A note from my wife's journal

[Chuck7]

My wife's keeps a journal and I thought what she wrote today was worth sharing on here..

John 20:21Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." 22And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."

Forgive ..to give up resentment against, or the desire to punish; to stop being angry with , pardon .to overlook.

Lyn Borden

[m.t.hands]

thats a great one, and one i have struggled with many times, another for me is "praying for enimies" and people i dislike, but just like eveything else, when you put in in the "right hands" it all works out,but better than expected

[MichaelT.]

Good words Chuck ..... Have you ever listened to Adrian Rogers... He is a preacher I have bought a few cassettes of some of his sermons..... He has one that is especially meaningful... It is called " a root of bitterness " ...... I mean he does some kinda preaching in that one..... I gave a whole bunch of my learning / study aids to my church but that is one tape I never got rid of.... and I find myself going back and listening to it time and again..... it helps to kinda keep the word fresh, if ya know what I mean......

His website is love worth finding ministries ..... www.lwf.org.....

God Bless

Michael

[Chuck7]

Thanks fellows,


..For me..prayer has helped me not to get a root of bitterness ...put them on a prayer list..I learned a long time ago from the Lord ."It's impossilbe to hate someone your praying for." God puts an expectation of good things for that person in your heart..so you end up believeing the best for that person..

In the early 90s a principal got mad at me..and reassigned me frombeing a shop teacher to being a highschool teacher of The Adjudicated Youth...I was scared out of my gourd. I read thier cummulative folders and they were all on drugs and thier crimes were hideous..BUT because they had mental disorders they were given a50th chance.[]Being afraid..I was convicted because I know 1 john says "love casteth out ALL fear." therefore if I was full of fear I realized I lacked love.."and he that loveth not //knoweth not God.".[]..So I ask God." How can I have the love that overcomes fear?" He told me to write all thier names down in my Bible and pray for them daily..To make a long story short..I had the best year of my life. Prayer will keep your heart from getting bitter my friends..Write down the names ofthe difficult people in your lives and pray daily for them..you will be amazed what God does for them and YOU..

Iended up preaching a message to them daily as well and had New Testaments on thier desk..They liked me..because they know I cared for them..prayer is a big part of love.

God Bless,
C7