“Our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful
as God enters our lives and we become like him.”
~2 Corinthians 3:18b MSG~
Please pray for Mrs. Bill Hughes. The weather surely has made her health issues more difficult.
Pray for Mrs. Nat McKinney. It’s not easy to leave your home to receive daily assistance.
Mrs. Annie Belle Harrell went to the doctor again yesterday. He said it will now be five weeks before they know if the recent surgery was helpful. Pray for her during this time.
Maggie Lee Henson
Jinny and I switched out at 1:30 this morning. ICP is higher than normal but responding to what the doctors are giving her. The upward trend and higher average, though, is of concern to them and so obviously to us as well.
Pray for Jinny to get good rest and for ICP trend to break. Pray also more second winds for us.
–John
Encouragement
YEARS AGO AN experiment was conducted to measure people’s capacity to endure pain…
How long could a bare-footed person stand in a bucket of ice water? It was discovered that when there was someone else present offering encouragment and support, the person standing in the ice water could tolerate paiin twice as long as when no one else was present. (John C. Maxwell, Encouragement Changes Everything, 25)
Could it also be the case that elders could serve twice as long, preachers could work twice as long, and members could be faithful twice as long, if they had someone holding their hands and encouraging them? I believe that this is the case. As you know, the book of Hebrews was written to those who were discouraged and in danger of falling away. The inspired writer of this book often exhorted brethren to encourage one another ( Hebrews 3:13; 10:24-25). In the twelfth chapter, we read these words, “Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees” (v. 12). (Wade Webster)
“But Moses’ hands became heavy;
so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it.
And Aaron and Hur supported his hands,
one on one side, and the other on the other side;
and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.”
Posted by Mike Benson at July 22, 2009
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