Musings of a Snickerdoodle

A heart for others and their actual needs should be what stirs us 'to the heart' - we are to look on others, not for how they can encourage us, but how we may encourage the. The potential of lives forever changed should drive us, fulfill us, as it did our Lord - many did not respond as this group (later in Jesus' ministry), but it did not change His 'fulfilling sustenance' (doing the will of God and not allowing predictable norms to dictate the possibilities we look for) Our focus is to be looking for God's working (readiness for harvest) realizing He may have been "working on" someone long before we met them. - Don Lambert  excerpts from his studies on John 6 You may listen to the sermon here:  http://dbc.sermon.net/main/main/21629112 Find more quotes on my quotes blog: http://snickerdoodlesquotes.blogspot.com/

What is it to wait on the Lord? June 7, 2017 By:  Rick Lambert (When I was going through some of the most difficult trials I have ever experienced) Is it a blessing or is it berating? I'm talking about the trial of waiting; That heavy weight of God's neglect that is ever-stating, And the purposeless days that are so devastating. The endurance it demands is perplexing, And the energy it consumes is distressing. The long days and lonely nights that keep me guessing As I search and ponder what happened to God's blessing. Each day, joy crumbles and is replaced with mourning, And peace disappears into forlorning. But such an event must become the loud warning That my heart is being deceived into scorning. Is waiting really as bad as I am thinking? Perhaps it is a wonderful tool to stop me from shrinking As it stares in silence at me without blinking. Surely it cannot be present for my sinking. Waiting actually seems painless in the scheme of its framing, And maybe with God's...