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Scripture: Psalm 33: 20-22We put our hope in the Lord. He is our help and our shield.Our heart rejoices in God because we trust his holy name.Lord, let your faithful love surround us because we wait for you. Patience may be a virtue, but I have found it a difficult one to master. I hate just waiting. When I am faced with a problem, I like to make a plan and then execute t...
Keep ReadingScripture: Micah 7:7 But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. We're sort of playing a game when we enter Lent each year. It's like Donna thoroughly cleaning our house before my mom would come to visit her son and his family. We Christians approach Lent each year like Donna. We get our Christian thinking straight...
Keep ReadingScripture: Isaiah 30:18Nonetheless, the Lord is waiting to be merciful to you,and will rise up to show you compassion.The Lord is a God of justice; happy are all who wait for him. Nonetheless is one of those clue words that teachers talk about. When you're reading along in any sort of story, and you come to words like "therefore," "so," or "nonetheless," you need to stop ...
Keep ReadingScripture: Matthew 4:1-10Then the Spirit led Jesus up into the wilderness so that the devil might tempt him. After Jesus had fasted for forty days and forty nights, he was starving. The tempter came to him and said, "Since you are God's Son, command these stones to become bread." Jesus replied, "It's written, People won't live only by bread, but by every word spoken by God...
Keep ReadingScripture: Psalm 25:4-5Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths.Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior,and my hope is in you all day long. When I was in seminary, I spent a lot of time with people who were still figuring out just what God had called them into ministry for. Were they supposed to be counselors? Pastors? Missionaries? Chaplains? O...
Keep ReadingScripture: 1 Peter 5:6-7 (in the body of the devotion) I will cast all of my cares upon You I will lay all my burdens, down at your feet Anytime I don't know, what to do I will cast all my cares upon You -Kelly Willard Once I had this song memorized it quickly became my number one single. I mean, I sang it at every church event, for every solo, and on every major hol...
Keep ReadingScripture: Galatians 5:4-6 (NIV)You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. H...
Keep ReadingScripture: Matthew 6:7-14 New Revised Standard Version"When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him."Pray then in this way:Our Father in heaven,hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come.Your will be done,on ...
Keep ReadingScripture: Isaiah 55:8-11My plans aren't your plans, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my plans than your plans. Just as the rain and the snow come down from the sky and don't return there without watering the earth, making it conceive and yield plants and providing seed to the ...
Keep ReadingScripture: Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. Waiting for God and seeking God. Prayers that we lift up from time to time oftencontain these two terms. Can they be the same? I think they have the same general meaning. When we wait on someone to show up, are we not seeking them? If we are seeking someone, then could we be...
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