Are You A Child Or A Son?

I want to look into this aspect of our lives about our christian growth. A lot of times as a child of God we refuse to grow into His image and likeness.
We most time always behave and act out the attributes of a child and not a son
We may want to know how children behave and i want to put some of the behaviour of children down here for us to see if we fit in.
A child is very selfish, being a mother that have grown children, i can attest to this. Give me give me is always a child's vocabulary. Are we doing this before our Creator and maker, that each time we go before Him, all we do is to ask. Even when He answers and give to us and He asks us to give a tenth, do we withhold it and give reasons why we can give now, but will do it later. When my chilfdren where small, they acted this out. Give them sweet and you are like, can i have just one there, the reply was most times know, as if in the first instance, it did not belong to me their mother that gave it out in the first place.
When God gave His son, He gave us all, and when He requires our service, do we say no.
Another is a child does not know how to serve, you are at their service twenty four seven.
Ask a child when they feel their busy with either their toys or whatever, and you will hear them say i am busy or i will do it later.
A child does not understand the language of service and so we find today in the body of Christ, a lot who are still being served. They never want to give back service unto their creator.
Also, children are takers, immature, not bothered about anyone but themselves, could be disobedient most times. Always dimminishes stuff and don't care to be tranformed into what they are suppose to be.
On the other side, you find a son is very mature. selfless, giving always. a son seek to be transformed to comply to what has been mapped out for him. A son will always be faithful, obedience to the purpose and call of God, trust worthy also has a servant heart.
A son wants to approach the throne room asking our Father what he or she will do, committed to the call also helping to fulfil the mandate.
Are we sons or children?
I am praying God to help us come to maturity in christ, so that we will go beyond the rudiments of salvation and go up to his upward calling for our lives. Those who have tasted and seen that the lord is good will make themselves available for the Master's use at this end time, because the harvest is truly ripe and labourers are still children.
God will move us beyond the level of seeking things to seeking His will and purpose for our lives.
It is well with us, as we seek to be His hands, eyes, legs, and mouth, so He can reach as many people He has purpose to save in this end time.
Have a bless time till i come your way again

This Pain Is For More Of God Blessing

We wake up every day of our lives to face new challenges. the word of God has it recorded, ''that there is a season and time for everything on the surface of the earth ''
We all like Joseph in the bible went through his own pain, and at the end of it all, he became a prime minister in a foreign land.
Who would have thought that his pain will bring about his blessing. But the pain was for more.
Are you going through any form of pain right now, look beyond it and see God using your pain as a bridge to take you to the other side, where He has prepared a table for your sake.
I have come to a place in my life that, whenever i start feeling any form of pain, that i start asking God to help me go through it with Him by my side.
We will be victorious and reap the reward of the pains if we do not back out or faint through it all.
Father, i pray for anyone who read through this blog and is going through a situation. i ask you grant them the ability to press on until that which you want to get out of them is removed and bring them to the place of Your glory which for more. a place of blessing in Jesus name.
It is always well with you if you believe.

ARE YOU IN THE WILDERNESS?

The wilderness has never been, will never be a place of comfort, because it was not and is not meant to be.
In the programme of God, it is a school where we are taught a lot especially, the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
If you have ever been to or going through the wilderness, you will find out, if you believe that God has promised to be with you at every step of your life journey, that a lot we carry and not willing to let go that God wants to take away from us. This can only be dropped through the journey in the wilderness.
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the waythese forty years
in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, wether
you would keep His commandments or not.
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger and fed you with manna which you did
not know nor did your fathers know, that man shall not live by bread alone; but
man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the lord. Deut 8V2-3
If we read futher down our passage, we find out that God delights in us and has the best planned for us. We are bless if we can take all in while going through whatever we are going through right now because they will all work out for our good.
My personal experience of the wildweness has brought me very close to God and his purpose for my living. I was carried away with a lot that i lost focus of His destiny and purpose but in d widerness, i became focus and heard him clearly.
I pray as i have been called to do, anyone that will read this today, and is going through a form of wilderness, God will enlighten you and cause His light to shine forth through this darkness, show you His way through it, that you will come to a place of purpose according to all He has planned for you.
Your experience will work out His glory in your life.
Your are blessed and favoured and i will always see you on top

