Vinnie

They must have taken the measurements of the moon when it was waning.

Put on platform shoes and you'll be ok for a year. Interesting...There is another theory thought of by men about the heat death of the universe. Not to worry though, it will take place in 1.7 x 10 ^106 years.

Another encouraging experience sent to me. Hello friends! one more interesting experience told a sister from Mariupol. — One more time İ became assured in how timely Jehovah gives us guidance, and that in such difficult situations he is ready not only to support, but even to assure of his fatherly love 😊 It was March 7th. My aunt came to our house. She is not a Witness. All in tears it is clear that she was in panic. She said that they had almost no food left, that her son was starving and they did not know how to survive it all. Of course we were deeply moved and gave her the opportunity to choose some food from the stocks that we had. Aunt took a decent share, and asked to go to her grandmother, because she also had a difficult situation with food. I armed myself with a few canned goods and went there. But it turned out that my grandmother had enough supplies, and that everything was not so sad with the aunt. She had already agreed with her grandmother that just in case she would come to her for food. I felt so offended that my aunt robbed us. And it was almost impossible to get new food. And then they said on the radio that no humanitarian corridors had been opened, there would be no help and no opportunity to leave either. Now I was in tears. There was a fear that now we would not have enough and I was afraid of the possibility of looting. The brothers and sisters consoled me, assured me that Jehovah would not leave us and that there were many Witnesses in the area, that we would share with each other. Then we all prayed together. The next day we met a brother from our congregation. He is an entrepreneur, and he has several outlets around the city with different food from pickles to chocolates. We turned to him for help, even offered to buy that for. But he replied " İ can do anything for the brotherhood" and "we'll talk about money later." He invited several brothers to go with him to these outlets, and if they were not looted and bombed, then they would take everything they could carry. So the brothers did. From our so to speak commune Sasha Yelagin went. He returned with such big sacks that we were only amazed at how he was able to drag it all himself for several kilometers. Among the provisions he got were canned food, boxes of cookies, huge packs of nuts (and not peanuts, but hazelnuts and cashews), chocolates, water and the highlight of the program - 2 packages of lightly salted salmon! For 300 UAH each piece! We couldn't believe it. We couldn't afford it when before the war! I asked Sasha if he saw how much one such package costs? To which he replied that he took whatevet he liked, he didn’t look at the price tags. Later, when we ate this salmon, we were making jokes about how hard these last days are )) And one sister said a very valuable thought that touched me: “You see, Valya, you cried, worried that you would die of hunger, and Jehovah gave you a piece of lightly salted salmon!”. Indeed if Jehovah was only interested in our survival and not in us keeping joy in such difficult circumstances he would have given us a pack of some kind of crackers instead of salmon)) But our Heavenly Father knows how to take loving care about each of his children ☺️ P.S. The next day after the brothers went to that outlet with food a shell hit it and everything burned down. So Jehovah knows exactly the time when to act

