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    And it's ended up even more amazing, cos it's my 100th Message that's gone onto the 1,000th post! How amazing! I never organised that in any way. Only just realised it was 100 when I went to my record of Messages to get 'the next number' for the post!!! Wow!
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06-22-2008, 09:14 AM
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Wow, 1001 - and nothing happened! We're still goin'... *hehehehe!*
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06-22-2008, 11:08 AM
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G'day Bondman,
Thanks for your welcome. Don't know how much you have found of my testimony, but if you are interested the long version is at lynnbfowler.com/testimony God is indeed good! I've just celebrated the 33rd anniversary of my first sermon (on June 10th) and I stand amazed at where the Lord has taken me in those years. Yet that's not the best of it. I remember when I was a very young Christian hearing a preacher who was talking about how exciting the Christian life is. Unfortunately, he then went on to equate that excitement with the way God took him round the world in ministry etc. That left me feeling, "Well, that's fine for you, mate, but what about us ordinary plebs who don't get to jet all over the place?" Since then I've preached in a heap of countries, and done many of the things that bloke was talking about, and yes there is an excitement in that. But the really exciting thing is that my best friend is King of the universe! blessings, Lynn
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06-22-2008, 05:16 PM
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I know you said about the bad graphics, but we sure gotta be grateful to the artistic folks who take time to do beautiful graphics like all the ones you've put up here and in the Coffee House. Beloved and I are both very artistic, yet some of them fair blow my brain how wonderful they are! I guess we're all encouraged as well as empowered by the Great Creator Himself whose superb ARTISTRY in nature around us constantly thrills my soul, and being ill and stuck indoors always excites me and truly lifts my spirit when I look out, for example, and watch while He paints an ever-changing brilliant sunset!! - or sends our lovely Aussie birds into the shrubs and trees we planted in our back garden! Yep, I can handle it!!!
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06-22-2008, 05:16 PM
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God's Wondrous (Australian) Creations in Our Back Garden! Decided I would share for the first time a very small sample of God's unique Handiwork here in the world's driest continent, and also the world's smallest continent and largest island (about the size of the United States). All the photos were taken from our dining room where we can look out at the patch of Aussie bush we planted in our back yard 14 years ago. Everything below is uniquely Australian, found only here. Enjoy!  A 'cute-as' male Superb Wren hopping and bopping in the grass looking for small insects. Body is about the size of a ping-pong ball. Add a head one end and a tail the other, and there ya go! Interestingly the 'oh-so-obvious' tail that is always up in the air has only half the number of feathers compared to other birds!  Looking West to a nice sunset and natural Eucalypts (Gum trees) in a neighbour's acreage block.  Another of our very tiny birds. This time one of our many species of Honeyeaters. This magnificent male Scarlet Honeyeater is no bigger than the Wren, but a quite different shape. He is getting nectar out of the Grevillea flowers using a longish curved beak and a brush tongue. For a long time godless scientists seemed to be ignoring what I figured out ages ago: that our Honeyeaters automatically carry pollen on the feathers of their face from one flower to the next - thus pollinating without need of bees! God is smart!! Now they've finally caught up and are acknowledging this.  One of our many spectacular parrots, this spectacular, fast-flying, and noisy Rainbow Lorikeet is also getting nectar from a different Grevillea. No long beak this time, but still with a brush tongue to slurp up the nectar. What fascinates me is that no damage of any kind is done to the flower. Did I say that God is smart?  Our lovely Swamp Bloodwood, one our many Aussie Eucalypts. This species is small enough for a garden, has large flowers and even larger seed-pods called gum-nuts. We bought it to get red flowers (very spectacular), but it turned out to be this attractive pink, so all is a-okay. All species of Eucalypts have NO petals on the flowers, as you can see on the flowers here.  This is commonly called a bottle-brush, I guess for obvious reasons! It's one of our red-flowering Callistemon, much loved by our Honeyeaters - especially the Scarlet - because of the copious supply of nectar each flower spike produces.  Of all the nectar-producing native Australian flowering shrubs and small trees we planted in our yard, this Grevillea is the one the birds come and visit most of all. A small shrub that flowers all year and is called Peaches and Cream, our visiting wild birds have definitely voted it "Most Popular Nectar-Producing Flower"! GOD IS NOT ONLY SMART, HE IS TOTALLY BRILLIANT!!! "Just can't help lovin' You, Lord!" - BM
