That's what is in store for us but in north Florida I hear it's SNOWING!!!! Craziness I tell ya. Well I was shocked this morning when David started talking about dogs and maybe getting one. We hit a local store on my way into work and he saw an English Bulldog that he liked. NO we won't be spending hundreds of dollars on a pet store pooch. Calm down. :) We will go to the humane society or some other rescue and pay a hundred dollars and save a dog. My cousin's sister in law actually rescues dogs so I guess I'll be calling her soon. Our yard certainly is big enough for a mutt!
Here's today's devotional,
Shelly
Then He touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith let it be to you." Matthew 9:23
A poor heathen woman, after receiving Christ as her Savior, was remarkable for her simple faith. She decided to take Him literally at His word.
A few months after her conversion her little child became ill, and recovery was doubtful. Ice was needed for the little one, but in that tropical country, away from the world's large cities, such a thing was not to be had.
"I'm going to ask God to send ice," the mother said to a missionary.
"Oh," came the quick reply, "but you can't expect that He will do that."
"Why not?" asked the simple-hearted believer. "He has all the power, and He loves us. You told us so. I'll ask Him, and I believe He'll send it."
She did ask Him, and strange things began to happen. Soon there came up a heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by hail. The woman was able to gather a large quantity of hailstones. The cold application was just what the child needed. Recovery of the sick child soon followed.
In our sophistication and intellectualism we, like the missionary and most other Christians, would tend to question the audacity of such a prayer.
Faith as a little child always brings the desired answer. "According to your faith be it unto you." And where does such faith originate? "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."
Pastor Hersch
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