Posted on 01/12/2011 5:57:45 PM PST by Cyber Ninja
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Our Flag Flying Proudly One Nation Under God
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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, They're fighting for our Freedom.
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God Bless Our Republic
I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Prayers going up
I'm finally here!
Good evening CN! *hugs*
Thank you for tonights Canteen!
Sometimes people who serve God live with an unstated “contract faith.” Because they give time and energy to work for God, they think they deserve special treatment in return.
But not my friend Douglas. He has lived a Job-like existence in many ways, experiencing the failure of a ministry, his wife’s death from cancer, and injuries from a drunk driver to himself and a child. Yet Douglas advises, “Don’t confuse God with life.”
When troubles come and doubts arise, I often turn to Romans 8. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” asked Paul. “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” (v.35). In that one sentence, Paul summarized his ministry autobiography. He endured trials for the sake of the gospel; yet somehow he had the faith to believe that these “things”—surely not good in themselves—could be used by God to accomplish good. He had learned to see past the hardships to a loving God who will one day prevail. He wrote, “I am persuaded that [nothing] shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ” (vv.38-39).
Confidence like that can go a long way in helping overcome discouragement about how life hasn’t worked out the way we thought it would.
Read: Romans 8:28-39
Awesome thread! Thanks for all your hard work! Hope we can
stay here a while to enjoy it! :)
OMGosh...I made it here finally! Thanks Cyber for this evenings thread! *hugs*
Woo Hoo, Cyber Ninja!
Great job, and thank you!
Good evening, Gang..
Might be this post will work..
Just wanted to say Hi.
FR is about to crash, I think.
Definitely having a problem keeping the hamster alive tonight
on the old home front...and this is a WONDERFUL thread, too! :)
Whew! It takes forever to get a page to post on...I was glad
to see that you got home safe and sound after hearing of all
the snow your part of the world got today! (((hugs)))
Great first post, Cyber Ninja.
Lots of information there I didn’t know about...
Uh-oh...this is not working well at all.
May not be here very long...
*HUG*
I never went!
I called them and told them to forget it..
It was near blizzard conditions with total white outs..
It was just impossible!
I suppose they will write me up tomorrow, but at least I’m still in one piece!
HI EVERYONE!!
Thank God you didn’t go! That was a very smart decision, and if
THEY are smart, they won’t write you up for trying to stay
alive!
How are the conditions now?
Great Canteen
Cyber Ninja!!
Lots of GREAT info, Thanks!!
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