17 - The woman is the other side of God.

A heart felt greetings to all my friends,

There is a side of God He cannot show through the man alone. God is not only our Father He is also our mother. God needed a woman to show us that part of His nature.

The woman is the other side of God.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Notice the image of God is a them.

Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones , and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Satan and the woman.

Genesis 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, --15. I will put enmity between thee and the woman.

With that statement God put into the heart of every woman a godly desire to love her husband, her children and do good. However the woman does not always personally receive this. Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Read Proverbs 31:10-31.

God is smart. He confuses worldly men with His wisdom.

In His plan to deal with Satan God chose to do it with the seed of the woman. Here is an important point. God does not deal with Satan through a second person. God deals with Satan head on. God took on a body through the seed of the woman, was manifest in the flesh, and fought His battle. He will also fight our battles.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

This statement is a natural because the mother guides the home. The mother produces the Leaders of nations. Many Mothers, with the help of God, have worked hard to put their children through school expecting nothing in return. I say to every young mother that is reading this today: Make it a goal that your child receive a Godly education. Go to church every time there is church. Bring up your children in the fear of the Lord. Become a Bible Mother to your children.

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Mother, it is your hand that rocks the cradle. God needs future Youth Leaders, Sunday School Teachers. soul winners and Ministers. You are the other side of God. Let your children see the mother side of God in you.

Sincerely,

Albert Friend

Friend Family Ministries

16 - **Write your thoughts.**Save.**The Inspiration lives on.

Encouragement to you,

Identify yourself! In all things be an example of the believer. Our service to God is to be with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. For this reason we must train our heart, train our soul, train our mind and train our strength to acknowledge Him in all our ways that He may direct our paths. Wow! What a wonderful feeling that is.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

The Bible gives us the opportunity of a lifetime with the mechanics for casting all our cares on Him. His perfect peace comes because He cares for us. In less than three seconds you can safely hope in God and leave it in His hands. Look at yourself and you will see you are safe at this moment. As you walk away guard your back door with faith. Refuse the temptation of doing it yourself. Close your ears to Satan and tell him to shut up. Resist him knowing he has to flee. Tell him he should be worshipping the God that created him.

Luke is the official recorder of our Plan of Salvation.

Luke recorded a critical time in the Bible. When Jesus had done all He could He turned it over to men to perpetuate His gospel. I later became one of those men and was called to preach repentance and remission of sins in His Name. My ambition is to do a good a job as long as I can.

Luke’s words were: Then opened He their understanding that they might understand the scriptures. At that time His message became Open Understanding for the world to hear. With those words Jesus spoke His church into existence and we are a continuation of His church

The Past

The past is gone. I can only plan for my future. I must live in the present. There are times when the present stares me in the face and my undisciplined mind runs away from it. I don’t like it, I don’t want it, I am wishing for elsewhere to be.

Here I Stand.

God’s mercies are fresh every morning. He puts a night deposit into my account. I wake up with my yesterday gone. There is no back door into yesterday so I can’t change a thing. To worry about yesterday is all down time. I must look forward to what I can do today. Knowing this I start by acknowledging and accepting His mercies. This sets me free to create my future by first confronting it and then making plans to reach it. My future is in our Apostolic Message. I thrill at it. My pen has become stronger than my body so I will use it.

Summary.

In the last two years I have written seven books (under 100 pages-one is also audio on two CD’s) about various subjects that deal with living in the present time. They are well worth your reading. You can read one in a day. I had a wonderful time at the United Pentecostal Church Conference in Columbus, Ohio selling these books for the Pentecostal Publishing House.

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God has given us a Bible with 66 books written by 40 writers. There are many Godly characters and I respect them all. In my 56 years of ministry I have been inspired to preach about many of them. I am a 76 year old retired pastor but not a retired minister. The Word continues to thrill me.

Stay encouraged. Your reward is Great.

Albert Friend

Friend Family Ministries

15 - Inspiration to you,

To regain control in a bad situation we need recall. Romans 12:1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, (because of Calvary.)

Romans 12:2----be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

God made us subject (a slave) to vanity that He might subject us (a slave) to hope. A devout slave to hope is a devout servant to God. There are things in life that overtake us. Things we cannot control. If we are a slave to vanity we are weakened. If we are a slave to hope we are strengthened. An Apostolic will arise to the occasion by the renewing of his mind.

How to renew your mind.

Lamentations 3:21-24. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Jeremiah said, when I recall, I have hope. The first thing he recalled was the mercies of God. They are new every morning. Every morning we wake up we have fresh new mercies to start our day with. Renew your mind every morning by accepting His mercies and dedicating your day to God.

Thoughts are pictures in our mind that make us either happy or sad. Properly treated a sad picture can trigger a renewing of your mind. In the above scripture Jeremiah said, therefore have I hope. He said this because of his recall. His recall inspired hope again. A recall database is a backup generator. It will turn the lights on again.

One good thought of inspiration will light up your mind again.

A back-up generator is a database of inspired scriptures and thoughts stored in our memory bank available for recall. These scriptures are promises from God that we are convinced cannot fail. We recall them and faith arrests our emotions. The lights turn on again. All great Bible characters recalled the promises of God to sustain them. We can do this also.

If we will build our house on this rock of God’s inspiration, our house will withstand any storm that can beat vehemently against us. That is a promise Jesus gave us that cannot fail. I have proved it to myself. I can know what I know. It works!

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Learn to take and keep notes of inspiring thoughts. The inspiration stays with the note. The note is timeless. Once you see a truth that you can recall, that truth belongs to you. It is honey in the jar. It is money in the bank.

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Don't worry about who said it. If it inspires you it belongs to you. It's money in your memory bank account.

When you learn these lessons within, depression has a hard time overtaking you. Your recall defeats it immediately. Your faith arrests your fears with the inspiration of the word of God in your memory bank. Remember Jeremiah: This I recall to mind, therefore have I HOPE!

Sincerely yours for a better kingdom,

Albert Friend

Friend Family Ministries

14 - How Jesus protects us.

in this issue :: Jesus told us ahead of time. :: Saying it another way. :: Jesus said, My strength is made perfect in weakness. :: Talk to yourself.

Your Bible is a constant companion! Jesus protects us by perfecting His love in us. We win by not trying to do it alone. Our love for Him must not be pretended. It is this Love that sustains us. Learn all you can ahead of time. Then when things happen you are ready with perfect love to cast out fear. There is no fear in love. How do you perfect love? Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. How do you know when it is perfect? Psalms 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. There are things that happen in life that baffle us. We need an attitude that will not give up. God has a waiting room and a book in it to read. Go sit down in God's waiting room and wait on Him.

Jesus told us ahead of time. Be Prepared. John 13:19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he. John 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. John 16:4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. Jesus said, My strength is made perfect in weakness. The scripture says it all. 2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Saying it another way. When I am weak I am protected by my love for Jesus. Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. Talk to yourself. King David did. Psalms 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Notice: Hope thou in God.

Remember! We live on the Apostolic Cutting Edge of life.

Jesus told us ahead of time so we could be prepared to lean on His love. Things can happen quick. Don't fall off the edge. Jesus is always there at the cutting edge to greet you.

Sincerely,

Albert Friend

Friend Family Ministries