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A man who had once claimed Christ, and then through bitterness had left the church and his faith, was asked by a friend, “What do you miss the most?” The reply was instant, “I miss the trumpets in the morning.”
We all want Gabriel’s bugle blast.
We all want forgiveness for our sins.
We all should want with equal zeal a super strength to forgive others who have sinned against us.
The kind of super forgiveness strength an old man waited over eighty years to finally seek and acquire.
Tears streamed down his face as he related his tale. “I was seven years old when my father died in a small private plane crash at a local airport. I had been out riding my bicycle and since I hadn’t gone back home, I didn’t know. One little boy who had always disliked me came riding by. “Your daddy is dead. Your daddy is dead. You don’t have a daddy anymore,” he gleefully taunted and rode away. That was how I learned about my father’s death. It is why I have been consumed with hate for this boy, now grown to be a man, all these years. We’re both old men now and it’s time I forgive him.”
"Wisdom wants are not easy to come by. Paul said it and people in the pew certainly ask for it, “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." (Philippians 4:12)
He was a lonely survivor on an uninhabited island and he was afraid. Wreckage lay strewn on the beach and from the bits and pieces he built a small hut. He foraged for food. It was not an easy existence but he managed to survive while he prayed that somehow a passing ship would discover him. He even piled wood high on the beach for a bonfire in anticipation.
Then one day when he was many miles away from his hut a great storm suddenly erupted. Lightning struck all around him and he feared for his life. When finally he returned to his hut he found that it had been struck by lightning and had burned down.
Lifting his eyes to the heavens he cried out, “God, how could you do this to me?” He then fell into a troubled sleep. Sometime later he was awakened by the sound of a boat full of men come to rescue him.
“How did you know I was here?” he asked.
“We saw your smoke signal,” came back the reply.
Sometimes the best morning prayer may be, “Lord, would you please edit my want list?” Without a proper want list we are “born a human being and die a question mark.” (author unknown)
Many years ago there was a movie called RED SHOES. The story line deals with a girl totally dedicated to dancing. Early in the film she goes to a master teacher and before he will take her as a student he asks, “And why do you wish to dance?”
Without a moments hesitation she replies, “Why do you want to live?”
What should we want from Jesus? That we not have so much to live with we forget what to live for.
Millions daily pray the POWER PRAYER, asking for the power of the Holy Spirit to move among them. In particular because the Greek word in the New Testament for power means dynamite. Would we blow our minds? put the power of the Holy Spirit at the top of the list.
What do we want from Jesus? Confidence. A life guided by faith rather than by fear. David put it well, “Though an army besiege me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, even then will I be confident. (Psalm 27:3) The kind of perspective building confidence that takes the workings of our minds and points upward toward God and inward toward our soul.
Phillip Brooks, the great preacher said, “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men and women! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers but rather pray for powers equal to your tasks.”
“Who is this Jesus?” And the answer from Jesus himself, not “I’ll show you the way.” But rather , “I am the way.”
There were two disciples named James and John and when Jesus asked of them, “What do you want from me?” they never hesitated. “Grant that we may sit in Your glory, one on Your right and one on Your left.” They were honest, but they had delusions of grandeur. They had yet to identify with the admonition, “For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”
So when an answer to the question “What do you want from Jesus?” rises to the fore it is important to remember those disciples and be sure to put in capital letters at the top and bottom of our list THY WILL BE DONE.
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DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
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RECENTLY STARTED on his other blog WYRICK’S WRITINGS… Serialization of another of his books SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING
To read this book
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com
Each week there is also a serialization of another of his books 60 PLUS AND NOT HOLDING
MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE.
This book is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.” (Susanne K. Langer)
TO VISIT T Neil’s other blog WYRICK’S WRITING (A variety of serializations; a novel on Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday varying subjects) (3 times a week added to)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com
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To view his One Man Dramas on film (see by millions, live and on film and on video)(Martin Luther, Ben Franklin, Charles Wesley, Abraham Lincoln)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING
http://www.speakerneil.com/
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A quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled WHO’S YOUR DADDY?
When he was about 12 years old, a new preacher came to his church. He
would
always go in late and slip out early to avoid hearing the question, 'Who's
your daddy?' But one day, the new preacher said the benediction so fast he
got caught and had to walk out with the crowd.
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.
