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Remembering




January 13, 2016
"I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also."  - St. John 14:18-19


Dear Friend,
The Lord has a way of reminding us.  On days when I feel alone and sad, the Holy Spirit will deposit  a song in my heart: "Because he lives I can face tomorrow, because He lives all fear is gone...I know Who holds my future and life is worth the living, just because He lives!"  The presence of the Lord's Spirit does not stop there, I can hear Him whisper, the truth of the matter has been written -- "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more, but ye see me; because I live..."  - St. John - 14:18-19 cf   

 Today is one of those days when I needed to be reminded.  The reminders for times like this are not entered in my multiple email calendars.  There is no material alarm clock that can stir me to action.  "In times like these I need a Savior.  In times like these, I need an Anchor.
All of a sudden I lean in and listen closely and Holy Spirit, The Anointed Reminder will issue an alert through the memory of a scripture or a faint echo of a song.  Comforted by the Comforter on days when I feel alone He reminds me that I am not.  He comes to me as only He can and suddenly I find myself remembering....I am never alone.



God bless!
Sis. Stephanie

 Blest Be the Tie that Binds - John Fawcett
(Public Domain)
1 Blest be the tie that binds
our hearts in Christian love;
the fellowship of kindred minds
is like to that above. 
2 Before our Father's throne
we pour our ardent prayers;
our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
our comforts and our cares. 
3 We share our mutual woes,
our mutual burdens bear,
and often for each other flows
the sympathizing tear. 
4 When we are called to part,
it gives us inward pain;
but we shall still be joined in heart,
and hope to meet again. 
5 This glorious hope revives
our courage by the way;
while each in expectation lives
and waits to see the day. 
6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
and sin, we shall be free;
and perfect love and friendship reign
through all eternity. 

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