TONIGHT 6:30 Support team Zoom Meeting (Please pray for wisdom and for God to direct us. Thanks!)
***SAT. Clean-up postponed until next Sat April 19th at 10am***
Good Morning Living and Loving Like Jesus Partners! Howdy partners! Yee Haw!!! What an awesome ride we have been on! Sometimes it can feel like we are riding a bull or crashing from him. Sometimes it can feel like steer wrestling. Sometimes we know the thrill of victory and sometimes the agony of defeat. BUT GOD! Through whatever the journey brings, God is with us! He knows you and calls you by name. PTL! He picks you up when you are a crumpled mess on the ground--well if you allow Him to! He leads you down the trail to His best plans and destinations. He has a perfect journey for you to reach your full potential n Christ and to to become like Him and even to do the things He has planned for you. How awesome and praiseworthy is Almighty God--our Friend! Amen! Even in the hardest of things we can kind joy as we trust our Trail Boss. He has even herded us together for great plans He has for us as His Herd/Flock/Team. PTL! And like a cattle drive, He has given us some trail partners to travel with. Doesn't all of that make you just want to pause and worship? It does me! I've been worshipping and abiding for several hours now and invited God to come write this for us to ponder. He's so kind and good and loving and ever faithful to help us and lead us. PTL! How might He be leading you to worship and offer yourself to Him this morning? Who may he be leading you to team with for this day? Seek first His Kingdom and He will add all you need to be productive fruit producers and disciples of Jesus. PTL!
Here's a link to the song from Sunday that helps us as we worship and abide and surrender and trust and obey: You are Chosen! He's calling you by name. He's set you apart and is making you brand new as He leads you from what was to what is and what can be in Christ--His perfect plans for you! Yes PTL! What love!
This week has been busy and even a struggle at times. There are always things going on in the background that can distract us from God's best or being used by Satan to tie us up in the tyranny of the urgent to keep us from choosing God's best plans and ways. Please! Turn off the noise and refocus on God. He's there waiting for you and calling you to come abide in His love and to allow Him to lead you to His easy yoke and best plans for you. PTL! Then there are times God is very evident and shows you affirmation and that His presence is very real in the moments. Yesterday was a day of both. And because of His loving presence I have these great memories and stories that far outweigh and over-ride the chaos and noise and hurts. What an amazing day of ministry yesterday at Donut Day. We are still sharing stories of God's faithfulness and how He used us and was at work in people's lives. You really have to experience this to fully understand. But man was God present and at work in many different ways and with many different people and situations. PTL! Yesterday, I almost stayed home as Satan had me feeling ill and wanting to just go to bed. But, through Christ I overcame and followed the Spirit and was rewarded with much joy of God using me and blessing others. Sometimes we just have to say, "Satan. be gone!" he will flee and all of a sudden the Light shines, Love fills us and we find ourselves back on the trail with our Trail Boss leading the way. Amen!
Last night we watched the Tim Tebow video and had a great discussion as he reminded us that everything flows from the greatest Commandment: Love God and people. And the importance of offering God what you have and how He will bless you and multiply what you offer and lead you to His perfect plans. He asked, "Are you willing to give what you have to be used by God?" he rightly proclaimed that as we do, God is faithful to use and multiply our offerings. He said, Our lives matter and that shows up as we love God and people with what we've been given. Amen! You matter! You do love well! Keep it up! God will use whatever you release to Him and He will love through you and bless you as you are, where you are and through whatever you are facing. So stop. Turn off the noise. refocus on God and abide for a spell. Then release what you have and he will bless and use you for His glory. Try it! He really does have some custom made easy things for you to do today! PTL! Will you make room for Him to use you? Will you love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength? Will you allow Him to love through you today? try it! Meditate on this song as you still yourself and surrender and then engage with the Truth of the devos below. God really loves you! Abide. trust and follow well! I already prayed for you! God is waiting! be still and know, trust and go with Him! Know His love, joy and peace! Amen!
ODB:
Most people know about the Wright Brothers—Orville and Wilbur—who invented, built, and flew the first successful airplane in the early 1900s. But few know the name Katherine Wright. Yet in her brothers’ story of creating their flying machine, Katherine was essential to their success. While her brothers concentrated on the myriad details and experiments that led to their invention, Katherine chose to quietly and lovingly help them. She kept their bicycle shop going (the brothers’ source of income), left her teaching job to nurse Orville back to health after a plane crash, and managed the endless details of her brothers’ growing fame.
The value of the support of others is seen in Scripture as well. One example is Phoebe, mentioned by Paul as a “benefactor of many people” (Romans 16:2). And Priscilla and Aquila, a helpful couple presented in Paul’s writing, hosted churches where Paul ministered and even “risked their lives” for him (v. 4). Additionally, the apostle complimented Mark, saying he was “helpful to me in my ministry” (2 Timothy 4:11).
We can be the right brothers and sisters in Christ by serving others. The ongoing work of God needs helpers like Phoebe—and us—guided by Him to serve this way: “In humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but . . . to the interests of the others” (Philippians 2:3-4).
By Dave Branon
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Who needs your help? What can you do to serve others in Jesus’ name?
Dear God, please show me how to humbly serve others for Your glory.
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SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
Paul’s list of greetings at the end of Romans represents the many people he met during his journeys of sharing the hope of Jesus. Many of the believers in Christ whom he impacted (and who impacted him in return) ended up in Rome, and so he had a great deal of people waiting there for him before he even arrived. Both men and women shared in the apostle’s work of evangelism, paving the way for him in Rome. As we join with other believers in caring for others, we reflect the hearts of those who assisted Paul.
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Sarah Young
Chuck Swindoll
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