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EVER NEW IS THE HORIZON 

Fall is in the air.  Birds on the wing, and stirrings in the bushes.   The horizon beckons me on to dream and to imagine the possibilities.A good walk begins with the first step.   Into the future we may go, trusting the Heavenly Father for guiding our way.
I would like to share a sermon on GOD GIVEN WISDOM from Henry Cash's files.

GOD GIVEN WISDOM

JAMES 3.17 God Given Wisdom 

I.  It is pure.    Philippians 4.8   and  I John 3.3 II. 

 2.  It is peaceable.    Hebrews 12.11; John 14.27III. 

3.  It is gentle.  Titus 3.2 and I Peter 2.18.IV.

4.  It is easy to be entreated, to be persuaded.  Acts 28.23,      Romans             8.38 - 39, II Tim. 1.12, Hebrews 12.11.

5.  It is full of mercy.   Matthew 5.7; Luke 1.78,79;and Ephesians 2.4 - 5; 

     I Peter 1.3; Jude 1.21.  VI. It is full of good fruits.  Matthew 7.17; 

     John 15.8,16;      and Romans 6.22; Galatians 5.22-23; Phil. 1.11 

     and  Hebrews 12.11.VII. 

6.  It is without hypocrisy.   That means, no feigned or pretense. 

         II Timothy 1.5 and I Peter 1.22     

Every day
Along my way 
Looking to Christ my Lord and Savior
I trust Him to be my 
Wisdom, my Strength, my Source,
and my Guide 
in all I do.
Walk with me as I blog along - 
I will share some of His blessings as I go.  
January 21, 2016

A RIVER IN ITS CURRENT FLOWS TO THE SEA

AS WE JOURNEY IN LIFE IF WE HAVE BELIEVED ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WE WILL ONE DAY STAND IN HIS PRESENCE, DRESSED IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

II CORINTHIANS 5:21FOR HE HATH MADE HIM TO BE SIN FOR US, WHO KNEW NO SIN,THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM.   

I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU

Sunday, January 19, 2014

re-posted on  SEPT 4,2017  

    JOHN 14.1 - 3  LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.  IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS. 

     IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU.  I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU TO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO.

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        When Jesus told this to the Disciples, He knew that they needed comforting.   He took this time to explain that His relationship to them was like a Bridegroom leaving for His Father's House to prepare a place for His Bride.
        You and I who believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior have entered into that relationship.  Christ is the Bridegroom of the Church - the Called Out Ones - and we are the Bride, readying ourselves for His Soon Coming, and occupying our time doing His Will.
       He promised us that He is coming.    Let us look for Him.   We are to fill our days with the quiet ever constancy of a loving heart of a Bride for Her Bridegroom.    We are to live knowing His Return is Certain, and it is Soon.
      My love for Jesus grows day by day.   He who said "I AM" is YHWH, or, Yahweh, the One WHO IS.   Let us rejoice that we have His dear Spirit to guide and direct us as we Look for His Soon Return.  

REMEMBER 

WHEN HE COMES TO TAKE US HOME 

THERE WILL BE THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET

AND IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 

WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET HIM

AND THOSE WHO HAVE GONE ON BEFORE US

AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED 

I THESS CHAPTER 4. 13 - 18  

WE WILL BE WITH HIM IN REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR, JOHN IS CAUGHT UP
INTO HEAVEN, AND FROM THAT VIEWPOINT
SEES WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT

7 YEARS OF TRIBULATION

A TIME OF JUDGMENT UPON THE EARTH

AND MILLIONS WILL BE SAVED BY 

THE SAME GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 

AS SAVED ME

WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS 

THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, 

GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD.

I John 4.15   

 We love Him, because He first loved us. I John 4.19

           John the Baptist said of Jesus, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."  John chapter 3.36  

           

In a moment He will come

 WILL YOU BE READY?

 BY FAITH IN JESUS, THE MESSIAH, YOU CAN BELIEVE RIGHT NOW.    HE WILL CLEANSE YOUR HEART WHEN YOU TURN TO HIM FOR WASHING BY THE BLOOD HE SHED ON THE CROSS.  ONCE FOR ALL HE PAID THE PRICE OF OUR REDEMPTION.

