Amen!  God makes N O M I S T A K E S!!!!!
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From: "Vicki and The Rors" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Turtle


> Good one Phil.
>
> Vicki
>
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> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:07 PM
> Subject: [ECHURCH-USA] Turtle
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>> Here is another 16 year old article but it was something God showed me at 
>> a
>> horribly difficult time of my life.
>>
>> TESTIMONY OF A TURTLE
>>
>>
>>
>>                               BY
>>
>>                          PHIL SCOVELL
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     I was eating lunch with my family and listening to the kids
>> discuss my eleven year old daughter's newly acquired turtle
>> Herman.  My eight year old son, his voice muffled as he spoke
>> around a sandwich said, "Yea, Herman has a bent shell."  His
>> sister immediately shot back, "Oh, right!  God made a mistake when
>> he made Herman!"
>>     I had been facing depression for many months following the
>> folding of my first church after only eleven months.  I felt
>> worthless and valueless.  I had no job, my wife was working, and I
>> found it difficult to be thankful.  Although I kept telling myself
>> I wasn't a failure, somehow I found it impossible to believe.
>> Upon hearing my children talk about the turtle, I suddenly
>> realized that God in fact makes no mistakes.  I had just read the
>> day before how God created all the stars, knew their number, and
>> even personally named them all (Psalm 147:4).  I had been quoting
>> the words of our Lord to myself for several days concerning the
>> fact that He knew the number of the hairs on our head (Matt.
>> 10:29-31).  It seems trivial, I know,  but the awareness of God's
>> creation perfection encouraged me.  It was time to thank God He
>> had created me and that He still cared for me (I Peter 5:7).
>> Paul likewise confirmed that we are created in His image and for
>> His glory (I Cor. 11:7).  Furthermore, no one can accuse us any
>> longer since we have confessed Him as Lord of our lives.  We have
>> been reconciled in the body of His flesh through His resurrection
>> and He presents us holy, unblamable, and unreproveable (Col. 1:21-
>> 22).  In short, no one can lay anything to our charge since the
>> Savior paid the eternal price for sin; be they recent or past;
>> even sins future.  Perhaps we should listen to the testimony of
>> the turtle - God makes no mistakes!"
>>
>>
>> It Sounds Like God To Me.
>> www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
>>
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