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1/01/2021 | The Mayor; Luvie; JustAmy

[The Mayor]

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April 29

Working Together

Bible in a Year:

• 1 Kings 6–7
• Luke 20:27–47

If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.

Exodus 18:23

Joe worked more than twelve hours a day, often without taking breaks. Starting a charitable business demanded so much time and energy that he had little left to offer his wife and children when he got home. After the toll of chronic stress landed Joe in the hospital, a friend offered to organize a team to help him. Though he dreaded giving up control, Joe knew he couldn’t keep up his current pace. He agreed to trust his friend—and God—as he delegated responsibilities to the group of people they chose together. A year later, Joe admitted that the charity and his family could never have prospered if he’d refused the help God had sent him.

God didn’t design people to thrive without the support of a loving community. In Exodus 18, Moses led the Israelites through the wilderness. He tried serving God’s people as a teacher, a counselor, and a judge all on his own. When his father-in-law visited, he offered Moses advice: “You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out,” said Jethro. “The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone” (Exodus 18:18). He encouraged Moses to share the workload with faithful people. Moses accepted help and the whole community benefited.

When we trust that God works in and through all His people as we work together, we can find true rest.

Reflect & Pray

How can you trust God by asking for help or offering help to someone in leadership this week? How has He provided you the support of trustworthy people?

Father God, thank You for never asking me to handle life without Your help or the support of others.

[luvie]

Happy Thankful Thursday!

[left that other site]

Happy Thankful Thursday!

HE:"Do You Want To Know A Secret?"

SHE: "Stop Eating My Ear!"

(((HUGS)))

ML/LTOS

[TheConservativeParty]

Hi there! Almost missed Thankful Thursday!

Have a great Friday. I will be gone again. Going to keep working every day for another month.

woot
😅

[left that other site]

I am finally getting students again, so I’m working a lot more as well.

[luvie]

Enjoy some down time this evening. I hope you aren’t wearing yourself out! I’ll bet Moose is missing you. :)

[TheConservativeParty]

Moose is getting used to it now. I leave talk radio on for him. 🐶
He’s a good boy, lots of naps.
😅

[TheConservativeParty]

It is good to be busy, but not this busy. 😅

[left that other site]

I hear ya!

[The Mayor]

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April 30

Milk Comes First

Bible in a Year:

• 1 Kings 8–9
• Luke 21:1–19

Solid food is for the mature.

Hebrews 5:14

In the seventh century, what is now called the United Kingdom was many kingdoms often at war. When one king, Oswald of Northumbria, became a believer in Jesus, he called for a missionary to bring the gospel to his region. A man named Corman was sent, but things didn’t go well. Finding the English “stubborn,” “barbarous,” and uninterested in his preaching, he returned home frustrated.

“I am of the opinion,” a monk named Aidan told Corman, “that you were more severe to your unlearned hearers than you ought to have been.” Instead of giving the Northumbrians “the milk of more easy doctrine,” Corman had given them teaching they couldn’t yet grasp. Aidan went to Northumbria, adapted his preaching to the people’s understanding, and thousands became believers in Jesus.

Aidan got this sensitive approach to mission from Scripture. “I gave you milk, not solid food,” Paul told the Corinthians, “for you were not yet ready for it” (1 Corinthians 3:2). Before right living can be expected from people, Hebrews says, basic teaching about Jesus, repentance, and baptism must be grasped (Hebrews 5:13–6:2). While maturity should follow (5:14), let’s not miss the order. Milk comes before meat. People can’t obey teaching they don’t understand.

The faith of the Northumbrians ultimately spread to the rest of the country and beyond. Like Aidan, when sharing the gospel with others, we meet people where they are.

Reflect & Pray

In simple terms, how would you explain the gospel? How can you avoid expecting people who aren’t believers in Jesus to think or behave as you do?

Jesus, thank You for reaching me in ways I could understand.

[luvie]

His life sounds like mine. LOL!

[luvie]

WEARING RED ON FRIDAY
FOR OUR HEROES!




Chris DeBurgh~The Lady In Red

The red of courage
The crimson of blood
Are the colors I wear
To honor the heroes
Who possess the one
And spill the other
For all of us

~~

[left that other site]

Happy Red Friday!

I'm Ready To Dance Around The Maypole Tomorrow! (I Will Resist The Temptation to Lift My Leg on it!)

Happy May!

ML/LTOS

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you.

[luvie]

I’d love to see that! :)

[left that other site]

LOL...Good Doggie! :-)

[TheConservativeParty]

Good night FRiends!
Have a great Caturday!
I will be at work until 4, but plenty of Dogurday left after that.
🐶

[luvie]

Goodnight. Have a good day at work tomorrow.

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you, Dear FRiends, for the Daily Pings & Posts.
(((((Love to Everyone, and God Bless)))))

[luvie]

Nighty-night, Kitty!
Have a lovely weekend!