The Church of God of Carmichael

Up; . . .  is not the LORD gone out before thee?  Judges 4:14

 Have I not sent thee? Judges 6:14

 God knows, and you know, what He has sent you to do. God sent Moses to Egypt to bring three millions of bondmen out of the house of bondage into the Promised Land. Did he fail? It looked at first as if he were going to. But did he?

Psalms 27:14  Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD

I heard a Quaker lady who had to spend half an hour every day sitting quiet and doing nothing calling it her still lesson. I wish we could enjoy such a half-hour daily in God’s presence; our still  lesson would be one of the most useful lessons of the day. “Be still and know that I am God.”Psalms 46:10

I read a fable about a man who was browsing in a store when he made the shocking discovery that God was behind the sales counter.
So the man walked over and asked, "What are you selling?"
God replied, "What does your heart desire?"

Fill my cup, Lord.
I hold it up to you with outstretched hands.
My heart parched and thirsty for your living water.

Fill, my cup with your love, Lord.
Help me to feel your hands holding mine,
    feel your arms around me,
       feel your love empowering me.
Fill me with quietness and encouragement and trust.

Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.  And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Daniel 6:19 -22

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What is impossible with you is perfectly possible with Him who is Almighty.

A little child at mothers’ knee
Plies woolen strands and needles bright.
Small, eager hands strive earnestly
To fasten every stitch aright.

But soon perplexing knots appear
Which vex and hinder progress’ flow;
Impatient fingers pull and tear,
While ever worse the tangles grow.

How surely then in wiser hands
The roughest places are made plain!
How easy now the task’s demands,
How wonderful the lesson’s gain!

Thus, God, we bring our snarls to thee;
Though human sense and stubborn will
Oft clamor loud for mastery,
We hear alone Thy “Peace , be still.”
Edith Shaw Brown

Jeremiah 32:17  Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

May we 'walk in grace' together.
Let us find 'joy in the journey and good times in the going.'

I will go before thee and unwind the snarls.
          Isaiah 45:2, Free trans.

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight:
          Isaiah 45:2  KJV

How tangled some of our problems do become as the days pass and no way appears by which the matter can be straightened out!

“But thanks be to God that you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.” (Romans 6:17, NIV)

 Picture a skillfully crafted mold; made from a single work of sculptured art, a masterpiece so uniquely magnificent that it merits reproduction. With great care the masterpiece is covered and a form is made, from which a mold is created. The purpose of this mold is to take melted materials and fuse them into a stunning replica of the original.

Here is a poem I’m sure some of you have heard before; the thoughts are still good for us today.

 If Jesus Came to Your House

If Jesus came to your house
To spend a day or two,
If He came unexpectedly,
I wonder what you’d do.

I know you’d give the nicest room
To such an honored Guest,
And all the food you’d serve to Him
Would be the very best.

And you would keep assuring Him
You’re glad to have Him there,
That serving Him in your own home
Is joy beyond compare!

But when you saw Him coming,
Would you meet Him at the door
With arms outstretched in welcome
To your heavenly Visitor?

Or would you have to change your clothes
Before you let Him in?
Or hide some magazines, and put
The Bible where they’d been?

Would you keep right on saying
The things you always say?
Would life for you continue
As it does from day to day?

Would you sing the songs you always sing
And read the books you read,
And let Him know the things on which
Your mind and spirit feed?

Would you take Jesus with you
Everywhere you’d plan to go?
Or would you maybe change your plans
For just a day or so?

Would you be glad to have Him meet
Your very closest friends?
Or would you hope they’d stay away
Until His visit ends?

Would you be glad to have Him stay
Forever—on and on?
Or would you sigh with great relief
When He, at last, was gone?

It might be interesting to know
The things that you would do
If Jesus came in person
To spend some time with you.

—Selected

. . . I am come that they might have life,and that they might have it more abundantly.   John 10:10

May we 'walk in grace' together.
Let us find 'joy in the journey and good times in the going.'