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Koinonia
Christen Sentrum...
92-Year-Old
Preacher
October 14, 2011
While
watching a little TV on Sunday
instead of going to church, I watched a church in Atlanta honoring one
of its
senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time
and I
wondered why the church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to
preach at
that age.
After
a warm welcome, introduction of
this speaker, and as the applause quieted down, he rose from his high
back
chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gait to the
podium.
Without a note or written paper of any kind he placed both hands on the
pulpit
to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak…
“When
I was asked to come here today
and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest
lesson
ever learned in my 50-odd years of preaching. I thought about it for a
few days
and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most difference in
my life
and sustained me through all my trials. The one thing that I could
always rely
on when tears and heartbreak and pain and fear and sorrow paralyzed
me...
The
only thing that would comfort was
this verse...
“Jesus
loves me this I know.
For
the Bible tells me so.
Little
ones to Him belong,
We
are weak but He is strong...
Yes,
Jesus loves me...
The
Bible tells me so.”
The
old pastor stated, “I always
noticed that it was the adults who chose the children’s hymn ‘Jesus
Loves Me’
(for the children of course) during a hymn sing, and it was the adults
who sang
the loudest because I could see they knew it the best.”
“Here
for you now is a Senior version
of Jesus Loves Me”:
JESUS
LOVES ME
Jesus
loves me, this I know,
Though
my hair is white as snow
Though
my sight is growing dim,
Still
He bids me trust in Him.
(CHORUS)
YES,
JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES
ME..
YES,
JESUS LOVES ME, FOR THE BIBLE
TELLS ME SO.
Though
my steps are oh, so slow,
With
my hand in His I’ll go
On
through life, let come what may,
He’ll
be there to lead the way.
(CHORUS)
When
the nights are dark and long,
In
my heart He puts a song..
Telling
me in words so clear,
“Have
no fear, for I am near.”
(CHORUS)
When
my work on earth is done,
And
life’s victories have been won.
He
will take me home above,
Then
I’ll understand His love.
(CHORUS)
I
love Jesus, does He know?
Have
I ever told Him so?
Jesus
loves to hear me say,
That
I love Him every day.
(CHORUS)
God
Bless Us All!!!
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it at Koinonia Christen Sentrum
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