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Encourage Our Devotional Writers

March 5, 2009

We have a new blog where all of our devotions are posted each day. By posting a comment after any devotional, you are encouraging both our writers and all the other readers who come and visit the web site and know they are not alone.

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1. TOM | April 25, 2009 at 12:27 am

DEAR LYN SEVERANCE;HELLO THIS IS THOMAS FROM REST MINISTRIES .I JUST READ YOUR POST TODAY “A PEACFUL HEART’.IT WAS VERY WELL DONE.THIS DEVOTIONAL TOUCHED ME ALSO AS I THINK WE ALL HAVE FELT THAT FEELING OF WHERE ARE YOU GOD?IF WE ARE HONEST WITH OURSELVES.I KNOW I HAVE.I HAVE HAD RSD/CRPS FOR 11 YEARS ALONG WITH SOME OTHER AFFLICTIONS.IUSED TOO BEAT UP ON MYSELF SO BAD WHEN I FIRST DEVELOPED RSD IN THE MIDST OF 15 OPERATIONS FOR AN ELECTRICAL INJURY I REC`D ON THE JOB AS A POLICE OFFICER.IT WASN`T UNTIL I TOTALLY TURNED THIS OVER TOO THE LORD AND ACCEPTED IT AS WHATEVER IS HIS WILL WAS AND IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.AND HE SAID UNTO ME”MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE,FOR MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS”.I FEEL THIS RELATES TOO WHERE YOU SPOKE OF JOINING HIS HEART AND ACCEPTING HIS PEACE.THIS IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TOO ME.IT GOES ON TODAY.WHEN YOU MENTIONED ABOUT A COMMENT THAT HURT YOU DEEP ABOUT AN UNMET NEED IN YOUR LIFE ,I HEARD ONE TODAY.IT STUNG.BUT EVENTUALLY I ASKED GOD TOO HELP ME REMOVE IT.I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN ABOUT BEING OR FEELING DESOLATE.I HAVE BEEN THERE TOO MANY TIMES.THEIR IS PROBABLY NO ONE HERE AT SUNROOM OR R.M. THAT DOESNT FEEL DESOLATE AT SOME TIME.LIKE OUR LORD MUST HAVE ON THE CROSS BEING SEPERATE FROM HIS FATHER.THAT IS A VERY GOOD REASON TOO BECOME ACTIVE IN THIS BLOGGING.LIKE IT SAYS “BUT TOO DO GOOD AND TOO COMMUNICATE FORGET NOT:FOR WITH SUCH SACRIFICES GOD IS WELL PLEASED”HEB13V16″.I ALSO WANT TOO LET YOU KNOEW YOUR DEVOTIONS ARE BEING ABSORBED AND PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR ADMIRABLE WORK.I LOOK FORWARD TOO YOUR NEXT WRITING.MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU.THOMAS
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