God does Speak to Us….. Trust him

This will give you the chills……. GOOD chills.

A young man had been to Wednesday Night Bible
Study.

The Pastor had shared about listening to God and obeying the Lord’s voice

The young man couldn’t help but wonder, ‘Does God still speak to people?’

After service, he went out with some friends for coffee and pie and they discussed the message.
Several different ones talked about how God had led them in different ways.

It was about ten o’clock when the young man started
driving home. Sitting in his car, he just began to pray, ‘God… If you still speak to people, speak to me. I will listen. I will do my best to obey.’

As he drove down the main street of his town, he had the strangest thought to stop and buy a gallon of milk.

He shook his head and said out loud, ‘God is that you?’ He didn’t get a reply and started on toward home.

But again, the thought, buy a gallon of milk.

The young man thought about Samuel and how he didn’t recognize the voice of God, and how little Samuel ran to Eli.

‘Okay, God, in case that is you, I will buy the milk.’ It didn’t seem like too hard a test of obedience. He could always use the milk. He stopped and purchased the gallon of milk and started off toward home.

As he passed Seventh Street, he again felt the urge, ‘Turn Down that street.’

This is crazy he thought, and drove on past the intersection.

Again, he felt that he should turn down Seventh Street.

At the next intersection, he turned back and headed down Seventh.

Half jokingly, he said out loud,

‘Okay, God, I will.’

He drove several blocks, when suddenly, he felt like he should stop He pulled over to the curb and looked around. He was in a semi-commercial area of town. It wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst of neighborhoods either.
The businesses were closed and most of the houses looked dark like the people were already in bed.

Again, he sensed something, ‘Go and give the milk to the people in the house across the street.’ The young man looked at the house. It was dark and it looked like the people were either gone or they were already asleep. He started to open the door and then sat back in the car seat.

‘Lord, this is insane. Those people are asleep and if I wake them up, they are going to be mad and I will look stupid.’ Again, he felt like he should go and give the milk.

Finally, he opened the door,
‘Okay God, if this is you, I will go to the door and I will give them the milk. If you want me to look like a crazy person, okay. I want to be obedient. I guess that will count for something, but if they don’t answer right away, I am out of here.’

He walked across the street and rang the bell. He could hear some noise inside. A man’s voice yelled
out, ‘Who is it? What do you want?’ Then the door opened before the young man could get away.

The man was standing there in his jeans and T-shirt. He looked like he just got out of bed. He had a strange look on his face and he didn’t seem too happy to have some stranger standing on his doorstep. ‘What is it?’

The young man thrust out the gallon of milk, ‘Here, I brought this to you.’ The man took the milk and rushed down a hallway.

Then from down the hall came a woman carrying the milk toward the kitchen. The man was following her holding a baby. The baby was crying. The man had tears streaming down his face.

The man began speaking and half crying,
‘We were just praying. We had
some big bills this month and we ran out of money. We didn’t have any milk for our baby. I was just praying and asking God to show me how to get some milk.’

His wife in the kitchen yelled out, ‘I asked him to send an Angel with some. Are you an Angel?’

The young man reached into his wallet and pulled out all the money he had on him and put in the man’s hand. He turned and walked back towards his car and the tears were streaming down his face.
He knew that God still answers prayers.

I’m Sorry……

I’m sorry for the times you cried,
and the loneliness you felt inside.

I’m sorry for the way things were,
and the selfishness that you endured.

I’m sorry for the nights we lost,
and the deep pain it must have cost.

I’m sorry for the love you missed,
losing you helped me realize this.

I’m sorry I wasn’t the man you deserved,
this has been the hardest lesson learned.

I’m sorry I wasn’t there to show,
the deepest love you’ll ever know.

I’m sorry for the empty days,
and the stresses that you still yet pay.

I’m sorry for the way I left,
I’ve never felt so much regret.

I’m sorry for the heart I broke,
that shattered with the words I spoke.

I’m sorry for the empty space,
that laid beside you in my place.

I’m sorry for the empty arms,
you fell into when times were hard.

I’m sorry for the days that passed,
Our love now will surely last.

I’m sorry it took so long to show,
would love you forever that’s what i know.

