The Talisman of Victory (Our Daily Walk)

"In all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him that loved us."-- Romans 8:37

Can anything separate me from the love of Christ? was the only question that St. Paul felt worth consideration. In this paragraph he takes the extreme conditions of being, and carefully investigates them, knowing that they include all between. First, he interrogates Existence--"death and life"; next, created Intelligences--"Angels, principalities, and powers"; next, the extremes of Time--"things present, things to come"; next, of Space---"height and depth"; lastly, the created Universe --"any other creature." Each of these extremes is passed in review. He is like a man proving every link of the chain in which he is going to swing out over the abyss. Carefully and fervently he has tested all, and is satisfied that none of them can cut him off from the love of God.

We strangely misjudge and mistrust the Love of God our Father, and think that our distresses and sufferings, our sins and failures, may make Him love us less. But in the home, it is not the troop of sturdy children that engross the mother's care so much as the puny feeble life, that lies in the cot, unable to help itself and reciprocate her love. And in the world, death and pain, disease and sorrow, sin and failure, so far from separating us from God's love, bind us closer.

Oh blessed Love! that comes down to us from the heart of Jesus, the essence of the eternal love of God--nothing can ever staunch, exhaust, intercept it. It is not our love to Him, but His to us, and since nothing can separate us from the love of God, He will go on loving us for ever, and pouring into us the entire fullness of His life and glory. Whatever our difficulties, whatever our weakness and infirmity, we shall be kept steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; gaining by our losses, succeeding by our failures, triumphing in our defeats, and ever more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

GOD MADE ME DIFFERENT.....GET OVER IT

It gets really discouraging when people don't listen to me. They tend to classify me and categorize me with the modern teens of this day and age. I am not some shallow minded air headed teenager who has only brains for socializing with other no brains and partying. I consider myself a young adult. I do not follow after the world's standards of living or anything else. I have a set of higher God-written standards that I live by. It's not just a religion or something to wear on the outside. I have a deep yearning to seek after God and His word. I eat and drink the Word. It's a life-sustaining gift that is sitting right before each and every one of us. If only we would just dig in and consume every standard and promise God has so graciously placed before us. I think differently than most everyone my age and most older adults. I believe that how I see things is a gift from God...a gift I don't thank God enough for. I wish others would see things as I do, but they don't. And when I try to share something I have found or learned, they blow me off like a disgusting little insect that lands on your arm very much uninvited. This even happens in church. They say I'm too young to take on some form of role in their systematic hierarchy. Again, they classify me as the world does...with all the  shallow minded teenagers......when will they wake up and realize I'm different?....when I leave their puppet show?....maybe that's what it will take....Another thing. The Bible says (and several people are continually quoting this) that God gives us talents and He will take them away if we don't use them. What is a person to do, though, if they try to use what God gave them, but are pushed back with disdain? I guess finding another place to use my talent is what I must do. 


Here is a thought that just came to me.....I am so glad God made Southern Gospel music and singers......There are so many songs that uplift my spirit and that help remind me that God always has a place for me....that He can still use me somehow....that He still loves me.....


I love these words from the song "I can Pray" 


You say I'm not able....I'm too young or I'm too old
And I can't sing or teach....and no title do I hold
Oh what can I do....for I want to do my part
And I want to help the hurting.....with all of my heart


I can pray..............




Thank you Lord for what You have given me and what You are still holding on to....for a later time....Your time....I will praise You always Lord...no matter what happens.......

Modern Miracles (Our Daily Walk)

"Many resorted unto Him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things John spake of this Man were true. And many believed on Him there."-- John 10:41-42

The people were inclined to disparage the life of John the Baptist because he performed no miracle. But surely his whole life was a miracle; from first to last it vibrated with Divine power. This is still the mistake of men. They allege that the age of miracles has passed. If they admit that such prodigies may possibly have happened once, they insist that the world has outgrown them, and that in its maturity mankind has put them away as childish things!

No miracles! But last summer God made the handfuls of grain, which the farmers cast on the fields, sufficient to feed all the populations of the world as easily as He made five barley loaves suffice for more than five thousand persons! No miracles! But last autumn He changed the dews of night and the showers of morning into the fruits that rejoice the heart of man, as once in Cana He turned the water drawn from the stone jars into the blushing wine! No miracles! but next spring, from tiny seeds and dead-looking bulbs, He will clothe the world with beauty and colour and perfume.

Many who will read these lines seem powerless to work miracles. For them the monotony of the commonplace, the grey sky of uneventful routine seems the predestined lot. But let all such take heart! The real greatness of life is within their reach, if they will only claim it by the grace of God. Do not try to do a great thing, or you may waste all your life waiting for the opportunity which may never come. But since little things are always claiming your attention, do them as they come from a great motive, for the glory of God and to do good to men. No such action, however trivial, goes without the swift recognition and the ultimate recompense of Christ. All life is so interesting, but we need eyes to see and hearts to understand! Dare to be yourself--a simple, humble, sincere follower of Jesus, and it may be said also of you: "He or she did no miracle, but by life and word spoke true things about Jesus Christ, which we have tested for ourselves. Indeed, they led us to believe in Christ for ourselves."