God is good and worthy to be praised and exalted. Its been over a year and i just can not say why i stayed off. It is well. God has been faithful to me and i know to countless of people like me. A lot has happen that has brought me closer to His throne. All will be shared in due cause as i have come back, better and more inspired to do His service through the blogworld.
May the God of peace give to you all my fellow bloggers the peace that pass all understanding, may He move you into doing and getting all He has for you. May you not miss out of this month's blessing as He has blessings prepared for every month of the year. You are all blessed and highlyfavoured. I will always expect to see you at the top. Have a divine appointed favour, divine blessing and divine delivrance in this eight month. It is well with all of you.

MY PRAYER FOR BLOGERS ON MY SITE

Father i have come to thank you for your faithfulness to all you allowed me to visit their blog sites. I am thanking You for the wisdom, ability,knowlegde,fun,time and much more You endowed your children to use what hitherto others use to glorify the enemy, to be used in uplifting each other.
Thanks precious Father for the year that is about to close up and never to be seen again in the land of the living.You caused our part to cross and made us be a blessing to each other, thank You Lord.
We are alive to witness the end, Father, You will keep us to see the coming year with joy and gladness. May we continue to glorify Your name through what You have mapped out for us next year.
May 2009 be the year of our uplifting, our fulfil promises. All we have presented to You, and You answered with wait, shall come to pass.
Every single who has waited on you for the man or woman You have prepared, will not miss out in the name of Jesus.
Those barren physically,spiritually,emotionally, financially and any other form of barreness, may 2009 be the year of conception and delivery in the mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are called believers because we believe, let the world indeed come to identify with our believe in You.
Show up in every situation that Your people will come into, be the Rock on which they will stand on.
Let you Spirit go before and after into the year to bring them to the place flowing with milk and honney. May their enemies bow at their appearance, may they be on top and not beneath, first and not the last.
Your plans and purpose shall be fulfilled. They will mount up like the eagle, they will run and not be weary, because the will continually wait on you.
Let all You put in them that have not come up to their realization be made manfest for Your glory.
Goodness and mercy as they are twins You set up, to follow us ,shall not cease from following them.
Daddy, may they not work and another eat, may they sow and reap the fruit of their labour, as they build, may they inhabit their houses.
Father, thou who does exceedingly and aboundanly, will show Yourself strong and mighty on behalf of Your children.
It is not going to be by our power nor by our might but by Your Spirit.
Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard neither has anyone conceived what the Lord has promised to do for His own.Manifest Yourself o Lord.
I am greatful to all and will continue to lift all who have visited and are yet to visit this site. God prosper, enrich, prevail in whatever situation you in now,give you understanding in the decision you are about to take, empower and enable you to overcome all that put you down.
God bless you as i read from you next year.
It is well with you.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.

WHAT DOES CHRITSMAS MEAN TO YOU?

Christmas, means a lot of things to different people.
Yesterday was our carol nite in church and the same question had to be given explanation to by all invited guests.
Some said, it is a time of love and giving. Others said, it is a time to reflect on what has tranpired a through the year, that is a time of somber reflection.
While someone, i believe was a joke said its her time of changing dresses, which she actually did all through the progrmme.
Christmas, i will say means diffrent things to diffrent people.
Christmas to me, means a Saviour came into this world, born to die.
Jesus was born at a time like this some thousand years ago.
Christmas is all about Jesus, who came to take my place of punishment.
Christmas is all about the gift of God through His only son to mankind
Christmas is all about a son that was born to take away the sins of the whole world.(sounds too easy to those who would not believe the word)
Christmas is all about our Redemer, Counselor, Prince of Peace, Everlasting Father, Emmanuel,
A friend that is closer than a brother, my Intersessor, Rose of sharon,
Christmas is all about His love showered on me, that i did not need to die in my sin.
Christmas is all about Jesus who has all figured out in all l went through, i am going through and all i will ever go through.
Christmas, makes me celebrate Him all through the year knowing with full assurance that He truly was born and i have all that it takes to believe that my life is worth living because He was born.
Please my beloved lets all rejoice in this period that the whole world acknowlegde that a saviour was born, even the atmospere during this period is different from any other time of the year.
Christmas should be the time all the fruits of the Holy Spirit shoild be allowed to operate hundred percent in our lives. Please through your comment, let me know what christmas mean to you.
Have a merry christmas and a blessed take over new year

