Praises from PNG. My neighbor in this small fourplex knocked on my back, inside, door to share tonight. She had a copy of the Bible fresh from the printers in Korea. She has revised the entire New Testament and the book also contained Genesis, Ruth, Jonah, psalms, proverbs and several other small OT books. It was beautiful. They had done a diglot, with the English on the same page. lots of illustrations to help explain the text. I know that they spent the last month or so also recording much of the NT. God is good.
KarenO: You were a very literal answer to prayer this morning. Yesterday a local physician passed away from colon cancer at the age of 42, this affected my boss who asked me what my explanation of why God allows young fathers to die, leaving so many things undone. I wasn’t able to answer as another practitioner stuck her head in the door and then more patients arrived. All the usual things that try to prevent one from being a witness. Last night, my husband and I prayed that God would give me the words to speak to her today. This morning I get up and read your re-post of what Kyle Ambrose had said about the death of someone we know. WOW! God not only gave me the words, he literally GAVE me the words. Thank you for allowing God to use you by re-posting that quote.
Please pray for me as I talk to my boss about these words and that God will open her eyes and continue to give me the words and timing for His glory.
I am continuing to lift your whole family up in prayer as well.
For those not on Facebook, here is what Karen posted:
~~~When somebody that you know dies, you get slapped across the face with a reality that you usually try to avoid thinking about: “Someday it will happen to me!”
You are forced, unless you purposely ignore the voice in your head, to ask yourself, “Am I ready?” I would guess that nobody can be totally ready until just before that moment comes, but there are some things that you can do to prepare.
Among those things are maintaining a clear conscience before other people, telling people “I love you” before you lose the chance to do so, and accomplishing the thing that you were born to do before you run out of time.
I am very thankful that many of the friends and family that I have lost were as ready as they could be, according to the above criteria. But there is something else.
When somebody dies, especially a Christian person, it is probably good to consider the claims of Jesus that he is the only means by which we can come to God and that his death is the only thing that can procure forgiveness for our sins.
Maybe you have considered those claims before and have rejected them. If so, you can always revisit them.
I myself have found those claims to be true and dependable, and I have staked the eternal destiny of my soul on my belief that they are true. And believe me, it’s not because I’m a good person; it’s the exact opposite. It is because I am not a good person that I need to rely on Jesus and his blood.~~~
I would suppose that some would think God is quite cruel to take someone from us to remind others that death is inevitable and could happen at anytime. It is one of the good things to come out of the death of a young person.
The bible tells us that God sometimes takes the young to spare them from pain. This may be physical, spiritual or emotional. I have seen this to be true.
The reality is that we must get to the point of knowing the Lord well enough to be able to see He is good. It is like the child who knows his parent well enough to trust him or her to do the best for the child. Humans are not all-knowing or all-powerful and will make mistakes. God is both and will never make a mistake.
BTW, this is precisely what the serpent used to tempt Eve to doubt. She decided to believe the serpent rather than God. She decided God did not love her and want the ultimate good for her. She took things in her own hand, so to speak, and ate. Too often we do the same and it always brings pain.
Kare – Praise God! Whenever I post something like that, I ask God to use it to touch someone “out there”. 🙂 I’ll tell Kyle what you said, & I’m sure he will be pleased that his words are being used of God.
I hope my own words, which I wrote as a comment on Kyle’s post, & then used as my own post, also reach someone for Jesus.
Compared to recent requests, mine is petty and self-centered. I love the company where I am working now. I feel like I am working for really good people. Since starting my job description has changed considerably and now so will my title. Part of my duties had been to semi-recruit and set people up to meet with the president of the company for him to decide if they were a good fit and if we wanted them. If they came to our company I would receive a $500 bonus. He would make the offer and I would on board them. I helped to introduce him to a woman I know who is terrific lady who had been career coaching me. She is now the VP of Career Development and is the recruiter/career coach. I adore the lady and am thrilled we have her, but I am getting the feeling I am about to be shafted out of the bonuses. I was very clear with them when they hired me on what my strengths and weaknesses were. I am OK with the changes so far. I hate feeling this way.
