Divine Appointments

June 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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While out strolling down Main Street in Franklin, a suburb of Nashville, with my daughter, before starting on our long drive back home to Pennsylvania, we entered the Philanthropy fashion store to be approached by a young lady, Samantha Rasband, who after a short conversation felt she should pray for me. What a blessing for the Lord to use a stranger to pray and encourage you! Thank you, Samantha, for being so obedient. The store is most unusual for as we were leaving we saw a “Prayer Wall” where customers can can write their prayer requests down and hang them on the wall!

Be ready for God to reach you somehow, somewhere through someone today!

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Remembering My Mother on Her Birthday 

June 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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It has been 26 years today since my mother went to be with the Lord. Time is a funny thing for it seems just like yesterday and yet it also seems like a lifetime ago. I believe when God sets eternity in our hearts we often experience time as He does.

For as 2 Peter 3:8 tells us that “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day”.

Thank you, Mum, not only for the spiritual legacy you left us but also the large biological legacy with a part of yourself invested in each eleven of us.

If you are fortunate to still have your mother invest time with her for that lost time will never restore the emptiness nor fill that void once she is gone.

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A Westie Free to Good Home! LOL

May 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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It was with an angry outburst, to say the least, that I returned home yesterday to find my Westie had industrially destroyed my flower garden, uprooting plants that had been planted with such care and love, and the pathway covered in dirt, thrown in all directions. My first reaction was, “Iona, you’re a goner!”

Then this morning I recall a time many years ago when one of my twin toddlers, Patsy, industriously pulled up all my plants after she noticed her father weeding the flower bed. To Patsy’s mind she was helping her Dad. After being scolded her Dad told her “No more!”. To our surprise she turned to her Dad with her tiny finger pointed and repeated “No More”. The first words she ever spoke.

The Lord used this as a window to my soul and reminded me how often we think we are helping our Heavenly Father by uprooting ourselves from situations He has placed us in to enable us to bloom more profusely. Instead we are industriously and often emotionally digging away at our roots to get out of the situation with our free will decisions thrown in all directions as we finish digging that hole for ourselves to find the pathway of our lives covered with confusion, discouragement and disappointment. In our finite minds we think we are helping! It could be a situation in the church God has planted you in, a workplace, a relationship, or even a marriage.

Just as a Westie’s nature is to dig,dig,dig! our fallen nature is to be rebellious and self willed but you know what? God is still willing to sup with us. Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me

By the way my Westie, Iona, is still with me and supping a cup of tea with me and I am so glad God didn’t get rid of me when I dug up and tried to mess up His Plans for my life. Thank you, Iona, for this window to my soul.

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CHALLENGE: Don’t try to help the Great Gardener in the seasons of your life with your childlike finite mind. Only His infinite mind knows His eternal purposes.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope

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Baptism of Holy Spirit

May 28, 2015 by Leave a Comment

As the church celebrated the Feast of Pentecost last Sunday ushering in the birth of the church, I wanted to inspire your walk with a short teaching on the glorious baptism of the Holy Spirit.

CHALLENGE: I ask you today as Paul asked the Ephesian church “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit. Acts 19:2

May you be blessed and inspired by my short video on the mighty Baptism of the Holy Spirit

which I pray will answer some of your questions.

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God’s Miracle on 34th.Street

May 19, 2015 by 1 Comment

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Two years ago tonight on May 20th I was lying in a hospital bed in the University of Pennsylvania on 34th.Street in Philadelphia with my left side paralyzed after suffering a stroke during heart surgery, unaware of the seizure that was to follow the next day.

Tonight as I write this post I am remembering with such thanksgiving and will never forget God’s grace and power in my life when He restored my life after that stroke and seizure. The doctors advised my husband that I could possibly get some of my mobility back after 6 months of therapy. My mobility returned after only two days to the amazement of the doctors at the University of Pennsylvania. No more than I am amazed by His mercy! Although I have been a Bible teacher for over 40 years I now know the urgency to wisely invest the years He extended to me by sharing the gospel through any avenue He sees fit to open to reach the lost, pray for the sick and edify the saints.

I am forever grateful for all my family here and abroad, all the friends around the world and all those whom I may never even meet who prayed for and ministered to me during this testing period.

Philippians 1:3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you!

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