Good Monday everyone! I trust all are doing well and that your
preparations for this holiday week are going smoothly. Our prayers
to all who travel this week. May the Lord bless you and keep you as
you or loved ones travel.
This was the last Sunday was the last one in The Jesus Powered
Church. The sermon was based on Acts 2:41-47 and we talked about
the way the Lord has blessed us and how the Lord can bless us and
our churches.
Here's our study guide for today:
Monday: Let's turn to Psalm 8: 3-6. Read it aloud. Hear the awe
and wonder in David's voice as he turned to God to praise Him and
to
ask these very deep questions about life. Who is God in your life?
Do you hold God in awe and wonder? Do you ever stop to wonder about
what God is and can be doing in your life?
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon
and the stars that you have established; 4 what are human beings
that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? 5 Yet
you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with
glory and honor. 6 You have given them dominion over the works of
your hands; you have put all things under their feet. NRSV
One of the more modern versions has it this way (The Message) 3 I
look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-
jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. 4 Then I look at
my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a
second look our way? 5 Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods,
bright with Eden's dawn light. 6 You put us in charge of your
handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge."
I pray that today God would be made more real in your life than ever
before. As I mentioned in the sermon may we never lose our awe and
wonder for what God does in our lives. And that we may indeed allow
the Lord to work in us and through us in all that we face.
PRAYER: Lord, we repeat the words of David as our words, "When I
look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the
stars that you have established; whp am I that you are mindful of
me, mortals that you care for us? 5 Yet you have made us a little
lower than God, and crowned us with glory and honor. 6 You have
given us dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all
things under our feet and we pray that you renew in us the awe and
wonder we need to appreciate Your presence in our lives. We pray in
Jesus' name. Amen
