I've had some good days; I've had some hills to climb. If I say, I will forget my complaint - If I resolve that I will leave off complaining, and will be more cheerful, I find it all in vain. Posted on April 18, 2016 by growintheword. I won’t complaint because God has been good to me. How many times have you encouraged yourself with those words? Discover (and save!) But the words of the Apostle Paul spoken to King Agrippa as recorded in the King James Version are a favorite of mine. May God bless and keep each one of you at GMO and the Woodberry family. How his prayers were one of the one's that helped to will me back to life many years ago. My God!!! I won’t complaint when I have the activity of my limbs. What is patient endurance? 29 I am already judged guilty. I won’t complaint when there’s food in my refrigerator and clothes on my back. And many times after preaching, full of the Holy Spirit he would sing the words below. I Won't Complain!!! I remember many days sitting in my room reading over sermon notes and listening to one of his cd's to lift my spirits. Don’t push the words aside just because you’ve heard them so many times. The suffering still scares me! I won’t complain! I will forget my pain, I will put a smile on my face.' 1 0 obj
I won’t complaint when I have a roof over my head. Paul Jones? Exodus 15:22-25 / Exodus 16:2-4. Well sais Ramona. Vulgate, I will change my countenance - force myself to smile, and endeavor to assume the appearance of comfort. I am dealing with so many health issues. ( Log Out / Even as I sit here in my room typing, my heart is sad. (And many times he did know without me having to say one word.) Thank you for bringing his words to life again for those of us who was blessed to hear him preach, teach, minister and sing. I won’t complaint when God has made a way for all my bills to be paid. My fears and sorrows return, and all my efforts to be cheerful are ineffectual, I will leave off my heaviness - The word rendered “my heaviness” here (פני pânam ) denotes literally “my face;” and the reference is to the sad and sorrowful countenance which he had. When there is a problem and all we do is complain about … I won’t complaint when I have the activity of my limbs. Isaiah 40:31, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. In fact, I just spent the night in the emergency room. I won’t complaint when I have a roof over my head. Everyone remembered her as a loving soul that never had anything negative to say about anybody and even through all her suffering and pain never complained. I won’t complaint when there’s food in my refrigerator and clothes on my back. We should be thankful in every condition of life, in adversity as well as prosperity. It’s not just the song I Won’t Complain, but what about the saying, “Too Blessed to be Stressed”? 4 0 obj
Many of us who love him will never know the pain that he had to go through these last few years, or even the last few weeks but one thing I know is that he never lost his faith. your own Pins on Pinterest I WON’T COMPLAIN. The African-American community (especially the African-American church community) has a few colloquialisms that, no matter how trite still seem to encourage me. It comes to your memory for a reason. Recall some encouraging words you might have heard in a song, in scripture or by a friend. <>>>
The tendency to complain seems to be in the DNA of humanity. It amazes me how I just automatically start singing, “I’ve had some good days…” I can even hear the organ playing while I sing. Share this: Twitter; Facebook; Like this: Like Loading... About growintheword I consider myself a Christian with an envangelistic calling. Apr 15, 2016 - Explore Mae Wallace's board "I won't complain" on Pinterest. I belive that God gives us our gifts so that they may be used for his glory. The cause of it, the loss of his children, servants, substance, and health, and endeavour to think no more of these things, and cease complaining about them, and attempt to bury them in oblivion, and change his note: I will leave off my heaviness; his melancholy thoughts, words, airs, and looks; or "forsake my face", put on another countenance, a more pleasent and cheerful one; the Jewish commentators generally interpret it, "my anger", either at the dispensations of Providence, or at his friends: and comfort myself; that things were not worse with him than they were; or strengthen himself, as the word is rendered in Amos 5:9; against his fears, and troubles, and dejection of mind, determining to take heart, and be of good courage, and not sink, and succumb, and faint under his burdens: none but God, Father, Son, and Spirit, can give comfort to distressed ones, whether on temporal or spiritual accounts; but good men may make use of means for comfort, such as hearing the word, reading the Scriptures, prayer, meditation, and conversation with good men. Many of these sayings are songs. I will forget my complaint - I will forsake or forego my complaining. I had always memorized scripture but to actually sit and break down a verse line by line, word by word, didn't come until I heard him in a Wednesday night Bible study. In difficult times, how many of you find yourself actually singing I Won’t Complain by Rev. One very important thing I learned from him was 'patient endurance'. ", when I was questioning why the Lord chose me to go through this storm. What he had on the inside of him was contagious! %PDF-1.5
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Just as if he were standing right here in front of me, I can hear him clearly saying as though he could read my thoughts, "Why not you?