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15~Whatever Happens
Words & Music by
Ed King 2001
Whatever happens be glad in the Lord,
Whatever happens my friend,
Be glad in the Lord.
Whatever happens be glad in the Lord,
Whatever happens my friend,
Be glad in the Lord.
Whatever happens,
Whatever happens,
Whatever happens,
Be glad in the Lord my friend.
Whatever happens be glad in the Lord,
Whatever happens my friend,
Be glad in the Lord.
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I would hasten to point out the big difference between what God is saying here and what HE is not saying:
He is NOT saying, "Whatever happens BE GLAD"
He IS saying, "Whatever happens BE GLAD IN THE LORD"
BIG DIFFERENCE...in any language...
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Posted on the wall just to the left of my computer station
as a constant daily reminder are these words:
WHATEVER HAPPENS, be glad in the Lord.
I never get tired of telling you this!
Always be full of joy in the Lord;
I say it again, REJOICE!
Let EVERYONE see that you are unselfish
and considerate in ALL you do.
Remember that the Lord is coming soon.
Don't worry about ANYTHING,
Instead,pray about EVERYTHING;
Tell God your needs and don't forget
to thank HIm for His answers.
If you do this...
If you do what?
Do what I just said.
If you do this
You will experience God's peace,
Which is far more wonderful
than the human mind can understand.
His peace will keep your thoughts
and your heart quiet and at rest
as you trust in Christ Jesus.
ONLY JESUS
CAN BRING PEACE
TO THE HUMAN HEART!
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Being glad in the Lord
Regardless of what is happening,
REGARDLESS...
OF WHAT IS HAPPENING,
Will see you through your LONGEST day.
Being glad in the Lord
Regardless of what is happening,
REGARDLESS...
OF WHAT IS HAPPENING,
Will get you over the HIGHEST mountains in your life.
It works for me and I know that it will work for you,
Because God is no respector of persons...
God has no favorites...
I just experienced my longest day and my highest mountain with the passing of my wife of 63 years and I can still say
that it works for me and I know that it will work for you,
Becaise GOD is no respector of persons...
GOD has no favorites...
October 12,2008 7AM Some thoughts concerning the passing of Mary Alice Hawker King, the love of my life and companion for the past 63 years plus! She went home to be with Jesus last evening on the 9th floor of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle Washington
My heart is breaking, but thank God He knows it. I praise Him for holding my heart in His hand and reminding me that He is thinking of me constantly and that He will never ever leave me. He is so faithful! As I write these words the tears are flowing like a river, tears of joy because I know Jesus and I know that Mary now is seeing Him face to face realizing that the greatest thing in heaven is seeing Jesus face to face.
As song number 7 on my personal website says:
Eternity Can't Be Long Enough
http://www.originalgospelmusicbyedking.com
I will be receiving much comfort and consolation at this website in the remaining days of my life.
Song number 50 "Blessings In Disguise"
Reminds me that everything that happens to me is a blessing, though often in disguise and this blessing is certainly one of those which comes in a disguise.
Mary's last week on earth began Saturday October 4,2008.
I had just taken 2 glasses of iced tea out to the enclosed patio where we have practically lived since we had it built some 3 years ago.
I originally referred to it as our little cruise ship as the fully glass enclosed room reminded me of the dining area on the cruise ships we sailed on back in the late 80's and early 90's.
I went back into the kitchen to finish preparing our lunch when our little 8 year old Yorkie came running into the kitchen indicating to me that something was wrong. I looked through the kitchen window to see Mary flalling her legs which I first thought to be exercising when I saw that she was slumped down in her chaise lounge. I ran out to find her making a continuous gourgling noise and not able to respond.
I immediately dialed 911 and then lived through 2 eternities, the five minutes or so that it took to hear the sirens and then another 5ive minutes or so that it took to see the emergency vehicles in the drive way.
I could never praise the response team enough. They were really great. I also learned a new appreciation for ambulance drivers.
As we neared the Hospital an attendant came forward and told me that Mary was responding and was coherent, which was thrilling to hear. She had had a seizure at home and shortly after reaching the hospital she had another one.
This last week was so very precious in so many ways. The most impressive to me was the day that the Neurology Dr. standing at the side of the bed pointed to me standing a the foot of the bed and he asked Mary,"What is his full name? and Mary very deliberately said, "EDWARD...HARMON...KING...JR..."
That was such beautiful music to my ears as for the past year and a half she has been so confused as to who I was. She was constantly asking me both day and night every day and every night, "Where is he? When is he coming home? Is he out at the base? and I would say, "Honey, I am he and I am right here with you." and she would say, "I mean the other one."
