Just within the last week or so a student was arrested as he was planning such attacks.  

Marilyn, sorry you couldn't sleep well for the pain in your elbow and wrist but glad the medication made it stop.  Getting up so early you should have a nice long day.  It sounds like you have a wonderful Sunday in the fellowship of your church.

bonesy, hope the illness you came home with is short lived and glad you were ahead of the bad weather.

Hope everyone has a great day.  I plan a nice quiet day working here at my computer on some webpage updates.

Well, Cornelia and I are reading through the Bible  out loud again this year.  We have finished Genesis and are now in Exodus.  Reading and studying the Bible is important because we want to understand the truth God has revealed to us.  

Acts 17:11  Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. (NIV)

I hope you all have a good day.  It has been trying to snow here but it is just a little flurry.  The temperature us now 21 degrees and it is supposed to get up to 30 degrees today.  This is a good time for an old man like me to stay indoors.

--- Papa John    ;D          <:))))><<

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hey ya'll
we are out of school today but have a game tonight. i have a possiblity of 4 games this week but i'll only be in school tuesday. we are going accross state on a trip to America's Largest High School Basketball Tournament. it will be fun but it's an 8 hour drive and we leave at 4 am on wednesday. well i 'll talk to u later gotta get packing and get the house cleaned
Sarah

Good morning all.  Church was great yesterday.  The message was on anti-abortion.  We had a comical, heart-rendering skit about a boy and girl in the womb.  Really put the message of ProLife across.  

Jerry and I later had breakfast and then went to WalMart.  I needed a few things and so did Jerry.  It snowed all the way to his house.  I wanted to stay but also felt I should get home.  So I brought Jerry home with me.  We watched TV...glad I have 'picture-in-picture...so I could watch the Colts game.  Indiana so wanted the Colts to go to the Super Bowl but it won't happen this year.  I am not a sports fan BUT when it is big games like this one...I like to be in the know...not read about it in the paper or watch it on the 6 o'clock news.  Ali and Inky entertained Jerry and I.  It was like Inky was showing Jerry what all she could get into!  She is a busy little one, for sure.  

Today is bright and sunny.  I did see a few flurries while we were reading our daily Bible readings.  Oh, I just looked.  It is cold out there....only 13°F.  Think I will stay inside today.

Glad everyone had a super God's day and all who were traveling, arrived to their destinations safe and sound.

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"When the going gets tough...we gotta be tougher!"

Subj: Insight for Leaders  
Date: 1/19/04 5:01:07 AM GMT Standard Time
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January 19    

Personal Life: Stay in the Secret Place

My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning I will
direct it to You, and I will look up.  
--Psalm 5:3

Retire from the world each day to some private spot, even if it be
only the bedroom (for a while I retreated to the furnace room for
want of a better place). Stay in the secret place till the
surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of
God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant
sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them.
Listen for the inward Voice till you learn to recognize it. Stop
trying to compete with others. Give yourself to God and then be
what and who you are without regard to what others think. Reduce
your interests to a few. Don't try to know what will be of no
service to you. Avoid the digest type of mind--short bits of
unrelated facts, cute stories and bright sayings. Learn to pray
inwardly every moment. After a while you can do this even while you
work. Practice candor, childlike honesty, humility. Pray for a
single eye. Read less, but read more of what is important to your
inner life. Never let your mind remain scattered for very long.
Call home your roving thoughts. Gaze on Christ with the eyes of
your soul. Practice spiritual concentration.  Of God and Men,
128-129.

"Lord, I need all of these practical suggestions. Direct me today
to those things that would most enhance my walk with you, and
enable me to serve You better. Amen."

Nita and I were chatting with Mieka on Yahoo last night and she made me promise that I would "say a hi to everyone I love on CP"  She said "It will take you many hours to do that."  She started to name each of you to whom she wanted to send love, and hugs, and sunshine, and flowers, and candy and smiles and ... It truly would take me many hours!  Anyway, I chose this way to try to deliver her message.  Hope you don't mind.    :-\

Thanks, Jane for sending on the message from Mieka!  It is good to hear that she is doing well.

