DYSMAS CONDUIT
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(Isa 55:1)
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010
Question for the day:
Were you ever someone else's wayward loved one?
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.
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.
Dvorak Family – prayer for Ben at college
Bornheimer Family – Gina’s health, Dash’s future and welfare
Swarthout Family – those with cancer
Armbruster Family –
Ben Wright – maintaining my job, my children and me to be together, their mother to come to the Lord
Sweebe Family –
Hayes Family – Safety and well being of the Nicaragua Medical team from St Lorenz, Frankenmuth
Gorney Family – Our marriage, bless our new life in the eyes of the Lord
Coppens Family – Carolyn Young
Kelly Hirschman – Roger Clair – by-pass surgery, my son Brent, that he may find his way and direction for his life
Hassen Family – entire family, Joe’s employment,
Damen Sentz – prayer for a place to live, prayer for Robert Steven, Michael and Sentz families
Jacobs Family – Brother Ken and his wife for safe travel, Melissa S, Cindy S and Carol V. fighting cancer, Esther – continued healing of vision, Our Children – struggles with adulthood
Patti Loree – My Grandmother, Gail Cordle in PACU and unconscious
Mary Brewster – Karen Ulmer, bone cancer
Lucas Hasenburg – Angela Grazoli
Sherry Kerns – unemployment extensions reinstated
Jill and Charlie Breedlove – Carolyn Young
Al and Ann Gay – Linda Alexander
Trombley Family – healing, health, strength and faith
Dan Dore – Got to quit smoking
Please say extra prayers for my sister, Cathi Pascoe, who has been fighting cancer for the last 31/2 years. It looks as if she will be losing the battle shortly. She has been in the hospital since last Thurs. and it appears as if her organs are shutting down. At least it is happening fast. I will be going to
Please continue to pray for my sister Cathy and brother-in-law Ed. See the email from her below with great news! Thank you so much for your continued prayers, and for all the inquiries of how they are doing. I have shared with Cathy whenever people ask me about them, and she is so very grateful, too, for your prayers. She said it is humbling to hear that people are praying for them and asking about them. Barb Patrick
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY
March 2, 2010
Hope in the Rubble
"I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened
in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you,
the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
That power is like the working of his mighty strength."
Ephesians 1:18 (NIV)
Devotion:
Mind-boggling devastation filled the screen. I just couldn't wrap my mind around everything that had taken place by the earthquake in
When I awoke in the morning, I began to pray before my feet hit the ground: prayer for miracles, supplies and those who would arrive in that precious country to serve and minister to the broken. A picture of a crying baby being pulled from the rubble came to mind. After over 48 hours of no food, no water and being trapped under a collapsed house, the 18 month-old was rescued. It was truly a miracle.
My prayers moved from the Haitian crisis to praying for a loved one who has gone astray. The one I love has much in common with the newly rescued baby. He too is trapped. Trapped by the weight and destruction of bad decisions and flawed thinking patterns. What seemed like a common path many were taking led to a place of destruction.
What this precious baby and my loved one do not have in common is the desire to be free. The baby sensed something was wrong. Where was her family? Where was food and water? Why wasn't someone coming to her rescue? Such thoughts occupied her tiny immature mind. My loved one has yet to discover that he indeed needs rescuing. He has yet to recognize the weight of selfishness, unforgiveness and self-destruction pressing on him.
Do you have one you desperately love who is heading toward destruction and doesn't realize it? Do you have days when the rubble of sin seems too heavy- too much to be removed? And you just can't see how God is going to break through?
Help is arriving in
Rescue is available for our loved ones, too. Prayer is the place to begin as we hope that in the middle of their own destruction, they will see their need for rescue. When that realization becomes clear, like the tiny baby in
Father, some days I grow weary of praying for my loved one. I am so glad that You don't. Please open their eyes to see the destruction they are in and give them the desire to break free, in Jesus' Name, amen.
Application Steps:
Is your loved one a child? A husband? A friend? Find another godly woman who will partner with you to pray daily for this person; preferably one who has had victory in her life with a loved one in this area.
Pray for divine appointments in this person's life and others who will share compassion, love and Jesus' heart with them.
Get a notebook or journal. Write your loved one's name on the front. Begin to journal prayers, verses, etc., specifically related to your loved one. Fill in their name and use the word "you" i.e. "Today I prayed Ephesians 1:18-19 for you. It says…." Print prayers sent to you by others and put them in the journal. Believe that one day you will give this journal to your loved one as a testimony to what God has done.
Reflections:
Were you ever someone else's wayward loved one? If so, what did the Lord do to bring you to Himself?
Are you the wayward love one? If so, do not be afraid to call out from underneath your rubble. Those around you already see it. They see you and more than anything they want you to be free and to help you to get there!
Power Verses:
Psalm 106:8, "Yet he saved them for his name's sake, to make his mighty power known." (NIV)
Zephaniah 3:17, "The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." (NIV)
YOU TUBE SONG FOR TODAY
Shadow of Your Wings
Hillsong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXnt9JH0_ds
…and…
Taking a trip on the Bible Bus
James 5:1-6
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. [2] Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. [3] Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. [4] Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. [5] You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. [6] You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you.
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