Gary Newman (19 Feb 2013)
"Rice"


 
HiYAH jOHN & DOVES:

Repost as this part of my post was not received.

 
We are one of seven churches in our area that take it in turns to have the homeless stay in the church and we feed them an evening meal and breakfast. I did my stint on Saturday (17 feb). I put my bible on the table in the office where I slept for a couple of hours before making breakfast.
After breakfast whilst cleaning my co-worker asked what rice was doing in my bible, as it fell out of my bible when he moved it. I didn’t know what he was talking about, he brought my bible out to me and sure enough quite a lot of rice fell out!  Real strange I thought, so I jokingly accused him of staging it, he assured me that he had nothing to do with it, and no one else had access to the office. So I was pondering this a little, until I shared it with my wife in the evening. Nothing like this has ever happened so I knew it was God trying to tell me something, what did it mean? Then I said doesn’t rice have to do with weddings?
We started to get real excited, look what I found:
 
By throwing rice at the bride and groom at a wedding, guests symbolically wish them a lifetime full of these blessings.
 
Veronica picked up her bible and it fell open to:
 
Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
 
WOOHOO!
 
 
Be blessed
 
Maranatha
 
Gary