IPL 2011 Schedule

Indian Premier league 2011 , Season 4 begins in the month of April and ends in May. IPL 2011 starts after the world cup. Provisional schedule as announced bu BCCI

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IPL 2011 Final Team Players List

This resource contains information about IPL 4 final team players list, IPL 4 fixtures and players each of the ten team have bought. The team lists are follows Deccan Chargers, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians, Sahara Pune Warriors, Team Kochi, Delhi Daredevils, Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals and King’s XI Punjab. An overview of the 2011 IPL auctions and the team-wise listing of players acquired during the auctions and IPL squads after the auctions

Mumbai Indians

Players retained: 4(Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Kieron Pollard and Lasith Malinga)
Players bought: 8
Total amount spent: USD 8.52 million

Rohit Sharma – $2 million – India
Sachin Tendulkar – $1.8 million -India
Harbhajan Singh – $1.3 million – India
Kieron Pollard – $900,000 – West Indies
Andrew Symonds – $850,000 – Australia
Munaf Patel – $700,000 – India
Lasith Malinga $500,000- Sri Lanka
David Jacobs – $190,000 – South Africa
Clint McKay – $110,000 – Australia
James Franklin – $100,000 – New Zealand
Moises Henriques – $50,000 – Australia
Aiden Blizzard – $20,000 – Australia

Sahara Pune Warriors

Players retained: Nil
Players bought: 14
Total amount spent: USD 8.07 million

Robin Uthappa – $2.1 million – India
Yuvraj Singh – $1.8 million – India
Angelo Matthews – $950,000 – Sri Lanka
Ashish Nehra $850,000 – India
Graeme Smith – $500,000 – South Africa
Murali Karthik – $400,000 – India
Callum Ferguson – $300,000 – Australia
Mitchell Marsh – $290,000 – Australia
Tim Paine – $270,000 – Australia
Jesse Ryder – $150,000 – New Zealand
Wayne Parnell – $160,000 – South Africa
Nathan McCullum – $100,000 – New Zealand
Jerome Taylor – $100,000 – West Indies
Alfonso Thomas – $100,000 – South Africa

Deccan Chargers

Players retained: Nil
Players bought: 14
Total amount spent: USD 6.88 million

Dale Steyn – $1.2 million – South Africa
Cameron White – $1.1 million – Australia
Dan Christian – $900,000 – Australia
Kumar Sangakkara – $700,000 – Sri Lanka
Kevin Pietersen – $650,000 – England
Pragyan Ojha – $500,000 – India
Ishant Sharma – $450,000 – India
JP Duminy – $300,000 – South Africa
Shikhar Dhawan – $300,000 – India
Amit Mishra – $300,000 – India
MS Gony – $290,000 – India
Juan Theron – $85,000 – South Africa
Michael Lumb – $80,000 – England
Chris Lynn – $20,000 – Australia

Kolkata Knight Riders

Players retained: Nil
Players bought: 12
Total amount spent: USD 8.58 million

Gautam Gambhir – $2.4 million – India
Yusuf Pathan – $2.1 million – India
Jacques Kallis – $1.1 million – South Africa
Lakshmipathy Balaji – $500,000 – India
Manoj Tiwary – $475,000 – India
Shakib Al Hasan – $425,000 – Bangladesh
Brett Lee – $400,000 – Australia
Eoin Morgan – $350,000 – England
Brad Haddin $325,000 – Australia
Jaidev Unadkat – $250,000 – India
Ryan ten Doeschate – $150,000 – Netherlands
James Pattinson – $100,000 – Australia

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Players retained: 1 (Virat Kohli)
Players bought: 15
Total amount spent: USD 8.64 million

Virat Kohli – $1.8 million – India
Saurabh Tiwary – $1.6 million – India
AB de Villiers – $1.1 million – South Africa
Zaheer Khan – $900,000 – India
Cheteshwar Pujara – $700,000 – India
Tilakratne Dilshan – $650,000 – Sri Lanka
Dirk Nannes – $650,000 – Australia
Daniel Vettori – $550,000 – New Zealand
Abhimanyu Mithun – $260,000 – India
Charl Langeveldt – $140,000 – South Africa
Luke Pomersbach – $50,000 – Australia
Johan Van der Wath – $50,000 – South Africa
Rilee Rossouw – $20,000 – South Africa
Nuwan Pradeep – $20,000 – Sri Lanka
Jonathan Vandiar – $20,000 – South Africa
Mohammad Kaif – $130,000 – India

