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Dear "Choice Morsels" Friends,
Greetings from rainy, cool Wisconsin. We are pretty well staying close to home for these next 2 weeks before we leave for S Africa. This coming weekend we are planning a family holiday near Two Harbors, Minnesota. We are so thankful for our family, among whom God is answering so many prayers. God bless you. David and Donna Haag
CRISIS PRAYING
"While we live, we live to please the Lord. And when we die, we go to be with the Lord. So in life and in death, we belong to the Lord. Christ died and rose again for this very purpose, so that he might be Lord of those who are alive and of those who have died." Romans 14:8,9 (NLT)
Flying from Cape Town to Durban on a ministry trip, our traveling companion was a hardened old fisherman. By talking to him, you could see that God was not really a part of his life. Looking out the windows, we could see some unusual clouds and weather, which could have signaled a storm was coming. This man, of course, had been used to looking for signs of a storm while fishing at sea. Asking this man if he were ever in a bad storm at sea, he said "Three times in fifty years I thought I would die." I asked him if he prayed, and he said, "Actually, I thought about it."
It is amazing to hear stories of people who give God little or no place in their lives, thinking they can do things on their own. However, when they are in life or death situations, suddenly they call upon the Lord for help. Why do they do that? It is because every one of us is born with the inward desire to worship something - we are spiritual beings. Often a person can go through life with little thought of what happens when they die. However, when it comes to a life-threatening crisis, from their innermost being they realise this is not the end, and where will they go from here? How privileged we are when we personally know that should we be in a life or death situation, we do not have to quickly begin emergency-praying, but we prayerfully approach our God as our Heavenly Father, knowing He is always with us - whether in life or in death.
God should be our God - in life and in death.
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