Why I Believe In God

I BELIEVE IN GOD ...because He saved me, died in my place, paid the price i could not pay.
I BELIEVE IN GOD... because i was totally lost and He came looked for me and found me. God has been so faithful to me. He gave me beautiful babes as children, wonderful husband as husband, very clever grandson and caring son in-law.
I BELIEVE IN GOD....because without Him, my life would have ended a long time ago and i would have been roaming this world aimlessly.
He made me trust Him when i could not even trust myself, He saved me from even me.
When icould not see, he opened my eyes to behold what good thoughts He has for me.
I BELIEVE IN GOD
because what He allowed me to go through that i saw destroyed or killed others, i came out victorious. If not for His provision, i would have been in the backside of nowhere, visionless allowing situation to master me rather than the other way round.
I BELIEVE GOD
because of His promises that gives hope to me to face the future and whaever challenges i might meet. If He was faithfull to deliever me in the sixth times, He is able to do it again in the seventh. He is the God of my yesterday, today and my tommorrow. My believe in God has indeed lifted me above only and not beneath, made to be first indeed. He holds the future in His hand and who is wise that will not believe in Him, for He makes a way where there is no way, water came out of the rock by His command, mountains are made plain, valleys are filled for His love for His children.
I BELIEVE IN GOD
because He started me up in this life's journey and He knows the way that i take. His promises never....never....never fail so my believe in Him will be forever.
LET US CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN GOD

IT IS FOR YOUR INCREASE

I want to say thanks to God who in His infinite mercies reveal to His people what is to come in this end time.
The world is panicking because of the econonomy downturn and the heart of many are failing.
As the people of God, we should be positioned to walk into our God given inheritance.
Are we prepared or we are looking at the situation of the world like those who have no hope are doing?
Fear is number one weapon the enemy will use to move us from the place of faith. We should not entertain fear in any way, like it is said,fear means false evidence appearing real. It is just a weapon in the enemy's hand to make us tremble
How do we position ourselves to move into our increase?
If we have been faithful in our tithing, He has promised to remove the hand of the enemy from our stuff.
Have we been faithful in a those little things they might look so?
If we have been, He has also promised that we will pursue, overtake and recover ALL.
All what? All and all you know the enemy stole from you.
Your job, relationship, time education health,money and all that you know of.
Let us start speaking faith into our situation and not dwell on the news around us.
We should not live in denial, there are facts on ground and everyone can see it, but i know that only the TRUTH of His word will stand the test of the times we are living in.
Confess as often as possible that all the happenning is for you increase.
God wants us to take over and see the positive side of the events on ground.
Let us seek His face more at this period and dwell more on His ord for direction.
I have a very positive conviction in my heart that all the shaking is for our INCREASE.

