Pastor husband father and above all testifying Jesus Christ around the globe. Jesus is the Lord, That's what I preach teach and will be doing till my life.
Look at the shadow behind this boy.
He is a lonely child hunched over his books, but the shadow he casts is enormous, spilling across the city beyond the window, and over the map of Europe.
The artist knew what the boy did not: that small figure, reading alone, would grow up to conquer nearly all of it...
The boy is Napoleon Bonaparte, and the scene is the military school at Brienne, in the French countryside, where he arrived in 1779 at just nine years old.
He was Corsican, and Corsica had been French for only a decade, so to the sons of French nobility around him he was practically a foreigner, an islander from a place they regarded as backward.
He spoke French poorly, with a heavy accent he would keep his whole life, and the wealthy cadets mocked him for it without mercy.
The rules of the school cut him off from his family for five years. Five years, from the age of nine, alone among boys who did not want him there.
So he did the only thing he could: he disappeared into books. While the others played, he read, devouring history and the lives of the ancient commanders, above all Plutarch, and he found that in one subject the accent and the poverty and the island did not matter at all... mathematics. Numbers do not care where you are from. He excelled at arithmetic and geometry so completely that it pointed him straight toward the artillery, the branch of war that would one day make him unstoppable.
He left Brienne for the great military academy in Paris, and became the first Corsican ever to graduate from it. That mocked, homesick child would go on to crown himself Emperor of the French, and the powerful families who had looked down on his name would one day bow to it.
That is what makes the choice by the artist, Job, the pen name of Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, so magnificent: greatness never arrives announced. It begins in a silent room, in a lonely boy the world had written off, bent over a book, with no idea what he is becoming.
And everything he would one day be was already being built, page by page, in the hours nobody paid any attention to...
Birthday 🎂 celebrations with surprise dinner from my spouse. The interesting aspect is that my kids are relishing it more than I am, although it's my birthday. I am grateful to the Lord 🙏 for His favor and countless Mercies on my life.
Please remember my beloved brother pastor Adeem & their congregation in your prayers. On Good Friday their church building is burnt by Muslims. It is 40 km away from Islamabad. I have talked with him. They have no place for worship on Easter Sunday.
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Understanding The Bible Program class (batch 3). Grace Bible Church Chaki Bagh Road Iqbal town Islamabad.
Please remember this program in your prayers.
They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. (Acts 4:2) Carnal minds & carnality are upset. We will not stop, we will go every door, every home, every soul. Will preach the resurrected Christ.
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