weekend blessings

Did you hear about the woman who told her neighbor: "I have a marvelous meat loaf recipe. All I do is mention it to my husband and he says, 'Let's eat out.'" I don't know about you, but as for myself I believe that I had that recipe while I was in the Navy. My wife is an excellent cook, so good in fact that one of our young grandson's calls her the cooker woman. Nothing like a child's perspective on things. Hope your weekend will be filled with good food, fellowship, and worship. Blessings to all.

A Good Marriage!

A Danish proverb says, "A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple." Love helps us to overlook an offense, to scarcely notice when someone does us wrong, etc. Love is able to make us deaf and blind which is a great road to a good marriage.

Let's Just Praise The Lord!

Henry Van Dyke once said, "The woods would be silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."Psalm 150:6 says, "Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord." The Church might be silent as well if only those who sing best were the only ones singing. So Church, let's continue to Praise the Lord.

You Just Never Know!

One day as a woman was crossing a street at London station, an old man stopped her. He said to her, "Excuse me, ma'am, but I want to thank you."
She looked up and exclaimed, "Thank me?"
He replied, "Yes'm I used to be a ticket collector, and whenever you went by you always gave me a cheerful smile and a good morning. I knew that smile must come from inside somewhere. Then one morning I saw a little Bible in your hand. So I bought one, too, and I found Jesus."

God's Abundance!

I like the word abundance. It just seems to roll off of a person's tongue. Maybe it is rolling right out of their heart. Years ago as my wife and I were praying for our daily bread it came to us to pray for an abundance so that we would have our needs met and have enough to share with others. God has answered that prayer over and over, to the place that we have been able to share with others out of the abundance that he has provided. God gives in abundance. In Psalm 37:11 it says, "But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace." Psalm 36:8,9 says, "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." How many other examples can we think of in the word where God grants his abundance to his children?

Which Highway Are We On?

In Matthew 7: 12 - 13 Jesus says, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." We live in an hour where these verses are easy to see in people's lives as they are following the crowd and seeking the things of the world such as popularity, success, fame, and fortune. This is the easy route, and the multitudes are traveling on it. It is the road that the world admires and rewards. It's called the unholy highway where any sin goes. The narrow road is called the Holy highway and very few are traveling it. Only the holy and righteous can be on the narrow road. Let's check our compass or GPS and determine which road we are on. This is a matter of eternal significance.

There Is A Generation!

Proverbs 20:11 - 13 says, "There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up." Does this sound like anyone you know? I've known several that fit the above description of there is a generation! May God be merciful to us all.