Meeting Report Sept 3, 2006:  Wow! What a day it was today! Yesterday, we canvassed South Charleston, Ohio and passed out about 550 flyers as we went door-to-door. We covered the entire city, with the exception of the north-east side. We plan on canvassing that portion of the village tomorrow. Please pray that God will use these efforts to draw souls unto Him. Today, after morning service, we spent the afternoon with saints at Snyder Park and had a good time of food and fellowship.   This evening, we had the fourth discipleship meeting at Shorter Chapel. There was good attendance and one first-time visitor. Sis Debbie Rude spoke and her thought was Taming Wild Ponies. Her text was taken from Mark 11:1-10 and Luke 19:29-38. We are like the unbroken colt.  She brought a beautiful message about how that God tenderly works with us to draw us unto Himself and how he patiently leads us along after we are saved.  We aren’t born with God controlling our life.  Yet God wants to “lose us” from our own way (sin) and bring us to Him.  He wants to ride us.  And he wants us to come willingly to Him, with no bucking or fighting. God is like the good trainer.  He patiently calls to us trying to get us to come to Him.  Too many people (even church people) portray God as the mean trainer (task master) who is there to whip and beat you over the least infraction.  The Bible tells us differently.  The unbroken colt could grow up and never know what a bridle or saddle felt like.  It could be wild like the Chincoteague Island horses.  But what joy to tame one of those wild ponies and have it to yourself.  To ride, to play with, to talk to, and to nuzzle.  This is what God wants to do with us.  What joy God finds when we decide we want Him and we willingly and lovingly yield ourselves to His tender care.  He speaks to us and draws us and does loving acts of goodness for us so we will want to come to Him and be broken like the colt. A horse can’t talk to the trainer and tell him that he is ready to be broken, but he will approach the trainer or stand quietly as the trainer approaches him.  Likewise, it isn’t important what we say to God when we are ready to come to him.  One may even say, “God, I’m ready to be your horse”. He will know what you mean.  Where He leads me, I will follow.