September 28. Slept in about twenty minutes later this morning to try to catch up on a little sleep. Just had a bowl of oatmeal with dates and cinnamon for breakfast. For some reason, it still took a while to get everything ready to go to C&C’s house. After we arrived there, I put away a few food items and put a load of clothes in the washing machine. Then I sat outside for prayer time. Had just a few minutes to get my computer going and answer an e-mail before the laundry was done and ready to be hung out. After hanging out clothes, I soaked some not-so-good-looking peaches in peroxide water for a short while. Then I dried them, cut off all the bad parts, and put what was good into a small container. Cut up a few pieces into a bowl with banana, strawberries, yogurt, and pecan pieces, and enjoyed that for morning snack. Eleven o’clock came too quickly, and I needed to prepare a meal today. I put a butternut squash into a baking dish and popped it into the oven. Then I prepared a couple chicken breasts and popped them into the oven. Put rice, salt, and water in a pan and set it on the stove to start cooking after a while. In the mean time, Daddy went off to the UPS store to see about getting our documents sent off to the PNG embassy in D.C. Praise the Lord, everything went well, and they even gave him tracking numbers for both forward and return packets. Daddy had to wait a bit after he got back before his dinner was done cooking. I finished up my soup while we were waiting. Tomorrow I’ll need to make a fresh pot of soup. This afternoon, I wrote another outreach lesson and started another. Went out and got down the rest of the clothes after supper. It took them a long time to get dry today as it was a cloudy, damp day. Did dishes early again so I would be ready for the church service this evening. The special song that Jeremy U sang for the meeting was very sobering and convicting. The song pictured people in hell and a saved person looking down from heaven and seeing those he knew in torments in hell, and wondering if he were the one who failed to tell them of Christ. Pastor Baker preached from Luke 16:19-26, a message that went so perfectly with the special music. Two people: a lost man who went to hell, and a saved man who went to paradise. The rich man’s spiritual condition—he was lost. Lazarus on the other hand had hope. They were different in many ways, but they both died. The rich man then became poor, and the poor man became rich. The rich man lived his life apart from God and he no longer has hope. There are some who have no hope because they have rejected the truth. There are some who have no hope because they have never heard. Lazarus lived for God and is now comforted and forever with the Lord. Lazarus had nothing in life but God. The rich man had everything in life but God. The rich man asked that Lazarus be sent to his father’s house to testify to his brothers so that they would not come to hell also. The rich man had two prayer requests: First, Father Abraham have mercy on me. He was praying to the wrong person at the wrong time for mercy. Secondly, he intercedes for his five lost brothers. He knew his brothers were lost and asked for Lazarus to go to them as a witness. Why did he ask for Lazarus? Why not Abraham? Because he wanted someone he knew to tell his brothers the way of salvation. Is anybody in hell calling my name tonight? If a lost man who has not experienced God’s mercy is praying for lost who are still living, how much more should I who have experienced God’s mercy be praying for the lost around me. Don’t let a dead lost man out-pray you. “27Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.” Luke 16:27,28 September 29. Didn’t wake up until after 6:30 this morning. I was thankful for a few minutes extra sleep as we have been getting home late every night, thus late getting to bed, and I have been getting extra tired. After breakfast, I started right in making soup, continuing my prayer time while I was preparing all the ingredients. After I had the soup on cooking, I went through my journal book and changed all the entries to a size smaller print. So now I’ll be able to fit a bit more into each journal book. Then I folded and put away my clothes that were washed yesterday, set brushes and combs to soak, and cleaned the bathroom sink and mirror. Daddy went out to Advance Auto to get a part for the car so the battery cable wouldn’t keep coming loose. In the afternoon, I started a new painting, just painting a background for what’s to come; pureed and bottled my soup; rinsed out the brushes and combs and set them aside to dry. After supper, I did the dishes, and shortly thereafter we went to C&C’s house for our weekly fun time with our daughters, playing table games.
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