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If we do not have the Spirit of God, it were better to shut the churches, to nail up the doors, to put a black cross on them, And say, "God have mercy on us!" If you ministers have not the Spirit of God, you had better not preach, and you people had better stay at home. I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing.----C.H. Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)

Today – The Cheerful Bed Singer - February 12, 2012
I remember it well, the summer of 1958. Pastor Bert Singletary welcomed me to work with him at the Kelly Avenue Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. We were visiting some “shut-ins” and this one “would be special,” he said. And so it was.

An older couple lived there and the lady of the house was bedfast with crippling arthritis. The husband worked part-time and did all the house work, including meals. He greeted us, and excused himself to go back to   work.

She was cheerful and seemed so glad to have visitors. Her day bed was in the living room against a wall. Above the bed was a bulletin board with maybe a hundred pictures on it, held in place with thumb tacks. People, especially preachers, sent her pictures and asked her to pray for them daily. And she did every day by name. As they wrote her letters and updated her on their situations, she made a note of it and praised the Lord for answered prayer. If a prayer had not yet been answered, she was cheerfully confident that the answer was on the way.

Pastor Singletary asked her to sing for us. I didn’t know what to expect. She was ready, always, to sing her favorite hymn: “Are You Living in the Shadow of the Cross?” She knew all the verses and she threw herself into it at the top of her voice. Her voice was shrill and penetrating, not musical at all. Her hands were crippled and she was bedfast.

As she sang, it looked like her eyes were penetrating the ceiling and she was staring into the throne room of Heaven! It seemed that she had not noticed she was bedfast or that her hands were crippled or that she really did not sing very well. She had her   people to pray for, who kept her company as she called their names and she was
known for singing her hymn into the street when she got carried away and no one  was around to hear her, or so she thought.

We visited her several times while I was in Pensacola and it was always the same. The Lord’s people don’t get to retire. They can serve Him in bed if He deems it to be so. It’s our attitude. God’s power dwells in our attitude!

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.   (Proverbs 15:13)

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The Bible is the most blood-stained book in all history.

Literally millions of people have died in its defense. They were imprisoned, burned at the stake and buried alive just for reading it or having a small portion in their possession. This illustrated account of Bible history attempts to give a summary in just 2 hours and 58 minutes. It is slow in down loading.

It is appointed unto men once to die and after this, the judgement. Heb.9:27

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