Impatients

Don't be impatient for the Lord to act!


Keep travelling steadily along His pathway and in due season He will honour you with every blessing,

and you will see the wicked destroyed.



Psalm 37:34



- Impatience can cause great problems.

- If we try to force things, things often go wrong.

- Don't become impatient with God.

- Keep on trusting Him.

- The key phrase here is 'in due season'.

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This week’s reading comes from a devotional I receive:

Verse:           Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes away from worthless things. Give me a new life in Your ways.
 

- Life is too short to waste time on worthless things.
- We need to shift our focus on to what is truly worthwhile.
- The greatest fulfillment comes as we follow God.
- What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

PRAYER: Lord, I don't want to be distracted by things that have no eternal value. May my heart and my desire be to follow Your ways. Amen.

Significance

This week’s reading:


Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18


Isn’t God amazing? That which He has given us is everlasting.
It will never be taken away and is more important than anything this world has to offer.

Save Me

This week’s reading:

The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Blessed is the King of Israel!"

John 12:12-13

The word Hosanna, I am told, means “Save me!”

So heres the thing:

- Jesus saves us
- Being saved is an ongoing process
- We are saved from moment to moment

This for me means:

- Jesus is my strength – when I grow tired & weary
- Jesus is my fortress – when the world hammers at my emotional & spiritual reserves
- Jesus is my all – beacuse I live for Him

Blessed is He for who He is!

Humility

This week’s reading:

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,
or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray
and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:13-14


I used to think humility was an attitude. I have learnt that it is actually a discipline.

It works like this:

- every time I am complimented for achievements, I say aloud, “God is good!”
- every time I think I can look down on people, I think gratefully, “Thank you for changing me, Jesus!”
- every time I am to occupied with myself, I remember lovingly, “God wants to hug the world!”

The truth is that we are nothing without Him.

Confidence

This week’s reading:

And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.

1 John 2:28


Are we confident of facing Jesus today?
So many amazing things are happening this year at NR that I am confident (humbly so) that we bring a smile to God.
Changing lives is His passion for us.

Bless you Lord Jesus.

Labour for the Lord

This week's reading:


Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58


Blessings