Never Give Up!!! 5/31/26

FIRST OF ALL, PLEASE ALLOW ME TO HUMBLY THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, PRAYERS!!!!, AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT!!!

These have been very trying and stressful past few months!!!

THANKFULLY/PRAYERFULLY, Lil' Amanda (as I like to call her) is seemingly better as far as her pneumonia/sepsis diagnosis!!!

As many of you read recently of the NASCAR race car driver, Kyle Busch, who passed away SUDDENLY from pneumonia/sepsis, this diagnosis is nothing to sneer at-in fact, the doctors advised us to take her home to die........

If I read my Bible correctly, we are to FIGHT to live, and FIGHT for our loved ones to defeat pain and death as well chronicled in the old and new Testament!!!

Mark 5:22–23 (KJV 1900)

²²And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,

²³And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

Matthew 8:5–7 (KJV 1900)

⁵And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,

⁶And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.

⁷And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.

Mark 9:17–29 (KJV 1900)

¹⁷And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;

¹⁸And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

¹⁹He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.

²⁰And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

²¹And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

²²And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

²³Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

²⁴And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

²⁵When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

²⁶And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

²⁷But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

²⁸And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

²⁹And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

IN FACT, God even cares for the little problems we face daily in life......

God even helps recover lost AXE HEAD!!!!!

2 Kings 6:5–7 (KJV 1900)

⁵But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

⁶And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.

⁷Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.

In my many years of ministry I have PRAYED for and visited hundreds-even thousands!!

I have even performed funerals for pets!!!!!

I say/write all this to preach to YOU that GOD IS CONCERNED about EVERY aspect of our lives!!! Down to the most minute detail!!!!!!

Philippians 4:6 (KJV 1900)

⁶Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE-NEVER HESITATE TO CALL ON GOD!!!!

Jeremiah 33:2–3 (KJV 1900)

²Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;

³Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

As I mentioned above, these past few MONTHS have tried my FAITH and patience almost above any trial I remember enduring. There have been devastating days of doubt ad fear and only YOUR love and PRAYERS have kept me reasonably sane!!!!!

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!!!

In closing, a few mere weeks ago I was destitute and fearful-full of sincere doubt and hopeless!!!

All of a sudden God spoke to my heart about something I had written in my Bible days/weeks/months ago-I could not remember when and where I had scribbled the note.

To compound the problem, I had two Bibles that I use on a daily basis-now I have three.

In desperation, I determined to flip the Pages of both Bibles until I found the note!!!

(SEE AXE HEAD ABOVE!) SMILE!!!

I decided to use my (house) Bible first and thankfully I began from Revelations back!!!

Finally, after tediously flipping the many pages one by one, I found the Scripture and my note alongside it:

Ecclesiastes 11:6 (KJV 1900)

⁶In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Here is what I had written boldly in the margin:

NEVER GIVE UP!!!!!!

TODAY, brothers and sisters-NEVER GIVE UP!!!

IN THE MORNING SOW THY SEED (PRAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

IN THE EVENING SOW THY SEED (PRAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

You don't know if the seed in the morning PRAYER will PROSPER....................

You don't know if the seed sown in the even (PRAYER) will bloom.............

OR, maybe they BOTH will be answered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ya' gotta swing the bat to get a hit!!!! AMEN!!!!????

God Bless You!!!!

Pastor Doug

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