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I prayed for riches and achieved success,
All that I touched turned into gold. Alas!
My cares were greater, and my peace was less
When that wish came to pass.
I prayed for glory; and heard my name
Sung by sweet children and by hoary men.
But ah! the hurts, the hurts that came with fame!
I was not happy then.
I prayed for love, and had my soul's desire,
Through quivering heart and body and through brain
There swept the flame of its devouring fire;
And there the scars remain.
I prayed for a contented mind. At length
Great light upon my darkened spirit burst,
Great peace fell on me, also, and great strength.
Oh! had that prayer been first!
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ""Answered Prayers""
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine,
the beauty in heaven?
The roses in the garden.
eternal living.
Roads paved of gold,
the sweet story of old,
Angels with wings and halos.
sweet songs the sparrow sings,
More beautiful than our dreams,
All is forgiven.
How wonderful it must be,
Only the heart can see,
where the lamb and the lion sleep,
Wipe the tears from your cheek,
and imagine.
the beauty of heaven.
My fate is sealed by grace
Jesus (8–2 BC/BCE to 29–36 AD/CE
April 7, 30 AD/CE or April 3, 33 AD/CE.[12]
The time and the date,
Sealed my fate.
YHWH
I now have salvation.
Such a sweet story of grace.
A promise that someday,
I'll see God's face.
Does it matter the time or the place?
My fate is sealed by grace.
What is a moment in time to God?
Infinite ,and eternal,
All creation.
all things that exist,
The universe is His,
What words can explain?
His eternal flame?
Far beyond the stars I see God gaze,
My dreams are ,
of walking though golden gates.
My fate is sealed by grace.
On a rose path that angels have trod,
Through this worldly maze,
I see though the haze,
of a heavenly place.
In my heart,
I feel God's embrace.
Sweet eternal waters,
I thirst to taste.
Someday,
I'll see God's face.
My fate is sealed by grace.
Judy Arline Puckett
Somewhere beyond the gates
Someday I'll stand at the gates of heaven,
Where a rose path leads,
that I follow while I'm living,
A rose was given.
And now waits,
Somewhere in heaven.
beyond the gates.
There is a garden.
Where all can find pardon,
Where all can be forgiven.
Healing all heartaches.
Somewhere in heaven,
beyond the gates.
I am walking the path,
that angels have trod,
Until at last I see the face of God,
To be His servant while I am living,
To hold the rose,
that He has given.
I know that He patiently waits,
Somewhere beyond the gates.
Judy Arline Puckett
A beautiful prayer that was sent to me
Dear Lord, I thank You for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me. Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you. I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.
Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things.
Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over. Let me continue to see sin through God's eyes and acknowledge it as evil. And when I sin, let me repent, and confess with my mouth my wrongdoing, and receive the forgiveness of God.
And when this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus' example -- to slip away and find a quiet place to pray. It's the best response when I'm pushed beyond my limits. I know that when I can't pray, You listen to my heart. Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong that I may help the weak. Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others. I pray for those who are lost and can't find their way. I pray for those who are misjudged and misunderstood. I pray for those who don't know You intimately. I pray for those who will delete this without sharing it with others. I pray for those who don't believe. But I thank you that I believe.
I believe that God changes people and God changes things. I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their households. I pray for peace, love and joy in their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs are met.
I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God. Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight. I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees them and every mouth that confesses them willingly.
This is my prayer.
In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Just repeat this phrase and see how God moves!! Lord I love you and I need you, come into my heart, please.
Happiness keeps You Sweet,
Trials keep You Strong,
Sorrows keep You Human,
Failures keep You Humble,
Success keeps You Glowing,
But Only God keeps You Going!
Look at the image above.
Lean in toward your monitor.
Stare only at the four dots in the middle of the image for a full ten seconds.
Then close your eyes and tilt your head back.
What did you see
This photo is a very rare one, taken by NASA.
This kind of event occurs once in 3000 years.
This photo has done miracles in many lives.
Surely you will see the changes in your life
within a day.
Whether you believe it or not
God bless you.
Make a wish ... you have looked at the eye of God.
Myspace Quotes
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time,” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity. What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered... “That they get bored with childhood. They rush to grow up and then long to be children again.
“That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.
“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.
"That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they had never lived.”
"I don't question YOUR existence."
—God
Humor and Thoughts
An Apocalyptic One-Liner
Every time someone predicts the date of the end of the world, God pushes the date back a little just to be funny
An Ideal Marriage
Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked.
Bible's Financial Wizard
Q. Who was the Bible's first financial wizard?
A. Noah. He floated his stock when the rest of the world was in liquidation.
Man Talks to God
Man says to God: "God, why did you make woman so beautiful?" God says: "So you would love her."
"But God," the man says, "why did you make her so dumb?"
God says: "So she would love you."
Two Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people. Those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Lord," and those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it's morning."
Jokes
CHILDREN AND THE CHURCH
A little boy was attending his first wedding.
