The remedy is to turn back to the cross. Our Lord proved to us the redemptive power of suffering for His sake. But we have to choose it. We are constantly tempted to withdraw into self-protection and anger and defensiveness. But looking to the Lord moment by moment, we can embrace the cross with its pain and see Him use us to communicate more grace to people who aren’t even asking for it. We didn’t ask, and He suffered for us anyway. That kind of love was the only power that could get through to us. And it did.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Cake	16	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Softened margarine
3		Eggs
1		Box yellow cake mix
1	cn	Coconut
		Chopped pecans
6	tb	Margarine
1	pk	(8-oz) cream cheese
1		Box powdered sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

FIRST LAYER
SECOND LAYER
From: ginab@panix.com
Date: 16 Nov 1994 10:20:41 -0500
First Layer: Mix the first three ingredients and spread in a 9 X 13 pan.
Top with coconut and pecans.
Second Layer: Mix and spread on top of first layer.
Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour.
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A Message from our Provider:

“Lust and selfishness do not equal love”

In the first years of George Mueller’s Christian life, he spent more time reading the works of men than the Scriptures. Up until the day of his conversion he could not even recall reading one chapter of the Book of books. However, in the ninety-second year of his life he told his biographer that for every page he had read in any other book he was sure that he had proportionately read ten pages of the Bible. During the last twenty years of his life he read through the Scripture four or five times annually. In studying Mueller’s life I have discovered that his devotion and delight in God’s Word was the secret to his faith and life of prayer.

Bill Thrasher