TODAY'S PROMISE

"And He said to them, "Truly I say to you,

there is no one who has left house or wife

or brothers or parents or children, for the

sake of the kingdom of God who will not

receive many times as much at this time

and in the age too come, eternal life."  

(Luke 18:29,30 NASB)

TODAY'S QUOTE

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                            “Anyone can build an altar; it

                         requires God to provide the flame.

                        Anyone can build a house; we need

                      the Lord for the creation of the home.

                                                                                         - John Henry Jewett

THE KEY

My wife cleans a lot of houses to stay active 

and possibly because she likes to shop a lot.

Last week she started cleaning house for a new

lady who gave her a key to the house.  But when

she got home that evening realized she had lost 

the key.  She and I both did a lot of searching only

to come up with no key.

Now my wife and I both depend on prayer a lot.

So we both were praying about finding the key.

However it never showed up.

Yesterday when she went back to this new house

she went expecting to apologize to the lady and

ask for another key.  She sit her purse down and

started to apologize to the lady while opening her

purse.  There was the key hanging in her purse on

a hook. Now apology needed.

CAUSE OF FUTILITY

Leaving God out of your plans
causes futility.

"If the Lord does not build the house

the work of the builders is useless;

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if the Lord does not protect the city,

it does no good for the sentries to 

stand guard.

It is useless to work so hard

for a living, getting up early

and going to bed late.

For the Lord provides for those he loves,

while they are asleep."

(Psalms 127:1,2 GNT)

Put God in control of your life 

to cut out the futility.

TODAY'S PROMISE

"'Do not be worried and upset' Jesus told them,

'Believe in God and believe also in me,

There are many rooms in my Father's house,

and I am going to prepare a place for you.

I would not tell you this if it were not so.

And after I go and prepare a place for you,

I will come back and take you to myself,

so that you will be where I am."

(John 14:1-3 GNT)

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"The promises of the Lord can be trusted;

they are as genuine as silver refined

seven times in the furnace."

(Psalms 12:6 GNT)

1. Meditate on God's Promises.

2. Plead the Promises at the throne of Grace.

3. Act in Faith that God Will Perform His Promises.

(William Gurnall) 

TRUE PROSPERITY?

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

Today many of our "religious leaders" exhort us to 

follow Christ.  To do what Christ would do.  To give

as Christ would have us to give.  [Especially give.]

And if we will give, we will get.

We all could quote;

"Give, and it will be given to you.

A good measure, pressed down, shaken together

and running over.  For with the measure you use,

it will be measured to you."

(Luke 6:38 NIV)

WOW!

Lord, where can I give???

Any Christian knows that we are to follow Christ's example.

Even the Apostle Paul said,

"Follow my example, as I follow the 

example of Christ."

(1 Corinthians 11:1 NIV)

O.K.

Let's see Christ's example and Paul's example.

"Then a teacher of the law came to him and said,

'Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.'

Jesus replied, 'Foxes have holes and birds of

the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no

place to lay his head."

(Matthew 7:19,20 NIV)

OOOOPS1

Christ was homeless.

Let's try again with the great apostle.

"To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty,

we are in rags, we are brutally treated,

we are homeless."

(1 Corinthians 4:11 NIV)

OH NO!

Paul was homeless too.

Do we have to be homeless to be a Christian?

Of course not.  But it is beginning to look like

we have some misplaced values.

FUTILE EFFORT

"Unless the LORD builds the house,

those who build it labor in vain.

Unless the LORD watches over the city,

the watchman stays awake in vain.

It is in vain that you rise up early 

and go late to rest,

easting the bread of anxious toil;

for he gives to his beloved sleep."

(Psalms 127:1,2 RSV)

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