ABRAHAM' BLESSING

Im sorry for staying away for so long.
I was reading through Zoe's blog and got inspired to do this.
Abraham's blessing is ours only and if we can do all he did that retained the blessing all through his life time.
There was a time i was afraid that what blessing has been given to me might be over and what will be my lot.
God that has been ever faithful called my attention to Abraham. He asked me to read through His word, if abraham was ever poor all through his life time.I should also know that he passed down his blessing, not only to his biological children,that all those who through faith in our Lord are partakers of Abraham's blessing.
That led me to studying the things Abraham did that made him retained God's blessing through generations.
OBEDIENCE;
He was obedience to the commanndment of God.Obedience is not questioning all He ask us to do. We obey even when it looks stupid and we can not make any meaningful thing out of what He ask us to do.
GIVING;
Abraham gave according to how he was prospered.We should recognise that what we have in the fist instance was given to us. We shuld not withhold when we are presentend with the opportunity to give. It should not be only money that could be giving. What about our time, encouragement, having a listening ear and also all that is within your power to give.
FRIENDLINESS:
Yes o, Abraham made himself available for God to be his friend. God seeks to be our friend, but most times, we are unavailable.How do we treat those we call our friends? we make out time for them, not a one time in a long while thing, but quality time.We try to be with them alone for a while to disuss matters that are so important.
TRUSTING:
He trusted God in everything. He was always belving that if He said it, He will make it good. Let us trust Him in all His leading.
My dear blogger, i am a living testimony that,after taking time to read and follow these principles myfear disappeared and even at the face of a time of lack,i still hold unto His word that never fails.
So, i do not only sing Abraham's blessing are mine but live like Abraham lived.

GIVE GOD THANKS

I will thank Him today because He gave me the wisdom not to be foolish, and do things that would have landed me in jail
I will thank Him today because of the wisdom to eat right,and i am not in the hospital.
I will thank Him because of the wisdom to be prudent,and has not been pronounced bankrupt.
I will thank Him for wisdom to raise my children in His fear that they have not gone in the way of drugs and all the vices.
I will thank Him for wisdom not to leave and abandon my place of assignment when it was not easy to remain.
I will thank today for the wisdom, to be cheerful even when all i feel like doing is to frown.
I will thank Him today for the wisdom to know i ought to give thanks in everything.
I will thank Him for wisdom for this end time that everything that is called wisdom of the world is failing and i can understand.
I will thank Him for wisdom to follow on His call to continue to seek Him in all the confused situation.
I will thank Him for wisdom to know who He is and what He has made me for.
Most especially, i will thank Him today for saving me in His wisdom and mighty way that His wisdom given to me is not in vain.
Please join me today and specifically thank Him for the wisdom He gave you to live the life your are living now. God is worthy of our thanksgiving at all times.
Thank God for all the foolish things that we found ourselves in, that would have messed our lives up, but by His grace we have not been consumed

A FRIEND LIKE JESUS

I wonder how my life would have been without Him.
I am sitting here thinking back and looking forward. Life has a lot of mysteries that we mortal beings can and will not be able to fathom.Yes o, if you are wondering what i have to give today to inspire you please read on.
I am getting to that age, well i call it the age of God's favour, where most of my mates give up on life. It is sometimes called empty nest and some say it is fill with crises. What about the changes in the biological arrangement by the Maker. I want to say here thank you my Daddy for you are wonderful to be praised.
God has a purpose for all His created beings and that is why i can say i am very relevant to this age and time. Confusion most times visit you at the period of life, you ask all the questions, how did all what you have gone through and still going through happened? The hand of God should be seen in all we go through in life.
You are what God designed you to be and if only you trust God enough to believe you are you and not a carbon copy, honestly, life's journey becomes easy.
Jesus is that trusted friend that explain it all when all the confusion set in .He is the one that takes you for who you are. He understands your frame of mind even when all your loved ones think your are nut. He will deliver you out all the pains of live. What about the biological set up? He put all together in the first place, so setting them right is all He is known to do.
Today, if you find yourself confused as to a decision that is crucial to make, sick and tired of being sick, not knowing when the next money to settle your bills will come from, you are misunderstood by all you think should understand and care.
I want you to turn to the best friend who has all the answers to all you go through Jesus the perfect friend to stick to.Where would i be indeed if not for Jesus.

Love Your Life.

