Dear Friends:

Three Vicars

The Devil appeared to three vicars and asked them this question. “If I gave you the power to change something in the past, what would you change?”

The first vicar answered with great Apostolic fervour saying, “I would like to prevent you from leading Adam and Eve to sin so that humanity doesn't have to be separated from God.”

The second vicar was full of mercy and replied to the Devil, “I’d prevent you from straying from God in the first place.”

The third vicar was the simplest, and instead of answering the tempter, he knelt down bowed his head and prayed. “Lord deliver me from the temptation of what might have been, and what was not.”

The demon, screaming and trembling with pain, fled. The first two vicars were surprised and they said to the third one, “Brother, why did you react like this?”

He answered them, “First, we need never to talk to the enemy. Secondly, no one in the world has the power to change the past, and finally, Satan’s interest wasn't to prove our virtue, it was to trap us into our pasts so we couldn't walk in the  present where God wants to work in our lives right now. Of all the demons in this world, the one that holds people back the most and prevents them from living out their purpose in Jesus is, what could have been, and what was not.”

The Bible says: “Forgetting what is behind, and straining toward what is ahead, I press on to toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus”.

Philippians chapter 3 verses 13-14

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Every blessing both now and in the year to come,

               Rev David Saunders.

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Lesley Booker Tel: 01288 341221 or Linda Cobbledick Tel: 01288 341468

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