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Friday, September 27 2024

Good Morning Children of the All-Sufficient, Miracle Working God! He is able! He is enough! Jireh! He can do things way beyond what we can think or imagine. PTL! Believe it! Pray for miracles and the supernatural to come alive in our midst. Pray for chains to be broken. Addictions gone. Deliverance from depression, doubt, fear. Miraculous healings. Revival! God is able and with mustard seed sized faith, we can move mountains! Believe! Pray expectantly with thanksgiving today! God will provide, heck He is already at work, for our insurance and roof needs. Trust and pray expectantly with thanksgiving! He is at work in you right now transforming you into His image and your created potential! PTL! Pronounce out loud that He is enough for whatever you are facing and that you believe He is able to answer. He will in His perfect way and timing. Praise Him in the waiting and keep praying. Check out the Upper Room's reminder that He is just enough! Always is! He inhabits our praise and is always at work working all things together for good and according to His perfect plans. Rejoice and pray into whatever you are facing in faith! Cast all your anxiety to God because He truly does love you and care for you and wants to lead you to his best for you. He even walks with you through whatever molding and refining it takes to get you there. PTL! Use the prayer pointers from harvest to begin your prayer time and continue sowing in faith!

Today is the day the Lord has made. We get to worship, trust and follow Him in this day! PTL! Jesus is looking deep into your soul with love and longing to be invited into your day. Open that door and invite Him in. Spend some time with Him in His Word. Know His Truth! Internalize it. Believe it! Allow His Word to lead you into all Truth! One other devo to share today is The Word for You Today as they begin a few day teaching on Jesus being the source of enlightenment. So many of you are stressing over the state of this country and the election and all the lies being spewed about. It's hard to know what to believe. Turn off the noise and cast that anxiety unto the Lord. His Word teaches us that God places leaders in place for His purposes and we are to pray for them to follow Him and His ways. Start spending time with the Living Word, Jesus, in His Word and ingest His truths and promises. Allow Him and His Word to enlighten your voting. Who is honoring His ways. Unfortunately today, maybe the question is who fails to follow Him and His ways some of the time and who doesn't and is arrayed against Jesus and His people. Vote for the ones that honor God and His ways. Pray for Him to direct your vote and cast your anxiety to Him and allow Him to raise up the leader of His choice for His purposes. Obviously we live in some dark times. It's not much different than from times of old that God's people endured. Our purpose is to change the world by being His Light and allowing His Word and promises to lead you and comfort you as you reach the ones He has prepared for you to lead out of the darkness. Do it in faith with much thanksgiving!

Come Lord! Your will be done and Kingdom rise amidst this darkness. Help us to live and love like Jesus and be filled to overflowing with His Love, Word, Light and ways as we go change the world one soul at a time by living and loving more like Jesus. You are enough! Jireh! You are the God of miracles. Come! Deliver us and this nation from darkness, bring revival! be the Light through us! Come! You are the Way, the Truth and the Life! Only You! Come! Prepare us. Lead us. Deliver us! And use us for Your glory! Bring shalom to this chaos in and around me! Take my anxiety! Thank You! We know you have plans for each of us and us together. Come! Bring them alive and grow our faith and trust. Forgive our unbelief. May we be looking for, praying for and see your miraculous workings all around us and lift much thanksgiving and praise. Yes Come! Glorify Your holy name! You are able! I believe! Thank You! Rise and shine Lord! Amen!

UR: Just Enough

Do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. - Matthew 6:31-32 (NIV)

When it comes to work and finances, I have always worried about not having enough. In my early twenties I developed chronic fatigue syndrome, and since then I have never managed full-time work. But I have always had just enough money to get by as a freelance writer. When I complete a project, I often have an anxious voice in my head that wonders, What if I don’t get another one? Yet the next one always comes.

These words from Matthew 6 remind me that I need to replace that anxious voice with the assurance that God will always provide. What seems miraculous to me is that there is always just enough; it feels like God has a hand in every situation.

I recently became a Christian. Before that, I was tempted by the idea that I could become rich by positive thinking. Yet I never did discover my dream life. When I became a Christian, I realized that what I really wanted wasn’t riches; I simply wanted to be safe. I was humbled, feeling gratitude for what I had. God had provided for me all this time, even when I hadn’t believed in God.

Today's Prayer

O heavenly Father, forgive us for our greed and doubt in your provision for us. Please receive our humble thanks for all that you have given us. Amen.

Harvest prayer starters! pray these earnestly today!

Prayer Points

  • Give highest praise to God as the all-sufficient one, “El-Shaddai.”
  • Thank God for being the strength of your heart and your inheritance forever (Ps. 73:26).
  • Confess to him your reliance on material wealth or possessions to make you feel secure and satisfied.
  • Commit yourself to saying, “Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you” (73:25).
  • Ask God to help you grasp how completely his love and presence surround you in this day.
  • Ask God to reveal to you one person whom you should invite to worship this week or at least invite over for a meal or a cup of coffee. 
     
    Prayer Pointer
    “It appears that God has so ordered life and the world that our praying is a vital part of his redemptive plan for individuals and the entire universe.” —Maxie Dunnam
Prayer Points taken from Patterns for Prayer by Alvin VanderGriend. This book is available at prayershop.org. Use the code CONPSP3 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount

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St. Matthew's EC Church

5th & Ridge Streets
P.O. Box 433
Emmaus, PA 18049
Telephone 610.965.5570
Email: stmattsecemmaus@gmail.com

ABOUT US

We are learning to live and love like Jesus. 

We are working on becoming who we were created to be and doing our custom made purposes well. 

We are part of the Evangelical Congregational Church http://www.eccenter.com/

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