Faith

by Debbie Wallis

watch and pray while He got rest They fell asleep, they ran scared, they fought, and they denied Him to save their self Judah betrayed Jesus for money They acted as if Jesus had taught them nothing But, then I think about who Jesus is. He is all knowing. He is God the Son, who made the sacrifice for my sins I have fallen asleep while in dire need of Him I ran scared, I fought, and I denied Him I betrayed His friendship by choosing money over Him I don’t think He was discouraged by His disciples because He knew ahead that they would forget His teachings and fail Jesus knew the Holy Spirit would soon be sent to be the Helper, just as He is still here to help you and I

“But, the Helper, The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you,” John 14:26

The Holy Spirit helped the disciples to understand what Jesus had taught and to understand what was “yet to come” His death and resurrection Three days after Jesus died, He was resurrected from the dead and He appeared before His disciples and hundreds of other witnesses “He presented Himself alive to them after His crucifixion Hundreds saw proof of Him and for forty days He traveled speaking about the kingdom of God,” Acts

1:3

I’ve tried to imagine what it felt like to Jesus on the night of His arrest before He was crucified He knew what He was facing, He was with His friends and they seemed more concerned about themselves than they were Him. They argued about who was His favorite and who would be the greatest in His kingdom Jesus was literally exhausted He asks His disciples to stay awake,

One of the Holy Spirits ministries is to remind you of the word of God The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and The Truth that you need today To follow Jesus, you need to be continually reminded of the Truth of His word, His teachings, His commands and His promises The Spirit of the living God will bring to your mind His words every time you need them and at the very moment you need them. Make them the decided factor in the choices you make in every area of your life But, first, you have to do your part and hide His word in your heart “With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You,” Psalms 119:10-11 If you are reluctant to spend time reading your Bible you are not going to have the Truth in your heart for the Holy Spirit to teach and remind you.

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Father, full of grace and truth,” John 1:14 Not spending time seeking the Truth of God the Father and God the Son will greatly hinder you having the power of God the Spirit to guide your life “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are One,”

1 John 5:7

In some situations you may have several choices that you can make and they will all bring honor to God In other situations there may be only one narrow path that is truly His will and all other choices lead to destruction and dishonors God You need the Holy Spirit to remind you of the hidden Truths of the Lord that are not visible to the ungodly The Holy Spirit will empower you with His grace to obey and live in the perfect center of the Father’s will. As I grew in my faith by reading the Truth of God’s Word, my spirit became sensitive to the Holy Spirit I cannot imagine life without Him today I am so different with the Holy Spirit guiding me that I don’t recognize my B C (Before Christ) self sometimes

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,” John 14:15-16.

If you don’t have a Bible please contact me at sfadebbie@yahoo com and I will provide you one

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Armed Services Edition (ASE) paperbacks (circa 1943-1947) are being avidly collected and preserved by collectors because they have two significant features their physical size and a high mortality rate.

ASE’s were published by a nonprofit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime called “Editions for the Armed Services, Inc ” This council comprised of American publishers of general books, librarians, and booksellers More than 120 million volumes were issued with the intention that distribution would be exclusive to members of the American Armed Forces and not to be resold or otherwise made available to civilians

The format adopted for the books was decidedly different from the traditional paperbacks on the market for general consumption

ASE pages were wide, to carry two columns of story and the page depth was shallow Actual pages measured 5 ½ inches wide and about 4 inches deep The books averaged one-half inch in thickness, running about 250-300 pages A total of 1,324 titles were produced and distributed during their few years of production The Government paid six cents each for these books; a one-cent royalty was split between the author and the original publisher when the work was not in the public domain

The Council occasionally selected titles for these Armed Services Editions with a naïve awareness as to what the average young serviceman was inclined to read Some books bordered upon the bizarre as far as red-blooded American boys were concerned. For example, they put out two works by William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair and Henry

Esmond and another book called Mathematics and the Imagination

Not that these are not worthy books, but it is doubtful that a few dozen of the two million GIs made it through them I would bet if you run across a copy of these books, they will be in pristine condition

Young men in uniform had an insatiable appetite for fast-moving adventure, action stories, tales of intrigue, suspense and danger, and some passion thrown in here and there Popular titles were The Case of the Black-eyed Blond by Erle Stanley Gardner, Martin Eden by Jack London; Selected Stories by Edgar Allen Poe; Lou Gehrig by Frank Graham; Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout; and The Long Valley by John Steinbeck and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Westerns enjoyed a wide reading public Titles such as Riata and Spurs by Charles Siringo, Rim of the Desert by Ernest Haycox, The Fighting Four by Max Brand, Guns of the Frontier by William Macleod Raine, The Ox-Bow

Incident by Walter Van Tilberg Clark, We Pointed Them North by E C Abbott and Helena Huntington Smith, and The Proud Sheriff by Eugene Manlove Rhodes are reined in by collectors and may lasso as much as $12-$20 if in good condition

Finding any of these wonderful titles in good condition is fortunate because these books were literally read to shreds The not-for-sale restriction meant they were kept within the limits of posts, camps, stations, aboard vessels and otherwise confined to government installations, stateside and abroad Some of them got into USO’s and Service Canteens, but not many Victory in late 1945 spelled the end of the trail for these remarkable little paperbacks As camps and training facilities began folding up their tents, countless thousands of these fine books were discarded, given away, or shredded Expect to pay between $8 and $20 for any of these books

I treasure my copy of Charles Siringo’s Riata and Spurs because he writes of the life of a Denton bad boy Sam Bass Siringo sets down the entire Sam Bass song that includes the following verses: Sam used to deal in race stock, one called the Denton mare, He matched her in scrub races, and took her to the fair Sam used to coin the money and spent it just as free, He always drank good whiskey wherever he might be.

And Later

Sam made it back to Texas all right side up with care;

Rode into the town of Denton with all his friends to share Sam’s life was short in Texas; three robberies did he do, He robbed all the passenger, mail and express cars, too

Dr Georgia Caraway, former director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, and her friends opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning Store hours are Thursday through Saturday noon until 8 p m She has written four Denton history books and has finished a 5th history about the North Texas State Fair and Rodeo that will be published in August. She hopes her next book will be the history of Howe PLEASE SHOP LOCALLY We can show you Howe!