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You
Were Asked To Pray For:
Larry Platt, Joyce Fryer, Bro.
Archie & Barbara Griffin, Waylon & Pat Abercrombie with their
daughter and son, David Wake man, Randy & Donna Johnson, Rhonda Douglas,
Son Love, Iona McCool, Mr. & Mrs. Lee French, Loyce
Smith, Junior Potts, Shannon Bruce, David Bruce, Roberta Bruce, Faye Ralston,
Edmond Hammond, Forrest Keener,
Bill Hinson, Shannon Armstrong, Barbara Fails, Gary & Cindy Hogan, MSgt.
Bobby S Briggs, Jim & Linda Meier, Dina and The Boys, Steve &
Kimberley McCool, Troy Wiler, Helen Rowe, Dalton Froneberger, Bro. Sergey
Mochalov and the Churches in Russia, Bettye Huckabee, Kathy
Rosinbaum, Don & Wynell
Hammond, Brenda Galusha, Bro. Keith & Susie Kennison, Bro.& Mrs. Robert Ellis, Baby Tucker
Walker, Ruth Carlton, Rosa Tomlin, Cynthia Hammond,
Helen Stone, Bro. & Mrs. Pinson, Daniel Haygood,
Sister McEvoy, Bob Jones, Wanda Malone, Bro. Bert
and Heather Craft, Leta Ellis, James Douglas Rolin, Roger Littrell, and ALL of our Troops and
their families.
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A
Thought From C. H. Spurgeon:
“He Freely Gives”
"He that spared not His own Son, but
delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us
all things?" (Romans 8:32).
If this is not a promise in form, it is in
fact. Indeed, it is more than one promise, it is a
conglomerate of promises. It is a mass of rubies, and emeralds, and diamonds,
with a nugget of gold for their setting. It is a question which can never be
answered so as to cause us any anxiety of heart. What can the LORD deny us
after giving us Jesus? If we need all things in heaven and earth, He will
grant them to us: for if there had been a limit anywhere, He would have kept
back His own Son.
What do I want today? I have only to ask for it. I may seek earnestly, but
not as if I had to use pressure and extort an unwilling gift from the LORD's hand; for He will give freely. Of His own He gave
us His own Son. Certainly no one would have proposed such a gift to Him. No
one would have ventured to ask for it. It would have been too presumptuous.
He freely gave His Only-begotten, and, O my soul, canst thou not trust thy
heavenly Father to give thee anything, to give thee everything? Thy poor
prayer would have no force with Omnipotence if force were needed; but His
love, like a spring, rises of itself and overflows for the supply of all thy
needs.
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Thought
Of The Week:
“The Cup!”
Christ relinquished his
throne for a cross,
that he might accomplish redemption, and work out
the salvation of the people given to him by God.
Behold the Almighty sufferer!
There stood the Son of God, bearing the sin and enduring
the curse of his people-- putting away the one, and
exhausting entirely the other, by the sacrifice of himself.
The sufferings of Christ were unparalleled and intense.
Never since the universe was formed was there such a
sufferer as Jesus.
He was the Prince of sufferers.
No sorrow ever broke the heart like that which tore His in twain.
Come, poor sin-burdened, heart-broken penitent,
and sit beneath the shadow of this tree of life,
and its bending fruit of pardon, peace, joy,
and hope shall be sweet to your believing taste.
Christ took your cup of grief,
your cup of the curse,
pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled
it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave
it back for you to drink, and to drink for ever!
From Octavius Winslow's, "CHRIST'S FINISHED
WORK"
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NO PROBLEM
We
like to hear “no problem”
The words bring comfort to know
If we think we cannot pay a debt
And our assets register low.
We wonder if our health is good
If there’s a deeper cause for pain,
The physician says “no problem there”
And we tend to bless his name.
“No problem” says the evil one,
To many steeped in sin,
“Don’t stop to take a second look
At the mess you’re getting in.”
We do have a “problem”
Says the Judge of all the earth
This weight of sin upon us,
Which began the day of birth.
But God hath decreed a solution
In mercy He sets free,
Those of us who love the Son
And prepare for eternity.
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