INTERVENTION OR MANIPULATION

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I was talking with a ministerial friend and he said to me, “Things are going well at my church but I’m not completely sure why.”

And I replied, “That’s good. For if you could know completely why it might not be so much God’s intervention as man’s manipulation.”

Maria Fedorovna, the empress of Russia and wife of Czar Alexander III, was known for her philanthropy and compassionate heart.

Indeed, she once saved a prisoner from exile in Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander.

The czar had written: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."

After Maria’s intervention, the note read: ’Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia."

The prisoner was eventually released.

Compassion begins a lot of places, in grammar and lots of places...one never knows...one just has to be aware and act.

And we can do that, put a pause where it is needed so we think through or pray through a decision.

And change a life…change our own lives…change a dozen lives in a domino effect.

Proverbs 3:5 – “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

There is always the warnings we must give ourselves…

to never be too impressed with our own solutions…
to never stop praying “Thy will be done…”…
to pray “If I am wrong help in this matter to fail”…
to not look at any degree or honor hanging on a wall and think that makes the keeper of all wisdom…

To keep alive and well an ongoing acceptance of the sovereignty of Almighty God…

to be patient enough to give God’s word time to work its way through our ear to our brain and to our actions…
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Therefore “Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him…( Psalms 37:7 )
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So … Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.” (Psalms 147)
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And do not forget… “For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. (Romans 14:8)
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QUOTES FROM TOMORROWS BLOG on these One A Days entitled GOOD THOUGHTS OR GOOD EXCUSES?

“Sometimes when we try to excuse ourselves we are actually accusing ourselves.
Or as the old Yiddish proverb goes, “When you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)

click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/

It begins Sunday Dec 26, 2010
…“in the world of man” identities are stolen all the time. It happened to us two summers ago. Someone reached into my wife’s purse and stole her identity. Went around proving they were her to a world that was more than willing to accept as
fact what was obviously a lie. We straightened it out, but for a short time “the things that man looks at” created an identity crisis.

But with God? No identity theft will ever take place. He knows who we are, the good and the bad and the in-between. And He loves us despite what He sees rather than because. (ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS)
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