FAIR SUNSHINE

 Journal Entry for my Book Study. 2.42AM. July 1st, 2021 Impatience will but lengthen out the days of sorrows. Every impatient act adds one more link to the chain; every act of frowardness adds one lash more to those who have already been laid out; every act of muttering will but add stroke to stroke, and sting to sting; every act of murmuring will but add burden to burden, and storm to storm. The most compendious way to lengthen out your long afflictions is to fret, and vex  and murmur under them. As you would see a speedy end of your long afflictions, sit mute and silent under them. They shall last no longer than there is need, and then they shall work for your good. God will not allow the plaster to lie one day, no - not one hour, no - not a moment longer than there is need. Some flesh heals quickly; proud flesh is long a-healing. By affliction God heals some, but others, longer. 'If need be, you are in heaviness, through many trials," 1 Peter 1:6. Consider this Christians,...

I do not even have words. This is what has become of the church where I first came to know the LORD. It was mighty in prayer then. Different denominations would attend its powerful overnight watches, people wailing towards the throne of heaven filling the entire auditorium, spilling onto the sidewalk and out on the streets - kneeling. Till they took out prayer, and the hellish stench of humanism crept in. The focus was slowly shifted to the excellency of man. It has since had its share of schism, where several pastors and the congregation were divided in maintaining the sanctity of the pulpit. The leadership chose to rent out the convent to secular use, rave parties and concerts. A huge number of members left to find other churches, only to wind up in other worldly mega-gatherings. Out of the fire and into the frying pan. The terrifying thing is this is not the only one of its kind. This is the fruit of erroneous doctrine, and teachings of men. A quote from the atheist Bruce Lee is und...