Dear Family of Jesus,
Something to think about today…………to pray about……..to chew over……….These are the words the Lord has for me to share with you this day………
The fact that God created time reminds us of his lordship over it and our obligation to use it for His glory…..For God’s Glory Alone!
“You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.” Rev. 4:11
The Bible clearly requires us to believe that God created the universe out of nothing. This means that before God began to create the universe, nothing else existed except himself.
This is the implication of Genesis 1:1, which says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.” The phrase “the heavens and the earth” include the entire universe.
Psalm 33 also tells us, “by the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth…..For He spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth” Ps. 33:6,9. In the New Testament, we find a universal statement at the beginning of John’s gospel: “All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made” John 1:3……that of course means you and mean….the sanctity of life given by God.
Hebrews 11:3 says, “By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible”
When my hero Paul, I pray he is a role model for you!, When Paul is speaking to pagan Greek philosophers in Athens (picture him speaking in America today) Paul identifies the true God as “The God who made the world and everything in it” and says that this God “gives to all men life and breath and everything” Acts 17:24-25 Isa 45:18 and Rev 10:6
Let us now stop for a time…….and give Praise and Thanks to Almighty God! Sometimes we just forget what I just wrote above……….and take it all for granted or get caught up in the nothing noise of the world.
This is such an AWESOME story from Godvive! You never know…………..
The Church the Bible Built
Many years ago the Rev. Robert Burris, now 92 years of age, worked for four and one-half years as a missionary in South China. As part of his ministry he journeyed into the mountains carrying copies of the Scriptures in Chinese for distribution. In this way, although he could not speak fluent Chinese, the people were given God’s word. Toward the end of his term Mr. Burris and three companions began a 180- mile journey with 4,000 copies of the Chinese New Testament. In the first ten days about half of these New Testaments had been distributed. Then, in the remote countryside, they were stopped by five armed bandits who took everything–money, clothing, shoes— and the remaining 2,000 copies of the New Testament. Mr. Burris and friends limped home barefooted in their shirts and trousers, glad to be alive. Approximately 25 years later when Mr. Burris was the pastor of a church in Ohio, he and his wife attended a lecture with slides presented by a missionary to South China. Among the slides shown was a picture of the very place in which he had been robbed by the bandits.”Now,” the missionary said,”we come to the most important slide in my collection. I call it The Miracle Church.” The picture on the screen showed a large rough empty building.”This is The Miracle Church,” the missionary continued,”Because no one knows who started it, or how, every Sunday, 400 people attend, each with a copy of The New Testament in Chinese. No one knows were they got these New Testaments. So far as is known, no missionary or distributor ever went into these mountains which are infested with bandits and robbers. Yet today, the church is there and the people have God’s Word”. Mr. Burris smiled in gratitude. God’s Word, taken from him that day by bandits had been building it’s own church in China for 25 years. You never know how the Lord is going to use us! AMEN! What a great story!!! AMEN!!! From Ras……….. October 24, 2012. When the house of God, the church, and the earthly house, the family, are built upon good foundations, there is peace and joy. Wisdom is the solid rock upon which life is safe and secure. Understanding comes from being baptized in wisdom and knowledge in everyday living. Knowledge fills the soul with the essence from the heart of the Father of Lights. Righteousness manifests in such an atmosphere in unmeasured joy. The Spirit of God has found a heart easily inhabited. Now He can lead you into the fullness of the Spirit and manifest the Christ for all to see and be blessed. These two houses simply must be the most important work of God in life today. Proverbs 24:3-4 (NASB) “By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” Ras Robinson For God’s Glory Alone, Dewey and Sharon www.fggam.org If you have friends or family you think would like to share a daily cup of inspirational coffee with Dewey please forward this email and encourage them to join Dewey’s Daily Cup. All they have to do is send an email saying “Sign me up!” to radiodewey. If you do not wish to be on this email list please kindly inform Dewey by sending him an email titled REMOVE at radiodewey@aol.com – we will take you off this email list asap. |
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