Spring of Hope

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   God Helps Those Who Cannot Help Themselves  It is generally said, "God Helps those who helps themselves" and wrongly referred to as taken from the Bible. Bible does not say that anywhere; rather the Bible teaches that God helps those who cannot themselves. In John 5, we read about a man who was at a certain pool waiting to be healed. Thirty eight years and counting! That is a long time to be doing anything. This man took his place with many others who shared a similar plight. After all, misery does love company. They gathered at the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem where some said that every now and again an angel would disturb the waters, and the first one in would be healed.  Jesus comes into the picture and surveys the situation. Somehow, Jesus becomes aware of how long this guy has been lying there. B

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   A Short Man meets a Big God.  A man who went to the doctor’s office for a physical. The nurse asked him his weight and he said, “170 pounds.” She had him step on the scales and she said, “You weigh 200 pounds.” The nurse asked, “How tall are you?” He said, “Six feet.” She measured him and said, “You are actually five feet, nine inches.” She started taking his blood pressure and he said, “How can you expect my blood pressure to be normal? I came in here as a tall, slender guy, and you’ve already made me short and fat!” Zacchaeus knew that he was not going to be able to see Jesus because everyone else is taller than him.  Thankfully, we don't read about his weight.  Maybe that was not important at that time. So he decided to come up with a plan: to get ahead of Jesus and climb on a tree. All of us have been to

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Grace Greater than our sin. A woman who used the commercial Gorilla Glue to dress up her hair became viral on the Internet recently. A mother of four in her forties sprayed commercial glue to straighten her hair and ended up in the emergency room.  Her scalp and hair got glued together that she felt miserable with pain and feelings like critters crawling inside her head. Finally a plastic surgeon used a chemical process to relieve her suffering and freed her from her locks.  She still has patches on her scalp that will take time to heal. From this sticky lesson that she learned had this advice to others: "You should not take extreme steps to make your hair because you are not your hair. You are beautiful with or without hair." There are people who try strange things in all ages. Sometimes common sense