Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Isaiah 65:24



This beautiful story was written by a doctor who worked in Central Africa

One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all we could do, she died, leaving us with a tiny, premature baby and a crying two-year-old daughter. We would have difficulty keeping the baby alive; as we had no incubator (we had no electricity to run an incubator). We also had no special feeding facilities.

Although we lived on the equator, nights were often chilly with treacherous drafts. One student midwife went for the box we had for such babies and the cotton wool that the baby would be wrapped in. Another went to stoke up the fire and fill a hot water bottle. She came back shortly in distress to tell me that in filling the bottle, it had burst (rubber perishes easily in tropical climates).

'And it is our last hot water bottle!' she exclaimed. As in the West, it is no good crying over spilled milk, so in Central Africa it might be considered no good crying over burst water bottles.  They do not grow on trees, and there are no drugstores down forest pathways.

'All right,' I said, 'put the baby as near the fire as you safely can, and sleep between the baby and the door to keep it free from drafts. Your job is to keep the baby warm.'

The following noon, as I did most days, I went to have prayers with any of the orphanage children who chose to gather with me. I gave the youngsters various suggestions of things to pray about and told them about the tiny baby. I explained our problem about keeping the baby warm enough, mentioning the hot water bottle, and that the baby could so easily die if it got chills. I also told them of the two-year-old sister, crying because her mother had died.

During prayer time, one ten-year-old girl, Ruth, prayed with the usual blunt conciseness of our African children. 'Please, God' she prayed, 'Send us a hot water bottle today. It'll be no good tomorrow, God, as the baby will be dead, so please send it this afternoon.'

While I gasped inwardly at the audacity of the prayer, she added, 'And while You are about it, would You please send a dolly for the little girl so she'll know You really love her?'

As often with children's prayers, I was put on the spot. Could I honestly say 'Amen'? I just did not believe that God could do this.  Oh, yes, I know that He can do everything; the Bible says so. But there are limits, aren't there? The only way God could answer this particular prayer would be by sending me a parcel from the homeland. I had been in Africa for almost four years at that time, and I had never, ever, received a parcel from home. Anyway, if anyone did send me a parcel, who would put in a hot water bottle? I lived on the equator!

Halfway through the afternoon, while I was teaching in the nurses' training school, a message was sent that there was a car at my front door. By the time I reached home, the car had gone, but there on the porch was a large 22-pound parcel. I felt tears pricking my eyes. I could not open the parcel alone, so I sent for the orphanage children. Together we pulled off the string, carefully undoing each knot. We folded the paper, taking care not to tear it unduly... Excitement was mounting. Some thirty or forty pairs of eyes were focused on the large cardboard box.

From the top, I lifted out brightly-colored, knitted jerseys. Eyes sparkled as I gave them out. Then there were the knitted bandages for the leprosy patients, and the children looked a little bored. Then came a box of mixed raisins and sultanas - that would make a batch of buns for the weekend.

Then, as I put my hand in again, I felt the..... could it really be?

I grasped it and pulled it out. Yes, a brand new, rubber hot water bottle. I cried. I had not asked God to send it; I had not truly believed that He could.

Ruth was in the front row of the children. She rushed forward, crying out, 'If God has sent the bottle, He must have sent the dolly, too!

'Rummaging down to the bottom of the box, she pulled out the small, beautifully-dressed dolly. Her eyes shone! She had never doubted! Looking up at me, she asked, 'Can I go over with you and give this dolly to that little girl, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?'

'Of course,' I replied!

That parcel had been on the way for five whole months, packed up by my former Sunday school class, whose leader had heard and obeyed God's prompting to send a hot water bottle, even to the equator. And one of the girls had put in a dolly for an African child - five months before, in answer to the believing prayer of a ten-year-old to bring it 'that afternoon'.

'Before they call, I will answer.' (Isaiah 65:24)

When you receive this, say the prayer. That's all you have to do. No strings attached. Just send it on to whomever you want - but do send it on.

Prayer is one of the best free gifts we receive. There is no cost, but a lot of rewards. Let's continue praying for one another. This awesome prayer takes less than a minute.

Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless my friends reading this. I ask You to minister to their spirit. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self doubting, release a renewed confidence to work through them. Where there is tiredness or exhaustion, I ask You to give them understanding, guidance, and strength. Where there is fear, reveal Your love and release to them Your courage. Bless their finances, give them greater vision, and raise up leaders and friends to support and encourage them. Give each of them discernment to recognize the evil forces around them and reveal to them the power they have in You to defeat it. I ask You to do these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

P.S.
Passing this on to anyone you consider a friend will bless you both. Passing this on to one not considered a friend is something Christ would do.


Unhide folders after Cleaning Viruses

Sometimes when theres a virus on our flash drive we taught that we lost our files and most of them are folders but have you notice that the remaining size of your flash drive remains the same? It is because, the folders are still there but it is hidden Super HIDDEN.


How to View: On the windows explorer click “ Tool” > “ Folder Option” > “ View” > scroll down and tick on ” Show Hidden files and folder “ and untick “ Hide Protected Operating System Files( Recommended) ” > OK.


How to unhide it: on the Start menu, click "Run", type "cmd" and hit "Ok".
type the command



attrib d:\*.* /d /s -h -r -s
for example:
attrib d:\folder/d/s -h -r -s
if your file folder name has a greater that 6 characters, type the first 6 characters only and add ~1
for example:
attrib d:\exampl~1 /d/s -h-r-s

Note: “ d:” is your drive letter, You can change to specific drive you want.

Love Quotes

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno 

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. 
Victor Hugo 

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. 
Kahlil Gibran 

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. 
Marcel Proust 

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. 
David Grayson 

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. 
Javan 

Love conquers all. 
Virgil 

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. 
Rainer Maria Rilke 

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. 
James A. Baldwin 

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. 
Voltaire 

Love is a game that two can play and both win. 
Eva Gabor 

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. 
George Bernard Shaw 

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. 
William Shakespeare 


Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. 
Euripides 

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. 
Leo Buscaglia 

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. 
Peter Ustinov 

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. 
Robert Frost 

Love is being stupid together. 
Paul Valery 

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. 
Aristotle 

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. 
Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. 
Boethius 

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. 
Judy Garland 

Fortune and love favor the brave. 
Ovid 

Friendship is Love without his wings! 
Lord Byron 

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. 
Charles Caleb Colton 

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. 
Albert Einstein 

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. 
Barbara Pym 

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. 
Javan 

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. 
Mother Teresa 

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. 
George Eliot 

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. 
J. D. Salinger 

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? 
Boethius 

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. 
Mother Teresa 

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. 
A. A. Milne 

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. 
Michel de Montaigne 

If you want to be loved, be lovable. 
Ovid 

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' 
Erich Fromm 

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. 
Erich Fromm 

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. 

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. 
Frank Howard Clark 

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. 
Bil Keane 


A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. 
Ingrid Bergman 

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. 
Rupert Brooke 

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. 
Thomas Carlyle 

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. 
Boethius 

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. 
George Jean Nathan 

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. 
Henri B. Stendhal 

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. 
Honore de Balzac 

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. 
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. 
Julie Andrews 

All mankind love a lover. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. 
William Shakespeare 

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. 
Plato 

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. 
Rita Rudner 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. 
Lao Tzu 

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. 
Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? 
Richard Bach 

Do all things with love. 
Og Mandino 

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.