Proverbs 11:4  Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death. 

There is a story of an Atlantic passenger lying in his bunk in a storm, deathly sick from seasickness. A cry of "Man overboard!" was heard. The passenger thought, "God help the poor fellow. There is nothing I can do." Then he thought at least he could put his lantern in the porthole, which he did. The man was rescued, and recounting the story the next day, he said, "I was going down in the darkness for the last time when someone put a light in a porthole. It shone on my hand, and a sailor in a lifeboat grabbed my hand and pulled me in." Weakness is no excuse for our not putting forth all the little strength we have, and who can tell how God will use it?

On a wall in the Museum of Natural Science in Chicago there is a checkerboard with 64 squares. In the lower lefthand corner is a grain of wheat. The display includes this question: "If you doubled the amount of wheat as you move from square to square, how much would you have when you reached the 64th square? A carload? A trainload? You would have enough wheat to cover the country of India six feet deep."

That is the power of multiplication. Suppose you go out and reach one person for Jesus. Stick with that person for six months. Help, encourage and strengthen him. At the end of six months there are only two. At the end of the year there are four of you. At the end of 18 months there are eight; two years, 16. Do you know how many people there would be at the end of 17 years? More than the entire population of the world-more than six billion. Stop and think about what you can do!

A highwayman once stopped John Wesley and demanded his money or his life. Wesley, after giving him the money, said, "Let me speak one word to you; the time may come when you will regret the course of life in which you are now engaged. Remember this, 'The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.'" No more was said, and they parted. Many years after, as Wesley was going out of a church in which he had been preaching, a stranger introduced himself, and asked Wesley if he remembered being waylaid at such a time. He said he recollected it. "I was that man," said the stranger, "and that single verse you quoted on that occasion was the means of a total change in my life and habits. I have long since been in the practice of attending the house of God and of giving attention to His Word, and trust that I am a Christian."

A young man entered training as an art student in London. During those years he thought he would draw a portrait of Christ. He was disappointed. In trying to reveal tenderness and sympathy, he portrayed only weakness, and he tore up the portrait. He tried again later but failed to satisfy himself.

War broke out, and his work came to an end. He went to camp and was finally sent to France and to the front. He was billeted in a French chateau in a room with nine other men. When he went to bed the first night he was distressed to see over the beds of the other fellows horrible drawings from some of the vulgar papers that were circulated in France in those days. He was tempted impetuously to pull them down, but remembered that everyone had a perfect right to put on his wall space anything he liked, so instead he planned what he should do with his space.

The only spare time he had was in the night, and his drawing material was a plain postcard and a pencil. He determined to try again to draw a head of Christ. He worked upon his drawing for several nights with only a candle to give him light; and when it was finished, he nervously pinned it on his wall. He did not know what the men would say or do when they saw it in the morning. They simply looked at it, said nothing and went out.

In a few days all the other pictures were pulled down and only his drawing remained. He had exalted the risen Christ in testimony to those around him.

  We walk in His Glory Cloud Daily with Him when we give our lives to Him!

We are washed and washed and washed over and over again. It's like a car wash but instead, it's a "God's Child Wash" in which, like a car wash we go through different cycles to get cleansed. First we get the prewash, then the soap suds to soak in deeper, then we get a thorough scrubbing only to get a rinse to get the dirt off. Again, we get another rinse with clean water to get all the grime off. Then lastly, we get a protectant like polish that leaves us with a sparkly shine, clean and renewed looking. It's also a protecting from the UV from the sun, likewise, it's a protectant from the UV (Ultra Villain – satan)!

I see the cloud (storm cloud) like a white cloud cluttered with dirt, sin and clutter. The storm cloud consists of dirt that creates mud which represents sin. But sin must be removed so it rains. How does this do this? Dirt molecules attach themselves with with water and then it becomes a heavy dew that becomes a raindrop too heavy to float in the winds of the clouds and then rains down on the earth. 

But what makes it a Glory Cloud - is when it becomes a "pure white" cloud in which the Lord resides because it's Holy, pure and white. Once the cloud rains, the dark grey/black clouds drop their rain (sins and clutter), they become "White as Snow" and become pure and become a "Glory Cloud"in which our Lord and Savior stands in the midst! - by Pastor Daniel Gromer