WE’RE PRAYING FOR YOU TODAY…
Good morning,
This is just a reminder that every day, while we are studying God’s Word to add to our website, someone from our ministry, Dysmas Conduit, is holding you up before the Lord in prayer. May He greatly bless you today as you pursue His will and He is glorified through you.
God’s blessings, our love,
George & Sidney Granger
CURRENT PRAYER REQUESTS:
Please pray for Mike and Sandy Brommer as they spread the Lord’s Seed and witness to His glory while on the road today. Please pray also that the Lord will lead him to Kingdom-profitable loads to carry, and that He grants them safe passage from
PLEASE PRAY FOR PASTOR BOB ALLMANN
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Update:
Sunday, June 21, 5:57 PM - Wendi:
I thank you Lord for letting me celebrate another Father's Day with Pop, it was very special to see him looking good today after seeing what he has been through! He was sitting up today, but could not take a walk with Madi. His legs were very weak and he was a bit tired. Probably because his terrorists were not there to push him! I'm sure he needs a day of rest, just like the rest of us do, or try to do anyway! But, everything is well with him and he hopes to get moved down the street to the rehab facility this coming week, we'll see what the docs say!
Happy Father's Day to the rest of the father's out there. GOD LOVES YOU AND SO DO WE!
Wendi
Please pray for Billy Hamburg, whose doctors found 5 tumors in his bladder. He's supposed to have surgery June 29th--we'll know more then, and keep you posted as soon as we know anything.
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Today in God’s Word
MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009
Please join your brothers and sisters
studying and praying with us today…
Encouragement for Today - June 22, 2009
Do It
“But so that we may not offend them, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”
Matthew 17:27 (NIV)
Devotion:
Sometimes God asks us to do something we don’t understand. It might seem unnecessary. It might seem crazy. Or it might seem like something God shouldn’t need us to do because He is capable of doing it without our involvement. So why does He require our action?
When Jesus was asked to pay a tax, He told Peter to go catch a fish. Miraculously, the exact amount He needed was found in the mouth of the fish he caught. Peter had a moment where he had to either accept Jesus’ methods or question them. In our limited human understanding it’s easier to question, “Why didn’t He just make that coin appear?” But Peter knew Jesus, and he knew he was better off to just do whatever Jesus had asked of him (Matthew 17:24-27).
Sometimes we have moments like Peter had. We stand there blinking, wondering if we heard Him right. In those moments we have to make a decision to just DO IT:
Deliberate
Obedience
Intentional
Trust
Certainly Jesus could have produced the amount needed in many different ways, but He required Peter to be involved. He required Peter to take action, just as He does with us at times.
When God showed my husband and I that we needed to begin tithing when what we wanted was to get out of debt, it didn’t make sense to us at all. We had to simply respond with deliberate obedience and intentional trust.
When God challenged me to stick with my marriage when it seemed over, I wondered if He realized what He was asking. He wanted me to deliberately obey Him and intentionally trust Him. He didn’t want me to look for the easy button. He wasn’t offering a supernatural rescue. He needed me to walk through the process, learning lessons along the way. Instead of handing me a solution, He allowed me to be involved in it.
Is there something He is asking you to do that doesn’t seem right, or normal, or natural from your human perspective? Are you ignoring His still small voice urging you to just trust and obey? Whether it’s catching a fish or building an ark, you can rest assured that you are in good company. God has a plan—even when you can’t see it. Sometimes you have to DO IT to reveal that plan.
Dear Lord, I want to learn to respond with obedience to Your requests. When I hear Your voice speaking to me, I want to willingly do it—whatever “it” is. Thank You for reminding me that sometimes You require me to be part of my own solution, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Application Steps:
In your journal, write about a time when God asked you to do something you thought wasn’t necessary or was crazy. What was the result?
Reflections:
What is God asking you to do? How will deliberate obedience and intentional trust figure into your response?
Power Verses:
Ephesians 5:15, “Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise, but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” (NIV)
© 2009 by Marybeth Whalen. All rights reserved.
…and…
LIVING IN THE RED ZONE
Pastor Greg Finke
From 6/21/09
Simple practices. Surprising results. The way God designed us is fairly simple.
The key to living life well and having ongoing spiritual refreshment
is cultivating real relationships with Jesus, family and friends.
Busyness and achievement will never satisfy a human heart. Only Jesus and people can.
When we refocus on relationships and take up some simple practices, refreshment flows back in!
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http://www.gdlc.org/sermons_video/2009/RefreshRedZone.wmv
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