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Larry   John just asked how it feels snuggling up to a pillow jake has lain on.  Well really it doesn't bother me!, he doesn't slobber in his sleep, not like some of the kids in this house! ! !  

This is the only thing I will say about angels.  They have been observed standing around our church praising God, as we worship on a Sunday.  

Today is going to be busy, I won't be back in till late tonight.  The way things go I will have a lot of reading to do. LOL  We are going into North Bay to get on with school work and do other things.  Elby is taking the iron to iron her uniform then she will be ready for cadets tonight.

For the other homeschoolers,I have found an underwater mural for the children to colour as well as a full unit study on ocean life.  IM me.

Ria we have it 3 degrees warmer here.  Plus one.

Well I am off.

Talk at ya later eh?

JudyB

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Hi Everyone!

Lee I hadn't read "Our Daily Bread" yet so went and looked and before realizing that you meant yesterday, I read today's and couldn't figure out how that would remind you of Jack and I so I went to the archives and found yesterday's and I want to thank you for that.  Certainly great thoughts and it helped me this morning.


Thanks so much, Ruthie, for bringing that very important prayer request here regarding Vanlal's son.  Boy!  It makes me feel old.  I remember when he was born!  I will be praying often between now and Sunday night.  I realize too that we won't hear more until the team arrives back in India sometime after Oct. 31st.


Judy, John liked that program while he stayed here too!

QuoteAngels....Interesting.  I am leaving this one alone.

Not sure why, Judy!


Great to see you posting, Heather.  I'm still praying for you as well as for Bonnie and Doug and it's so nice to see your name on here.  Keep us posted!


Ria, what a lovely poem.  I'm going to copy it here again.  I think it's very appropriate for us all to read it again.  Thanks!

QuoteI wish to be like Jesus
so humble and so good
His words they are so kindly
His voice was always good
But sadly i am not as Jesus
that is seeing an each on me
O Saviour will me help
and make me so as you

Nice to see you, Jenny.  Hope you are feeling much better now!  Thanks for your comments too.


Oh, Iain!  Your message has touched my heart today.  

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But God!

Two little words, yet they mean so much to us. God stepped in and as He did with Peter as he began to sink beneath the waves, he grabbed my hand and lifted me up. He will not let us suffer beyond what we are able to bear. He had mercy upon me and because He delighted in me, he delivered me.

Oh that we will all experience this in our lives!  BUT GOD!

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" Only God knows the way that I take. He knows how to deliver His own. He knows how to bless and to set us free."

"Let God finish what He has started and try not to get in His way.

It is God who has placed me were I am. It is God who has ordered my circumstances. It is all of grace and all of God. I surrender my all to Him today in confidence that He does all things well."

Thanks so very much today, Iain, for bringing this reader to her knees.  

BUT GOD...




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I bet Simon will be one spoiled little boy!


Karma, I hope you have a wonderful day shopping with your Mum.  I used to love going with my mother and still wish I could do that.


What lovely cards, Sonja!  You are doing wonderful with your little graphics.  I look forward to seeing them.  


Hi sweet Mi!  Have a good day and we'll chat later on.  Love, Mum!


Marilyn, so good to read your comments as well.  Jack only wrote one on Angels.  The Part 1 refers to his numbering of the "Walking in the Old Paths".  I had asked him to write these to share on the internet many years ago and this was the first one he did.


Hi Ria...  It's so sad about Toronto's little Cecilia.  Thanks for your continued prayer.  I heard that the family were going back into the home.  They've been staying with friends while the intensive forensic tests and investigation was going on.


Larry, I've been so involved in some other reading that I fell back off my daily reading through the Bible using that plan and I am trying to "catch up" but that's not good either as I tend to be going over the portions too quickly.  I think I'd like to have the plan that has both Old and New Testaments each day as well.


Well, I'm off to see if I can complete another PSP lesson.

How are yours going Rachelle?  I'm having so many problems!

Interesting devotion this morning, Pat. I am printing it out right now to go over with my boys.  I might post what they think later.  Could be interesting what a child thinks about angels.  

Hope you all have a good day!

Marilyn~ Congrats on the new computer.  Can't wait to see those photos.  

