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Phil.4:12 “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation…”

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation…” Philippians 4:11,12

Mom, you find pleasure in the smallest things,” my daughter laughed.

I had just described to her my joy at finding a spider web suspended outside my kitchen window. Raindrops caught in the web shone like beads of crystal in the early morning sunlight. What could be more beautiful?

A sense of wonder at the small things! How we need that today in our world of noise, speed, and consumerism. It’s easy to be sucked into the world’s way and to miss the many little blessings God scatters into each day for us.

Two things that steal my sense of wonder:

Comparing myself with others who seem to have more of what I want–more book sales, more success in ministry…

A feeling of entitlement–I deserve more than I’m getting. After all, I have worked very hard and given so much.

Paul could have gone that route. He had worked day and night to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. He had sacrificed everything: home, family, career, comfort, even a wage. Yet, he was in prison while others were free to preach.

What was his response? “I have learned the secret of being content.

What was his secret? I think I know: Develop a keen sense of wonder at all that God is doing for you and through you. All the little miracles he is scattering into each day for you. Like a spider web outside the kitchen window.

Today, I encourage you to write down the little blessings that add to the pleasure of your day. See if you can come up with ten. Then share some of them with the rest of us.

Father, I thank you for the surprising ways in which you come to us. Today I want to be alert to the small blessings you’ve planted along my pathway.

by Helen Grace Lescheid

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But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong…so that no one may boast before him.”  1 Corinthians 27, 29

Have you ever felt inadequate for a special task? How did you deal with it?

At the burning bush Moses was told to take off his shoes. Then God spoke these comforting words to him: “I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them.

This was good news indeed! At last God had heard Moses’ prayers.

And then God made a shocking announcement: “So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:7,8)

Moses’ response was much like ours. “Who me? God, you have the wrong person,” he said. “Don’t you remember, I tried to save my people but it ended in disaster. I’ve been hiding in the desert for these forty years now. I’m an old man and don’t have the energy. Besides, I’m not a speaker. I could never convince Pharaoh to let the people go.”

Of course, God knew all that. He was well acquainted with Moses’ failure and inadequacy. But Moses did qualify on one count: God loves to use ordinary, weak, human beings to do His work.

Like us!

How did God do it? God did not transform Moses into suddenly feeling adequate and strong. God said, “I will be with you.” In other words, “I will do this in your shoes, Moses.” It would be God through Moses who would free his people.

That’s the way it’s going to be with us too.

Thank you, Father, that I can do everything through him (Christ) who gives me strength (Philippians 4:13)

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What is the difference between punishment and discipline?

For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.” 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10.

When things go wrong in our lives we are apt to say, “God is punishing me.” But is this true?

Jesus has already taken the full punishment of our sins. Therefore, there is none left for us. God has appointed us to receive salvation, not punishment.

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by His wounds we have been healed (1 Peter 2:24)

Then why do bad things come into our lives? Let me give three reasons.

1.    We live in a broken, fallen, sinful world and we will get our share of trouble. Jesus promised us this: “in this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”   Jesus did not come to make us escapists but over-comers.

2.    We have made some bad decisions and decisions have consequences. But God can and will redeem our failures if we give them to him.

3.    It may be discipline coming from a loving father. Let’s think about this for a bit more.

What is the difference between punishment and discipline?

Punishment is administered by a Judge as an act of justice. Discipline is administered by a loving Father to help a child develop self-control, character and ability. It is an act of training.

Who loves his child more—the father who allows the child to do what will harm him, or the one who corrects, trains, and even punishes the child to help him learn what is right?  Discipline may feel like punishment, but let us remember God’s discipline is a sign of his deep love for us.

My child, don’t ignore it when the Lord disciplines you, and don’t be discouraged when He corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes those He accepts as His children. As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as His own children.” (Hebrews 12: 5-7 Life Application Study Bible).

Father, I thank you that you love me enough to discipline me. I want to be a good learner.

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Isaiah 54:10 Holy Love

The mountains and the hills may crumble, but My love for you will never end…so says the LORD who loves you” (Isaiah 54:10 GNT)

God is love. Love is who He is and it’s the bedrock of all that He does. Such love is too deep, too intense, and too pure to be measured by emotion and intellect alone. It must be measured by the third dimension of faith, for there will be times in our lives when it doesn’t appear as if God is loving. At times like that, we need to remember that God’s love is steadfast and holy.