             I AM RESOLVED NO LONGER TO LINGER CHARMED BY THE WORLD'S DELIGHT, THINGS THAT ARE HIGHER, THINGS THAT ARE NOBLER, THESE HAVE ALLURED MY SIGHT.   I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE; JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.  

              I AM RESOLVED TO GO TO THE SAVIOR, LEAVING MY SIN AND STRIFE, HE IS THE TRUE ONE, HE IS THE JUST ONE - HE HATH THE WORDS OF LIFE.  I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE, JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.

              I AM RESOLVED TO FOLLOW THE SAVIOR, FAITHFUL AND TRUE EACH DAY, HEED WHAT HE SAYETH, DO WHAT HE WILLETH, HE IS THE LIVING WAY.  

                 I AM RESOLVED TO ENTER THE KINGDOM, LEAVING THE PATHS OF SIN, FRIENDS MAY OPPOSE ME, FOES MAY BESET ME, STILL WILL I ENTER IN.

                    I AM RESOLVED, AND WHO ? WILL GO WITH ME ?  COME, FRIENDS, WITHOUT DELAY....TAUGHT BY THE BIBLE, LED BY THE SPIRIT, WE'LL WALK THE HEAVENLY WAY. 

                          I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE, JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.

              

 JUST AS GOD TOLD THE HEBREWS TO PUT THE BLOOD ON THE LINTEL AND THE DOOR POSTS WHICH MADE THE CROSS OF BLOOD - SO THAT THE DEATH ANGEL "PASSED OVER" THEIR FIRST BORN, SO TOO, WE MUST LET THE BLOOD OF JESUS WASH AWAY OUR SIN.   

                

        GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US.    ROMANS 5.8 

MY STORY PART ONE GOD'S PLAN BEHIND IT ALL

N 1941 HENRY WAS 14 YEARS OLD, AND I WAS ONLY 8

HERE IS WM. HENRY CASH, JR WITH HIS 

GRANDMOTHER 

THEY CELEBRATED THE SAME BIRTHDAY

ALTHOUGH

BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE

IN THE TIME

HE WAS RECORDED AS 

BEING BORN ON MAY 26TH, 1927

SO ALL OUR MARRIED LIFE

WE CELEBRATED TWO DAYS 

FOR HIS BIRTHDAY.

AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN

HENRY CAME TO KNOW CHRIST AS HIS 

LORD AND SAVIOR.

HIS GRANDMOTHER ENCOURAGED HIM IN HIS 

CHRISTIAN LIFE.

HE DETERMINED THAT GOD WAS CALLING HIM

TO PREACH, AND HE BEGAN BY GIVING HIS FAMILY

OF SIBLINGS HIS FIRST SERMON.

Here are Margie and Helen with two cousins

Margie was the same as me.   When I was 8 she was 8.

She heard Henry give his first sermon.   

The remarkable part of this is that Henry stuttered 

quite badly, he thought.   How he could become 

a Preacher with that difficulty he never 

questioned.

This was Henry with his Mom and Dad with 

siblings in 1936.    Margie was only 3.

I was in Massachusetts, only 3.   

I believe God planned right 

from the start to put us 

together.

COME JOURNEY WITH ME

AND DISCOVER HOW

GOD DID THAT !  

MY SISTER DIANE WAS BORN ON DEC 27TH 1941  

AND I WAS BUSY HELPING MOTHER.

YET SOMEWHERE IN MY MIND

I SAW BLOND THIN BABIES HAPPY AND 

PLAYING TOGETHER - 

AND I FELT "DRAWN" TO THE BOY I SAW 

IN MY THOUGHTS.

        I KNOW NOW THAT BECAUSE HIS  MOTHER (ANNA MAUDE CASH) WAS 

        A FULL BLOODED SWEDE, 

       ALL OF HENRY'S FAMILY WERE BLONDES AS BABIES, BUT THEIR

       HAIR GREW DARK AS THEY GREW. 

HENRY'S HAIR TURNED BLACK LATER ON,

AND IT WAS STILL BLACK WHEN THE LORD TOOK HIM HOME.

take another look at this photo.

Dad and Mom Cash with 7 little ones, Henry the oldest in 1936.     

