Sunday Is Coming

Good morning from Branson, Mo.

We pray all is well with you.

The work here is going good. Small crowds this season, but God is still using us in peoples lives. We have been doing a Bible study on Wednesday nights on the names of God. It's a great study. When we pray we need to use the different names of God... what power. When we pray we need to say--------

LORD, PROP US UP....

Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old deacon who always prayed,

'Lord, prop us up on our leanin' side.'

After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently.

He answered, 'Well sir, you see, it's like this... I got an old barn out back. It's been there a long time; it's withstood a lot of weather; it's gone through a lot of storms, and it's stood for many years. It's still standing. But one day I noticed it was leaning to one side a bit. So, I went and got some pine poles and propped it up on it s leaning side so it wouldn't fall.

Then I got to thinking about that and how much I was like that old barn. I've been around a long time.I've withstood a lot of life's storms. I've withstood a lot of bad weather in life. I've withstood a lot of hard times, and I'm still standing too. But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time. So, I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, 'cause I figure a lot of us get to leaning at times.

Sometimes we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness, leaning toward hatred, leaning toward cussing, leaning toward a lot of things that we shouldn't. So we need to pray, 'Lord, prop us up on our leaning side', so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify the Lord.''

Stare at this barn for a second and you will see Who will help us stand straight and tall again. Have a great day, I love you, pass it on,

Don

p.s. Thanks to Ginny & Lenny for sending this to me.