For love to be pure, it must become angry at that which hurts the beloved. If that hurtful thing is deeply buried within the beloved it has to be extricated in a painful way.

Just as a good surgeon must be ruthless to remove cancer cells, so God’s holy love demands that we get rid of sin in our lives. When we fail to do so, His love compels Him to send trials into our lives that will lead us to repentance. But God is not indifferent to our pain. He suffers along with us. “As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust” (Psalm 103: 13,14).

Trials are sent to grow our relationship with God. It’s in the hard places that we experience the depth of God’s love.  It’s then we learn of God’s compassionate nature and His faithfulness. We get to know Him as “the Lord (who) binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted” (Isaiah 30:26). “Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men” (Lamentations 3:32,33).

Real love seeks the well-being of the loved one. It warns to prevent more harm. It disciplines to create more growth. It sometimes withholds what we think is good to give something better.

What comfort it is to know that no matter how life treats us, God’s love never changes! He loves us the same on good days as on bad days.  With Him there is no variableness, no shadow of turning His back on us (James 1:17). It is we who stand in our own shadow of limited understanding or refusal to act upon that which we know. Being a loving heavenly Father, God gives us what we need not only to survive but to triumph

Thank you, Father, that your love for me never ends. I want to live in such a way that I bring joy to your heart.

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Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins. Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sinPsalm 51:1 & 2

David’s affair with Bathsheba got her pregnant, and to cover up, he arranged for her husband to be killed. Then he hurriedly married Bathsheba. He thought he had covered up well until Nathan the prophet confronted him. How did David respond?

1. He confessed his sin. It wasn’t a flippant “I’m sorry. I’ll do better next time,” but a deep realization that he had sinned against the LORD! (2 Samuel 12:13) Sin is rebellion against God. Sin puts a wedge between us and God. Sin hurts His people.

2. David realized he didn’t deserve forgiveness. “You desire truth in the inner parts, but I’ve been a sinner from birth,” he said. (Psalm 51:5, 6, 10) Sin is a fundamental condition of our nature, not a temporary lapse into error. “Create in me a pure heart,” he cried.

3. David asked God to forgive him. On what grounds? “For your own name’s sake,” he prayed in Psalm 25:11. He counted on God’s character of mercy, unfailing love and compassion.

4. David moved on in hope. “Restore to me the joy of your salvation…then will I teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you” (Psalm 51:10-13).

When we have sinned, we are prone to think that, even though God forgives us, our life of service is finished. Our reputation is ruined. We’re a complete failure. Satan wants us to live in defeat, but God wants us to live in victory. He forgives us and gives us hope that we can rise above failure and make a new start.

Sometimes our greatest failure becomes our greatest opportunity for ministry. Is there a sin in your life that you need to confess to God and make right? Accept God’s forgiveness and let Him restore you.

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Amen.

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Dear Father, I need you. I acknowledge that I have sinned against you by directing my own life. I thank you that You have forgiven my sins through Christ’s death on the cross for me. I now invite Christ to again take His place on the throne of my life. Fill me with the Holy Spirit as You commanded me to be filled, and as You promised in Your Word that You would do if I asked in faith. I pray this in the name of Jesus. As an expression of my faith, I thank You for directing my life and for filling me with the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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Victory in Christ

But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:57

It isn’t my fault. He made me do it.”

She can’t help it -after what’s happened to her.”

How often do we hear this—in our homes, in our courts, in our educational and medical systems. We’re a society of victim thinkers. But victim thinking is not new. It goes all the way back to Adam and Eve.

Instead of taking responsibility and making an honest confession, Adam and Eve blamed their disobedient action on someone else.

When God asked Adam, “Have you eaten of the tree I commanded you not to eat from?” Adam replied, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit and I did eat it. It’s her fault, God. Come to think of it, it’s your fault too. You put this woman here.”

Eve blamed the serpent. “He deceived me, and I ate.”

God wants us to take responsibility for our decisions and actions. Why? That’s the way to hope and healing, forgiveness and change.

