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Matthew 13:31-32
Another parable he put before them, saying,
The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed
which a man took and sowed in his field;
it is the smallest of all seeds,
but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.
A young teenager was walking toward his church in a building snowstorm but he never made it there.
As the storm increased in intensity he realized he would do well just to make it to a tiny chapel that was along the way.
And so it was that he joined a very small group of Methodists, who were also affected by the storm. Their own preacher had been snowed in.
Finding themselves preacherless, a layman volunteered to speak in his place. He certainly hadn’t come prepared for such a happening, but several weeks earlier he had heard a sermon that he could not get out of his mind and decided to share it.
So as best he could, he repeated it to the gathered group which included the teenager.
Time and time again the layman quoted the words from Isaiah, “look unto me and be saved, all ends of the earth.”
And from that impromptu sermon, a tiny
mustard seed, planted in the heart of a teenage boy during a most unlikely occasion, grew into a new and powerful faith. It wasn’t that he had not believed before, but what he experienced was such a soul deep moment that when he left the church, he was never the same again.
And his name? Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of the greatest evangelists the church has ever known…who shook England
And who did God speak through? A layman who probably thought, Someone must speak for the Lord today, so it might as well be me…and so he stepped forward and basically said, “I will do it.”
Have you ever been that person...made an influence that was greater than you will ever know? And that is the point...we do that all the time...
Have you unknowingly led someone to Christ? You might well have done that; planted some tiny mustard seed thought when you were not aware you were doing it.
Perhaps you verbally expressed your faith, or with a deed that was a visual shout let those around you know that you are a Christian.
It was the right moment or the right place and it changed their life. Their soul was ripe. Their need was great and it happened.
That word or that deed was like a tiny mustard seed and it grew and grew and grew.
In fact, it changed their lives to such a degree that if you knew what you had done, it would have left you speechless.
A Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
The question of slavery traveled with these new pioneers who were not men and women shy with their opinions nor reticent in their responses. One Lincoln
Because Abe was always more than persistent toward rightness, just before he finally left home he helped build one more family log cabin. It was finished four days after his twenty-first birthday, and then he left.
The question of slavery traveled with these new pioneers who were not men and women shy with their opinions nor reticent in their responses. One Lincoln
Because Abe was always more than persistent toward rightness, just before he finally left home he helped build one more family log cabin. It was finished four days after his twenty-first birthday, and then he left.
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I almost drowned once. It is a terrifying experience. One gets very used to breathing. I had taught swimming in summer camp. Passed the Red Cross Life Saving course. Water-skied 50 miles an hour. Now I found I could not even stand to have the water flow over my face when I took a shower.
So I had two choices. Give in to my fear or fight it.
I fought it. Stuck my head in a few inches of water in a basin for five seconds, then ten and finally a minute. I kept working on my private demon until one day, six month later, I was behind a ski boat with ski rope in hand. I was filled with panic, not just fear. I skied anyway. I fell and did not drown. I began to overcome the anxiety.
I refused to have a love affair with fear that could have become a permanent downer. Did I completely conquer my fear? No. Was I better off than if I had given in? Definitely.
----- ------ ---------- A number of years ago two scientists conducted an experiment with a sheep. They tied a piece of wire around the leg of a normal sheep in the midst of other sheep. Then at regular intervals they would send an electric shock through the wire making the leg twitch. The sheep’s behavior remained normal. He ate well, slept well, acted quite nicely, twitching appendage and all. Then the scientists added another factor.
They began to ring a bell ten seconds before they administered the shock. Within a very short period of time the sheep began to demonstrate all the symptoms of severe anxiety neurosis. His eating habits went from bad to worse. He couldn't sleep. He took to avoiding the other sheep. He became highly nervous and agitated.
It is the same with all the people who every day promise themselves it is going to be a bad day, and then work very hard at making their prophecy come true.
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Indeed, at any gathering, folk would more often than not share what they considered medical tidbits: steal a dishrag - kill a wart, skip a row when you plant and there’ll be a death in the family or if a horse breathes on your child it’ll get whooping cough.
As late as 1859, if a doctor-to-be attended medical school at all, he had covered the entire store of existing medical lore in one year.
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