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FEBRUARY 2011 VOL. 5 NO. 3

READ THRU THE

BIBLE IN ONE

YEARDOROTHY CHEATHAM

LUBERTA VANZANDT

These are names of those who

have read through their Bible in

one year but were received too

late to get in last months paper.

Please join us this year. We have

28 people who have given us their

names this year out of 1300 whoreceive our paper. Its not too

late to play catch up. It is such a

joy to know that you have read

every word in the Bible.

This is the month that we celebrate Valentines Day. This is the month

that we express our love for one another with a sweet card that has words which

tell how important these people are to us. While Valentines Day is about love,

most people are actually thinking about romance, not love. Our rst thought

about romance is about mating, but romance is not always about mating.

What is romance? Romance came from the Romans. It was originally a

long narrative in verse or prose, originally written in one of the Romance dialects,

about the adventures of knights and other chivalric heroes. It was a novel or real

happenings of adventures as exciting and unusual as those of such literature. Ro-

mance is the quality or characteristic of excitement, love and adventure. Actually,

romance is the ability to give excitement to the one you love.

You have heard the story about the couple who had been married for 25

years. when his wife said to him, We have been married all these years and you

never tell me you love me. The husband looks up from his newspaper and says,I have too told you I love you. I told you 25 years. ago and I havent changed

my mind. Well, we can see clearly that if there ever had been romance in their

lives, it certainly had not been around for a long time.

Everyone enjoys the love of someone who appears to be excited about

their love for them. We want to be stirred and warmed by the love that is given to

us. We want to see joy in the giver. We want to feel important to their lives. Most

people do not make love so exciting, but what a joy it is to come across someone

who knows how to make you feel loved!

The spirit that we love with is very important because it does reveal just

how much of our lives we are investing in the act of love. But more important

than the spirit of our love, is the quality of our love.

Mankind has a problem loving the way God loves. Our struggle is thatin our esh we are respecters of persons and we are partial in our love for others.

This kind of love is not godly love.And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the

truth is not in him.

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : hereby

know we that we are in him.

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

1 John 2:3-6

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PERFECTED LOVE

MEMORIAL TO:

BETTY STEGALLFrom long time friend

Juanice Davis

RUSSELL LOWERY

From long time friend of the

family

Junaice Davis


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PERFECTED LOVE How many people do you come across whose love has been perfected?

Maybe a better question would be, how many people do you know that you com-

pletely trust their love for your life. You rest in the fact that they will not abuse or

misuse your relationship with one another. More than likely you dont have many

people that you feel that way about. But isnt it wonderful to nd a true friend

that loves with a godly love?Have you ever, as a Christian, just committed your life to a life of godly

love? We have been called to live through godly love. That is how the world

will know that we are different. Do you live your whole life through godly love

or do you just choose throughout the day when you will and when you will not

show love? If you turn your godly love off and on throughout the day, you are a

respecter of persons and you are partial in the way you love. God is not like that.

When you have the perfected love working in your life, it is a way of life, not

a moment by moment choice. Godly love hates sin, but loves sinners!

Why does so much of what we do fail to prosper? Im afraid it is because

we do it without love. The Scripture tells us that love never fails. NEVER

FAILS! You might say, Well, I tried that and the person did not respond to my

love. Love still did not fail. The person receiving your love may not respond,

but you will always be successful in your life, when you live it through perfected

love. The reward is promised for the giver. The receiver can choose to benet

from love or reject godly love.

Our rst step in securing perfected love is to keep Gods command-

ments! By doing this we have a condence that we know God. Anyone who says

they love God and will not keep His commandments is a liar!!! The truth is not

in him. Wow, thats pretty strong, but that is just how it is, with no exceptions.

Step two is to keep His word. His word is more than just His command-

ments. His Word is His instruction, His leading and His work of the Holy Spirit

in our lives. When a Christian reads the written Word of God, it speaks to him.

His Word is His conversation to us through Scripture and the work of His HolySpirit. If we grieve the Holy Spirit we are rejecting Gods Word. The person who

receives perfected love is the person who is totally obedient to the person of

God and the work of God.

What is perfected love? It does not mean that we are perfected; it means

that God has taught us how to love in a way that removes the eshly desires of

our hearts and shows us the wisdom of His heart of love. We will no longer love

with respect of persons or be partial as to whom we are willing to love.Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three wit-

nesses.

