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AriseandShine.org

June 2009

Burden-Bearing

6/30/2009

 
We then that are strong out to
bear the infirmities of the weak,
and not to please ourselves. 
Romans 15:1


I thank the Lord for the church He has planted behind the walls of the maximum security prison I live in...

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God is Good

6/29/2009

 
The goodness of God
​endureth continually. 
Psalm 52:1


God has been good to me. He has been faithful to answer my prayers, but of course only in His timing...

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Dads: Missing in Action

6/29/2009

 
Few prisoners were fortunate to have had good, loving and caring fathers while they were growing up...

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Jew and Gentile

6/26/2009

 
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believes; to
the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.
Romans 1:16


Both Jew and Gentile need to have the gospel explained to them clearly, simply, and through the unseen guidance of the Holy Spirit...

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The Day God Shined

6/20/2009

 
Out of Zion, the perfection
of beauty, God hath shined. 
Psalm 50:2


God's radiance forever shines, and it is a million times brighter than the sun... 

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Don't Give Up!

6/18/2009

 
I was asked by a friend, Reverend Don DeYoung, who is a pastor of a church and is also active in prison ministry, to write a message of encouragement to inmates in the state of Michigan...  

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Persecution

6/15/2009

 
Thou therefore endure hardness,
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 
2 Timothy 2:3


Both history, as well as current events, show us that the true church, which is composed of all born again believers in Jesus Christ, flourishes in times of persecution and hardship, but... 

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Watching the Flock

6/13/2009

 
The elders which are among you I exhort...
Feed the flock of God which is among you, 
taking oversight thereof, not by constraint,
but willingly; not for filthy lucre (greedy
for gain), but of a ready mind. 
1 Peter 5:1-2


I thank the Lord for allowing me to be a part of a prison church... 

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Inoperable Cancer

6/12/2009

 
Thou shall keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusts in Thee.
Isaiah 26:3


Yesterday I wrote a letter to a friend who told me about a good friend of her and her husband's, who has recently been diagnosed with inoperable cancer...

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The Ambassadors

6/9/2009

 
Now then we are
ambassadors for Christ... 
2 Corinthians 5:20


This entry is something of a follow-up to yesterday's entry, in which I wrote about singer and second place American Idol contestant, Susan Boyle...

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The Sad Case of Susan Boyle

6/8/2009

 
Little children, keep yourselves
from idols. Amen. 
1 John 5:21


Her story has been making news around the world... 

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Help From God 

6/1/2009

 
My help comes from the Lord,
which made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1


I am doing the right thing by trusting in the Lord, always looking to Him alone for my help, and resting in the truth of every one of His precious promises...

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