Jim Elliot ,a prayer. ( 1 Timothy 4 v 12 ]

                                       Jim Elliot.

                  Jim Elliot was a young man who was killed
                  by the Auca  Indians in Ecuador, four  others
                  also died. They were trying to reach these people
                  with the Gospel. He said a number of challenging
                  things, here  is one.

                  ''Lord give me firmness without hardness,steadfastness
                   without dogmatism, love without weakness.''
                                            Amen.

Focus ( Job 1 v 20- 22 )

                                             Means.

                 The question that  came into my mind ,what am I
                 trusting in?. Yes  God blesses us with jobs, doctors,
                 possessions, money, and many things. We have map
                 books, sat-naves , but what are we trusting in?. There
                 is nothing wrong with having these things, as long as
                 we are not trusting in them. Whatever God has in His mercy
                 granted us, they are not meant to take our focus of God
                
                                            
                
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Not a chance. ( Paslm 53 )

                            Jacques Monod said the following , ''The
                            ancients covenant is in pieces; man at last
                            knows that he is alone in the unfeeling
                            immensity of the universe, out of which
                            he  emerged by chance. The fact is he and
                            others have turned chance into a god. chance
                            has emerged as being at the heart of all things.
                            As the old song goes, 'its impossible ' ,that
                            everything could have happened by chance.

                                                  Genesis 1 v 1.

                           In the beginning God created the heavens and
                           the earth.

                           

The .Bible ( 2 Timothy 3 v 15 - 17 )

                 
                                          The Bible
     
              This  Book contains the mind  of God, the state of  man,
              the way of salvation, the doom of sinners and the happiness
              of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding
              its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it
              to be wise, believe  it to be safe and practice it to be holy.
              It contains light to direct you, food to support you and comfort
              to cheer you. It  is the traveller's map, the pilgrim's staff, the
              pilot's compass, the soldier's sword and the Christian's
              character. Here paradise is restored, heaven opened and the
              gates of hell disclosed. Christ is it's grand object ,our good
              it's design and the glory of God  its end. It should fill the
              memory , rule the heart , and guide the feet. Read it slowly,
              frequently, and prayerfully. It is given you in life and will
              be  opened in the judgement and will be remembered forever
              It involves the  highest responsibility, will reward the great-
              est  labour, and will  condemn all who trifle with its sacred
              contents.
                                         ( Author Unknown )

Faith ( Psalm 37 )

                                My wife expressed concern ,she is self
                                employed ,I became a little bit annoyed
                                ,and yet I should not have, my walk has
                                been different than hers, I believe God
                                will care for His children, I am so very
                                grateful how God has blessed me in my
                                retirement, all my needs He has supplied.
                                Like the Psalmist I can say,' I have been
                                young, and now am old; yet have I not
                                seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed
                                begging bread. ( Psalm 37 v25 )

A great Theologian. ( John 3 ]

                                Someone once  said to a great Theologian
                                that he conceded that he had good faith.
                                he relied to this by saying the following.
                               '' So you allow me good faith , I have never
                                conceded myself good faith. And when
                                once the day comes when I have to appear  before
                                my Lord, then I will not come with my deeds
                                with the volumes of my Dogmatics  in the
                                basket upon my back. All the angels there
                                would have to laugh. But then I shall say,
                                ' I have always meant well; I had good faith
                                No , then I will only say one thing: Lord be
                                merciful to me a poor sinner.

Something better ( Romans 8 v 26- 27 )

                          A friend of mine shared with me about
                          his daughter and her husband were looking
                           to buy  a house. They saw one that really took
                          their fancy, had their hearts set on it, but  to
                           their great disappointment it didn't happen .they
                          had prayed about it, but the good news was
                          another house came on the market, that was
                          better in everyway. Now it is Selwyn Hughes
                          who said about prayer ,''No prayer goes unanswered
                          for the answer will come in one of four forms.(1 )
                          Yes ( 2 ) No ( 3 ) Hear is something better;  ( 4 )  
                           Wait to see what I will do.

                                                    Alec Motyer.
                         
                          Elijah was really down ,so much so he prayed to
                          God ,to take his life ,He was talking to God not to
                           himself. He does not contemplate suicide, but asks
                           God to act. His prayer is answered with a mag-
                           nificence which defeats the imagination, for the
                           man who prayed  to die.. never died  at all. ( 2 Ki. 2:11)