After all, if somebody else is responsible for my decisions and behavior, then I can’t do anything about it. Somebody else is to blame for my unhappiness and the mess I’m in.

Hope comes when we realize we do have a choice. Yes, the abuse did happen. The injustice is real. I may have inherited some bad genes. But it doesn’t have to ruin my life. I can give it all to God and rise above it. I can move on to better things.

When the risen, living, Lord Jesus Christ is within me, I have the power to rise above the negative stuff in my life. The Bible says, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians. 5:17)

Let’s thank God for this victory and act on it–every day. It isn’t what’s happened to us, but the attitude we have toward what’s happened to us, that makes the difference.

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#Devotional I HAVE A CHOICE

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.”
2 Corinthians 5:17, 18

A friend of mine, recovering from a deep depression, said his turn-around came when he realized, “I have a choice. I can continue to blame my upbringing, past traumatic experiences, and life’s injustices for the emotional mess I’m in, or I can focus on today and begin to take small steps of recovery.”

Like him, I got myself out of a pit of self-pity and despair by focusing on the fact that if Jesus Christ lives in me, I am a new creation. I can leave the old thought patterns behind and claim my new position in Christ. But it was a choice I had to make many times a day.

When a negative thought or temptation would come, I would say, “That doesn’t belong to me anymore. I’ve died to that way of thinking and acting. In Christ I have received a new nature, the very righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). I am a new person.”  Then I’d replace the thought with a truth from Scripture or a song. I’d write it out and carry it in my pocket so I could say it often.

God has given to each of us the privilege of making choices and the responsibility of living with the consequences of those choices. “Every choice we make takes us down a certain path. Either to a person that is in harmony with God and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself,” writes C.S.Lewis.

You are not born a winner. You are not born a looser. You are born a chooser.

Dear God, today I want to see myself as a new creation in Christ and make choices that honor You.

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devotional on familyCathy, our third daughter, was our shy one. When company came to the house, she’d run to the bedroom and hide. She wouldn’t stay in Sunday School class for half an hour unless I was with her.

Imagine my surprise then when during the closing ceremony of grade one, I saw my shy little girl walk on the stage, lift up her little face to the audience and sing a solo. To me it was nothing short of a miracle. How had it happened?

I remembered the teacher’s words to me that first day of school when I’d warned her of Cathy’s shyness, “Cathy will be just fine,” she’d said. This positive message had been repeated many times throughout the year. Gradually my daughter  had been able to believe the message and accept little challenges the teacher gave her to do until she was able to perform such a feat. As Cathy kept listening to the positive voice and reaching for her potential, her confidence grew until today she’s  a confident, assured young woman. Believing the right message about herself made all the difference.

The world bombards us with negative messages. “You’re a failure,  nobody could ever love you…”

When these negative messages come , change the channel. Pick up God’s word, the Bible, and hear what God says about you. “God so  loved you that he have his one and only Son, that if you believe in him you will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) God values you that much. When called upon to do a difficult task, listen to his recorded message in the Bible, “Christ in you the hope of glory (success). Nothing is impossible with God. With God’s help I can advance against a troop. With God’s help I can scale a wall (Psalm18:29) This is the truth about you. Read  it out loud.

Thank you, Lord, that you valued me enough to die for me. You love me just as I am for you created me. Today I will take freely of your resources. I will go forth in your strength and energy and I will succeed in your name.

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Devotional I AM GOD

At the burning bush when Moses asked God “what is your  name?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to youExodus 3:14

When the Jews challenged Jesus, “Who do you think you are?Jesus replied I AM. The Jews knew Jesus was claiming to be the same God that Moses  had met at the burning bush. They considered this blasphemy worthy of death. They picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus slipped away from the temple grounds unharmed. (John 8:54-59)

By calling Himself I AM what is God saying about himself? I am ever present and I am enough.

For me, the following  poem says it best. Read it slowly and put yourself into the poem: It  will give you comfort to face the challenges of each new day.

Jesus said I AM

I am the beginning of all things
the end of all things and in the middle of all things

               I was present at your birth;
               I will be there at the end of your years,
               And through all the days in between.

               I am ever present. I am not only the
               God of your past and your future, but
               I am also the God of your present moments.

