Praise the Lord for this Friday the 13th. Those who live in the area, please join us for our Television ministry this evening at 7 PM on Time Warner Cable 4. I am sharing from the life of Moses, how the Lord used Moses for His divine plans and purposes. The Lord redeemed the failures and the defeats of Moses for His glory. Moses born, who was born a pauper became a mighty prince of Egypt. He then took things into his own hands, only to become a fugitive and a pauper once again. The first 40 years of Moses' life were lived out in Egypt, and the next 40 years he dwelt in the land of Midian as a shepherd. The Lord came to him in Midian when he was 80 years old. The Lord commissioned him for great drama and action. Moses came out of his retirement in order to be deployed for KINGDOM PURPOSES.
We are blessed to have with us this weekend Meredith Watson, from Washington, DC. Meredith is a dear friend of Sunita and Laureen. We call her our fifth daughter. Praise the Lord for the joy of living and for the joy of life and, best of all, for the joy of knowing Jesus and serving Him as our King and Lord.
We had word from Orissa, India yesterday that my brother Potel was involved in a hit and run accident, in which he suffered a broken arm. He is going in for surgery today. Please keep him in prayer. Only a couple of weeks ago my mom was bitten by a dog, but she is doing much better now.
August 15 is India's Independence Day. India was ruled by the British Empire for two hundred years. One of the great blessings of British Rule was the coming of the missionaries to India with the Good News of Jesus Christ. My grandparents and my parents were born during the British Rule. All of my siblings and I were born in Independent India. One of my friends was born on August 15, the day India became independent.
T. M. Moore in "Encounter with God" wrote, "When I was a kid, a favorite pastime was to take in the Saturday matinee. It didn’t matter much what was on. I’d head to the snack bar and plunk down my nickel for a Holloway’s All-Day Sucker. Now I was set. This caramel delight would last me through the entire movie, all the way home, into the evening, and I’d still have some left for the next day."
Psalm 16 is a Psalm of delight. David used the words "delight", "pleasant", "glad", and "joy" in this Psalm. David found his delight in the Lord and it gave him an all day delight. He delighted in the Lord’s person. He delighted in the Lord’s people. He delighted in the Lord’s portion. He delighted in the Lord’s principles. He delighted in the Lord’s protection.
Dr. S. D. Gordon told of an older Christian woman whose age began to tell on her memory. She had once known much of the Bible by heart. Eventually only one precious bit stayed with her, "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I committed unto him against that day." II Tim. 1:12.
As time went on, she lost more of that verse too. She would quietly repeat, "That which I have committed unto him." At last, as she hovered on the borderline between this and the spirit world, her loved ones noticed her lips moving. They bent down to see if she needed anything. She was repeating over and over again to herself the one word of the text, "Him, Him, Him." She had lost the whole Bible, but one word, but she had the whole Bible in that one word.
When Lloyd Douglas, author of "THE ROBE", attended college, he lived in a boardinghouse. A retired, wheelchair-bound music professor lived on the first floor. Each morning Douglas would stick his head in the door of the teacher’s apartment and ask the same question, "Well, what’s the good news?" The old man would pick up his tuning fork, tap it on the side of his wheelchair and say, "That’s middle C! It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now. The piano across the hall is out of tune. The tenor upstairs sings flat. But, my friend, that is middle C."
We all need a middle C. Life changes. Health changes. Relationships change. However, amid all the changes in our lives, Christ never changes. Jesus is still the Christ, the Son of the living God, and He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
In Christ,
Brown
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