Posted on 06/27/2020 5:00:52 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Bible in a Year:
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
The man seemed beyond redemption. His crimes included eight shootings (killing six) and starting nearly 1,500 fires that terrorized New York City in the 1970s. He left letters at his crime scenes taunting the police, and he was eventually apprehended and given consecutive sentences of twenty-five years to life for each murder.
Yet God reached down to this man. Today he is a believer in Christ who spends time daily in the Scriptures, has expressed deep regret to his victims families, and continues to pray for them. Although imprisoned for more than four decades, this man who seemed beyond redemption finds hope in God and claims, My freedom is found in one word: Jesus.
Scripture tells of another unlikely conversion. Before he met the risen Christ on the road to Damascus, Saul (who later became the apostle Paul) was breathing out murderous threats against the Lords disciples (Acts 9:1). Yet Pauls heart and life were transformed by Jesus (vv. 1718), and he became one of the most powerful witnesses for Him in history. The man who once plotted the death of Christians devoted his life to spreading the hope of the gospel.
Redemption is always a miraculous work of God. Some stories are more dramatic, but the underlying truth remains the same: None of us deserve His forgiveness, yet Jesus is a powerful Savior! He [saves] completely those who come to God through him (Hebrews 7:25).
Do you know someone who seems like a tough case for redemption? Nothing is too hard for God! Bring that person before Him in prayer.
Dear Jesus, thank You for loving us so much You died to bring us into a relationship with You.
Keep the Lord’s Day in the Lord’s way.
A blessed Fourth Sunday after Western Pentecost/Third Sunday after Orthdox Pentecost to all!
Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
A Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Did you get to rest today, or spend time on your mixer?
Nice day today. Quite a rainstorm last night. I must have slept through a good part of it. The gullies are clean form that gully washer. Looks like how weather is coming in.
God bless America.
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Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
Good evening, lightman, and a Blessed Fourth Sunday after Western Pentecost/Third Sunday after Orthdox Pentecost to you and yours.
You and your fellow chanters ready for services?
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Good evening, mountainlion, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Glad you are having a nice day. And a good rainstorm is really good. We are having wet streets most every morning for a week, but not enough “rain” to get the rain gauge wet.
We have had a sunny day all day so far...it’s nice.
Stay safe!
Absolutely....last week had some awesome teamwork.
Praying that this continues!
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...did you and Blue find any good garage sales today?
And a Blessed Lord’s Day and Shavua Tov to you and yours.
Today it rained on and off...so no Blue, no hiking, and no yard sales.
But that’s OK...Penny and I spent a nice day together at home.
Good evening, radu, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Have you been enveloped by the Sahara sand cloud yet? Some rain to help keep it down? Mudrain?
We have actually had sun the whole day! And I caught about 30 minutes of rays. Nice day.
Good evening, Janey ((HUGS))...Shavua Tov and a Blessed Lord’s Day.
Are the parachute folks “flying” again?
Shavua Tov.
Wishing all our Jewish troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
a peaceful and prosperous week.
Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.
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