POWERFUL TESTIMONIES

Snake Handling 2

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Testimony by Betsy Nelson

About twenty years ago I was walking at night in downtown Chattanooga with a friend named John and came to a restaurant/bar called the Pickle Barrel.  This was a common place among my friends to hang out.  It was/is a ramshackle building set in a triangle bit of property at an odd intersection.  They serve sandwiches that go well with beer, which is their main trade.

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The Source of My Help

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By Jamie Broadcaster

I’m against all that exalteth itself
Or everything that wants to make me forget
The things that for me Christ has done
And the importance of the race which I must run.

We all want to be the harbinger of the new dawn
Everyone wants to be the revealer of a new age
We all want our names
Boldly crested in the hall of fame

But the question stands out still:
How willing are we to lunge into the deep
How ready and how willing are we
To make the sacrifices which these great feats require?

Once upon my time
I actually did run ahead of my guide
With good intentions to actually SAVE TIME
And to render Him help because I thought, “I can!”

But then down I came and into the pit I fell
How deep it was I couldn’t tell
But it sure was like hell
I kept lying to myself about how I fell

I refused to agree with it
Or accept this hard truth
But behind all the bravado
Was a very scared me with much ado

This was me until the wind blew so hard
And then after the right path I asked.
On Christ I finally depended
And ever since my life He has defended.

I leave you with this
Where is the source of your help?
The hill, yourself, or beneath?
Upon these lies the story which at the end you will tell.

Choose the Hill.

Jamie Broadcaster
www.jamiepassion1.wordpress.com

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

Colossians 1:10-16

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So that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

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Be persistent

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Author: Betsy Nelson

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There are two stories in the Gospels that I like that I keep mixing up. I’m going to try to get a grasp on them here and maybe figure out why I like them so much.

One is about the faith of a Gentile woman whose daughter was possessed by a demon.

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