Thought for the day...

March 25, 2020
Verse of the Day
When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.
Psalms 94:19 NIV

 

From my Bible app

A Prayer for Our Leaders
Dear God,

All authority is Yours, but You have given authority to leaders to protect and guide us. Today, we ask that You would give all our leaders wisdom, discernment, strength, and resolve. Keep them healthy, safe, and rested so that they can continue to guide us through this troubling time.

Give our government leaders wisdom about what needs to be done to stop the virus and stabilize our economy.

Give our spiritual leaders Your discernment on how to meet people’s needs as they continue to glorify Your name and encourage the Church.

Give our medical leaders insight into how to stop the virus. Strengthen their resolve and honor their hard work in creating a treatment for COVID-19.

Give our civic leaders inspiration, courage, joy, and strength to meet the needs of their communities.

And help us, as leaders in our communities, to display courage, hope, generosity, and kindness. Would the way we honor others inspire those around us.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen

 

HolsatiaRedneck thanks for checking out the thread. Dennis has some great common sense words on here too.

 

good funny ones there

 

Oh lawdy lawdy thats some good reading there gentleman.

 

March 26, 2020
Verse of the Day
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Matthew 5:9 NIV

 

Show of force
By Pastor Matt Ewart
When tensions rise among nations and their differences are not settled, what can often happen is they resort to a show of force. It could be a military exercise in the region. It could be a missile test. The idea is to intimidate the other side into capitulating.

This doesn’t just happen on a national level—you do this too. The time you raised your voice at someone (or gave him the silent treatment), that was a show of force. In little ways and big ways you can try to manipulate others.

But manipulation is not how God handles things, and Palm Sunday is the proof. During holy week Jesus would face the unrighteous anger of the jealous Jewish leaders. He would endure an unfair death sentence from Rome. He would face torture and death. So on Palm Sunday, before it all, he made a show of force in a way that you’d never expect.

His force was humility. Do you know why? Because in a way, the real enemy was you. It was humankind who brought sin into this world long ago, and your life is a constant testimony that sin remains.

Divine strength would have destroyed you. But it was his righteous humility that allowed him to take your place and redeem you.

“Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zechariah 9:9).

 

March 27, 2020
Verse of the Day
And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19 NIV

 

March 28, 2020
Verse of the Day
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:11 NIV

 

You have too many men
By Pastor Mark Jeske
If you would ever perform a “prayer audit” on the content of your communications with God, especially of those prayers that request help, it should come as no surprise that 100 percent of them involve prayers for more—better health, more money, better job, better home. God always loves to hear from us, appreciates the trust and respect we show him, and actually gives us as much as he thinks we can handle.

But—sometimes he thinks we have too much, that he can do more for us by subtraction rather than addition. Seriously! When the crisis with the Midianite attacks was reaching an intolerable point, God announced his rescue plan to a hero named Gideon: “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me’” (Judges 7:2).

This is the balancing act with our faith lives that God constantly works at. He loves to give us things, but the risk is that we grow proud, that we forget the true cause and effect of solving our problems. He had to prune down Gideon’s army so that Israel would give him glory for the victory.

Here are two challenges for you: when you accomplish something significant with your own mind and resources, humbly give God credit. And when you experience subtractions from your life, assume that God is going to do great things through your weakness

 

Thanks Jeff, keep at it, much appreciate your effort

 

Thanks for the encouragement

 

March 29, 2020
Verse of the Day
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 NIV