**********************************
A man who had once claimed Christ, and then through bitterness had left the church and his faith, was asked by a friend, “What do you miss the most?” The reply was instant, “I miss the trumpets in the morning.”
We all want Gabriel’s bugle blast.
We all want forgiveness for our sins.
We all should want with equal zeal a super strength to forgive others who have sinned against us.
The kind of super forgiveness strength an old man waited over eighty years to finally seek and acquire.
Tears streamed down his face as he related his tale. “I was seven years old when my father died in a small private plane crash at a local airport. I had been out riding my bicycle and since I hadn’t gone back home, I didn’t know. One little boy who had always disliked me came riding by. “Your daddy is dead. Your daddy is dead. You don’t have a daddy anymore,” he gleefully taunted and rode away. That was how I learned about my father’s death. It is why I have been consumed with hate for this boy, now grown to be a man, all these years. We’re both old men now and it’s time I forgive him.”
"Wisdom wants are not easy to come by. Paul said it and people in the pew certainly ask for it, “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." (Philippians 4:12)
He was a lonely survivor on an uninhabited island and he was afraid. Wreckage lay strewn on the beach and from the bits and pieces he built a small hut. He foraged for food. It was not an easy existence but he managed to survive while he prayed that somehow a passing ship would discover him. He even piled wood high on the beach for a bonfire in anticipation.
Then one day when he was many miles away from his hut a great storm suddenly erupted. Lightning struck all around him and he feared for his life. When finally he returned to his hut he found that it had been struck by lightning and had burned down.
Lifting his eyes to the heavens he cried out, “God, how could you do this to me?” He then fell into a troubled sleep. Sometime later he was awakened by the sound of a boat full of men come to rescue him.
“How did you know I was here?” he asked.
“We saw your smoke signal,” came back the reply.
Sometimes the best morning prayer may be, “Lord, would you please edit my want list?” Without a proper want list we are “born a human being and die a question mark.” (author unknown)
Many years ago there was a movie called RED SHOES. The story line deals with a girl totally dedicated to dancing. Early in the film she goes to a master teacher and before he will take her as a student he asks, “And why do you wish to dance?”
Without a moments hesitation she replies, “Why do you want to live?”
What should we want from Jesus? That we not have so much to live with we forget what to live for.
Millions daily pray the POWER PRAYER, asking for the power of the Holy Spirit to move among them. In particular because the Greek word in the New Testament for power means dynamite. Would we blow our minds? put the power of the Holy Spirit at the top of the list.
What do we want from Jesus? Confidence. A life guided by faith rather than by fear. David put it well, “Though an army besiege me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, even then will I be confident. (Psalm 27:3) The kind of perspective building confidence that takes the workings of our minds and points upward toward God and inward toward our soul.
Phillip Brooks, the great preacher said, “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men and women! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers but rather pray for powers equal to your tasks.”
“Who is this Jesus?” And the answer from Jesus himself, not “I’ll show you the way.” But rather , “I am the way.”
There were two disciples named James and John and when Jesus asked of them, “What do you want from me?” they never hesitated. “Grant that we may sit in Your glory, one on Your right and one on Your left.” They were honest, but they had delusions of grandeur. They had yet to identify with the admonition, “For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”
So when an answer to the question “What do you want from Jesus?” rises to the fore it is important to remember those disciples and be sure to put in capital letters at the top and bottom of our list THY WILL BE DONE.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
*******************************
RECENTLY STARTED on his other blog WYRICK’S WRITINGS… Serialization of another of his books SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING
To read this book
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com
Each week there is also a serialization of another of his books 60 PLUS AND NOT HOLDING
MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE.
This book is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.” (Susanne K. Langer)
TO VISIT T Neil’s other blog WYRICK’S WRITING (A variety of serializations; a novel on Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday varying subjects) (3 times a week added to)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com
****************************
To view his One Man Dramas on film (see by millions, live and on film and on video)(Martin Luther, Ben Franklin, Charles Wesley, Abraham Lincoln)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING
http://www.speakerneil.com/
********************************
A quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled WHO’S YOUR DADDY?
When he was about 12 years old, a new preacher came to his church. He
would
always go in late and slip out early to avoid hearing the question, 'Who's
your daddy?' But one day, the new preacher said the benediction so fast he
got caught and had to walk out with the crowd.
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