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SHARING BREADI received the following message from a missionary friend who ministers to the Muslim world.  As a special Christmas blessings, I am passing it on to you.  I have no idea who composed this sequence of Scripture but it strengthened my spirit and my prayer is that it will strengthen yours also!  It is a message of contrasts; of darkness verses light, and of our ultimate hope in Jesus – the Savior of the world.  Enjoy!Psalm 23 – For the UnreachedI have no shepherd.  I am in desperate need.  I have no one to feed me in green pastures.  I find no rest.  I have no one to lead me to quiet waters.  I have no one to restore my anxious and desperate soul.  I find no one to guide me in right ways.  I don’t know where to turn.  As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, evil surrounds me.  I am terribly afraid, for no one is with me to comfort me.  I have no feast prepared for me; I am overwhelmed by my enemies.  No one anoints my wounds to heal them.  My cup is empty.  All the days of my life are filled with uncertainty and disappointments and I have no home for eternity.  Will I dwell in the house of evil forever?“Deep in your heart it is not guidance you want so much as a Guide.”  John White FATHER’S LOVE LETTERMy Child…….You may not know Me, but I know everything about you…….I know when you sit down and when you rise up…….I am familiar with all your ways…….Even the very hairs on your head are numbered…….For you were made in My image…….In Me you live and move and have your being…….For you are My offspring…….I knew you even before you were conceived…….I chose you when I planned creation…….You were not a mistake…….For all your days are written in My book…….I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live…….You are fearfully and wonderfully made…….I knit you together in your mother’s womb…….And brought you forth on the day you were born…….I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know Me…….I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love…….And it is My desire to lavish My love on you…….Simply because you are My child and I am your Father…….I offer you more than your earthly father ever could…….For I am the perfect Father…….Every good gift that you receive comes from My hand…….For I am your provider and I meet all your needs…….My plan for your future has always been filled with hope…….Because I love you with an everlasting love…….My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore…….And I rejoice over you with singing…….I will never stop doing good to you…….For you are My treasured possession…….I desire to establish you with all My heart and all My soul…….And I want to show you great and marvelous things…….If you seek Me with all your heart, you will find Me…….Delight in Me and I will give you the desires of your heart…….For it is I who gave you those desires…….I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine…….For I Am your greatest encourager…….I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles…….When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you…….As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart…….One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes…….And I’ll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth…….I am your Father and I love you even as I love My Son, Jesus…….For in Jesus My love for you is revealed…….He is the exact representation of My Being…….And He came to demonstrate that I Am for you, not against you…….And to tell you that I am not counting your sins…….Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled…….His death was the ultimate expression of My love for you…….I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love…….If you receive the gift of My Son, Jesus, you receive Me…….And nothing will ever separate you from My love again…….Come home and I’ll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen……I have always been Father and will always be Father…….My question is…….Will you be My child?…….I am waiting for you…….Love, Your Dad…….ALMIGHTY GOD.“He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.”  A.W, Tozer“In Christ we can move out of our past into a meaningful present and a breathtaking future.”  Erwin Lutzer“The future belongs to those who belong to God.  This is hope.”  W.T. Purkiser³² ”Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.   Acts 20:32 (NIV) ²⁴ To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy– ²⁵ to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude 1:24-25 (NIV) A BLESSED CHRIST FILLED CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS!  What I glean from this:·         God is for me and not against me.·         God loves me with an everlasting love.·         I am God’s treasured possession. *****************************************************************************