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Morning Devotional...


I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Hebrews 13:5

A London schoolboy submitted his essay and to his amazement he won first prize.

One line, which may have appealed to the judge, was, "I believe so many twins are born because little children are afraid to enter the world all alone."

While his conclusion may be on rather shaky ground, it does point out a problem in our society. Most of us dislike loneliness.

The believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, however, has the assurance that we need never be lonely, because He will never leave us nor forsake us.
                                                           --Arnot P. McIntee



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  Hi Ms Nita   I am SO happy to see you did get a #9 on the DPC. I did not even know you are on there.

Are there others from the CP on the DPC?  

Hi Ms Pat   I have promised never to leave thee alone.

This promise, is it for only ones that do know Jesus? Are the others alone at times? He does love everyone all the same, yes? I do know times when I was very alone.    

    WAIT ON THE LORD; BE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND HE
   SHALL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART; WAIT, I SAY, ON
   THE LORD.
                           ( PSALM 27:14 *NKJV )

Pat do you think you can find the words and music for the hymn  "In Hin Time" ?  It would be a good one to sing today.

Love Judy

PAT thankyou...That is perfect for me as the Winter and "shut" in times arrive. You always post the exact words for me. The Lord Bless you dear sister for ALL THAT YOU DO FOR US ON HERE.

JUDY thank-you dear.  I will be in touch. I will wait on the Lord....He has a plan and He will work it out. Amen! (Habakkuk 2:3)

Oh the sun is shining here in leafy, trafficy Warwickshire...It's very cold though. HERE COMES WINTER! Lord let us LOOK FOR AND FIND  the blessings in this Season.

I will pop in later on today to see whats happening with all of you.

RIA  Hoe gaat het zuster?
Tot ziens. X

Blessings and prayers,
Jenny.

9.20 a.m.

I had to visit last nights messages on here as I seem to miss most of the fun by posting early..

JEANNE You are a Silly Billie!  I once  mixed  up the coffee and Bisto gravy powder.....!!!
Hope you get some good vitals down you today lady!

LEE was the golf that bad?  I am glad I went back in  to see your post last night. Please come in today brother you are part of the family.
We all love you already!

Thats all for now!
HAPPY OCTOBER!

      Jenny.

Lovely thought this morning Pat.

Jenny - You are right about a touch of winter. Looks like we are in for a right blast this weekend. I see the seagulls are getting their stabilisers ready!

Ken - Much on my mind this morning bro. Are you back lecturing?

Here are a few of my thoughts this chilly morning:-


The difference of living by faith and living by sight is all to apparent in these chapters. The spies had done a recce of the Promised Land and they had come back laden with fruit yet with two very different tales.

On the one hand, all they could see were impossibilities, with giants barring their way, while viewed by others the land was splendid indeed. The lack of trust and the spiritual blindness of the majority left the whole camp wandering needlessly in the wilderness for many a long year.

Not until all who had complained had perished by the wayside did they eventually cross the border. They had been so close but God tells them to turn away and start trekking towards the Red Sea.

God is not mocked!

Those who decided to take things into their own hands perished at the hands of the Amalekites and Canaanites.

God's way is always best.

A new start, a new job, a new school, a new home can be a daunting challenge to us. Many take comfort in the security of 'much of the same' from day to day. It is not until our lives are shaken by the unexpected that we quickly realise that the faith we profess must be put into action.

Change is always difficult, partly because we find a comfort and defence in what we are used to. In other words we know how to cope in the environment that is our norm.

However, when we are faced with the challenge of a change of direction all sorts of fears and horrors seem to come our way. If we cannot actually see the giants, then we will make them up!

Many, having followed the Lord's command to go forward into some new field of service find that no sooner have they taken that step of faith and cut asunder all ties with the past than they are assaulted from all directions by the evil one.

If we live an inactive spiritual life then Satan need not bother troubling us as our life poses him no threat whatsoever. When however we stand to the challenge and face the enemy head on then be assured that difficulties will be strewn across our path.


The last thing Satan wants is yet another 'Christ like' warrior heading towards the battlefield.

He will do all in his power to make us think that we have made the wrong decision. He will try his very best to persuade us to turn back and to enjoy the pleasures we once enjoyed in Egypt. The tasty morsels seem ever so sweet when we have parted company from them!

