Einen Vorsprung im Leben hat, wer da anpackt, wo die anderen erst einmal reden. -  John F. Kennedy

Psalm 32:1

BLESSED IS HE

- WHOSE TRANSGRESSIONS ARE FORGIVEN,

- WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED.

In German we have the saying, “Auch die Spoetter haben ihren Lohn.” The meaning in English is as follows, “Also the mockers will be rewarded in the end.”

I have been a born again believer now for more than fifty years and I love to read the Bible. I must have read Matthew 27:27-31 many many times. But sometimes we read things and don’t read them at all. What I mean is we don’t get the point. We don’t understand what we are reading. And then – all of a sudden it clicks! We are all with it and we get something out of it. The Holy Spirit is teaching us.

Matthew 27:27-31

They stripped him, they put a scarlet robe on him, they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head, they put a staff in his right hand, they knelt in front of him, they mocked him, they said, “Hail, king of the jews!”, they spit on him, they took the staff and struck him on the head again and again, they took off the robe, they put his own clothes on him, they led him away to crucify him.

12 things they did, if I have counted correctly!

And now please compare this with Colossians 1:16

FOR BY HIM ALL THINGS WERE CREATED: THINGS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THRONES OR POWERS OR RULERS OR AUTHORITIES; ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM AND FOR HIM.

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“Every day you waste is one you can never make up.” – George Allen

Second Corinthians 6:2

Today I picked up a publication about GAMBLING at the Salvation Army. The publication says, “Gambling is plaguing our Communities, attacking our lives, infiltrating our society, destroying our families.”

An ad says, “If gambling is a problem we are here to help.”

“MY BOSS IS GIVING ME A HARD TIME. BUT I CAN’T FOCOS ON ANYTHING ELSE.”

If I understand the above correctly the person means focusing on gambling.

The Bible says, “LET US FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS,..” Hebrews 12:2

I TOOK THIS PICTURE TODAY-16. 09. 2008 (Tuesday)

The same ad said some time ago “16 weeks to Christmas.”

Am I ready for Christmas? Yes I am!

I am looking forward to the Christmas Season again, to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Isaiah 9:6 “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called

WONDERFUL COUNSELOR,

MIGHTY GOD,

EVERLASTING FATHER,

PRINCE OF PEACE.”

Think about those NAMES and read also in the New Testament Luke 2:1-52

At the moment I am reading the book “Revolution in World Missions” by K.P. Yohannan. It is one of the best books I have ever read and I received it for FREE from: freebooknz@gfa.org. I found it advertised in the magazine called “Baptist.” Volume 124, page 9!

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The BIBLE, the Word of God, has also a lot to say about BELIEVING.

Our Lord himself says:

Matthew 8:10;  Matthew 9:2;  Matthew 9:22;  Matthew 9:29;  Matthew 15:28;  Matthew 17:20;  Matthew 21:21.

And find more Bibleverses!

An advertisement I saw some days ago comes to my mind and I find it hard, to forget it. It started with “Setting the Standards.” If I remember correctly a firm was advertising taps, water taps, I think.

The Collins Concise Dictionary explains the word standard like this: ” an accepted or approved example of something against which others are judged or measured.”

In the sermon on the mount the Lord Jesus Christ says in Matthew 5:13: “You are the SALT of the earth.” And then He explains it in the same verse. And in Matthew 5:14 He says: ” You are the LIGHT of the world.” And then He explains it in the following verses 15 and 16.

He is speaking to His desciples. We are his desciples. ARE WE SETTING THE STANDARDS? I am asking that myself today!

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I am a DVD and I want to tell you my STORY:

“Believe it or not, but they played me at a BIG meeting today. A good number of people were present and they clapped their hands. They really appreciated me. That was for sure.

The person I belong to would have never thought that that would happen. He simply received me at the beginning of a Christian meeting and put me carelessly in his pocket. But he never thought much of me. That is at least my impression. Of course he listened once or twice to what I had to say. And he even wept a little bit, but that was all.

A terrible time came for me after that. The owner put me somewhere where I collected dust and left me there for a very long time, too long actually.

But then somebody else got hold of me and played me in a small meeting. Mostly ladies attended the meeting. There it happened. A very influential person heard my message and I blessed him and he played me in that BIG meeting, the meeting I talked about when I started to tell you my story.”

TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE FOR YOU! A BIG RIVER STARTS VERY SMALL!

You never know what might happen.

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