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The purpose of CowboyCountryGospel is to provide you with practical helps in some key areas of your calling. We want to address the needs of pastor, preacher and/or teacher as well as the Christian lay person. It is specifically designed to help meet your ministry needs in such areas as . . .

• Sermon Preparation
• Sermon and Teaching Material
• Small Group Bible Studies
• Outreach
• Personal Devotions

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Meeting By An Old Watering Hole

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Finding water on cattle drives was an absolute necessity for both cattle and drovers. Most trails like the Good Night Loving Trail, the Great Western Trail and the Chisholm Trail over which cattle were pushed to rail heads in the north had well marked watering places. These watering places whether it was a muddy pond or a fast-moving river were often called ‘watering holes’ by the cowboys.

Watering holes for travelers in the days of Jesus were just as necessary and sought after as those of the wild west.  One such watering hole is that

An old watering hole

described in the 4th chapter of John. It was an ancient well dug by Jacob. It was located at a historical and spiritually significant parcel of land located

between the twin mountains of Mt. Ebal and Mt. Gerizim. At the time of the writing of John’s Gospel it was still in use and provided life-giving water to the residents of the little Samaritan village of Sychar.

It is at this well, an old watering hole where a very famous and life- …

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Jesus Feeds the Hungry Crowd

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Jesus Blesses a Meager Lunch and With it Feeds Thousands

Jesus hardly sat down ‘til He looked up and saw a huge herd of folks a-comin’ for more teachin’. He tested His pardner Philip by askin’ him, “Where do you reckon we’ll buy bread to feed all these people who are a-comin’?” . . . ol’ Andrew, Peter’s brother, he spoke basket of biscuitsup, “All we got is this little cowboy here that’s got five biscuits and a couple of little perch packed for his lunch . . . Jesus gave thanks for the biscuits and they started passin’ them around. Then He did the same with the fish ‘til every single one had plenty–John 6:5-11 (The Gospel of John Cowboy Style).

 

“What a miracle, when Jesus took that young lad’s lunch that consisted of a handful of biscuits and a couple of small fish and with His blessings fed thousands. By this miracle we can know the way it is when Jesus blesses something. He can take that which is small and make it big. He can take the offering of our service and use it to the grater good for His Kingdom. Never underestimate what God can do with what little we hand to Him in faith.” Searching Heart and Scripture, page 49.

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Reap What you Sow

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What you plant is what you get! Any farmer knows that. The kind of harvest he will get is determined by the kind of seed he sows. If he sows seeds of corn he will get a corn crop. If he sows wheat seed he will get a wheat crop. Likewise, good seed will produce a good crop, and bad seed a bad crop. This is an unchanging law of nature established and determined by God’s divine law–“Whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7-10

 The law of Sowing and Reaping

Three unwavering Principles of Sowing and Reaping . . .

I. First Principle – I Reap what I Sow . . . If I plant corn, I will reap corn. If I plant wheat, I will reap wheat. It is an unchanging, unwavering law. Same is true in our spiritual life . . . “For the one who sows to the flesh will from …

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A Blind Man’s Eyes are Opened

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“Now Jesus was ridin’ the trail with His pardners when He saw a fellow that had been blind his whole life. Jesus stopped and got down off His horse . . . He spat on the ground and rolled up a piece of mud made from His spit, and daubed the mud on the blind fella’s eyes. And then He told the man, ‘Now, go over yonder to that Siloam pond.’ So he went off and washed and when he came back he could see.”–John 9:1-7 (The Gospel of John Cowboy Style).

 Four Steps to Knowing Jesus

Truly, this was a great miracle. All those who knew the man were amazed because they had known him from birth; that he was born blind. But now he could see. How did this happen? Who was this man who had healed him? As the formerly blind man grappled to understand the answers himself, Scripture tells us that through a progressive realization he came to understand who it was who had healed him. It was a great miracle that a …

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