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(Isa 55:1)

FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010

Question for the day:

What is your first response to bad news?

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 Brommer as he spreads the Lord’s Seed and witnesses 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 Mike safe passage today to Tulsa, OK.

Please hold up before the Lord a dear friend, Ann Long, who is to undergo cancer surgery on March 29. Also please ask for strength for her family, especially her husband, Dennis.

Radek Family – Aunt Rita having a lump removed this week.

Wolinski Family – The Buben family and Cayden’s baptism on Sunday

Gorney Family – Our family and marriage

Dore Family – my families health, God’s word and following it

Dean Derusha – Healthy marriage

Carol Greyerbiehl – my son Kyle, deployed on a Naval Ship to Aisa, for his wife Carly

Roth Family – George Lockwood, fighting cancer

Jill Breedlove – Charlie has a bad cold

Maggert Family – upcoming tests

Brewster Family – Karen Ulmer, bone cancer

Al and Ann Gay – Linda Alexander, cancer; Al McLean, stroke

Anonymous – My family and income, business growth, friends without God

Anonymous – continued strength to move toward God’s purpose and plan for me. Spiritual uplifting

Anonymous – Patricia Murphy and Brenda Burney as they grieve the loss of their mother; Vernon Loree, his health

Anonymous – A friend that has made a life changing mistake

Mann Family – Kriss Allen for cancer surgery

Sirrine Family – Shelly Durge, grieving the loss of her mother; Chad, suffering from depression

Ruth Swarthout – husbands cancer and for his soul

My neighbor Don who had surgery to remove his rectum and they thought they got all the cancer, they are now saying he is stage 3 and it is spreading fast, so please lift him up in prayer that there is a miracle and God will let us have him around for a while longer. Also, his wife Jean needs us to wrap God's love around her to be strong for Don and the family.

Also, Sharlene has 4 aneurysm's in her heart and she is not able to handle surgery to correct them, Doctor's say she would not make it, they say if they want a death date, do the surgery, so prayers for comfort and strength for the family.

In His Service,
Kathy Mull

ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY

March 19, 2010

More Worship, Less Whine

Marybeth Whalen

"At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head.

Then he fell to the ground in worship."

Job 1:20 (NIV)

Devotion:

When good things happen to you do you respond with worship? How about when bad things happen? I know my first instinct isn't to worship. It's to whine. I whine about my doubts, my fears, my own misgivings. I whine about what I think might happen. I whine about how unfair life is. Worship, I must confess, is usually the last thing on my mind.

When I read today's verse, I was taken aback at Job's response to the news that all of his sons and daughters had died. Poor, longsuffering Job earned his place in history as a man who stayed true to God despite his circumstances. He was faithful and trusted God no matter what got thrown at him. He lived in expectation that, even though things looked grim, God had a better plan. So when he received terrible, heart wrenching news, his first response was what we see in today's verse: worship.

I recently had a situation where I got a bit of good news, mixed with some bad. In that moment, I had two choices to make: praise God for the good or dwell on the bad. Guess what I chose? I went straight to the bad, lamenting the negative and worrying about things I couldn't control.

The next day in my quiet time I read this verse. God got my attention, reminding me of how I had responded; how my attitude was certainly not pleasing to Him. I confessed to Him that I was wrong and asked Him to help me remember to worship in good times and bad, to find a reason to praise Him no matter what. The point of our worship isn't to respond to our circumstances but to respond to His character, to seek His heart and not focus on ours.

My hope is that every day, in every circumstance, I will choose worship as my first response. I want to follow Job's example, even when I don't feel like it, even as worries and doubts threaten to take over. I want to build into my life the habit of worshiping a lot more and whining a lot less. Will you join me?

Dear Lord, please help me remember to worship as my first response instead of whine. Help me to seek Your heart instead of focusing on my own. I want to honor You in the bad times, as well as in the good. Help me to remember it is not my circumstances that matter, but Your character. And that is always worthy of praise! Most of all, thank You for Your patience with me, in Jesus' Name, amen.

Reflections:

If you have already formed the habit of worship as a first response, how did you build that habit into your life?

Power Verses:

I Peter 5:6, "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time." (NIV)

Job 5:11, "The lowly he sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety." (NIV)

YOU TUBE SONG FOR TODAY

Made To Worship

Chris Tomlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2xXyf5Nzc

…and…

Taking a trip on the Bible Bus

1 Peter 1:6 -11

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to be distressed by various trials so that the genuineness of your faith-more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire-may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy, because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that would come to you searched and carefully investigated. They inquired into what time or what circumstances the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when He testified in advance to the messianic sufferings and the glories that would follow.