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Thoughts
By: Helen Date: May 26, 2025, 9:37 am
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I love this encouragement, it hit the spot for me today!
Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it! (Num
21:17)
This was a strange song and a strange well.
They had been traveling over the desert’s barren sands, no water
was in sight and they were famishing with thirst. Then God spake
to Moses and said:
“Gather the people together, and I will give them water,” and
this is how it came.
They gathered in circles on the sands. They took their staves
and dug deep down into the burning earth and as they dug, they
sang,
“Spring up, O well, sing ye unto it,” and lo, there came a
gurgling sound, a rush of water and a flowing stream which
filled the well and ran along the ground.
When they dug this well in the desert, they touched the *stream
that was running beneath, and reached the flowing tides that had
long been out of sight.
How beautiful the picture given, telling us of the river of
blessing that flows all through our lives, and we have only to
reach by faith and praise to find our wants supplied in the most
barren desert.
How did they reach the waters of this well? It was by praise.
They sang upon the sand their song of faith, while with their
staff of promise they dug the well…
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Re: Day by day…
By: Mike Waters Date: May 26, 2025, 10:04 am
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Beautiful Picture and Beautiful Post
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Re: Day by day…
By: Amadeus Date: May 26, 2025, 10:25 am
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Aye, saith I because the Lord saith, "Spring up o well!" Good to
see old friends still around and communicating.
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Re: Day by day…
By: Helen Date: May 27, 2025, 11:59 am
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( I’m sure our resident artist here can relate )
“Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has
given me to drink?” (John 18:11, Weymouth).
“ God takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist
with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colours
of circumstance, to bring us into the form which is the highest
and noblest in His sight, if only we receive His gifts of myrrh
in the right spirit.
But when the cup is put away, and these feelings are stifled or
unheeded, a greater injury is done to the soul that can ever be
amended. For no heart can conceive in what surpassing love God
giveth us this myrrh; yet this which we ought to receive to our
souls' good we suffer to pass by us in our sleepy indifference,
and nothing comes of it.
Then we come and complain: "Alas, Lord! I am so dry, and it is
so dark within me!" I tell thee, dear child, open thy heart to
the pain, and it will do thee more good than if thou wert full
of feeling and devoutness.”
~Tauler~
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Re: Day by day…
By: Helen Date: May 28, 2025, 10:04 am
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Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I
will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.” Then
Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my
name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there. (Gen
32:26,29)
Jacob got the victory and the blessing not by wrestling, but by
clinging. His limb was out of joint and he could struggle no
longer, but he would not let go. Unable to wrestle, he wound his
arms around the neck of his mysterious antagonist and hung all
his helpless weight upon him, until at last he conquered.
We will not get victory in prayer until we too cease our
struggling, giving up our own will and throw our arms about our
Father’s neck in clinging faith.
What can puny human strength take by force out of the hand of
Omnipotence? Can we wrest blessing by force from God? It is
never the violence of wilfulness that prevails with God. It is
the might of clinging faith, that gets the blessing and the
victories. It is not when we press and urge our own will, but
when humility and trust unite in saying, “Not my will, but
Thine.” We are strong with God only in the degree that self is
conquered and is dead. Not by wrestling, but by clinging can we
get the blessing.
—J. R. Miller-
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Re: Day by day…
By: Helen Date: May 30, 2025, 9:58 am
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Thy Father is training thee for the part the angels cannot
sing; and the school is sorrow. I have heard many say that He
sends sorrow to prove thee; nay, He sends sorrow to educate
thee, to train thee for the choir invisible.
In the night He is preparing thy song. In the valley He is
tuning thy voice. In the cloud He is deepening thy chords. In
the rain He is sweetening thy melody. In the cold He is moulding
thy expression. In the transition from hope to fear He is
perfecting thy lights.
Despise not thy school of sorrow, O my soul; it will give thee a
unique part in the universal song.
—George Matheson
“Is the midnight closing round you?
Are the shadows dark and long?
