How time flies!

Hello,

I have to confess that I am too often only concerned about the "here and now" of life and not enough about the future possibilities.

My "here and now" has been so busy that it is only when I decided to look at Blogs that I realised how long it is since I wrote anything at all!

So here is a suprise to any of you who are checking out the page today!

I've just been to a Bible Study Group talking about Prayer. We were telling one another about ways in which God has answered prayer in our own lives or the lives of others.

Now it is often hard to come up with a quick illustration of answered prayer. That is because we often don't write things down and our memories of God's goodness to us are allowed to fade.

So in what ways has God answered one of my prayers today?

Let me tell you. I checked into the Blog page and found that instead of two people who read it now and again there are now six.That has to be an encouragement. Maybe if I write more often the number will go up even more. But I have also been encouraged this past week by other Christian believers.

It was my turn recently to set the questions for the Home Groups Bible Study meetings for our Church. I asked God to help me and felt that He had done so. But it was only when several of the Group leaders came to tell me that their Group had had one of its best meetings and discussions ever, that I realised just how much God had helped.

So let's set a new trend amongst Christians. Let's take time to encourage one another.

God loves us so much. Because of His grace we can receive His love into our lives. The Bible speaks about God's COMPASSION.

Now here is how it works,, this revolutionary COMPASSION.
The more you receive of God's love for you, the more you can give away
and the more you give away, the more you receive.
The more you receive and the more you give away, then the more the world is changed
by the power of God's COMPASSION.

Worth thinking about.

Blessings

Derek Cook

Next Cafe Church events

Sunday October 23rd
Tea and Cake from 5pm at Eglise Evangelique, 5 rue Durou, Bergerac
followed by Praise, Prayer and Word from 5:30pm for about an hour.

Sunday November 27th
Worship early for Christmas!
Tea and Christmas Cake from 5pm at Eglise Evangelique, 5 rue Durou, Bergerac
followed by English Christmas Carols from 5:30pm for about an hour.

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