Treasure Excerpt

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="002a11c3.png"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home Page"><U>HOME</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Book Page"><U>BOOKS   </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Articles"><U>ARTICLES</U></A></div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tapes"><U>TAPES</U></A>   </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Spiritual Warfare/Occult "><U>SPIRITUAL WARFARE, OCCULT   </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sexual Abuse Issues"><U>SEXUAL ABUSE ISSUES</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Exposing the Darkness Seminar"><U>***EXPOSING THE DARKNESS SEMINAR***</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:greid@elp.rr.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:greid@elp.rr.com"><U> <img src="HTMLobj-734/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="67" height="50">  </U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <B>Opposition</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     “From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can oppose what I do.” Isaiah 43:13 (Living Bible)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     For the servant of God, obstacles are many. Some are meant to overcome and go through; none are to overcome us, though they be impassable. The important lesson is realizing when God sets His mind to something, nothing will stop it. We look at our check book and say, "God, how will I make it?" But to Him it is nothing, for He has determined to supply our need, and nothing will stop Him. We see the overwhelming work to be done and the shortness of time, and we faint at the impossibility of the task. To you, He would say, "Rest, now, child, come apart for a while; Seek Me first, and you will have the time you need. I am not in a hurry; the stars move as I ordained from everlasting; I do not need you to complete My plan; your labor is your privilege and the seed of your eternal reward. I will do what I deter- mine with no man's aid. Your burden, your bills, your mountain is as nothing to Me. The hills and cattle are Mine. Is anything too hard for Me?" Rest, then - our Sovereign is unmoved by impossibilities, and as sure as He has named each star. He knows your every need and will not delay one single moment to take care of you at the determined, appointed time.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Dross</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     “Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.” Proverbs 25:4</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     We aren't instant silver when we first come to Christ. There is often much dross with the silver. Our desire should be to come before Him daily, asking that the dross, some surface and some hidden, be revealed and burned away, that we can be a "vessel fit for every good work." Don't be discouraged if there is much dross, even dross you did not know was there. He is, in His time, purifying you as a vessel to fill with His glory.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>                    </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Hidden Treasures</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     “And I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness, secret riches...” Isaiah 45:3 a (Living Bible)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     This life is so short. We are taught to pursue earthly wealth, security and possessions. Even some ministers urge us to get our "pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by" right now. But as C.S. Lewis said, "Either there is a pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by or there is not." And if Jesus' command to "lay up treasures in heaven" is truth, we need to seriously reevaluate where, and what, our treasures are.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>His treasures for us are often "hidden in darkness" because they are not in this life. Paul said that we see through a glass, darkly - thus our true reward seems a darkened thing, not to be fully revealed until that day we "see Him face to face."</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     And what are the dark treasures, the hidden riches? Surely not material things as we know them, for in that place gold itself will be fit only to walk on. They are, rather, the true treasures we all should seek: Belonging, honor by God, total creativity, complete fulfillment, the rulership of the stars.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     When God turns up the fire of adversity and trial, sorrow or struggle, deep in the furnace of our heart, God is making gold. The coal of our humanity is, through intense heat and pressure, becoming the diamond of our spirit to be worn proudly in His crown. This "hidden treasure," rarely realized in time of suffering, later is shown in our character, attitude, and serenity. While man clamors and strives for things, our God determines to lay up for us treasures that will never pass away.</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Treasure Order"><U><B>HOW TO ORDER</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>