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To: .30Carbine
You have not neglected to help them
At all times and in all places.

It's rather startling how He answers prayers, from the truly serious to the common everyday and silly needs. It's like the goose that laid the golden egg. I try hard not to get too greedy about what I ask for so as not to wear out my welcome.

1,027 posted on 12/10/2006 11:19:58 PM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts)
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To: patriciaruth
...so as not to wear out my welcome.

LOL, take it from one who knows, who, if any man were charged with your words above would have to raise her hand: We can never wear out our welcome at God's Throne, for He never tires of gazing into the face of His Beloved Son Jesus, our Christ, Who indwells us.

I pray for everything, from (yes) parking spots to healings, from my cats to my coworkers! It's all small stuff to Him, after all, and He knows our needs even before we ask, and yet desires that we ask, so that we know (acknowledge, become aware of) our great need for Him and His Provision, know Him personally as Our Father, and bring glory to His Son in Whose Name we come, because the Son Glorified Glorifies the Father. He wants to be known, and to be given the Glory due Him, and He is known greatly and glorified greatly by His Name, Father, Giver of Good and Perfect Gifts. Amen.

He is giving good all day and all night long without receiving Glory for it, and this is a great sin on man's part. Therefore it is my firm belief that the more we ask of Him on any and through all occasions - what looks 'big' or looks 'small' to our eyes is not the point - and the more we thank Him for what we have received, whether we specifically asked for it or not, the greater amount of His Glory He reveals to, in, and through us, and the more we delight to participate in His Works on earth.

With this in view we constantly pray for you, that our God may deem and count you worthy of [your] calling and [His] every gracious purpose of goodness, and with power may complete in [your] every particular work of faith (faith which is that leaning of the whole human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness).

Thus may the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be glorified and become more glorious through and in you, and may you [also be glorified] in Him according to the grace (favor and blessing) of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
~2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 (AMP)

Our Father loves us dearly because we come to Him as His children, and that is what we are when we are Christians. To say that He is "too busy" for us or for our 'little' needs is to make Him less than God. To say that He could ever tire of our face or voice or needs would be to say that He is less than Love. God is Love; in Him is no darkness whatsoever; He is not at all a man and we do a grave injustice to ourselves to imagine Him to be as we are, for our vain imaginings change Him not, but a cloud on our perspective veils Him to our sight, and that to us is loss. To know Him, and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent, this *is* eternal life! Amen again!

1,028 posted on 12/11/2006 3:05:29 AM PST by .30Carbine (Truly our *fellowship* is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ ~1 John 1:3)
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