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What brings pure delight to your soul? The truth is, we don’t see many

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people who look happy at all. Now days when you go to the doctor, their first
question is, are you suicidal? Are you happy with life. Growing up, a doctor
would never ask those questions. That’s what a pastor would ask.

If you are over 60, they give you three words to remember and then walk
out for a few minutes, then they return and ask if you remember the three words.
My cousin said her doctor did this, but he forgot to ask if she remembered. She
had to remind him!!!! All of us have issues, even doctors.

Back to the question, “What do you delight in?”

Ps 37:4
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine
heart.

It took me some years after my salvation to realize I was doing the right
thing, but not with the right spirit. I knew what God said I was to do, and I was
doing it to the best of my ability, but it did not delight my soul. I knew what God
said was right, but I had not considered that it really was good for me.
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In order to get your hearts desire, you must learn to be delighted about
serving the Lord. The definition of delight is to please greatly. He said, “Delight
thyself!” It must greatly please you to serve the Lord and that will greatly
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WHAT DELiGHTS YOU? Addiction is
please Him. Here is a truth that could help us delight in obeying God’s command-
ments. giving up everything
1 John 5:2-5
for one thing.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep
his commandments.
Recovery is
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his com- giving up one thing
mandments are not grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that for everything.
overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that
believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
KJV

If we obey God and keep His commandments, there is nothing that we

cannot overcome!!! That ought to delight us greatly. We are daily working to
Four Guidelines
overcome everything the world throws at us. By faith we CAN overcome. If we for Modesty
don’t overcome, it is not God’s fault. If we don’t overcome, it shows we have not
depended on God, but on ourselves. 1. If you have trouble getting into it or
out of it, it is probably not modest.
What Delights God?
2. If you have to be careful when you
Prov 11:20
20 They that are of a froward (habitually disposed to disobedience) heart are abomi- sit down or bend over, it is probably not
nation to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his modest.
delight.
3. If people look at any part of your body
Prov 12:22 before looking at your face, it is probably
22 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are
not modest.
his delight.

Prov 15:8 4. If you can see your most private body

8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer parts or an outline of your undergar-
of the upright is his delight. ments through the fabric, it is probably
not modest.
Jer 9:23-24
23 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the
mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: MODESTY IS MORE THAN A FASH-
24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, ION STATEMENT. IT IS A DAILY
that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judg- DECISION TO DRESS LIKE THE
ment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things
CHILD OF GOD YOU ARE
I delight, saith the Lord.
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 TID BITS
OF WISDOM
MONTHLY REPORT
We are more than half way through another year. It has been a very ac-
tive year so far for us. Wayne and I have been sharing how God has worked in
our lives through the years with our mates and we are looking forward to what
God might do for us in our last days. At 85 and 79 we find it still exciting to serve
our wonderful Savior.
We are having our tracts for Wonderful Word printed in Mexico. Bro.
Larry Connor gave his equipment to the Kaigens who are missionaries to Mexi-
co. They have a wonderful work there. They have an open door to get tracts into
the hands of the pastors.
Wonderful Word Publishers has had two parts to this work. Wonderful
Word puts out tracts in Spanish and Tid Bits of Wisdom puts out a by-monthly
paper to encourage believers. God has put in our hearts to start a third part of this
work. Both Wayne and I were widow and widower for over two and a half years
before we married. We had no plans to remarry before we met. We have been so
blessed in our marriage, but realize not all remarry. God has given us a burden
for widows, fatherless and strangers. These three have no earthly head and God
takes special care of them. We want to be used of God in the lives of these peo-
ple. We will be setting up a work to aid these in their time of need. Would you
pray with us about this. This will be a separate work and will not come out of the
other two works. All three works will be kept separate. What you give will go
to the work you designate. Wayne and I have placed funds into this work to start
it. We would love to hear from you as to what you think of helping these people.
When we complete the guidelines, we will make them available. At our age we
don’t have a lot of strength, but we can stretch out our hands and help others.
Many of you have supported us from the beginning. Some have just
recently began support. Thank you for sharing your life with the work God has
given us to do. Your generosity is certainly appreciated.
I do not take a salary from Tid Bits of Wisdom. Any-
thing you send with Tid Bits of Wisdom’s name goes straight to Tid
Bits of Wisdom. The paper was 17 years old this past December.
Many who started with us have died or become unable to give.
Many have been faithful all these years. Pray and ask God if He
wants you to join us with a monthly support. I am grateful for our
faithful supporters. All donations to Tid Bits of Wisdom are tax Gloria Brewster Huff
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God delights in His loving kindness. He wants to bless us. He wants
to judge us righteously. He loves righteousness. We have a God who loves to
embrace us with His love.
Since God serves us with such love, how do we serve Him? These are
some of the things we should delight in?
Ps 1:1-2
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he
meditate day and night.
Ps 40:8
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Ps 119:16
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy
word.
Ps 119:24
24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Ps 119:47
47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I
have loved.
Do you delight in doing the will of God? God’s will is the first cause of
everything that exists.
Do you delight in keeping His law? God’s law is a system of rules with
enforcement.
Do you delight in His commandments? God’s commandments are His
divine rules, especially the ten commandments.
Do you delight in His Statutes? God’s statutes command or prohibit
something, or declare policy.
Do you delight in His Testimonies? God’s testimonies are His written
word. How much time do you spend in His word and how much do you delight
yourself in it?
These are sobering questions for us as believers to think about.
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E “I would offer Thee myself and all that Thou hast given me, and I would