         Dad Cash, (Wm. Henry Cash) was a farmer, born in Arkansas, and Anna Maude (Sandine) who married him at age 16, had Henry at age 17.   Dad moved to Imperial Valley in California when Henry was 2 years old.    By the time they got to New Mexico - his little brother John was born.  And there they stay about a year, and then headed on to California.    They had brought with them, Grandmother and Grandfather Cash (Garrett Gibson Cash and his wife), because they could not bear to have this little boy far away from them.  So leaving "the dust bowl" and finding hope in the future in California, they came too.   

      Calvin Terry his cousin is the same age as what Henry would have been, and he remembers him as a little boy.  They both became Pastors, preaching God's Word, and yet one was living in Arkansas, and the other in Cal, Or and later WA 

       

           In 1937 my little brother Harry whom we called Skipper was growing up,

   and I was busy with Skip and now with Diane.

About the time that I was 8  we lived in Boston MA in rentals of the famous BROWNSTONE TENEMENTS which at one time had many folk very well off living in them.  However, times had changed, and they were now RENTALS and quite shabby, but still handsome with pine knot staircases and fancy lights.

I loved to discover W H O was living next to me.  

Mother trusted me to come back if I had any trouble, and 

it seemed as if I lived a CHARMED LIFE.  

Funny, I just did not even imagine harm would come

if I explored.  

So I was very inquisitive.

People were kind.

Very friendly.

God was giving a picture to me of people of all walks of life, many unhappy, and some happy, many who did not work, and others who could not work. Life was not easy, but everyone had hope.  They did what they could.  I could see that I needed A PURPOSE IN IT ALL.   

I saw the hardships.

I knew life was not easy.

I wondered "Who God Was, and Was He Really Interested in me?" 

On my next post I will speak a little on that subject.  

When I was in First Grade in 1940, I remember there 

was a picture of children in Germany posted on the wall 

at school.  I looked at the picture, and said "something's wrong. 

They do not look happy.   There is a sadness in their face."  

What I did not know was that these children were marked for death camps.    No one was talking about that at all.

I somehow knew God had put me where I was

so that I could be safe.   And I kept seeing

pictures in my mind of a little boy who 

could not say "sister"  trying to preach to 

his brothers and sisters. 

BLESS THE LORD O MY SOUL

AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME

BLESS HIS HOLY NAME.

Ps. 103.1   

BLESSED BE THE FOUNTAIN - My Story part 2

BLESSED BE THE FOUNTAIN 

     

1942  We moved in a trailer to Watertown, MA - outside of Boston MA. Here I am at 9 almost 10.   We moved just before Christmas, with the Christmas Tree already up, and I remember how hard it was when we were traveling INSIDE the trailer, to go to our new place.    

        Dad was working on Construction, which meant moving a lot. Mother did well in teaching me, but I had lots of questions.   My little brother would be 6 in November.   We spent a lot of time together.   

        

Skip and I played a lot together, and because we moved so much, he would find in me his support and help.   There was a River there.  

WATERTON, MASSACHUSETTS NEAR WORCESTER AND WALTHAM

There was a river there.   Our trailer was parked on a vacant lot,

we had no utilities, and it was not directly in the city.   Skip (Harry) and I would scramble up the hill back of our trailer, and we played in the woods and the large TREE.   Pretending we were 

Tarzan and Jane, we were happy.    I remember that Skip saw a swing - from the tree - and wanted to get on it -  I thought he should not do that, but he persuaded me.   Then I remember telling him 

"HOLD ON TIGHT"  I all of a sudden SAW HOW HUGE THAT RIVER WAS and thought, OH DEAR !  What if he falls into it?

I knew I had to get him off that swing.    So I remember thinking, Please, God, don't let him fall.   Get him back safe."  I waited until he came close and then I told him, "you must get off, now !"  He was not happy with that.   He did what I said.   I took another look at the River and thought - God helped us.  He listened.   Skip is alright. 

        At nine years of age, I was "a little mother" to my brother.  He liked to play cars, and to pretend.   It was not easy.   

         It must have been summer when that photo was taken, for we would have no school then.   I remember how 

 E M P T Y my heart was for having a REASON behind my life, and WHY ? WAS I BORN ?   

          I remembered what Mother had said to me at age three.  "When you grow up and find out WHO God is, I want you to tell me and then I will believe too."   

           So let me reflect on that a moment.   

