5/11 Manna

DYSMAS CONDUIT
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(Isa 55:1)

TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2010


Question for the day:
Has anything “good” you have done ever turned out to be a much bigger deal than you thought it would when you did it?




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:

The Michigan Department of Corrections has granted permission for the Keryx Prison Ministry to bring Jesus’ message to the Tuscola Re-entry program in Caro, MI in Keryx #2 between 5/13 and 5/16. Please pray for the forty men who will experience this working of the Holy Spirit, and please pray for the men who will be bringing the message. For more information about Keryx, please visit http://keryx.org/ .


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.

Mike Brommer is asking for the Lord’s guidance regarding their finances.


Joe Booth – that my back will heal and everything will go back to normal and there won’t be anymore pain

Coldwell Family – The Wakeman family, the loss of their daughter

Sherry Kerns – Mother Leona Dopp, right hip

Anonymous – daughter’s health issues and their family problems

Anonymous – for my son who has been struggling with addictions, he is moving in the right direction. I want him to remember his faith and to know that God is always with him

Tamara Gandy – a friend who has returned from Iraq and is depressed, has insomnia

Anonymous – Rita Klemish who continues to recover from brain surgeries

Anonymous – My sister who is at the 1016 in Midland

Trombley Family – Faith, strength and healing. Connection with family

Brewster Family – Paula Mann, went through stem cell surgery; Karen Ulmer, dealing with her cancer and chemo

Anonymous – My Family

Carol Greyerbiehl – continued prayer for all our troops and their families

Ben Wright – various job opportunities, my current job, my children

Gay Family – Linda Alexander, scan OK, prayers worked!!

Burkhard Family – Thank you for all of your prayers. We moved into our new house. Please pray for future plans as Michelle was laid off on Tuesday.

Fort Family – Son and daughter-in-law out of work since February. Need employment and above all, God’s guidance and direction

Kaylee Meissner – pray for my grandma Judy. She just went through 2 losses

Anonymous – Our mother, she is struggling with surgery on her arm and is very upset

McLaughlin Family – Dasia Brown for healing for complications with a bone marrow transplant

Sirrine / Miller Family – Grandpa Tom because his lungs are messed up

Holt Family – My brothers Tim and Tom, that they would return to God. Also Casey and Brendan Johansen, that their faith in God would grow

Bornheimer Family – Hooray! Our son Stephen graduated for Concordia University / Ann Arbor yesterday!



Christine Babel Henderson - Today when I called my Mother to find out what the Dr. told her about her test. She told me they needed to take more tests. She was told everything so far is pointing towards "colon cancer". Please take a moment from your busy day and remember my Mother in prayer. I lost my Father to liver cancer in 1991, I am NOT ready to let her go!!



Lauren Gibbons
First update on Bud. His surgery went very well. He expected to be in the hospital for 2 weeks afterward but his recovery is going so well that they were talking about releasing him yesterday. The procedure he had done was very invasive and is relatively new. It should keep him cancer free for many years. That's the most recent update I have on him.

Little granddaughter Baylee's surgery went very well. They finished fixing her top palette; this was her second surgery on it. She only had to be in the hospital one full day because she was eating and drinking so quickly afterward. She's a trooper and has never let these surgeries keep her down long. This is about the 4th surgery she's had to have but hopefully this one was the last.

Please continue to pray for continued healing for both. And for Baylee that her trache can be removed soon so she can speak. Right now, she pretty much uses one word "signs" to speak. Thanks so much. God bless you, Lauren



ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY
May 11, 2010

6:47
Marybeth Whalen

‘"How many loaves do you have?' he asked.
‘Go and see.' When they found out, they said,
‘Five—and two fish.'"
Mark 6:38 (NIV)




Devotion:
I glanced at the clock on the bottom of my computer. It was 6:47 pm and the email had been sent hours earlier. I kicked myself for not checking my email that afternoon and regretted not being able to respond to my friend's plea for prayer as she prepared to share her testimony in a small group at her church. I scanned through her email again and saw that the time she was supposed to begin was at 6:30. Feeling a little foolish, I typed a quick email:

"Dear Karen," I wrote, "It is 6:47 and I am praying your testimony will be effective in the hearts of those who listen." I had no idea why I included the time, it just felt like the right thing to do. I guess because I wanted her to know I did what I could as soon as I could. The next morning, I woke up to this email:

"NO WAY!!!!!!!!!! I was told to arrive at 6:30 and we'd start once the ladies got their kids settled. The leader had me start.....AT 6:47!!!!"

There are too many times that I have been in a situation like that and done nothing because I couldn't do it "right." I beat myself up with thoughts like: A better friend would have prayed as soon as the email came out. A more organized person would have checked her email earlier. How often do we feel like we fall short of what we could be doing as Christians? We wish we could give more, pray harder, speak up more, offer more time. And in the end, because we can't do as much as we want, we throw up our hands and do nothing. Because we can't do it all, we don't do anything at all.

As I read my friend's response, I was glad I did something, taking the little I had to offer and giving it anyway. I was too late by my timing, but not by God's. I had missed the opportunity to pray for my friend before but God miraculously had me open the email at the moment she was beginning and pray then.

In Mark 6:35-44, Jesus performs the miracle of feeding the 5000 men. The disciples told Him that they didn't have enough to feed the crowd. They were ready to give up. I love the question that He asks them in our verse today: "Well, what do you have? Go and see." When they turned over what they did have to Him, He was able to multiply it beyond what they could have imagined.

So many times I come to Him and say the same: "I just have this little tiny bit…of money, of time, of resources, of energy."

And He says, "Bring what you have to me. That's all I ask. Let me take care of it from here."

So I ask what little you might have to give? You might not be able to give $1000. But you could give $10. You might not be able to pledge hours and hours to serve at church. But you can serve once a month for one hour. You might not feel comfortable speaking to crowds. But you're great at sharing what God's doing in your life one-on-one. You might not be able to lead a prayer ministry. But you can pray for a friend who needs it, even if it seems like you're too late.

Let God take your little and make it much. Let Him take your 6:47 and make it right on time.

Dear Lord, show me how I can respond when I feel like I don't have enough. Help me to offer my little in Your name and watch You respond in multiples. Open my eyes to the times I need to offer what I can and let that be enough, trusting You with the rest, in Jesus' Name, amen.




Application Steps:
Jesus is asking you: What do you have? Go and see. Spend time today seeing what you have.


Reflections:
What are the things that keep you from saying yes? Fear? Inadequacy? Insecurity? How can doing something little help you overcome these things?


Power Verses:
2 Kings 4:43, "'How can I set this before a hundred men?' his servant asked. But Elisha answered, ‘Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the Lord says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.'" (NIV)

2 Kings 4:44, "Then he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord." (NIV)





YOU TUBE SONG FOR TODAY
The Way I Was Made
Chris Tomlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF5SZWox_JE





…and…




Back to the Bible
Woodrow Kroll and Tami Weissert


The Inerrancy and Infallibility
of the Bible


Tuesday, May 11, 2010
PLAY NOW

We're so used to things being imperfect and full of mistakes,
it's hard to believe that something could be totally without error.
But that's exactly what the Bible is...

Series: Is the Bible Really Your Authority?



http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Back_to_the_Bible/




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