Sunday, February 24, 2008

I CALL YOU BY NAME.....



The following is something I received from abroad, and I thought it would help us to enlighten ourselves and be reassured that we "never walk alone"!
Health and Blessings to you all.


I, JESUS, call YOU by name....


When you are weak, I call your name Strong.
When you are discouraged, I call your name Encouraged.
When you are broken, I call your name Fixed.
When you are wounded, I call your name Mended.
When you have faltered, I call your name Forgiven.
When you are afraid, I call your name Trust.
When you are unloved, I call your name Loved.
When you feel at lost, I call your name Found.
When you feel at distance, I call your name Close.
When you feel empty, I call your name Filled.
When you feel like sickness, I call your name Healed.
When you feel depressed, I call your name Delivered.
When you feel alone, I call your name Near.
When you feel unsaved, I call your name Righteous.
When you feel uncomely, I call your name Beautiful.
When you feel worthless, I call your name Priceless.
When you feel unworthy, I call your name Worthy.
When you feel overcome, I call your name Overcomer.
When you feel conquered, I call your name Conqueror.
When you feel bound, I call your name Free.
When you feel defeated, I call your name Victorious.
When you feel in darkness, I call your name Light.
When you feel that you do not belong, I call your name MINE!
No matter who you are, where you are,
where you have been or where you are going,
what you have done or what you are doing …
I STILL CALL YOU BY NAME.
REMEMBER THAT I LOVE YOU WITH MY LIFE!

Sunday, February 17, 2008














THE TEN COMMANDMENTS




JUDAISM
St. AUGUSTINE Catholics and Lutherans
ORIGEN Orthodox and Other Protestants

1
I am the Lord thy God who have brought thee out of the house of bondage.
I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt not have any strange gods before me.
I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt not have other gods besides me.
2
Thou shalt have no other gods besides me.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Thou shalt not make for thyself any graven image.
3
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4
Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.
Honor thy Father and Mother.
Remember the Lord's Day to keep it holy.
5
Honor thy Father and Mother.
Thou shalt not kill.
Honor thy Father and Mother.
6
Thou shalt not murder.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not kill.
7
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not steal.
9
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10
Thou shalt not covet.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.
Thou shalt not covet.



SOMETIMES I NEED A REMINDER AND NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR MY ACTIONS. I HOPE ALL OF YOU READ THESE TODAY AND BE ACCOUNTABLE YOURSELVES! GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU TODAY AND EVERYDAY THEREAFTER!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008





~*~The Fork ~*~



There was a woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness; she had been given three more months to live! She set about getting her things "in order" by contacting the curate and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects regarding her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted to be sung at the funeral service, what scriptures she would like read, and also showed him the outfit she desired to be buried in. Her favourite Bibloe, she insisted, was to be put also in her casket.



It seemed that all her wishes had been expressed and the curate was preparing to leave . But then the poor woman suddenly remembered something which she thought she should have mentioned earlier, seeing that it was very important to her. "There's one more thing," she said excitedly. "Yes, dear, what is that?" queried patiently the good priest. "Please, see that this is definitely seen to! It is so very important. I want to be buried with a fork in my right hand!"
The surprise was evidently etched on the good man's face; he didn't know what to say. Maybe the poor sick woman was becoming delirious or something! "That surprises you, doesn't it?" the woman asked. "Well, to be honest, I am somewhat at a loss and puzzled by this request," he replied quietly in a half tone.




The woman smiles feebly and readily explained. "In all my years of attending church socials, charity dinners, and whatever, I always noticed that when the dishes of the main course were being cleared, someone would inevitably lean over and say: "Keep your fork". I always looked forward to that, expecting something better to follow..., like velvety chocolate cake for instance, or deep-dish apple pie; something wonderful to my liking. That is why I want people to see me there in that casket with a fork in my hand! I want them to wonder: "Why that fork? Ridiculous is it not?" It is my intention to tell them by my gesture, seeing that I would not be able to speak: "Keep your fork...the best is yet to come".



The curate's eyes welled up with tears of joy as he hugged the woman knowing it was the time he was seeing and talking to her. He realized that the dying woman had a better grasp of what she expected after her life on earth was spent, maybe even more than he himself did. She KNEW that something better was definitely the follow-up; heaven was there for her.



