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((Sometimes it seems that way for me, too...but I regard these e-mail devotionals that I get as e-mails from God, and this is one that I received a couple days ago and just read today. I thought I would share it with you all, in case you are discouraged or feel tempted to be discouraged in the future.)) Dear Friends of “Dial Daily Bread,” I am sure that everybody who believes in the Lord shares a common problem: we seldom get answers to prayer as fast as we want them. Some get tired waiting and give up their faith. Habakkuk, in chapter 2, verse 3, encourages us not to give up: "The vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." That word "tarry" in the Hebrew is two words. The Good News Bible has the idea: "The time is coming quickly, and what I show you will come true. It may seem slow in coming, but wait for it; it will certainly take place, and it will not be delayed." The idea is not that God is slow, or that He has to be waked up. He's very quick--so much so that Isaiah says He answers our prayers before we pray them ("before they call, I will answer," 65:24), but the answer seems slow to us. One reason is that there are hindrances to His answer getting through to us, as Daniel describes in 10:12, 13 when the angel tells him, "From the first day that you set your heart to understand, ... your words were heard, ... But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days." It could well be that the Lord has already sent the answer to your prayer, but some similar hindrance has occurred. In the meantime, it's your job to believe in the Lord, to appreciate His character, to know that He is your Friend, not your Enemy. So David says over and over, "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7). Wouldn't you be embarrassed if you became impatient like King Saul when he was waiting for the prophet Samuel to come and he went ahead in his impatience and did what he should not have done? (1 Sam. 13). Habakkuk is telling us, "Don't get impatient; hang on. The Lord will not truly delay. It would be a pity if when His answer does come, you in the meantime have given up so you can't receive the blessing, and then like King Saul you lose everything!" --Robert J. Wieland From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: February 10, 1998. Copyright © 2017 by "Dial Daily Bread." e-mail: dailybread@1888message.org to receive these e-devotionals

Don't eat too many brownies, if any, and definitely stay away from anything synthetic. If you just smoke the weed, you can only get so high and that's it. No matter how much you smoke. And nobody has ever died from smoking it, just like the man said. I think the most detrimental thing about it is all the junk food someone might eat, after getting the munchies. There's talk here in NC about it...legalization I knew an SDA preacher who smoked weed, and I think he still does. He married the same woman twice. lol And divorced her twice also..

JOEMO I hope you have read both my post and THE WANDERER post about checking out this church for a few more sabbaths before making a choice dgrimm60

"baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 28:19). Some older manuscripts simply say "baptizing them in My Name" (or something akin to that) In every instance of the Acts of the Apostles where people were baptized, they were baptized in the name of Jesus; nowhere does it say they were baptized in the name of the the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. See Acts 2:38, 8:12, 8:16, 10:48, and 19:5

JOEMO I agree with THE WANDERER before you change churches ===I would go at least 4 to 6 sabbaths ===l like THE WANDERER said 1 time might not be enough to change churches so I would go maybe every other sabbath for at least 4 sabbath then make a choice dgrimm60

It is Border Patrol and ICE job to enforce the law. It is Congress' job to change the law. Don't blame the enforcers. Blame the lazy, infighting, politic-ing Congress (both parties) for not changing the law. Congress would not pass a law to keep parents with their children during the screening process. Trump had to do it himself, with an executive order. Congress will not deal with immigration, so the "family units" are now released with an assigned court appearance date. Only 3%, on average, show up for that court appearance (Catch and Release). Thus more and more immigration of "family units" is encouraged. Bring a child - get to stay. Which encourages child-stealing. Personally, I think that parents who bring children on very long and dangerous treks for the purpose of better employment, are guilty themselves of child endangerment. THEY put the kids in danger. Once across the border, the children were housed, clothed, fed, and entertained in greater safety, than they were during any part of their trip to the border. And I'm glad they will be reunited with their parents. The United States cannot accommodate all the people who would like to immigrate. (Recent poll estimated 160 million from countries around the world. That's a 50% increase in our population!) Such numbers would OVERWHELM our schools, hospitals, welfare systems, and local police (assuming high numbers of Central American gang members). I have talked with Hispanic friends - several of them - who have kids in public school. THEY want limited immigration (even the friends who are without documents themselves). They all feel that unlimited immigration will lead to larger school class sizes, more special classes for students speaking less known dialects, longer waits at hospitals and free clinics, less money available for food stamps, more chaos, more crime, etc. etc. etc. I don't particularly like Trump, as a person. I really hate the chaos at the border because our Congress will not pass new laws. Back during Vietnam, our soldiers were sometimes booed or even spit at when they returned home through the airports. Our nation learned its lesson, and now everyone supports those serving regardless of their opinion of national policy. Border Patrol and ICE are serving our country! They deserve our respect, whether you support the current president and his policies - or not. Just my 2cents