Good morning dear friends.
An update on Rodney: He's home. If you can prepare a meal for him to freeze and use as he recovers please send an email to sslavik@grandecom.net. We thank God for his having been released from the hospital. We ask continued prayers for Aline Roberts, mom to Richard (Karen) Roberts. She is in ICU at Guadalupe Valley Hospital in Seguin.
Here is today's study guide:
Tuesday: Ezekiel 46, 47, 48What is Ezekiel 47 telling us about the role of worship in the life of society?
I don't know why this passage has been on my heart the last couple of days: "Then they (the disciples) left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name (of Jesus). 42 And every day in the temple and at home they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ." Acts 5:41
Ezekiel 47 deals with water and the subtitle for this passage is The Two Trees. It takes a lot of water to sustain a tree and those trees planted alongside a river do best for their roots are able to tap directly into the flowing waters of the river. In the same way the idea of worship is to tap into the flowing waters of life that God offers to us. If we would stop to think of all the blessings that are ours when we go into God's house, we wouldn't have second thoughts about going to worship. If we are thirsty after a rough week and we feel dried out by all that we've encountered, the only place to be renewed and refreshed is in the present of He who give living water. We read this in Jeremiah 17:8 "He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."
Are you in a spiritual drought or have you been enjoying the blessings of "living waters?" If it's the former, then get back to church. If it's the latter, then rejoice and give thanks for having a place to plug in and be refreshed. If more would come to worship and let God speak to them, we would be living in a different world.
PRAYER: Loving God of living waters, flow fresh into my heart today. Let me know that with You and in You I can find that which refreshes and renews. I pray this in Jesus' Name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
An update on Rodney: He's home. If you can prepare a meal for him to freeze and use as he recovers please send an email to sslavik@grandecom.net. We thank God for his having been released from the hospital. We ask continued prayers for Aline Roberts, mom to Richard (Karen) Roberts. She is in ICU at Guadalupe Valley Hospital in Seguin.
Here is today's study guide:
Tuesday: Ezekiel 46, 47, 48What is Ezekiel 47 telling us about the role of worship in the life of society?
I don't know why this passage has been on my heart the last couple of days: "Then they (the disciples) left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name (of Jesus). 42 And every day in the temple and at home they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ." Acts 5:41
Ezekiel 47 deals with water and the subtitle for this passage is The Two Trees. It takes a lot of water to sustain a tree and those trees planted alongside a river do best for their roots are able to tap directly into the flowing waters of the river. In the same way the idea of worship is to tap into the flowing waters of life that God offers to us. If we would stop to think of all the blessings that are ours when we go into God's house, we wouldn't have second thoughts about going to worship. If we are thirsty after a rough week and we feel dried out by all that we've encountered, the only place to be renewed and refreshed is in the present of He who give living water. We read this in Jeremiah 17:8 "He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."
Are you in a spiritual drought or have you been enjoying the blessings of "living waters?" If it's the former, then get back to church. If it's the latter, then rejoice and give thanks for having a place to plug in and be refreshed. If more would come to worship and let God speak to them, we would be living in a different world.
PRAYER: Loving God of living waters, flow fresh into my heart today. Let me know that with You and in You I can find that which refreshes and renews. I pray this in Jesus' Name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
