Good Morning!!! Welcome To Another Great Day Courtesy Of God!!!! I hope everyone had a good nights sleep!!! Please keep me and my family in your prayers this week!!! My dad starts his cancer treatments on Monday!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!! This morning I want to share a true story with you!!! This story is just one Great Example of how GOD works things out in his on time!!! Some of you may have heard it before!!! It touched my heart, and I thought you might like it too!!! The Table Cloth The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve. They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls, painting, etc. and on Dec 18 were ahead of schedule and just about finished. On Dec 19 a terrible tempest - a driving rainstorm - hit the area and lasted for two days. On the 21st, the pastor went over to the church. His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high. The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home. On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity so he stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful, handmade,ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover up the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church. By this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later. She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area. Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet. Pastor, she asked, where did you get that tablecloth? The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials, EBG were crocheted into it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria. The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten the tablecloth. The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria. When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. She was captured, sent to prison and never saw her husband or her home again. The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church. The pastor insisted on driving her home, that was the least he could do. She lived on the other side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day for a house-cleaning job. What a wonderfu l service they had on Christmas Eve. The church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return. One older man, whom the pastor recognized from the neighborhood, continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasnt leaving. The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to one that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war and how could there be two tablecloths so much alike? He told the pastor how the Nazis came, how he forced his wife to flee for her safety, and he was supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and put in a prison. He never saw his wife or his home again all the 35 years in between. The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman three days earlier. He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the womans apartment, knocked on the door and there he saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine and was blessed with the ultimate Christmas gift. GOD can work miracles in your life too!!! And I know that some people who read this will think Im crazy!!! But GOD can make major changes in our lives, if we turn it completely over to Him!!! Im going through some rough times right now, as are many of you who are reading this!!! Im trusting in GOD to see me through!!! I know I cant make it on my own!!! With GODS help I will, and so can you!!! Just turn it over to GOD AND TRUST HIM!!! Let Us Pray!!! Our Kind And Gracious Heavenly FATHER, As We Come Before Your Precious Throne Of Grace this morning, we want to thank You LORD for all the Love You have placed in our lives!!! FATHER sometimes when things are so busy and hectic in our lives, we tend to leave You out!!! Please forgive us LORD!!! We know LORD that everything we have in this life is because of Your Precious Love!!! FATHER please help us to have the courage to turn every aspect of our lives over to You!!! LORD with You in control and leading the way, we know we will do whats right!!! FATHER there are a lot of people hurting this morning LORD!!! Some from sickness and some LORD from loneliness!!! Please FATHER take control of the sickness and remove it from their lives!!! FATHER please give comfort to the lonely this morning LORD!!! DEAR LORD please make today the best day of their lives!!! FATHER please give each one a real reason to smile today LORD!!! FATHER please lead, guide and direct our footsteps!!! Keep us going in the right direction LORD!!! GOD we will give You the Honor, the Praise and the Glory for all you do in our lives!!! All This We Pray In Your Precious Heavenly Name Amen!!! As you go through the day, keep GOD FIRST and your day will be a Blessed One!!! May GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!! Jack
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:37:44 +0000
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