Wednesday, 23 April 2008

• Your Daily Rounds

  by mr. oak

   

  
  yankee stadium, new york (got a cool pic we can feature?  message us!)

  Prayer Requests for the Day
  Please keep these people in your prayers.  If you have any prayer requests you would like the community to pray about, leave us a message and we'll add it to the next daily round.

  • Please pray that S will come back to the Lord completely and live her life fully for him. 
  • Please pray for Beckie's family who had just lost their beloved grandfather
  • Please pray that Kristen and her family can sell their home

  Drop by their sites and let them know that you're praying for them!

  Devotional of the Day from Utmost for His Highest
  Do you Worship Work?

  We are God’s fellow workers . . . -1 Corinthians 3:9

  Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God. This will mean that all the other boundaries of life, whether they are mental, moral, or spiritual limits, are completely free with the freedom God gives His child; that is, a worshiping child, not a wayward one. A worker who lacks this serious controlling emphasis of concentration on God is apt to become overly burdened by his work. He is a slave to his own limits, having no freedom of his body, mind, or spirit. Consequently, he becomes burned out and defeated. There is no freedom and no delight in life at all. His nerves, mind, and heart are so overwhelmed that God’s blessing cannot rest on him.

  But the opposite case is equally true--once our concentration is on God, all the limits of our life are free and under the control and mastery of God alone. There is no longer any responsibility on you for the work. The only responsibility you have is to stay in living constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to hinder your cooperation with Him. The freedom that comes after sanctification is the freedom of a child, and the things that used to hold your life down are gone. But be careful to remember that you have been freed for only one thing--to be absolutely devoted to your co-Worker.

  We have no right to decide where we should be placed, or to have preconceived ideas as to what God is preparing us to do. God engineers everything; and wherever He places us, our one supreme goal should be to pour out our lives in wholehearted devotion to Him in that particular work. "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might . . ." (Ecclesiastes 9:10  ).
  
  Bible in a Year - Passage of the Day
  if you read these verses on a daily basis, then you'll be able to read the whole bible in a year!
  Acts 9:26-43

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