Manna for August 7, 2009

Question for the day: What’s your favorite story to tell?

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

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(Isa 55:1)

Today in God’s Word

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2009

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studying and praying with us today…

Good Morning Church!

Have you heard the story? It's A.D. VII ID. AVG- the last day of our VBS! (That's not a typo - we've been in ancient Rome all week.)

Yesterday I found myself humming the tune for the old hymn, "I Love To Tell The Story." It's an oldie but goodie in evangelical circles - though not as common in Lutheran and Catholic hymnals. Not sure why it came to mind yesterday - perhaps because it's loosely based on Romans 1:16?

I have a 7 year old son who is an enthralling story teller. A couple of years ago teachers in our preschool began asking me if I was going to take the call to Florida. We had recently returned from a visit to Kennedy Space Center - and Matthew told them quite a story about a very exciting (though fictional) church calling me to come. He reported that I was getting prices from movers. Amazingly the church was immediately adjacent to Disneyworld, and instead of golf carts in the parking lot had speedboats to take you to your car. Sounded pretty good!

Little kids can be amazing when they're spinning up stories. Their imaginations run wild with creativity, and they delight in building stories as they play with dolls, trains and trucks; all the while weaving remarkable story lines with their siblings and friends. Their enthusiasm and excitement is beautiful.

Somehow adults lose that when we're talking about The Story. Why aren't we just as thrilled? What happens to the delight when we're telling people what God has done for us? How can we ever get tired of hearing the same old, old story over and over again? This old hymn reminds us that there is unending joy to be found in The Story. That it's enthralling to hear and exhilarating to tell. Let's never stop singing and telling!

Heavenly Father, send your Spirit to infuse us with The Story. Give us the courage to tell it to all, to sing it from our hearts, and to rejoice in it's hearing. Amen.

I love to tell the story
of unseen things above,
of Jesus and his glory,
of Jesus and his love.

I love to tell the story,
because I know 'tis true;
it satisfies my longings
as nothing else can do.

Refrain
I love to tell the story,
'twill be my theme in glory,
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and his love.

Thanks and blessings,

Vince Parks

…and…

Back to the Bible

Woodrow Kroll and Tami Weissert

Round 9—Crucifixion;

Round 10—Resurrection

Friday, August 07, 2009

With Jesus on the cross, Satan thought he'd won the war.

But there was this little moment called the Resurrection.

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Series: The Long War Against God

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Luke 17

(New Living Translation)

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Teachings about Forgiveness and Faith

¹ One day Jesus said to his disciples, “There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!² It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin.³ So watch yourselves! “If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive.⁴ Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.”⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.”⁶ The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,’ and it would obey you!⁷ “When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, does his master say, ‘Come in and eat with me’?⁸ No, he says, ‘Prepare my meal, put on your apron, and serve me while I eat. Then you can eat later.’⁹ And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not.¹⁰ In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.’”

Ten Healed of Leprosy

¹¹ As Jesus continued on toward Jerusalem, he reached the border between Galilee and Samaria.¹² As he entered a village there, ten lepers stood at a distance,¹³ crying out, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”¹⁴ He looked at them and said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy.¹⁵ One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, “Praise God!”¹⁶ He fell to the ground at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan.¹⁷ Jesus asked, “Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine?¹⁸ Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”¹⁹ And Jesus said to the man, “Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you. ”

The Coming of the Kingdom

²⁰ One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God come?” Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs. ²¹ You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already among you. ”²² Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see the day when the Son of Man returns, but you won’t see it.²³ People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’ or ‘Here he is,’ but don’t go out and follow them.²⁴ For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes.²⁵ But first the Son of Man must suffer terribly and be rejected by this generation.²⁶ “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day.²⁷ In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all.²⁸ “And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building—²⁹ until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.³⁰ Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed.³¹ On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home.³² Remember what happened to Lot’s wife!³³ If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.³⁴ That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.³⁵ Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left. ”³⁷ “Where will this happen, Lord?” the disciples asked. Jesus replied, “Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.”

A question on today’s Scripture:

What should we do when we find someone stuck in sin?

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 today from Underwood ND to Clearwater MN

THANK YOU FOR PRAYING FOR PASTOR BOB ALLMANN

Pastor Bob is doing so well that he gave his testimony about his accident and road to recovery at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Saginaw on Wednesday evening 7/22. He also preached on Saturday at 5 pm and Sunday at 8 am and 10:30 am! What a miracle of healing...prayers have been answered! Please remain in prayer concerning his continued healing and that he is upheld by the Spirit, becoming physically strong as he returns to serving the Lord… what he loves to do!

Please continue to pray for Billy Hamburg, whose doctors found 5 tumors in his bladder. He had surgery June 29^th 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.

Prayers would be greatly appreciated for Loren Krenzke who will be having surgery at Henry Ford Hospital Friday, August 7. If all goes well, hospital time should only be about 24 hours but we'll be staying in Detroit until Monday afternoon. Thank you.

Please take a few minutes every day to pray for 11-year-old Dasia who underwent a bone marrow transplant in December. She has been at at U of M since Monday (Aug. 3rd) with a fungus in her lungs that is untreatable apart from surgery, to take out the part of the lung with the fungus. The doctors said that Dasia may not even make it out of the OR. It is an extremely risky surgery, with a high mortality rate. If she makes it out of the OR she will have to be on a ventilator for quite some time. She has been through so much already in her young life. Please pray that God would stretch his healing hand over her and breath new life into her. That He protects her during the surgery and that she comes out without complications.

An answer to today’s Scripture question:

What should we do when we find someone stuck in sin?

Rebuke (reprimand or admonish) them. To rebuke does not mean to point out every sin we see; it means to bring sin to a person's attention with the purpose of restoring him or her to God and to fellow humans. When you feel you must rebuke another Christian for a sin, check your attitudes before you speak. Do you love the person? Are you willing to forgive? Unless rebuke is tied to forgiveness, it will not help the sinning person.

—Life Application Bible Notes

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