Today: Bread Ministry 10-12; Dinner Huddle 6-7:30
Good Morning Saved By Grace, Redeemed of the Lord! We ae in Christ and made right with God through the faith He's given! PTL! We are created for such a time as this! God is with us and has great plans for you and us! PTL!
Check out the devos below and spend sme time processing at Jesus' feet as you worship, receive and follow today. I'm praying for you and us and hope to see some of you today!
ODB
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I flew to India, a land I’d never visited, and arrived at the Bengaluru airport after midnight. Though there’d been a flurry of emails, I didn’t know who was picking me up or where I should meet him. I followed the streaming mass of humanity to the baggage claim and customs, then out into the sticky night where I tried to spot a pair of friendly eyes among the sea of faces. For an hour, I walked back and forth in front of the crowd, hoping someone would recognize me. A kind man finally approached. “Are you Winn?” he asked. “I’m so sorry. I thought I’d recognize you, and you kept walking in front of me—but you didn’t look how I expected.”
We regularly get confused and fail to recognize people or places we should know. God provides an unmistakable way of recognizing Him, however. He arrived in our world as Jesus, who “is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being” (Hebrews 1:3). Christ is God’s exact representation. When we see Him, we have complete confidence that we’re seeing God.
If we want to know what God is like—what He would say, how He would love—then we need only look and listen to Jesus. Are we truly hearing what “[God] has spoken” (v. 2) through Him? Are we actually following His truth? To be sure that we know how to recognize God, we fix our gaze on the Son and learn from Him.
By Winn Collier
REFLECT & PRAY
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When do you have trouble recognizing God’s voice? How does fixing your focus on Jesus help?
Dear God, I want to know Your voice and follow You. Please help me recognize You in Jesus.
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SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
How God has made Himself known to us is noted briefly in Hebrews 1. In the past, He spoke “through the prophets” (v. 1), but now He “has spoken to us by his Son” (v. 2). The supreme revelation of God to us is Jesus. The first of several warning passages comes on the heels of the exaltation of Jesus in Hebrews 1. Readers are cautioned about rejecting the message of the Son and those commissioned by Him (2:3).
The revelation of the Son is also seen in the teaching of Christ in Mark 12:1-12. Using story, He spoke of a man who planted a vineyard and sent servants (representing the prophets) to gather its fruit. When they were rejected, the man sent “a son, whom he loved” (v. 6)—a reference to God’s Son, Jesus—and they killed him (v. 8). Christ’s teaching here also concludes with words about rejecting the Son—“the stone the builders rejected” (v. 10).
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UR: Trusting God's Will
Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. - Matthew 19:26 (KJV)
One rainy morning in July 2022, my nine-year-old son and I were getting ready for a very important visa appointment. We wanted to go to the country where my wife had been living for the past year. While traveling from our hotel to the embassy, my mind was racing. What if we get the visas? What if we don’t? At the same time I was preparing myself to accept God’s will.
During the interview with the visa officer, I discovered that I had all but one of our necessary documents with me. With prayers in my heart that a solution could be found, I said to the officer, “I don’t have that document with me today.” He assured me that he could help and searched for the document in his computer database. After some time, he printed the document for us. This was not a usual service offered by the visa office. If he had wished, the officer could have rejected our request.
This incident may sound mundane to many people, but I know in my heart that only God’s power made that act of compassion possible. When we completely surrender ourselves to God’s will, we open ourselves to experience God’s wonderful deeds.
Today's Prayer
Father God, help us to understand that you are with us in all situations. Increase our faith, and help us to trust you fully. In Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
TWFYT:
Praying through the President’s First 31 Days
Day 3
Pray that the president and his administration would be men and women of integrity in both their private and public lives.
Do all things without complaining or arguments; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world…(Philippians 2:14-15).
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