JANUARY 2024 NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 2024 NEWSLETTER
ROBERT
LINDENBERGER
321-368-7184
God is
good all the time; all the time, God is good!
I survived
seven years of living alone after the better half of me went to Heaven. We are not promised an easy life, but God
uses our trials and hurts to accomplish His will. Difficult experiences are given to us for our
good, for the benefit of others, and for God’s Glory. I have experienced the loss of two wives. One was in divorce, and the other graduated
to Glory. Both caused excruciating
pain. In my understanding, the first I
handled wrong and failed miserably, I left my faith and went back into the
world. God never left me, but I left
Him. It was during this time that I met
my second wife, Marian. We became
friends and then united in marriage. I
was the prodigal son, but God was the hound of Heaven and brought me back to
his loving arms to hold and handle for the rest of my life. Marian and I worked with mentally disabled
people. She was the facility manager of
five grown men. They called her
mom. One day, on her day off, we went to
a flea market; her five men were brought there, too. One of the men was so glad to see her he ran
to her to give her a hug, lifted his feet off the ground, and broke her
back. Marian and I spent the last 15
years of our life together in pain. Each
day, we prayed together and drew closer and closer to our LORD and Savior. We prayed together for divine healing, and it
came on 10/12/14.
I know it
is difficult to shift our focus in times of overwhelming difficulty and intense
suffering. The pain screams out for
attention, and the troubles bombard our minds and emotions with anxiety. Yet, that is when we must sit down with
Scripture and pour our hearts to God. He
invites us to cast all our concerns upon Him because He cares for us. (1 Peter 5:7). Every trial you experience is an opportunity
to believe what the Bible says about God and look beyond our circumstances to
His loving wisdom and good purpose. And
the more you learn to know you have a heavenly Father, the more content you
will be.
I live in
Royal Oaks, Nursing and Rehab Center.
The Doctor comes to us. (How long
has it been since visiting doctors?) He
asked me, “Why are you here, Bob?” I
told him, “I’m here because I’m not all there and my get up and go got up and
went.” He laughed so hard I thought he
might have a heart attack, but he pointed his finger at me and said, “Thank
you, I needed that. Laughter is the best
medicine.” Then I asked him, “Is there
anything I can help you with?” He shook
his finger at me again and said, “Hey, mister, that’s my line!” You guessed it. I love it here, and I believe God must have
put me here to be a helper to hurt people.
Many of you,
dear brothers and sisters, know my story, but there are many who do not. I will try to be quick so that I won’t bore
you. Seven years, I lived alone and did
not have much human contact, and I am a deaf-mute (almost). One morning, I woke up and started frying
bacon. I got distracted by something on
TV; the smoke alarm went off, and the whole trailer was full of smoke. I got rid of the smoke, but it scared me to
death. I said in my devotions that
morning, LORD, I SHOULDN’T BE ALONE. HOW
ABOUT A ROOMMATE? NOT MY WILL, BUT THINE
BE DONE. God had a plan all worked out,
and I am where I am. The most happy
(blessed) thing about this is I am where He wants me to be.
I would not
give up the time I was alone. It was a
time in my life that I needed, and I will be able to hear God say, WELL DONE,
MY SON. After Marian went home, my son
Danny was dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).
I was driving from Florida to PA to be with Him. I was crying, and I prayed: LORD, it’s hard
seeing my son die. The radio went off,
and it was quiet, and then I heard, I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL, BOB, I HAD TO WATCH MY
SON DIE. AND, BOB, IT’S OK TO CRY. Believe me or not, this old man, 82, felt
like Jesus’ age when He went to Heaven(33)—blessed for sure.
During the
seven years of living alone, I was addicted to Facebook. I would like to share one of my posts: To my praying friends on Facebook, I told you
I would not be on Facebook for a while and asked you to Pray for me. I went on a journey and did not have TV or
Facebook. I planned my journey for seven
days but got home late last night and did a quick look at Facebook. And what did I see? My spiritual Pappy, Billy Graham, graduated
to Glory. My heart skipped a few beats,
and I sat down on my prayer chair and cried, “O God, I just lost my son Danny,
my spiritual son Ken, and now my spiritual Pappy Billy Graham, and I cried some
more. When my tears dried up, the HOLY
SPIRIT said to my heart, “Jesus died on a cross to forgive your sin and give
you a relationship with the Holy Father God and rose again to give you life
more abundantly. Billy Graham told you
about that, and you accepted what he told you from the Bible, and you were
born-again. You told Ken and Danny,
and they came to Jesus too. Now, thank
Jesus they are all with Him and having a wonderful good life in Heaven.” When God speaks to me like this, I must say,
“God is good all the time; all the time, God is good! Please keep on keeping on praying for me and
I will keep on keeping on praying for you.
May the LORD
bless you and keep you
and make His Face shine upon you
and give you His wonderful peace in 2024. Shalom.
Jesus loves you, and so do I.
Brother Bob
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