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06-22-2008, 05:37 PM
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My Christian life for the past 50 years has just about had it all I guess. I've been doing it really tough for the past unbroken 31 years, and that's not just from my chronic ill-health. Seems He's been determined to work on me - a lot! The result, however, is a life like I never could have imagined to be possible, nor did, when I was saved at 18. Doing it all on my own for all those years, it's been like a kind of voyage of discovery I spose! And what a voyage! Plenty of wonders, tons of hardship, but would I change any of it? Yes, the sin I could and should have avoided, but the journey - I'd not want to change that one iota! And still I continue to learn more of Him, and grow further into the Scriptural maturity that I had no idea could be, but which He chose to bring me to. "The excitement of King of the universe as your best friend," you said - wow, that sure works for me!! Love, - BM
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06-22-2008, 10:14 PM
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Yahoo! We are still going! Yay!
Ooo! Pretty pictures, Bondman! Hey, thanks for your explanation of in or out. That made a lot of sense!  Hi, Lynn! 
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06-22-2008, 10:45 PM
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Great pics Bondman!
Thanks for sharing! I got to get my graduation pics done so I scan and show~ Had a super week-end with my mom and dad. It was her bday.. she turned 73.. have a great one! Hugs Faithwoman |
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06-22-2008, 11:45 PM
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I agree with that King of the Universe as I spoke of that I thought why not allow him to be my saftey net instead of other things or other people? Do you ever feel like you are a tightrope walker and need that safety net underneath you? As you examine your life, do you see things or people that you use as your saftey net instead of having, knowing and relying on the Lord to be your saftey net of all? What is it that you are holding onto for "safety". Ok. I will share of my own personal experience. In my "snooping" days of the fleshly world, I would snoop at cell phone bills, computer history and such of those I thought I loved, it was at the time what I thought was my "safety net".. hey no one was going to hurt me again! no siree.... I was going to know all.. well now really Robin!.. was the snooping a safety net? NO! it just caused more questions, arised more uncertainity in my life.. now if I turn to the King of the Universe, get to know him, love him, trust in him, he will protect me from all harm. Yes there are things I will go through. Yes there are lessons in life to learn. But coming to understand and know that the Lord's safety net is around me, sure is alot more comforting than anyone or anything I could ever hold onto. So I ask you, is there things of the world, or people that you are holding onto for your saftey net? Now vision this.. you are high in the air, walking along that tightrope, visually you see no safety net below you, HOWEVER, THERE IS SOMEONE THAT YOU CANNOT SEE, BUT YOU KNOW IN YOUR HEART HE WILL PROTECT YOU, ARE YOU READY TO TRUST IN HIM? EEEEEEEE.. SCARY THOUGHT.. but I can assure you as I am learning, the Lord, the King of the Universe is the best saftety net of all Hugs to you all! Faithwoman 
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06-23-2008, 06:24 AM
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For such a long time I've seen that we ALL need a "Home Base" if you like, where we can continue our Christian growth while we love, care, support, and pray for each other. Like we do HERE!! This Home Base is our "Inner Room" where we and God get together. And this group of Believers is also our source of power (cos the NT knows NOTHING about individuals living - read: TRYING to live - separate Christian lives). With the power of and from the group - effectively a CHURCH grouping, in the sense that Jesus is there with His people as they meet together (Church-based Home Groups can do this really well if they properly focus on doing it) - the group then "sends" each of us OUT into the world to speak for Him and live for Him there. This has been the pattern of all the BEST and most effective church work for the past two millennia. Yep, still going! Glad you liked the pics! Love ya!!
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