| HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! It IS a New Season and a New Day!!! If you missed Pastor Lida's sermon this morning do yourself a favor and put in your request for a tape or CD and we will be sure to get it out to you as soon as possible. I have been pondering over what to do with the website and would love to hear some feedback if anyone has any comments or suggestions please feel free to E-MAIL me. I love to share with others what the Lord has done, and spread the word that OUR GOD IS GOOD. I was watching the news a few days ago and was really reminded just how fortunate we are. There are alot of things in the United States that I am sure, like me, someone would like to change. I hear people gripe about various laws, and such. And most of the gripes are trivial. But when I was watching this News Cast about people in Iraq, and other countries also, I feel sure are like this. But the news reporter was following a few Iraqians around kind of like a "day in the life of Iraq". And it blessed me so much to be an American, I appreciate the freedoms more now that I ever did. These people would litterally have to watch their back every move they made while trying to get to a location where they could actually pray freely to our loving Heavenly Father. If they are caught praying to Our Lord Jesus Christ they can and will be executed. Can you imagine the heartache, and troubles they go through. And still, they FILL rooms (in hiding) all over Iraq. And Christianity is spreading over there. Seems to me, if these people can actually risk being executed for Praising our Lord, then our churches in the USA should be packed!!!! The only thing we have to do is get up and get ready and drive freely and happily to get to the church of our choice!!!! We need to start looking at everything around us that is happening and realize what we have no matter how GREAT or SMALL and be Thankful in HIS Holy name that we have it! And stop complaining about what we don't have! I am not saint, I don't do everything right, but I do at least try to be grateful! And I try everyday to be better than I was the day before! My thing now is the devil attacking my tongue! I have always been the smart ellick (or the dumb ellick depending on how you look at it). Ya'll pray for the devil to quit trying to mess my words up...I want to say things without worrying about the "slip of the tongue". I want to share with you a Devotion from one of my many books that I have"Here I Am, Lord" January 1 "In Search of You" Here I am, Lord. As I begin this new year, I look back to another beginning: one when I accepted YOU as my savior. Oh how I love being with you. Once, I wasn't sure if YOU knew me. I seldom talked with you. I'm thankful for my friend who invited me to ask YOU to be my savior. Although I didn't understand how it could be possible, I felt a longing in my heart to receive YOU. I feared such a big decision. I wanted to control my life. I preferred everything mapped out , certain. I wondered how I could trust YOU to direct me when I didn't even know YOU! I wasn't sure about turning my entire existence over to someone I hadn't seen. I didn't do well with the way that I lived before receiving YOU, Lord. Should I have died then, I wander what my eternity would have been. I questioned why YOU wanted to be my Saviour, and if you would care about me, through good or bad. I feared you might desert me, especially when I messed up. Thank you for leading me to find YOU, dear Lord. Or did YOU find me? I'm so glad you revealed what it meant to receive YOU as my savior. In Jesus' name, amen. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. JOHN 14:6 NKJV |
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