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ashlanddog 2 points ago +2 / -0

...for a wee bit longer...

Genesis 15:16

KJV

“But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”

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ashlanddog 1 point ago +1 / -0

Charles Haddon Spurgeon May 19th — Evening Reading

"And he requested for himself that he might die." — 1 Kings 19:4

It was a remarkable thing that the man who was never to die, for whom God had ordained an infinitely better lot, the man who should be carried to heaven in a chariot of fire, and be translated, that he should not see death-should thus pray, "Let me die, I am no better than my fathers." We have here a memorable proof that God does not always answer prayer in kind, though He always does in effect. He gave Elias something better than that which he asked for, and thus really heard and answered him. Strange was it that the lion-hearted Elijah should be so depressed by Jezebel's threat as to ask to die, and blessedly kind was it on the part of our heavenly Father that He did not take His desponding servant at his word. There is a limit to the doctrine of the prayer of faith. We are not to expect that God will give us everything we choose to ask for. We know that we sometimes ask, and do not receive, because we ask amiss. If we ask for that which is not promised-if we run counter to the spirit which the Lord would have us cultivate-if we ask contrary to His will, or to the decrees of His providence-if we ask merely for the gratification of our own ease, and without an eye to His glory, we must not expect that we shall receive. Yet, when we ask in faith, nothing doubting, if we receive not the precise thing asked for, we shall receive an equivalent, and more than an equivalent, for it. As one remarks, "If the Lord does not pay in silver, He will in gold; and if He does not pay in gold, He will in diamonds." If He does not give you precisely what you ask for, He will give you that which is tantamount to it, and that which you will greatly rejoice to receive in lieu thereof. Be then, dear reader, much in prayer, and make this evening a season of earnest intercession, but take heed what you ask.

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ashlanddog 3 points ago +3 / -0

...that is going to be harder than rounding up the necessary "pink ponies"...

...doggy winks..

...this is just NATO tripe...

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ashlanddog 1 point ago +1 / -0

...distinct possibility...

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ashlanddog 2 points ago +2 / -0

...I concur completely....

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ashlanddog 2 points ago +2 / -0

"And every new boy that you meet

He doesn't know the real surprise"

...I always thought that song was about transvestites/transsexuals...

...along with "I'm In Touch With Your World"...

"You can tuck it on the inside

You can throw it on the floor

You can wave it on the outside

Like you never did before"

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