Friday December 6, 2013 thought for the day

HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

1-Determine to use all God gives you for his purposes-

2-Let no one pretend to be the Lord's representative in terms of proclaiming his message of miraculous deliverance or his power to cleanse your sin or heal your life-

3-Once a person acknowledges their sinfulness, the journey to salvation is nearly complete-

4-As soon as we abandon our own way, we are capable of following God's way-

5-Greed is an excessive desire to acquire something for the benefit of self-

 

STRANGE THOUGHT-English is a strange language-----The bandage was wound around the wound-

 

I'VE LEARNED-Do not confuse your career with your life-

 

DID YOU KNOW-The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick.  It is so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it-

 

5 THINGS I WANT TO KNOW

1-How can our human bodies be God's holy temples?

2-Is heaven a place where Christians will live forever in a disembodied existence in an immaterial realm?

3-Are people in heaven aware of what is happening on earth?

4-Why are "figures of speech" used so much in the Bible?

5-How much of the Bible should be interpreted literally?

 

BIBLE TRIVIA-To what church did Jesus say, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock"?

Answer for today    Laodicea   Revelation 3:20

 

SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY    Acts 27:13-20

¹³ When a good wind began to blow from the south, the men on the ship thought, “This is the wind we wanted, and now we have it.” So they pulled up the anchor, and we sailed very close to the island of Crete. ¹⁴ But then a very strong wind named the “northeaster” came from the island. ¹⁵ The ship was caught in it and could not sail against it. So we stopped trying and let the wind carry us. ¹⁶ When we went below a small island named Cauda, we were barely able to bring in the lifeboat. ¹⁷ After the men took the lifeboat in, they tied ropes around the ship to hold it together. The men were afraid that the ship would hit the sandbanks of Syrtis,^[a] so they lowered the sail and let the wind carry the ship. ¹⁸ The next day the storm was blowing us so hard that the men threw out some of the cargo. ¹⁹ A day later with their own hands they threw out the ship’s equipment. ²⁰ When we could not see the sun or the stars for many days, and the storm was very bad, we lost all hope of being saved.

Footnotes:

1. 27:17 Syrtis Shallow area in the sea near the Libyan coast.

PRAYER FOR TODAY 

Father, there is much that we can learn from our temporal problems here on earth that better prepares us for eternity.  As we work through these troubles, they enable us to have the mind of Christ so that attitudes reflecting the fruit of the Spirit become a spontaneous response to the difficulties that challenge us daily.  Just as light, soil, air and moisture are requirements for growth in vegetation so must faith, prayer, self-denial and persistence in obeying God’s Holy Word be requirements for growth in our Christian walk. Help us not to become so caught up in viewing our daily challenges from an earthly perspective that we lose the view of our future home in heaven following the storms we weather here below. We stand in the strength of the Lord Jesus and in the power of His might. Amen.


SMILE, LAUGH, FORGIVE, BELIEVE AND LOVE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN!