news from uzbekistan
The Morning
Star was a great encouragement to me. To know there are many other brothers
and sisters like me in the world. Here life is so hard. I constantly fear that
they will take away my pension from me or reduce it, and already I even at my
age have to do any spare job I can to get money for bread. I ask you to pray for
an old friend of mine, whom I so want to be baptized, and I am teaching him.
Bro Oleg
READ ONLY IF
YOU HAVE TIME FOR GOD
God, when I
received this e-mail, I thought...I don't have time for this. And, this is
really inappropriate during work. Then, I
realized that this kind of thinking is... Exactly, what
has caused lot of the problems in our world today. We try to keep
God in church on Sunday morning... Maybe, Sunday night... And in the
unlikely event of a midweek service. We do like to have Him around
during sickness.. And, of course, at funerals. However, we don't have time, or
room, for Him during work or play...Because... That's the part of our lives we
think...We can, and should, handle on our own.
May God
forgive me for ever thinking...That... there is a time or place where...HE is
not to be FIRST in my life. We should always have time to remember all HE has
done for us.. If, You aren't ashamed to do this...Please follow the
directions.
Jesus said,
"If you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you before my Father."
Not ashamed?
Pass this on ONLY IF YOU MEAN IT!!
Yes, I do Love God. He is my
source of existence and Savior. He keeps me functioning
each and every day. Without Him, I will be nothing. Without Him, I
am nothing. But, with Christ, HE strengthens me. (Phil 4:13)
This is the
simplest test. If You Love God... And, are not ashamed of
all the marvelous things HE has done for you... Send this to ten people and
the person who sent it to you! I don't think I know 10 people who would admit
they love Jesus. Do You love Him?
THE POEM
I knelt to
pray but not for long,
I had too much
to do.
I had to hurry
and get to work
For bills
would soon be due.
So I knelt and
said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up
off my knees.
My Christian
duty was now done
My soul could
rest at ease.
All day long I
had no time
To spread a
word of cheer.
No time to
speak of Christ to friends,
They'd laugh
at me I'd fear.
No time, no
time, too much to do,
That was my
constant cry,
No time to
give to souls in need
But at last
the time, the time to die.
I went before
the Lord, I came,
I stood with
downcast eyes.
For in his
hands God held a book;
It was the
book of life.
God looked
into his book and said
"Your name I
cannot find.
I once was
going to write it down...
But never
found the time"
Now do you
have the time to pass it on? Make sure that
you scroll through to the end.
Easy vs. Hard.
Why is it so
hard to tell the truth but Yet so easy to tell a lie? Why are
we so sleepy in church but right when the sermon is over we
suddenly wake up? Why is it so hard to talk about God but yet so
Easy to talk about nasty stuff? Why is it so boring to look at a Christian
magazine But yet so easy to look at a nasty one? Why is it so
easy to delete a Godly e-mail but yet we forward all of the nasty
ones? Why are the
Churches of Christ getting smaller but yet The bars and dance
clubs are getting larger?
When you
receive this, say a prayer for the person that sent it to you...That's all you
have to do...
There is
nothing attached...
This is so
powerful...
Just e-mail
this to ten people and watch God's answer to prayer work in your
life. Do not stop the wheel, please... Of all the free gifts we
may receive, Prayer is the very best one...
There are no
costs, but wonderful rewards...
GOD BLESS!
May God keep
you and bless you. If this doesn't give you chills, nothing
will... this message is very true. Hope you are
all as blessed as I was from this story.
I wonder how
many people will delete this without reading it because of the
title on it?
There once was
a man named George Thomas. One Easter Sunday morning he
came to the Church carrying a rusty, bent, old bird cage, and set
it by the pulpit. Eyebrows were raised and, as if in response,
Pastor Thomas began to speak... "I was walking through town
yesterday when I saw a young boy coming toward me
swinging this bird cage. On the bottom of the cage were three
little wild birds, shivering with cold and fright. I stopped the
lad and asked, "What you got there, son?" "Just some old
birds," came the reply. "What are you
gonna do with them?" I asked.
"Take 'em home
and have fun with 'em," he answered. "I'm gonna
tease 'em and pull out their feathers to make 'em fight. I'm
gonna have a real good time." "But you'll
get tired of those birds sooner or later. What will you do?" "Oh, I got
some cats," said the little boy. "They like birds. I'll take 'em
to them." The pastor was
silent for a moment. "How much do you want for those birds,
son?" "Huh?? !!!
Why, you don't want them birds, mister. They're just plain old
field birds. They don't sing. They ain't even pretty!" "How much?"
the pastor asked again. The boy sized
up the pastor as if he were crazy and said, "$10?" The pastor
reached in his pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. He placed it
in the boy's hand. In a flash, the boy was gone. The pastor
picked up the cage and gently carried it to the end of the alley
where there was a tree and a grassy spot. Setting the
cage down, he opened the door, and by softly
tapping the bars persuaded the birds out, setting them
free. Well, that
explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit, and then the pastor
began to tell this story.
One day Satan
and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had just come from the
Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting. "Yes, sir, I
just caught the world full of people down there. Set me a trap,
used bait I knew they couldn't resist. Got 'em all!" "What are you
going to do with them?" Jesus asked. Satan replied,
"Oh, I'm gonna have fun! I'm gonna teach them how to marry and
divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how to drink
and smoke and curse. I'm gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs
and kill each other. I'm really gonna have fun!" "And what will
you do when you get done with them?" Jesus asked. "Oh, I'll kill
'em," Satan glared proudly. "How much do
you want for them?" Jesus asked. "Oh, you don't
want those people. They ain't no good. Why, you'll take them and they'll just
hate you. They'll spit on you, curse you and kill you. You don't want those people!!" "How much?" He
asked again. Satan looked
at Jesus and sneered, "All your blood, tears and your life." Jesus said,
"DONE!" Then He paid
the price.
The pastor
picked up the cage he opened the door and he walked from the
pulpit.
Notes: Isn't
it funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then
wonder why the world's going to hell. Isn't it funny how someone
can say "I believe in God" but still follow their own desires. Isn't it funny
how I can be more worried about what other people think of me
than what God thinks of me.
I pray, for
everyone who sends this to their entire address book, they will be
blessed by God in a way special for them. And send it to the
person who sent it, to let them know that indeed it was
sent out to
many more.