In "Grace for the Moment" by Max Lucado - today's message is on David, who says "I will live in the house of the Lord forever" - it is because he yearns to be with God forever, not that he wants to shut out others.  It is good to remember that we have Grace every moment of our lives.  

Carol

Hello everyone!  I am at work.  The college I work for didn't have class today, so most of my students assumed they didn't either.  ::)  The Basic Skills department doesn't take many breaks.

I am just looking around.

Glad the update went smoothly.  Hope Spiff sticks around awhile, though he is probably a pretty busy young man.  Thanks, though, if you stick you head in!

I'll "talk" more later.  Got some stuff I gotta do, right now!

kamrat

Thank You I look Foward to Meeting All of You

Megan

Just stopping in  for a moment, Iam taking a break from sewing strips together for my quilt./SoHi and now Bye

Welcome Megan

You will be so happy here.  Pop in again  soon and meet us all.

God Bless

Hi Marilyn


Be good and rest plenty.

Jenny    :-*

Thank You Jenny and Marilyn I look foward to knowing you both  :)


Megan

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MEGAN  TO  CP


   RIA

SONJA CONGRATULATIONS FOR TROY HE IS VERY GOOD IN SWIMMING.


I WISH YOU ALL A GOOD EVENING AND ALSO A VERY GOODNIGHT
TILL TOMORROW
LOVE RIA :)

Good afterneen everyone.............

It's really been a quiet morning.  We just got back from Hawaii. ;)  Not really, but we did spend two hours watching an old video from two trips we took in 1988/9 with our two foster children.  Kevin, our oldest went with us in '88 and the island folks didn't want us to take him back with us.  Kevin really blended in perfectly because he is black and white and very handsome.  His finding Island kids to play ball with caused their parents to invite us to a great family picnic.  Kevin was only ten at the time, and had been  raised in cheap motels with his hooker mother who was always on dope and in and out of jail.  Kev had a pretty bad start in life and for a time adjusted very well to a complete change in lifestyle. It was fun watching the two of us surfing and playing on the beach. I told Vivian I'm ready to go back.

Welcome Megan...........

The folks in here will treat you like family.

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My calender says today is a CP members birthday!!!!

What calendar are you looking at?   ???  Today is not MY birthday ... maybe there's another Jane in your life.   :P ???

Really, Jane?  I wrote your name on January 19th!  Oh, well.  I case I forget to say Happy Birthday when it is your birthday, I have already said 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!'

::) ::) ??? ::)

Hi Etta sue and Jenny: I am still here but not "HERE" my computer is running and doing some other things while I have visited with the g-kids who came to see me and we made no bake cookies (I will post the recipe) After Forest had eaten all the cany in the dish he wanted to go back home but  made him wait for some cookies to take with him.  

I have also been sewing , eating and watching TV. Right now and installing my picture it as I write here. Now on to post the recipe.

TTYL

I pray our Father will bless you Megan[/color] as you fellowship with us!

Hey there Megan, Welcome.  

Folks this beautiful young lady who is my son's wife and my buddy.

Meg I am so glad you have joined, you will find that you will grow spiritually as well as have some real good friends!

Love You dear
JudyB

Welcome Megan.  Glad you have joined with us here on CP and just now saw that you are the DIL of JudyB.

Sonja, you and I were posting at about the same time this morning and I just now saw your posting about how well Troy did in the swim meet.  Congratulations to him.  Also glad to hear that you had such a great time with your family.  The older we get the more we realize just how important our family is, at least that has been my experience.

Jane, thanks for conveying the message from Mieka.  

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And another welcome to Megan from old Papa John.  Speaking of welcome, think of the welcome we will receive into the eternal kingdom.

2 Pet 1:10-11  Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure.  For if you do these things, you will never fall,  and you will receive a rich welcome[/b] into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  (NIV)

Have a nice rest tonight.