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Praises from PNG. My neighbor in this small fourplex knocked on my back, inside, door to share tonight. She had a copy of the Bible fresh from the printers in Korea. She has revised the entire New Testament and the book also contained Genesis, Ruth, Jonah, psalms, proverbs and several other small OT books. It was beautiful. They had done a diglot, with the English on the same page. lots of illustrations to help explain the text. I know that they spent the last month or so also recording much of the NT. God is good.
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KarenO: You were a very literal answer to prayer this morning. Yesterday a local physician passed away from colon cancer at the age of 42, this affected my boss who asked me what my explanation of why God allows young fathers to die, leaving so many things undone. I wasn’t able to answer as another practitioner stuck her head in the door and then more patients arrived. All the usual things that try to prevent one from being a witness. Last night, my husband and I prayed that God would give me the words to speak to her today. This morning I get up and read your re-post of what Kyle Ambrose had said about the death of someone we know. WOW! God not only gave me the words, he literally GAVE me the words. Thank you for allowing God to use you by re-posting that quote.
Please pray for me as I talk to my boss about these words and that God will open her eyes and continue to give me the words and timing for His glory.
I am continuing to lift your whole family up in prayer as well.
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For those not on Facebook, here is what Karen posted:
~~~When somebody that you know dies, you get slapped across the face with a reality that you usually try to avoid thinking about: “Someday it will happen to me!”
You are forced, unless you purposely ignore the voice in your head, to ask yourself, “Am I ready?” I would guess that nobody can be totally ready until just before that moment comes, but there are some things that you can do to prepare.
Among those things are maintaining a clear conscience before other people, telling people “I love you” before you lose the chance to do so, and accomplishing the thing that you were born to do before you run out of time.
I am very thankful that many of the friends and family that I have lost were as ready as they could be, according to the above criteria. But there is something else.
When somebody dies, especially a Christian person, it is probably good to consider the claims of Jesus that he is the only means by which we can come to God and that his death is the only thing that can procure forgiveness for our sins.
Maybe you have considered those claims before and have rejected them. If so, you can always revisit them.
I myself have found those claims to be true and dependable, and I have staked the eternal destiny of my soul on my belief that they are true. And believe me, it’s not because I’m a good person; it’s the exact opposite. It is because I am not a good person that I need to rely on Jesus and his blood.~~~
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I would suppose that some would think God is quite cruel to take someone from us to remind others that death is inevitable and could happen at anytime. It is one of the good things to come out of the death of a young person.
The bible tells us that God sometimes takes the young to spare them from pain. This may be physical, spiritual or emotional. I have seen this to be true.
The reality is that we must get to the point of knowing the Lord well enough to be able to see He is good. It is like the child who knows his parent well enough to trust him or her to do the best for the child. Humans are not all-knowing or all-powerful and will make mistakes. God is both and will never make a mistake.
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BTW, this is precisely what the serpent used to tempt Eve to doubt. She decided to believe the serpent rather than God. She decided God did not love her and want the ultimate good for her. She took things in her own hand, so to speak, and ate. Too often we do the same and it always brings pain.
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Kare – Praise God! Whenever I post something like that, I ask God to use it to touch someone “out there”. 🙂 I’ll tell Kyle what you said, & I’m sure he will be pleased that his words are being used of God.
I hope my own words, which I wrote as a comment on Kyle’s post, & then used as my own post, also reach someone for Jesus.
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Compared to recent requests, mine is petty and self-centered. I love the company where I am working now. I feel like I am working for really good people. Since starting my job description has changed considerably and now so will my title. Part of my duties had been to semi-recruit and set people up to meet with the president of the company for him to decide if they were a good fit and if we wanted them. If they came to our company I would receive a $500 bonus. He would make the offer and I would on board them. I helped to introduce him to a woman I know who is terrific lady who had been career coaching me. She is now the VP of Career Development and is the recruiter/career coach. I adore the lady and am thrilled we have her, but I am getting the feeling I am about to be shafted out of the bonuses. I was very clear with them when they hired me on what my strengths and weaknesses were. I am OK with the changes so far. I hate feeling this way.
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Praying with you, Kim.
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Praying, Kim. {{{Hugs}}}
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Amen..praying with you Kim…
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