Sunday can't beat that day

Pastor Micheal and the Agnglican church blessed us with such a welcoming and gratefull atmosphere as we were able to give our personal testamonies and why and how the ranch has come to be. So many came and spent time with us after church for a time of fellowship and questions and answers. One lady only stopped in to drop off some papers at the church and heard us and decided to stay for the service that God may have a purpose for her by hearing our message this morning, and would like to learn more and be more involved if possible. Doug and Jeanette joined us this morning and as always we had a great time being used by God to bring hope and encouragement to more of his children.

Pastor Micheal shared with the children and used a winter survival kit as an illustration of how Jesus is like our survival kit in life. As he was speaking and I looked around at all the elderly folks in the church I realized that these people with all that God has blessed them with and with the important responsibility of a grandparent they too have what it takes to be survival packages for our youth as they use thier knowlege and wisdom to teach as examples the children and youth in our communities. I shared of how my own grandfather taught me how to use a hand saw properly. When he saw me forcing a hand saw through a piece of wood and the crooked cut I had made he took the time to show and explain how the teeth on a saw are angled in such away thet all we have to do is pull and push the saw back and forth and the saw's weight will do the job of cutting the wood with little efford and you will have a nice straight cut with very little efford. Go Figure it really works.

Grandparent have such an important roll to play in the develpement and strenghth of the next generation.

Grandparents

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Isaiah 46:4

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Psalm 145:4

One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.

Psalm 37:25

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

2 Timothy 1:5

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Deuteronomy 4:9

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

Psalm 103:17

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

Psalm 92:14-15

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Exodus 34:6-7

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Titus 2:1-5

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.