Brown's Daily Word 2-3-10

Good morning,
Praise the Lord for His amazing grace and marvelous love. Praise the Lord for His faithfulness. I talked to one of our friends yesterday, who is a single mom. She is always full of gratitude, praising the Lord for the way He has blessed her so wonderfully. She makes time to bless her three children and her grandchildren. She makes time for Bible study with her children, nurturing them in faith, hope and love in Christ.
We are getting ready for our daughter Jessica's wedding on the 14th of February. Thank you for praying for us. Currently, Jessica is away in Las Vegas, attending her work related conference. Laureen will driving down to Lancaster this weekend to visit friends, and from Lancaster to Philly next week to pick Jessica up and bring her home. Micah and Simeon were away with their parents for a brief vacation to New Hampshire. Micah told me that swam for an hour in a heated outdoor pool.
Praise the Lord for the joy we have in serving the Lord. He infuses us with His anointing. He grants us His grace for every challenge and for every task. I am reminded of Philippians 4:6 which reads, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” The Bible teaches that it is appropriate to present our requests to God. We are permitted to ask the God of the universe to act on our behalf. In fact, the Bible says, “You do not have, because you do not ask God.” (James 4:2,NIV)
There is a story of a tenant in an apartment building who loved God dearly. Her landlord, on the other hand, was an atheist who despised her faith. One day she ran out of food and money. She prayed aloud, “Oh dear God please help me in my time of need, I look to you and you alone to provide my needs, now please send me some food, for I’m tired and hungry.”
The landlord heard the prayer through the wall and thought, “I’ll show her once and for all that God doesn’t care for her, that He doesn’t hear and answer prayers.” So he went to the grocery store and bought a bag of groceries and used his access key to get into her apartment and set the groceries on her dining room table.
When the woman came in and found the groceries she began to praise God and thank Him for answering her prayers. The landlord was listening and went to her apartment and told her she was a religious fool and that God didn’t give her the groceries he said, “I gave you the groceries; there is no God.” The lady replied, “You’re wrong, God gave me these groceries and he got the devil to pay for them.”
Asking God to do great things and believing that He will do them is what faith is all about. There’s a favorite old hymn with the words, “Thou art coming to a King. Large petitions with thee bring; For his grace and power are such. None can ever ask thee for too much.”
A. C. Dixon wrote, "When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend on prayer, we get what God can do."
In Christ,
Brown
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