October 20: A WORD FROM THE LORD!

As I write this Blog today I am aware of the fact that I have been doing this for 10 months. And some of you have been reading this for 10 months. Thank you very much!
The purpose of these writings can be found in Proverbs 25:11 (NIV), “A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.”
Sometimes it only takes a word for God to get us back on track. Just a word of encouragement or correction or discipline can be used by the Holy Spirit of God to turn a life around. With a liberal use of verses from the Bible and practical commentary from life, I hope to speak ‘aptly’ to you.
One of the worst disasters that could come to a life would be to experience a famine of the Word of the Lord. This Blog could become a spiritual oasis for people trapped in that predicament.
Amos 8:11 (NIV) says, “the days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land, not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.” For people lost in the desert of their own thinkings and wonderings, the word of God can point people to the way of truth.
Once you read this daily “thought” then you become responsible to share it with someone else. If a message from the Lord can be compared to silver and gold in beauty and value, surely, we would be empowered to tell someone else the encouraging word. Until they can overcome the barrier built in their mind against going back to a Church again, you could help them to read these words daily and the Holy Spirit could gradually remove the barrier.
Consider the words you read and speak very closely, someone’s future may be depending on it. As God sometimes reminds me of what He said away back in Genesis that I am my “brother’s keeper”.

“Thank You, God, for the way You speak to us in surprising places and
in surprising ways. As we are refreshed, help us to be refreshment, too! Amen”