              All that I have been and will be, I am to you now.
              You do not have to look at the coming year
              And wonder how you will get through it
              physically, emotionally, mentally or financially
              
               I am your life, your health, your strength and your supply.
               I am your source, your confidence, your victory!

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Read this poem several times until you grasp the comfort and wonder of always having this loving God with you who is adequate for every need you have.

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See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland
Isaiah 43:19

If you want to be a true disciple of Jesus, you must do more than invite Him into your heart,” the pastor was saying. “You must follow Him.”

Sitting beside my husband on a rough wooden bench, my thirsty spirit drank in the words. Even though we’d been missionaries in Africa, I felt defeated as a Christian. Perhaps this man with a small New Testament in his hand would be able to give me a clue as to what was lacking in my life.

To follow Jesus you must leave your self-centered thinking and praying that focuses on,Bless me, help me, give me, come along with me Jesus,’ the pastor was saying. “A follower of Jesus wants to know ‘What is Your will, Jesus? Where are You going today? What are You doing today? I want to be a part of it.’”

Many years later, I still remember those life-changing words. Seeking Christ’s agenda each day, has taken the pressure off me to perform.  It has opened the door to many delightful surprises.

For instance, one day I met a woman who was deeply troubled and desperately lonely.

May I come and visit you?” I asked her. “I have a tape by Billy Graham on loneliness. Maybe we could listen to it together.”

Yes, she wanted that. After we listened to the tape, she asked me, “Do you think I could pray a prayer like that to invite Jesus into my life?”

When I got up in the morning, I had no idea that another soul would be born into God’s kingdom that day. But it was in God’s plan. What a joy to have a small part in it!

Lord Jesus, I want to be alert to what you are doing today. Use me to help someone and to bring you glory. Amen.

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Love the Lord your God with all  your heart…and love your neighbor as yourselfMatthew22:37-40      

A rich young ruler ran up to Jesus, fell on his knees, and asked, ”Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” When Jesus mentioned the ten commandments, he said, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.” Jesus looked at him tenderly; he knew the boy was telling the truth.

One thing you lack,” Jesus said. “Go sell everything you have and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me.” At this the young man’s face fell and he walked away sadly.

What was Jesus saying? That God is against his people having riches? That only the poor can follow Jesus? No. Jesus is repeating what he had said a little while ago, “Love the Lord your God with all  your heart…” (Matthew22:37-40) Our focus must be God first.

The rich young ruler, could not turn his whole heart and life over to God. His pride prevented him from acknowledging that he could not earn eternal life through hard work like all his other achievements.

I think many people still make that mistake. We want eternal life, but on our terms.

In order to have this eternal life in Christ, we must put God first in our lives. We are to love God most.

We acknowledge our inability to achieve eternal life through self-effort. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not of works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8,9).

Thank you, Father, that you give eternal life to the rich and the poor the same way: by grace through faith in our living Lord Jesus Christ.

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Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41: 10

“God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of cringing fear) but he has given us a  spirit of power and of love and of  calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.”  (2 Timothy 1:7 Amplified)

Fear comes to all people. We’ve all struggled with fear. Our greatest fear is the threat of what might happen. Fear is almost always based on the future. But what is the future to God? To Him the future is now! He lives in the eternal now, in which he sees and knows everything, including the future. God is faithful therefore we will be cared for. His plans for us are good therefore we have nothing to fear. (Jeremiah 29:11).

How can we face our fears? Let God love you in the middle of the fear. On a particularly troubled day, I visualized myself being hugged by God while he whispered into my ear, “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
(Isaiah 40: 10).

His prefect love gives me courage to move ahead in spite of the fear. As Rick Warren has said, “Courage is not the absence of fear; courage is moving ahead in spite of your fear.”

So let’s face this day with courage buoyed up by these words, “The LORD is with me, I will not be afraid; What can man do to me?” (Psalm 118:6)

By Helen Lescheid


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Lord Jesus, I want to trust you from now on. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of my life. Make me be the person You want me to be. Thank you for enabling me to trust you in these uncertain times. Amen.

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Dear God, today I bring you my life, my hopes, my dreams, my deepest yearnings … You know me intimately. You knew me even before I was formed in the womb. You called me into this world to do good and live the life I was uniquely and specifically created for. I ask for Courage and Wisdom to live this life–the life of my dreams. Show me where to start and help me be open to hearing your Voice today. I ask for a greater consciousness of your Presence, today and every day of my life. Amen.

