Let's pray- "Father, thank You for blessing us and making us a blessing! Amen!"
My weekly advice from the book, "We All Married IDIOTS, by Elaine W. Miller:
"If your spouse wants to do something one way and you want to do it another, the winner is the one who concedes and lets their beloved have their way." (p. 34,35)
Prov. 17:22 "A joyful heart is good medicine, but depression drains one's strength."
#105 Testimony- Lawrence OJI [called 'Solution']
"One of my friends, Sunny, who knew me as a junkie noticed that he had seen me for two weeks without a cigarette or the usual company of drug addicts I was used to keeping before my encounter with Jesus, he invited me to lunch in his house. Prior to this time, the likes of Sunny wouldn't want to associate with me for fear of getting into trouble with the police.
Seeing the transformation in my life, he felt safe to extend an invitation. So we agreed to a date and time for my visit. On the appointed day, I arrived at his house, knocked on the door and he opened to let me in.
We were chatting while he prepared the food. I seized the opportunity to share my testimony. I told him how a guy I met in prison, Michael, prayed with me for less than twenty seconds in the name of Jesus and the urge to smoke left me.
When food was served, I noticed that he brought out a syringe with some medication to administer an injection to himself. Out of curiosity, I asked him why the self-injection? He said, 'I am suffering from diabetes. I am on a daily prescription of insulin.'
When I asked him for how long he was going to be using the insulin for, he said to me that there was no cure for diabetes and that he was going to be using the insulin for the rest of his life.
At that moment, I had a strong urge to tell him about Jesus and His healing power. It was as if the Holy Spirit said to me, 'You have been telling him what I did for you, now, I want you to tell him about me, and what I can equally do for him.'
The moment I heard this, I stopped eating the food and asked my friend if that was what the Word of God said concerning diabetes and sicknesses. I told Him it wasn't the will of God for us to be slaves to medication as Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law as written in the book of Galatians 3:13.
I began to minister to him with Scriptures on healing. As I kept speaking to him, he got up from his chair, went into his room, brought out all the syringes and insulin he had in the house and threw them in the trash bin.
Then he said to me 'Solution, do you know I have never heard it like this before? I believe that I have received my healing today and I will never need to use insulin for the rest of my life', he added. I prayed with him and led him to Christ there and then in his kitchen, lunch was forgotten.
As I write this book in 2016, my friend Sunny, who was told by the doctors that his days were numbered, is happily married with children, totally and completely free from diabetes. This is the same man that was told that he would not have children. Now to the glory of God, wherever I have gone to minister in Italy, he would bring his family to sit under my ministry. Such is the awesome power of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord is faithful. Indeed Jesus is still in the business of healing people."
1596-1600 One-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted-
1596- Ezra. 4:22a "Take heed now that ye fail not."
1597- Is. 19:12b "Let them tell thee now, and let them know that the LORD of
hosts hath purposed."
1598- Lam. 1:16a "For these things I weep."
1599- Ezekiel 12:25a 'For I am the LORD, I speak and the words that I shall speak
shall come to pass."
1600- Is. 37:30a "And this shall be a sign unto thee."
#112 Hymn- Safe in the Arms of Jesus
The information about this song is taken from the book by Robert J. Morgan, THEN SINGS MY SOUL (pg. 165)
Fanny Crosby, the blind hymnist and America's "Queen of Gospel Songs," quietly married Alexander Van Alsteine. A year late, the couple suffered a tragedy that shook the deepest regions of Fanny's heart. She gave birth to a child, but no one knows if it was a boy or girl. She never spoke about it except to say in her oral biography, "God gave us a tender babe, and soon the angels came down and took our infant up to God and His throne."
Years later, on April 30, 1868, musician Howard Doanne knocked on the door of Fanny's apartment in Manhattan. He had a tune and wondered if Fanny could compose a poem to match it. He hummed the tune, and Fanny clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Why that says, 'Safe in the arms of Jesus!' She composed the poem in her mind and dictated it to Doane.
During her lifetime, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" was among the most widely sung of Fanny's hymns, claiming it was written for the bereaved, especially for mothers who had lost children.
Rev. John Hall of New York's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church told Fanny that her hymn had given more peace and satisfaction to mothers who have lost their children than any other hymn. It isn't hard to understand why.
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