Sept.11.00: Light For the Day - "Laid Aside For A Time."

-- Psalms 130:5 (RSV)
"I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, 
and in his word I hope."

"Toi trong doi Duc Jehova, linh hon toi trong doi Ngai;
Toi trong doi loi cua Ngai."

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This is counsel for you who are temporarily laid on 
the shelf. some of God's best workers have been laid
aside for long periods. Moses was forty years in the 
desert, doing nothing but tending sheep. One greater 
than Moses, our blessed Savior, was thirty years doing,
I will not say nothing, but certainly doing no public
work.

When you are retired or inactive, prepare for the time
when God will again use you. If you are put on the shelf,
do not rust; pray that the Master will polish you, so that
when He uses you again you will be fully ready for the
work.

While you are laid aside, you can pray for others
that are working. Help them and encourage them. 
Do not get into that peevish, miserable frame of mind 
that grudges and undervalues other's efforts. 
Some people, when they cannot do anything, do not 
like anybody else to work. Promise that if you cannot
help, you will never hinder. Spend time in prayer,
that you may be fit for the Master's use.

Pray for your pastor with your earnest prayers. 
When you see your friends working for God, if you
cannot join them, say, "Never mind. If I cannot
contribute nothing else, my prayers will heat the
shot."

-- C.H. Spurgeon
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-- 2 Thessalonians 1:11 (NLT)
"And so we keep on praying for you, that our God
will make you worthy of the life to which he called
you. And we pray that God, by his power, will fulfill 
all your good intentions and faithful deeds."


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