After the service, his cousin asked him, "How many women can a man marry?" "Sixteen," the boy responded.
His cousin was amazed that he had an answer so quickly.
"How do you know that?"
"Easy," the little boy said. "All you have to do is add it up,
like the pastor said,
4 better,4 worse, 4 richer, 4 poorer."
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After a church service on Sunday morning,
a young boy suddenly announced to his mother,
"Mom, I've decided to become a minister when I grow up."
"That's okay with us, but what made you decide that?"
"Well," said the little boy,
"I have to go to church on Sunday anyway,
and I figure it will be more fun to stand up and yell,
than to sit and listen."
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A 6-year-old was overheard reciting the Lord's Prayer at a church service,
"And forgive us our trash passes,
as we forgive those who passed trash against us."
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A boy was watching his father, a pastor, write a sermon.
"How do you know what to say?" he asked.
"Why, God tells me."
"Oh, then why do you keep crossing things out?"
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A little girl became restless as the preacher's sermon dragged on and on.
Finally, she leaned over to her mother and whispered,
"Mommy , if we give him the money now,will he let us go?"
Ms.Terri asked her Sunday School class to draw pictures of their favorite Bible stories.
She was puzzled by Kyle's picture,
which showed four people on an airplane,
so she asked him which story it was meant to represent.
"The Flight to Egypt ," was his reply.
Pointing at each figure, Ms. Terri said,
"That must be Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus.
But who's the fourth person?"
"Oh, that's Pontius - the pilot!"
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The Sunday School Teacher asks, "Now, Johnny, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?"
"No sir," little Johnny replies, I don't have to. My mom is a good cook."
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A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story.
From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek.
She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again.
Finally she spoke up,
"Grandpa, did God make you?"
"Yes, sweetheart," he answered, "God made me a long time ago."
"Oh," she paused,
"Grandpa, did God make me too?"
"Yes, indeed, honey," he said,
"God made you just a little while ago."
Feeling their respective faces again, she observed,
"God's getting better at it, isn't he?"
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when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet
in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer.
He asked her what she was doing.
The little girl explained:
"I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words,
so I'm just saying all the letters,
and God will put them together for me,
because He knows what I'm thinking."
Charles B. Vaughan
Atheist
A young lady came home from a date, rather sad.
She told her mother, "Anthony proposed to me an hour ago."
"Then why are you so sad?" her mother asked.
"Because he also told me he is an atheist. Mom, he doesn't even believe there's a Hell."
Her mother replied, "Marry him anyway. Between the two of us, we'll show him how wrong he is."
Animals as Christian Symbols
According to legend, the robin redbreast received its color by: Removing the bloody thorns from Christ’s head
The evangelist not represented by an animal in Christian iconography is Matthew
Which meaning would not apply to images of sheep found in churches?
The Wool-Bearing Disciple
The true meanins that do apply are
Lamb of God
The Good Shepherd
The Passover Lamb
The pelican is a symbol of sacrifice because: It was believed to tear out its heart to feed its young.
What did the earliest Christians use to identify themselves as believers?A fish sign
Which animal would not appear in a typical manger scene? Chick Which animal was believed to be born dead and have life breathed into it after three days?Lion
The nightingale was believed to die: Only during the ninth hour of the day (3 p.m.), as Christ did
Legend said that the only animal Satan could not possess was the: Lamb
. Which bird represents rebirth from the ashes?Phoenix
Peacocks are symbols of Christ's death and resurrection because:Their flesh was thought to be incorruptible andWhen they lost a feather, a more beautiful feather grew back in its place
1. The garden of Eden was in Iraq.
2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq , was the cradle of civilization!
3. Noah built the ark in Iraq.
4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq.
5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq!
6. Isaac's wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq!
7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq.
8. Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq.
9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel.
10. Amos cried out in Iraq!
11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem. 12. Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq !
13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq (Jesus had been in Iraq also as the fourth person in the fiery furnace!)
14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on the wall" in Iraq .
15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq .
16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq.
17. The wise men were from Iraq.
18. Peter preached in Iraq.
19. The "Empire of Man" described in Revelation is called Babylon , which was a city in Iraq!
And you have probably seen this one. Israel is the nation most often mentioned in the Bible. But do you know which nation is second? It is Iraq! However, that is not the name that is used in the Bible. The names used in the Bible are Babylon, Land of Shinar , and Mesopotamia. The word Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers . The name Iraq, means country with deep roots.
Indeed Iraq is a country with deep roots and is a very significant country in the Bible.
No other nation, except Israel, has more history and prophecy associated it than Iraq.
And also... This is something to think about! Since America is typically represented by an eagle. Saddam should have read up on his Muslim passages...
The following verse is from the Koran, (the Islamic Bible)
Koran (9:11) - For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.
(Note the verse number!) Hmmmmmmm?! God Bless you all Amen !
I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.
And God said ... No!
I asked God to take away my pride. And God said "No." He said it was not for Him to take away, but for me to give it up.
