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[Title] => Life’s storm-tossed sea
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Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. — 1 Peter 5:7
Emilie, wife of 19th-century German pastor Christoph Blumhardt, envied his ability to pray for his parishioners and then effortlessly fall asleep. So one night she pleaded, “Tell me your secret!”
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[Title] => Unlimited power
[Summary] => [God] brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name. – Isaiah 40:26
"Why don’t the stars fall down?" A child may ask that question, but so does an astronomer. And they both get essentially the same answer: A mysterious power or energy upholds everything and prevents our cosmos from collapsing into chaos.
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[Title] => Make peace
[Summary] => God . . . has given us the ministry of reconciliation. – 2 Corinthians 5:18
It was a dramatic story of forgiveness. In December of 2000, on the battleship Missouri Memorial, a dozen American survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor embraced three of the Japanese pilots who had flown attacking planes. The reconciliation ceremony had been arranged by the American-Japan Friendship Committee.
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[Title] => Love that lifts
[Summary] => They called upon the Lord, and He answered them. – Psalm 99:6
When King David looked back on his life, he remembered some painful experiences. In Psalm 40, he recalled one especially severe difficulty, a time when he felt as if he had sunk deep into "the miry clay" (v. 2).
In his despair David kept pleading with God for deliverance, and graciously the Lord answered his desperate cries. Lifting him out of the "horrible pit", He set his feet on solid ground (v. 2). No wonder David broke out into this hymn of praise and gratitude!
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[Title] => How long?
[Summary] => As [Jesus] drew near, He saw the city and wept over it. – Luke 19:41
It took years before she finally said yes. A Welshman had fallen in love with one of his neighbors and wanted to marry her. But they had quarreled, and she refused to forgive. Shy and reluctant to face the offended woman, the persistent suitor slipped a love letter under her door every week.
At last, after 42 years, he summoned up courage, knocked on her door, and asked her to become his wife. To his delight, she consented. So they were married at the age of 74!
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[Title] => Pressuring God
[Summary] => O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done. – Matthew 26:42
Under General George Patton’s command in World War II, the Third Army had been driving back the Nazis until fog and rain forced the troops to stop. Patton telephoned a chaplain to ask, "Do you have a good prayer for weather?" Immediately the chaplain complied with the general’s request. He wrote a prayer, which Patton ordered to be printed and distributed to the 250,000 soldiers under his command, directing them to pray for clear weather.
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[Title] => Pressuring God
[Summary] => O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done. – Matthew 26:42
Under General George Patton’s command in World War II, the Third Army had been driving back the Nazis until fog and rain forced the troops to stop. Patton telephoned a chaplain to ask, "Do you have a good prayer for weather?" Immediately the chaplain complied with the general’s request. He wrote a prayer, which Patton ordered to be printed and distributed to the 250,000 soldiers under his command, directing them to pray for clear weather.
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[Title] => Debtors forever
[Summary] => Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. – Psalm 23:6
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[Title] => An eternal future
[Summary] => He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and . . . has passed from death into life. – John 5:24
Some countries are very old. Their history stretches far into the distant past. Others are fairly new to the world map. Yet, while all nations are destined to disappear, every human soul is destined to live eternally.
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[Title] => Heading home
[Summary] => We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. – 2 Corinthians 5:8
It is possible for us to anticipate death with the gladness of school children when a day’s classes are over. An unknown poet has written:
Someday the bell will sound,
Someday my heart will bound
As with a shout, that school is out,
And, lessons done, I homeward run.
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