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Thoughts From The Pastor’s Study
Tell Me Again! I am Thankful For What?
Have you ever ask that question, or let me rephrase that, Have you ever known someone else that ask that question? I was setting here thinking of a couple of mission trips I made to Honduras. One of them we went to a prison for boys up to 18 years of age, and in that prison we seen a six year old (yes I said a six year old) boy that was in prison for stealing food, he looked like he should have been on some momma’s lap, but he probably did not have one. That was where my wife Rena seen her first street children and was told, no you cannot take them home, some of them very young. We also went to a men’s prison where they were fed twice a day a bowl of black beans and rice, and if your family brought you food they had to bring twice as much because the guards would eat most of it first. We then went to a prison for women. Now the first thing we noticed upon entering was, this prison has kids in it and some of them very young. They have found when the woman goes to prison, the men will not take care of the children, so the children go with mama. In town you could see two policemen outside many businesses one with a shotgun and the other with a machine gun, dead bodies lying in the street, and gun shots at night. So let’s start with the nation we live in when we think of thankfulness, stop complaining because everything is not going our way, or things are not being given to us for free. While we are on this free kick let me give you a quote, hang it on your wall and send it to everyone you know.
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
--Dr. Adrian Rogers
I could not find the year of this quote but Dr. Rogers passed away in 2005.
1Timothy 2:1-4 says “Therefore I exhort first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”.
This says we should be praying for all men (and women) especially for those in
authority, isn’t that odd He did not mention politics. But you might be saying I did not vote for him why should I pray for him, I will give you one real good reason. Because it is God’s word you don’t like it talk to Him about it. We probably should all talking to Him a little more than we do anyway.
Have a great week and remember Jesus Is Lord. You are welcome to email me your thoughts, comments, or send me emails of someone who would like to receive these devotions. Pastor Duane, Labor Of Love Church lolminis@frontier.com
THOUGHTS FROM THE PASTOR’S STUDY
FOUR THINGS YOU CANNOT RECOVER
There are things that we say or do, or things that we don’t say or do that cannot be recovered, opportunity only passes our way one time, and then it is gone, forever lost.
The first thing you cannot recover is the stone after the throw. Have you ever had one of those moments as a child when you reach down and pick up a stone and give it a throw and as soon as you threw it you wished that you could reach out and grab it, but alas in a moment, it happens you hear the sound of breaking glass, and your first thought is, who put that house there? And your second is run? But you won’t always get by with running from responsibility for your actions. There comes a time when you have to answer for the stones that you throw.
The second thing you cannot recover is the word after it is said. Everyone reading this can relate to a time when we wish we could have reached out and grabbed that word or could have somehow erased it before it got to the intended person. James 3:6-10 “The tongue is a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought so to be.” There is an old saying sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me. Well, we all know that sounds good but it is not true. Some of our deepest, long lasting hurts has been a word spoken by a person close to us. Churches, homes, families, friends, and marriages have been forever split by that small member of our body, called the tongue. Psalm 141 is a prayer psalm of David. As he was praying to God to keep him from sin, he said in verse 3 “ Set a guard, O Lord over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.” My goodness, what if we would all ask the Lord daily to do that for us? How many hurts would be saved? Let me ask you this, what about the word that should have been spoken in due season but was not and now it is eternally too late?
This brings me to the third one, the occasion after the loss. We have all experienced this one also. Something we should have done or said. We waited and kept putting it off. Then in a moment, it became forever too late. That moment in time can never be recovered and is now only a sad memory. I had one of those moments in time in my life. It took me some time to be able to talk of this. A man I knew very well was in the hospital. I knew in my heart he was dyeing and as far as I knew he was not ready to meet God. I put off going for a week and as I was eating breakfast I said, “when I get through eating I am going to the hospital.” In a moment the occasion was lost never to be recovered. I got a call while I was eating he had died. Don’t let this occasion get away from you if there is someone you are to talk to don’t wait another minute and most important, DON’T PUT OFF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ACCEPT JESUS.
Which takes me to the last one, time after it is gone. I have never heard anyone say, “I wish I had spent more time at work instead of so much with my family.” Spend time with family and friends and especially your spouse.
I heard an interesting testimony. This man when he got home from work as he was walking up the sidewalk to his house. He would pause, reach up and touch a tree limb. One day there was someone with him and this person ask him, why he done that? The man explained I hang my job, the problems of the day and the many things I have to do tomorrow up here I don’t take them in the house to my family, when I come out the next morning they don’t look so bad.
It is not my intention to throw stones at you, or hurt you, but I do have a word for you, This may be the last occasion you have to accept Jesus. Time for you may be running out, none of us knows the day or hour but we do know no body cheats death, it is not a respecter of persons. If you know Jesus you have nothing to fear if you don’t know Jesus. You have the time and the occasion today that may never come again, won’t you accept Him today.
First Corinthians 2:9 “ Eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” If you need to talk to someone about your salvation please e-mail me. I will call you and talk with you. Remember you have today. Do you have tomorrow?
Have a great week and remember Jesus Is Lord. You are welcome to email me your thoughts, comments, or send me emails of someone who would like to receive these devotions. Pastor Duane, Labor Of Love Church lolminis@frontier.com
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...
There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American citizen needs to read this!
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