Thank God for the life He's given you.I was expecting love from people who i thought know me and will respond to my love to them It never was to be and i felt so bad that i started abusing myself emotionally. I looked down at my person and told myself that i had problem that has made me unlovable to people.I even thought about myself not going to achieve anything because, i thought love was not being shown to me by those i loved most.This went on for a long time that it took only God's intervention to make me look inwards and know that loving myself was to be the first thing .My loving myself will give me in insight into who i am and what i actually need.Your life is worth much more than what you think it is. Loving me is going to help me not to look out to be loved. Those that i looked up to for love will appreciate the love i have for myself and can love me for loving myself.My life is much more than what i think and what people around me perceive.So my encouragement to you today, is love your life and yourself because God your maker love you so much that He gve His life as a ransome for you.I equally found out that the one you loo up to for love might be battling to loving his/herself. This life of ours is worth loving and living it without high expectation from others. God bless you as you start loving who you are

IT IS WELL WITH YOU

It is indeed well with you.Did i just write that? Yes i say it is well with you. I know your saying only if she knows what i am going through,she will not say that,or the terrible situation you are in. The facts remains that whatever we face today, and right now your reading this blog, it's an indication that is well with you.God has your life planned out, and the mere fact that He allows you to go through pain sometimes, does not mean that it is not well with you. He said in His word that His thoughts towards you are not of evil but of good, to give you a hope and a future.So if He said it, then there is hope for you even in the situation you find yourself.Has all hell opened their war against you? I said relax and and see the salvation of the Lord in your situation.The bible said we should watch and pray. The situation in your life might look too mighty to be resolved.I want you to take it to God in prayer and watch out as to how God will turn it around for your own good. You should never loose hope, if you do not give up and pesevre. you will definitetly see the end of what He is trying to take you to.So tell yourself that it is well with you. Your confession lifts you higher above your situation for God's miraclous intervention. Praise God for your situation and reflect and see the way and what you will get out of the whole issue. God bless you as you continue to depend on Him to see you through.IT IS WELL WITH YOU.

Thought For Today

It's been a little of concern to me, in a lot of events unfolding in the lives of some of the great preachers we admire and sometimesw adore.We hear marriage failure,expensive lifestyle,fighting and some other unthinkable happennings.The good book has all these vices penned down a long time ago.We are to go back to the owners manual and find out truth for living in this end time.Do not let your heart fail, trust still in Him who has called you, and even encourage you to look upon Him. He is the only one who will never, i say never ever fail you.I love to study the Word because that is why i get all my strenght from.This has made me to know that, depending on the arm of flesh will definitly fail us.What happens when someone you so trust, that is always preaching, and penning down stuff for you to read, and you suddenly hear,or find out that they are not living what they write or preach about? Do you get discourage and shun the way of the Lord? Pack up your faith and tell yourself that, if the can not make it, who are you to continue. Well, i have come to encourage you that it is the sign that the ende is drawing close. We should not faint or loose our confidence in God because if we remain steadfast, we will reap if we faint not. Give more time to the reading of the Word than you give to other human writings. You will discover that, there is nothing that comes your way, or the happenings concerning those you admire that are failing that cause you to draw back. Also i will encourage us to pray more for those tha bring us the Word, that the enemy of our soul will not remove them from their first love, not being puffed up by their achievement and alowing pride, which brings many to their downfall. I pray that we will all be faithful till His coming. God bless you.

time of reflection

Happy new year to all you God's people. Thank God we made it into a new year and a time of new begining. I have to say im very sorry for not posting my inspired words for those who they are meant for. We should take time out and reflect on the things we did last year that did not testify of all of His goodness and glory.Looking back and moving forword is my slogan. i will not allow those things that were weights the past year to drag my upword movements this year.I am becoming wiser everyday,because the good book has it that when we number our days, we will apply our hearts unto wisdom.Please let us not repeat and stumble again with things that were not helping us to reach the highest call of God for our lives. The plan and purpose of God for us in this year of new begining will come to pass. We will attain the highest place of all the blessing nof God for our lives.THINK BACH AND LOOK FORWORD. God bless you.