            When I was Five years old, my Aunt Althea took me to church.   It was the First Baptist Church in Adams, MA.   It was 1938 when I was five years old.   It was EASTER.   And so I clearly remember, Mother speaking to me, before I went, that she wanted me to listen and learn, and tell HER what I found out. 

             

First Baptist Church,

Adams, MA 

still looks the same today as it did then.

Notice the four windows in front.

That was the NURSERY where I went on that Easter Sunday morning so long ago.    I remember my expectation of a STORY...but all I saw was a lady on the floor helping a little boy build with the blocks.   Other children were coming in.   One child sitting in a small rocker with a doll.   I decided, "that is not what I want to do."   I was looking FOR A STORY.

Well.   All of a sudden I stopped, and looked at something 

right between each of those four windows.

three pictures taped to the wall - of THE LORD JESUS.

Now you understand, I did not know who Jesus was, but 

I knew Mother had said the stories would be about Him.

So I looked and it was like I was in 

a CLOSED ROOM SHINING AND GLOWING

WITH THE PICTURES TO LOOK AT,

I DID NOT HEAR ANYTHING 

I ONLY SAW THE PICTURES.

THERE WERE 12 OF THESE PICTURES.

I do not know much else.

I remember them.

The first was this one.   

It was as if there was A HUSH WITHIN ME 

AS I LOOKED AT THESE PICTURES.

I STOOD AT IT LOOKING, WONDERING

THEN WENT ON TO THE NEXT.

Mary was going somewhere.  And I knew she was 

expecting a Baby.   

These pictures are not the same as the ones 

I saw that day, but they were similar.  

I knew from the Christmas Songs that this was Baby Jesus who was born so long ago.

The Second Window had three more pictures. 

I saw the Shepherds worshipping the Baby,

and knew from the Christmas Songs that they had been 

told by the Angel that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

There was Jesus, with the Wise Men who had come a long way to worship Him.   

Here I knew somehow it was young Jesus.

.
 The next picture was of Jesus in the Temple.

Now I turned and went to the spot between the second and third window.

I saw Jesus being baptized by someone.  I did not know at that time who John was, but the pictures were telling me it was Jesus who was here being baptized.

I knew Jesus was in this photo calling for followers. 

Here is a picture I drew of the painting that I saw in Jesus with the children.    I remember looking at the picture a long time.

So now I was at the last panel of three pictures.

He made the blind to see.

 Jesus on the Cross died.   I pondered on that.

on the road to Emmaus

This picture held me in its grip

Last of all, this picture 

I KNEW HE ROSE TO HEAVEN.

I KNEW THAT WAS JESUS WHO 

HAD COME AS A BABY 

WAS NOW GOING TO HEAVEN.

Then

S U D D E N L Y  

DddddddinnnnnNNNG !  

SUNDAY SCHOOL BELL JUST RANG

voice 

talking       some child crying      blocks noisily being put away.

The holy hush and quiet that had wrapped me in it 

was 

gone.

I saw my Aunt Althea come to get me.

Or was it Grandma? 

I do not know.

I only know that I knew God had visited me

in those pictures.

When I got home, Mother asked me,

June, What did you learn today?

I said, Mother, I do not know, but it seems like God has sent Jesus to tell me about Him, and when I grow up I will understand it better.   I want to be like Him.

This was my Aunt Althea who took me to church that day.

At 95 she still lives in Savoy MA and is in touch with me.

I will never forget that day when I went on Easter Sunday to the First Baptist Church in Adams, MA.  

It may have been my Grandmother who took me that day, I 

only remember that I was so glad I went.

This 

At five years of age, I knew somehow

that WHEN I GREW UP 

I would KNOW HIM.  

June Estelle Donato 

was my name.

This was my Graduation Picture in 1951.

I found Christ as a girl at age 11 1/2.

That will be my next post.  

bye for now.

The blood of Jesus Christ

washes away 

all sin

completely

and 

forever

I am washed

and made clean.

Jesus said, in John chapter 14,

"He that seeth me, hath seen the Father,"  

I have placed my trust in the Living One

who came and humbled Himself

to become a Baby, grow up, 

show us The Light, and 

saved us by His death, burial and resurrection 

from the dead ! 

He is alive.

He is coming again.

I am waiting,

looking,

trusting,

in Him.