A nations future is only as certain as the devotion of its defenders.’ (Ronald Regan) Thank You Veterans! Your service blesses all of us! Today’s QT takeaway:111119 • Obedience has great cost and greater reward My notes: – Oft times spiritual comforts are at their highest when physical well-being is at its lowest (Valley of …
Don’t Park in the Mud
Today’s 1-minute takeaway: 111019 • Don’t Park in the Mud My notes: – To enrich me will not diminish God’s fullness (Valley of Vision) – Tell only God’s Truth, revealed, divine truth about Jesus Himself (O. Chambers) – Make no mistake, you are what you think. Park good thoughts in your mind… put a security …
Prayer Tees Up Eternity
Today’s 1-minute takeaway: 110619 • Prayer Tees Up Eternity My notes: – Impress on my mind the shortness of time, the nearness of eternity (Valley of Vision) – My job is to be a pipe, and not block the flow of living water through me (God Calling) – My job is to pray for others …
Fake Believe Doesn’t Save
Today’s 1-minute takeaway: 110619 • Fake Believe Doesn’t Save My notes: – I marvel at my insensate folly, that when I am slow to take God’s enriching favors…I backslide (Valley of Vision) – Thy recording hand always writes (Valley of Vision) – Only personal problems reveal true belief (O. Chambers) – To believe is to …
Friends Share the Not Okay Times
Our 1- minute takeaway: 110119 • Friends Share the Not Okay Times My notes: – With God, we don’t have to pretend everything is okay. (From a new devotional about horses) – The work of prayer is to bring thy will to thine. (Not the other way around!) (Valley of Vision) – Faith by its …
Who is IN our Work?
Our 1-Minute Takeaway: 103019 • Who is IN our work? My notes: ‘He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.’ 2 Cor. 5:21 ‘For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works….’ Eph. 2:10 (IN Him, IN …
Prayer Unsticks us From Earth
Today’s QT takeaway: 102919 • Prayer Unsticks us From Earth My notes: – God customizes our thorns…he is more interested in our character than our comfort (Church Devo. Ouch! seems harsh to me too…) – God has boundless compassion in not sparing His Son (Valley of Vision) – In prayer I enter the eternal world …
Worship is Key to Life
3 days of Quiet Time today: 101719 • Worship is Key to Life My notes: – Praise unlocks the box we imprison God in (God Calling) ‘Yet to all who receive him, … he gave the right to be children of God.’ John 1:12 – John the Baptist baptized with water, that Israel may know …
Ignore Myself… Not God
Our 1-minute takeaway: 101319 • Ignore Myself… Not God My notes: ‘… observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good.’ Deut. 10:13 – Let me not be so calloused as to be indifferent to his cleansing… (Valley of Vision) – Let each lesson, failure, serve its purpose …
Silence is Deep Trust
Our one -minute takeaway: 101119 • Silence is Deep Trust My notes: – I hurt myself when I listen to myself… – God will give you Himself if you refuse to go without Him. – God may be trusting you with His intimate silence. (O. Chambers) -Ever notice how you never have an awkward silence …
Hold God’s Hand as you Climb the Ladder …
Our one-minute takeaway: 101019 • Hold God’s hand as you climb the ladder … My Notes: ‘How priceless is your unfailing love. Both high and low find refuge in the shadow of your wings.’ Psalm 36:07 – If I am not full of Jesus, I am empty (Valley of Vision paraphrased) – Know I am …
Listen to our Source
Our 1 Minute Takeaway: 100819 • Listen to God – our Source of Life Eternal My Notes: – Lord, please help me not to seek joy in things that perish (Valley of Vision paraphrased) – Uproot whatever is tripping your way to listen and obey (O. Chambers paraphrased) – Avinu Malkeinu – Source of our …
I Choose my Heredity
Our 1 Minute Takeaway: 100719 • I Choose my Heredity My notes: – Other faiths deal with sins – the Bible alone deals with sin. God made his own Son “to be sin” that He May save us. Jesus put the human race back where God designed it to be! (Oswald Chambers) (We can come …
We Live Blindfolded … Take God’s Hand
Our one-minute takeaway: 100619 • We Live Blindfolded … Take God’s Hand My notes: – Lord, help me to ask rightly for my friends- that they may hold Your hand in trust as a child… (my takeaway from God Calling) – Christ can come into me only when I’m aware of my need for Him …
Saving Hope
Our one-minute Takeaway: 100519 • Saving Hope My notes: – I read my pardon in the wounds of Jesus (Valley of Vision) – God promises never to disinherit us (God Calling) – “Earth has no sorrow that heaven can’t heal.” (Thomas Moore) – Jesus came to deliver me from sin, yet I refuse him… (O. …
