"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."Romans 8:28.
A girl had great difficulty accepting the looks God had given her.
While everyone this girl knew had grown beautiful golden hair, hers was black.
And while they were all still growing, she had stopped.
She grew to be only about four feet ten inches tall.
Eventually, she reached the country to which God had called her to be a missionary.
One day, she stood on the wharf in Shanghai and looked around at the people to whom He had called her.
"Every single one of them" she said, "had black hair. And every one of them had stopped growing when I did."
She was able to look to God and exclaim, "Lord God, You know what You're doing!"
Are you struggling with something specific today?
Have you been asking, "Why Lord?!"
Whether we realize it or not-
God knows what He's doing!
We may not understand it today.
But He has known these things from the very beginning.
And He really is carrying out His great plan in us!
Cheer up!
God is preparing His vessels for GREAT things!
Daily Smile:
What do you call a Dinosaur that is good with words?
A thesaurus!
In The News: Or Should I Say, "Not In The News"
Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls
DEPOK, Indonesia (AP) — When a 14-year-old girl received a Facebook friend request from an older man she didn't know, she accepted it out of curiosity. It's a click she will forever regret, leading to a brutal story that has repeated itself as sexual predators find new ways to exploit Indonesia's growing obsession with social media.
The junior high student was quickly smitten by the man's smooth online flattery. They exchanged phone numbers, and his attention increased with rapid-fire texts. He convinced her to meet in a mall, and she found him just as charming in person.
They agreed to meet again. After telling her mom she was going to visit a sick girlfriend on her way to church choir practice, she climbed into the man's minivan near her home in Depok, on the outskirts of Jakarta.
The man, a 24-year-old who called himself Yogi, drove her an hour to the town of Bogor, West Java, she told The Associated Press in an interview.
There, he locked her in a small room inside a house with at least five other girls aged 14 to 17. She was drugged and raped repeatedly — losing her virginity in the first attack.
After one week of torture, her captor told her she was being sold and shipped to the faraway island of Batam, known for its seedy brothels and child sex tourism that caters to men coming by boat from nearby Singapore.
The Presidential Election
Is Just One Week Away...
TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 6th
GO VOTE!!!
Lord God, as this election approaches, forgive we pray our many transgressions, and clean our heart of every false and evil desire, so we may be people your Holy Spirit can lead, guide, and instruct.
We seek to fully understand the issues confronting our country in the light of your righteous will and way.
Show us, we pray, how the Gospel guides a response faithful to the high calling we have in Christ Jesus.
We ask for eyes free from worldly blindness so we might see clearly through every subterfuge, illusion, and delusion.
Help us to choose a servant who sees all equal in your love;
treats all with dignity due those who are made in your image.
Give us a man who will follow you in bestowing greater honor on those whom the world would would deny honor.
We ask for a leader with ears that will hear the cries of children unborn and those abandoned by evils previously adopted into corrupt government in the past.
Give us someone who will open our national doors to the oppressed, but will oppose those who seek to enter without respect for our laws and the ideals You have instilled in us.
We ask for minds and hearts that are open to hearing the voice of leaders who will bring us closer to your Kingdom and strength of will to reject and oppose all who would withhold from fulfilling your plan for us as a nation.
Holy Father,
We pray for discernment,
so we may choose leaders who love and obey your Word;
live your precepts, and keep in the ways of Truth;
that follow in the steps of of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy One of Israel, until He comes to call us unto Himself and establish the Kingdom of justice and peace on earth.
We ask this in the Name of your Son Jesus Christ and through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Jonsquill Ministries
Jonsquillministries@yahoo.com
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