Today is a good day to do the things we have wanted to do. Yesterday is a history of our dreams and disasters, our hopes and our successes. However today is the only day available that we can right our wrongs, recover from defeat, renew our hope and survey our success.
Someone said that "today is the first day of the rest of our lives."
Perhaps your yesterday was not the greatest and your tomorrow is yet to come. Use today to help ease yourself into tomorrow which then becomes today. A day to straighten our back and shoulders, to lift our eyes and look upon the possibilities that lay before us. God gives each of us the same amount of time. How we use it will determine success or failure, victory of defeat.
The day I chose to accept God's offer of salvation started a lifestyle of having His guidance to keep me on the pathway that He has prepared for us. God wants to see you successful and without defeat in your life. Work hard, believe God. When your work doesn't get the job done look to God who is more than able to work things out for you. He may just do something for you that is better than you had planned.
Have a great day. I will post again at the end of next week as I will be gone for eight days to General Council.
God bless
Walter L. Rose
Pastor
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Thoughts for the day
Fight for yourself and you get what you can win. Let God fight for us and we get what God can win.
Only one thing cost you more than your consecration to God. It's what you lose by not consecrating yourself to God.
Faith is a steadfast confidence in the trustworthiness of God that does not rest upon physical evidence.
God's gifts are never loans, they are deposits and He expects a return from His deposit.
You cannot permanently help someone by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves...Abraham Lincoln
Today is the only time you have to make changes in your life. Yesterday is finished and tomorrow isn't here. To put something off that needs attention only brings dread.
For whom and what are we called? Settle it therefore to work where we are...until the Lord of Harvest shall say differently.
Only one thing cost you more than your consecration to God. It's what you lose by not consecrating yourself to God.
Faith is a steadfast confidence in the trustworthiness of God that does not rest upon physical evidence.
God's gifts are never loans, they are deposits and He expects a return from His deposit.
You cannot permanently help someone by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves...Abraham Lincoln
Today is the only time you have to make changes in your life. Yesterday is finished and tomorrow isn't here. To put something off that needs attention only brings dread.
For whom and what are we called? Settle it therefore to work where we are...until the Lord of Harvest shall say differently.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Rev. J. B. Cherry
Saturday the 23rd of July 2011 I had the privilege of participating in the funeral celebration of a great man. Bro. Cherry was 88 years of age and had a cumulative 60 years of pastoral work and ministry. There were nine ministers as well as singers for this great celebration. Yes. A celebration. When someone dies we commonly hear "think of what we have lost." If we know where someone has gone then they are not lost. They are just departed from this life and entered the great eternal life prepared for everyone who loves God. Bro. Cherry was a stalwart of the faith. When he came to Raceland and requested water be hooked up to his church it was denied. So he hauled water by the bucket, barrel, whatever he had, to flush toilets, etc. Later water was finally hooked up but it leaves us with a great picture of his life and attitude. He served without complaining and hauled water. Water is also pictured in scripture as the life coming from God that refreshes, sustains and cleanses. Bro. Cherry hauled water for his needs, the needs of the church and in a spiritual sense he hauled water for all who would come and drink. He leaves a legacy of bringing the refreshing water to any who would drink of its source. He leaves a church in Raceland dedicated to supplying "refreshing water" to all who see their need and drink of its fountain.
Thank you Bro. Cherry for such an inspiration to us all and for a life that keeps on giving even though you have ceased your labors on this earth. We will see you on the side where you have gone for eternal joy and rest. May God bless your family in this time of mourning and adjustment.
Thank you.
Walter L. Rose
Passtor
Thank you Bro. Cherry for such an inspiration to us all and for a life that keeps on giving even though you have ceased your labors on this earth. We will see you on the side where you have gone for eternal joy and rest. May God bless your family in this time of mourning and adjustment.
Thank you.
Walter L. Rose
Passtor
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Strength of Decision
The power of a made up mind is almost beyond explanation. A made up mind will help you stand, go, do, be the thing you need to do or be.