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Jesus tells the crowd at the temple, “the miracles that I do in my Father’s name speak for me” (John 10:25). “I did not speak of my own accord but my Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it” (John 12:49).

The world looks at dependency as immaturity. The Bible teaches that dependency upon God is the right and natural way to live.

Jesus modeled for us complete dependency upon God. He went to a lonely place to pray, that is, to grow in the awareness that all the power He had was given to Him; that all the words He spoke came from His Father; and that all the works He did were not really His but the works of the One who had sent Him.

God encourages our dependency on Him, not because He delights to be boss, but because we were made to be dependent beings and we function best when we live in dependency on Him. God made us to be wired into Him.

I visualize my dependency on Christ as being a branch in a tree that expects to be nourished moment by moment by the sap that flows through the tree. When I feel empty, I hear Jesus saying, “Tap into my wisdom, my patience, my love, my energy.” There’s no danger of running out, for His supply is inexhaustible.

If we would practice this moment-by-moment dependency upon God, how much more relaxed we would be! We’d have more poise and confidence.

Thank you, Father, that I’m a branch in the Vine, Christ Jesus, and His resources never run out. I count on His strength and joy today.

By Helen Lescheid
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I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 (LAB).

How long do I have to be plugged into God through a quiet time or prayer or reading a book to get the charge I need to go out and live for God?

But Jesus never said, “I am your power cord; you are the iPhone.” You don’t plug into God’s power like that. You abide like a branch in a tree. Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5 LAB) Notice the word remain. It’s constant, not sporadic.

A branch does not decide to be independent of the tree. It needs the life of the tree moment by moment. In a similar way, we were not created to live in our own strength, but in the strength of Christ. We cannot be independent of Christ and expect to flourish.

If Jesus Christ lives in us, we have the resource to conquer all things because there is nothing bigger or mightier than He is. Paul says “I can do everything through him who gives me the strength I need” (Philippians 4:13 LAB).

As he infuses his life, his power into you, you have what it takes to live your life as God intended.

What are you facing right now? Remember in Christ you have the resources to overcome that challenge.

Lord Jesus, I need you right now. Infuse your  strength into me. Thank you for taking over now.

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God who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.” 1 Corinthians 1:9

In my talks with women, I find that many a mother’s heart has been broken because a son or a daughter is avoiding her. I hear words like these: “My children never call me.” “My daughter’s phone calls are brief and businesslike.” “My children and I are not on speaking terms.”

I pass on to them what has helped me during a time of estrangement from my children.
Estrangements may have come gradually or suddenly due to a family crisis—as in my case. “If only we could talk,” I’d often think. “Then we would come to some understanding.”

A dear friend advised me, “this may not be the time for talking. No matter what you say, it will sound like you’re being self-defensive and you are apt to get a harsh response. Give your children time to sort out their confusion and pain. When you are in conflict, concentrate on reconciliation rather than resolution.”

Trust in God’s timing. While you wait you can be a grace-giver. Grace lets go of unrealistic expectations like “you-guys-owe-me. After all I’ve done for you.” Let go of resentment and bitterness. Resentment and bitterness  locks the door to God’s grace.

Parcel up your hurt and disappointment and give it to God. Be a grace-giver rather than a grudge-bearer. Grace gives your children freedom to grow, to make decisions, to fail and to mature at their own rate.

Pray for your children by name and wait expectantly for Jesus, the great Reconciler, to bring you together again. And when they do come, welcome them with a loving embrace. In the story of the prodigal son it’s interesting to note that the Father runs  to meet the son. Very few words are spoken. It’s  a time of rejoicing and celebration not explanation.

Recently our family of nineteen persons came together for a Family Reunion—the first after many years. When I witnessed the joy and fun at being together, I kept saying, “This is amazing! Thank you, Lord.”  God has truly done a healing work in our hearts. Many prayers are being answered. The reconciliation work is going on.

What’s happening in your family? Remember, when we pray for reconciliation in our families, we are praying in God’s will. Reconciliation is always His will. Jesus is the Great Reconciler.

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