KAITAIA & DISTRICTS AGRICULTURE  & PASTORAL ASSOCIATION

Incorporated 1889

121st Annual Show held at A & P Showgrounds KAITAIA

I was sitting on the bench in front of the Warehouse and said to the Maori lady standing near the shopping trolleys near by, “The rain is coming from the wrong direction and I am even getting wet today on this bench.” Then I asked her, ” Have you ever noticed the cone on top of the Norfolk pine over there?” She had not and we got talking about the mischief some young people are getting up to. “I have just read the paper,” I continued the conversation. “There is a lot of talk about TRUST in the newspaper before election and today……” And then her cell phone rang and she had to attend to that.

I remained seated, drinking from my water bottle until her phone call was finished. I continued our interrupted conversation by saying, ” Trust in leadership seems to be more important to people than anything else. And so it should be. (Do your trust your dentist? Do you trust your Doctor?) BUT I AM GLAD THAT I AM TRUSTING IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! (John 14:1) He is my personal Saviour and I am reading the Bible.” So far as I remember she is not going to Church, but she is reading the King James Bible. She said also, that she believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, but most people don’t.

She asked me, ” Do you believe in the Trinity?” “Yes,” was my reply, ” we don’t find the word Trinity as such in the Bible and nobody can explain the Trinity satisfactorily, but we find the Trinity definitely in the Word of God.”

We said good bye by giving praise to the Lord Jesus Christ!

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THE LIBRARIES: FOR THOSE WHO LOVE BOOKS!

Procter Library in Kerikeri – Northland / New Zealand

Skateboarders are pictured on a poster in the Kaitaia Public Library and under the picture is written:

“READING IS NOT A CRIME.”

Just now I printed a good number of leaflets on good quality paper to give to people. Will put them in a special bag and take them with me from now on. [In German (WEIHNACHTEN IM SEPTEMBER) and English (AT THE END OF THE DAY)]

I spoke today to a couple from Germany and to a Maori lady recently back from Australia, but again without literature.

All were Catholics.

The Catholic Church teaches: “No one can know if he will attain to eternal life.”

The Bible teaches: “The believer can know that he has eternal life by the Word of God” (First John 5:13)

DO YOU KNOW, THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?

“My own way” I saw written today on a campervan. “My own Way?”

What does the Bible say about my own way?

Isaiah 53:6 “.., each of us turned to his own way;…”

Acts 14:16 “In the past, he let all nations go their own way.”

In Matthew 12:38,39 the Pharisees and the Teachers of the law want to see a miraculous sign from the Lord. But read the answer of the Lord.

In Matthew 16:1,4 the Pharisees and Sadducees come to the Lord to test him. They want to see a sign from heaven. But read the answer of the Lord.

In Matthew 24:3 (Matthew 24:30) the disciples asking the Lord, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” Read what the Lord as answering!

Have you ever been sorrowful? Have you ever been troubled? Have you ever been overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death? Have you ever had a challenge you did not want to face?

Our Lord and Saviour was in a situation like that, when he said, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Matthew 26:26-39. The Lord asked three of his disciples to watch with him – but he found them sleeping – three times. Read Matthew 26:36-46

Proverbs 14:10 says,” Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy.”

Bitterness, sorrow, trouble — and you have to go it alone — but not without the Lord. Only the other day I read, “A True Friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” The Lord Jesus Christ is a True Friend! He will be also with us, when we go through the valley of death according to his promise in Matthew 28:20, “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

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YOU NEVER GET A SECOND CHANCE TO MAKE A FIRST IMPRESSION.