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels,

that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing noth-ing by partiality. 1 Tim 5:19-21 We can certainly appreciate our judges being righteous and not partial in

their judgments to us and we owe the same to those we must judge.

This must begin in the home. We seem to think that we can be difcult to

our family members and just say or do what we want to do. The family is where

we learn and practice what we should be on the street. Our family should get the

best of our love.

We had an unusual home. Gloria and I had our three sons and then we

took in four foster daughters. We also, from time to time, took other children in

for short periods of time. We also had

a family live with us for a few weeks

Later, we took Glorias mother and aun

into our home to live. Every relation-

ship is different, but our love to each

other should never be different. Each

person should receive the same qual

ity of love that we would give anyone

else. Our relationships differ, but ou

love should remain the same at ALL

TIMES.

Our love may suffer because of

our lack of godly wisdom. James tells

us that if we lack wisdom, ask God for

it. Check these next verses out and de

termine just what kind of wisdom you

are living by.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? le

him shew out of a good conversation his

works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envyingand strife in your hearts, glory not, and

lie not against the truth.

This wisdom descendeth no

from above, but is earthly, sensual, dev-

ilish.

For where envying and strife is

there is confusion and every evil work.

But the wisdom that is from

above is rst pure, then peaceable, gen

tle, and easy to be intreated, full of mer

cy and good fruits, without partiality, and

without hypocrisy.And the fruit of righteousness is

sown in peace of them that make peace.

James 3:13-18

This year, give godly love with

a spirit of excitement and a warmth tha

will minister to the hearts of lonely and

needy people. Give them a TASTE o

the Person of Christ.

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byGloria Brewster

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Please forgive me, but I am writing this article the day before my birthday

and my husband is coming in a moment to take me to my birthday supper. The

Lord seemed to put in my heart to ask you and myself, Why celebrate birth-

days?

I have seven children and thirteen grandchildren, plus one great grand-

child. Five of our children have mates. We have been privileged to also include

our daughter-in-laws parents to our family. Then, we have our church and our

close friends, and as the sand of the seashore, they are uncountable. That is a lotof birthdays!!! We try to make each one feel special on their birthday, but some-

times we have three or four in one month. Some of our family (mostly the little

ones) look forward to celebrating their day, but some of them just wish you would

leave it alone. Everyone is different!

But it is a day to celebrate. It represents another year that you have been

allowed to live! We are not promised tomorrow and no man knows the day or the

hour that this life will end.

I personally like the way they did birthdays in the Bible. The rst birth-

day party is given in Genesis 40:21-23. This was Pharaohs birthday party, given

while Joseph was in prison.And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaohs birthday, that he

made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of

the chief baker among his servants.

And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the

cup into Pharaohs hand:

But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

Pharaoh gave himself his own birthday party. He invited his servants and

he served them. It was a day of giving and not a day of receiving. They may have

brought him presents, but there is no mention of them. He celebrated his birthday

by giving thanks to those who served his life. Wouldnt that be so much more

fun? There are so many people that we never have time to say thank you to, but

we could use our birthdays to do that. Also, we would only have to give one party

a year instead of going to hundreds of parties (with gifts!).But he not only gave to those who served his life, but he restored the one

who needed to be restored and he judged the one who needed judgment. The king

took care of business on his birthday. He looked at his life and corrected what

needed to be corrected and blessed those who needed to be blessed and then he

was ready for the next year.

We nd the rst birthday party (by a king) in the rst book of the Bible

and then we nd the second birthday party (by a king) in the New Testament in

the book of Mark. What this king did was not right (he killed John the Baptist),

but look at how he celebrated his birthday.

And when a convenient day was

come, that Herod on his birthday made

a supper to his lords, high captains, and

chief estates of Galilee;

And when the daughter of the

said Herodias came in, and danced, and

pleased Herod and them that sat with

him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask

of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I wil

give it thee.

And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give i

thee, unto the half of my kingdom.

Mark 6:21-23

We nd Herod making the sup-

per to his lords, his high captains and his

chief estates of Galilee. He was giving

not receiving. At the party, Herodias

daughter danced and pleased Herod in

such a way that he promised to give her

up to half of his kingdom. Herod was

in a giving mood on his birthday.

