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[Triumph1300]

WOW:

A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia.

Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town's Merkeb Tabya district.

Residents and police told BBC Amharic a crocodile leapt from the water during the baptism and attacked him.

Pastor Docho died after being bitten on his legs, back and hands.

 

[Helen]

Boy...that would test your faith wouldn't it if you were a young believer!!!
I'm sure the sceptics said " Where was his God?" and "How come God didn't take care of him?"
A bit like they did with Jesus.." Where is your God now?"

Poor people, how sad. That will take some getting over. God bless them.

 

[Triumph1300]

Yes, that must have an effect on them.

 

[Triumph1300]

From my daily email box:

By Worthy Brief:


Luke 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

A reader submitted a question, "How can I get my second wind?"

I believe a lesson can be learned after the disciples of Yeshua (Jesus) returned after a successful outreach. The Lord took them and set them apart in a desert place, away from the cares of this world -- and in this time of separation they were refreshed. [Mark 6:30-31] Oftentimes, a second wind can only come by setting time aside to seek it!

Early in the 1800's, Evangelist Charles Finney wrote about how God gave him mighty infillings of the Holy Spirit. He said, "[These infillings] went through me, as it seemed, body and soul. I immediately found myself endued with such power from on high that a few words dropped here and there to individuals were the means of their immediate conversion. My words seemed to fasten like barbed arrows in the souls of men. They cut like a sword. They broke the heart like a hammer. Multitudes can attest to this...Sometimes I would find myself in a great measure empty of this power. I would go and visit, and find that I made no saving impression. I would exhort and pray with the same results. I would they set apart a day for private fasting and prayer...after humbling myself and crying out for help, the power would return upon me with all its freshness. This has been the experience of my life."

Charles Finney set apart time to pray and fast for a "fresh anointing" from time to time!

 

[Helen]

Amen! Good devotional.
Finney was 'one of a kind' , a mighty man for his hour...sadly we lack the Finney's and Spurgeon's, and Wigglesworth's etc in our day!!!
There is no such voice.

 

[Triumph1300]

I have the Finney biography.
Amazing life!

 

[Willie T]

Amen! Good devotional.
Finney was 'one of a kind' , a mighty man for his hour...sadly we lack the Finney's and Spurgeon's, and Wigglesworth's etc in our day!!!
There is no such voice.

They would just be ridiculed if they did live today.

 

[Triumph1300]

They would just be ridiculed if they did live today.

Paul would be too.

 

[amadeus]

Paul would be too.

And Jesus!

 

[Helen]

good to see a thread where we all agree :)