Ask Him to come close beside you,
And He’ll give you a new, sweet song.
He’ll give it and sing it with you;
And when weakness lets it down,
He’ll take up the broken cadence,
And blend it with His own
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Re: Day by day…
By: Kerry Date: May 31, 2025, 3:20 am
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[quote author=Helen link=topic=42.msg1620#msg1620
date=1748617094]
Thy Father is training thee for the part the angels cannot
sing; and the school is sorrow. I have heard many say that He
sends sorrow to prove thee; nay, He sends sorrow to educate
thee, to train thee for the choir invisible.
[/quote]In today's world, we may think of grief as a mental
illness; but it serves a useful purpose. It tells us we have
lost something or are in peril of losing it. If you love
someone and don't feel grief when that person is suffering or
dying, that's not relating to reality. Grief can also often
motivate us to restoring a situation to a healthy one.
David wrote:
Psalm 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into
thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
What could that mean? I think this is a clue:
Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts
and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having
every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which
are the prayers of saints.
We often think God hears every prayer as soon as we pray it; but
Revelation says that is not the case. Some prayers cannot be
answered immediately. Since God would not want to say no to a
righteous prayer, that prayer is put on hold. God will answer it
when the time is right.
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Re: Day by day…
By: Pat Date: May 31, 2025, 11:16 am
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[quote]In today's world, we may think of grief as a mental
illness; but it serves a useful purpose.[/quote]
I think that may be true of many people but as Christians God is
with us in our grief and will support us and strengthen us if we
ask.
I often thin of grief as a glass of water which over time will
naturally evaporate unless it is kept topped up and many people
do seem to top up their grief instead of letting it go.
My husband of 53 years died last September and although i was
sad and grieved I didn't fall apart because I knew the God would
hold me up and help me to have courage to move into a new phase
of my life.
I no longer grieve but I still remember the good times Ray and I
had over our 53 years together and I have let go of the sadness
and thank god for those years.
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Re: Day by day…
By: Helen Date: May 31, 2025, 1:57 pm
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Kerry said -
We often think God hears every prayer as soon as we pray it; but
Revelation says that is not the case. Some prayers cannot be
answered immediately. Since God would not want to say no to a
righteous prayer, that prayer is put on hold. God will answer it
when the time is right.
Agree , I get encouraged by both Abraham who waited 25 years
before his answer came of Issac .
Daniel who was told that heard his prayer the first time he
prayed , but it was delayed 21 days .
And Zachariah who was told by the angel that his prayer also was
heard the first time he prayed ..I’ve forgotten how many decades
that was before John the Baptist was actually born.
With God , there is a great difference between hearing and
actually answering !
Time means so much to us, but not much it seems to the Father .
;)
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Re: Day by day…
By: Helen Date: May 31, 2025, 2:21 pm
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Pat said - I often think of grief as a glass of water which over
time will naturally evaporate unless it is kept topped up and
many people do seem to top up their grief instead of letting it
go.
That is an excellent thought Pat . I’ve never heard it used
before.
That answers a question I’ve had about my granddaughter .
You may remember our eldest grand daughter’s husband died
suddenly when he was 32.
It is five years later. She wrote a book about grief ( which is
actually being used as a text book at the Grief Counselling
Centre.)
I did wonder why all these years later she still grieves (
even though she’s married again )
Now I know why! She was obviously ‘topping up’ her water
glass !
Her new husband must be a saint ( he was also a good friend of
Kurtis , who died )
Our grand daughter still had a room of her house full of
Kurtis’ things ( two bikes , guitars , clothes etc that she
keeps closed as she doesn’t want to deal with it. )
Plus she’s kept Kurtis’ iPhone charged so that she can still
hear his voice and his messages etc
I’m guessing now that I see your post , these things all ‘top
up’ the lingering grief…and on purpose . Maybe she’d feel
guilty if she got on with her life and forgot him …so she keeps
the ‘stone in her shoe ‘ so he’s not totally forgotten by either
of them.
xx
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