Why celebrate our birthday?Because life is worth celebrating. Life

is a gift from God. It is a responsibil

ity and it is also an opportunity. We

will give an account to God for every-

thing we do in this body! We will be

rewarded for everything we do through

the person of the Holy Spirit. Every

thing we do in the esh will burn up

and we will lose the reward. But God

will be a debtor to no man. He will re

ward those who diligently seek Him

We have the opportunity to serve Gods

kingdom here on earth just like it is to

be served in heaven. Remember th

Lords Prayer? When He gave to us

the Holy Spirit, we then had the power

to work righteous works through His

Spirit. Life! Its hard work. It is where

we are tried and tested. Many times we

endure and many times we rejoice.

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Robert Fulgram ( - you may not know him - hes the man who wrote The

Bed Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It) once wrote,

Dont worry that your children dont listen to you.

Worry that they are watching you.

As I look back on my years growing up in the home of John R. and Lloys

Cooke Rice, I think I am most grateful that they taught me a deep love for God,

and a longing to live a holy life. But even more, they lived holy lives before

us children, and their passion for serving God lit a re in our hearts so that we

wanted to do the same. We were watching!

The Apostle Paul wrote, Be ye followers of me, even as I also am ofChrist. (1 Corintihians 11:1) What a wonderful standard that is for a parent to

aim for!

Mothers and Daddys standards were set high, very high, true. But they

always conveyed to us children that they only wanted to prepare us for serving

Jesus, and that was such a noble and wonderful goal it was worthy of enduring

hardship to prepare for it. They taught us well, by word and by example. Every

one of my sisters married men in ministry, and all of us have had incredible op-

portunities to serve God and show His love and compassion to this needy, broken

world.

Was their discipline pleasant? NO, not usually! But like Hebrews 12:11

says, Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:

nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto themwhich are exercised thereby. Daddy and Mother saw to it that we were exer-

cised by their discipline.

Though Daddy was an evangelist and gone from home probably two out

of three weeks all his adult life, he kept in touch with each one of us children:

sometimes a phone call, sometimes a letter, but often face to face.

Hed say, Libby, come with me. I want to buy you a dress.

Or, Girls, what about a tennis tournament down at Northside Park?

Or, when I was a very little girl, being awakened in the car coming home

from a revival service, hearing Daddy say, Honey, would you like a tutti-frutti

ice cream cone?

Or maybe, at the Texas State

Fair, Girls, lets ride the roller coast-

er!

Daddy and Mother were con-

sistent. We read the Bible together a

the breakfast table, day after day, year

after year, and prayed for the needs of

the family and the ministry. We were

expected to do chores regularly, praised

when we did well, encouraged when

we faltered.

They taught us to pray for what

we needed, and we saw God provide in

remarkable ways.

Were the Rice girls therefore

just about perfect? No, not then, no

now! Once at a womens meeting

someone asked Mother, Didnt your

girls sometimes do wrong?

Mother answered serenely

No, never!We protested, But Mother

you know -

She answered, Thats not the

way I remember it!

Yes, Mother sweetly demon-

strated by her sweet mothering that

God doesnt remember our forgiven

sins either.

Thats the kind of Mother I

would like to be!

I met Libby Rice Handfor

many years ago. I had the privilege

of hosting the second Womans Jubilee

at Lavon Drive many years ago. My

job was picking up speakers at the air-

port. I ending up with the complet

Rice family in my van. I shall neve

forget the joy I saw in that family as the

ladies talked 90 miles an hour to their

parents, as we drove to the church.

could see the little girl in each one of

the daughters as they loved their daddy

and mother that day. The Rice familywas a wonderful example to the body

of Christ as to what a home should

be. Each one of the girls are gracious

hosts to anyone who needs their atten-

tion. I had the privilege of typing for

Grace Rice McMillian as she was dy-

ing of cancer. Her counsel to me is one

of the reasons, I write today. Bro. Wal

& Mrs. Libbly can be reached at 118

Shannon Lake Circle, Greenville, SC

29615.

The Kind of Parent I

want to Be -

Like My Mother and

Father!


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WHY GOD USED

D. L. MOODYand afternoons and have meetings at

ten in the morning and three in the

afternoon, I will go. I replied: Mr

Moody, you know what a busy city

Chicago is, and how impossible it is for

business men to get out at ten oclockin the morning and three in the after

noon on working days. Will you no

hold evening meetings and meetings

on Sunday? No, he replied, I am

afraid if I did, I would interfere with the

regular work of the churches.

