“Come, ye thankful people, come! Raise the song of harvest home; all is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin. God our Maker doth provide, for our wants to be supplied; come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.” Lord, when you come to take the harvest home, let me be among the fruitful ears that you will store, and not among the tares that will be cast into the fire.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, you and I have been given a choice, either to perish or to enjoy everlasting life. What will be your choice? I have already made Jesus my choice. I have rejected death by rejecting sin, and I have accepted God’s gift of eternal life by accepting and believing in Him. The choice is yours to make. Choose wisely.

“Lord, help me live from day to day, in such a self-forgetful way, that even when I kneel to pray, my prayer shall be for others. Help me in all the work I do, to ever be sincere and true, and know that all I do for you, just meet the needs of others. And when my work on earth is done, and my new work in heaven’s begun, may I forget the crown I’ve won, while thinking still of others. Others, Lord, yes others, let this my motto be, help me to live for others, that I may live like Thee.”

“Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up.” My brothers and sisters in Christ, do you want to be weighed down today or be lifted up? Try laying aside your own worries and cheer up someone else. Know that when you carry the burden of others, God takes your yoke upon Him and gives you rest.

“In my father’s house are many mansions, if it were not true, he would have told me so. He has gone away to live in that bright city, He’s preparing me a mansion there I know. Do not shun the savior’s love, from up in glory, or you won’t be there to sing the gospel story, in my father’s house are many mansions, if you’re true then to this land you’ll surely go.”

“Down in the valley with my Savior I would go, where the flowers are blooming and the sweet waters flow; everywhere He leads me I would follow, follow on, walking in His footsteps till the crown be won. Follow, follow, follow I would follow Jesus, everywhere he leads me I will follow on.”

This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do. Joshua 1:8

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Treasury of Scripture

“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked Jesus “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!” Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.”

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”