Angels.  The English word is from the Greek angelos, which just means "sent one, messenger."  Angels are indeed quite real, but we are not to communicate with them - at all.  We are to communicate with God directly.  We can and should thank Him for those ministering spirits and for all they do, though we probably never know exactly which things they do and which things God Himself does.  That's the way the (good) angels want it.  Their sole concern is to serve Him Who created them.  If you were able to ask an angel about it, He would tell you in no uncertain terms that you should talk to God alone, and not to angels.  We must relate to our Father through Jesus Christ, and we ought not to even be concerned about His ministering spirits - leave them to Him.

Pat, I thought the devotional for today on "Our Daily Bread" is also a very good one so decided to come back and put in a link so others could find it.  It only takes a couple of minutes to read it and it certainly is relavent.  Here is the link:


Here is a link to the "Daily Bread" devotional thought for yesterday that Lee and now Pat has referred to:


Both of these are really worth the time to read.

Well, talk about GMTA (great minds think alike!)

I was just going to do that as well, Larry!  I'm so glad you did as I only had yesterday's link.


Jane, such pretty cards.  Love them!

Wow! I am truely thankful for your honesty, Iain! You are a blessingto this site and to me.  
It always seems that you and I are feeling the same way at times. I am so thankful I am not
the only one who has these thoughts and feelings.  

Reading your post helps me to know that I am not different from anyone else.  It is normal,
I am normal. God loves me still, no matter what I do or say or think. Am I worthy to be saved?
Am I worthy to be forgiven? Yes! He loves me as much as anyone else.

You know how long that has taken me to realise?  It's been almost 20 years. I guess I
am just hard headed or maybe have a low selfesteem.


I guess the hardest part for me is when I sin, I feel so bad and ask God for forgivness at least
10 times, but I don't feel that forgiveness.  Is it me that isn't forgiving myself?  I don't know.  
It drains me terrible.  How do I deal with that? How can I let go?

Thank you for your post and will keep you in my prayers, brother!

Wow!

Look who's online...


Al Moak, Pat Scott, Jenny, Chris & Margit Saunders, Jerry L. Sowers, Sonifo, Jane Walker, Etta Sue, Ria, Larry Hanna

Al Moak, well said!
I agree one hundred percent.

Every time I do anything this morning, I get interrupted!  I read Jack's comments about the angels, and I was going to comment that his thoughts were right on, then I was interrupted for about half an hour.  When I got back, then I was interrupted again to do some other things.  Then I decided to say something about angels, so I did.  Then I was interrupted!
Jack was right on.  There - I said it.

Angels are God's servants (the good ones, that is), and they don't want our praise or thanks.  God may do some of the things He does through them, but it reamains true that God did it.  Praise Him.

Hey guess what, folks?  I'm being interrupted again.  I'll be gone for an hour or two, but maybe I'll be back.

Hurry back, Al!  

We don't like interruptions that take you from us!  

Let's also remember Janet today as she's travelling with Beth back to see the doctors.  Pray for Beth.  Pray that the doctors in their wisdom will find the causes for her numbness in her legs causing her to fall so often.

Dear Sonya,
take Jesus at His word my sister,(Micah ch 7 v 18-20).
Mark ch 2 v 1-12.
Believe Him when He says "your sins which are many, are forgiven you, go in peace."
Luke ch 7 v 36-50.
Feelings can fool you but the scriptures never will, so trust them, not your feelings,
We have all been there at some point in our lives!
So..Head up! Shoulders back!
Trusting in the Word.
"If the Son sets you free you are free indeed!"
His love to you, Chris.

Sonja - Dear sis, I thought long and hard about writing my post this morning. Why do I do it? Because like you, I wonder if what I am experiencing the real thing.

Should a truly born again Christian feel the way I do? The answer is yes!

I am not perfect yet, but I will be one day. Others may expect Christians to live perfect lives and often we may even expect it ourselves, but it cannot be. We are sinners!!!

Sinners, though, saved by grace.

I can follow exactly what you mean when you say that you find it hard to forgive yourself. This too is because of sin! The ggod that we would do, we do not, but that which we would not, that is what we do!

It is God alone who cleanses us from our sin and He must take all the glory. He has done everything for us. All we have to do is to believe!!

Sometimes it may seem that it would be easier for us to walk on water than to believe, but that its the way it is. It is God's way of salvation.

He knows best sis. He loved us before we were even though of. Your sins and iniquities I will remember them no more. (God's words, not mine)

If He is not going to remember them, then why should we?

It seems that I will always come bottom of the class in the school of faith as I keep having to learn the same lessons over and over again. I would have given up long ago.......................But God!

