Angel Wings

I remembered that I had this blog waiting to post…and when I re-read it, I thought “WOW LORD!  YOU ARE SO COOL!!! YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I NEED TO KNOW AND WHEN!!! Thanks God!!!!

Obstacles in Ministry

Difficulties and obstacles are God’s challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus; and as we go forward, simply and fully trusting Him, we may be tested, we may have to wait and let patience have her perfect work; but we shall surely find at last the stone rolled away, and the Lord waiting to render unto us double for our time of testing. --A. B. Simpson

Thanksgiving is coming up (or already done and over with) and perhaps you are already wondering what to do with that leftover turkey.  Tired of turkey sandwiches?  Here is a recipe I found that is great.  Try it, and enjoy that left over turkey J

Turkey Cheese and Rice Quiche Recipe:

Ingredients

3 cups cold cooked rice
1 cup shredded cheese
2 cups cold chopped cooked turkey
3 eggs
2 finely diced medium tomatoes
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup sliced scallions
1 tblsp chopped fresh basil
1/2 cup diced green pepper
Salt and pepper
Red pepper to taste

Method:

• Grease a flat casserole.
• Mix together all the ingredients except the cheese.
• Now top with shredded cheese
• Bake it in an oven, preheated at 375 F.

• Serve it hot.

enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

Those who call Thanksgiving “Turkey Day,” I suppose, take some such view as this: Unless we have Someone to thank and something to thank Him for, what’s the point of using a name that calls up pictures of religious people in funny hats and Indians bringing corn and squash?

Christians, I hope, focus on something other than a roasted bird. We do have Someone to thank and a long list of things to thank Him for, but sometimes we limit our thanksgiving merely to things that look good to us. As our faith in the character of God grows deeper we see that heavenly light is shed on everything–even on suffering–so that we are enabled to thank Him for things we would never have thought of before. The apostle Paul, for example, saw even suffering itself as a happiness (Colossians 1:24, NEB).

the greed of having. When “a mixed company of strangers” joined the Israelites, the people began to be greedy for better things (Numbers 11:4, NEB). God had given them exactly what they needed in the wilderness: manna. It was always enough, always fresh, always good (sounds good to me, anyway, “like butter-cakes”). But the people lusted for variety. These strangers put ideas into their heads. “There’s more to life than this stuff. Is this all you’ve got? You can have more. You gotta live a little!”

So the insistence to have it all took hold on God’s people and they began to wail, “all of them in their families at the opening of their tents.” There is no end to the spending, getting, having. We are insatiable consumers, dead set on competing, upgrading, showing off (“If you’ve got it, flaunt it”). We simply cannot bear to miss something others deem necessary. So the world ruins the peace and simplicity God would give us. Contentment with what He has chosen for us dissolves, along with godliness, while, instead of giving thanks, we lust and wail, teaching our children to lust and wail too. (Children of the jungle tribe I knew years ago did not complain because they had not been taught to.)

Lord, we give You thanks for all that You in Your mercy have given us to be and to do and to have. Deliver us, Lord, from all greed to be and to do and to have anything not in accord with Your holy purposes. Teach us to rest quietly in Your promise to supply, recognizing that if we don’t have it we don’t need it. Teach us to desire Your will–nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else. For Jesus’ sake. Amen.

Elisabeth Elliot
Keep A Quiet Heart

Numbers 11:4 Colossians 1:24 

Title: How To Wait

Author: Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
Source: Streams in the Desert
Scripture Reference: Daniel 12:2 

“Blessed is he that waiteth” (Dan. 12:12).

It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still.

There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption?

No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid.

Wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him. Believe that if He keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come, and shall not tarry.

Wait in quiet patience. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses. Accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, “Now, Lord, not my will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities; but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in full conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower.” –Morning by Morning

Wait patiently wait,
God never is late;
Thy budding plans are in Thy Father’s holding,
And only wait His grand divine unfolding.
Then wait, wait,
Patiently wait.

Trust, hopefully trust,
That God will adjust
Thy tangled life; and from its dark concealings,
Will bring His will, in all its bright revealings.
Then trust, trust,
Hopefully trust.

Rest, peacefully rest
On thy Saviour’s breast;
Breathe in His ear thy sacred high ambition,
And He will bring it forth in blest fruition.
Then rest, rest,
Peacefully rest! –Mercy A. Gladwin

Sooo…my question to all of you out there in cyber blog world….what are you waiting for? And how are you waiting??? 

I’m waiting for snow…and not too patiently either But on a serious note-I am also waiting for the return of Christ..that I am being patient for-it will be an exciting return!!! 

God knows that you can stand that trial; He would not give it to you if you could not.    It is His trust in you that explains the trials of life, however bitter they may be. God knows our strength, and He measures it to the last inch; and a trial was never given to any man that was greater than that man’s strength, through God, to bear it.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
Streams in the Desert

 Genesis 18:19 

“Prayer is the vehicle that enables us to enjoy God in the deepest expression of intimacy available to us.

Words cannot describe such times.” Paul Cedar, A Life of Prayer

For those people out there in blog land who actually read my blogs and keep track of what is going on…

Tomorrow is our last Sunday with Pastor Don Patten and his wife Marta.  We will have church, then in the evening a Harvest Party (actually bringing food to celebrate the Harvest and not dressing up in costumes)/good by Party/birthday party (shhhhhh, it’s a surprise for Don-the birthday party).  Pray for us please, as we say good by to our dear Pastor.

Most of all, pray for them as they transition into ministering in another country. Pray for their flight to Isreal, for customs (smooth crossings, that they won’t get questioned at all!!!), for travelling to their new home, to adjustments in their new apartment and city, for health, (spiritual and physical), and for anything else you might think of.

Thanks

 (I can’t wait for Heaven where there are no goodbyes!)

“Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. 

Give thanks to him and bless his name.”  Psalm 100:4 NLT

It’s been grey and bleak outside for at least two weeks now, since all the snow left.  It’s getting a little - well…bleak.

I am praying for snow (even though Ukrainians say it can’t snow until the first day of winter-which is December 1st.)  At least when it is cloudy outside, the snow brightens things up a little. 

You know the song-let it snow let it snow let it snow!!!! That’s what I am singing and praying for these days. 

How about you?

Snow anyone???? 

“It is for your sake that all things are ordered, so that, as the abounding grace of God is shared by more and more, the greater may be the chorus of thanksgiving that ascends to the glory of God” (2 Corinthians 4:15, NEB). Maybe Paul’s testimony, which has cheered countless millions, will cheer somebody who still faces a dilemma he has begged the Lord to remove. All of Paul’s were solved, but not all of them in Paul’s way or Paul’s time, Selah.