How do you feel

Today is another day in my life and i am going to enjoy it no matter how or what i feel.
Why do we always feel up today and down tommorrow? Yeah, i guess a lot of people will come up with different ideas. Sorry, i have read quite a number of books on this and heard a lot said about it, all the same my feelings especailly those that tend to make us unhappy, unaccomplished and so moody that most times we do not want to continue to live. Lives in itself has alot to through our way and if we dont start taking charge of our lives, the enemy of our soul will definetly mess us up.I have decided that a day at a time will help me overcome a lot that the enemy of my soul has lined up for me.
I now wake up every morning with this big smile on my face for my Lord and saviour who has made it possible for me to get up this morning. Do we know that, that on its own is a sign that we will overcome whatever the feeling that might come on that day. I am taking charge of my feelings because if i don't, it will mess me up. And i found out that it is not only me that it will mess up but my love ones and tose who have my best interest at heart.
Those feelings that are very negative should not be allowed to go on unchecked in our lives. but those that benefit us and God also has put in us to help, should not be suppresed.
Always put your feelings under check , this will help you advance in whatever you have planned to do in your live

Waiting

We all at one point in life or another are waing for something.Most times waiting becomes so unbearable that we give up.
Life itself is filled with a lot of waiting experiences.The time of conception, our mothers waited until the due time.The baby in the womb could not be forced out no matter how inconvinence it seemed to the mother during the pregnancy.Although there are times when it becomes a matter of life and death that the pregnancy is terminated.But this is not what i am writing about.
The delivery time is waited on, and even during the labour of the baby, waiting is also of an essence.Well i know by now, you are wondering why is she using this analogy when all you care to know is how do you wait.Please read along, it will relieve your period of waiting at the end of all my writing.
I too, had to learn that being anxious over certain issues in life is a big waste of time and effort.The baby, as i pointed out, wiil be delivered when it is time, allowed period of time to learn to eat solid food even when the parents wants the diaper period to be over.There comes the time to teach the child,time for the child to become independent,time for every developmental period of the child's life is waited upon.
All of life issues are waited on and this sort of baffles me when i have something to accomplish, i start fretting, getting myself worked up or being unnecessarily anxious even when i know that my life has been planned by God.
All our anxiety only proves that we no longer believe what God has said concerning our situation, and also we want a quicker way out of the situation.
By nature, i am not a patient person. If i want anything done, it has to be by my time.This has put me under unplesant situation that has caused me alot of heartache.So God allowed situation in my life that have been beyond my contro, to teach me to wait on Him. I know the same applies to you because we are all made in His image and likeness. Just think about this for a moment, most of the things God has allowed you to wait for, if they had materialised as at the time we wanted them ,most likely that they would not have been the best of what God has planned out for us. In some cases, they would have destroyed us.
The most serious case scenario i would want to use here is about the single.The guy or the lady is believingGod for a partner and it is not forth coming, especialy if you are a believer and you are trusting God who sees the end from the beginning to choose for you.There is the tormmenting voice that will start giving you all sorts of idea,especially when time is ticking so fast, you might want to do it your way which might not be His way and then end up getting into more pain than they expected.
Waiting, is a time of preparation for the things we are waiting for.It is a time of serious reflection and a sobre period.It is not a time to accept something less than your expectation. If we have to wait longer to get what we set out to get in the first instance, i believe that the waiting period will no longer matter.Our parents rejoice to see us when after nine months in the womb,no matter how long the labour period lasted, the baby is born and the pain the woman felt is easily forgotten because a baby is born.
God will srenghten us in our time of waiting., no matter what we are all waiting for, we shall all smile and rejoice and also, encourage others who would not want to wait.
Anything that is waited for has always been the best, so i want to encourage us to wait, wait and wait. God who says in His word that they that wait upon Him will renew their strength, will definetly strenghten us during our waitin period.

