“The LORD is far from the wicked,
but He hears the prayer of the righteous.”
~Proverbs 15:29~
Wayne Criswell
Wayne has learned his lung cancer has returned. He is waiting for a decision about the next step – surgery or other treatment. Pray for Wayne and his family as they face this problem.
Earlo LaBauve, father of Sharon Martin
Earlo will have surgery in March at Ochsner in New Orleans. Pray for Earlo and his family as they wait.
Ferrie Gene Blackmon
She’s making progress – fluid drained and two units of blood added. She will get a little physical therapy before she is ready to come home.
Austin Rose
Austin had a big day today. His port was removed and replaced with a heart shaped bandage. Thank God for this big step and ask him to beep on blessing Austin and all the Rose/Labarbara family.
Sylvia Jackson, mother of Dennis Jackson
Today’s new is not so good. Susie has developed pneumonia. Please keep this family in your prayers.
With permission from Susie Eads, I’m sharing this as a special devotional thought.
I have a little story to tell you about forgiveness. Bear with me… I have a MacBook Pro laptop and on a Mac in the bottom right corner is a trash can. When you want to delete files you move them to the trash can and then periodically you empty the trash to delete those files. It’s different from the recycle bin because on the Mac when you click to empty the trash you get a message saying that the trash will be securely emptied and you cannot recover the files afterwards. When it finishes the process of emptying the files it makes a noise like a piece of paper crumpling up to let you know that it is finished. I am bad about forgetting to empty my trash so yesterday morning I clicked to empty it and it showed that I had 55,000 files to delete. Yikes! So I set it to empty and it was deleting files all day! Well I forgot about it and left it running. Fast forward to this morning and I am sitting next to my laptop while I have my quiet time. I was writing in my prayer journal and I had just written this sentence, “Lord, please forgive me for all the things I have done in the past that pierced your heart.” At that exact moment, I heard the sound from my laptop indicating that the trash had completed emptying!!! It was like the Lord told me that my sins are forgiven and securely deleted and I can’t recover them!!!! So if you are like me and have problems trusting God to forgive you or not forgiving yourself, remember that He empties the trash when we ask Him to and those sins no longer exist. Happy Valentines Day! Remember that God loves you more than you can imagine! Susie Owens Eads, 2-14-14
Daily Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “The Great Creator-Healer”
Inspiring Story – “Let Go of Your Stresses”
http://academictips.org/blogs/let-go-of-your-stresses/
Hymn of the Day – “Lord of Power, Lord of Might”
http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/o/p/loplomit.htm
Baptist Press
Be sure to read these stories.
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?id=42008
http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?id=42016
I’m looking forward to a warmer day today so I can spend some time outside. I’m glad God provides us with a variety of weather.
Anna Lee
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