DYSMAS CONDUIT
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(Isa 55:1)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 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 Peter 3
Listen at
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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.
Please continue to pray for Billy Hamburg. He had another surgery and two more tumors were discovered. Discussion is forthcoming concerning bladder removal. Please pray for the Lord’s Hand to help him overcome his anxiety as well as the cancer.
Brenda Wlock’s sister, Robin Robinson had surgery on Friday to remove her colon cancer and after coming out of surgery her lungs collapsed and now she is in a drug induced coma and isn’t expected to survive.
Please lift her and her family up in prayer. --Melissa Shorts
Please pray for a family who just lost their 8-year old son last night. Ricky was born with heart and lung problems and was not even expected to live after birth. They had their miracle as he lived for years and he recently had transplants of heart and both lungs, spent months at the Ronald McDonald House, came home a couple of weeks ago, got sick and went back to the hospital. The doctors found cancer in his transplanted organs. He was expected to live about a month or two, but died last night.
His mom, Trisha, is having a very hard time and her faith is really shaken. She and Ricky’s dad are divorced and she is remarried and has 2 other children. Please pray for all of them to be comforted and strengthened, and for her to not give up her faith. They do have a church home, so that is one good thing. Thank you. --Barb Patrick
Dean/Mary Brewster: Pray for my mom as her leukemia is getting worse and for Jim Sebring and family.
Pat Dulin: my family. Repair my marriage to wife Jessica to show her the way to Jesus.
Pratt Family: Thanks for answered prayers. For some length of time Kristine and I have prayed for a change in employment for me; the years of working within the prison system have taken a toll on me – both physically and emotionally. God has answered our prayers and I have accepted a position working with military family support groups here in MI. The job is not what I had in my plans but it was and is what I feel God wants me to do. Praise to God and all his wisdom.
Al/Ann Gay: Linda Alexander, cancer and Alistair McLean, stroke.
Jill/Charlie Breedlove: That the joy of Christ shows throughout every day.
Good Morning, Church!
Pastor Greg Finke
What a great day to be alive! God is with you! God is working for you (not against you)! He knows the plans He has for you as you head out into your day to live life with the people He has put you with.
That's our life: Life with God and with people. And that life with God and people can be called incarnational living. It's how Jesus lived life.
During these weeks of Advent, we have been seeing that the key to incarnational living is being WITH people. But, frankly, isn't all that very inconvenient? We say things like:
· I'm too busy!
· I'm an introvert...
· I'm too task oriented.
· I don't know my neighbors.
· I don't like my neighbors.
· I have weird neighbors.
· I already have my routines and relationships set and it doesn't include this!
We sorted through all this in worship yesterday. If you missed being with us, you can click here and listen in.
The answer to our question, "Isn't this all very inconvenient?" is "Yes!" It's all very inconvenient but it's also why we are here: to be with people, to hang out with people, to open our lives to people... Why? So that by getting to know us and hanging out with us they get to know Jesus. They get to know His grace and truth and redemption.
Are you ready for the rest of the story? It's also painful. When you are with people long enough, they will hurt you. Jesus knew this. He saw things clearly. People are messed up, quirky, up tight, and sinful. And they all will eventually let you down. Even His closest friends would abandon Him. Jesus knew this from the beginning. But that's exactly why He moved into the neighborhood. Even though people will hurt you, their only hope is His grace and truth and redemption.
So, we open our lives to people knowing they will hurt us and then we love them anyway. We go in ready for the pain so that when we get let down, when we get hurt, we are not surprised and angry but ready... ready with grace, ready with mercy, ready with redemption. Jesus came into the world ready to not be received, ready to be let down by even His closest friends, and even ready to be nailed to a cross. And He came anyway. Why? Because we needed Him to.
Thank You, Jesus, for coming to be with us KNOWING we would hurt You, abandon You and even kill You. And, yet, You came anyway. Because You did not shrink back but freely gave Yourself to us, we are saved. We know God's grace and truth and redemption. We know God. Help us to now live as You lived. Help us to set aside the inconvenience and be ready for the pain so that others can know You... Your grace, Your truth, Your redemption. AMEN!
Merry Advent!
Be wise and be Church!
Pastor Greg
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