DYSMAS CONDUIT
FREE FOOD
(Isa 55:1)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009
Question for the day:
What can we pray with 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
Today’s Chapter in God’s Word
1 THESSALONIANS 4
Listen at
http://www.audiotreasure.com/webindex.htm
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 them to Kingdom-profitable loads to carry, and that He grants them safe passage today from Pennsylvania to Nanuet, NY, Bronx NY, Bronx, NY, NYC, Branford, CT, to Rowley, Mass.
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THANK YOU FOR PRAYING FOR PASTOR BOB ALLMANN
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 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.
UPDATE:
After more testing, the doctors have found that, despite the number of tumors found in and around the bladder, that the cancer has NOT spread to any surrounding muscle tissue or organs. They are looking at completely removing the bladder and replacing it with a piece of intestine. WE PRAISE GOD AND GIVE HIM THE GLORY FOR THIS; WE ALSO PRAY THAT BILLY WILL RECOGNIZE THIS AS GOD WORKING IN HIS LIFE!!!!!!!!!
Please lift the Sergent family up in prayer as both Kim’s dad and Terri’s dad are in the hospital. A very close aunt of Kim’s is also in the hospital so please lift this all up in prayer.
Lift John Wood up in prayer as he goes through some testing this week and that the pain he is experiencing goes away.
Marge Bowden: Bud, my husband who’s been in the hospital for 1 ½ weeks for COPD breathing problems.
Julie Pinwar: work schedules for me and my husband to work out best for our family. Hoping we don’t both get forced on afternoons – kids too young to not have us around at night.
Sue Trombley: teen temptation and control. Health & healing.
Ben Wright: my son to be happier. More time w/my children.
Bob/Judy Bissonnette: The Bissonnette family, my recovery from cancer surgery.
Don & Kristen Lowicki, Don & Doris Larsen Don has been diagnosed w/lung cancer.
Michelle Schaefer: Ricky & Amy McDonald safe travels. Judy McDonald rest in peace.
Abbie Heilig: Kris Jackson as she approaches the first holiday season since the passing of her son.
Ruth Rittenhouse: Larry, Harriet, Jim, Rick, Dennis, Earl, James, Bob, Flo all have cancer.
CONFIDENTIAL: my son-in-law is having a blood transfusion on Tuesday.
Al/Ann Gay: Linda Alexander
Neal/Heather Gorney: Neal & my growth in the renewal of our marriage, my healing, Neal’s softening of heart and us working together to become one. Bring God in our home and guide Neal & I both as husband & wife and parents to have a God filled home.
Linda Radek: friend going through chemo, double mastectomy – health and marital relationships.
CONFIDENTIAL: our child to find a job and the other child to fight alcoholism.
Steve Zill: new grand-daughter born Nov 2 has kidney disease. Pray for and expect a miracle.
Josh Burkhard: Michelle who is home recovering from pancreatitis and a fever/chest and head cold. Josiah is suffering from the fever/chest, head cold too. For our family’s health in general. We are all ill.
Melissa Woods: the death of our grandmother Rosilee, very upsetting – surprising for our family.
CONFIDENTIAL: 2 little girls that are in a very bad situation, that law enforcement are able to remove the children from this situation. Please pray for the illness that is among me right now. My marriage too please.
Jim/Karen Tosch: open heart surgery Monday, November 16, 7:30 am at St. Mary’s hospital aortic valve/aortic aneurysm repair for Jim.
Phyllis Braman: jobs – Chris Derusha, Lori Braman, Paul Scherer, Maxine Dargie, Bill Phillips.
Pam Toner: daughter Ashley Griswold’s healing.
John/Gretta Coppens: my niece who is waiting for test results concerning spot on lung & abnormal aortic valve.
Wes Banks, the son-in-law of Richard and Susan Boothe has been suffering from Crone's disease and recently with an auto-immune disease which is causing some serious problems. The doctors have told him the only treatment is a complete blood replacement which will destroy his immune system. He will have to be in isolation for at least a month and off work until at least the end of the year. The treatment will take place tomorrow (Tuesday Nov 17). He is in need of prayer for God to intervene on his behalf and to bring about a safe and speedy recovery
Please lift up Darren (7 year old) a friend and classmate of Haley Jaster (7 year old) who has been diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma.
Gary Vincent died this morning with an apparent heart attack.
Praise and thanks to God for successful open-heart surgery today for Jim Tosch at St. Mary's Hospital. Jim had an aortic valve replacement, and a repair of an aortic aneurysm. The doctors said that Jims surgery went "very well". Thank you to all who have been lifting up Jim and Karen in prayer.
We pray for God's continued healing and blessing for Jim as he recovers from this surgery, and for peace and comfort for Karen during this time. --Dennis Kreil
Michelle Burkhard is having trouble with the severe pains and is at Gratiot hospital. Josh said they may be sending her home tonight and he will send an update later or tomorrow. Please pray for comfort for Michelle and the family. Pray for the doctor’s wisdom to help figure out what is causing this pain. Thank you. --Jackie
Pastor Greg Finke
"God has saved us and called us to a holy life –
not because of anything we have done
but because of His own purpose and grace."
2 Timothy 1:9
Someone asked me the other day if all this emphasis on service meant we are saved by service. The answer? Of course not. We are not saved by service. We are saved by Jesus! However, although we are not saved BY service we are saved FOR service.
By God's grace, He has saved us from our sin and called us to a new and holy life marked for His purpose. This life marked for His purpose is called "servanthood." We are servants of God. We are saved by His grace, but we are saved FOR His service (Ephesians 2:8-10).
This has some implications for the day ahead!
As we take up the privilege and practice of prayer this morning, be still before God and re-center on Him. Psalm 46 says, "Be still and know that I am God."
When we are still before Him, we can realize again that He is God. We can realize that our lives are His by grace and that this new day before us is His for His purpose. We are His servants. He schedules our day. He calls us to serve when He chooses to need us.
Therefore, being a servant means giving up the right to control our schedules and allowing God to interrupt them whenever He needs to. Are you available to God anytime? Can He mess up your plans without you becoming resentful? As servants, we don't get to pick and choose when or where we will serve. If we only serve when it's convenient for us, we're not really servants. Real servants do what's needed, even when it's inconvenient.
If we will remind ourselves at the start of every day that we are God's servants, interruptions won't frustrate us as much, because our agenda will be whatever God wants to bring into our lives. Servants see interruptions as divine appointments for ministry and are happy for the opportunity to practice serving.
In your prayers this morning, make yourself wholly available to God for whatever He has planned for today.
Enjoy the adventure!
Be wise and be Church!
Pastor Greg
…and…
TURNING POINT
Dr. David Jeremiah
Why Do Good Things Happen
to Bad People?
Parts 1 & 2
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Do you ever feel like being faithful to God isn’t worth it?
We spend our time serving at the Church, teaching a Bible study,
or helping an elderly neighbor, and why?
After all, ungodly people ignore God in the pursuit of personal happiness,
and often drift through life without a care.
Yet Christians face so many trials - it seems unfair!
Why do good things happen to bad people?
Series: God, I Need Some Answers
VIEW OR LISTEN AT
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Turning_Point/
GDLC Message: http://www.gdlc.org/worship/sermons.aspx
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