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Where My Treasure Is!
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth . . . but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew 6:19-21) [caption id="attachment_1497"...
Patient in Tribulation
Prologue: Isn’t it marvelous how the Lord has His ways of working with us? We’re just children who don’t always get the lesson right away. But as children, each of is us different and the Lord knows that. He doesn’t work with me the way He might with you. I...
A New Year’s Day
Because of my reading schedule, I read the entire Bible in less than a year. This means that at each New Year’s Day, I am beginning the Bible at a different point. I like that because it takes my reading out of the “routine” and keeps things fresh. This particular...
Lessons From A Broom
Lessons from a Broom Prologue: These journal entries are among the first in which the Lord began to use my struggles with cultural adjustments to show me spiritual insights. We had only been in Sierra Leone for a few months and were still renting a house on the outskirts of...
Joy Cometh in the Morning
My recent slow and meditative reading of Psalms has been particularly rich as the Lord tenderly helps me with my personal struggles, discouragements, and frustrations. This exchange of thoughts with my Heavenly Father was especially helpful one lonely morning. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the...
And Jesus answering . . .
Date of original journal entry: April 8, 2016 Luke 10:29-30 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves . . . In reading Luke 10 and the...
Kept
Prologue: Upon returning from Mile 91 during the dry season evangelism circuit, Stephen had a unique gift from the pastor of that church. In gratitude for all that GTF Bible Mission had done and provided for the church Brother Suaray gave Stephen the gift of several books which were languishing...
Pleasure or Treasure?
Date of original journal entry: July 21, 2017 Proverb 21:17(a) He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man I have just looked at a photo of 15 or so faces - young eager faces. Some of the youth from our church are on a mission trip to Trinidad and...
