Monday, October 25, 2010

What God Can Do


Photo-art credit goes to a friend who sees nature
as God's second book...all to His credit.

Here is a courage booster, and just a prayer away...

"When God was ready to judge the world with a flood, He came to Noah. When He desired to build a nation for Himself, He turned to Abraham. When He heard His children groaning under Egyptian bondage, He appeared in a burning bush to Moses. They were three of the most ordinary of men. But God had work to do, and He knew just who to do it with. God has always given His people assignments that are too big for them to handle alone, so that a watching world can see - not what we can do - but what God can do." - Henry Blackaby
On reading Henry Blackaby's quote, a friend was reminded of

JESUS: Old News is Good News
Jesus is the Word of God, older than dirt.
Jesus loves you, a truth also older than dirt,
yet new as the warmth of this moment's sunshine.
Out of dirt, created by Him, a tree grew
strong enough to hold Him
crucified.
That is old news.
The good news—
He was taken from that tree
and given back to the earth;
the earth did not consume Him;
and after a very short while
could hold Him no more.

He is Life.

Jesus, the boy, prayed.
Jesus, the man, prayed.
But not to just anyone (or thing).
Jesus prayed to His Father in Heaven without ceasing.
He wanted to be delivered from the fate awaiting Him,
but more than that He wanted to do His Father's will.
Through prayer we may learn the Father's will...
and draw on Courage of courage...
Jesus lives in His own to do the Father's will.

Psalm 40:6-8 (KJV)

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;

mine ears hast thou opened:

burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Then said I, Lo, I come:

in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I delight to do thy will, O my God:

yea, thy law is within my heart.



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