Although she just now passed away, she has really been gone forever it seems even though it's only been about a year and a half.
That's been so hard these many month's. I remember one day early on being out on the patio and breaking down crying and she sternly said, "What's wrong with you?" and I said, "I love you honey, I miss you so much and I want you back."
It was then I realized that she really didn't know what was going on and so I knew I could never do that again. I decided to make the most out of a bad situation and began telling others that we were having more fun than anybody in town as we did a lot of hugging and hand holding even thought we didn't know who we were hugging and whose hands we were holding.
I've been saying that of all the women I have known in my 83 years that Mary is the funniest lady I have ever known and she never ceased to keep the Doctors and nurses in stitches by some of the off of the wall comments she would make.
Through out this last week of her life every time anyone would ask her what my name was she would emphatically say,
"EDWARD...HARMON...KING...JR..." and then one day I was holding her arm under the cover and I asked her, " Whose holding your arm and she said rather authoritatively, "You are" and I asked, "What's my name?" and there it came again, "EDWARD...HARMON...KING...JR" and so I have every reason to believe that something connected to the seizures made it so that during this last week she really knew that it was me and that I was there with her.
I remember praying a couple of days ago, "Lord, You know what I want even though I probably don't know, I think I know what I want, but I do know this Lord, I want Your Will, not my will but Your will be done and as I pray this I know 3 things. I know that Your will is perfect, You will see me through it and You will never ever leave me."
I know that Mary was really suffering in the closing days, but as I would whisper in her ear "I love you" she would respond with,
"I love you too" That was so precious, but it was so hard that last day when I would whisper, "I love you" and she couldn't respond.
When I came home last night I opened my Bible and found Romans 5:1-5 staring me in the face.How precious the many precious promises found recorded in these few words.
So now, Since we have been made right in God's sight by faith in His promises,
We can have real peace with Him, because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
For because of our faith, He has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand,And we confidently and joyfully look forward to actually becoming all that God has had in mind for us to be.
We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials for we know that they are good for us...they help us learn to be patient.
And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady.
Then when that happens, we are able to hold our heads high no matter what happens, and know that all is well,
FOR WE KNOW.......HOW DEARLY GOD LOVES US,
and we feel this warm love everywhere within us because God has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love.
I hope and pray that these words will impress upon you a new and greater appreciation of God and His great love and compassion for each one of us.
As I have been thinking of some of the blessings related to this worst experience of my life I realize what a blessing just the timimg has been. It could have been last year this time when I was going through chemo-therapy and totally washed out.
It could have been at a time when my son-in-law Rick, Teena's husband was not available he has been such a tremendous help to me. And then I realized, I am 83 years old...This could have happened when I was 23 and Mary was 21...it does happen to a lot of young people, after all Mary lost both of her brothers when they were only 19. Yes God has been so good to give us these 63 plus years together and even this last week of her life, the worst week of our journey here...
He filled that week with so many precious moments which I will treasure as long as I live.
No one can have any thing unless God gives it to him.!
Sunday October 26, 2008
I have always been told that a couple of weeks after you loose a spouse it really hits you!
Well, yesterday was 2 weeks since the passing of my precious Mary and this morning I
found something new to thank GOD for as I found myself praying, "Thank YOU JESUS,
for taking Mary home to be with you, thank YOU for taking her out of her pain and suffering,
Thank you JESUS, thank YOU so very much. And thank YOU for filling that terrible void,
empty space in my heart that she left, thank YOU so very very much for filling that emptiness
with YOUR precious and tender love. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
And thank YOU so very much for YOUR precious promise which YOU are keeping for me as
found recorded in Isaiah 26:3,4 "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on
THEE, because he trusts in THEE. Trust in the LORD JEHOVAH forever, for in the LORD
JEHOVAH is everlasting strength."
(I am cutting in here on MARCH 18,2009 to let you know that the PROMISE OF ISAIAH 26:3 is still working 24/7 GOD'S LOVE is a NEVER FAILING LOVE and if you haven't made JESUS LORD of your life, I urge you don't put it off another minute. Whatever you have heard about JESUS I can assure you that HE is all that and more.)
"I DON'T KNOW HOW HE DOES IT"
I am referring to GOD and the way HE is keeping me in perfect peace
in the midst of the worst experience of my life, the passing of my wife of
63 years. It is the result of HIS promise which I am claiming as my
very own when HE says that HE will keep in perfect peace anyone who
will keep his/her mind stayed, fixed, focused on HIM.
But I still don't know how HE does it. I so appreciated what Pastor Roberts
said at the service yesterday when he said that when our world seems to be
crashing we have a choice, we can either praise GOD and thank HIM for our
many blessings or we can choose to curse GOD.
