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Posted on 01/01/2024 3:15:48 PM PST by luvie
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Yikes! Well, stay as cool as possible and have a great day!
Stay Cool, my FRiend!
Bible in a Year :
By [the Spirit] we cry, “Abba, Father.”
Minutes after US President Harry Truman announced the end of World War II, a phone rang in a small clapboard house in Grandview, Missouri. A ninety-two-year-old woman excused herself to take the call. Her guest heard her say, “Hello. . . . Yes, I’m all right. Yes, I’ve been listening to the radio. . . . Now you come and see me if you can. . . . Goodbye.” The elderly woman returned to her guest. “That was [my son] Harry. Harry’s a wonderful man. . . . I knew he’d call. He always calls me after something that happens is over.”
No matter how accomplished, no matter how old, we yearn to call our parents. To hear their affirming words, “Well done!” We may be wildly successful, but we’ll always be their son or daughter.
Sadly, not everyone has this kind of relationship with their earthly parents. But through Jesus, we all can have God as our Father. We who follow Christ are brought into the family of God, for “the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship” (Romans 8:15). We’re now “heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ” (v. 17). We don’t speak to God as a slave but now have the freedom to use the intimate name Jesus used in His hour of desperate need, “Abba, Father” (v. 15; see also Mark 14:36).
Do you have news? Do you have needs? Call the one who is your eternal home.
What news or needs would you love to share with your earthly parents? What can you tell your heavenly Father? He’s listening.
Gracious Father, thank You for being the one to whom I can call on in prayer anytime.
For further study, read Talking with My Father: Jesus Teaches on Prayer.
This devotional stung a wee bit. I do so wish I'd hear from my earthly kiddos more....I am thankful for when I DO hear however!!!...
May we all talk to our " Heavenly Father" this day and praise Him for what His continual love!!
Good morning Luvie and HAPPY 4th of July!!!
Good morning, Happy 4th of July to you LTOS! Yes, stay cool. It is warming today in Los Angeles.
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I spent the day outdoors at Sis’s cookout. Now I’m hunkered down in the A/C.
oh how wonderful.. A/C is a good place to hunker! LOL
What a happy patriot!
Bible in a Year :
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
A longtime friend sent me a note after my husband’s death: “[Alan] was . . . a grappler with God. He was a real Jacob and a strong reason why I am a Christian today.” I’d never thought to compare Alan’s struggles with the patriarch Jacob’s, but it fit. Throughout his life, Alan struggled with himself and wrestled with God for answers. He loved God but couldn’t always grasp the truths that He loved him, forgave him, and heard his prayers. Yet his life had its blessings, and he positively influenced many.
Jacob’s life was characterized by struggle. He connived to get his brother Esau’s birthright. He fled home and struggled for years with his kinsman and father-in-law, Laban. Then he fled Laban. He was alone and afraid to meet Esau. Yet he’d just had a heavenly encounter: “The angels of God met him” (Genesis 32:1), perhaps a reminder of his earlier dream from God (28:10-22). Now Jacob had another encounter: all night he wrestled with a “man,” God in human form, who renamed him Israel, because he “struggled with God and with humans and [overcame]” (32:28). God was with and loved Jacob despite and through it all.
All of us have struggles. But we’re not alone; God is with us in each trial. Those who believe in Him are loved, forgiven, and promised eternal life (John 3:16). We can hold fast to Him.
Reflect & Pray
When have you wrestled with God? How is it comforting to know He’s with you in your struggles?
Dear God, please help me to bring my questions and troubles to You knowing You hear them. One day my questions will be no more.
For further study, read Making Decisions God’s Way.
Have a wonderful day everyone!!
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Good morning/afternoon luvie!!! Praying for and supporting our troops today!!
Good afternoon LTOS.. hope you have a great day and weekend.. stay cool!!
Just hanging out in the A/C. It’s gloomy, rainy, and HOT out...all at the same time!
wow LTOS, rainy and hot equals humid!!!
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