IDOK DEVOTION FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
FOR PRAYER AND PRAISE:
Hi Kathie—- Just wanted to update you on my niece’s little girl. She is 6 years old and she has now been removed from her mother and is in a foster home. We know the Lord has worked in this, because her life was in danger with all that she was going thru and the way she was having to live. It is really heartbreaking that she is not nearby here where she could be around people that she knows and loves. Just ask everyone to keep praying that the home she is in will be a good christian home. Thank you and everyone for your prayers……….Love, Edie
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Friends, I’ve been teary tonight following Fox News as they featured reporting The Rise of Freedom – the rebuilding at Ground Zero. Not that I am opposed to rebuilding, not all; albeit, I would rather the rebuilding be not necessary. And yet since it is, may the rebuilding inspire us to remember; remember that hatred destroys; love rebuilds.
Saturday will be 9 years since that horrific day. I remember. I remember that Tuesday morning, that unfathomable Tuesday morning — it just could not be happening! But it was, it did. I remember seeking a quiet office with my friend, Julia, and there we prayed. We prayed the attacks would be stopped.
If only 911 had never been! Why did it happen? And could it have been avoided? And how?
Yes, perhaps. I do not wish to stereotype people of Muslim persuasion and I have to know that not all Muslims fly into buildings or strap car bombs to themselves, but some do. And yet I cannot deny that natural born Arabs are descendants of Ishmael and apart from a saving encounter with Yeshua, Arabs-Muslims are at enmity with Yahweh and those who have come to Him in saving faith.
This enmity began when Abraham and Sarah would not wait on the promise of God for a son and in rebellion and sin, Ishmael was born. And the world has never been the same. I am thinking that few single acts of rebellion engulf the world for millenniums; but this one did. To be sure though every act of rebellion, every sin affects/infects someone, many someones.
Let this be our Ground Zero: sin kills, hatred kills – only love heals; and it is Yahweh Who is LOVE. And in Him we learn to love who He loves and hate what He hates and He only hates sin. And John 3:16 is for EVERYONE – no exemptions.
John 3: (King James Version) 16For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2 Peter 3: (New American Standard Bible) 8But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
1 Kings 10: (New American Standard Bible) 9“Blessed be the LORD your God who delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel; because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, do justice and righteousness.”
1 John 4: (New American Standard Bible) 15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.
1 John 3: (New American Standard Bible) 10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother. 11For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
ABBA, I ask You to deal with my sadness; use it to transform me more and more into the image of Your Son and my Savior, JESUS THE CHRIST. Thank You for these Scriptures; I am comforted in them. I am comforted that You are love; You are also justice. I am comforted in Your Holiness. I am comforted in Your mercy. I am comforted that You are God and You are perfect and I can and do trust You. I pray this for each soul reading this post. And You know the matters that are continually our prayer; collectively I bring them all and entrust them to You in JESUS NAME. Amen and amen.