Today - July 16, 2011 is my wife and I's 40th anniversary. It was put into full motion on July 16, 1971. We have spent the last 40 years together as mates, lovers, workers together in God's Kingdom. Has it always been easy? No! There are great rewards of living and working together for these years. It seems like yesterday when we said "I DO" and rode off together as husband and wife. We had no real knowledge of what it took to bend without breaking and to give on occasion without taking. With God's supernatural help and guidance we have walked together through some circumstances that should have taken us down but on the contrary they helped us stand straighter and taller because God helped us. Have we always seen eye to eye? No. On some occasions we never saw eye to eye but God is the common denominator of our lives and helps us get through these times. I don't think it is always necessary to see eye to eye because we are different. The win is in the give and take of marriage. The times of seeing our mates point of view can be very rewarding. On the other hand our stuborness brought some trying moments but again God helped melt us with the heat of His Holy Spirit and bring us to a new dimension in Him. What do people do without the help of our Lord and Savior?
With 40 years behind us I can truly say that my "Heart has always trusted in my wife". She never gave me any reason to doubt or cause me to suspect anything other than her devotion to our God and our union as husband and wife. In like manner I kept myself for her only. It keeps peace in the home.
I pray that you also have or will have such a life.
God bless each of you.
Pastor Walter L. Rose
On my 40th wedding anniversary
Today - July 16, 2011 is my wife and I's 40th anniversary. It was put into full motion on July 16, 1971. We have spent the last 40 years together as mates, lovers, workers together in God's Kingdom. Has it always been easy? No! There are great rewards of living and working together for these years. It seems like yesterday when we said "I DO" and rode off together as husband and wife. We had no real knowledge of what it took to bend without breaking and to give on occasion without taking. With God's supernatural help and guidance we have walked together through some circumstances that should have taken us down but on the contrary they helped us stand straighter and taller because God helped us. Have we always seen eye to eye? No. On some occasions we never saw eye to eye but God is the common denominator of our lives and helps us get through these times. I don't think it is always necessary to see eye to eye because we are different. The win is in the give and take of marriage. The times of seeing our mates point of view can be very rewarding. On the other hand our stuborness brought some trying moments but again God helped melt us with the heat of His Holy Spirit and bring us to a new dimension in Him. What do people do without the help of our Lord and Savior?
With 40 years behind us I can truly say that my "Heart has always trusted in my wife". She never gave me any reason to doubt or cause me to suspect anything other than her devotion to our God and our union as husband and wife. In like manner I kept myself for her only. It keeps peace in the home.
I pray that you also have or will have such a life.
God bless each of you.
Pastor Walter L. Rose
On my 40th wedding anniversary
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Standing for our next generation
If you are reading this post you are either a christian or an inquirer of the faith or inquisitive as to what someone other than yourself might think. These are all attributes that God has allowed to work freely in our lives.
There is another group of inquisitive inquirers and they are children and young adults. These young minds and hearts are still pliable therefore the need for each of us to stand with and for them. It is very important what our children and youth learn. The schools will partially educate them however they still have much room impartation of other things. This is where we come in as we stand for our next generation in prayer and spiritual training, as we give of our finances to see that opportunities for spiritual learning exist and are readily available.
We have a few short months or years to give them an opportunity. Lets not let our opportunity to help them pass. Become involved in the capacity God has given you and that will be sufficient for efforts in this life.
May God richly reward you for your prayerful consideration of helping this next generation. You will make a difference.
Walter Rose
Pastor
There is another group of inquisitive inquirers and they are children and young adults. These young minds and hearts are still pliable therefore the need for each of us to stand with and for them. It is very important what our children and youth learn. The schools will partially educate them however they still have much room impartation of other things. This is where we come in as we stand for our next generation in prayer and spiritual training, as we give of our finances to see that opportunities for spiritual learning exist and are readily available.
We have a few short months or years to give them an opportunity. Lets not let our opportunity to help them pass. Become involved in the capacity God has given you and that will be sufficient for efforts in this life.
May God richly reward you for your prayerful consideration of helping this next generation. You will make a difference.
Walter Rose
Pastor
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