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February 2017 - God Will Strengthen – Manna by Dorothy Callies
Colossians
1:11 NCV “God will strengthen you
with His own great power that you will not give up when troubles come, but you
will be patient.”
On
Monday the Feb. 13th, we were enjoying our day off with breakfast at
Carmela’s and then to Bergner’s Mall just to walk through, but somehow we ended
up looking for Tony’s shirt and vest were on sales. A little walk was enough
for us so we left to do other errands.
Our car entered the Eastland Ave, and came to stop at a red traffic
lights facing a busy freeway, Veterans Parkway. Tony’s car was on right lane,
and he couldn’t see the oncoming cars from north. So he moved a little …
BAM! The van hit us. [We were okay.]
The
man drove too fast really damaged our left rear end to where we could not
open our trunk. The damaged was worth $4,000 so starting next Monday, Feb. 20th,
we will take our car to Auto Body shop and it will take nine days to fix it.
Meanwhile, man’s insurance covered the damaged and the rental car. The reason for waiting is that they have to
order part for our Mitsubishi Galant white car.
The
damaged was bad enough to see black bumper and I was “tempted” to buy a baby
diaper to cover the rear ended car. Since
Monday, we had to wait seven days, seeing this. I was concerned and the man who
checked it, assured us that it was okay to drive it.
It
was like Satan was so angry seeing God doing great things and that he just had
to do little more damaged to our car to pacify his anger. Seeing the news that many people are left
homeless due to the crisis weather, and other reasons. I found the index card, 3x5” that says “. . .
you will not give up when troubles come, but you will be patient.”
“So
God will strengthen you with His own great power.” I repeat this several times
until we felt His strengthen. Even though we are vulnerable which means we are being capable of being physically or emotionally wounded and open to attack
or damage, God will make sure that His strengthen will help us through the
rough times.
I
was looking for chorus and saw this. I
felt that looking at Calvary, remembering Jesus on the cross, so willingly, so
generously, so freely given us His blood, His redeeming blood flowing . . . it
brought tears to my eyes to realize that our troubles are ‘small.’
Song: Calvary’s Stream is
Flowing
(Inspiring Choruses)
Calvary’s
stream is flowing,
Calvary’s
stream is flowing;
Flowing
so free …
for you and for me …
Calvary’s
stream is flowing.
May
God touch you that Calvary’s stream of Jesus’ redeeming blood is flowing so
freely!
Dorothy
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