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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: July 29, 2023, 7:46 am
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If..
If we could see beyond today
As God can see;
If all the clouds should roll away,
The shadows flee;
O'er present griefs we would not fret.
Each sorrow we would soon forget,
For many joys are waiting yet
For you and me.
If we could know beyond today
As God doth know,
Why dearest treasures pass away
And tears must flow;
And why the darkness leads to light,
Why dreary paths will soon grow bright;
Some day life's wrongs will be made right,
Faith tells us so.
"If we could see, if we could know,"
We often say,
But God in love a veil doth throw
Across our way;
We cannot see what lies before,
And so we cling to Him the more,
He leads us till this life is o'er;
Trust and obey.
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: July 30, 2023, 7:59 pm
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It isn't the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word unspoken,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of your brother's way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time or thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
These little acts of kindness,
So easily out of mind,
These chances to be angels,
Which even mortals find
They come in night and silence,
Each chill reproachful wraith,
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too short, dear.
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache,
At the setting of the sun.
--Adelaide Proctor—-
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: July 31, 2023, 10:13 am
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God guides us, often by circumstances.
At one moment the way may seem utterly blocked; and then shortly
afterward some trivial incident occurs, which might not seem
much to others, but which to the keen eye of faith speaks
volumes.
Sometimes these things are repeated in various ways, in answer
to prayer. They are not haphazard results of chance, but the
opening up of circumstances in the direction in which we would
walk.
And they begin to multiply as we advance toward our goal, just
as the lights do as we near a populated town, when darting
through the land by the night express.
—F. B. Meyer -
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: August 1, 2023, 9:04 pm
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It is interesting to study the way God extended His guidance to
these early messengers of the Cross. It consisted mainly in
prohibiting their movement when they attempted to take a course
other than the right one. When they wanted to turn to the left,
toward Asia, He stopped them. When they sought to turn to the
right, toward Bithynia in Asia Minor, He stopped them again. In
his later years, Paul would do some of his greatest work in that
very region, yet now the door was closed before him by the Holy
Spirit. The time was not yet ripe for the attack on these
apparently impregnable bastions of the kingdom of Satan. Apollos
needed to go there first to lay the groundwork. Paul and
Barnabas were needed more urgently elsewhere and required
further training before undertaking this responsible task.
Beloved, whenever you are in doubt as to which way to turn,
submit your judgment absolutely to the Spirit of God, asking Him
to shut every door but the right one. Say to Him, “Blessed
Spirit, I give to You the entire responsibility of closing every
road and stopping every step that is not of God. Let me hear
Your voice behind me whenever I ‘turn aside to the right or to
the left’ [Deut. 5: 32].”
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: August 2, 2023, 9:18 pm
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Its streams the whole creation reach,
So plenteous is the store;
Enough for all, enough for each;
Enough forevermore.
The deep waters of the Holy Spirit are always accessible,
because they are always proceeding. Shall we not this day claim
afresh to be immersed and drenched in these waters of life?
The waters in Ezekiel's vision first of all oozed from under the
doors of the temple. Then the man with the measuring line
measured and found the waters to the ankles. Still further
measurement, and they were waters to the knees. Once again they
were measured and the waters were to the loins. Then they became
waters to swim in--a river that could not be passed over.
(Ezekiel 47).
How far have we advanced into this river of life? The Holy
Spirit would have a complete self effacement. Not merely
ankle-deep, knee-deep, loin-deep, but self-deep. We ourselves
hidden out of sight and bathed in this life-giving stream. Let
go the shore-lines and launch out into the deep. Never forget,
the Man with the measuring line is with us today.
--J.G.M.- -
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: August 4, 2023, 4:22 pm
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“ Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that
thou hast heard me “ (John 11:41).
This is a very strange and unusual order. Lazarus is still in
the grave, and the thanksgiving precedes the miracle of
resurrection!!
I thought that the thanksgiving would have risen ‘when’ the
great deed had been wrought, and Lazarus was restored to life
again.
But Jesus gives thanks for what He is about to receive.
The gratitude breaks forth before the bounty has arrived, in the
assurance that it is certainly on the way.
The song of victory is sung before the battle has been fought.
It is the sower who is singing the song of the harvest home. It
is thanksgiving before the miracle!
Who thinks of announcing a victory-psalm when the crusaders are
just starting out for the field?
Where can we hear the grateful song for the answer which has not
yet been received?
--Dr. Jowett—
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: August 5, 2023, 8:59 am
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This last post I put up is still ‘with me’.
I have always known the OT story about God telling Jehoshaphat
to set the praises ahead of the ones carrying the sword into
battle …..but I must say I had never ‘seen’ it or recognized it
in the NT until Jesus thanking God for the answer while Lazarus
was still dead and rotting !!
That gave me HOPE …..I have been feeling not a little
discouraged lately .
I hate this world and what it has become…it has touched my
soul and made it cold.
Yet, in remembering stinking Lazarus …..I am reminded to
continue to give thanks and to praise God that there will yet be
a resurrection , and a whole NEW wonderful earth !
God WILL SHOUT -“Time no longer “ and all things will be
back into God order once again .
Thank the Lord - GOD WINS!
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Nancy Date: August 9, 2023, 11:09 am
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[quote author=Helen link=topic=27.msg415#msg415 date=1690575954]
The flowers live by the tears that fall
From the sad face of the skies;
And life would have no joys at all,
Were there no watery eyes.
Love thou thy sorrow: grief shall bring
Its own excuse in after years;
The rainbow!--see how fair a thing
God hath built up from tears.
(not too sure of the theology , but liked it! )
[/quote]That is a lovely poem, Helen.♡ I'm here, rain
pouring outside my window, trying to catch up on posts. Have
missed ya'all!
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: August 10, 2023, 9:04 am
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Blessings Nancy …💞
I’m still musing on Lazareth, Martha and Mary …
“ "When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two
days still in the same place where he was."
What a startling "therefore"! He abstained from going, not
because He did not love them, but because He did love them. His
love alone kept Him back from hasting at once to the dear and
stricken home. Anything less than infinite love must have rushed
instantly to the relief of those loved and troubled hearts, to
stay their grief and to have the luxury of wiping and stanching
their tears and causing sorrow and sighing to flee away. Divine
love could alone hold back the impetuosity of the Savior's
tender-heartedness until the Angel of Pain had done her work.
Who can estimate how much we owe to suffering and pain? But for
them we should have little scope for many of the chief virtues
of the Christian life. Where were faith, without trial to test
it; or patience, with nothing to bear; or experience, without
tribulation to develop it?
--Selected—
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Dave Date: August 10, 2023, 9:29 am
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I remember the Lord showing me, way back when one morning; that
HE was the resurrection and the life and it blew me away that HE
wasn't dead, what happened to those morning revelations'?
Now it's where did I leave my socks, and the 'revelation' now
is, can I get them on!!!!!! ;)
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