Few Words

….and a word spoken in due
season, how good it is!
Proverbs 15:23

I'm doing something I've wanted to do for a long time. I've wanted to share the blessing of some statements that have been handed down to me from others and even some original thoughts friends have shared. Such have blessed me tremendously on days when I just needed a brief but poignant word of wisdom or encouragement. We don't always need lengthy words of knowledge. Just want to share some of those with the hope that you will be blessed as have I. If I have names, I have written first names or at times with no credit for things given to me anonymously. Be blessed!!!

“God sometimes removes people
from your life to protect you.
Don't run after them.”

Anon

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character
of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
O. Chambers

“Many books can inform, but only the
Bible can transform.”
Marilyn

“Whatever is in the well, will come
up in the bucket.”
Anon

“When you feel like you are drowning in life's troubles,
I know a lifeguard who walks on water.”
L. Stoneking

“Without God...our week would be:
Sinday, Mournday, Tearsday,
Wasterday, Thirstday, Frightday
and Shatterday.”
Christy

“It is better to walk alone, than with
a crowd going in the wrong direction.”
D. Grant

“Until God opens the next door, praise
Him in the hallway.”
Anon.

“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation
without God and the Bible.”
G. Washington

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel
in which it is stored than to anything on
which it is poured.”
M. Twain

“God doesn't call the qualified...He
qualifies the called.”
Anon

“If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
If Grandma ain't happy...RUN!”
Anon

“The tiny seed knew that in order to grow
it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in
darkness and struggle to reach the light.”
Anon

“Satan, you might walk over here, but
you will limp back.”
Becky

“Satan's greatest weapon is man's
ignorance of the Bible.”
Anon

“Don't read books about the Bible...
read the Bible!”

Anon

“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It's today,” squealed Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
Milne

Many of the sayings I have shared have come through friends via Facebook. I've tried to keep folks on Facebook who are encouragers in my life. I will have a few friends who are more informational and even a very few who only gripe, who seem to look at life through dirty windows.

May I also suggest that there are times whether on Facebook, in a note or in general conversation that there are ways we can encourage with just a brief word. Just honestly saying to another, “I'm praying for you” can mean more than we can know.

So, lets remember:
                                                     “Anxiety in the heart of man
                                                           causes depression,
                                                   but a good word makes it glad.”
                                                            Proverbs 12:25
      

Dear Father, help me to be sensitive to the needs and hurts of others and never add to their anxiety or stress with negative words. Help me to be an encourager for Your glory...please guide my words. In Jesus' precious name...Amen