Good day dear friends.
I ask prayer for our daughter, Caitlin, who has her four wisdom teeth removed today.
Here is our study guide for today:
Wednesday: 2 Chronicles 16, 17, 18How do you explain the changes in Asa’s character in 2 Chronicles 16?
It happens to all of us. We're fine, we're trusting God and then we decide to do something without consulting God and doing what it is we think will please us and serve us best. That's what happened to King Asa. At first he started out fine, trusting God and walking with the Lord in all his daily life, basing his decisions on what God showed him. He had a wonderful pattern of life until his thirty-sixth year as King. It was during that year that his kingdom, Judah, is attacked by the kingdom of Israel and he panics. Instead of trusting God as he had done all his life, he turns to his neighbor and asks him for his help. Here was a king that was attacked, early in his reign, by an army of over one million Ethiopian soldiers! He turned to God during that attack and God routed them! Here now later in his career he faces a smaller army and panics. He trusts his neighbors and their strength rather than the strength of God. To make this story even more hilarious, King Asa gets a foot infection, and again, he doesn't ask God for healing, he turns to his doctors and dies. Could Asa have been the first person to die of athlete's foot?
Of course it was more serious than that we suspect, but the point remains the same. In Whom do you put your trust? If you've lived your life trusting God and seeing God bless and protect you, why would you turn away in your older years? One is supposed to grow wiser not sillier. God never changes and God never grows weaker. As we grow older and weaker, our trust and faith in God should grow stronger in the One who has helped us through many of life's most difficult challenges.
What are you facing today? What resources that you have are stronger than God? What should you do? Trust in Him!
PRAYER: God of all power and majesty and might, speak to my heart today. I thank You for all the victories that we have enjoyed during earlier years and I trust You for Your strength today in whatever I may be facing. Yours are all the victories in which we trust You. Receive this prayer of praise and honor, I lift it in Jesus' name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
PS Don't forget we have our monthly prayer service tonight at 6 p.m. in our sanctuary!
I ask prayer for our daughter, Caitlin, who has her four wisdom teeth removed today.
Here is our study guide for today:
Wednesday: 2 Chronicles 16, 17, 18How do you explain the changes in Asa’s character in 2 Chronicles 16?
It happens to all of us. We're fine, we're trusting God and then we decide to do something without consulting God and doing what it is we think will please us and serve us best. That's what happened to King Asa. At first he started out fine, trusting God and walking with the Lord in all his daily life, basing his decisions on what God showed him. He had a wonderful pattern of life until his thirty-sixth year as King. It was during that year that his kingdom, Judah, is attacked by the kingdom of Israel and he panics. Instead of trusting God as he had done all his life, he turns to his neighbor and asks him for his help. Here was a king that was attacked, early in his reign, by an army of over one million Ethiopian soldiers! He turned to God during that attack and God routed them! Here now later in his career he faces a smaller army and panics. He trusts his neighbors and their strength rather than the strength of God. To make this story even more hilarious, King Asa gets a foot infection, and again, he doesn't ask God for healing, he turns to his doctors and dies. Could Asa have been the first person to die of athlete's foot?
Of course it was more serious than that we suspect, but the point remains the same. In Whom do you put your trust? If you've lived your life trusting God and seeing God bless and protect you, why would you turn away in your older years? One is supposed to grow wiser not sillier. God never changes and God never grows weaker. As we grow older and weaker, our trust and faith in God should grow stronger in the One who has helped us through many of life's most difficult challenges.
What are you facing today? What resources that you have are stronger than God? What should you do? Trust in Him!
PRAYER: God of all power and majesty and might, speak to my heart today. I thank You for all the victories that we have enjoyed during earlier years and I trust You for Your strength today in whatever I may be facing. Yours are all the victories in which we trust You. Receive this prayer of praise and honor, I lift it in Jesus' name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
PS Don't forget we have our monthly prayer service tonight at 6 p.m. in our sanctuary!