Team Kochi

Players retained: Nil
Players bought: 17
Total amount spent: USD 7.79 million

Mahela Jayawardene – $1.5 million – Sri Lanka
Muttiah Muralitharan – $1.1 million – Sri Lanka
Ravindra Jadeja – $950,000 – India
S. Sreesanth – $900,000 -India
RP Singh – $500,000 – India
Brendon McCullum – $475,000 – New Zealand
R. Vinay Kumar – $475,000 – India
Brad Hodge – $425,000 – Australia
VVS Laxman – $400,000 – India
Parthiv Patel – $290,000 – India
Owais Shah – $200,000 – England
Steven Smith – $200,000 – Australia
Ramesh Powar – $180,000 – India
Thisara Perera $80,000 – Sri Lanka
Michael Klinger $75,000 – Australia
Steven O’Keefe – $20,000 – Australia
John Hastings $20,000 – Australia

Delhi Daredevils

Players retained: 1 (Virender Sehwag)
Players bought: 16
Total amount spent: USD 8.25 million

Irfan Pathan – $1.9 million – India
Virender Sehwag – $1.8 million – India
David Warner – $750,000 – Australia
Umesh Yadav – $750,000 – India
Venugopal Rao – $700,000 – India
Morne Morkel – $475,000 – South Africa
Ashok Dinda – $375,000 – India
James Hopes – $350,000 – Australia
Aaron Finch – $300,000 – Australia
Naman Ojha – $270,000 – India
Ajit Agarkar – $210,000 – India
Matthew Wade – $100,000 – Australia
Colin Ingram – $100,000 – South Africa
Andrew McDonald – $80,000 – Australia
Roelof Van der Merwe – $50,000 – South Africa
Travis Birt – $20,000 – Australia
Robert Frylinck – $20,000 – South Africa

Chennai Super Kings

Players retained: 4 (MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Albie Morkel and Murali Vijay)
Players bought: 14
Total amount spent: USD 8.62 million

MS Dhoni – $1.8 million – India
Suresh Raina – $1.3 million – India
Albie Morkel – $900,000 – South Africa
R. Ashwin – $850,000 – India
S. Badrinath – $800,000 – India
Doug Bollinger – $700,000 – Australia
Murali Vijay – $500,000 – India
Michael Hussey – $425,000 – Australia
Sudeep Tyagi – $240,000 – India
Dwayne Bravo – $200,000 – West Indies
Joginder Sharma – $$150,000 – India
Francois du Plessis – $120,000 – South Africa
Wriddhiman Saha – $100,000 – India
Scott Styris – $100,000 – New Zealand
Ben Hilfenhaus – $100,000 – Australia
Nuwan Kulasekara – $100,000 – Sri Lanka
Suraj Randiv – $80,000 – Sri Lanka
George Bailey – $50,000 – Australia

Rajasthan Royals

Players retained: 2 (Shane Warne and Shane Watson)
Players bought: 6
Total amount spent: USD 6.94 million

Shane Warne – $1.8 million – Australia
Shane Watson – $1.3 million – Australia
Ross Taylor – $1 million – New Zealand
Johan Botha – $950,000 – South Africa
Rahul Dravid – $500,000 – India
Shaun Tait – $300,000 – Australia
Paul Collingwood – $250,000 – England
Pankaj Singh – $95,000 – India

King’s XI Punjab

Players retained: Nil
Players bought: 11
Total amount spent: USD 6.94 million

David Hussey – $1.4 million – Australia
Adam Gilchrist – $900,000 – Australia
Piyush Chawla – $900,000 – India
Dinesh Karthik $900,000 – India
Abhishek Nayar – $800,000 – India
Praveen Kumar $800,000 – India
Shaun Marsh – $400,000 – Australia
Stuart Broad – $400,000 – England
Ryan Harris – $325,000 – Australia
Dmitri Mascarenhas – $100,000 – England
Nathan Rimmington – $20,000 – Australia