LOL

Your brother in Christ

Iain

PC - Sorted!! Yippee!!

God says it, that settles it!

http://www.caniknow.com/qotw/doubt.htm

HI THERE FOLKS...JUST POPPING IN...
It's biting cold here.  I've just been to the park to find Sidney..bless him.  He's given  me his address and phone number so that if I can't get out I can ring him and just keep in touch over the Winter...You remember, he's my dear 91 year old friend.

I've done some washing today and it's sitting round the fire airing...a lovely smell.  I fed the cats and now to feed Sunday dog and prepare a meal for Chris and myself!

Tonight Chris will be on here so I won't post again until tomorrow..D.V.

Prayerfully,
Jenny.


                               

Cecilia's may speak this afternoon.  So sad to have this little girl missing...

http://www.canada.com/toronto/story.asp?id=AAF2B669-B3DD-4B95-A8D1-E51D46B8296F


Thanks so much, Iain!  I know Sonja will be happy to see your further post as I am.  That was some powerful message today for me.

In Holland there are 5 men arrest
They have plans new terrorism attacks
where and how they will not say
They are coming from Arabia
Now they are in prison

Bad news
I hope that never are coming new terrorism attacks
but i am afraid
RIA

Quote from: Al Moak on October 24, 2003, 11:13:12 AM
Angels are indeed quite real, but we are not to communicate with them - at all.  We are to communicate with God directly.  ....  We must relate to our Father through Jesus Christ, and we ought not to even be concerned about His ministering spirits - leave them to Him.

I must confess I respectfully disagree here, Al, because it was an angel that told Joseph about the Christ child.  It was angels that announced His birth to mankind.  We are told we may "entertain angels unawares."  In fact, in Luke 1, an angel came unto Mary and told her that she would bring forth the Christ child.  Mary asked... "How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?"  This is clearly two way communication.  In the same chapter, Zacharias, father of John the Baptis, conversed with an angel - Gabriel himself!  GABRIEL administered the condition of "dumbness" to Zacharias, which was punishment for the statement "Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years."  (Strangely similar to Mary's words, for which she received no punishment at all, just as a side note.)  In Acts 10, Cornelius conversed with an angel, and this was how Cornelius was told to send men to Joppa to look for Peter.  

Some of these were BEFORE Christ, and most of these were before the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost.  However, Cornelius was AFTER Pentecost.  

NEARLY all angels forbid the person they speak with to worship them.  Some did not.  The angel which came to Cornelius did not rebuke Cornelius for calling him "Lord."  Some imply that this means the angel was Jesus.  I have a little struggle with that because I don't believe Jesus is an angel.  The angels worship Jesus because He is the delight of Heaven.  Jesus is not called an angel when He appeared to Saul, and He is not called an angel when he appeared in a "vision" to Ananias, who ministered to Paul (Saul) by helping him receive his sight.  

An interesting thing I find in Revelation is that John was told to WRITE unto angels!  Rev 3:1 - "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write;"... Rev 3:7 - "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write;"... Rev 3:14 - "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;"...

In Revelation 11, an angel spoke to John himself - "Rise, and measure the temple of God..."

I personally think an emphasis on angelic beings is not in keeping with true worship of God.  I always struggle with the idea of "calling upon angels" in my own strength.  Are they at my bidding?  I don't think so; I think they only do what God commands.  I do not believe we should pray to or otherwise call upon angels.  I don't think angels run around playing the human games that Della Reese has portrayed.  I believe we are to focus on Jesus Christ and our relationship with him, and you and I are in total agreement there.  

I would be glad, however, to hear your explanation of the statment that "we are not to communicate with them at all".

Thanks so much, my friend.  Loving discussion here; hope I don't come across as argumentative.

Iain - thanks so much for a really encouraging post this morning.  The things to learn from Joseph are amazing!  Whatta guy!

Sonja ~ Your question about dancing was answered in my reading today of "The Purpose Driven Life", which I now do not recommend but encourage everyone to purchase and read this book written by Rick Warren.  Chapter 13...Christians often differ on the most appropriate or authentic way to express praise to God, but these arguments usually just reflect personality and background differences.  Many forms of praise are mentioned in the Bible, among them confessing, singing, shouting, standing in honor, kneeling, dancing, making a joyful noise, testifying, playing musical instruments, and raising hands.  The best style of worship is the one that most authentically represents your love for God, based on the background and personality God gave you.

