Today: Zoom Huddle 10-11; Prayer for Trunk or Treat with Revival church, noon-12:30 on Zoom (all welcome) Link: Today Noon and 6:30 pray with Revival Church for Light in the Night Trunk or Treat. Link:
Topic: Light in the Night Prayer Call Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet every Tues at noon and/or 6:30 PM
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Good Morning Lavishly Sowing Prayer Warriors and Servants of the Lord! Oh please keep or start sowing lavishly for revival, new connection points, new ministry opportunities, Light in the Night, and for God to lead new families and children to our fellowship in prater and actions. Our fervent, lavish prayers do produce His plans and good fruit to come alive. Check out a few devos on that today and keep praying! We need your prayers! God answers your prayers because you are clothed in Jesus' righteousness. Amen! Pray for His Kingdom to come and will to be done. Pray for our vision team to see and hear and make His plans for the rest of the year and into 2025. He has great plans for us and fruit is budding. may we see, follow and produce good and lasting fruit as we sow lavishly in prayer and action. May we be the best stewards of all His blessings and follow Jesus well! Amen! Come Jesus! Lead us today and always to be lavish sowers and great fruit producers for Your glory. Amen! And join us as we pray through the day and serve always and incarnate Jesus daily. I'm sowing lavishly over you, our Church and ministries. May God use us well! Amen
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It was June 2016 during the official celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s ninetieth birthday. From her carriage, the monarch waved to the crowds, passing in front of long lines of red-coated soldiers standing at perfect, unflinching attention. It was a warm day in England, and the guards were dressed in their traditional dark wool pants, wool jackets buttoned to the chin, and massive bear-fur hats. As the soldiers stood in rigid rows under the sun, one guard began to faint. Remarkably, he maintained his strict control and simply fell forward, his body remaining straight as a board as he planted his face in the sandy gravel. There he lay—somehow still at attention.
It took years of practice and discipline for this guard to learn such self-control, to hold his body in place even as he was falling unconscious. The apostle Paul describes such training: “I discipline my body and keep it under control,” he wrote (1 Corinthians 9:27 esv). Paul recognized that “everyone who competes . . . goes into strict training” (v. 25).
While God’s grace (not our efforts) undergirds all we do, our spiritual life deserves rigorous discipline. As God helps us discipline our mind, heart, and body, we learn to keep our attention fixed on Him, even amid trials or distractions.
By Winn Collier
REFLECT & PRAY
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Where is it most difficult for you to discipline your heart, mind, or body? How do you sense God inviting you into deeper discipline?
Dear God, please teach me how to be more disciplined for You. I want to grow my love for You and keep my heart close to You.
For further study, read The Sword, The Son, and a Rest for God’s People.
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SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
Paul’s original audience would have immediately resonated with his sports metaphors. Corinth hosted the Isthmian games on the years before and after the Olympic games. The athletes who competed were required by the rules to train for a minimum of ten months. Failing to do so would disqualify them entirely.
In his letter to the Corinthian believers in Jesus, the apostle exhorts them to live with the same kind of discipline that an athlete would have (1 Corinthians 9:24-27)—not to compete in the games but to live faithfully in the example of Christ (Hebrews 12:1-3). He’s not pitting them against each other like the games would, but he does call them to the same level of commitment in following Jesus. Instead of ten months, though, the life of the believer in Him calls us to a lifetime of growing discipline aimed at walking in His footsteps and ultimately sharing in His prize (2 Thessalonians 2:14).
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UR: Teaching Children
Train children in the way they should go; when they grow old, they won’t depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6 (CEB)
Evelyn is my 10-year-old daughter. For a while now, when I sit to compose meditations to send to the editorial office of El Aposento Alto, she has sat down beside me. One morning, to my surprise, I found her writing a few paragraphs about our family. When I asked her about it, she said she was composing some meditations she plans to send to the magazine with the hope that children around the world would place God at the center of their family life and experience the goodness of God.
Today’s scripture from Proverbs immediately came to mind. God always surprises me. For a while I had wanted to teach my daughter the ways of God, but had, to my dismay, found it easier for me to quote that verse rather than put it into practice. But the good Teacher taught me a great lesson. Evelyn watches what I do and does the same. She writes a few lines, checks the scripture verses in her Bible, and sits with me while I write and edit my own meditations. I will continue to let scripture guide me as I seek to train my daughter in the ways of God, remembering that she is watching me.
Today's Prayer
Inspire us, God, to set a good example by sharing your teachings with our children so that they may gain wisdom and be nurtured in faith. Amen.
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