HEARING GOD?

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BE SILENT. TAKE TIME OUT TO LISTEN.

Lord, please help me now to set aside the busyness of life, to ignore my own desires, and simply listen to what it is YOU have to say to me today. Thank you Lord.

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FROM THE WORD

“And now this admonition is for you, O priests. If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not set your heart to honor me." (Malachi 2:1-2)

"Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”" (Matthew 17:4-5)

"Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins. (James 4:13-17)

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KNOWING GOD
351. The more I discover about God the more I realise there is to know.

352. The closer I get to God, the more I realise how big He is and how small I am.

353. While God graciously accepts me as I am, His desire is for me to become more like Him.

354. When God moves, the results are beyond our imagination. Why then do we try and do His work ourselves?

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CRANWELL'S CARTOON

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. 6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had
receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find
no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface
of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his
hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak
was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had
receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the
dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. (Genesis 8:1-12)

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FROM YOU - TO ME - TO YOU

A FREUDIAN SLIP!

Hi David:
I have been faithfully reading your Monday e-mails for a long time, and have been amazed at the lack of typographical errors in them. However, last week you wrote "Let's look past our BED experiences with others." Could this have been a "Freudian Slip".

Keep up the good work, and God bless.
Roy Grant
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(Language Recordings Int'l)
#6-120 Lancing Drive
Hamilton, ON L8W 3A1
Website: www.LRICanada.
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David

I really hope that's a typo in there...
Today, I want to encourage us all to remember that there remains one we can always trust. Let's look past our bed experiences with others. People, no matter how perfect they appear to be, are always capable of letting us down. For not one of us has yet reached perfection. Not me, nor you.
Tee Hee

Bless you, Brother!
Cleve
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Just proves that I have some way to go to reach perfection yet. Particularly when waitng for the wife to come home! A Mind Checker as well as a Spell Checker needed! David

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TUESDAY TEACHINGS

THE PROPHETIC FEASTS OF THE LORD - Series 2 - THE AUTUMN FEASTS
Part 3 of 10 - THE PATTERN OF THINGS TO COME

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LAUGHING AT OURSELVES

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*** "Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others." ***

378. SUPERBOWL XXXIII - AFTERMATH
After John Elway dies and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows John a tiny two-bedroom house with a raggedy Broncos banner hanging from the front porch. "This is your house, John. Most people don't get their own houses up here," God says.

John looks at the house, then turns around and sees one sitting on top of the hill. It's a huge two-story mansion with white marble columns, flowing fountains, a rolling lawn, and splendid patios. Flags for the State of Georgia line both sides of the sidewalk, and a huge Atlanta Falcons banner hangs between the marble columns.

"Thanks for the house, Lord," says John, "but let me ask you a question. I get this dinky little two-bedroom house, but Chris Chandler gets a mansion with brand new Falcon banners and flags flying all over the place. Why is that?"

God looks at him seriously for a moment, then with a smile God says, "That's not Chandler's house. It's mine."

377. NOT TO BE OUTDONE
During Sunday services, a Pastor is so overwhelmed with religious fervor that he drops to his knees, puts his forehead to the ground and says "Before you Lord, I am nothing."

Not to be outdone, the Deacon also gets down on his knees, puts his forehead to the floor and says, "Before you Lord, I am nothing."

Moved by their humility, a layman in the fourth row steps into the aisle. He falls down on his knees, puts his forehead to the ground and says, "Before you Lord, I am nothing."

The Deacon, noticing the guy, elbows the Pastor. "So," he whispers. "Look who thinks he's nothing."

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FACTS FOR FUN

LAST WEEKS QUESTION: What animal can see in two different directions at the same time?

ANSWER: The chameleon has eyes that move independently. Thus a chameleon can see in two different directions at the same moment.

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: Germany's invasion of what nation ignited the Second World War in Europe?

Answer Next Week.

SOME FUN FACTS

666. NAME CHANGE
The weasel, which is brown in summer, is known as an ermine in the winter, once its fur turns white. (A subtle variation on the coat of many colours.)

667. WALKING ON WATER - LILIES
The giant water lily Victoria Regia has leaves that can grow as big as eight feet across and so they are heavy enough to support the weight of a small child or animal. (Giant, not ‘liliput’!)

668. MISTAKEN GENIUS
Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Issac Newton had trouble in school. Just goes to show that genius is not always evident to those who are trained to develop it. (Probably knew more than their teachers anyway.)

A WORD PUZZLE FOR YOU
Make another word from this word using all the letters.

