Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
–I heard a story about a little boy whose father took him to a hamburger place. The father asked the little boy what he wanted. The little boy said he wanted French fries.
The fries look so good and hot the Father reached over to take one for himself. The little boy told the father that the French fries were his, when in fact the father had been the one who bought them.
Isn’t that a picture of us when the Father in Heaven tells us to give Him our life and we try to tell him it’s ours.
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9/23–Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms me.
Jesus was asleep in the bottom of the ship during the storm! If you were on an airplane that experienced turbulence and you looked at the flight attendents eyes and they had looks of panic then it would be time to be concerned. But if you looked at the flight attendants and they were calm then it would help you to calm down too.
So we need to look to Jesus. He is always calm so there is no need of us worrying. Jesus is not worried, so there is no need for us to worry either.
The real meaning of peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. This is the real meaning of peace.
The difference between a peaceful and peaceable person can be compared to the difference between an auto mechanic and an auto driver. The driver knows how to start his car and he can drive it. However, if it were to break down, he may have no idea how to fix it. The mechanic can do both. He can drive the car and if it breaks down, he can also fix it.
So a peaceful person enjoys peaceful relations, but if these break down for some reason, he may not have the skills to restore the peace. A peaceable person by contrast is one who is able with peace. He is willing and able to restore peace with others.
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And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms me.
Jesus was asleep in the bottom of the ship during the storm! If you were on an airplane that experienced turbulence and you looked at the flight attendents eyes and they had looks of panic then it would be time to be concerned. But if you looked at the flight attendants and they were calm then it would help you to calm down too.
So we need to look to Jesus. He is always calm so there is no need of us worrying. Jesus is not worried, so there is no need for us to worry either.
The real meaning of peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. This is the real meaning of peace.
The difference between a peaceful and peaceable person can be compared to the difference between an auto mechanic and an auto driver. The driver knows how to start his car and he can drive it. However, if it were to break down, he may have no idea how to fix it. The mechanic can do both. He can drive the car and if it breaks down, he can also fix it.
So a peaceful person enjoys peaceful relations, but if these break down for some reason, he may not have the skills to restore the peace. A peaceable person by contrast is one who is able with peace. He is willing and able to restore peace with others.
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9/22–I dread seeing NFL Mondays. The day after the Sunday game, that’s the talk at work and other places. They all want to tell what they feel the quarterback did wrong. Yet, none of them has ever played a down in the NFL as a quarterback.
Reminds me of people who know how to tell you about making money, but are almost in bankruptcy themselves.
They know how your marriage should be, but their marriage is full of stress and controversy.
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Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
A young boy while visiting his grandfather in the country, found a small land turtle and promptly attempted to examine it.
The turtle promptly closed its shell like a vise. Where upon the boy seized a stick and tried in vain to pry the shell open.
Observing the boys actions, the grandfather quickly interrupted. “That’s not the way,” he said. “Let me show you how.”
Taking the turtle into the house, he set it on the hearth. In a few minutes the creature began to grow warm, stuck out it’s head and feet and started to crawl.
Turtles are something like people” said the old man. “Never try to force a fellow into anything—-Just warm him up a little ordinary human kindness, and more than likely he’ll come your way.
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9/21– Can You Spare A Minute?
–9/21–Some people love to get even. Clint Eastwood does it. Rambo did it. On the old television show know as AMOS AND ANDY, Amos was extremely distraught over a guy who kept poking his finger on Amos’ chest every time he spoke to him.
Either too small or too scared to challenge the fellow physically, Amos explained his game plan to Andy in saying, “I’m going to put nitroglycerin on my chest and the next time he pokes at me he will blow his finger off!”
When you try to get even—you get hurt. Relationships are built on the basis of love—which keeps no record of wrongs and forgives!