Zechariah 4:6-10
NOT BY human might or power, but by HIS own SPIRIT
Isaiah 60:22 "A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation." [v22].
The Christian church was a little one, a very small one at first - the number was once but 120, yet it became a thousand. When they come to heaven, and look back upon the smallness of their beginning, they will wonder how they got thither. It may seem to be delayed, but as the LORD will do it, so he will hasten it, he will do it in his appointed time by His wisdom, not in the time prescribed by our folly. Though it seems to tarry, it does not tarry it it come in God's time.
Zechariah 4:6-7 All the difficulties and oppositions that lie in the way shall be removed, even those they seems like a mountain [v7]. The enemies hard and proud as great mountains and make them plains. Christ is our Zerubbabel nothing is too hard for His grace to do. Zechariah 4:16 In God's work the days of small things is not to be despised. A grain of mustard seed may become a great tree. Matthew 13:31-21
Rev. Rachel (Senior Pastor)
Life can be complicated but.......
Happiness is really pretty simple.
SIMPLE SECRETS to a happy life.........
The heart that gives, gathers [Marianne Moore].
Change your thoughts and change your world [Norman Vincent Pearle].
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Burn brightly without burning out [Richard Biggs].
Nothing happens ....but first a dream [Carl Sandburg].
It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life....
that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping
himself [Ralph Waldo Emerson].
Sometimes in the wind of change we find our true direction.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow [Norman Vincent Pearle].
Courage does not always roar,
Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying.....
"I will try again tomorrow" [Milton Berle].
Laughter is an instant vacation [Milton Berle].
The best sermons are lived, not preached [Cowboy wisdom].
The only things that stand between a person and what they meant in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible [Rich Davos].
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things [Robert Brault].
It's choice - not change - that determines your destiny [Jean Midetch].
To love and be loved is to feel the sin from both sides [David Viscott].
Keep your face to the sunshine and you'll not see the shadows [Helen Kalleu].
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes truly endless [Mother Theresa].
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there [Will Rogers].
Joy is a light that fills you with Hope, Faith and Love.
Find your joy and share it with others.
"THE DASH" - Making a difference with your life [Linda Ellis & Mac Anderson].
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on his tombstone from the beginning...to the end.
He noted that first came the date of his birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what matters most of all....was the 'dash' between those years.
For that 'dash' represents all the time that he spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved him know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not how much we own;
the cars .............
the house ..........
the cash ............
What matters is how much we lived and love.....
and how we spend our 'dash'.
So to think about this long and hard;
are the things you'd like to change?
For you never know how much time is left that we can still be rearranged.If we could slow down enough to consider what's true and real..... and always try to understand the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger and slow appreciation more and love the people in our lives........
like we've never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile..... remembering that this special 'dash' might only last a little while.
So when your eulogy is being read.......
with your life's actions to rehash.......
would you be proud of the things they say........
about how you spent your 'dash'?
May You Be Blessed with all thing good
May your joys, like the stars at night, be too numerous to count.
May your victories be more abundant than all the grains of sand on all the beaches on all the oceans in all the world.
May lack and struggle only serve to make you stronger......
and may beauty, order and abundance be your constant companions.
May every pathway you choose lead to that which is pure and good and lovely.
May every doubt and fear be replaced by a deep abiding trust as you behold evidence of a Higher Power all around you.
And when there is only darkness and the storms of life are closing in…
May the light at the core of your being illuminate the world.
May you always be aware you are loved beyond measure and may you be willing to love unconditionally in return.
May you always feel protected and cradled in the arms of God, like the cherished child you are. And when you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are all one
and that every thought you think reverberates across the universe,
touching everyone and everything.
And when you are tempted to hold back,
may you remember that love flows best when it flows freely…
and it is in giving that we receive the greatest gift.
May you always have music and laughter and may a rainbow follow every storm.
May gladness wash away every disappointment,
may joy dissolve every sorrow…and may love ease every pain.
May every wound bring wisdom
and every trial bring triumph and with each passing day
may you live more abundantly than the day before.
May you be blessed. And may others be blessed
by: Kate Novak
