Thank God I'm Forgiven! How often I proclaim that--especially when someone catches me sinning or straying! Thank God for His saving love, seeking grace and mercy, and forgiveness and for a sinner as great as me. It's humbling and such a blessing to be known by LOVE that sent His Son for me, you and all who will come. Yes, TGIF! What are you thankful for and how will that overflow to others around you that need to experience the Good News of God's love, Jesus' sacrifice and how His forgiveness, mercy and grace has transformed you? God has someone for you and/or in the weeks ahead to love like Jesus and share the Good News. Pray into that. Prepare. And go live and love like Jesus starting right now! That is an act of worship and obedience. Pray for revival and to be part of it. There is a groundswell of many seeking and coming to Christ, especially young people. How might you help them find your Savior and receive forgiveness and new life? How does God want to use you to disciple a new believer? Thank God I'm forgiven! Yes Lord and help me to go share the Good News in a relevant way to those You are drawing. Help me to disciple new followers and connect them to you better. May I seed, water, fertilize, and if it's Your will, help to harvest many new lives in Christ. Thanks! Amen and thanks for forgiving me when I fail You or those You are sending. Help me to repent and follow You better. Thank You for saving and using a wretch like me! May Your Kingdom come, will be done and revival explode all around this nation and even my neighborhood. Thanks! Amen!
Good Morning Kingdom Working Revivalists! Amen! We all have a part in His Good News Delivery Company! He has created and gifted you for such a time as this! PTL. Repent and go! I'm praying for you and for God o use us well according to Hos perfect plans and tming o be His revivalists and to do our parts. Amen! Talk to God and your team about this and go live and love like Jesus before a watching, thirsty world. Check out the things below that flow through this and ask God to speak to, prepare and send you, His servant revivalist. Amen! I'm not ashamed and trying to do all God has for me and praying for His heart and mind. Join me as we worship through this video one of you sent me !
“No matter where you are, what you’re going through; use what you have and make the most of it,” said the young woman in a TV interview. Her words prompted me to listen carefully to the full story. I learned that she was one of six sisters working toward nursing degrees. They were once homeless and struggling, yet they worked together to reach their common goal. And at the time the story aired, all six sisters were completing the nursing program at a local university.
Numbers 27 tells the story of another group of sisters who worked together and supported each other. The five daughters of Zelophehad made an appeal about an inheritance law. They gathered together and stood before Moses to plead their case, saying, “Our father died . . . for his own sin and left no sons. . . . Give us property among our father’s relatives” (vv. 3-4). God answered with this revolutionary statement: “What Zelophehad’s daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance” (v. 7).
The five sisters came together and sought God’s mercy as they stood before Moses. And God provided what they needed as they banded together before Him.
Working together isn’t always easy as believers in Jesus. But as we seek God’s wisdom and direction with humility, we’ll find He can help us serve well together in Christ.
By Katara Patton
REFLECT & PRAY
How can you work better with other believers in Christ? How does it encourage you to serve with others?
Dear God, please show me how to work with other believers to accomplish goals that honor You.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
In Numbers 27:1-7, Zelophehad’s five daughters act as one in their request to receive their father’s inheritance in the promised land. Their boldness in making the request (they followed proper protocol in approaching the leaders at the tent of meeting) is an example of both faith and humility. There was no provision in Israel at that time for women to receive an inheritance; it was only passed through the men.
Moses models the character of a good spiritual leader in responding to their request. Since there was no precedent for women to receive an inheritance, he inquired of God, who said, “You must certainly give them property” (v. 7). The courage of the women and the character of Moses led to a positive solution where the good of the people was served. As we face challenges , we can seek God’s wisdom for ways to serve together well in Christ.
J.R. Hudberg
Upper Room: Holding On to God
I am the Lord your God, who grasps your strong hand, who says to you, Don’t fear; I will help you. - Isaiah 41:13 (CEB)
My granddaughter is just over one year old. She is standing and taking tentative steps but has not yet tried to walk on her own. When she wants to move from one spot to another, instead of crawling she will look around for someone she trusts and hold out her hand. If one of us responds to her, offering her our hand, she will use it to steady herself as she stands and then will walk with us to where she wants to go. She doesn’t walk anywhere without holding on to the hand of someone stronger and steadier than herself.
It is a wonderful thing to know that we don’t have to walk through life alone. Whether we feel confident or unsure, brave or fearful, joyful or sorrowful, God is always with us, strong and steady for us to hold on to.
We can always reach out for God whose guidance, understanding, and protection are always there for us. God wants to walk with us at all times. Just like my granddaughter will take my hand in trust, knowing that I love her, we too can hold on to God, trusting God’s steadfast love to keep us from falling.
's Prayer
Dear God, thank you for loving us and for your steadying presence that holds us up and helps us along whatever path life takes. Amen.
I to We
Connection Blog
- The Reality of Christ’s Presence and Power
Revival, interestingly enough, was a shared experience by saints in both Old and New Testaments. There was a difference, however, between the two eras in how the experience played itself out.
In the Old Testament, the reviving of Israel was usually characterized by a look back, as the nation sought to return to previous high‑water marks in Israel’s religious pilgrimage. Note how Elijah on Mt. Carmel challenged Israel to return to days of spiritual faithfulness before Baal worship had taken over (1 Kings 18). Or recall how Hezekiah refurbished the time-worn temple and reinstituted the ancient Passover tradition, shaping the revival that emerged under his watch.
In the New Testament, however, revival is characterized much more as a look forward. It is focused on fresh extensions of Christ’s reign among His people and into the world. Consider the prayer meeting of Acts 4: what they prayed, how God answered, and the aftermath in the succeeding stories of missionary advance—all forward-looking. In a Christ‑dominated revival, the Holy Spirit increases vision for what’s ahead. He deepens our yearnings for greater approximations of the coming Kingdom.
In New Testament-style revival, Christians are aroused to a reality of Christ’s presence and power already theirs, but currently overlooked. They are summoned not only to recapture their first love for Christ (Rev. 2), but also to discover a passion for Him that surpasses whatever they have known before (Eph. 3). Reawakening us to greater dimensions of His glory, New Testament revival is ultimately about recovering and enlarging hope in Christ.
Gracious God, awaken my soul to Your power and presence! Revive Your people Oh God! Wake up Your sleeping Church to the reality of Jesus in her midst so we might look so much like Him that our culture changes in significant ways! Give us the hope of glory that is already our inheritance…but which we have forgotten in our thirst for things that are of this world rather than of Your kingdom. Increase our vision and keep us looking ahead with expectation, all the while participating in the kingdom that is both now…and not yet!
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