Sarah Update below. Thanks Sarah for a great teaching on wisdom flowing from knowledge and knowledge of God and His Word! We should absorb wisdom as we dwell in Christ and His Living Word and allow that knowledge to grow to wisdom as we apply it to our lives and situations. She reminded us that God is breathing wisdom into us like He did for the writers of Scriptures as we spend time in His Word and allow it to inform our choices. Wise living is being a doer of His Word! Amen!
Good Morning Scripture-Dwelling, Wise-Living, Surrendered and Obedient, Followers of the Way! AMEN! Yes rejoice! God is all-wise and His wisdom lives in us and flows from us as we bring Him and His Word to life as we go through each day! Amen! Our Daily Bread reminds us to be still and surrendered as we dwell in Christ and absorb His Truth. We are clay in the Potters hands--well we can be--should be as we allow Him to continue to mold and shape us! And never forget as the Upper Room reminds us that we are children of the resurrection! PTL! "We are not a people of hopelessness and despair!" God uses trials to mold and shape and prepare us to be the Potter's vessels, pouring out His love and wisdom and even Living Water through us into the parched and weary land! God is always with us and always working all things together for the good of those who believe and are called by His name...that's us--Christ's Ones! 's challenge is to seek first His Kingdom and His wisdom and righteousness and then to allow His provision to come as we allow Him to shape and prepare us and then send us to bring life, love, truth and justice alive. Amen! SO...Go! Be Christ in the flesh and plant, water, fertilize and maybe even harvest. Good fruit awaits! Amen!
ODB:
Yielded and Still
The potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Jeremiah 18:4
Not much is known about Adelaide Pollard, and that’s sort of the point. She was a humble servant of God who wanted no recognition for herself. At the age of forty, she felt a strong calling to be a missionary to Africa, but that door was closed to her, leaving her greatly discouraged. Yet Adelaide was reminded of a verse: “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand” (Jeremiah 18:6). Later, she penned a hymn with these lyrics: “Thou art the potter, I am the clay.”
The image in Jeremiah has much to speak into our lives : “The pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him” (18:4). This is a picture of how God reshapes us into His better purpose. Whatever we think we should do and be, God may have another shape for our lives: “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand” (v. 6).
Eventually Adelaide did go to Africa, but it may be that God’s shape for her life had more to do with other things—perhaps writing that hymn, “Have Thine Own Way,” which has inspired millions in the years since. When we feel “on hold” in what we want to do, we might think about how God is shaping us in the meantime. We do well to let God have His own way and wait, “yielded and still,” for His greater purpose.
By Kenneth Petersen
REFLECT & PRAY
How do you feel discouraged in your life goals ? How might you let God have His way with your life?
Dear God, please help me yield myself to Your potter’s hand.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
Jeremiah 18:6 reminds us that God is “the potter” who shapes and uses us for His purpose. Moses is an example of someone who was used by God. In Acts 7, Stephen says of him, “When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. . . . Moses thought that [they] would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not” (vv. 23-25). He overestimated his readiness. His instincts were good, but his timing wasn’t. Eventually, after forty years of “relative” silence, he was ready for God’s assignment and rescued his people: “This is the same Moses they had rejected. . . . He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself . . . . He led them out of Egypt and performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness” (vv. 35-36). , when we yield ourselves to God, He’ll use us for His purpose in His timing.
Arthur Jackson
UR: People of Resurrection
If we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. - Romans 6:5 (NIV)
Every year I have a vegetable garden. I start by planting tomato and pepper seeds in pots inside the house months before the ground warms up. That way, when I transfer them out to the garden, they are already quite large. This year, I put the pots in the garage instead of the house. After several weeks, there were no sprouts. I planted more seeds and still no sprouts appeared. I gave up hope; but then when the weather warmed up, I saw sprouts in my pots. The garage had been too cold for the seeds to germinate.
How often do our dreams seem to go nowhere? When it looks like hope has been crushed and everything is bleak, we are tempted to admit defeat. But we are not a people of hopelessness and despair; we are people of resurrection. On Easter morning, the stone was rolled away, and the risen Christ stepped out leaving the grave clothes behind. That is our hope and assurance. Our trials are not the final story. Rather, trials provide a chance for a new start. Because of Jesus we are not defeated; we are people of resurrection.
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's Prayer
Lord Jesus, strengthen us as we weather our trials so that we may live into the promise of resurrection. Amen.
Sarah Update:
Hi all,
Good to worship with you all .....
I just wanted to send off the prayer needs so you can recall them this week, as your spend time talking with our
Father.....
Continued prayers for healing and strength, and endurance for those we know are dealing with cancer, cancer treatments, healing following procedures: Terry, Houstin
Rosa has been having health issues, particularly with her heart. She has been in and out of the hospital recently. She is praising God that she was able to
attend worship . She had two bypasses and is feeling better. She is also grateful for the home health aids that come to help her on a daily basis.
Rosa's Home Health aid attend worship with her. She asked for prayer for her son and grandson.
Sandy Ritter's daughter Tina, has found a new doctor. The new doctor has been very successful in helping with her pain and they are getting some
results. She is finding relief.
Pastor Don is asking prayer for his sister, Connie. Her heart rate is high and they are working to get it back into rhythm. Prayers for the medical team working
with her. Also, Don is asking for prayer that she will come to know Jesus as her Lord and Savior.
Keep our graduates in prayer, Seniors as they decide on colleges vs working, and our college graduates as they pursue employment.
Just a reminder that the Celebration envelope in your offering envelope box will be used for Outreach to help those in need.
Hope you all have a great week!
Have a prayer need, let us know so that we can pray along with you.....
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