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“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” 

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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

tags: strength, worry

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“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: faith, future, god, trust

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“This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

tags: faith, inspirtational

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“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: anxiety, worry

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“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”
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“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
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“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
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tags: forgiveness, hiding-place

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“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

tags: christianity, love

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“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”
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“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
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tags: prayer

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“Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

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“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
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“Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.”
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“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”
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“Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

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“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.”
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“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
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“In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

tags: christianity, truth

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“And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?"
He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor.
Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said.
I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.
It's too heavy," I said.
Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

tags: childhood, father, knowledge

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“Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

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“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus”
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tags: christian, faith, joy

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“There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”
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“There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no placess that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

tags: god-s-will

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“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: christian, god, jesus, pray, prayer

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“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
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“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

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“God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

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“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

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“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”
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God is working in [me]

For God is working in [me], giving [me] the desire and the power to do what pleases Him. (Phil 2:13)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1l-fEVg0m0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAIWZ5QzP48

1 Cor. 12, 14.

Yesterday's and Last week Bible study was on 1Cor. 12 and 14. I will post the some of the questions. Please let me know if you have been checking the post and willing to do this.

Blessings.

We can start next week as well, since today is almost the end of the week. Have a blessed day.

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Mat 6: 33

How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. Ps. 119:9

Restarting the Bible study...

Hello!

We have been discussing to restart the Bible study. From our previous trial we learned that having a lot of chapters to read a day has not been working for most of us. I am thinking to post the Weekly Bible study questionnaires from Thursdays' Bible study group. The readings  are short  which would be very easy to accomplish through out the week.  This allow us to learn the scripture better depth, in addition, our discussion could be an online support group to our Thursday discussion which I really enjoy very much. It is just an hour and fifteen minutes. I get a lot out of the discussions. This group can have further discussion since we don't have as much time limitation. Let me know your thoughts.

May God continually bless you.

Sandwalk: The Anfinsen Experiment in Protein Folding

Sandwalk: The Anfinsen Experiment in Protein Folding

                        2013 የምስክርነት አገልግሎት ራዕይ እና ተልኮ 


                         የአገልግሎታቺን መሪ ጥቅስ
2 He told them,  "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. 3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.  Luke 10:2-4

             Vision (ራእይ )
1. የሚድኑትን ነፍሳት በመንፈሳዊ ህይወት እንዲያድጉ ማድረግ እና መበራታታት
2. በሕይወታችን መንፈሳዊ ለውጥ እና እድገት ማሳየት
3. በወንድማማችነት ህብረት እርስበራስ ለመተናነፅ እና ለመባረክ
4. በፀሎታችን የእግዚያብሔር ክብር ወይም ጣት እንዲገለጥ
                ተልዕኮ (mission )
1.በከተማችን ላሉ ላልዳኑት ነፍሳት ወንጌልን ማድረስ
2.የክርስቶስን ታላቁን ተልዕኮ በከተማችን ላሉት አልፎ ለፍጥረት ሁሉ ማድረስ (mark 16:15)
3. የታላቁን ተልዕኮ አገልግሎታችን ፍሬያማ ሆኖ ማየት

the chalk short movie but with good message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b2bVGsR1mw

What Do You have in Mind?

Hello Everyone!
I have noticed most of us don't get to post our comments as we used to. It seemed ,in these past few months, we got caught up doing school works and opt-out to follow the bible reading planner. I though about if we get to reading one chapter a day instead of the two or three, which was on the calendar, that might help us to keep in touch with the daily bible reading planner and also to publish comments daily. It is one chapter a day after all. 
       The actual plan was to finish reading the bible in a year( if I get this correctly) and the calendar we have been using was made for that purpose. If we all agree to this comment or come up with one we can stick to, we will need to make a new calendar. Ayan you will:) Let me know if you guys have something in mind.

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Eden

http://www.rethamcpherson.com/RetahsTestimonyFullVersion/tabid/90/Default.aspx

check out true story about 12 years old story. We really need to be ready for a coming King!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8w5rF6UPxI&feature=player_embedded 

Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html

Bible Reading Planner 6th Month

 

Judges Chpater 17

A Levite

Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim ² said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have that silver with me; I took it.”

