Monday, December 10, 2012

The Wonders of our GOD..


The Wonders of our GOD..

12/10/2012

The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church
in suburban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve.

They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls, painting, etc, and on December 18 were ahead of schedule and just about finished. On December 19 a terrible tempest - a driving rainstorm hit the area and lasted for two days.

On the 21st, the pastor went over to the church. His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high.

The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home. On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity so he stopped in.

One of the items was a beautiful, handmade, ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover up the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church.

By this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was
trying to catch the bus.. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later.

She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area.

Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet.. "Pastor," she asked, "where did you get that tablecloth?" The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials, EBG were crocheted into it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria.

The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten the Tablecloth. The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria. When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. He was captured, sent to prison and never saw her husband or her home again.

The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church. The pastor insisted on driving her home, that was the least he could do.. She lived on the other side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day for a housecleaning job.

What a wonderful service they had on Christmas Eve. The church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return. One older man, whom the pastor recognized from the neighborhood continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasn't leaving.

The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to one
that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war and how could there be two tablecloths so much alike? He told the pastor how the Nazis came, how he forced his wife to flee for her safety and he was supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and put in a prison.. He never saw his wife or his home again all the 35 years in between.

The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman three days earlier. He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the woman's apartment, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine.

True Story - submitted by Pastor xxxx xxxxx  So, who says God does not work in mysterious ways??

I asked the Lord to bless you as I prayed for you today, to guide you and protect you as you go along your way. His love is always with you, His promises are true, and when we give Him all our cares you know He will see us through.

So when the road you're traveling on seems difficult at best.. Just remember I'm here praying and God will do the rest. When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need.

Father, God, bless all my friends and family in what ever it is that You know they may be needing this day! May their life be full of your peace, prosperity and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you. Amen.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

God is good!!

Anonymous said...

To all friendly atheists & agnostics,

The following references will provide positive information to what I have stated below; ‘The Holographic Universe is an illusion, But consciousness Isn’t.’ & the Mandelbrot Set on (You Tube), ‘Beige the Colour of the Universe’ (abc.net.au/science/news/stories), Holographic & Spherical Universe – Scientific America (August, 2003), fractal crystals description@crystalinks.com/fractals and Wikipedia on fractals, and note the ‘Koch snowflake’ fractal.
Can the atheists or agnostics prove atheism? Can they also satisfactorily explain why time remains stable? or why there are uniform ‘universal laws of physics’ – such as, the speed of light or makeup of elements?
Some take for granted everything works by mere chance… dreamers!

Time must exist before matter can be created, and only an animate entity can conceive of space-time. Time must be a stabilized and uniform condition before matter can form, thus Monotheism is a Truth.
The Universe consists of space-time; which is functionally active and growing but remains stable. These combined characteristics are indicative of an animate entity only, thus Pantheism is a fact.
As a consequence, all mortals’ behaviours and attitudes become conspicuous by our Creator.
Reality is the dream of a Universal sentient being. Sensations of all mortals are merely light flashes within elongated fractal crystals, flowing in a white mist which is time itself; ensconced within a beige coloured and velvet textured Pearl, that is, a holographic Universe.

Holographic Universe
Cardiff researchers could herald a new era in fundamental physics
Media Release
Issued: 3rd February 2009
Cardiff University researchers who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics according to an American physicist.
Craig Hogan, a physicist at Fermilab Centre for Particle Astrophysics in Illinois is convinced that he has found proof in the data of the gravitational wave detector GEO600 of a holographic Universe – and that his ideas could explain mysterious noise in the detector data that has not been explained so far.

Note: Still unsure? Well then explain to all, who created and controls this living Holographic Universe.
Don’t worry about dying… you will live through it.

John Berbatis
Perth, Australia

Anonymous said...

Yes Mr Berbatis but God made it very simple and confounded the wise, the scientific and philosophical ...if you don't know Jesus, the Son of the living God who created all, as your Savior....you will live that eternal life in hell, without the Creator.without love or light in torment and darkness by your own choice.
I pray that you make that decision to ask Him in your heart and for forgiveness of your sins that you may come to know abundant life through Him.
I find your response so strange to the above story which is full of God's love and grace that brought that husband and wife back together miraculously through a pastor's need.
Blessings

Anonymous said...


> Subject: Thank you for writing to The Washington Post
> To: johnberbatisau@hotmail.com
> From: letters@washpost.com
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:04:01 -0400
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> Again, thank you for sending us your letter.
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> Sincerely,
> The Letters Editor
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> To all concerned Earth Lovers,
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> Our thoughts should be guided by Love - Ethics - Altruism and Respect for
> all things. We humans should be close-knitted and United, but regretably,
> there is a high level of hate - violence and injustice. The trend in
> science and technology is to be anti-humanistic, and this course will
> inevitably lead to the annihilation of humanity.
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> Regards,
> John Berbatis
> Perth, Australia