Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Don't Complain, Acknowledge God!

A few days ago, my ministerial mentor & friend  sent me a wonderful piece which was equally sent to him by his friends.  I had the permission to circulate it but for space constraints, I had to rephrase and summarise as follows:


“There are three main (e.g. Receiving, Delivery and Acknolwedgment) departments directly working on the affairs of man man in Heaven. Each department is headed by a Supervising Angel who (except one) have many Angels working under them.



The Receiving Department receives all petitions (prayers, supplications, etc) by man to God. It has many Angels busy sorting “voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world”.



The Packaging & Delivery Section specialices in processing the graces and blessings meant for living persons who asked for them. There are many angels too working hard at this station because “so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth”.


The third and final (the Acknowledgement) Department has only one Angel and this lone Angel was idle. When asked why he was idle, his response was sad Angel sighed and then responsed thus . "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments". A question was then posed to him: "How does one acknowledge God's blessings? " Then he replied: "Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord. ""What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked."If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world ' s wealthy.

"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.""If you woke up this morning with more health than illness . You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. ""If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world.". "If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world.". "If your parents are still alive and still married ..you are very rare." "If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair... " Ok, what now? How can I start? If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all. count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.  

Let’s keep the “Acknowledgement Department busier than the rest!!! Good morning.
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Anyone staying away from Jesus is missing a lot! Don't be one of them for Jesus Loves you. Jn 3:16

Today's Recommended Reading list:


1.  Prov. 15 others:   click here  start from Day 1 or follow your own table.
2.  Book:  Buy Ben Carson's "Gifted Hands" or Yemi Omogboyega's "Better Tomorrow" click here