As stated once before, I said I would only blog when the Lord lays something on my heart, and what a morning this has been! I had an extreme blessing of watching the Together DVD last night for the first time. This is a project in which the Gaither Vocal Band and Ernie Haase & Signature Sound teamed up to do. It is truly a blessing and I encourage anyone to pick it up and watch it. It will make your heart swell with praise to our gracious heavenly father! This project has many amazing songs on it. It is my dream to sing with the Bill Gaither and his homecoming friends so it feels good to sit down and watch some good folks sing and live the dream. They will never know how good they have it!


But moving on. I sat down this morning with my bible and a book that I have recieved for christmas that is just 'food for thought' in my bible study. It was just wonderful. The book is called 'Then sings my soul'. It tells the story of some of our best-loved hymns and how they came about. I enjoy all of them but one of them has stuck out in my mind. In the story of the song, 'In the sweet by and by', The man who wrote that song was a pharmacist. He had a patient that was depressed alot and he came in the pharmacy and the pharmacist asked him, he said, "Son, what is wrong with you?" The man said, "I am not sure I guess I will understand it better by and by." With that the pharmacist, a known hymn-writer penned the words to the beautiful song, "In the Sweet By and By". He took it over to the man and said "Here is your prescription for today", with that the man put music to the words and the words came about. How wonderful. Our God up in heaven can take all our blues away with just a few God-Breathed words given to us at just the right points in our lives. You never know what the Lord can do through you. That is just what the loving God we serve does for us. He is so wonderful. I came away from my bible study happy with the Lord on my mind. I then got the word that a preacher in our counties' baptist association had died. He had pastored his church for 32 years. This death come as a shock because he was only in his 50s and was a precious man of god, who, in January, was planning on heading up a mission trip to Honduras to build churches. However, the Lord called him home this morning about 8:00. How wonderful it must be for him to be seeing the city that he has looked for and preached about for so long. Oh what A Savior!

I hope you all are able to enjoy the things that the Lord has laid upon my heart to talk about. If you would please leave comments. This lets me know that people are actually reading my blog. Even if you aren't I can still do this for my own personal satisfaction. :-)

In His Service,
DJ Plunk

Is any thing to hard for the lord?

Hello All!
This time of year, I try to think of all the things that the Lord has done for me. He is so Gracious and precious and sometimes I wonder, "why me?", What is so special about each of us, that makes the Lord love us so? I come to realize, the reason is, is that he made each one of us in the likeness of him. He knows that we all hold the potential of rising in this world and he would get all the glory. This sunday at church, our passage of scripture was:

"Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son." Genesis 18:14

Sarah found humor in what the Lord had asked her to do. He had asked an old woman to bear a child. In the scripture we find that Sarah was in the tent and hearing God talk to Abraham. She thinks to herself and laughs and says to herself, "How can this be?" But the lord hears her and asks her, "Why did you laugh" and then he says, "Is any thing to hard for the Lord?" This statement really stands out in my mind, and it makes me think, any thing through our Lord and savior is precious. No matter how unfit we think we are, we must remember that our Lord made us in his own image. He can do great things through us! We should want him to receive the Glory and he wants us to recieve the blessing. I find great messages in Southern Gospel songs, most of the songs are truly God Breathed and I believe the words come straight from the heavenly throne above. There is a song entitled "Little is much, When God is in it" written by Kittie J. Suffeild. I may have it wrong, I am not sure. The song states:

"Does the place that you are called to labor seem so small and little known? It is great, if our GOD is in it, for he will not forsake his own.....When the conflict here is ended and our race on earth is run, He will say, if you've been faithful, "Welcome Home My Child, Well Done!" ...Little is much, when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame, there's a crown and you can win it, if you go, in Jesus' name!"

This song has strengthened me alot lately. I get so excited when I think about how wonderful it is going to be when we get to Heaven and we behold our savior face to face and he says, " Welcome Home my Child, Well Done!" That just makes me feel so good tonight. I hope you all get something out of this and I am looking forward to posting more as the Lord lays these thoughts on my mind.

God Bless you All,
D.J.