tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post7498256022090187481..comments2024-03-15T07:24:22.608+00:00Comments on Life on Wings - A Tribute to Dr Ern Baxter: A Righteous Frustration!!Dan Bowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661120561123767936noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-69450024237395942432008-09-24T11:26:00.000+01:002008-09-24T11:26:00.000+01:00Wow ... gosh .... :) Thanks to you too Sheila! M...Wow ... gosh .... :) Thanks to you too Sheila! My word ... I grew up with 7 sisters and it was my lot in life to be surrounded by women who at that point gave me advice. Now I am so blessed to be surrounded by women who give encouragement! Thank you!Dan Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15661120561123767936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-32593701355375992752008-09-24T03:39:00.000+01:002008-09-24T03:39:00.000+01:00Spurgeon called depression a "prophet in rough clo...Spurgeon called depression a "prophet in rough clothing". For him, it seemed a season of depression preceeded a breakthrough. Dan, I pray this time of struggle is just that to you - the dark that comes before the Day Star visits you!<BR/><BR/>Having done all to stand...STAND THEREFORE. I can see, now, why the Lord told me to tell you, "Never...never...never...never...NEVER give up."<BR/><BR/>Dan. God has given you a teaching gift. I know...I know...I've heard you. You don't see yourself as a "teacher", and perhaps you'll not teach in some churchey conventional sense. Here is what I know: the man and the message have to become one in the same. Let God take you through the fire - others will need to learn from you.<BR/><BR/>II Peter 1:5, Dan...II Peter 1:5. It says, "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge..."<BR/><BR/>The connotation to the idea of "adding knowlege to your virtue and virtue to your faith", is that the knowlege is added at your own expense.<BR/><BR/>YES - Christ died to give all things pertaining to life and Godliness to us. But there is that sense where the lessons can feel very, very expensive. At least, MY knowlege of the grace of God, my experience of this vast grace, has come against unbelievable odds, great "expense", and through much tribulation. I have had to violently take it by force. If I had time, the stories I could tell you... <BR/><BR/>Uh...I've heard my husband say so many times, "God gets to my heart by going up my keester."<BR/><BR/>ACK! Sorry. It's graphic, but I think you, too, can identify.<BR/><BR/>Never give up, Dan. Don't quit. Keep starting over. New mercies. Clean slate, each morning.<BR/><BR/>Grace and peace, "mighty man of valor"!Sheila Atchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08989452938845114084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-44036402536400325072008-09-23T21:54:00.000+01:002008-09-23T21:54:00.000+01:00Aw thanks Janelle - you're such an amazing encoura...Aw thanks Janelle - you're such an amazing encourager!Dan Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15661120561123767936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-81648286055826090432008-09-23T15:51:00.000+01:002008-09-23T15:51:00.000+01:00Wow, keep pumping out the great posts Dan! A tran...Wow, keep pumping out the great posts Dan! A transformed mind and heart SHOULD transform the way we worship.janellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03562513623973041847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-5560843489876048672008-09-23T12:06:00.000+01:002008-09-23T12:06:00.000+01:00I book skip (but I have finished Heidi Baker's boo...I book skip (but I have finished Heidi Baker's book too!).Dan Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15661120561123767936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-46178039110830752512008-09-23T01:30:00.000+01:002008-09-23T01:30:00.000+01:00I will give a resounding Amen to that!!! (does thi...I will give a resounding Amen to that!!! <BR/><BR/>(does this mean you already finished Heidi Baker's book or do you book skip like I do :)lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01495924200222561417noreply@blogger.com