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| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1635 Registered: 12-2003  |
Susan, I agree; God orchestrated that event. I'll continue to pray for you and your family. Just one note of caution--if you ever have a chance to offer an opinion--the devotional "Our Daily Bread" is put out by the Unity (not Unitarian) church. I have a cousin who sent me a year's subscription several years ago. At first glance it looks/sounds Christian, but it is not. The Unity church is considered a cult and teaches that we find the Christ "essence" (or some similar word) within ourselves. You can research the Unity church by doing a Google search online. I am thankful to hear, however, that your son is sharing a cell with a Christian and that they are studying the Bible together. God knows our hearts, and He knows how to continue leading us to Himself no matter what our circumstances. Colleen | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 1712 Registered: 11-2002 |
Colleen, the little Our Daily Bread booklets that come out monthly are given out by many different Christian groups. Do these groups not know the teachings of the organization that puts them out? I have read Guideposts and some of the stories in those seem nonChristian. Overall though the stories are encouraging and uplifting. Please, let me know more about this. Thanks. | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1229 Registered: 3-2004  |
Susan, God's hand was in the Proclamation arriving when you were there and your DIL thinking the SDA stuff is trash. I thank you for letting us know how God answers our prayers and yours. Your family continues in my prayers. Diana | ||
| Bob Registered user Username: Bob Post Number: 134 Registered: 7-2000  |
Colleen, "Our Daily Bread" is put out by Radio Bible Class (RBC)Ministries. I get it, and it is orthodox Christianity. "Daily Word" is the Unity publication. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1639 Registered: 12-2003 |
Oh, my goodness, Bob--thank you for the correction! It's been a few years since I've gotten one of those, and I had been remembering it all this time as Daily Bread. Thank you for correcting me. Colleen | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 1717 Registered: 11-2002 |
Colleen, I was very happy to read your post that your m-i-l is out of the hosptal and on the road to recovery. I will especiall pray for you and your husband during this this time of much stress. I want each of you to know that I am keeping each of your special needs and concerns in my prayers. | ||
| Tisha Registered user Username: Tisha Post Number: 10 Registered: 3-2005 |
Whew - I was concerned there for a moment! I get the "Daily Bread" from our church and I was beginning to wonder why! I find it to be a great little book to keep at work with me so I can get a bit of Bible reading in at lunch. | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1317 Registered: 3-2004 |
My son returned home to Texas, yesterday. Thank you, all of you, for your prayers for him. And yes, I agree, God's anticipation in waiting for His children to come home is wonderful. God, You are wonderful and awesome. Diana | ||
| Windmotion Registered user Username: Windmotion Post Number: 118 Registered: 6-2001 |
My father-in-law is home from the hospital. Thank you all for praying. I told him a lot of people had been praying for him, and he said "That is sweet," so I don't know if he thinks the prayers of nonAdventists work or not (all us happy pagans you know). We actually ended up making an emergency trip to the Tri-Cities Thursday because we received word that he was having congestive heart failure because of the water retention. But the doctors were able to stabilize him and drain the water, and the damaged kidney clotted and stopped bleeding and apparently is working again. So miraculous! (It was lacerated by the ultrasound beam that was trying to break up the kidney stone.) I am praying this whole situation will give him a different outlook on life and an understanding of the unconditional love and mercy of God. Thankfully, --Hannah | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 363 Registered: 4-2000  |
Hannah, Thank you for the encouraging update on your father-in-law. I consider myself fortunate in not having had a similar side effect from a lithotripsy procedure about three years ago. I am now an avid water drinker. Dennis Fischer | ||
| Somethinfishy Registered user Username: Somethinfishy Post Number: 14 Registered: 10-2004 |
Methinks it's been too long since there was a post on this thread...I guess sometimes maybe we get caught up in the other stuff, and forget to say "thanks." I was looking forward to sharing this at my Bible study the other day, which I haven't been able to attend for several weeks because I had been getting so much work. Finally, I had a day off to go, and it got cancelled  . I've mentioned before that our financial situation is rather sad, as we have just graduated university, and are saddled with some rather large loans. I make my money substitute teaching, and as we live in the northern wilds, often I have to drive to a school. Two weeks ago, our car broke down when I was out of town...thank goodness for AAA, and it got towed home. Long story short, we just got it back Tuesday. After thinking it was going to cost several thousand to fix, it came back with a relatively small bill, one that can be covered, even on our tight budget, due to all of the extra work days I had been getting (that were preventing me from attending Bible study). As I mentioned on the request thread, I just need to learn to trust. I get weary of living so day to day, money-wise, anyways, and feeling no light at the end of the tunnel, but He keeps reminding me that He always makes a way. THANK-YOU JESUS!!!!! Fishy | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1951 Registered: 12-2003 |