As mourners filed silently by the open casket, they could not but admire the chik dress she was dressed in. They did notice knowingly her favorite Bible; but then that fork gripped in her right hand..., was that not strange to say the least? Over and over the same curious query was put to the smiling priest: "What has that fork to do there in her hand?" He just smiled back with a kind of mischief in his eyes! And over and over he just smiled without giving any explanation. It was only during his homily that the curate narrated to the whole congregation the conversation he had had with the sick woman and therefore also her symbolic message with the fork! He tantalisingly pointed out that most they probably would be thinking quite often about the good woman's fork; he said that was happening to him too!




The next time you reach down for your fork let it remind you, oh so gently, that the best is yet to come. ...................



Author Unknown

Saturday, February 9, 2008









Daily Cross-carrying 1-31-08




Our Lord called men to follow Him but He never made the way look easy. Indeed one gets the distinct impression that He made it appear extremely hard. Sometimes He said things to disciples or prospective disciples that we today discreetly avoid repeating when we are trying to win men to Him. What present-day evangelist would have the courage to tell an inquirer, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it" (Matt. 16:24-25)? And do not we do some tall explaining when someone asks us what Jesus meant when He said, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law" (Matt. 10:34-35)?




That kind of rugged, sinewy Christianity is left for an occasional missionary or for some believer behind one of the various curtains in the world. The masses of professed Christians simply do not have the moral muscle to enable them to take a path so downright and final as this. When will Christians learn that to love righteousness it is necessary to hate sin? that to accept Christ it is necessary to reject self? that to follow the good way we must flee from evil? that a friend of the world is an enemy of God? that God allows no twilight zone between two altogethers where the fearful and the doubting may take refuge at once from hell to come and the rigors of present discipline?
Prayer
By Your Spirit, Lord, remind me to carry my cross today. I want to follow Christ.
Scripture
If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. — Luke 9:23
Thought
Ever wonder why we experience such difficulty in trying to follow Christ? Perhaps we have neglected to take up our cross daily--that cross which is the instrument of death to self.



1st Sunday of Lent: 10 February 2008 - Mt 4,1-11 Monday: 11 February 2008 - Matthew 25,31-46 Tuesday: 12 February 2008 - Matthew 6,7-15 Wednesday: 13 February 2008 - Luke 11,29-32 Thursday: 14 February 2008 - Luke 10,1-9 Friday: 15 February 2008 - Matthew 5,20-26 Saturday: 16 February 2008 - Matthew 5,43-48
2nd Sunday of Lent: 17 February 2008 - Mt 17,1-9 Monday: 18 February 2008 - Luke 6,36-38 Tuesday: 19 February 2008 - Matthew 23,1-12 Wednesday: 20 February 2008 - Matthew 20,17-28 Thursday: 21 February 2008 - Luke 16,19-31 Friday: 22 February 2008 - Matthew 16,13-19 Saturday: 23 February 2008 - Luke 15,1-3.11-32
3rd Sunday of Lent: 24 February 2008 - John 4,5-42 Monday: 25 February 2008 - Luke 4,24-30 Tuesday: 26 February 2008 - Matthew 18,21-35 Wednesday: 27 February 2008 - Matthew 5,17-19 Thursday: 28 February 2008 - Luke 11,14-23 Friday: 29 February 2008 - Mark 12,28b-34 Saturday: 1 March 2008 - Luke 18,9-14
4th Sunday of Lent: 2 March 2008 - John 9,1-41 Monday: 3 March 2008 - John 4,43-54 Tuesday: 4 March 2008 - John 5,1-16 Wednesday: 5 March 2008 - John 5,17-30 Thursday: 6 March 2008 - John 5,31-47 Friday: 7 March 2008 - John 7,1-2.10.25-30 Saturday: 8 March 2008 - John 7,40-53

Monday, February 4, 2008

A Pathway

MY SON TOO.........




A remarkable phone call from a 13-yr old boy to a Houston radio station

KSBJ FM 89.3.


So profound, the station has it posted on their website.

Click below to listen to it. It's short.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zCdZwitrNoY



over 6.3 million have watched it so far
See also how this was reported on CBN News – goto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0r_FbARIn8

you can also see the original video on GodTube at