Well summer is officially over and this year’s conference is less than a month away! I hope you are as excited about that as we here at Shine Ministries are. If you haven’t received a registration form in the mail or via email please go to www.shine4jesus.com to download one for you and your friends!
SHINE 2006
Speaking of this
year’s conference, are you ready to be encouraged? There are only 26 days left before the
conference so sign up today before time runs out! We have had so much fun
planning this Survivor event that I can hardly wait for the day!
Consistent
As I took a walk this morning I was struck by an encouraging thought. It occurred to me how incredible consistent the Lord is. Every morning the sun is there to greet us and each evening the moon lulls us to sleep. Every spring the grass greens up and the flowers start budding. Summer always brings warmth and beauty from the ashes of winter. God is a faithful father, a consistent and reliable father. Oh how I long to be that kind of parent to my children. To say what I mean and mean what I say, to never break a promise or fail to be consistent in anyway. Lord that is my prayer today. Please help me to be consistent with my children so that they know what to expect from me.
I wonder if that is why we get complacent. Is it because we just expect the sun to rise? What if we woke up one morning and the sun didn’t rise?? What if spring never came to chase winter away? I bet it wouldn’t take us long to begin grumbling and questioning God. Why is it we often only notice the blessings when they are gone? Maybe that is why sometimes things don’t go as WE plan. How many of us have heard the stories of how a near death experience awoke someone to the everyday blessings in their lives. How that kept them from taking these things for granted. But is it that God has failed to be consistent when someone gets sick or passes away too soon from this earth? No, God never promised that life would be fair or that there would be smooth sailing. He only promises to comfort those who mourn, to love us unconditionally, and to never give up on us. And of course He sent His one and only son to bring us the promise of an everlasting life, should we choose to accept.
-Marla
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Marla Graham
SHINE Ministries