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Faithful Fridays 4-5-19
Evening Devotion 4-4-19
But they put God to the test
and rebelled against the Most High;
they did not keep his statutes.
57 Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 They angered him with their high places;
they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard them, he was furious;
he rejected Israel completely.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among humans.
61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 He gave his people over to the sword;
he was furious with his inheritance.
63 Fire consumed their young men,
and their young women had no wedding songs;
64 their priests were put to the sword,
and their widows could not weep.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
66 He beat back his enemies;
he put them to everlasting shame.
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
71 from tending the sheep he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with skillful hands he led them. Psalm 78:56-72
Have you ever put God to the test? How did it work out?
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Thursday Thoughts 4-4-19
Transition requires a good deal of napping and french fries-Brenda Lillie
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A Question A Day From Rory Pt. 4
Here is part 4 in my question a day series. I GOT THESE GREAT QUESTION FROM RORY OVER AT A GUY CALLED A BLOKE. CLICK HERE TO VISIT HIS BLOG.
Here is today’s question and my answer:
What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
I pray differently more than most people.
Kokenhauf Gardens, Lisse
For me prayer is a lifestyle that consumes vast amounts of time in my life. This lifestyle has developed over years. When I began I thought I was just developing a little devotional life. It has become this thing that informs everything I am and do. I used to ask the question, “How can I fit prayer into the rest of my life?”
Over the course of the last twenty years that question has changed to become, “How do I fit the rest of my life in around prayer.”
The other difference is that for me most of prayer has become about listening for the voice of God in the world rather than trying to get Him to hear my voice. I don’t spend so much time asking for things anymore. I spend more time waiting in His presence than anything.
Isaiah 40 :31 “They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles…”
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Thankful Thursdays 4-4-19
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Evening Devotional 4-3-19
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 Again and again they put God to the test;
they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his power—
the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned their river into blood;
they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,
their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,
his wrath, indignation and hostility—
a band of destroying angels.
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave them over to the plague.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;
he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 He drove out nations before them
and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes. Psalm 78:40-55
Is there ever a time when we will not be seeking to drive out an enemy?
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Wednesday Thoughts 4-3-19
“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”
― The World and Other Places: Stories
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A Question a Day From Rory Pt. 3
Today’s questions is…What do we all have in common besides our genes that makes us human?
I love this question! One thing all humans share is a likeness and image of God that is stamped upon us by the Creator Himself. We are made in the image of God. Not only that we each are born with a hole inside of us that can only effectively filled by God Himself. To that end every one of us is born into a spiritual quest. If the destination is always the same the quest is the same. We were made for relationship with the Divine.
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Worship Wednesday 4-3-19
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