I went back to Chicago and

engaged the Auditorium, which at that

time was the building having the larges

seating capacity of any building in the

city, seating in those days about seventhousand people; I announced week

day meetings, with Mr. Moody as the

speaker, at ten oclock in the mornings

and three oclock in the afternoons. A

once protests began to pour in upon me

One of them came from Marshall Field

at that time the business king of Chi-

cago. Mr. Torrey, Mr. Field wrote

we business men of Chicago wish to

hear Mr.Moody, and you know perfect-

ly well how impossible it is for us to ge

out at ten oclock in the morning andthree oclock in the afternoon; have

evening meetings. I received many

letters of a similar purport and wrote to

Mr. Moody urging him to give us eve-

ning meetings. But Mr. Moody simply

replied: You do as you are told, and

did as I was told; that is the way I kept

my job.

On the rst morning of the

meetings I went down to the Audito-

rium about half an hour before the ap-

pointed time, but I went with much fear

and apprehension; I thought the Audi-

torium would be nowhere nearly full

When I reached there, to my amaze-

ment I found a queue of people four

abreast extending from the Congress

Street entrance to Wabash Avenue, then

a block nor on Wabash Avenue, then a

break to let trafc through, and then

another block, and so on. I went in

through the back door, and


HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Sometimes, Gods saints cry begging God to take their lives. Elijah said

he had had enough and God appointed someone to take his place and then took

him home. Job cursed the day he was born. He wanted God to remove that day

so he would not have been born. Job was having a hard time, but God wasnt n-

ished blessing and using Jobs life. There came another day in which Job was glad

to be alive. Life can get tough and we may beg God to take us, but Gods peopleleave life and death in the hands of God! You dont nd Gods people taking their

own lives, even if they are asking God to take their lives. God knows there will be

another day, when living is a joy and a blessing, therefore He leaves us here and

we are to leave life to Him. Our government is beginning to talk about deciding

when a person should live or die. That is Gods business, not mans!

Life! I love it. I turn 67 tomorrow. One man told me he was not going to

ask my age (he didnt want to embarrass me) and I said, Oh, yes you are! I do not

want you to think that I am older than I am. I am thankful for every day God has

given me to live this life. I thank Him for all the troubles that He has used to teach

and instruct my life. I thank Him for all the miracles He has performed in my life

and those my eyes have experience. I thank Him for the written Word to hold in

our hands and read and fellowship with His person. I thank Him for the HolySpirit that He has placed within me. I can count the times that the Holy Spirit

has saved me from destruction. I thank God for the principles that I have learned

from His Word that sets my life apart from the worlds life. I thank Him for every

relationship He has given me through these years. He has most surely kept His

Word to me and given me the desires of my heart through all these years.

The Bible tells us that every Christian is to be conformed to the Image of

Christ. This is a song that Mrs. Mina Oglesby (one of my favorite Bible teachers)

sings. It is called Little by Little.

Little by little, every day

Little by little, in every way,

My Jesus, is changing me.(Hes changing me Hallelujah)

Since I made a turn about face,

Ive been growing in His grace,

My Jesus, is changing me.

Hes changing me, Oh Hallelujah,

Im not the same person that I use to be.

Sometimes its slow growing,

but theres a knowing,

that one day perfect I will be.

I tell you one day perfect I will beThe Lord said, one day perfect YOU will be!


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to the platform to face a magnicentaudience of eleven women and two

men! But there was not a building any-

where in Chicago that would accom-

modate the very same day the crowds

that would ock to hear Mr. Moody at

any hour of the day or night. Oh, men

and women, if you wish to get an audi-

ence and wish to do that audience some

good after you get them, study, study,

study the one Book, and preach, preach,

preach the one Book, and teach, teach,

teach the one Book, the bible, the onlyBook that contains Gods Word, and

the only Book that has power to gather

and hold and bless the crowds for any

great length of time.

TID BITS OF WISDOM

MONTHLY REPORT

Here we are in the second month of a new year. Time ies! It seems

like December and January just sneaked passed us this year. Hopefully we are

getting back on our feet from Glorias surgery. She is beginning to work her way

back to normal (whatever normal is!). She has been able to work in the ofcesome this week. We thank the Lord for His leading in our lives and all those

precious things He does for us daily.