Experience from Zaporozhye region. My fellow believers and I decided to leave the occupied territory; there were 4 cars of Witnesses in the column. The road was very difficult, in our car there was me with an 11 year old child, a sister with sons 24 and 12 years old. There were about 30 checkpoints along the way, and at the last one, the cars of fellow believers were let through, but we were not, because cross-fire began. İt lasted for 3 hours. It was very scary, we prayed constantly, but at some point in our minds each of us said goodbye to life. When it began to get dark, and heavy artillery went into action, the military turned our column around and sent us to a small remote village. On the way there, terrible explosions were heard, and the sister was quoting aloud from her memory Psalm 23. This calmed us down. The village where we arrived was half empty, many houses were abandoned or closed due to shelling, people did not go outside and did not turn on the lights in the houses. Our column drove through the whole village and stopped at the very last street. Two local residents seeing the situation went out and found places for women with small children to stay for the night. It became completely dark and cold outside, and we had absolutely no water or food left. We were very tired. We thought that we would have to spend the night in the car. Everyone had already found a place to stay, but we were the only ones left in the street. Seeing our situation, an elderly local man approached us and offered us to stay with him, and we happily agreed. The house was large, clean, comfortable, the stove was heated, there was food. This man immediately surrounded us with care. We needed to contact fellow believers who managed to pass the checkpoint and report that we were alive, as they understood that we got into trouble. There is no mobile service in this village, and in order to make a call, you need to climb onto the roof, which Sergey (the owner) suggested doing. I went with him to the roof of the house to catch the signal. On the way, we had a conversation. Yulia: “We are so glad that we can stay with you, we are very grateful for your care!” Sergey: “I prayed that someone would come, and I would be useful to someone!” Yulia: “We also prayed not to stay in the street. İ can see you are a believer. What God do you pray to? Sergei: “I pray to Jehovah God, I am a Jehovah's Witness!” Yulia: “I couldn’t believe my ears, I burst into tears and hugged him, saying that all of us are Jehovah’s Witnesses too!” I went into the house all in tears, and was constantly saying: “You won’t believe it, you won’t believe it !!! Sergei took the Bible and the Watchtower with an article about the Memorial, went into the room and said: “I am your brother!” And then everyone burst into tears, and everyone rushed to hug him !! And we cried and laughed at the same time. At that moment, we all clearly realized that it was a miracle. It turns out that for many years he was the only Witness in the entire area of many villages, he had not seen his brothers and sisters for a long time, he had not experienced personal contact for a long time, he listened to meetings by phone. He prayed that he would meet one of Witnesses. And we realized that Jehovah brought us to him, for encouragement and assurance that Jehovah did not forget him, and loves him very much. As for us, we realized that even when the situation seems hopeless it is necessary to maintain hope and trust in Jehovah to the end. Because he definitely has a plan and knows the way out!

Prayers much needed Forwarded Dear brothers and sisters! Please fervently pray for our brothers from Mariupol. They are trying to leave in groups. The roads are very dangerous. Everywhere they shoot to kill. About 600 of our fellow believers have gone missing. There were two theocratic circuits (approximately 3,000 publishers). It is known for sure that 10 brothers died. Many are injured. There is still no contact with them. Several groups are moving towards Zaporozhye. The brothers have nothing at all! Now there are about 2,000 of our brothers and sisters left there. From all over Mariupol 30 thousand of people have already been taken to the Russian Federation. Among them there are also our brothers, but we can not contact them and local brothers over there do not meet them because of the ban. They need your fervent prayers to Jehovah! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Every day groups are trying to get out of the city. Pray that they arrive alive. This information is not confidential, you can share it with others. This is constantly told by the circuit overseer of one of those circuits. He managed to leave for Lviv and from there collects information about the brothers. But now prayers and fervent supplications for them are very much needed. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 And also pray for our sisters. They are treated with cruelty by military under Kadyrov supervision.

How does Jehovah care for us and never leave us? He uses each one of us to come to the aid of others. He teaches us to imitate him by telling us to care for one another. Phil 2:4 - as you look out not only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others. Out of love we are moved to help one another to endure and cope with living in this system of things.

What would life be like if we were all the same? If each of us had the same abilities and qualities and strengths and weaknesses? What would life be like? I don't think it would be very pleasant to be compared with someone else when you don't measure up. How loving and wise Jehovah is for making us all unique and different and telling us not to compare ourselves with anyone else. How good of us not to compare one Elder with an other Elder. We may at times wonder what makes a brother a good Elder but Jehovah knows what each one has to offer in his service and all to his praise and glory.

yes, its a beautiful story, thanks for sharing. How we need one another to get us through this difficult life.

Jehovah warns us that the heart is more treacherous and is desperate , who can know it? Jehovah knows it and gives us plenty of warnings to be aware of. Also we don't want to ignore any of Satan's attacks on our heart.

What does your heart yearn for? We all want something. I want righteousness to prevail. I want wickedness to be no more. I want pain and suffering to be gone forever. I want peace and happiness to be seen earth wide.

How do we get close to Jehovah when we don't have a one on one relationship/conversation with him? It takes effort on our part by getting to know him and imitating him. As we draw closer to Jehovah, he draws closer to us-not as a result of us being one step closer to him. Jehovah notices when we look to him for help and getting to know him and imitate him. He steps closer to us and wants to be closer to us. The more righteous and purer and cleaner in heart we become, the more Jehovah wants to be near to us. Also, the closer we get to Jehovah, the more love we will feel as a result of our good works.

Jehovah reassures us that we have no need to panic. The best encouragement we can ponder and meditate on are real life examples found in God’s word.