Went to a small group Tues. night with my sister. We were directed toward these new devo's from the Life Recovery Bible, they are GOOD.
This one is REALLY GOOD, i thought i would share.
Bible Reading Job 6:2-13
Step 1 : We admitted that we were powerless over our problems-that our lives had become unmanageable.
There are times when we are so confused and overwhelmed by the pain in our life that we wish we could die. No matter what we do, we are powerless to change things for the better. The weight of the pain and sadness seems too heavy to bear. We can't see why our heart doesn't break and allow death to free us.
Job felt that way. He'd lost everything, even though HE HAD ALWAYS DONE WHAT WAS RIGHT. His ten children were dead. He had lost his business, his riches, and his health. And all this happened in a matter of days! He was left with a sharp-tongued wife and three friends who blamed him for his own misfortune. Job cried out, "if my misery could be wieighd and my troubles be put on the scales, they would outweigh all the Sands of the sea....Oh, that i might have my request, that God would grant my desire. I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me....I don't have the strength to endure. I have nothing to live for. Do i have the strength of a stone? Is my body made of bronze? No , I am utterly helpless, without any chance of success"(job 6:2-3, 8-9, 11-13)
Job didn't know that the END OF HIS LIFE WOULD BE EVEN BETTER THAN THE BEGINNING. God eventually restored everything Job had lost, and then some. "Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life" (job 42:17) Even when we're pressed to the point of death, there is STILL HOPE that our life will change. Our recovery could be so complete that the finaly lines written about us might read: "At last he or she died, after living a long, full life." We must remember: LIFE CAN BE GOOD AGAIN!
Friday, April 9, 2010
April Virtue: FRIENDSHIP
FRIENDSHIP!
Spending Time with Someone you Trust and Enjoy
I LOVE new virtues to work on every month. This one should be good! There's something to be said for the old saying, "Friendships make the world go round" :) I don't know what i'd do without mine.
We have been spending the week this week visiting family and friends, cultivating some of the relationships that mean the most to us.
"A friend loves at all times. He is there to help when trouble comes." Proverbs 17:17
Thursday, April 1, 2010
A Difficult Balance
This was good for me to read/hear today. As i struggle with the balance of giving too much or not giving enough. How do you strike the balance concerning this issue?
HEARTINESS V. HEARTLESSNESS TOWARDS OTHERS
"It is Christ . . . who also maketh intercession for us." "The Spirit . . . maketh intercession for the saints." Romans 8:34, 27
Do we need any more argument than this to become intercessors - that Christ "ever liveth to make intercession;" that the Holy Spirit "maketh intercession for the saints"? Are we living in such a vital relationship to our fellow men that we do the work of intercession as the Spirit-taught children of God?
Begin with the circumstances we are in - our homes, our business, our country, the present crisis as it touches us and others - are these things crushing us? Are they badgering us out of the presence of God and leaving us no time for worship? Then let us call a halt, and get into such living relationship with God that our relationship to others may be maintained on the line of intercession whereby God works His marvels.
Beware of outstripping God by your very longing to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, consequently we get so burdened with persons and with difficulties that we do not worship God, we do not intercede. If once the burden and the pressure come upon us and we are not in the worshipping attitude, it will produce not only hardness toward God but despair in our own souls.
God continually introduces us to people for whom we have no affinity, and unless we are worshipping God, the most natural thing to do is to treat them heartlessly, to give them a text like the jab of a spear, or leave them with a rapped-out counsel of God and go.
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to Our Lord.
Are we in the direct line of the intercession of our Lord and of the Holy Spirit?
HEARTINESS V. HEARTLESSNESS TOWARDS OTHERS
"It is Christ . . . who also maketh intercession for us." "The Spirit . . . maketh intercession for the saints." Romans 8:34, 27
Do we need any more argument than this to become intercessors - that Christ "ever liveth to make intercession;" that the Holy Spirit "maketh intercession for the saints"? Are we living in such a vital relationship to our fellow men that we do the work of intercession as the Spirit-taught children of God?
Begin with the circumstances we are in - our homes, our business, our country, the present crisis as it touches us and others - are these things crushing us? Are they badgering us out of the presence of God and leaving us no time for worship? Then let us call a halt, and get into such living relationship with God that our relationship to others may be maintained on the line of intercession whereby God works His marvels.
Beware of outstripping God by your very longing to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, consequently we get so burdened with persons and with difficulties that we do not worship God, we do not intercede. If once the burden and the pressure come upon us and we are not in the worshipping attitude, it will produce not only hardness toward God but despair in our own souls.
God continually introduces us to people for whom we have no affinity, and unless we are worshipping God, the most natural thing to do is to treat them heartlessly, to give them a text like the jab of a spear, or leave them with a rapped-out counsel of God and go.
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to Our Lord.
Are we in the direct line of the intercession of our Lord and of the Holy Spirit?
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