(November 8, 2010)
Prayer House News!
Great weekend at Prayer House. Our Mission Convention went very well. We did great on our Faith Promises which means we will be able to continue to support our missionaries and possibly take on some new ones.
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The is Family Week which means we don't have much going on this week so you can spend some time with your family.
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Devotional
A Higher Plane of Life
One Sunday someone gave a word in our service that began by saying, “I made you.” This “word” was of course, a word from the Lord, and it simply struck me when I heard it. Obviously, it wasn’t a new revelation to me; I have always believed that God made me. But when I heard it – I was struck with that truth once again. God made me. And because He made me I have an obligation to Him to become everything He wants me to be. Suppose God would have chosen to not make me? What would my life look like if I had not been created? I suppose it would have looked exactly like it did prior to by birthday.
Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return. "
When God created the first man, he was formed from dust. Do you realize that dust by itself is incapable of holding its form? Thus, man was created to be dependent upon His creator.
The original intention was that man by necessity, would be continually sustained by God, through fellowship with Him. Therefore, all life apart from God will, by the creative design of God, fall into a formless heap. Isn’t it interesting that we humans have adapted a phrase to describe how we feel about ourselves when things are not going right and that phrase is that, “things or life, is falling apart.” When someone says, “My life or my marriage, is falling apart,” what are they referring to except that God is no longer keeping things together for them. Without God – dust just falls apart. Our lives are dust, our marriages are dust, our children are dust, even our jobs are merely dust, unless we fellowship with our God. God then becomes that which maintains life for us. Why is the divorce rate in the world at 75%? It’s because without God dust cannot stay together.
Years ago there was a rock group called, Kansas. They are still known for a song they sang called, Dust in the Wind. It’s a song that has no hope in it. It really is quite common for men who do not know God to have this perspective on life – because, without Christ – all we are is dust in the wind without any real purpose. Listen to the last verse of the song. Now, don't hang on, Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky, It slips away, And all your money won't another minute buy, Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind, Everything is dust in the wind. The bible does say that we have been made out of dust and that we will return to dust eventually. So in one sense this song writer was correct – especially since he was a song writer. For everybody knows that when composers die they go to the grave and eventually decompose and become dust.
Interestingly enough one of the members of that band got saved and is now singing and writing for the Lord. I would imagine that he no longer believes that we are nothing more than dust in the wind. For now there is something in his life that is holding him together.
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Medication: A Merry Heart
Prayer House News!
Great weekend at Prayer House. Our Mission Convention went very well. We did great on our Faith Promises which means we will be able to continue to support our missionaries and possibly take on some new ones.
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The is Family Week which means we don't have much going on this week so you can spend some time with your family.
==============================================
Devotional
A Higher Plane of Life
One Sunday someone gave a word in our service that began by saying, “I made you.” This “word” was of course, a word from the Lord, and it simply struck me when I heard it. Obviously, it wasn’t a new revelation to me; I have always believed that God made me. But when I heard it – I was struck with that truth once again. God made me. And because He made me I have an obligation to Him to become everything He wants me to be. Suppose God would have chosen to not make me? What would my life look like if I had not been created? I suppose it would have looked exactly like it did prior to by birthday.
Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return. "
When God created the first man, he was formed from dust. Do you realize that dust by itself is incapable of holding its form? Thus, man was created to be dependent upon His creator.
The original intention was that man by necessity, would be continually sustained by God, through fellowship with Him. Therefore, all life apart from God will, by the creative design of God, fall into a formless heap. Isn’t it interesting that we humans have adapted a phrase to describe how we feel about ourselves when things are not going right and that phrase is that, “things or life, is falling apart.” When someone says, “My life or my marriage, is falling apart,” what are they referring to except that God is no longer keeping things together for them. Without God – dust just falls apart. Our lives are dust, our marriages are dust, our children are dust, even our jobs are merely dust, unless we fellowship with our God. God then becomes that which maintains life for us. Why is the divorce rate in the world at 75%? It’s because without God dust cannot stay together.
Years ago there was a rock group called, Kansas. They are still known for a song they sang called, Dust in the Wind. It’s a song that has no hope in it. It really is quite common for men who do not know God to have this perspective on life – because, without Christ – all we are is dust in the wind without any real purpose. Listen to the last verse of the song. Now, don't hang on, Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky, It slips away, And all your money won't another minute buy, Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind, Everything is dust in the wind. The bible does say that we have been made out of dust and that we will return to dust eventually. So in one sense this song writer was correct – especially since he was a song writer. For everybody knows that when composers die they go to the grave and eventually decompose and become dust.
Interestingly enough one of the members of that band got saved and is now singing and writing for the Lord. I would imagine that he no longer believes that we are nothing more than dust in the wind. For now there is something in his life that is holding him together.
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Medication: A Merry Heart
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