MANTRAP

Answer at the end of A David Musing

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JESUS AND SMALL GROUPS

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DO YOU KNOW? (About Water)

True or false: Noah brought two of every kind of animal onto the ark before the flood started?

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THIRTY 'FAST FACTS' ABOUT THE BIBLE

1. How many books are in the Bible?
The Bible contains 66 books, divided among the Old and New Testaments.

2. How many books are in the Old Testament?
There are 39 books in the Old Testament.

3. How many books are in the New Testament?
There are 27 books in the New Testament.

4. What does ‘testament’ mean?
Testament means ‘covenant’ or ‘contract.’

5. Who wrote the Bible?
The Bible was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by over 40 different authors from all walks of life: shepherds, farmers, tent-makers, physicians, fishermen, priests, philosophers and kings. Despite these differences in occupation and the span of years it took to write it, the Bible is an extremely cohesive and unified book.

6. Which single author contributed the most books to the Old Testament?
Moses. He wrote the first five books of the Bible, referred to as the Pentateuch; the foundation of the Bible.

7. Which single author contributed the most books to the New Testament?
The Apostle Paul, who wrote 14 books (over half) of the New Testament.

8. When was the Bible written?
It was written over a period of some 1,500 years, from around 1450 B.C. (the time of Moses) to about 100 A.D. (following the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ).

9. What is the oldest book in the Old Testament?
Many scholars agree that Job is the oldest book in the Bible, written by an unknown Israelite about 1500 B.C. Others hold that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) are the oldest books in the Bible, written between 1446 and 1406 B.C.

10. What is the youngest book in the Old Testament?
The book of Malachi, written about 400 B.C.

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PETS RULE!

POLITICALLY CORRECT TERMS FOR CAT OWNERS
- My cat does not barf hairballs, he is a floor/rug redecorator.

- My cat does not break things, she helps gravity do its job.

- My cat does not fear dogs, they are merely sprint practice tools.

- My cat does not gobble, she eats with alacrity.

- My cat does not scratch, he is a furniture/rug/skin ventilator.

- My cat is not a "shedding machine", she is a hair relocation stylist.

- My cat is not a "treat-seeking missile", she enjoys the proximity of food

- My cat is not a chatterbox, she is advising me on what to do next.

- My cat is not a dope addict, she is catnip appreciative.

- My cat is not a ruthless hunter, she is a wildlife control expert.

- My cat is not evil, she is badness enhanced.

- My cat is not fat, he is mass enhanced.

- My cat is not hydrophobic, she has an inability to appreciate moisture.

- My cat is not underfoot, she is shepherding me to my next destination (which should always be the food dish).

INDEPENDENT?
In his younger days our golden retriever Catcher often ran away when he had the chance. His veterinarian's office was about a mile down the road, and Catcher would usually go there. The office staff knew him and would call me to come pick him up. One day I called the vet to make an appointment for Catcher's yearly vaccine.

"Will you bring him," asked the receptionist, "or will he come on his own?"

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BIBLE BITS (The 'Minor' Prophets)

ZEPHANIAH

A contemporary of Jeremiah, Zephaniah's prophecy came in the years prior to the fall of Jerusalem. He talked of the coming day of the Lord, which for Jerusalem, was just around the corner. Yet he also spoke of the glorious long-term future that God had for His people. For a remnant would survive the day of Judgement.

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A REVELATION OF... THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS

I have never been happy with the explanations I have heard of the meaning of the changing of the water into wine. So I asked Jesus! And He told me! Find out what He said through the Holy Spirit.

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A DAVID MUSING

Of course, the main event for me this week has been the homecoming of my wife Kathy, from Scotland.

The major problem with air travel is the need to adjust to the different time zone. Particularly so from Europe to New Zealand, where day is night and night is day. One of the things Kathy has noticed, other than sleeping at the wrong time, has been the extreme differences in day lengths between the two. For Scotland is approaching their longest day around 22 June, while for us in the Southern Hemisphere, it is nearing the shortest day. The world is truly a small and amazing place in these days of air travel.

A hundred years ago it took 6 months on a sailing ship to get from Britain to NZ. Now it takes but 24 hours or so of flying time. What will be next?

Today's photo shows 3 generations of the Tait family. Kathy with our son Andrew, And the 3 'bairns' Eva, Nathan and Charis.

So until next week...

MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOU BLESS GOD.

His servant and yours

David Tait

Today's 'Word Puzzle' Answer: RAMPANT

TODAY'S 'DO YOU KNOW?' ANSWER: FALSE: The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.” 5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. (Genesis 7:1-10)

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