Thank you for sharing that, Fishy! What a wonderful confirmation that God has not "missed" your need. Jesus did say that when we seek first the kindgom of heaven, all these things we need for living will be added to us. He knows we need them! Praise God! Colleen | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1483 Registered: 3-2004 |
Hannah, Thanks for the update on your FIL. Us "Happy Pagans" are happy to pray for him. Fish, God always supplies our needs, not when we want them, but when He sees it is needed. When I need something it is always right now, but God does things in His time. And his timing is never off. He is awesome. Diana | ||
| Somethinfishy Registered user Username: Somethinfishy Post Number: 17 Registered: 10-2004 |
These past days, I have felt like running down the streets shouting "THANK-YOU JESUS" at the top of my lungs. I want to say that I don't know why, but I really do. I don't mean to double post on what I said above, but I am just marvelling in the care of our God. All the wonderful things He has supplied that I listed above, as well as a wonderful weekend getaway (has never really been possible for us before)(and a husband and 5 years of marriage to celebrate), some new, nice furniture that I have been saving so long for, lots of work, great friends and supporters in a new town, and the two biggest blessings of all, a new nephew, just born today (the first niece OR nephew on my side), and we were also able to buy a house this week. I know these all sound material, and I most certainly assure you that life is far from perfect, but I am so able to see through the imperfect to The Perfect, and the ways that He is caring for me. I just want so much to give Him ALL the credit for everything good in my life, and take it as confirmation that He is there through the bad (1 Cor 10:13). | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1994 Registered: 12-2003 |
Praise God, Fishy! You are right to shout THANK-YOU JESUS! These are His provisions for you, and they do confirm His presence with you always. God's miraculous provisions for us convince me that I can trust Him when life if hard. He provides all we need. Praise Him! Colleen | ||
| Tisha Registered user Username: Tisha Post Number: 65 Registered: 3-2005 |
It's so easy to take all the material things we have for granted. But these are all Blessings from God. I'll add "THANK-YOU JESUS" to yours Fishy! I have all I need and more. When I want something that I can't have, or bemoan my plight, I need to remember how GREAT God is and give thanks for all I do have. And really Jesus is all I need. The rest is just icing on the cake! -tisha | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1517 Registered: 3-2004 |
I, too, want to add Thank You Jesus, You are awesome. And as Tisha said above, the rest is just icing on the cake. God promises to supply our needs, spiritual and material and He does it in His time and when it is best for each of us. THANK YOU GOD. THANK YOU FOR JESUS, Diana | ||
| Somethinfishy Registered user Username: Somethinfishy Post Number: 19 Registered: 10-2004 |
Chalk up another blessing...I've been substitute teaching all school year, and have been busier than ever during April and May, just doing day to day work. Last week I got a call from a school I have never even worked at, and they have hired me on for the remainder of the school year (the end of June...we like to torture the poor children up here in the North...). It's mostly 8th and 9th grade, which isn't thrilling, but the steady work is such a load off my shoulders. THANKS AGAIN AND AGAIN.... | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1568 Registered: 3-2004 |
Praise God for the work. I can really identify with the situation. God is so AWESOME. Diana | ||
| Tisha Registered user Username: Tisha Post Number: 74 Registered: 3-2005 |
I have a praise! Thank-you God for watching over us this Holiday Weekend. We went camping with another couple. When it was time to pack up and go home, they left just ahead of us. We were ready to pull out, but when I checked the lights on the trailer, there were none. We fiddled and tweaked to no avail. We finally decided that we'd have to leave so we could get home before dark. We had NO LIGHTS at all. Very scary. We prayed about it, and then pulled out. No sooner did we get going then ALL our light came on and worked just fine! About an hour later our friends called and asked us if we were all right. The had heard on the radio of a bad wreck on the freeway right behind them. We told them we were sitting on the closed freeway watching the medivac helicopter landing. There were so many smashed cars that we couldn't even tell how many there were. They turned everyone around and made the freeway go both directions until the next off ramp. So we finally got home OK. We would have been right in the middle of it had we left earlier! Our friends got through just ahead of it all! Later we heard that there were three fatalities and many serious injuries. The freeway was closed for hours. So God used our trailer lights to delay us just enough to spare us from that accident! And our lights are still working just fine! I get goose bumps just thinking how God had His hand in protecting us. When things don't go right I try to remember that maybe God has a reason for it! This just made me so thankful to God that we are all OK. I know that bad things can happen to good people. But I KNOW that God has saved me many times. I guess He has more work for me to do! And NOT work for my Salvation, but so I can tell others about Him! I think I've been saved so I can learn the real Truth and pass that learning on to my parents, children and grand-children and I keep them all in my prayers. Thank-you Jesus for protecting us this week-end! -tisha |