I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. And God said "No." He said her spirit was whole, her body was only temporary.
I asked God to grant me patience. And God said "No." He said patience is a by-product of tribulations. It isn't granted, it is earned.
I asked God to give me happiness. And God said "No." He said He gives me blessings -- happiness is up to me.
I asked God to spare me pain. And God said "No." He said suffering separates you from world and draws you closer to Me.
I asked God to make my spirit grow. And God said "No." He said I must grow on my own. But He will prune me to make me fruitful.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. And God said "No." He said I will give you life, that you may enjoy all things.
I asked God to help me LOVE others, as much as HE loves me. And God said . . . Ah, finally -- NOW you have the right idea!
Footprints
When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life.
This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it. "LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me.
The LORD replied, "My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."
~Mary Stevenson Parker~
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The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
The Story of the starfish
A man was walking down the beach at sunset. As, he walked along, he saw another man in the distance. He noticed this man kept leaning down, picking up something and throwing it out into the water, again and again. As, he approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach. He was throwing them back into the water, one by one.
Puzzled, he approached the man and said, "Good Evening. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If, I don't throw them back into the ocean, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"But, there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possible get to all of them. And, don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The man bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and threw it back into the ocean. With a smile he replied, "Made a difference to that one !!!"
Why do Women Cry?
A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him.
"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."
Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"
"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.
The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.
Finally he asked God. He said, "God, why do women cry so easily?"
God said:
" When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort.
I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.
I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.
And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."
"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."
The Missing Day...
For all the scientists out there, and for all the students who have hard time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible, here's something that shows God's awesome creation, and that He is still in control.
Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called "myth" in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development.
"I think one of the most amazing things that God has done for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at GreenBelt, Maryland. They were checking out where the positions of the sun, moon, and planets would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now." -We have to know this so we won't send up a satellite and have it bump into something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down...
They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries,and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was either something wrong with the information fed into it, or with the results as compared to the standards.
They called in the service department to check it out, and they said, 'What's wrong?"
"Well, they found there is a day missing in space in lapsed time."
They scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer.
Finally, a Christian man on the team said, 'You know, one time I was in Sunday School, and they talked about the sun standing still.' ---(While they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said), 'Show us.' ---
He got a Bible and went to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense.' There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, 'Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.' Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy, and if darkness fell, they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right... 'The sun stood still and the moon stayed and lasted not to go down about a whole day!' (Joshua 10:12-13).
The astronauts and scientists said, 'There is the missing day!' They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes . Not a whole day.
They read the Bible, and there it was- 'about (approximately) a day.' -These little words in the Bible are important, but the scientists were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes, you'll still be in trouble 1,000 years from now...
Those forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits.
As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but they got out the "Book" and read these words in 2 Kings that told of the following story:
"Hezekiah, on his death bed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die.Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said 'Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?' Hezekiah said, 'It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees.' Isaiah spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD!"
Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!"
Isn't it amazing?
References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11.
Good Natured Bible Jokes
Q. What kind of man was Boaz before he married?
A. Ruth-less.
Q. What do they call pastors in Germany?
A. German Shepherds.
Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?
A. Noah. He was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation.
Q. What was the greatest female financier in the Bible?
A. Pharaoh's daughter. She went down to the bank of the Nile and drew out a little prophet.
Q. What kind of motor vehicles are in the Bible? A. Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden in a Fury. David's Triumph was heard throughout the land. Honda, because the apostles were all in one Accord.
Q. Who was the greatest comedian in the Bible?
A. Samson. He brought the house down.
Q. What excuse did Adam give to his children as to why he no longer lived in Eden?
A. Your mother ate us out of house and home.
Q. Which servant of God was the most flagrant lawbreaker in the Bible?
A. Moses. He broke all 10 commandments at once.
Q. Which area of Palestine was especially wealthy?
A. The area around Jordan. The banks were always overflowing.
Q. Who is the greatest baby sitter mentioned in the Bible?
A. David. He rocked Goliath to a very deep sleep.
Q. Which Bible character had no parents?
A. Joshua, son of Nun.
What's the moral of the story about Jonah and the whale ?
You can't keep a good man down !
Who designed Noah's ark?
An ark-itect !
What kind of lighting did Noah use for the ark ?
Floodlights !
Not necessarily theologically correct - but then again
Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly, God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, "THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job."
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away. They moused. They faxed. They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments. They downloaded. They did spreadsheets!! They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards. They created charts and graphs. They did some genealogy reports
They did every job known to man. Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed.
Finally the electricity came back on and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming:
"It's gone! It's all GONE! "I lost everything when the power went out!"
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work. Satan observed this and became irate. "Wait!" he screamed. "That's not fair! He cheated!
How come he has all His work and I don't have any?"
God just shrugged and said, "Jesus saves" .
I saw a documentary today titled Jesus'.
in this documentary I was touched deeply spiritually ,
The pathologist explained from Jesus' shroud,
all that He endured,
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