Dear Children and Grandchildren,

I have enjoyed the Word of God more than I ever have since I am no longer preaching 3 or 4 times a week and am not pressed for time. Some times I find things I'd like to share with all of you, or some of you individually. With your mother's encouragement I'd like to start a "Bible Blog" and share some of my thoughts with you. Last night I told Joanna that I opened a can of "Pork and Beans" for supper, (your mother is in Arizona helping Becky while Adam recuperates from a serious operation) but I found no pork so I renamed it "Beans and Beans". With a hearty laugh she wondered if I had "looked under every bean?' I trust what I send you will have some "pork" but if you find it to be only "beans" just push the delete button.

Ps.119:168 "I have kept Thy precepts and Thy testimonies: for all my ways are before Thee," As you were growing up one of the things I was careful to emphasize in our daily devotions was that the time would come when you would no longer be under the eye of Mom and Dad but you would never be out of sight of God's eye. What an encouragement we find here to keep God's Word. "all my ways are before Thee,"

"Experience makes many a paradox plain, and this is one. Before God we may be clear of open fault and yet at the same time mourn over a thousand heart-wanderings which need his restoring hand."--C.H. Spurgeon

"I may hide Thee from my eye, but not myself from Thine eye."--Wm. Gurnall

Thursday, September 11, 2008

DELAYED ANSWER

Recently one of you declared after praying fervently for something and seemingly receiving no answer, "I'm prayed out". I have often felt that way too and have wondered if the Lord had heard my prayer. Some times I have quit praying altogether for something or the other, wondering if the Lord ever heard? "..if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him. Last week while reading Luke chapter one, verse 13 grabbed my attention. The angel came to a fearful, troubled Zacharias and told him that his prayer had been heard and his wife Elisabeth would bear a son and to call his name John. I thought about Zacharias and how he and his wife must have begun to pray for a child soon after they were married for she was "barren". (vs. 7) They must have continued praying for many years but eventually gave up for they were both old and"well stricken in years"(vs 18) Now 50 or 60 years later an angel announces that God had heard their prayer! Zach got in trouble for doubting this as we see in verse 20. Let's continue to pray and believe God whatever the circumstances.
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