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FAITH ENTHUSIAST
he is there in the beginning & the end
IOWA - I do not think of myself as
My Image and after My Likeness to
of yet, a lion in winter but there is some
manifest My goodness in the land!” In
snow on the mountaintop. I have made
other words, you and I were born to
65 trips around the sun on this terrestrial
be an open manifestation of an idea
ball called Planet Earth. These days
of God! This gives me an attitude of
more and more I am coming to grips
Thanksgiving where even our mistakes
with my mortality. The muscles that once
and missteps have been figured into the
strengthened the eyes are beginning
equation of grace and mercy.
to weaken, the legs are no longer as
Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV) “It is
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swift as they were… muscles for static
of the Lord’s mercies that we are not
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and dynamic movement do not recover
consumed because his compassions
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as quickly as they did in my youth.
fail not. They are new every morning:
However, the fascination with the idea http://www.thesoultown.com/in-matters-of-
great is thy faithfulness.” I look back
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and the ideals seem to increase with
over my life and I look forward to my
each passing moment.
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life, I am so thankful that God has been
These monthly articles are intended
there in my beginnings and is there
to inspire, energize our faith and to
waiting at my ending. So I say this time
infuse hope into what seems to be a
of Thanksgiving shall also be a time of
“These monthly articles
‘mad, mad, mad, mad world’. The longer
restoration for me and for all those who
I live I am convinced that you and I are
are intended to inspire,
choose to believe.
not a mistake neither the results of the
Yes, redemption and restoration for
energize our faith and
random chance of a series of events
that poverty that robbed your wealth –
that crawled out of the seas, fell out of
that pain that disturbed your health – that
to infuse hope into
trees and one day stood upright to walk.
predicament that blocked your vision –
Our faith claims that Some One (God)
that nightmarish event that frightened
what seems to be a
thought out all of Creation and then
your dream – that betrayal that
strategically placed humankind in the
destroyed a friendship and that ambush
‘mad, mad,
‘here and now’ for a specific purpose.
that held up a mission… the result of all
That same God is actively involved in
these shall be the manifestation of grace
mad, mad world’.”
ongoing human history. I rejoice in the
above and beyond our imagination.
fact the God is so ‘intimately’ involved
For this, we give You, God, our
right down to the DNA in each strand
hearty Thanksgiving.
you ready?
of hair on our head and the emotional
Alpha and Omega placed alpha and
makeup of the individual.
I am Dr. David Rainey, Faith
omega into the dust of the ground and
The student in me states it this way
Enthusiast for The Soultown
the ground came alive. God put Eternity
in regards to the human kinds origin and
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into
a
‘timed
body’
and
said,
“Walk
in
God’s continuing idea for our lives. Are
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