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(Isa 55:1)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010
Question for the day: Where do you go when you just need to get away?
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.
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY
February 3, 2010
Heavenly GPS
T. Suzanne Eller
"After sending them home, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell while he was there alone."
Matthew 14:23 (NLT)
Devotion:
It was a drama-packed day. Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, was dead because a drunken king chopped off his head. Jesus tried to get away to deal with the news, but crowds of people called his name.
Heal me! Feed me!
He healed the sick. He fed over 5,000 people with a few fish and loaves of bread. These miracles caused the crowd to press in closer, to shout louder and to demand more from Him. It also caused conflict.
He's our new king!
No; he's dangerous; kill him!
Sometimes life gets complex. Many times we just keep on going even though we are pulled between the demands of the people we love - Feed me! Love me! - with those feelings festering just under the surface.
But what happens when you arrive at ground zero emotionally because of loss or pain or fatigue?
What did Jesus do? When His day was finally done, Jesus hiked into the mountains to pray. He needed strength. He needed guidance. He needed to be refreshed spiritually and physically. Jesus settled in to talk to His father.
I'll be honest. When I'm at that place, the temptation is to wrap up in my favorite blanket, turn on a mindless TV show, and veg.
But what waits for me in that alone place with God?
He knows us better than anyone else. He's willing to carry our burdens, soothe our hearts, and that prayer time becomes a shelter, an oasis where we are revived. At that point it's not about the time we spend, or even the words that we say, but what we discover when we settle in.
Prayer becomes our heavenly GPS system.
An earthly GPS system contains atomic clocks that are accurate to a billionth of a second! No matter where you are, it can find your location and give you direction.
Think about this: The God of the Universe is greater than any earthly GPS. God knows where you are, where you are headed emotionally, and how to recalculate so that you can find your way back to sanity, peace, and even to joy.
Dear Jesus, You know what it is to be emotionally and physically spent. You know what it is to hurt, to grieve, to long for quiet and peace and healing. Thank You that You understand how I feel, and that You carry my burden when it's too big for me to carry alone. I adore You.
Application Steps:
Many of you, like me, probably talk to God throughout the day. But is there a sacred place set aside for you and God?
Don't set a time limit, or make it a duty.
Settle in with Him. Close the door.
Talk to Him about your day. Praise Him for His great love.
Breathe in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Don't rush it.
Let God do His work inside of You.
Reflections:
Prayer is a spot where we go just as surely as a church sanctuary is a place. When we pray, we are going into a place built from words. Or at least it's a place where words are the parameters, the walls into which we enter.
--Phyllis Tickle
Power Verses:
Psalm 19:7, "The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul. The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple." (NLT)
Psalm 91:1-2, "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, ‘My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom trust.'" (ESV)
YOU TUBE SONG FOR TODAY
Touch of the Master’s Hand
Wayne Watson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDrEkkfs6FQ
…and…
Taking a trip on the Bible Bus
Hosea 7
Hosea 7:1-16 (NIV)
"Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,
whenever I would heal
the sins of Ephraim are exposed
and the crimes of
They practice deceit,
thieves break into houses,
bandits rob in the streets;
[2] but they do not realize
that I remember all their evil deeds.
Their sins engulf them;
they are always before me.
[3] "They delight the king with their wickedness,
the princes with their lies.
[4] They are all adulterers,
burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
[5] On the day of the festival of our king
the princes become inflamed with wine,
and he joins hands with the mockers.
[6] Their hearts are like an oven;
they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
[7] All of them are hot as an oven;
they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,
and none of them calls on me.
[8] "Ephraim mixes with the nations;
Ephraim is a flat cake not turned over.
[9] Foreigners sap his strength,
but he does not realize it.
His hair is sprinkled with gray,
but he does not notice.
[10]
but despite all this
he does not return to the Lord his God
or search for him.
[11] "Ephraim is like a dove,
easily deceived and senseless--
now calling to
now turning to
[12] When they go, I will throw my net over them;
I will pull them down like birds of the air.
When I hear them flocking together,
I will catch them.
[13] Woe to them,
because they have strayed from me!
Destruction to them,
because they have rebelled against me!
I long to redeem them
but they speak lies against me.
[14] They do not cry out to me from their hearts
but wail upon their beds.
They gather together for grain and new wine
but turn away from me.
[15] I trained them and strengthened them,
but they plot evil against me.
[16] They do not turn to the Most High;
they are like a faulty bow.
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because of their insolent words.
For this they will be ridiculed
in the
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