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Dear Friends,
Thank you for your encouragement and support. We pray you will be blessed daily through the Word. Please freely share this email with others.
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Bible Teaching Resources
Donald Anderson
PO Box 6611
Tyler, TX 75711-6611
903-939-1201 (office)
1.877.326.7729 (toll free)
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Live As Each Day Could Be Your Last... Scripture For when she poured this perfume upon My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial. Matthew 26:12 (NASB) Saul and Jonathan - in life they were loved and gracious, and in death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. 2 Samuel 1:23 (NIV) Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. Psalm 116:15 (NASB) For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. 1 Corinthians 11:26(NASB) |
|  Live As Each Day Could Be Your Last and One Day You Will Be Right! |
| Fred Faulkner was one of my favorite people. One could always depend on Fred for a smile, a firm handshake, and encouraging words. He was chairman of the evangelism committee at Hide-A-Way Community Church, when Don was pastor. I say was because Fred is now with his Lord. Fred's wife Mary Jane, told Don that one of the last things she read to him was a card I had sent him. That card sat on my desk for a week before I finally mailed it, and I thank God that I did not procrastinate any longer. It brings me much joy to know Fred was reminded once more of my love for him. Mary must have felt this way about her anointing the Lord with her extravagant gift of perfume. As she saw Him die on the cross, she surely had no regrets because she had showed her love to Him before He died. Scripture clearly teaches the reality of death. "And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once" (Hebrews 10:27). 2 Corinthians 4:16: "Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day." Live, believing in the reality of death. Hebrews 1:11, 12: "They will perish, but Thou remainest; and they will become old as a garment, and as a mantle thou wilt roll them up; as a garment they will also be changed. But Thou art the same, and Thy years will not come to an end." (NASB) George McDonald writes, "We seek not death, but still we climb the stairs where death is one wide landing to the rooms above." Is there a card you need to send today? |
God grant we may get to the place where the only thing we take seriously is the place God has put us, watching, waiting steadfastly for God's goings. Never take anything said by any man or woman, or in any book, without waiting and watching before God. "Try the spirits," test them, see if they be of God. I want you to beware of a mistake I have made over and over again of trying to interpret God's plan for other lives according to the way He has led me. Never do this! Keep open-eyed in wonder. Can God do what He likes in your life? Can He help Himself to you? Can He take you up and put you down? Can He introduce His schemes through you, and never tell you the reason? Can He make you a spectacle to men and angels, as He did Job, without giving you any explanation? Can He make you a wonder to yourself and to others, while He gives you the implicit childlike understanding that somehow or other things are working out all right?
pp. 39-40
If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer
by Oswald Chambers
Preparing to leave on a recent flight, the attendants were bustling about the cabin, helping passengers find their seats, stow their luggage, and buckle their seat belts. Then came an announcement over the PA system: "If everyone will please be seated, we are ready for
Hearing that command, I had to smile. Those four words summarize perfectly how I desire to live my life: ready for
immediate departure.
p. 137
I'm Trying to Number My Days, But I Keep Losing Count!: Life Lessons on Living Your Days to the Fullest
by Al Sanders
Reuben Welch was for many years associated with Point Loma College in San Diego. He has written some wonderful things about the way the church functions. Some years ago, he wrote these free verse lines about submitting to one another in Jesus Christ.
You know something? We're all just people who need each other. We're all learning and we've got a long journey ahead of us. We've got to go together, and if it takes us until Jesus comes, we better stay together. We better help each other. And I daresay that by the time we get there, all the sandwiches will be gone, all the chocolate will be gone, and all the water will be gone, and all the backpacks will be empty, but no matter how long it takes us, we've got to go together because that's how it is in the body of Christ. It's all of us in love, in care, in support, in mutuality and submission. We really do need each other.2
That's how we are to function within the body.
2. Reuben Welch, "We Really Do Need Each Other" (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1982).
pp. 189-90
God in You: Releasing the Power of the Holy Spirit in Your Life
by David Jeremiah
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1. Praise: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2 (NASB)
2. Praise: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.
Psalm 116:15 (NIV)
3. Pray: May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant. Psalm 119:76 (NIV)
4. Pray: If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Philippians 2:1,2 (NASB)
5. Pray: Your attitude must be like my own, for I, the Messiah, did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give my life as a ransom for many.
Matthew 21:28 (The Living Bible)
6. Pray: And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:24, 25 (NASB)
7. Pray: Completion of the Preservation Project of Don's material. Approximately 40% complete.
8. Praise: For God's direction for the future of BTR.
9. Pray: Philippines radio & OnePlace.com broadcast.
Prayer: Lord, I am setting my mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
Is there a card you need to send today?
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In the loving name of Jesus,
Pearl Anderson
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
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