Words cannot express the gratitude we have for the cards and letters

we have received lately. When we hear of how the Lord has used this paper to

minister to someones life, it rejoices our hearts. It gives us the zeal to keep on

keeping on.

This month we have received some extra support and we thank the Lord

for touching hearts for this work. Our two granddaughters have worked at enter-

ing all of our books into the computer and we completed that this month. We

have learned from the post ofce that we must put barcodes on each paper start-

ing in May. We have checked and the program and scanner are going to cost

about $600. While this is an extra expense, it seems to be a blessing. With this

equipment, we can bar code all of our library and make it so much easier to keep

up with. We now have to go through all the books and remove the extras and

organize the placing of the books on the shaves. Please pray for us, there is still

many hours of work ahead of us and as God supplies we will hire help.

Again we say thank you to those who are so faithful to support and to

those who have added to their giving these last two months. Our prayer is that

the Lord will richly bless you for your generosity. Remember, if you would

like to honor someone who has passed away with a love gift to the paper, we

will print their names in the next months paper.

there were many clamoring for en-

trance there. When the doors were

opened at the appointed time, we had

a cordon of twenty policemen to keep

back the crowd; but the crowd was so

great that it swept the cordon of po-

licemen off their feet and packed eight

thousand people into the building be-

fore we could get the doors shut. And

I think there were as many left on the

outside as there were in the building.

I do not think that anyone else in the

world could have drawn such a crowd

at such a time.

Why? Because though Mr.

Moody knew little about science, or

philosophy, or literature in general, he

did know the one Book that this old

world is perishing to know and longing

to know; and this old world will ock

to hear men who know the Bible andpreach the Bible as they will ock to

hear nothing else on earth. During all

the months of the Worlds Fair in Chi-

cago, no one could draw such crowds as

Mr. Moody. Judging by the papers, one

would have thought that great religious

event in Chicago at that time was the

Worlds Congress of Religions. One

very gifted man of letters in the East

was invited to speak at this congress.

He saw in this invitation the opportuni-

ty of his life and prepared his paper, the

exact title of which I do not now recall,

but it was something along the line of

New Light on the Old Doctrines. He

prepared the paper with great care, and

then sent it around to his most trusted

and gifted friends for criticisms. These

men sent it back to him with such emen-

dations as they had to suggest. Then

he rewrote the paper, incorporating as

many of the suggestions and criticisms

as seemed wise. Then he sent it aroundfor further criticisms. Then he wrote

the paper a third time, and had it, as he

trusted, perfect. He went on to Chi-

cago to meet this coveted opportunity

of speaking at the Worlds Congress of

Religions. It was at eleven oclock on

a Saturday morning (if I remember cor-

rectly) that he was to speak. He stood

outside the door of the platform wait-

ing for the great moment to arrive, and

as the clock struck eleven walked on

TALKING - EXPLORESHISTORY

DOING - REWRITESHISTORY

WE CAN SO EASILYMISUNDERSTAND!

A couple of Texas hunters are out in

the woods when one of them falls to

the ground. He doesnt seem to be

breathing, his eyes are rolled back in

his head.

The other guy whips out his cell

phone and calls 911. He gaspes to

the operator, My friend is dead!What can I do?

The operator, in a calm soothing

voice says, Just take it easy. I can

help. First, let,s make sure hes

dead.

....There is a silence, then a shot is

heard....

The hunter says, OK, now what?


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1 John 4:7-8

Beloved, let us love

one another: for love

is of God; and ev-

ery one that loveth

is born of God, and

knoweth God.

He that loveth not

knoweth not God;

for God is love .

KJV

Love Lifted MeI was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful

shore,

Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no

more,

But the Master of the sea, heard my despairing

cry,

From the waters lifted me, now safe am I.

Refrain

Love lifted me! Love lifted me!

When nothing else could help

Love lifted me!

All my heart to Him I give, ever to Him Ill cling

In His blessed presence live, ever His praises sing,

Love so mighty and so true, merits my souls bestsongs,

Faithful, loving service too, to Him belongs.

Souls in danger look above, Jesus completely

saves,

He will lift you by His love, out of the angry

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