God Will Take God Will Take Care of my FeathersCare of my Feathers

Smithsburg Valley

Seventh-day Adventist Church

May 12, 2012

What is a feather?What is a feather?

What are some things that What are some things that feathers do? feathers do?

What has feathers?What has feathers?

EaglesEagles

HawksHawks

Doves

DovesDoves

ChickensChickens

OwlsOwls

SparrowsSparrows

Have you ever seen Have you ever seen a bird sleeping on a a bird sleeping on a branch or a twig, branch or a twig, and yet it doesn’t and yet it doesn’t fall.fall.

How does the bird do

that?

If we slept this way we would fall . Why doesn’t the bird

fall?

The secret is in the tendons of the legs of the bird.

The bird’s claw is The bird’s claw is made in such a made in such a way that, when way that, when the knee is bent,the knee is bent,the claw firmly the claw firmly grasps the twig grasps the twig or branch.or branch.

The claw will not The claw will not come undone come undone until the bird until the bird unfolds the knee unfolds the knee to fly.to fly.

Who designed the bird this

way?

Is not this wonderful!

What an incredible design the Lord did What an incredible design the Lord did in the creation of the bird! in the creation of the bird!

When our 'branch' in life wants to break, when everything is threatening to fall down, the biggest safety, the biggest stability comes to us from a bent knee. … bent in prayer.

If sometimes your tangle of problems threaten your faith, do not walk alone, Jesus wants to strengthen you and walk with you all your life!

It is He who renews your strength and your faith, and if "he takes care of a little bird," imagine what He will do for you, his beloved child, only believe!

“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.John 15:7

“Casting all your care upon Him; for he careth for you.1 Peter 5: 7

And don't forget