Fellowship Of The Saints

Saturday evening we attended a local Bible Study group where we were inspired by a message from a visiting minister from Wales, Peter Appleton.

What a joy it always is to meet a new brother or sister in the Lord.

Since we are both from the UK it gave us a lot to talk about but being one spirit in the Lord made our fellowship even more sweet as we shared the goodness of our heavenly Father.

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1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons and daughters of God.

A Parable From My Garden

Even on one of the hottest days of summer I’m busy with my hands in the dirt trimming and cutting back the roots of my plants that are withering to help them survive the heat. What a window to my soul!

For it is often in that scorching heat of trials that the Great Husbandman digs us up to examine our root structure and trims us back that we might survive the heat. It is usually in the fiery furnace that our lives will bear the most abundant fruit. 

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John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Praying One For Another

Thanks to all those who prayed for me yesterday. I’m overjoyed to give you a good report from Dr. Marchlinski as he checked out my heart. The electrocardiogram revealed the graph of a beautiful, steady, sound, sinus rhythm heartbeat.

What great news! I am now ready to leave with my Russian Visa, which was hard to obtain, but also leaving with a clean bill of health which even the Russian embassy couldn’t have issued. I have learned to appreciate not only each breath but each heartbeat.

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How often do we take for granted the electricity that God created to cause our hearts to beat 80 beats per minute/ 4800 beats per hour and 115,200 beats per day? Perhaps never until there is an electrical problem like myself.

What an awesome Creator we serve! And man thinks he invented electricity! Man only discovered it.

Praying my spiritual heart will be in sinus rhythm with His heartbeat as I travel overseas.

Confirming God’s Miracle! 

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Today we are on our way for a check up with my heart surgeon, Dr. Marchlinski, at the University of Pennsylvania before I leave for Russia on September 1st. Please pray with me for a good report that I may travel with confidence, especially since I will be traveling for the first time in many years without John, my very own personal caregiver, since undergoing several heart surgeries and suffering a stroke that resulted in my whole left side being  paralyzed. To God be the glory for the things He has done!

Be Aware Of The Ministry Of  Angels

As I was admiring some of the many statues of angels I have collected for my garden, the Lord reminded me to be comforted by the many unseen angels in the garden of my life.

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Hebrews 1:14 Are angels not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation