Power

Dear Boys and Girls,

A mountain lion lurked behind a rock. Her eyes narrowed, and her long whiskers quivered. She smelled something. She saw something. A small, defenseless bear cub was frolicking near the river. The lioness’s stomach rumbled. She had been unable to find a good meal in several days. Was the mother bear anywhere in sight? The lioness’s large yellow eyes narrowed to slits, and she began to pant with eagerness. Stealthily, she slunk towards her prey. The roly-poly cub did not notice. The lioness was almost upon him when he heard the rustle of the bushes moving behind him.

With a terrified squeak, the bear cub jumped onto a fallen log that lay partly over the rushing water. With a snarl, the lion leaped after him, and the cub ran onto the very end of the log. It was no use. The lion followed, her head lowered, her mouth watering. With a yelp, the cub crashed down into the swirling river, clawed his way onto a floating log, and balanced precariously as it continued to float downstream with the current. The lioness saw her chance and stood waiting for the log to reach the shore. It was almost there, and the cub had no chance of escape.

The lioness licked her lips, but suddenly the hair rose on her back. The deepest, most ferocious growl she had ever heard sounded behind her, and she whirled to face it. It was mama bear. Her huge shoulders bulged, her teeth gleamed as she snapped her jaws together warningly, and the loud rumble continued to emit from the depths of her throat as she ambled closer on her wide paws. With an ominous growl that erupted into a roar, she rose on her hind legs. Her eyes glittered with fury, and she waved her front paws with its gleaming claws back and forth. The lioness began to back away, but the mama bear was not satisfied. Dropping on all fours again, she leaped towards her cub’s attacker and lunged.

For a moment, the ground seemed to tremble. There was such a clicking of teeth, gurgling of anger, slapping of paws, and panting of excitement and fear, such a blur of a tan body and brown fur, that it was a few moments before a beaten lioness emerged from the tangle and set off at a run away from the river. A moment later, the fierce mother bear was licking her cub’s nose and face over and over, comforting and assuring him that all was well. All was safe, and the dangerous lion was gone.

The mother bear made a great display of her power, and she was full of wrath against the animal that dared to attack and threaten her little one. In Psalm 18, we also read of a display of power. We read that David was in great distress. Enemies were surrounding him. They threatened like a great flood of ungodly men, making him afraid. In his distress, He called to His God to save him. He cried out for help, and then it says, “He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, even into His ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He was wroth.”

Was the Lord angry with David? Oh, no. David was His child, and the Lord became very angry with the enemies that were attacking David. It says that He bowed the heavens and came down, flying upon the wings of the wind. He came speedily to David’s aid, and He thundered with His voice. The psalm speaks of smoke, fire, and darkness. How great was God’s anger against those that threatened His child. With what power did He come to save.

David had nothing more to fear. The Lord would care for him. He was His child, and the Lord will always hear His children when they are in distress. Much more than a mother bear protecting her cub, He will arise and deliver those that are His. With much greater power than any power seen in nature, He protects His children and hears them when they cry.

God’s children are often defenseless against the devil when he whispers lies in their heart or provokes others against them. David writes, “For they were too strong for me.” He fled to the Lord in his trouble, and the Lord showed that He was much more powerful than the strongest enemy. The devil can never win and conquer God’s people completely even though they are often overcome and fall into sin; the Bible says, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against them.” The Lord Jesus won the battle when He died for them, and He will finish that work in their heart.

“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.”

— Matthew 28:18

The missing words in the verses below have been hidden in the curvy words puzzle. A curved word may start anywhere in the puzzle. It can then move in any direction. Once a word has used a square in the puzzle, that word may not re-use the same square, but another word is allowed to re-use squares from other words. One word has already been found for you.

1. “And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee My power; and that My ______________ may be declared throughout all the earth” (Exodus).

2. “Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the ______________” (Exodus).

3. “God is my strength and power: And He maketh my way ______________” (2 Samuel).

4. “But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, Him shall ye fear, and Him shall ye ______________, and to Him shall ye do sacrifice” (2 Kings).

5. “And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on Thee, and in Thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, Thou art our God; let not man ______________ against Thee” (2 Chronicles).

