“Der Mensch faengt immer gross an und endigt – erbaermlich. Gott faengt verborgen und niedrig an, und am Ende stehen Glorie und Herrlichkeit.” – W. Busch
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To win a copy of Quiet Power, tell us what you like to do in your quiet moments.
Some time before reading the above Isaiah 30:15 came to my mind in a special way and that it fits actually every situation. In Isaiah 30:15 it says:
“…,in quietness … is your strength, …”
I am still learning that I need more “quiet moments”, especially when I am with people.
In my quiet moments I am doing nothing, I am just quiet.
TOO LATE
Here somewhere in the north of New Zealand is a big sign on the roadside with a MESSAGE I really like.
On our last trip from Kerikeri to Kaitaia I decided to take a picture of the sign. The sign is on the road between Kaeo and the turnoff to Whangaroa on the right side of the road. Looking for it and not finding it was a great disappointment.
KAEO: The sign was a bit north from Kaeo and I hope it will be replaced
Friends, who live in that area confirmed that the sign is gone. They would have taken a picture for me.
For everybody it is now too late to take a picture of that particular sign.
The MESSAGE on the sign read:
“CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS”. (From memory.)
But it is still not too late to believe what is written on the sign.
Golden Nugget
Roggenbrot
“‘The time is surely coming,’ says the Sovereign LORD, ‘when I will send a famine on the land – not a famine of bread and water, but of hearing the word of the LORD.'” – Amos 8:11
The Bible
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“Faith and works should travel side-by-side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again – until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.” – William Booth
“People Reaching People”
KAITAIA: Postshop
“People reaching people,” was written on the plastic shopping bag from the post shop I saw yesterday on our kitchen table.
There are many reasons why people are reaching people.
What is now the most important reason?
People reaching people with the GOSPEL is the most important reason.
There are 4 GOSPELS in our Bible and in all 4 we find THE GREAT COMMISSION:
Matthew 28:16-20; Mark 16:14-18; Luke 24:44-49; John 20:19-23.
Notice also that we find THE GREAT COMMISSION at the end of the GOSPELS.
And what does it say in Acts 1:8?
“‘But you will receive power when the HOLY SPIRIT comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in JERUSALEM and in all JUDEA and SAMARIA and to the END OF THE EARTH.'”
The Missionary Society WEC International says, “reaching people, planting churches, mobilising mission.” It says also: “Spreading the GOSPEL where it is thinnest”.
“People reaching people.”
Is the Lord calling you to a place where the GOSPEL is thinnest, or where there are people who are so far unreached?
THAILAND: Bantak, where I worked as a missionary
Picture / Rachel Flintoff
WHAT DO I SEE?
What do I see?
In John 6 the Lord Jesus Christ fed the 5,000.
Roggenbrot
A. Philip saw the cash – there was not enough.
B. Andrew saw the crowd – there were too many people.
C. The boy saw the Lord Jesus Christ – he was sufficient.
What do you see? I hope you don’t mind me asking that question.
Weighing Ourselves
The Bible
“It is well frequently to weigh ourselves on the scales of God’s Word.” – C. H. Spurgeon