Let us not fear though giants may appear on our horizon. Many of them are our own making. Shall our Commanding Officer lead us forth into battle on our own? It cannot be. No, such is His love for us that not only will He lead us, He will guide us and protect us at all times. We have nothing, absolutely nothing to fear.

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?

The Christian lives for the day of his death. The final parting, when contemplated seems horrendous, but it is our final enemy.

Already this week, two of my friends have been called Home. Their warfare is accomplished, while we still have work that needs doing. The next time we meet, we shall be facing the King in all His glory, time without end.

No more will assaults come our way. No more will sin deprive us of fellowship with the One whom our souls delight in. No more will we sit in darkness, cowering in fear. Never again will we let our Best Friend down and never again will we regret days lost in worldly pursuits.

How long will this blessedness last? There shall be no end.

Immanuel's Land beckons for each one of us. In the meantime let us be spent for the One who was spent for us outside the walls of Jerusalem. Let us go forward today in the full persuasion that 'the Lord is with us!'

I honestly cannot think of more comforting words than these today:- 'The Lord is with us.' Perhaps our day started without this comforting realisation, but now the Word has brought comfort and strength to our needy souls. Arise, strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees.

The Lord is with us.

LOL

Your brother in Christ

Iain

Goedemorgen allemaal / Goodmorning all 10.35 AM

Pat thank you for your good devotional this morning
and also for the nice hymn yesterday in your evening
our night. Now i have first take a look on yesterday
so that i can read what the other people have writen
when i was sleeping. And then i say the hymn it was
nice

Tomorrow my son must go to the doctor with his foot

Goedemorgen zuster Jenny hoe gaat het met je/ how
are you doing

Etta Sue very nice the cat who is writing your name
how are you doing that?

On the radio they this day is the last beautiful day
now the sun is shining but in the evening we get
rain and storm also now i have on the central  heating

I am missing Papa John but i am praying for him
Now i first go shopping on my bycicle

Do you in Canada and America also have bicycles??

I wish you all a very good day
Love for you all
God Bless you all
Bye for now
RIA

Goedemorgan allemaal.  
Now if I practice this today about 10 times, maybe I can spell it right.

Ria, we do have autumn and spring.  Our autumn time is beautiful and the leaves are magnificant!  I will try to take pictures and post.  Right now we have not had our first 'freeze' which will start the leaves turning.

Now, for all of you who do not understand grits..it is nothing but ground corn.  You can buy either white  (which seems to be the most popular) or yellow.  If you buy them coarsely ground and cook them 1 hr...oooooh they are good.  1 Cup grits to 4 Cups water, with 1 tsp salt.   Stir them often.   Add butter & cheese when you serve, or mix them with your scrambled eggs and bacon.    When you take the corn to the mill to be ground..you get grits and then if ground a little more you get cornmeal from which good cornbread/muffins  or even hoecakes are made.

A wonderful thought......the LORD is with us!

Bye for now.    

Kathy i think that i go emigrate to where you are
living.
But then we have a big problem my husband and my son have work here we must stay here.
Bye Kathy lol Ria

I wish you all a good afternoon now it is 3.40 PM in
Holland
lol Ria

Hi everyone from a sunny but crisp Georgia.  It is truly a glorous day.  I am not going to go to water aerobics this morning as my blood pressure is low and as a result and feeling pretty tired.  This afternoon I have to go and coach for the last time this session for the computer files management class.  This evening there is a special Healing Service at our church I want to attend and then have choir practice so that will be plenty to do for one day.

We have not yet turned on our furnace but it may be today as the house is pretty cool.  We often will have some cool days and then back to warm for awhile in the month of October.

Pat and Iain, two good devotionals this morning.  Thanks for all the work you do to keep us supplied with daily devotional materials.

Ria, Jenny and Iain, sorry to hear that you soon will be facing winter.  One of the things I like about living in Georgia, which is in the Southern part of the United States, is that we have mild winters usually but still have the four seasons.

Jeanne, glad you discovered the problem with your stew before you served it.  I always think stews are better after they rest for awhile.

Nita, way to go on your photo.

 
Goedemorgen Ria.  Yes we have bicycles here, but the problem for most of us is that the stores are so far away that we would need to be a long distance byker to make the treck.  Our nearest store is about 15 km away and there are a lot of hills to navigate.  Mind you we would be a lot healthier if we did byke it.  I had an aunt in England who used to walk to the 'shops' eachmorning to pick up the days food supplies.  That was quite a distance.  Mother and I would take the bus when we went into town.