--- Papa John    ;D          <:))))><<

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When 12 degrees above zero feels good, you know it's been really frigid before.  ;D

Gene went for his follow-up at the cardiologist's office this morning.  First stop was for some blood work, then into the very chilly doctor's office where the nurse weighed him, ran an EKG, asked the usual questions about how he was feeling.  Then she informed us the doctor was at the hospital and a PA would be with us "shortly".  A couple of minutes later the nurse came back - she had forgotten to take his blood pressure. :-\

1/2 hour later we still hadn't seen any sign of a PA so I went into the hall and looked around - every other examining room was empty and no sign of a nurse, doctor, PA or whatever.  So I went to the desk and asked if we'd been forgotten.  The girl at the desk said she'd check.  The nurse came back a few minutes later and said the PA was giving a stress test but was almost finished and would be with us "shortly".  I said "What's shortly?  10 minutes?  2 minutes?  5 minutes?"  She said it would be 5 minutes at the very most.  

10 minutes later, the only sign of life was several employees going into a "staff only" room for their lunch.  By this time Gene was thoroughly chilled and his back was really painful so we decided enough was enough. He went to the desk to pay for the visit while I went to get the car and by the time he came out there still had been no sign of a PA or anyone else taking any interest in him.

So tomorrow morining I'm going to call and ask to speak to the office manager - a lovely young lady we've known since Gene's first heart attack, who is really on the ball.  Gene really needs to have the doctor look at him since he had increased one of the medications and we don't know if it was a temporary measure because of the fluid or if it's supposed to be permanent.  If permanent he has to get a revised prescription to the VA.

So that's my tale of woe for today.  The good news is that Gene is finally starting to feel much better.

Jeanne:  That is just rude and you bet the office manager and doctor needs to be told about it.  So sorry that Gene had to be the one ignored when he really needs to be seen - I hope that he is warm and comfortable tonight.  Carol

Oh,don't worry, Carol.  I intend to explain the whole thing tomorrow - but I pray I'll be able to speak as a forgiving Christian.   I don't think it's right, though, to keep an elderly patient waiting for close to an hour and I'm sure the doctor wouldn't have allowed it if he'd been there.  Once we got in the car Gene began to warm up and when he got nicely relaxed in his recliner it relieved his back.

We love you!

SPIFF - Thank you for helping Pat get CP  all fixed up so we can  all fellowship together. :)

Jeanne:  I'm saddened to think that Gene had an ordeal like that.  He is fortunate to have a loving wife like you to speak up.  What that physician's staff did was inexcusable. :'(

Marilyn: ... or anyone who talks with Meika... please give her my love., :-* and tell her I miss her. :-*

Now for some good news: :)

Perhaps I should have this in "Praise"., but I'll tell you here:

I had my hip Xrayed this morning., and the results were excellent.  The grafting has taken so well., and the doctor said that perhaps in 3 years or so, I may not need to use the walker or even the cane!!

I am praying that the muscles and ligaments etc will continue to strengthen!

Thank you Dr. Jesus!!

Oh yes... one other thing.  Dr. Charles Stanley is a guest on a Christian television station, about one hours drive from here., and I plan on going to see him on Wednesday!  I'm looking forward to meeting him, and purchasing one of his books. :D

I will ask him to autograph it for me.... I think he would do that...don't you? ??? ???

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Good evening everyone!!  I've got some stuff to print, and then I think I am going to bed.  Early, maybe.  I am whupped for some reason.

I've enjoyed reading the posts today.  I hope everyone has a restful night and a wonderful Tuesday!

Hi Judy...So happy to hear about your xrays.

Great that you can see Charles Stanley.   Will he be on Huntley Street?  It would be good to have him autograph your book.   He's a great speaker.

Love Ruthie

I am attending the Spiritual Life Convention at Peoples.    It's on for 3 more days.  

Time to go to bed.   Have a wonderful day tomorrow.    God Bless


Ruthie

I am heading to bed, folks.  I will chat with you all in the morning.

Soni

hey ya'll
just got in from our game and i'm TIRED! got my ankle kinda messed up agian. it's swollen but i played on it after i rolled it so it will be alright. we won our game in Overtime! it was a good win the team we played is kinda our rivals from way back when. so it was GREAT! ttyl
Sarah

Hi Everyone...

I've not been around much today but I've been doing stuff in the background that needs doing every so often.

I've also had some really sad news today.  A friend of mine who I was close to has passed away.  Her funeral is tomorrow.  She passed away yesterday but I only got the news this afternoon.  She had pancreatic cancer and it was so sad.

So, I'll be attending her funeral tomorrow.

Now, it's time to lock the door and open the topic for tomorrow.

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