My heart aches for anyone who would choose the later, because GOD is
not the problem, GOD never is the problem, GOD is always the solution,
He is always the answer. No one ever loves us as much as GOD loves us,
so I urge one and all to join me in praising GOD and truly thanking HIM for
all of HIS many blessings.
I have been told more than once these past few days if there is anything
I can do let me know well here it is. There is nothing anyone could do for
me that I would appreciate more than this.
Go to your Bible and begin looking for promises. There are some 7,000
promises to be found in the Bible. Nothing anyone could do that would
thrill me more than to bring to my attention promises that you find in
your Bible.
Ir was Peter who reminded us of the great importance of knowing and
claiming the promises of GOD, when he referring to the Scriptures said,
in 2nd Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
promises, that by these we might be partakers of GOD'S divine nature.
There we have it. By claiming and believing GOD'S Promises we become partakers of HIS divine nature.
Here are just a few of my favorites:
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you know not! WOW!
(Note the "S" on the end of thing")
Psalms 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law
and nothing shall offend them.
("What all does nothing include?")
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
Isaiah 40:31
They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength
they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
(He didn't qualify this with age so 83 is included)
Isaiah 26:3,4 Thou wilt keep him/her in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee,
because he/she trusts thee.
Trust ye in the Lord forever,
for in the Lord Jehovah
is everlasting strength.
The greatest of all promises is:
John 3:16 For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only begotten SON,that whosoever believes in HIM should not perish but have everlasting life.
And as He puts it in Romans 10:8-11
For salvation that comes from trusting CHRIST-
which is what we preach - is already within easy reach of each one of us;
In fact, it is as near as our own hearts and mouths for if you tell others with your own mouth that JESUS CHRIST is your LORD,and believe in your own heart that GOD has raised HIM from the dead, you will be saved.
For it is by believing in his/her heart that a man/woman becomes right with GOD; and with his/her mouth he/she tells others of his/her faith, confirming his/her salvation. For the Scriptures tell us that no one who believes in CHRIST will ever be disappointed.
If you have never prayed the simple sinner's prayer, I invite you, here it is:
If you want to accept Christ as Savior and turn from your sins,you can ask Him to be your Savior and Lord by praying a prayer like this:
"Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins.
Please forgive my sins and give me the gift of eternal life.
I ask you in to my life and heart to be my Lord and Savior.
I want to serve you always."
If you don't know JESUS
THIS is for YOU!
If you do know JESUS
THIS is for your friends and loved ones who don't yet know JESUS!
JESUS says that HE is standing at the door of your heart knocking,
And if you will hear HIM and open the door to your heart,
And invite HIM in that HE will come into your heart,
Not for just a day, but for the rest of your life.
Filling your life with HIS PERFECT PEACE!
And if you are ready
Here is a very simple response:
"Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God.
Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins.
Please forgive my sins and give me the gift of eternal life.
I ask you in to my life and heart to be my Lord and Savior.
I want to serve you always."
In HIS FAITHFULNESS,
EDWARD HARMON KING JR
Isaiah 26:3 "GOD will KEEP him/her in PERFECT PEACE whose mind is STAYED, FIXED, FOCUSED on HIM..."
Whose mind is STAYED, FIXED, FOCUSED on HIM!
Did you pray this prayer?
By all means if your answer is YES
By all means tell some one right away,
I certainly would love to hear about your decision.
By far the greatest decision anyone can ever make.
It not only will guarantee you residence with JESUS In HEAVEN FOREVER,
But a new and abundant life here on earth like you have never known before!
My Phone Number is: 253-847-9888
My E-mail is: buddy1945@comcast.net
I will be looking for more of HIS promises for the rest of my days.
His response is the same to all who TRUST HIM.
And in Habakkuk 3:17-19 The prophet Habakkuk assures us that it worked for him years before Jesus came to earth...
"Even though the fig trees are all destroyed, and there is neither blossom left nor fruit, and though the olive crops all fail, and the fields lie barren; even if the flocks die in the fields and the cattle barns are empty,
YET, I WILL REJOICE IN THE LORD;
I WILL BE HAPPY IN THE GOD OF MY SALVATION.
The Lord God is my strength,
and He will give me the speed of a deer
and bring me safely over the mountains."
Just as Isaiah experienced "PERFECT PEACE" by keeping his heart and mind STAYED, FIXED, FOCUSED on God years before Jesus came to earth...
God has always been faithful...true to his word...
He still is and always will be...
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By the way, before you go drop by...see and hear my special song...#50
"BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE"
A perfect teammate for this song,
"WHATEVER HAPPENS"
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