We have the heat going at last.  I wanted to hold off till the end of September.  I made it with a few blasts of heat from the wood furnace.  We have a problem this year.  The tractor has dropped a valve.  As a result we have no way to get our winter supply of wood in.  Our neighbour down, the road, has said he will help, it would be good if he did, but with the alcohol consumption, it is if-fy.  We shall see,   It needs to be in by the end of the month.

We still haven't had our first frost.  it felt like it last night, but no.  the trees are beginning to turn, most years the leaves are gone by now.  A late season this year.

I have had a song going through my head all night, Each time I woke up it was as if angels were singing it to me.

Learning to lean,
learning to lean,
Learning to lean on Jesus,
Having more power than I 've ever seen,
I'm learning to lean on Jesus.

God bless all
JudyB

Marilyn ~ Thank you, I made the signature myself!

Pat ~ Yes, I surprised myself that I could make the signature.

Grits are great at Cracker Barrell!!!!  That is about the only place around here that has them always!!!  I like them with just salt and pepper...will try the butter with that next time.  With milk and sugar, that sounds like cereal.

JudyB ~ Do you want your chili as a main dish?  I have a recipe that makes a Dutch Oven full.  Sounds really hot but really isn't that hot.  What I like best is it is open jars and cans, cook hamburger, heat and eat.

Ruth Ann ~ I am amazed how much electronics has advance in the past few years.  Who would think that nearly everyone...not me, yet...would have a cell phone and now you can take pictures, send emails, etc. with them.  I used to work for Electra Corporation and we were the first to have cordless telephones.  Cost $400.  Range...maybe 700 feet from the base.  Weight...4lbs.  That was just 20 years ago.

Jeanne ~ Uh, duh!  I can relate to your story!  Maybe not with cooking but with something!!  

Karma ~ I love it when you laugh cyber-style!!!  

Sarah ~ Great story.  Out of the mouth of babes!  How are you doing lately?  Seems you are more positive....which is super!!!  Keep looking up and all will be fine.

Janet ~ I don't believe I could cope with having rentals to clean up after.  What in the world did they do to have that repair cost?  

Elizabeth ~ I think you mean 'Chicken Fried Steak'.  When we fry chicken, we flour it and fry it in shortening or grease.  Chicken Fried Steak is a steak...most of the time cube steak, meaning pounded with a cleaver...that is floured and fried in shortening or grease.  Sometimes it is served with gravy on top and is really good and tasty.  

Karma ~ Thanks for telling us about our 'Silent Sister'.  Rushing now to check it out!!!

Pat ~ Thank you for the great devotion.  I will have to send that to my DIL since she has twins.

Mieka ~ Jesus loves everyone.  But we who have Jesus in our hearts are never alone.  We have to welcome him into our hearts.

Iain ~ I may be the unusual one but I like change.  I am one to realize that nothing stays the same so I might as well hit it straight on and enjoy it.  But I am also one that rushes into change and that sometimes doesn't work.  So I have learned to ask God to give me the answers and when he speaks posititve, then I go for it.

Ria ~ Yes, I made the signature with Paint Shop Pro Animation.  It was fun but tiring.

Kathy ~ I prefer the Instant Grits.  Creamier!!  

Larry ~ Watch that LOW blood pressure.  I am sure you know that is just as dangerous.  I have my furnace on but lower than I set it in the winter.  I have solar heat also so it is nice and warm in here now.  Jerry wouldn't think so, but I do.  

This will be a do-nothing-planned day.  So I have no idea what I will get into.  

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"Hospitality is making your guests feel at home even though you wish they were."

Good Morning everyone. Pat and Iain thank you for your devotionals this morning.

Iain I am sorry to hear that you lost two of your friends. But like you said the Lord has called them home, It is always the ones left here on earth that are sad when they should be happy.

I totally agree with you (I will prarphrase here) that if we are lazy christians who do nothing but sit in church and warm the pew that satan has nothing to bother us about. Why should he? We aren't doing anything for the Lord for him to try to stop.

Hello to Jenny and Ria If is foggy here in Northern California. When the sun does come out it is beautiful.

My prayer partner, Inez, (you all remember her) called me last night. She has just returned from Louisana. She now lives in Oklahoma, she moved the week after I did. She filled me in on some of the news from Lucerne Valley. Two of my church family there has lost their mother.

