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AN APPOINTMENT FOR DISAPPOINTMENT

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Exodus 15:22-25


An Appointment for Disappointment
Donald Cantrell
Exodus 15: 22 - 25


I - Place of Mysterious Appointment ''Their Thirst'' (22 - 23)

II - Place of Contentious Disappointment ''Their Trouble'' (24)

III - Place of Ingenious Predicament ''Their Triumph'' (25)

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Theme: ''God will allow us to face bitter places''

Struggling but Supplied

A true story of how my close relative's urgent financial need was met by God's Providence!

Dear friends, we know that Jesus is same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Oh how many personal experiences I have had and oh how many true accounts I have heard from God's servants of the Almighty using unlikely sources to help them in their time of need.

Now I have a very close relative (my Father-in-law's own younger brother namely Reverend K. Issachar) who had quit a lucrative secular job (Excise inspector) to take-up full time Pastoral work oh yes... after a great struggle of saying NO to his legitimate career aspirations.

Doubtless, there were some financial constraints consequently, what with his young children still being in school. While undergoing training in a seminary in a different state, one day he received a letter from his wife about an urgent financial need, of school fees to be paid for his children.

Even as he ''surrendered'' his dire problems to the Lord...lo and behold...the very next day an absolute stranger walked straight to him in his class and thrust the needed money into his pocket and walked away saying ''the Lord wanted me to give you this money''.

Needless to say, this devout relative of mine never saw his benefactor again! It was as if it were straight from Ripley's book of ''Believe it or not''?

Friends that is the ''Lord's Network at work for you.''
Suresh Manoharan

The biblical principle for success is simple, ''struggle comes first and success will eventually follow.'' The Lord will not ...

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