God reigns

I had a lot of work to do the other day,and did not have any time to waste.Doing a DIY (do it yourself) was used by God to teach me that He truly reigns in all our situation.
The bedroom cabinet that was to be fixed was not suppose to last the time it did. But as we were two people fixing it,we found out that interpreting the instruction manual was not so understandable as we thought it should be.The instuction was to be followed step by step, and the next level was not to be fixed unless the previous was corret.But somewhere along the fixing , we could not get it right because we had bypass maybe, a little screw, and we spent more time on that level than was necessary. Do you know what?We became very tired and worn out, just because we did not want to start all over to get it right. Eventually we came to the end of the wardrobe, and it sat down there, very beautiful.
At the end of the day,(like i would normally reflect) my mind went to the time we could not make any headway, and then we taught we should pack it up for another day.Is it not truly the way we want to abandon a lot of life issues that look as if they cannot be achieved? I also saw the way that our lack of patience and looking inward allow us to waiste precious time in this world trying to find our bearing. Let us go back to the owner's manual,the Bible and study it, to find out how He wants us not to go through the pain of life for too long.I also learnt that, there are a lot of little things that we over look in the affairs of life,that, will cause us not to reach our greatest potential.Time will be saved,most pain would be avoided,more would be achieve when we spend time enough to understand what God wants our lives to be like if time is spent in His manual. God reigns in that situation you are going through right now, all you need to do is to check out THE OWNER'S MANUAL.

The commandments,statuesand the judgements

The Bible is a beautiful palace,built up out of sixty-six blocks of marbles--its separate books. In the first chapter of Genesis we enter the vestibules,which is filled with the mighty acts of creation.

This gives access to the law courts, the five books of Moses. Passing through these we come to the picture gallery of the history books. Here we find hung upon the walls scenes of battlefields, representations of heroic deeds, and portraits of eminent men belonging to the early days of the world's history.

Beyond the picture gallery we find the philosopher's chamber, the Book of Job. Passing on we enter the music room,the Book of Psalms, where we listen to the grandest strains that ever fell on human ears. Then we come to the business office , the Book of Proverbs, where right in the center of the room stands facing us the motto; Righteousness exalts a nation ; but sin is a reproach to any people."

From the business office we pass into the chapel Ecclesiastes, or the preacher in his pulpit, and then into the conservatory, the Song of Solomon, with the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valley, and all manner of fine perfumes, fruits and flowers. Finally we reach the observatory, the prophets, with their telescopes fixed on near and distant stars, and all directed toward the bright and morning star that was soon to arise.

Crossing the court we come to the audience chamber of the King, the Gospels, where we find four lifelike portraits of the Apostles, and beyond that the correspondence room, the Epistles, where we see Paul and peter and James and Judas busy at their desks. If you would know what they are writing about, their Epistles are open for all to study.

Before leaving we stand for a moment in the outside gallery,the Revelation, where we look upon some striking pictures of the judgement to come and the glories to be revealed, concluding with an awe- inspiring picture of the throne room of the King. I

am encouraging you to give time to study the Bible and you will understand the time and season we are in. God bless you as you study.

WHAT IS A FRIEND?

A group of friends were gathered together for a time of social fellowship. The conversation drifted to the subject of friendship and an athlete said; "In my opinion, a friend is a balancing pole that enables us to walk the tightrope of life without falling." The physician said,"I believe a friend may be liken to a soft bandage and a soothing ointment for the cuts and bruises of life." To a botanist it seemed that " a friend is a vine that clings to us and hides the dispenses and rough places of life," to which a florist added;"yes, and the greater the ruin, the closer a friend clings." "A friend is a golden link in the chain of life," said a jeweler." A woman in mourning responded, "A friend is one who comes in when the whole world goes out." "The best friend of all," said a white-haired man of eighty, "is Jesus, who said, greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,"
A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you all the same. You cannot buy a friend. They are God-given and their friendship lasts throughout life. If you have one today, thank God f0r him or her. And if you do not have a true friend like the different suggested meaning, i pray that God will make one available to you.We need a friend in this journey of life, that is if you already have Jesus as your personal friend. If you have not made Jesus your personal friend, you might get friends in this world who will not allow you to know Him.