Gloria Brewster
M resolve - O give me grace to do it! - that the residue of my life shall be all devoted
A to Thy service. And I do intend to be more particularly careful of the soul of this

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L child that Thou hast so mercifully provided for, than ever I have been; that I may
E Lord, give grace to do it sincerely and prudently, and bless my attempts with good
INSPIRATIONS
LET’S WALK THROUGH
THE BOOK OF RUTH TOGETHER
part two.
Ruth 1:16-18
16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after
thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy
people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to
me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speak-
ing unto her.
KJV
If you have been in church very long, you have most likely heard a ser-
mon on this verse. Naomi had just tried to persuade both girls to return to their
people. What was Naomi thinking when she told them to go home? Their people
didn’t serve the living God. Wouldn’t they both be better off if they went with
her. Maybe, after what God had allowed her to go through, she wasn’t bragging
on God! BUT, evidently Ruth had seen something in Naomi that made her be
willing to serve her God.
When we go through trials, the world is watching us. Everybody has dis-
appointments and troubles, but the believer in Christ should have evidence of His
presence with them. Ruth was willing to trust God after seeing Naomi’s troubles.
Remember, Ruth also had lost a husband and maybe she felt God’s presence in
her life also. Nevertheless, Ruth made a life decision to stay with Naomi.
Ruth said to Naomi. “Don’t talk to me anymore about leaving you.” I am
going with you wherever you go! Whatever road you take I am going with you.
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endeavor to instill into his mind the principles of Thy true religion and virtue.
success.”
With the care of a numerous family upon her shoulders, with a husband,
who - whatever his virtues - was of small assistance in providing for its most
pressing necessities, it seems scarcely possible that Mrs. Wesley could give much
time to books or meditation. Yet she managed to do so, and, when her beloved
sons had left the Epworth nest and were facing the gravest personal problems at
school and university, it was their mother rather than their father to whom they
resorted for counsel - and seldom in vain. The higher education of women was a
thing unknown in the eighteenth century, much less in the seventeenth, when the
Annesley girls were forming their intellectual habits. But in substance and form
Mrs. Wesley’s letters to her sons at Oxford challenge comparison with those of
university women of today. Her style of expression, dignified, clear, admirably
balanced, is a model of excellence. It exhibits some of the qualities which are so
conspicuous in the letters and journals of her most distinguished son.
To his mother John Wesley owed that genius for order and “method”
which was basic to his success as an organizer and leader. From her he learned
that dignity and courtesy which put him at ease in any company. From her he
caught that air of calm authority that made him master of so many difficult situ-
ations, and compelled the obedience of so many men of different types. She
showed in her daily practice how first - rate results could be wrested from second
- rate materials, which was often Wesley’s problem in developing the Method-
ist organization. From her he inherited his “iron” will.” Above all, it was her
precept and example that supported him in his supreme resolve to make his life
acceptable to God and useful to his fellow men.
Susana Wesley has a rightful place in the great window of Liverpool Ca-
thedral, which was designed to honor the saintliest women of the Christian ages.
But it is not ungracious to say that her son’s career furnished the chief argument
for her selection. John Wesley was her masterpiece and her diploma in the art of
Christian motherhood!
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own to your Grace that, strictly speaking, I never did want bread. But then I had
so much care to get it before it was eat, and to pay for it after, as has often made it
very unpleasant to me. And I think to have bread on such terms is the next degree
of wretchedness to having none at all.”
“You are certainly in the right,” replied his Grace, and, made her a gift,
which led her to remark later, “I have a reason to believe it afforded him comfort-
able reflections.”
Mrs. Wesley knew at what cost to herself she gave up her best years to