TTYL

This has to be short!  We are tearing up the carpet and tack strips in the area we are going to tile, and boy!  is it ever a job!  Those concrete nails will not let go--keep taking little chunks of the floor up with them.

Anyway, all is well here is SW Kansas, and I am going to be very busy for a while--at least until we run out of steam and have to stop for a little break!

Talk to you later!

Edit:  Darrel has gone to the back garage for plumbline and tools, so I will answer the questions about all the damage to the house.  They tore big holes in really good carpet in the upstairs (24 ft. square room); and also in a smaller bedroom (those carpets alone will be much more than their deposit!)  They kicked holes in five interior doors, cost to replace and finish each door: $63.95.  We called the lumber yard for prices, didn't just make up the figures!  Some doors, the locksets were missing; the formica in the kitchen was broken; broken windows; 29 ceiling tiles ruined; holes knocked in the sheetrock, which means repair and then repaint the whole room; ran into the garage door and ruined a panel (18 ft. wide.) and the list goes on and on.  We didn't even write all of it down.  Now do you blame us for not returning their security deposit?

We do not bother the people while they are there, so had no idea how much they were doing to the place.  We belive in "live and let live."  Bah!  I don't like being a landlord!

Pat & Iain I always enjoy your words of inspiration and today is no exception.

Etta Sue: I to would like your recipe for the chili, a private e-mail would do fine, or have you posted in the recipe section?

Kathy: It was just this morning on my home from work that I was thinking of grits, thanks for your full explanation as I was not aware of them being corn, our family loves corn on the cob so there should not be any reason why we would not enjoy grits.

I have just finished making chili sauce and now must have a bit to eat before leaving for work.


Ruth

Congrats, Nita!  That is an awesome photo!

good morning all!  Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Thanks Iain and Pat for the wonderful devotions.

Hello all!

Like Larry, it is a cool, crisp day here in Western North Carolina.  We haven't had a frost, yet, but they are saying maybe tonight.  I love the cooler weather.

I hope everyone is having a great day.  I'll be in and out depending on how busy work gets/stays today!

I'm gonna go look at some pics!

karmat

http://homepage2.nifty.com/hosizoraphoto/E-photoindex.htm

Starry skys?
We gottem! lol

6.20 p.m.


WHO'S A CLEVER BOY THEN CHRIS...

Great the Hale Bob in  Milky way was the nearest..

Come on I know you can do better.

                            Jenny.

Gene had an appointment this morning at the opthalmologist, suspecting the cataract in his left eye had progressed enough for removal - he was right.  Our regular doctor has given up the surgery himself so we're waiting to hear from another whom he recommends.  Hoping the "substitute" does as good a job as was done on the right eye.

Just after we got home I had a call from the town office asking me to work all day Friday, to which I agreed of course.  Then just a few minutes ago another call asking if we could pick up a box at the food pantry for a man who lives here in our trailer park.  We'll get that when the pantry is open tomorrow afternoon and Gene is available.  He feels (and I agree) it's better that I don't deliver by myself to a man who lives alone.

Chilly and damp here today and when we came in the house, after being in the heated car, it felt really chilly.  So, since I did manage to get the windows and curtains taken care of yesterday, we poked up the heat.  Feels nice now.  

Ruth Ann has posted an update of our Papa John HERE  Please read it.  

Continue to pray for our dear brother.

http://www.skyscapes.com/Starry,%20Starry%20Night/StarryNt.htm

Iain thank you for your devotional this morning
God Bless you

Marilyn in Holland also every morning foggy but it is
not warm more but the sun is shining and they
say this afternoon we get rain but it is dry but it is so early dark in the evening end octobre we are going
1 hour back then it is at 6.00PM dark. I don't like that
A lot retired people in Holland are going in the winter
to south Spain an in springtime they are coming back.

Thank you JudyB also in Canada you have bycicles
but i think not so much as in Holland everyown has a
bike.

Thank you Chris and Margit for the webpages.

Janet you say Bah that is a Dutch word.
I wish you all a good evening it is 9.20 PM in Holland
Ria

Chris that one didn't work. Just Yahoo  trying to sign me up.  

P'raps God is telling me to get my camera out!

Cough! Cough!
Jenny.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/i/willther.htm
Will there be any stars? lol

That was a very nice webpage Chris and Margit
lol RIA

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 :-*I will say Hi Pat...
Jenny.

Thanks Jenny!

Well, more and more I've come to realize just how sweet it is to trust in Jesus.

So, this is what I've been humming today.