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[Angelwings]

WET PANTS

Come with me to a third grade classroom.... There is
a
nine-year-old kid
sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a
puddle
between his feet and
the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart
is
going to stop because
he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened.
It's never happened
before, and he knows that when the boys find out he
will
never hear the end of it.
When the girls find out, they'll never speak to
him again as long as he
lives.

The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts
his
head down and prays
this prayer, 'Dear God, this is an emergency! I
need
help now! Five minutes
from now I'm dead meat.'

He looks up from his prayer and here comes the
teacher
with a look in her
eyes that says he has been discovered.

As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate
named
Susie is carrying a
goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips
in
front of the teacher
> and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the
> boy's
lap...

The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is
saying
to himself, 'Thank
you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!'


Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of
ridicule, the boy is the
object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs
and
gives him gym
shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the
other
children are on their
hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The
sympathy
is wonderful. But as
life would have it, the ridicule that should have
been his
has been transferred to someone else - Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out.
You've done enough, you
klutz!'

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting
for
the bus, the boy
walks over to Susie and whispers, 'You did that
on
purpose, didn't you?' Susie
whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'

May God help us see the opportunities that are always
around us to do good..

Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make
you a
Christian any more than
standing in your garage makes you a car.

Each and everyone one of us is going through tough
times
right now, but God
is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He
can.
Keep the faith.

This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the
best
gifts we receive.
There is no cost but a lot of rewards. Let's
continue
to pray for one another.


The Prayer:

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and
those
that I care
deeply for, who are reading this right now. Show them
a
new revelation of Your
love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to
their spirit at this very
moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and
mercy. Where there is
self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your
grace. Where there is
need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. Bless their
homes,
families, finances,
their goings and their comings. Amen.