Posts from June 2017
We are the Notes in God’s Symphony. He arranges Us and . . .
Thursday morning (June 29, 2017) I wrote a Roscoe letter titled “Lord I’m not a Preacher!” You can read it at this link https://www.highlandparklc.com/lord-im-not-preacher/ that same afternoon, a close friend of mine who reads the Letters from Roscoe handed me this printed letter that he had written a few days earlier (June 26, 2017). The last line was hand written. I am sharing it with you as exactly as it was given to me in written form. I awakened this…
Time to Flourish
Time to Flourish From Our Daily Bread – June 30, 2017 Read: Luke 13:1–9 “Sir,” the man replied, “leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.”—Luke 13:8 Last spring I decided to cut down the rose bush by our back door. In the three years we’d lived in our home, it hadn’t produced many flowers, and its ugly, fruitless branches were now creeping in all directions. But life got busy, and my gardening plan…
Romans 8:6-8 KJV
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
But Lord, I’m not a Preacher . . .
I’m not qualified to preach to someone, but lately I’ve felt God telling me to write something about this subject. I’ve thought to myself, that sounds right but I don’t want to be ‘preaching’ to anyone. I don’t know enough. Then as I was publishing this morning’s devotional (By the way it comes from Our Daily Bread. ODB.org ) I read something that sealed it. Wham! Bam! Case closed! So here it is. I’ve been thinking about how far I’ve…
Faith in Action
Faith in Action From Our Daily Bread – June 29, 2017 Read: James 2:14–26 Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.—James 2:18 As a friend drove to the grocery store, she noticed a woman walking along the side of the road and felt she should turn the car around and offer her a ride. When she did, she was saddened to hear that the woman didn’t have money for the bus…
Verse of the Day – John 3:20-21 KJV
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reprove. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Unfinished Works
Unfinished Works From Our Daily Bread – June 28, 2017 Read: Romans 7:14–25 Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!—Romans 7:24-25 At his death, the great artist Michelangelo left many unfinished projects. But four of his sculptures were never meant to be completed. The Bearded Slave, the Atlas Slave, the Awakening Slave, and the Young Slave, though they appear unfinished, are just as…
Verse of the Day – James 1:5-6 KJV
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Five-Finger Prayers
Five-Finger Prayers From Our Daily Bread – June 27, 2017 Read: James 5:13–18 Pray for each other.—James 5:16 Prayer is a conversation with God, not a formula. Yet sometimes we might need to use a “method” to freshen up our prayer time. We can pray the Psalms or other Scriptures (such as The Lord’s Prayer), or use the ACTS method (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication). I recently came across this “Five-Finger Prayer” to use as a guide when praying for…
Verse of the Day – 1 Peter 5:8-9 KJV
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Very Good!
Very Good! From Our Daily Bread – June 26, 2017 Read: Genesis 1:24–31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!—Genesis 1:31 nlt Some days seem to have a theme running through them. Recently I had one of those days. Our pastor began his sermon on Genesis 1 with two minutes of breathtaking, time-lapse photography of blossoming flowers. Then, at home, a scroll through social media revealed numerous posts of flowers. Later…
Verse of the Day – 1 John 2:1-2 KJV
My little children, these things I write unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.