the training of her children. She once wrote, “No one can, without renouncing
the world in the most literal sense, observe my method; and there are few, if any,
that would entirely devote twenty years in the prime of life in hope to save the
souls of their children, which they think may be saved without so much ado - for
that was my principal intention, however unskillfully managed.
Her husband once remarked: “I wonder at your patience. You have told
that same thing to that child twenty times.” Her answer was, “had I satisfied
myself by saying the matter only nineteen times, I should have lost all my labor.
You see it was the twentieth time that crowned the whole.”
The first domestic event which lifted little Jacky Wesley above the crowd
of his bothers and sisters was the burning of the rectory on the coldest night of the
winter of 1709. The thatch was probably fired by some miscreant with a grudge
against the parson, and the old house burned like tinder. The old folks were on
the ground floor and fled in the nightclothes (“naked” is Mrs. Wesley’s word) into
the yard, which was covered with snow and swept by an icy northeast gale. Five
of the children, including Charles, fourteen months old, slept in the attic. The
nurse grabbed up the baby and ran downstairs shouting to the others to follow her.
But in the confusion five-year-old Jacky was forgotten and left asleep. His frantic
father in the yard below counted the precious heads and missed the boy’s auburn
curls. He dashed back into the smoke, but found the stair already ablaze and
gave up hope. Falling on his knees, he commended the dear child to God. Just
then the lad awoke to see the flames creeping along the rafters above his head.
With coolness beyond his years, he dragged a chest to the window, and climbed
upon it, crying for help. Brave neighbors made a human ladder and rescued him
through the window just as the roof fell in. He had indeed been “plucked as a
brand from the burning,” and that text was forever burned into his mind. Years
afterward he had it engraved on one of his portraits. As for his mother, she was
sure from that terrible hour that this son owed his preservation to the fact
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Ruth chose to forsake all and follow Naomi.
Jesus tells us in Scripture that we are to forsake all others and follow
Him. When we get married, we are to forsake all others and serve our mates.
That doesn’t’ mean that we don’t have friendships with others but we only follow
Jesus. In other words, no other Gods! If God says go and someone else says stay,
we go! Our life is founds only in God. This is the relationship Ruth had with
Naomi.
Ruth then says, “Wherever you lodge I will lodge”. What do you do
while lodged? You rest! God’s day of rest is the Sabboth. Do you rest when He
rest? God said six days we should work and rest on the seveth. Your sabboth may
not be a Saturday, but after six days, we are to take a rest and fellowship with the
Lord. We know there are 10 commandments but today most only acknowledge
9. God promises to bless us when we take a day of rest. Ruth would stop when
Naomi stopped and they would rest together.
Ruth then says, “Your people shall be my people”. The Scripture tells us
not to forsake the assembling together. We are to watch over one another in the
body of Christ. How good are you at serving God’s people?
Ruth then says, “Your God shall be my God”. Whatever Ruth saw in
Naomi’s life made her want to serve her God. When people watch your life, does
it make them want to serve your God? There are many lost around us today be-
cause they haven’t seen Christ in our lives. The lost are seeking to find life and
if they don’t see it in us, they won’t have a desire for our God
Ruth then says’ “Wherever you die and are buried, I will die and be bur-
ied”. In other words, there is no turning back to the old life!!! When you learned
of Christ, was it a life time commitment, or did you just think you might try being
a Christian for awhile? Being saved is a life time decision. Till death do us part.
We are saved from our old life.
When Naomi saw that Ruth had made up her mind. she stopped trying to
get her to go home.
When they arrived at Bethlehem, the whole city came out to see them.
Namoi and her family must have been well known before they left. Life had re-
ally taken a toll on Naomi because it was hard for them to recognize her. They
said, “Is this Naomi?”
Next edition, part of Ruth
 John Wesley’s
MISSIONS Awakening
By Missionary Wayne Huff by James Richard Joy
(This is just a portion of chapter 2 about his mother Susan Wesley)

