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Tracy 1/19/2025 10:52:34 AM | COME AWAY MY BELOVED by FRANCIS J. ROBERTS THY LIFE IS AS A WEAVING My child, thy life is as a weaving. Beauty shall not come to thee by joy alone. Life may be tortuous at times, and the pathway rough. From fabrics of lovely silk and from cords of rougher materials, I fashion what pleaseth Me. Ye may never know why certain experiences come. It is enough that My hand brings them all. My grace is limited in no way by sorrow and difficulty. Indeed, it shines like a strand of gold mixed in with the black of grief. My hand moveth with infinite love, and I am creating a pattern of intricate beauty. Be never dismayed. The end shall bring rejoicing for both thyself and Me. For ye are My workmanship, created in Christ, even in His mind before the worlds existed. Doubt not, for My will SHALL be done. He took away the stain of sin And made me clean and pure within; He took away the strain of care And now I find peace everywhere. | ||||||
Tracy 1/12/2025 11:13:13 AM | STREAMS IN THE DESERT by L.B. COWMAN Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Isaiah 40:1 Store up comfort. This was the prophet Isaiah's mission. The world is full of hurting and comfortless hearts. But before you will be competent for this lofty ministry, you must be trained. And your training is extremely costly, for to make it complete, you too must endure the same afflictions that are wringing countless hearts of tears and blood. Consequently, your own life becomes the hospital ward where you are taught the divine art of comfort. You will be so that in the binding up of your wounds by the Great Physician, you may learn how to render first aid to the wounded everywhere. Do you wonder why you are having to experience some great sorrow? Over the next ten years you will find many others afflicted in the same way. You will tell them how you suffered and were comforted. As the story unfolds, God will apply the anesthetic He once used on you to them. Then in the eager look followed by the gleam of hope that chases the shadow of despair from the soul, you will know why you were afflicted. And you will bless God for the discipline that filled your life with such a treasure of experience and helpfulness. God comforts us not to make us comfortable but to make us comforters. (John Henry Jowett) They tell me I must bruise the rose's leaf, ere I can keep and use its fragrance brief. They tell me I must break the skylark's heart, ere her cage song will make the silence start. They tell me love must bleed, and friendship weep, Ere in my deepest need I touch that deep. Must it be always so with precious things? Must they be bruised and go with beaten wings? Ah, yes! by crushing days, by caging nights, by scar of thorn and stony ways, these blessing are! | ||||||
Tracy 1/5/2025 10:44:30 AM | MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON I will instruct you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Psalm 32:8 All practical power over sin . . . depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will, they are meek whom He guides in judgement and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals. (A.T. Pierson) PRAY ABOUT IT: This definition of a pray-er finds many of us falling short. We possess little power because we pray so little. The power we possess as Christians will be in proportion to our communion with God. Weak Christians are often weak because they don't spend time with the source of strength. Today, cast all your weakness on Him. Claim His strength as your own. He who lives in you can face anything on today's agenda. Watch, and He will guide you with His eye. No Christ, no prayer. Little Christ little prayer. Much Christ, much prayer. (Ruth Paxson) | ||||||
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