Monday, October 22, 2012

Shoe Size Tell Your Age

Your shoe size can tell you your age.....try this and see....

1. Take your shoe size.

2. Multiply it by 5.

3. Add 50.

4. Multiply by 20.

5. Add 1012.

6. Subtract the year you were born.

The first digit is your shoe size, while the last 2 digits are your age.

SURPRISED?? ME TOO.....

All For Good

An old story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, "This Too is for Good!"

One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off. Examining the situation the friend remarked as usual, "This Too is for Good!". To which the king replied, "No, this is NOT good!" and proceeded to send his friend to jail.

About a year later, the king was hunting in an area that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some wood, set up a stake and bound him to the stake.

As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone that was less than whole. So untying the king, they sent him on his way. As he returned home, he was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his friend.

"You were right," he said, "it was good that my thumb was blown off." And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened. "And, so I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this." "No," his friend replied, "This Too is for Good!" "What do you mean, 'This is good'? How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?" "If I had NOT been in jail, I would have been with you."

This is  asking you to try this approach to life. It changes your entire perspective on things. Remember the book of Romans:8:28: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

God’s Order


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-the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;

-those of the canary in 14 days;

-those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;

-The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;

-those of the mallard in 35 days;

-the eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.


(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!)


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God’s wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant. The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a huge body, too large to live on two legs. For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily.


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The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!


God’s wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains.


-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.
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-Each orange has an even number of segments.


-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.the family


-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.


-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.


-The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all Kinds of weather.

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All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord Specified thirty fold, sixty fold and a hundredfold – all even numbers.



God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day, so that Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!

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Thus the Lord in His wonderful grace can arrange the life that is Entrusted to His care in such a way that it will carry out His purposes and plans, and will be fragrant with His presence.


The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure.


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Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end.


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Only the God-planned safe life is successful.

Only the life given over to the care of the Lord is fulfilled.

Friday, October 19, 2012

The Storm

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A pastor had been on a long flight between church conferences..

 
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The first warning of the approaching problems came when the sign on the airplane flashed on:
Fasten Your Seat-Belts.
Then, after a while, a calm voice said, "We shall not be serving the beverages at this time as we are expecting a little turbulence.

Please be sure your seat belt is fastened."


As the pastor looked around the aircraft, it became obvious that many of the passengers were becoming apprehensive.
Later, the voice on the intercom said, "We are so sorry that we are unable to serve the meal at this time. The turbulence is still ahead of us."


And then the storm broke .

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The ominous cracks of thunder could be heard even above the roar of the engines. Lightning lit up the darkening skies, and within moments that great plane was like a cork tossed around on a celestial ocean. One moment the airplane was lifted on terrific currents of air; the next, it dropped as if it were about to crash.


The pastor confessed that he shared the discomfort and fear of those around him.
He said, "As I looked around the plane, I could see that nearly all the passengers

were upset and alarmed. Some were praying. The future seemed ominous and many were wondering if they would make it through the storm.


"Then, I suddenly saw a little girl. Apparently the storm meant nothing to her..
She had tucked her feet beneath her as she sat on her seat; she was

reading a book and everything within her small world was calm and orderly.


"Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would read again;

then she would straighten her legs, but worry and fear were not in her world.


When the plane was being buffeted by the terrible storm when it lurched this

way and that, as it rose and fell with frightening severity, when all the adults

were scared half to death, that marvelous child was completely composed and unafraid."
The minister could hardly believe his eyes.


It was not surprising therefore, that when the plane finally reached its
destination and all the passengers were hurrying to disembark, our pastor

lingered to speak to the girl whom he had watched for such a long time..

Having commented about the storm and the behavior of the plane,

he asked why she had not been afraid.
The child replied,
"Cause my Daddy's the pilot, and he's taking me home."



There are many kinds of storms that buffet us. Physical, mental, financial, domestic, and many other storms can easily and quickly darken our skies and throw our plane into apparently uncontrollable movement. We have all known such times, and let us be honest and confess, it is much easier to be at rest when our feet are on the ground than when we are being tossed about a darkened sky.

Let us remember: Our Father is the Pilot.

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He is in control and taking us home.
Don't worry!