RUSSELL SANDERS

2-24-2025

WRINKLES

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Sunday morning our tickle box was turned over as both Helen and I could not help but laugh at a scripture. It was Job 16:8 where Job was saying what God had done. He said, “And thou hast filled me with wrinkles…”

With both Helen and I in our late seventies, it struck us hilariously that the verse said that it was God who struck us with all these wrinkles that we have.

Putting it in context, Job is just complaining about all the trouble and trials he had faced in life despite the fact that God called him “perfect and upright” in God’s eyes. (Job 1:1)

God had such confidence in Job that he gave Satan permission to test him in the sorest fashion. Job lost everything except his life and his ridiculing wife. Yet in all this, Job did not sin. He did not “curse God and die” as his wife told him to in Job 2:9.

I trust that both Helen and I will remain true and faithful to Jesus, just like Job did, in spite of all the “wrinkles” God allows to come upon us, whether in body or in life.

At eternity’s Bema Seat judgment of Christ, we will be rewarded for our faithfulness. Our few “wrinkles” will have been worth it all when we see Jesus. Life trials will seem so small when we join Him in eternity.

HELEN SANDERS

2-24-2025

THE CINDERELLA SYNDROME

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Have you ever felt that you just “don’t fit in” with most of those around you? Have you been in a group of people but just aren’t on the same “wavelength?” Well, don’t feel alone, because most of us feel the same way.

It could be that you have the Cinderella Syndrome. What is that you might ask? Well, Cinderella’s shoe only fit her. Try as they might, her sisters and others could not fit into the shoe Cinderella had left behind. Trying to fit in someone else’s shoes just does not work. But one day the Prince found Cinderella; put her shoe on her foot, and it was a perfect fit.  

You see, my friends you were created to be the way you are intentionally. Only you have your unique fingerprint. You are “one of a kind” hand-designed by God. Just like a puzzle that has no pieces alike, God has done that with his creation. No one is truly identical. Yet, we are all created in God’s image. That means that we are all a part of the “bigger picture” which is the complete body of Christ. 

Do not try to fit in where God did not design you to be. It is okay to be the unique, beautiful creation that God made. He will show you what part of His body is the right fit for you.

1 Corinthians 12:12-31 has a lot to say about each of us. Verse 12 says, “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being MANY, are ONE BODY: so also is Christ.”

We are all different parts of the body of Christ, but each of us is unique. Together we become one body, that God joins together. [Ephesians 4:16.] God created you to be YOU! Enjoy being you. Do not live with the Cinderella Syndrome trying to be or fit in where you don’t belong. Find your place in Christ!

HELEN SANDERS

2-24-2025

PROPHETIC EXHORTATION

Never base your success on money, position, race, looks, or performance. God is looking at your heart. He bases our value on our faithfulness in Him. The smallest assignment asked of you by God, and completed out of love proves your faithfulness to Him. The greatest testimony we could ever give God is that we have been found faithful!

APOSTLE PAT MURRAY

PROPHETIC EXHORTATION

I’m sure we all know that we none can CONTROL the WINDS of LIFE; But we can certainly ADJUST our own SAILS…OR better known to some as…Adjust our OWNSELVES. So let’s give this thing a good ole fashioned try as it will do miracles for all concerned IF; We would only learn to ADJUST our SAILS…Or adjust our ATTITUDE along life’s journey. Well are you ready to have a blessed and beautiful day? I’m sure it would help us all IF we would allow God to give us a thorough checkup from the neck up; And determine IF we too might need an old fashion ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT for ourselves

Good Morning Lord! HCC

                      Thank you for this day dear Jesus.

                      Thank you for your light.

                      It shines my way to Heaven,

                      It takes me out of night.

                      Your Holy Spirit talks to me.

                      My blessings flow from you.

                      You hold my hand and talk to me,

                      You tell me what to do.

                      You are the greatest friend I have.

                      You’re my Savior who died for me.

                      Keep on walking with me Lord,

                      I love your company.

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