“NOTHING VENTURED, NOTHING GAINED.” – Old Proverb

EYES

“‘WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT OUR EYES ARE ON YOU.'” – Second Chronicles 20:12 

Footsteps

“LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR, FOR IN SO DOING YOU ARE FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHRIST.'” – C. H Spurgeon

Listening!

“The Prime Minister said …”

“The Minister of Finance said …”

“The Minister for Primary Industries said …”

When we are reading that in the paper we are listening.

And does it not sound quite impressive when we are hearing that over the radio? (We don’t have TV.)

But are we also listening when we are reading the following in the Bible?

In Isaiah 1:2 it says that the LORD has spoken. Please get yourself a Bible and read what he has spoken. In Isaiah 1:18 we read again that the LORD says something.

The Bible is full of what the LORD says.

I really like what it says in Isaiah 30:15: (This is also a SERMON OUTLINE.)

THE CROSS

“THIS IS

Intr.:

what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel says:

1.  ‘In repentance and rest is your salvation,

2.  in quietness and trust is your strength,

End:

but you would have none of it.'”

And this is what the LORD also says:

In Jeremiah 17:5 we read,

“This is what the LORD says: ‘Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.'”

(Please find a Bible and keep on reading!)

I am listening. Are you also listening?

In his book ABSOLUTE POWER the author Ian Wishart is quoting the English jurist Lord Acton who said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

Today I attended a candidate meeting at Far North REAP on Puckey Ave, Kaitaia, at 1.30pm.