We believe as Pentecostals that all healing comes from God. He uses many delivery systems to bring about that healing. Some are healed instantly, and we call that a miracle. However, most healing is gradual. Whatever the process we know that our help comes from God, and we believe that Jesus is the Great Physician.
Today, Melvine and I read from Charles R. Swindoll's devotion book, Good Morning, Lord ... Can We Talk?
The topic was "Make a Difference at Christmas." The Scripture text is recorded in John 1:14.
Charles begins the devotional by saying, "Someone copied this piece from a well-worn carbon in billfold of a thirty-year veteran missionary. She and her husband were on their way to another tour of duty in Sudan. No one seems to know who authored it, but it captures the essence of the greatest essay ever written on love.
"If I have the language so perfectly and speak like a pundit and have not the love that grips the heart. I am nothing. If I have decorations and diplomas and am proficient in up-to-date methods and have not the touch of understanding love, I am nothing."
I wish I had the time to transcribe it from the book to this keyboard for you.
Chuck Swindoll wrote that it reminded him of what John wrote:
"The Word became human and made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love and and faithfulness" (John 1:14).
That is a good translation of that verse. However, I like how Eugene H. Peterson rendered it too:
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)
Today, I asked Melvine to pray. She prayed a most meaningful prayer right out of her heart of love for God, for our family, our church, and our relatives and friends. It is in prayer that I can begin to know the heart of love Melvine has for me and our family, and all mankind.
I helped Melvine with Christmas cards she sends every year to our adopted grandchildren, children now grown and some are married. I wrote the checks and put on the stamps. This was a small project but one that joined us in unity of purpose and love for these children we dedicated to God as infants. My how they have grown up. What thrills us most is they are all Christians and are serving the Lord.
We had run out of loaf bread to make sandwiches. So, I drove one mile from our home to at convenience store that has just about all you will find in a grocery store. I was able to share the blessing of Billy Graham with the cashier. She cried and told me what a blessing it was to her. I gave one to another clerk and a lady who has purchased some groceries, too.
Jesus moved into the neighborhood. God wants me to do the same with the neighborhood where I live or reside in the Sweet Apple Subdivision.
Melvine's cough that lingered has completely gone. And we praise God for that.
I do believe that Melvine has new energy and stamina
I have taken over doing our laundry. I know how to wash the clothes with the right amount of liquid soap, set the dials appropriately, and put them in our dryer. I remember when we used to hang our clothes on a clothes line. Thank God for modern appliances. Melvine does the folding. We work as a team.
I will take Melvine for another chemotherapy on Friday. Bonnie Patch Bender, a retired LPN, will meet us and help us. What a wonderful person she is. She is so knowledgeable about medical issues and procedures and is so helpful. She is always positive and helps me to see the brighter side of what is going one.
Greg will be coming home for the weekend. On Saturday, we will celebrate my 86th birthday. I have asked Greg to drive us to the Texas Road House Steak Restaurant in Athens. We finally got one several months ago. It is wonderful.
Texas Roadhouse Steak Restaurant is an American chain restaurant that specializes in steaks and promotes a Western theme. Texas Roadhouse Corporation is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
I seldom eat a steak, but I still love a good rib eye steak.
Today, Melvine and I read from Charles R. Swindoll's devotion book, Good Morning, Lord ... Can We Talk?
The topic was "Make a Difference at Christmas." The Scripture text is recorded in John 1:14.
Charles begins the devotional by saying, "Someone copied this piece from a well-worn carbon in billfold of a thirty-year veteran missionary. She and her husband were on their way to another tour of duty in Sudan. No one seems to know who authored it, but it captures the essence of the greatest essay ever written on love.
"If I have the language so perfectly and speak like a pundit and have not the love that grips the heart. I am nothing. If I have decorations and diplomas and am proficient in up-to-date methods and have not the touch of understanding love, I am nothing."
I wish I had the time to transcribe it from the book to this keyboard for you.
Chuck Swindoll wrote that it reminded him of what John wrote:
"The Word became human and made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love and and faithfulness" (John 1:14).
That is a good translation of that verse. However, I like how Eugene H. Peterson rendered it too:
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)
Today, I asked Melvine to pray. She prayed a most meaningful prayer right out of her heart of love for God, for our family, our church, and our relatives and friends. It is in prayer that I can begin to know the heart of love Melvine has for me and our family, and all mankind.
I helped Melvine with Christmas cards she sends every year to our adopted grandchildren, children now grown and some are married. I wrote the checks and put on the stamps. This was a small project but one that joined us in unity of purpose and love for these children we dedicated to God as infants. My how they have grown up. What thrills us most is they are all Christians and are serving the Lord.
We had run out of loaf bread to make sandwiches. So, I drove one mile from our home to at convenience store that has just about all you will find in a grocery store. I was able to share the blessing of Billy Graham with the cashier. She cried and told me what a blessing it was to her. I gave one to another clerk and a lady who has purchased some groceries, too.
Jesus moved into the neighborhood. God wants me to do the same with the neighborhood where I live or reside in the Sweet Apple Subdivision.
Melvine's cough that lingered has completely gone. And we praise God for that.
I do believe that Melvine has new energy and stamina
I have taken over doing our laundry. I know how to wash the clothes with the right amount of liquid soap, set the dials appropriately, and put them in our dryer. I remember when we used to hang our clothes on a clothes line. Thank God for modern appliances. Melvine does the folding. We work as a team.
I will take Melvine for another chemotherapy on Friday. Bonnie Patch Bender, a retired LPN, will meet us and help us. What a wonderful person she is. She is so knowledgeable about medical issues and procedures and is so helpful. She is always positive and helps me to see the brighter side of what is going one.
Greg will be coming home for the weekend. On Saturday, we will celebrate my 86th birthday. I have asked Greg to drive us to the Texas Road House Steak Restaurant in Athens. We finally got one several months ago. It is wonderful.
Texas Roadhouse Steak Restaurant is an American chain restaurant that specializes in steaks and promotes a Western theme. Texas Roadhouse Corporation is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
I seldom eat a steak, but I still love a good rib eye steak.