Testimonies

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Man shall not live by bread, alone
[Matthew 4:4]
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"Lord?"

"What is it, child."

"This is kind'a embarrassing,
but...."

"Go on."

"Before I read about Jesus,
I thought this line was
somethin' Shakespeare said."

[NOD.]

"Here's another one:

The harvest is plenty [plentiful],
but the laborers are few.
[Matthew 9:37]

and this one:

Leave the dead to bury their dead.
[Matthew 8:22]

and this:

A prophet is not without honor
except in his own country....
[Matthew 13:57]"

[SILENCE.]

"Lilies of the Field, Lord
was the title of a movie
in the '60s."

[NOD.]

"I thought Hollywood
made it up."

"Read It, child."

"Let me find It.
Here It is:

Look at the birds of the air;
they neither sow nor reap....
and yet your Heavenly Father
feeds them....
Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they neither
toil or spin; yet I tell you
even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these.
[Matthew 6:26-28]

I didn't know it was You
who said this, Lord. And,
that was, at least, a couple years
before Hollywood."

"Yes, child."

And, the parable about the
mustard seed? I thought
that was from an old story, too."

"It was, child:
Mine."
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The kingdom of heaven
is like a grain of mustard seed
which a man took and sowed
in his field. It is the smallest
of all seeds, but when it has
grown it is the greatest of shrubs
and becomes a tree, so that the
birds of the air come
and make nests in its branches.
[Matthew 13:31-32]

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