Waiting

Hebrews 6:1 reads: “Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.”

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The Little Old Lady

There was a little old lady, who every morning. Stepped onto her front porch, raised her arms to the sky, and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD!"

One day an atheist moved into the house next door.

He became irritated at the little old lady. Every morning he would step onto his front porch after her and yell: "THERE IS NO LORD!"

Time passed with the two of them carrying on this way every day. Then one morning, in the middle of winter, the little old lady stepped onto her front porch and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD! Please Lord, I have no food and I am starving, provide for me, oh Lord!

The next morning she stepped onto her porch and there were two huge bags of groceries sitting there.

"Praise the Lord!" she cried out. "He has provided groceries for me!”

The atheist neighbor jumped out of the hedges and shouted: “There is no Lord -- I bought those groceries!!"

The little old lady threw her arms into the air and shouted: “Praise The Lord -- He has provided me with groceries and made the devil pay for them!”

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Growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus gives us the ability to see Him working even while we are waiting for His answer

Don’t give up -- SHOW WAITING VIDEO – from YouTube

(available upon request)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc5qgPgzQ-0

Growing in grace isn’t a matter of your becoming bigger and stronger, growing in grace is getting yourself out of the way to allow Christ to live through you.

While we learn to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ,

I think some of us get discouraged when God doesn’t meet our deadlines or we see big stuff happening that we pray for.

And one of two things happens – either we just give up on the miracle.

We get discouraged and we stop believing, we stop praying, and we stop hoping…

Or we strike out --- so we stop getting into the batter’s box.

We reason to ourselves that if we don’t swing we can’t miss.

But the problem with that is this: you can’t get a hit either!

Please don’t give up praying. I’m still praying for some of you…for over a year!

---------------------------------- Personal Examples:

I’m still praying for Beth Mitchell’s arm and shoulder to be healed and the pain to go away. I’ve been praying for her since 10-17-07

I’m still praying for Beth’s mother, Nancy Hogan, who has breast cancer. I’ve praying for it to be evaporated from her body. I’ve been praying for her since 04-06-08

I’m still praying for Lorrie and Phillips ex son in law to be healed physically and spiritually. I’ve been praying for him since 04-23-07

I’m still praying for Lucas Cunningham (Jo Cunningham’s son) to regain vision in his eye. I’ve been praying for him since 04-23-07

I’m still praying for others of you who have come to me and asked to pray for you for things I won’t mention. I’m not giving up.