Showing posts with label Count It All Joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Count It All Joy. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Sunday's Coming

Good morning, from Kerrville,Tx. 
Like most of you, we are enduring hot weather. I pray you are safe. We have had a great week; had two daughters and six grandchildren visiting. It has been a fun time. Watching and listening to them having fun and laughing inspired my sermon last week.  It was on laughter. Did you know God intended for us to laugh?
Proverbs 17:22 (ASV) 22A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
Don’t you love that? Almighty God has said all along that a JOYFUL heart is good medicine and helps us live longer!

Good humor brings good health! TAKE A DOSE EVERY DAY!

PROGNOSIS NOT GOOD
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor’s office. After the checkup, the doctor took the wife aside and said, "if you don’t do the following, your husband will surely die."
1. "Each morning fix him a healthy breakfast and send him off to work in a good mood."
2."At lunch time make him a warm, nutritious meal and put him in a good frame of mind before he goes back to work.
3."For dinner, fix an especially nice meal and don’t burden him with household chores."
4."Satisfy his every whim."
On the way home, the husband asked his wife what the doctor had said, she replied "you’re going to die."
Wanna be more Godly? Wanna be more like Jesus? LAUGH more! Have FUN! Spread some JOY!

The gospel is about JOY! That’s why it's called….GOOD News!


GOD CREATED LAUGHTER! GOD CREATED YOUR FUNNY BONE, BUT YOU NEED TO TICKLE IT!

There are 2 kinds of people in the world, those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Lord," and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it’s morning."
Which one are YOU?
LaVon and I are truly thankful to God for each of you. Thank you for your continual support and interest in our ministry by investing yourself in many ways as partners with us: by prayer, e-mails, phone calls and your financial gifts. Without any of these we could not continue what God has called us to do and that is to share the living water with the world through the RV ministry.

Have a great day, love you, pass it on.
Don
Count it all JOY!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Sunday's Coming

Good morning again,


I pray all is well with you today. I have heard from many of you who are having trials in your life or your family. Thanks for sharing and know we are praying for each request.


We continue to seek God's direction for the summer months and we ask you to keep us in your prayers. Thanks again for your encouraging words by phone calls, emails or in person. I also want to say thanks to those of you who help us financially. Your gift, I know, is from the direction of God who knows our needs.

This morning, as I was reading, this caught my attention since the title of my blog is Count it All Joy:


Joy in Everything (by David Jeremiah)

"My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials." James 1:2
Recommended Reading1 Thessalonians 5:16-18


No small amount of harm has been done by well-intentioned Christians who misquote a particular Bible verse when attempting to comfort the grieving: "Don't forget that Scripture says to, ‘Give thanks for all things.'" Actually, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 doesn't say, "For everything give thanks;" it says, "In everything give thanks." And there is a world of difference between those two small words.

The Bible doesn't say we should rejoice and give thanks for the event that has caused our grief, suffering, or impatience—a lost job, the death of a loved one, or an unmet expectation. But it does say we should give thanks in (in the midst of) that situation. And why should we do that? Because giving thanks to God is an expression of our confident faith that He is aware of our situation and our need. The Bible is filled with expressions and promises that give us reason to trust God in the midst of trials and tribulations (Matthew 6:25-34; Luke 11:11-13; 2 Corinthians 9:8; Philippians 4:19).

Joy and thanksgiving in the midst of troubles are not normal in this world. But that is why we are exhorted to express them. Joy in the midst of trials is another sign that we are in, but not of, this world.

"Joy is the serious business of heaven." ( C. S. Lewis)

Have a great day, love you, pass it on,
Don



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