Qoheleth: Verse of the Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I just returned from a 3 week trip to the Philippines, where I met my wife Dana and had our Philippine Ceremony (for our online legal marriage) and where I visited our ABA missions and churches in Bohol, Pampanga, and Cebu.  It was a blessed trip and at the risk of sounding trite, it was life changing in many ways.   When I returned I was feeling very down because I had to leave the woman I love behind while we wait for the slow wheels of government to turn on spousal her visa application.  Along with having cried for around 15 hours, Being jet lagged and wearing from travel, I had the added benefit of learning upon my arrival home that someone had liberated my Karvan utility trailer and my Husqvarna riding lawnmower (and they didn’t even mow the lawn on their way out.) I was saddened but at the same time it is only stuff, and not people!  People are irreplaceable and stuff is just stuff!  This verse came into my mind as I thought about the missing items a...

   

 

 QohelethVotD is going on a (prayerfully) temporary hiatus for the next 3 weeks.  Feel free to visit blog.qohelethvotd.com and browse through.  I will be unable to access text messaging for the next 3 weeks and as such I won't be able to send out links to the daily verses.  I pray to be back somewhere around March 25 and to resume sending out the daily verse then.   I would love your prayers for my safety on the flights and while in country.  I have 6 preaching engagements s as well, so please pray for those.  Thankful, grateful, for Salvation, for Grace and Mercy, and that beyond measure or understanding.  I’m so so grateful  For what God has done in my life,What He is doing, And what I believe He will do in the future! I am Blessed!! I may put some verses up while I’m gone, but I won’t be able to send them out so you’ll have to go to The address listed above to view them! I’m thankful that God is faithful, even when we are not!  I am t...

   

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

  In order to obey God we must Trust Him.  Trust that if we obey Him and do the ‘foolish’ thing(s) He asks us He will provide for us and will not leave us ashamed and empty. Trust and Obey Not a burden we bear,   Not a sorrow we share, But our toil He doth richly repay;   Not a grief or a loss,   Not a frown or a cross, But is blest if we trust and obey. https://hymnary.org/text/when_we_walk_with_the_lord#Author

 

 

   

   

 

  ‘Let those that walk in darkness, and labour under discouragements, take courage; God himself will be a Light to them.’   Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary   

 

   

 

 

   

 

  Photo taken by Dana B

   

 “And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭7‬:‭23‬ ‭KJV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/1/luk.7.23.KJV

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   Sometimes it feels like the Lord isn’t listening.  Examine yourself for sin, which could be a reason  He might not listen.  There are other times we just need to trust and wait on Him to move.  Whatever the case, we need to humble ourselves and make our petitions known.  Ask Him to reveal His desire to us. Trust and wait