Nancy ~ I loved your email.  I saw this before in a one paragraph email.  I am so glad that someone took it a step further.  The one paragraph one was mentioned in our small study group by Pastor Mark.  I copied your post and emailed it to him.  Thanks bunches.

Mieka ~  ((((HUGS)))).  I am missing you already and you are still here...

Marilyn ~ I am so happy for you in getting a new computer.  Oh, how I am praying that your new camera and computer are compatible.  Looking forward to seeing your pictures of the California coastline.

Lee ~ I am picturing you in a kilt!!!  Then you added that your size in socks were unavailable.  Long, spindly legs, hunh?  P.S.  Your missing word question was so easy, I thought it was a trick question!

Nita ~ I love reading your posts....they are feel good posts.  I always feel better after reading them.  You are one of a kind.

Jane ~ How could anyone NOT be nice to you?  Oh, how I wish I could give blood.  I used too but my veins are the only thing small on me.   They are ornery....when a needle gets close they roll away.  So I am wasting their time and mine in trying to give blood.  But I sure felt better physically and mentally when they succeeded in getting a pint out of me.  A slice of Nice Pie is heading your way!!!

Karma ~ Great advice to Nita.  BTW, how is TAS today?  I can see him being tasmanian today.

Maestro JudyB ~ Hurray!!!  Congratulations!!!!  Glad you joined the 500 Club!

Melaura ~ Great!  I do believe most of us know you already.  And I do believe you are our youngest member....am I right, everyone?  Wish we could get others your age to join....you would be a great encouragement!  Welcome!!!

Ruthie ~ I am glad you and Pat got to spend time with each other.  She is a great gal....as I know you know that already.

Rachelle ~ Good morning.  I see you stopped in last evening.  You threw me...I thought your sign-in name was Joyfulhrtt or something like that.  Did you change it?

Heather ~ I am happy to read that you are focusing on God more.  Nothing but good will come from this focusing.  Us humans feel we need to do things OUR way, but God's way is always best.

Ria ~ SNOW!!!!  Oh, I hope we don't have snow until....say, Christmas...for a day or two and then Spring comes our way!!!  Hahaha!

Jenny ~ I know an angel prevented me from having a terrible auto accident.  After it was all over...I remembered of being in the car but it seemed the car was driven by itself.  I was there but I wasn't there.  The accident was so close but I wasn't afraid.  It didn't scare me one bit.  My car went into a lane that I wasn't suppose to be in and then later merged into the correct lane.  A car ran the red light at a high speed and if I had been in the lane where I was suppose to be, I would have been hit.  A few minutes later I got to where I was going and it seemed that I THEN recalled all that happened.  A feeling of peace was throughout me.  Thank God for THAT angel!!

Iain ~ So happy that you posted your devotional today.  That tells me you are better today.  

Larry ~ I agree with you that we need to read His Word every day.  I read in the mornings.  There have been times that I know I won't get to read the next morning so I read it before I go to bed.  But never the NEXT morning.  Something would be missing if I don't get His message for me each day.  Just like brushing my teeth and my cup of coffee....habit!!!  

My, but it seems I have been on here for hours just reading NEM!  Two hours anyway!!!  

I do believe I am going to Noblesville and get a flu shot today.  It seems I generally wait until I have a slight cold and then wonder if I should get one then or not.  Not sniffles today so I will see if they are still available at the County Health Office this afternoon.  Then I would like to come home and finish Week Two of the Holiday PSP lessons.  I see Rachelle is doing these also.  How are you doing?  And Pat?

I like this inspiration today!!!

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"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty.  They merely move it from their faces to their hearts."

[shadow=BLACK, RIGHT]MELAURA!!![/shadow]

JUDY MCKENNA!!!

[shadow=GRAY, RIGHT]CONGRATULATIONS, BABY SIMON!!![/shadow]

[shadow=BLACK,RIGHT]CONGRATULATIONS NANNA PAULETTE AND AUNTIE JEN, TOO!!!![/shadow]

Yes my camera and my new computer are compatible. In fact on of the peripherals they suggested me to buy was may camera. I can't wait to unload my camera and take  more photos, I have 19 on there now and that will take me some time to fix up for  posting here and on my website.

I have stared my Christmas shopping too. Yesterday I bought a couple of little gifts for Forest and Savanah. The fake trees are in K-mart now and I may get one of those too, Just a small table top tree.

I've email the specs on my new computer to Iain to get his opinion, Hope to hear from him soon.

TTYL