Arise to Follow Jesus The cradle in the Epworth rectory was “endlessly rocking” for babies
came pretty regularly once a year, though they did not always survive the rigors
9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw of the first winter, and only nine of the nineteen lived to grow up. Yet we have
a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of their mother’s word for it that the little ones “when turned a year old (and some
custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me before) learned to fear the rod and cry softly, by which means they escaped abun-
And he arose, and followed him. dance of correction they might otherwise have had ....and that most odious noise
Matthew 9:9-13 of the crying of children was rarely heard in the house; but the family usually
lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them.” Each
In this Scripture, the Apostle Matthew is writing about himself. He was
child was taught the Lord’s Prayer as soon as he could talk, and repeated it ha-
a Jewish businessman who worked for the Roman government as a tax collector.
bitually morning and evening. “None of the children,” says their mother, “were
He had a position, a standard of living, a future, some security. He was settled
taught to read until they were five years old. One day (their fifth birthday) was
into his job and his community. Jesus came into this secure environment to re-
allowed the child wherein to learn his letters; and each of them did in that time
quest that Matthew make a drastic change in his lifestyle and purpose.
know all their letters, great and small, except Molly and Nancy, who were a day
Matthew responded to the invitation of Jesus. He made some changes.
and one half before they knew them perfectly; for which I thought them very
Perhaps he resigned from his job and he may have emptied his house. He left the
dull.” Reading lessons followed, with the Bible as the First Reader, and the open-
normal routine and started on a new journey with a new purpose and new rela-
ing chapter of Genesis the first lesson - “In the beginning God created the heavens
tionships. He rose up from the comfortable position that he had to embrace
and the earth.” School kept every weekday in the rectory, with the mother as
the life of a close associate of Jesus.
principal and the older children teaching the younger. (This was long before the
Men and women are doing the same thing today. Some are hearing the
day of public schools.) No intrusion or interruption was permitted, from nine to
call of Jesus to follow him and they are rising up from their present routine
twelve in the forenoon and from two till five in the afternoon. The rectory table
and are making new changes so they can follow Jesus into new areas of service.
was frugally furnished, and the children hardly knew the taste of meet. The diet
Some are accepting new roles in the congregation, others are enrolling in Bible
was of vegetables, milk and bread - John Wesley once said “and very little of
colleges and seminaries, some are preparing for a pastorate, others are preparing
that”! Money was never plentiful, at the rectory, and some of it went for books
for missionary service.
which perhaps should have been spent for food. Debts piled up against the good-
Are you ready to accept the invitation of Jesus to change your position in
man of the house - and debtors fared ill in those days! A man might be thrown
life and begin following Him in a new way? Can you see yourself rising up
into jail for the default of a few pounds. Some of the rector’s long absences from
to leave some things behind and take new steps of faith and obedience.
his pulpit were due to Church business in London as a member of Convocation,
but others were owing to his being confined in Lincoln Castle because he could
“Then said Jesus unto them again, Peace be unto you: as my father hath
not satisfy his creditors. On one of these occasions Arch bishop Sharp called at
sent me, even so send I you.”
the rectory on his round of visiting. He doubtless saw evidence of dire poverty.
John 20:21

“Tell me, Mrs. Wesley,” he said, “whether you have ever really wanted
Our Saviour used Himself as an example to his followers. He arose
bread.”
from His heavenly position to come to us because the Father sent Him. In the
same way we are called to rise up from our present circumstances and be sent
“My Lord,” replied the lady with perfect self-possession, “I will freely
into a new position of service and fellowship with Him.
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