Question for the day: What does it take to know God?
What can we pray for YOU about 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
Chicago, IL to
Additional prayer request:
Also, please pray for Mike's back. It's been getting worse and worse, and this morning when we took the kids out, he couldn't stand up long enough. He was kneeling down on one knee, and then he went over and was bent over leaning on a lamp post anchor (they're huge in truck stops). I drove 550 miles last night, and he hasn't made, I bet 200 all day long-keeps stopping to lay down. Please ask Bob to pray about it, too. If it's not any better tomorrow, I'm going to insist that he goes to the doctor.......Please put this on the prayer list. There's nothing worse than being hurt hundreds of miles from home, because it seems you just [can’t] get comfortable.
PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR PASTOR BOB ALLMANN
Treatment Location:
CARE-TEL
ROOM 108
Phone:
989-667-9800 x610
Bob was in a car accident Thurs. 4-9-09 at about 6pm in
Since that time, God has done wondrous things in Bob’s life, and has him known as the Miracle Man because of the way he has mended. Bob was transported to
Monday, July 13, 10:54 AM - Wendi:
What a beautiful day our God has given us, PRAISE THE LORD!!! Pop is doing quite well! God has given him strength to walk again. He is trying to do most of his moving around from therapy to therapy without his wheelchair, hand in hand with our gracious Lord. It is breathtaking for me to see him get up out of bed, un-assisted and walk where he wants to go... THANK YOU JESUS!!! He is ready to move on to his next 'home', which will be between Scott &
I thank God for all the blessings he has poured out on Pop and everyone that has been following his progress! I hope you all have a blessed day and we thank all of you for your continued prayers and support! GOD LOVES YOU AND SO DO WE!
Wendi
Please continue to pray for Billy Hamburg, whose doctors found 5 tumors in his bladder. He had surgery June 29th and the biopsy results showed a cancerous condition. He will be undergoing chemo & radiation treatments and will need the Lord’s Hand to overcome his anxiety as well as the cancer.
Please lift up in prayer the family of Bob and Valerie Thompson. Bob's father passed away this past Saturday. While the family was in
Prayer requests from Messiah communication cards:
Scott/Angela Becker: Friends of ours, as their marriage continues to fall apart; they need to draw closer to Christ.
Wendy Kall: safe travel for family coming in from FL.
Linda Radek: Olivia to be able to see her dad graduate from boot camp 7/29
Charlie/Jill Breedlove: Nash family
Sharon Kidder: Praise God for HE has brought me through my surgery to remove cancer and I am 100% free. My grandson, Alexander has a lemon sized cyst in his brain behind his eye and he just turned 15 years old.
Shirley Haskell: God’s will for me and family in TX, continue to pray for complete healing of kidneys and second opinions for bone morrow reports.
Wayne Rainberg: suffered from a stroke 4/20 and am recovering at home.
CONFIDENTIAL:
CONFIDENTIAL: help w/ our finances so we don’t continue to overdraw our account, brother-in-law that he will be able to adjust back to society during his parole time.
CONFIDENTIAL: guidance in making my next step in life.
Jeff/Becky Minnis: my granddaughter make it through heart surgery, she is doing well. She will be having another one in 4- months.
Kathy Mikula: son – alcoholism, son-in-law – overseas, daughter – pregnant
Ann/Al Gay: Linda Alexander, Janet Meyer
Russ/Lynne Boone: Wilma Schultz – recovery after surgery
CONFIDENIAL: wife is now in
Annette Ripper: continued healing and peace. God’s wisdom to know what to do in legal proceedings.
John McLaren: Dad – medical concerns.
Sara Meyer: move to TX (9/27) and settling, finding a job.
Brenda Keenan: John, Tiffany, Michael
David/Carol
Wayne/Lanette Fort: praise for Stephen’s job and prayer for all the details involved in moving to
CONFIDENTIAL: Richard fighting cancer
CONFIDENTIAL: our kids, times are tough for them right now
Betty Krenzke: my daughter and family – her husband lost his job and now has an offer in
Sandra Leonhardt: Alan – recovering from his knee surgery. He is having some heart problems.
To the faithful, Please pray for Mac McKibben, a neighbor of my daughters, who at 70 decided to cut down a tree in his backyard with a chain saw, falling out of the tree cutting his arm badly, breaking an ankle and ribs. He was in intensive care but was transferred today to a regular room. Please pray for healing for him and peace for his wife. Thanks for standing in the gap for this nice couple. Blessings, Carol Taylor
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Today in God’s Word
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2009
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ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY
July 14, 2009
The Humanity of the Cross
Whitney Capps
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,
who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame,
and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)
Devotion:
Several years ago our church showed Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” to commemorate the Easter season. I will never forget feeling physically sick watching the scene at
Crucifixion was one of the most brutal and inhumane forms of torture ever conceived. I’ll admit that I have been guilty of trying to move quickly over the carnage it portrays. When in moments of worship or reflection, the Holy Spirit has led me to consider the Cross, I try to soften its jagged, bloody edges by reminding myself that Christ was God, trinitarily divine.
I want to protect Jesus (and myself) by pretending that He didn’t need to feel every bone-crushing blow that nailed Him to that beam for my sin. It seems to make it just a little easier to think of Jesus on the cross not as man, but as God. That Jesus is God is a certain and theological truth, but I must not diminish the act of His suffering by thinking He would abuse His divinity.
Jesus didn’t recoil into His divine nature to escape the pain of death on the Cross. He didn’t sweat drops of blood in the
In Matthew 27, Scripture tells us that Jesus cried out from the Cross on two separate occasions. The first cry in verse 45 reflects Jesus’ torment over His alienation from the Father. The second cry in verse 50 reveals His body’s physical release from the pain of death as “he gave up his spirit.” I believe Scripture records both of these cries to indicate that each outburst represents a distinct reaction - one spiritual, one physical.
I wonder if we aren’t meant to relate to the Cross in similar fashion: spiritual and physical. I also wonder if we aren't guilty of reserving our concentration on the Cross for the yearly Easter celebrations. After Easter, is the reality of the Cross still poignantly fresh? In his book “Outrageous Mercy: Rediscovering the Radical Nature of the Cross,” William Farley says of the Cross, “There is nothing deeper. It is a bottomless well, a fountain of vibrant truth, a pinnacle of wisdom and knowledge. In it lie the depths of the mysteries of God. The first sign of spiritual maturity is when one increasingly thinks about, ponders, marvels, and wonders at the mystery of the cross.”
One of my ambitions is to think regularly about the Cross. I want to see the whole picture of the Cross. I want to experience it eyes wide open in painstaking reality. I don’t want to deceive my heart in thinking it was less than horrific. My sin demanded such horror. I hope that in enduring the Cross with Jesus, I’ll worship more deeply, weep more sincerely and rejoice more abundantly at His Resurrection.
Dear Lord, thank You for the grace of the cross, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Application Steps:
Reread each gospel’s account of Jesus’ crucifixion. Try to read them as though you’ve never heard the story.
What sights would you see? What sounds would you hear? What emotions are particularly real to you?
Reflections:
Do you believe that Jesus really endured such torture for you? How does that affect your confidence in today’s Power Verses?
Power Verses:
Hebrews 2:14-18, “Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants. For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.” (NIV)
…and…
How Can You Know God?
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
What does it take to know God?
Is it even possible? Where do you start?
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