Reading this passage of the chapter, I wondered if Micah had stolen the eleven hundred shekels of silver form his mother or he just took them, with good intentions, and forgot to mention that to his mother. I am not quite sure about it. I’ve noticed he returned back all of the shekels of silver that he took away from his mother, once he heard her utter a curse, to a person who took them.

After he returned them back to his mother, this is what she did.

⁴ So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah’s house.

Why idol? Isn’t she a believer: what about Micah himself, why would he allow an idol to be placed in his house? Later on the chapter, we noticed Micah himself made some gods and installed on his sons to be as his pries.

⁵ Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest. ⁶ In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

In the last paragraph, after Micah has installed the young Levite as his priest, he thought the Lord will now be good to him. Why did Micah thought the Lord would be good to him this time I don’t really know. Could Levite are those who are chosen to become a pries and serve the Lord? Is the Levite descendent of Aaron’s generations (those chosen by the Lord them to serve him in his house)?

I did a little search to find out why Micah had thought the Lord to be good to him this time as a result of his installation of the young Levite.  I found some bible versus that helped to clarify and answered some of my questions. Hope it will help you too as your read this part of the chapter.

¹² Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house. ¹³ And Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest.”

Here is the bible versus that I mentioned above.

The Levites then took on the duty of serving God. "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day" (Deuteronomy 10:8).

That service included serving the priests.

 "And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the work for the children of Israel in the tabernacle of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near the sanctuary" (Numbers 8:19).

You are good and that your Love endures forever!

Bible Reading Planner 5th Month

Be strong and courageous! Joshua 1

Joshua 1

5“No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. 6“Be strong and courageous, … 7“Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. 8“This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. 9“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

From previous books we have seen how God helped Moses, and delivered Israel. Now the great leader Moses has passed and Joshua is taking his place. Can you imagine how intimidating that could be. God understands and repeatedly tells Joshua to have courage, and to not be afraid. What made a difference with the leadership of Moses is that Moses depends on God and God was with Him.  The task is great for anybody, but only with God we are able to do.

As we go through life, we will face challenges. The challenge could come from other people, situations, or out limitations. Let us use those time to draw even more to God and trust Him. Let us meditate on His word everyday to know His will and approach to the throne of grace for strenth. As God used Joshua to help the Israelites to inherit His promises, may God continually be with us as we invite others to His kingdom.

Joshua 1:9

Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

Marrhew 28

18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the

 end of the age.”

My Thoughts on Act Chapter 16

16 Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek. ² The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. ³ Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

• As I was reading this part, I thought about how ones culture, traditions, custom, ethnic background, upbringings all such and more factors can contribute towards your acceptance in other societies that is totally different from your origination. In most culture, looking back in history, in most culture, a society preferred to accept people who have a common interest or resemblance in culture, customs  or belief system, though they different from them in terms their origination.  Other wise your would be out of the group and most likely not welcomed in the society and loose the freedom to practice your belief in general your rights. This seemed to be what happened to Timothy when he came to join the believers and work with Paul. The believers were in fact people who were saved and teaching the gospel of Christ to the Gentiles (non-believers) that you might think they wouldn’t do such kind of thing. But yeah they too didn’t not accept Timothy, since his father was a Greek man.  That is why Paul knew the intention of the believers and decided to circumcise Timothy so that he would join him in his journey and do the mission of God.

Interestingly, you might wonder why would Paul would do such thing since he knew that wouldn’t help Timothy to be “saved” as to that of what the believers were insisted that the Gentiles had to do. It is a great question to ask. It seemed Paul didn’t want to bring any more conflict in regard to the coming to Timothy in the mission work, with the believers since they already were in dispute with him about the same law, in regard of the Gentiles. It was an easy transition to have Timothy to be circumcised and have him to come along, so the believers wouldn’t have this issue against him.

The influence of Culture in Our Time: Past and Present

Yeah we live in a different culture, at different time period and in different society compared to what were in Paul’s and Timothy’s time. But we still see some customs that are deeply rooted in different culture, not necessary all good ones, in our times and generation as well. We might have come from different cultures and ethnic back ground.  You see such a stunning beauty and marvelous work of God, in diversity, among different nations and nationalities around the globe. However, you also see, in these days, how the spirit of evil one works hard to divided the children of God and have them not to work in love and harmony towards the same goal. That goal is not the “me” goal. It all goes back to only Christ, who is the only center of our life and foundation.  I, you we all are one in him! United we Stand! There is this scripture in the bible that I love so much. And  it says in  Galatians 3:28-29

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

All United in Christ!

