| Emergency Phone Numbers When in
sorrow, call John 14.
When men fail you, call Psalm 27.
If you want to be fruitful, call John 15.
When you have sinned, call Psalm 51.
When you worry, call Matthew 6:19-34.
When you are in danger, call Psalm 91.
When God seems far away, call Psalm 139.
When your faith needs stirring, call Hebrews 11.
When you are lonely and fearful, call Psalm 23.
When you grow bitter and critical, call 1 Cor. 13.
For Paul's secret to happiness, call Col. 3:12-17.
For idea of Christianity, call 1 Cor. 5:15-19.
When you feel down and out, call Romans 8:31-39.
When you want peace and rest, call Matt. 11:25-30.
When the world seems bigger than God, call Psalm 90.
When you want Christian assurance, call Romans 8:1-30.
When you leave home for labor or travel, call Psalm 121.
When your prayers grow narrow or selfish, call Psalm 67.
For a great invention/opportunity, call Isaiah 55.
When you want courage for a task, call Joshua 1.
How to get along with fellow men, call Romans 12.
When you think of investments/returns, call Mark 10.
If you are depressed, call Psalm 27.
If your pocketbook is empty, call Psalm 37.
If you're losing confidence in people, call 1 Cor. 13.
If people seem unkind, call John 15.
If discouraged about your work, call Psalm 126.
If you find the world growing small and yourself great, call Psalm 19.
Emergency numbers may be dialed direct.
No operator assistance is necessary.
All lines are open to Heaven 24 hours a day!
Feed your faith, and doubt will starve to death!
*Scriptures in my notes are from the Authorized Version 1611
-KJV- and are used by permission of the Author - Eph. 6:17*
Pastor J. Michael Walls
Freedom Baptist Church
Smithfield, NC
It's
between you and God ........
- People are often unreasonable, Illogical, and
self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
- If you are kind, People may accuse you of
selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
- If you are successful, You will win some
false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
- If you are honest and frank, People may cheat
you; Be honest and frank anyway.
- What you spend years building, Someone could
destroy overnight; Build anyway.
- If you find serenity and happiness, They may
be jealous; Be happy anyway.
- The good you do today, People will often
forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
- Give the world the best you have, And it may
never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway.
- You see, in the final analysis, It is between
you and God; It never was between you and them anyway.
Foot Prints
II
Now imagine you and the Lord
Jesus are walking along the beach together. For much of the way the Lord's footprints go
along steadily, consistently, rarely varying in the pace. But your prints are in a
disorganized stream of zig zags, starts, stops, turnarounds, circles, departures, and
returns. For much of the way it seems to go like this.
But gradually, your footprints come in line with the
Lord's, soon paralleling His consistently. You and Jesus are walking as true friends. This
seems perfect, but then an interesting thing happens; your footprints that once etched the
sand next to the Master's are now walking precisely in His steps. Inside His large
footprints is the smaller footprint safely enclosed. You and Jesus are becoming one. This
goes on for many miles.
But gradually you notice another change. The footprints
inside the larger footprints seem to grow larger. Eventually it disappears altogether.
There is only one set of footprints. They have become one. Again this goes on for a long
time. But then something awful happens. The second set of footprints is back. This time it
seems even worse than before.
Zig zags all over the place. Stop...start. Deep gashes in
the sand. A veritable mess of prints. You're amazed and shocked. But this isn't the end of
your dream. Now you speak:
"Lord, I understand the first scene with the zig zags,
fits, starts, and so on. I was a new Christian, just learning. But You walked on through
the storm and helped me learn to walk with You."
"That is correct," replied the Lord.
"Then, when the smaller footprints were inside of
Yours, I was actually learning to walk in Your steps. I followed You very
closely."
"Very good. You have understood everything so
far."
"Then the smaller footprints grew and eventually
filled in with Yours. I suppose that I was actually growing so much that I was becoming
more like You in every way."
"Precisely."
"But this is my question, Lord. Was there a regression
or something? The footprints went back to two, and this time it was worse than the
first."
The Lord smiles, then laughs.
"You didn't know?" He asks. "That was when
we danced!"
FOR HE WILL TURN YOUR MOURNING INTO DANCING!!!
|