WORD

“And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.”  *

Gen 1.19

*  A LITERAL, 24 hour day – otherwise the Day of Rest (& worship) loses its meaning.

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Edwards Quote

“Never do anything I would not want to be doing the last hour of my life.”

– Jonathan Edwards

>> This, Friend, will eliminate some events attended by people professing to be “holy.” <<

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God CAN kick satan out!!!

Is satan in the midst of a family problem?

Don’t give up  –  ask God to kick him out!

God kicked satan out of heaven;

He can kick him out of your current problem.

– eab, 2/17/15

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Shadow

SHADOW  ^[1]    

Who has not heard

Of a shadow, twice the size of a bird?

That soul has never known

Morning sun before it is grown.

– eab, 2/19/2004

^[1] Penned after seeing a bird from my office window (Gospel Center), facing South Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona.

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Author of “…Ninety & Nine” – died

ON THIS DATE 

Elizabeth Cecelia Douglas Clephane died, 2/19/1869, near Melrose, Scotland, the 3^rd daughter of Andrew Clephane, Sheriff of Fife & Kinross. She lived most of life at her birth site 30 miles southeast of Edinburgh. Wrote “Beneath the Cross of Jesus” & “There Were Ninety & Nine.” Clephane was born 6/18/1830.

Sankey spotted “…Ninety & Nine” in a Brit newspaper while with Moody in Scotland, tore out the poem, put it in his pocket & forgot it.  That same day as Moody closed a service (Edinburgh) he asked Sankey to sing. Ira was caught by surprise but the Holy Ghost reminded him of what was in his pocket.  He brought it out & with a prayer, proceeded to composed a tune AS he sang – his first attempt at writing hymn tunes.

“There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold. But one was out on the hills away,

Far off from the gates of gold. Away on the mountains wild and bare.

Away from the tender Shepherd’s care. Away from the tender Shepherd’s care.”

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