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(Isa 55:1)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Question for the day:
Who is praying for you today?
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
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 Lauren Gibbons:
Please pray for my oldest grandson's grandpa, Papa Bud. He was diagnosed with peritoneal mesotheleoma (cancer of the lining of the peritoneum which surrounds abdominal organs) last spring. He's been undergoing chemo but it's not working. He's planning to undergo a fairly new very invasive operation in April. They scrape the cancer cells and fill the lining with a warm chemo treatment directly in the infected area. The doctor has done 80 surgeries. Not sure the success rate, and of course there are certain risks, but with God on Bud's side, I'm trusting that he will be healed and a walking testimony for Jesus. He needs prayer for salvation/healing. Thanks so much for extending your faith along with me and the rest of the family.
Please lift Paula up in prayer today as she goes through a mastectomy surgery as well as a lump removed under her arm. The course of action is chemo and radiation after surgery. --Ranee Tessin
Please put me in your prayers. My lungs are not doing well again. I am back on the meds that make me feel very down, but help me breath. I know my God is with me and He always shows me good through rough times. I just need some extra boosts with your prayers. Thank you
Mary Damask
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY
February 19, 2010
Wandering Children
Susanne Scheppmann
"The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power
and produces wonderful results."
James 5:16b (NLT)
Devotion:
Research shows that our children are wandering from the faith. "Why?" we ask. The answer is not simple. Even the experts realize the reason our children wander from the faith is multifaceted.
The truth is our children are straying from Christianity rapidly as soon as they move into their twenties. According to a recent George Barna study, "In total, six out of ten twenty-somethings were involved in a church during their teen years, but have failed to translate that into active spirituality during their early adulthood." Again, there is no concrete answer to the questions of why our children wander.
But I know this statistic holds true in my own life. I became a Christian at the age of 15. I was on fire for Jesus. I loved Him from the depths of my soul—with all my heart, mind and strength. But then in my mid-twenties I walked away from my faith. Why?
For me, it was because I could not understand pain and suffering. If God was good, how could He allow all this junk in my life? I remember going to my pastor's wife for help with this question. However, I felt she criticized me for my lack of faith rather than help me comprehend God's ways. So I didn't return to her for counseling; instead I turned to my friends who seemed to understand my confusion. Sadly, they weren't walking strong in their own faith and inadvertently led me further away from God.
For seven years I walked in a desert of destructive sin.
Finally, after years of frustrated living, Jesus drew me back to Him. It wasn't a big church event. It wasn't a friend who witnessed to me about my sins. It was the Spirit of God who nudged me back to being a devoted follower of Christ. It wasn't mystical. It was not full of fireworks—it occurred in a Volkswagen Jetta in the parking lot of Knott's
I do believe wholeheartedly that my mother's prayers were answered. Her prayers never wavered. Her love never failed. She persevered when the future looked bleak for her eldest child's faith walk. Never underestimate the power of a parent's prayer. Our key verse declares, "The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results." If you are a parent of a wandering child, hold fast to this verse in your mind and pray for your child.
God hears. He answers. I know this to be true because I was child who wandered, but was brought back by the fervent prayers of a praying parent and the loving hand of God.
Father, give me the strength and faith to keep praying for my child. Help me understand, though it might take years, You are a God who hears and answers the prayers of a praying parent, in Jesus' Name, amen.
Reflections:
Do I blame myself for my child's wandering?
Have I given up on the effort of praying for my child?
Power Verses:
1 Timothy 1:16, "But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life." (NIV)
Luke 15:4-6, "What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?" When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'" (NASB)
Luke 15:20, "So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him." (NIV)
YOU TUBE SONG FOR TODAY
Long Black Train
Josh Turner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyRZTAmcW7c
…and…
Taking a trip on the Bible Bus
James 1:25—2:2
James 1:25-27 (NIV)
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does.
[26] If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. [27] Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 2:1-2 (NIV)
My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism. [2] Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
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