Sunday is our 2 Peas in A Pod Brunch (Pancake Palooza!) after worship. Who ya bringin'? All are welcome! Come join us for worship and then fellowship around the table. It's an Acts 2:42 type of morning! God has plans for you and us and for some who are yet to come! Rejoice and join Him and us!
Don't forget the 5-5-5 prayer challenge. Pray for 5 neighbors for 5 days a week for 5 weeks and ask God how He wants to use you to be an answer to some of thise prayers! Yesterday, he already answered one of mine as a lady from Bread Ministry was invited and joined us last night and connected to us and God a little more! PTL! (there is a spot to record answered prayers for this challenge. Keep praying, believing, responding as God leads and lifting thanksgiving!
You have two Sundays to sign up for our Christmas Blessing challenge. Sun Dec 1st, all who signed up will receive $50, to be used to write a story of how God used you to bless another or others. You can even team up with others and pool your money. OR you can opt to have the church give your $50. to the Kindness Project that helps foster families in the area. Pray into this and for God to multiply and use us and what He's given to go bless abundantly and have great stories of His loving faithfulness through us to share. (Remember this money comes from a tithe from our church for all God has provided for us this year. He truly does bless the tithing of His people!)
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Good Morning Grateful, Surrendered, Obedient and Trustworthy Vessels! AMEN!!! This salutation flows from our devotionals for today and from Harvest Prayer's blog. Did you catch the God thing in their blog? Last night at our Chosen gathering we saw the reenactment of Jesus getting the colt of a donkey for His triumphal entry and today's harvest blog uses that same Scripture to lead us in praise and prayer. What's God saying to you as you encounter their prayer starters? He's speaking to you and informing your prayers and praise! Pretty cool! I have been so blessed to be part of these Chosen gatherings and for how God uses me. The Holy Spirit is evident in me as He brings to mind and recalls Scriptures and God's teachings to answer the many questions and teach about each episode. I am humbled how God uses me! Thanks Lord! He can do the same for you as you store up Scripture in your hearts and the Holy Spirit brings them to mind as you answer other's questions and arguments. Thanks Lord! Come! teach us! Use us! Fill us to overflowing with You Love and Word. Thanks! Amen.
The rest of our devos flow together to speak to us about our hearts of gratitude and trust for who God is and all he has planned! he loves you and is leading you to His perfect plans and your purposes. Build those gratitude lists! offer your hearts, trust and much praise and thanksgiving to God today. He is so worthy! I gotta fly. May God bless you and speak to your hearts and fill them with gratitude and direct our steps. Shalom, shalom!
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November 21 - Trustworthy Vessels
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“Go to the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here soon’” (Mark 11:2-3).
Jesus possessed accurate foreknowledge. Because He knew His disciples would follow His instructions, His disciples experienced “God adventures.”
When we follow Jesus’ instructions, we won’t stumble. In fact, receiving His instruction and acting on it will create testimonial “God adventures.” Let us live as God’s trustworthy vessels knowing that the Lord’s leadings will prove accurate.
Lord, I repent for every time I’ve ignored and disregarded Your specific instructions. I repent for every time I didn’t trust Your leadings. I repent for every time I partially followed You instead of following through on exactly what You indicated. I repent for any way in me that leaves me untrustworthy. I want to know Your will and implement it in any given situation.
Whatever the past, I declare I will be trustworthy. You can trust me, and I’m willing to prove it to You. Give me little things and let’s build trust. I want to receive Your accurate leadings.
I thank You that You will build me into a trustworthy vessel, that You can trust me with even more than transportation logistics (i.e., the donkey). I thank You for Your desire to trust me.
I praise You that You’re trustworthy. I praise You that You know the beginning from the end. I praise You that Your will, will be done on this earth. I praise You for the call You placed on my life. I praise You that it’s Your desire for me to complete the purposes and plans You designed for me before I filled my mother’s womb. I praise You for following through and “sealing deals.” You’re thrilling! I love You!
--Adapted from Praying What Jesus Says by Natasha Miller. This book is available at prayershop.org. Use the code CONPSP3 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount.
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- Praise God, the one who is your “light” and your “salvation” (Ps. 27:1).
- Thank him for shining his saving light in your darkness.
- Confess times when you’ve preferred to live in the darkness of sinful actions and habits rather than in the light of Jesus.
- Commit yourself anew to living in his light.
- Ask God to surround you every day this week with his light and salvation.
- Pray for Christian ministries which bring healing light into some of our society’s darkest corners. Pray for those who work with the homeless, with substance abusers, with the poor, with persons in mental institutions, and others. Ask that the love of Jesus will soothe every hurting heart.
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Joyce Meyer
Sarah Young
Charles Stanley
The Word for You Today
The Upper Room: Our Advocate
The Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words. - Romans 8:26 (NRSVUE)
When I was a child, my home environment was filled with violence. I felt completely insignificant. When I was only seven or eight years old, I was depressed and harbored dark thoughts bordering on suicide.
As I grew into a teenager, my childhood continued to haunt me, and I experienced lingering thoughts that I did not deserve to live. Then I learned about Jesus, a man who experienced great suffering at the hands of his peers and was crucified. I marveled at the great injustice he had suffered. I prayed earnestly, asking Jesus to take away my problems. But Jesus Christ taught me instead to forgive my aggressors. Eventually, I came to understand that they treated me the way they did because they could not give me what they did not have.
Even though my parents abandoned me, the Lord welcomed me lovingly with open arms. I learned that I cannot change people, but the Holy Spirit can. My advocate, the Holy Spirit, awakened in me the desire to commit to a new future and the belief that I could choose a new life in Christ. Thanks be to God!
Today's Prayer
Even before we cry out to you, great God of mercy, you already know our needs. Help us to accept ourselves as beloved children created in your image. Amen.