All Sons and Daughters of Christ!

All one in Christ!

⁶ Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. ⁷ When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. ⁸ So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. ⁹ During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” ¹⁰ After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

·        You see the guidance and protection of the Holy spirit as they traveled from city to city and provinces to province, in different contents around the world. And also their obedience to the sprit of the Lord, not to do what he asked them not to.

¹³ On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. ¹⁴ One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.

• Lidya, “She was a worshiper of God”! Isn’t it lovely to be known to the world that you are a worshiper of God!!! I loved in passage. As I referred back to Lidya, I thought about what it is like to be known and called the “worshiper of God”. Reading this particular part of the chapter, I saw Liday as being symbolized as a woman is in her being is totally after God and he is a worshiper of Him. Her life was like an icon. In you time should you chose to be call the worshiper of God?!

⁶ Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. ¹⁷ She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.” ¹⁸ She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” At that moment the spirit left her.

• The fortune-telling lady who were predicting the future had (a spirit )that was enabling her to tell what was yet to come in the future, and earn a great deal of money for her owners. However, we see that the sprit that she had was not the spirit of God. Paul commanded the sprit that possessed her to live her body, in the name of Jesus Christ, and in fact she was set free from it.
• For my own amazement before she was set free, the spirit with in her made her follow Paul and Timothy, for many days, and was making her to testify, to others (people standing by: could be non-believers or believers), that the God these two men serve is the MOST HIGH GOD, and they are telling the way to be saved and take a part in God’s kingdom. Even the evil sprit can not withstand and be quite in the presence of the holy sprit!

Our God is an Awesome God!!!

¹⁹ When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.

²² The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods. ²³ After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.

²⁵ About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. ²⁶ Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose. ²⁷ The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸ But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!”

·        Reading this part of the chapter had brought tears into my eyes.  I kept asking myself who would choose to pray and sing hymns to God being in a place such that of where they were: after being striped down, bitten and tortured: really would I do it. Time: Midnight, place: prison, what they were doing: praying and singing hymns to God. Think of yourself in their place. How many times our heart chose to give thanks to the God and worship him when things went wrong totally in opposite direction in our life? Hmm….

·        Today is a new day and thanks to him he has made all things NEW!!!

·         As I was reading this part of the verse, I clearly saw a key point that is also a way out from what so ever things that surround our life. Worship the Lord all the time!!! If you’ve noticed, when Paul and Silas worshiped the Lord, not only the chains of Paul and Silas loose but also the other prisons who were observes/listeners of the worship that was sang by the two men, not participant. See we have been given a power to go beyond ourselves and even live to save others.

·        ምስጋና!!! Through it all: Never to be forgotten!

³³ At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized. ³⁴ The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole household.

• In this passage, you see the complete transformation of the Jailer’s heart, who was once participant of Paul and Silas’s imprisonment, by the holy spirit. He was once probably bitten these man or probably might have said mean things and treated them badly. However, once he knew the true and accepted Jesus Christ to be his Lord and savior, the word of God tells us how he was filled with joy because of he had come to believe in God. He became friends with Paul and Silas and even asked not order them anymore, what he should do to be saved. Act 16:29.

³⁵ When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: “Release those men.”

³⁷ But Paul said to the officers: “They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now do they want to get rid of us quietly? No! Let them come themselves and escort us out.”

• Even though both Paul and Sila’s were citizens of Roman, whom by law supposed to be treated  just like the other Romans and had a trial for them to be placed in a prison, they were tortured and placed in jail, for the name of Christ. It is evident
• It is evident in our century we see this kind of injustice happens all over around the world, and many men and women were given their life for the sake of spreading the gospel of Christ. I pray may the Lord comfort their family and give them strength.

⁴⁰ After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house, where they met with the brothers and sisters and encouraged them. Then they left.

• Importance of encouragement and follow up of each other and our brothers and sisters in Christ are important.
• I see how Paul and Silas were determined to do that by choosing to go to Lydia’s house, the lady who was called as the worshiper of God in the above verse, and encourage bothers and sisters whom they had met previously, after what they had been though.

Mission Accomplished!