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Tonight's Dinner Gathering of the Chosen is cancelled due to sickness (Pastor Don and Karen are sick) Spread the word please. See you next week
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Good Morning Flock of the Good Shepherd! Allow Jesus to lead you to green pastures and beside still waters today. Many are going through a lot right now, yet the Good Shepherd protects and walks with through the darkest valleys. He even feeds us in front of our enemies. He is kind and loving and always good. Sometimes it's hard to understand His ways, but they are always working things together for the good of those who believe and are called according to His purposes. I think Prov. 3:5-6 is critical to embrace and put into practice...Stop leaning on your own thinking and understanding. Trust God with all your heart and acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your steps onto the right paths. Amen!
Here's three devos for today to meditate upon in these hard, confusing and chaotic days. Pray against those things and step into God's promised rest for us weary travelers. he is with you always and He is in control. trust Him even when it's hard to do so. He is at work and He loves you with an everlasting love. Dwell in that love today! Amen!
ODB: They use James 1:2-12 (read it) It begins Consider it pure joy...whenever you face trials of many kinds. Many of us are facing many kinds of trials right now. Pray to be able to choose patient endurance in faith and keep trusting God. Love you all. May God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and give you His shalom! Amen!
Lessons in Patience
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4
READ James 1:2-12
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Bob Salem holds the speed record for pushing a peanut up Pike’s Peak with his nose—or rather, with a spoon attached to his face. He accomplished the feat in seven days, working at night to avoid interruption from tourists. Bob is the fourth person to complete this stunt, which means three other very patient people have done it.
We might say their need for patience was self-inflicted, but so often in life that isn’t the case. We need patience. It’s a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22) and an essential virtue for becoming “mature and complete, not lacking anything” (James 1:4). Patient people keep their heads when everyone around is in full panic. They’d like the situation to be different, but they don’t need it to be. They stay the course, trusting God for wisdom to act wisely (v. 5).
The problem with patience is there’s only one way to learn it. James says “the testing of your faith produces patience” (v. 3 nkjv). Such testing comes in ways big and small. I’m writing this from an airport. My 11:00 p.m. flight was delayed until 2:00 a.m., then canceled. After a night without sleep, I’m chugging coffee and hoping to make it home sometime. I don’t like wasting an entire, drowsy day in an airport, but my loving Father is teaching me patience.
I pray my lesson is finished for the day, but who knows? Time to check the standby list for the next flight.
By Mike Wittmer
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How can you develop patience? Why is this virtue so important?
Father, please help me learn patience as I hold on to You and Your promises.
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SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
The words perseverance (hypomonē, James 1:3-4) and perseveres (hypomenō, v. 12) relate to a compound Greek word which means to “remain under.” What’s in view is “patient endurance,” “steadfastness,” “perseverance.” In A New Testament Wordbook, William Barclay notes that hypomonē is “one of the noblest of NT words. . . . It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet with his face to the wind.” Job exemplified this kind of steadfast endurance (see James 5:11). From another word group are similar words rendered “be patient” (makrothymeō) (vv. 7-8) or “patience” (makrothymia) (v. 10). Church father John Chrysostom (ad 347-407) noted that this word describes the person “who is fully able to revenge himself but refuses to do so.”
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