Something new

[Sailorman]

I have a good friend who has started a new blog if anyone's interested. She's been in missions, a clinical counselor and has fought a decades long battle with sickness and chronic pain.

If your interested it's here:

http://fionab-lessonslearnedfromlife.blogspot.com/

I like a quote she used from Spurgeon, I can relate well to it from my own rocky road and maybe a little because I'm a mariner:

Your faith will never be weak when you are weak. , but when you are strong your faith cannot be strong. To the Apostle Paul, Jesus said, "My strength is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 5:9). The only way to increase our faith is through great trouble. We do not grow strong in faith on sunny days; only in stormy weather do we obtain it. Strong faith does not drop from heaven in a gentle dew; generally, it comes in the whirlwind and the storm....Great sailors are not made on calm waters, but in the deep , where the wild wind howls and the thunder rolls like drums. Storms and tempests make tough and hardy sailors....It is that way with the Christian. Great faith must have great trials. We must expect great troubles before we can attain great faith.

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

begin to sink and cried, Lord, help me, (which we will do if we really trust in Him) and Jesus said, Where is your faith and reached forward and saved Peter from sinking below the waves! I've been through lots and lots of trials and many have been very rough and stormy, but that is when my faith was built more and more in leaning on and trusting in Jesus! If all we can say is, Help me, Jesus, He willl hear and answer, for He never leaves nor forsakes us! When we are the weakest is when we need Him the most! Amen! Ma Betty

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose....thanks for the gift me bouy and best of the season to you all!