6. “Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the ______________: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine; Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as head above all” (1 Chronicles 29).

7. “Both riches and honour come of Thee, and Thou reignest over all; and in Thine hand is power and ______________; and in Thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all” (1 Chronicles 29).

8. “He divideth the sea with His power, and by His understanding he smiteth through the ______________” (Job 26).

9. “Touching the Almighty, we cannot find Him out: He is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: He will not ______________” (Job 37).

10. “Be Thou exalted, LORD, in Thine own strength: so will we ______________ and praise Thy power” (Psalm 21).

11. “But I will sing of Thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of Thy mercy in the morning: for Thou hast been my defence and ______________ in the day of my trouble” (Psalm 59).

12. “God hath spoken once; ______________ have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God” (Psalm 62).

13. “To see Thy power and Thy ______________, so as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary” (Psalm 63).

14. “Which by His strength setteth fast the mountains; being ______________ with power” (Psalm 65).

15. “Say unto God, How terrible art Thou in Thy works! through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies ______________ themselves unto Thee” (Psalm 66).

16. “He ruleth by His power for ever; His eyes behold the ______________: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah” (Psalm 66).

17. “Let the sighing of the prisoner come before Thee; according to the greatness of Thy power ______________ Thou those that are appointed to die” (Psalm 79).

18. “Who knoweth the power of Thine ______________? even according to Thy fear, so is Thy wrath” (Psalm 90).

19. “Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake, that He might make His ______________ power to be known” (Psalm 106).

20. “______________ is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite” (Psalm 147).

For the Older Children

Unscramble the words.

21. “The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the ______________ (cweikd): the Lord hath His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the ______________ (dsucol) are the dust of His feet.”

22. “But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on ______________ (htera) to forgive sins, (then saith He to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine ______________ (ohsue).”

23. “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in ______________ (heneav): and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great ______________ (ylgro).”

For the Younger Children

24. This sentence from Psalter 425 has been mixed up. Put the words in order to make the correct sentence.

Jehovah, power, and, seek, His, ye:

Answers to last month’s “Price” quiz:

1. Body

2. Wisdom

3. Thirty

4. Wine

5. Spirit

6. Milk

7. Men

8. Pearl

9. Fifty shekels of silver

10. Three hundred pence

11. Fifty thousand pieces of silver

12. Thirty pieces of silver

13. They kept it back

Answers to previous quizzes were received in March from:

Rylie Anzelmo

Benson Bakker

Anabelle Berkenbush

William Berkenbush

Amber Bisschop

Eryn Bisschop

Hayley Bosch

Kacie Driesen

Toby Driesen

Evan Kaat (2)

Olivia Kaat (2)

Autumn Kegel

Hannah Kegel

Sophia Kegel

Ashley Knibbe

Ben Knibbe

Brianna Knibbe

Courtney Knibbe

Hayley Knibbe

Lindsey Knibbe

Lydia Knibbe

Nathan Knibbe

Jacob Mol

Lydia Mol

Maria Mol

Rachel Mol

Alec Post

Hunter Post

Nate Post

Nicolas Post

Kylie Rozeboom

Cameryn Stoutjesdyk

Hailey Stoutjesdyk

Nigel Stoutjesdyk

Aaliyah Timmer

Arianna Timmer

Harley Timmer

Hunter Timer

Kadin Timmer

Sierra Timmer

Skye Timmer

Wyatt Timmer

Ellie Van’t Zelfde

Jonathan Van’t Zelfde

Levi Van’t Zelfde

Alyssa VandeBruinhorst

Jennifer VandeBruinhorst

Joshua Vande Lagemaat

Austin Van Den Top

Art Vander Waal

Elaina Vander Waal

Ross Vander Waal

Arianna Verhoef (2)

Jonathan Wesdyk

Laura Wesdyk

Rebekah Wesdyk

Arthur Wisse

Gertrude Wisse

Joanna Wisse

Lane Wisse

Leah Wisse

Marcail Ymker

Shauntae Ymker

Please send your answers to the address shown below:

Aunt LenaBeth

180 Jacobs Road, Newfoundland, NJ 07435

Fax: 973-409-4549

E-mail: auntlenabeth@gmail.com

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