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TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010


Question for the day:
What three words would your children choose to describe you?




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 life up in prayer my mother-in-law's brother, Duane Emery, who is in Butterworth hospital in very serious condition. He was found in his garage today suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Lord, please be with Duane and his family during this difficult time. We pray that your will be done in his recovery. We also pray for strength and protection for his family. Grant them your comfort and peace as they wait for the outcome. He is currently in a medical induced coma and is undergoing hyperbaric treatments.
May the Lord's will be done. We trust in your timing and judgment for Duane. In Jesus' name we pray. Thanks, --Karen Bauer



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.


Anonymous – Prayers for a friend in jail

Prayers for my daughter

Anonymous – Divorce

Kramer Family – Megan has RSV

Sirrine Family – Uncle Chad’s injury

Bornheimer Family – Gina and Dash’s health and well being

Kerns Family – mother Leona’s health, my children to know Jesus

Breedlove Family – Carolyn Young, Brian Brown’s mom

Carol Haut – pray for my children and their families

Gorney Family – The Lord’s guidance for our family

Wilson Family – Robin needs God in her heart, she needs to be saved

Kelly Hirschman – Crystal Cox, the loss of her mother

Ben Wright – keep my job, my children’s well being

Allen Family – Kris Allen

Burkhard Family – continued healing for our whole family, also prayers for finding a house soon

Karen Bauer – Praise, my son got a job! Prayers for Rita Emeott family for healing and strength for a difficult journey ahead

Heringhausen Family – Kurt on a business trip to Spain





ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY
March 9, 2010

I Want to Leave a Legacy
Melanie Chitwood

"I will sing of the loving-kindness of the Lord forever;
to all generations I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth."
Psalm 89:1 (NAS)




Devotion:
What do your children think of when they think of you? Their answers would be very revealing, wouldn't they? One day in early elementary school, Zachary came home with a Mother's Day picture he'd created for me. In the middle was a lovely portrait of me, wearing a dress made in my favorite colors of pink and purple. Then around the picture his teacher had told him to write four different words to describe his mom. He wrote: reading, napping, chocolate chip cookies, and laughing. His words made me smile with their accuracy.

Every day we are leaving our fingerprints on our kids. What do we want our children to think of when they think of their parents? A mom who was gentle and firm in her discipline or a mom who flew off the handle easily? A mom who seemed permanently attached to her phone or a mom who was available for life's big and small moments? A mom who occasionally went to church or a mom whose love of God was a part of her everyday life?

A legacy can be defined as "something handed down." Every day through our words and actions we are developing a legacy to be carried in the character of our children. It's easy for the busyness of life to keep you from being purposeful in your parenting. Let's decide today to leave the legacy we really want. Let's make sure it's a legacy not born of busyness and urgency, but one born of purposefulness and prayer.

It always helps me to remember that God is a parent too. So who better to turn to for parenting advice? It also helps me to know that God loves my children even more than I do, and He will fill in the gaps for me and Scott as we seek Him first. No matter what kind of parent you've been, today you can decide to add to and improve the legacy you are leaving. These are the only days we have with our children. We don't get them back. Let's begin today to be the parents we really want to be.


Dear Lord, thank You so much for each of my children. I need Your help every day to be the parent You want me to be. Lord, I'm human and I know that as a parent, I've made mistakes and will in the future. Lord, redeem the past and strengthen me for the future. Lord, thank You that You will give me Your love, wisdom, strength, direction, and patience to be the best parent for my children. Help me to leave a legacy that brings You glory and one that will enable my children to know how much You love them, in Jesus' Name, amen.



Application Steps:
Your children will learn to pray as they hear you pray. Pray with them on the way to school, throughout the day to thank God or to ask for His help, and tuck them in each night with your prayers. And don't stop praying with them when they're teens. Even though your teens may be pulling away from you, they still need to know you're covering them with prayer.

Choose a verse for the whole family to memorize each week. Display it in the kitchen or some other visible place.


Reflections:
Think about your everyday actions. Which of your actions point your children's hearts to the Lord?

Think about your attitude in frustrating or stressful situations. Are you modeling Christ's attitude in these situations?

What is one action step you can take this week to leave a legacy of faith for your children?


Power Verses:
Deuteronomy 6:5-9, "Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got! Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates.” (Message)

Proverbs 22:6, "Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it." (NLT)

Psalm 79:13, "So we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will give thanks to You forever; to all generations we will tell of Your praise." (NAS)





YOU TUBE SONG FOR TODAY
Love the Lord
Lincoln Brewster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV7qTD_X0Rk





…and…




Taking a trip on the Bible Bus

Joel 2:1-5

Blow the horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the residents of the land tremble, for the Day of the Lord is coming; in fact, it is near- a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dense overcast, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people [appears], such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come. A fire destroys in front of them, and behind them a flame devours. The land in front of them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland; there is no escape from them. Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like war horses. They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war.


Listen to Scripture at
http://www.audiotreasure.com/webindex.htm


Listen to Thru the Bible
Dr. J. Vernon McGee
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Thru_the_Bible_with_JVernon_McGee/




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