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YouTube - Nicole C. Mullen - When I call on Jesus
SPECIAL PRAYER
REQUEST FOR ALL OF US AT WORK... FIRST FOR OUR BOSS,
SHE'S FEELING SOME 'UNDER THE WEATHER' YET SHE'S
STILL WORKING AND TRYING HARD TO BE THERE... THEN
WE HAVE SOME THINGS GOING ON (NOT BETWEEN US,
NOTHING LIKE THAT) JUST SOME THINGS BEYOND ANY OF
OUR CONTROL... "BUT NOT OUT OF GOD'S CONTROL" ...
SO KEEP US ALL IN YOUR PRAYERS PLEASE, THAT
EVERYTHING WILL TURN OUT EVEN BETTER THAN WE
HOPE FOR OR THAN WE EXPECT... THANKS
YouTube - God Will Make A Way
HOPE YOU LIKE THIS.. IT CAME TO ME BY WAY OF
COMPUTER THIS EVENING... HOPE IT'S OKAY TO SHARE IT..
Stir It Up by Marybeth Whalen
“[For] it is God who works in you to will and to act according
to his good purpose.” Philippians 2:13 (NIV 1984)
I took a sip of coffee and grimaced as I peered into the cup.
Everything looked like it should, but the coffee wasn’t sweet.
Yet I remembered tearing open the little yellow packets and
sprinkling the sweet crystals over the surface of the caramel
colored liquid. Then I realized that—while I had added the sugar
—I had never stirred it into the coffee. Without that stirring
action, the sugar couldn’t work all the way through. I do this
with my faith as well. I add all the necessary ingredients. I’ve got
my Bible, my devotion subscription, my godly girlfriends, my church,
my special quiet time journal, my praise and worship songs,
my verses memorized. If you looked at me, you’d say it’s all there.
But I’d rather avoid the stirring up part, truth be told. I’d tell you
that I know it’s good for me. I’d tell you that it’s not good to stay in
one place. I’d tell you that you should submit to God and let Him
stir you up and that I’d be glad to pray for you during that process.
But me? No. Just leave me alone. Let me sit. I’d rather look
okay and be comfortable than be stirred up and reach my full
potential.Have you ever had those feelings? Maybe today you’re
feeling stirred up. Your finances or your job or your marriage or
your children or your friendships or your dreams feel like a
cyclone is swirling through them, leaving you unsettled and
unstable. You might be wondering why God is letting this
happen, why He’s forgotten you. Not thinking that it just might
be His hand doing the stirring. He’s using those swirling forces
to reach all the parts of you that He wants to get to. As today’s
verse reminds us, He works in you to accomplish His purpose
for you. Years ago a friend and I were making a big pot of
spaghetti sauce. We left the pot on the stove and went off
to join our families outside. But when we returned we
smelled something burning. We pulled the lid off the pot
to peer at the sauce. The sauce looked fine. All the elements
were there: the red color, the thickness of the liquid, the
chunks of meat and slivers of onions and spices. It was only
as we took a long spoon and dug deep into the pot that we
discovered that the sauce at the very bottom had become
stuck because we hadn’t been inside stirring it up, keeping
it moving, not letting it settle. When things get settled, they
become stuck. As you are stirred up in life, thank God
that He loves you enough to not let you get stuck, to not
leave you bitter. The elements are there—and that’s
important—but it’s in the stirring that we become all that
He has in mind.
Dear Lord, when I am feeling stirred up, help me to think of it
as You working Your sweetness into me, as You preventing
me from becoming stuck. I want to move forward with You
and become what You have in mind. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
I PICKED UP MY WONDERFUL GRANDSON AFTER SCHOOL TODAY
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