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Saturday, June 30, 2018

The Daily Devotion for Saturday, 30 June 2018 from The Great Plains Conference of The United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kansas, United States

Great Plains Daily Devotional for 06/30/2018
Today please be in prayer for

Seth Leypoldt

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Gering First UMC

Great West District

Lizbeth Galindo

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Centro de Alabanza y Adoracion

Melbeta UMC

Great West District

Marsha Stauss

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Clinton UMC

Gordon First UMC

Great West District

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This Week's Lectionary
5th Sunday after Pentecost in Kingdomtide - Green

1 Samuel 17: (1a, 4-11, 19-23) 32-49
Psalm 9:9-20
2 Corinthians 6:1-13
Mark 4:35-41

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Today's Devotional:
Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,” says Adonai.
9 “As high as the sky is above the earth
are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For just as rain and snow fall from the sky
and do not return there, but water the earth,
causing it to bud and produce,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth —
it will not return to me unfulfilled;
but it will accomplish what I intend,
and cause to succeed what I sent it to do.” (Complete Jewish Bible).

Great Churches. Great Leaders. Great Disciples. Transformed World.

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Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - The Global of the Nazarene's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Saturdag, 30 June 2018 "Remain Faithful To God" by William Coker, Jr. - Revelation 13:1-10.

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - The Global of the Nazarene's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Saturdag, 30 June 2018 "Remain Faithful To God" by William Coker, Jr. - Revelation 13:1-10.
Revelation 13:1 and I saw a beast come up out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten royal crowns and on its heads blasphemous names. 2 The beast which I saw was like a leopard, but with feet like those of a bear and a mouth like the mouth of a lion. To it the dragon gave its power, its throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast appeared to have received a fatal wound, but its fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed after the beast in amazement. 4 They worshipped the dragon, because he had given his authority to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying,
“Who is like the beast?
Who can fight against it?”
5 It was given a mouth speaking arrogant blasphemies; and it was given authority to act for forty-two months. 6 So it opened its mouth in blasphemies against God to insult his name and his Sh’khinah, and those living in heaven; 7 it was allowed to make war on God’s holy people and to defeat them; and it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 Everyone living on earth will worship it except those whose names are written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb slaughtered before the world was founded. 9 Those who have ears, let them hear!
10 “If anyone is meant for captivity,
into captivity he goes!
If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
with the sword he is to be killed!”[Revelation 13:10 Jeremiah 15:2, 43:11]
This is when God’s holy people must persevere and trust!. (Complete Jewish Bible).
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Speculations on the beasts’ representation have varied at different times; however, full understanding awaits the completion of human history. The common factor has been that the beasts are an elevation of political, nationalistic authority, and secular power to worship status. To worship any enimity, whether aa person, an institution, or an object, except The Lord God Most High is to utter blasphemy. The ultimate test of faith is maintaining allegiance to the only true God at the cost of one’s social, political, or physical life. The saints’ eternal confidence is in the redemptive sacrifice of Jesus Christ that was written before the creation of the world (a translation shift of verse 8 phrases in accord with Greek syntax).
Jesus warned (see Matthew 5 and John 17) that persecution is inevitable for the Christian. Saints are to accept the outcome of religious persecution and are warned against defense by force. It is inconceivable that Christians can proclaim the gospel of God’s love while spewing negativity or intolerance and promoting use of power for control. Saints reveal an active dependence on God by persisting through trials with a firm persuasion that our victory is in Christ Jesus alone. ***
Hymn for Today: "Victory All the Time" by Lelia N. Morris.

1. They who know the Savior shall in Him be strong,

Mighty in the conflict of the right ’gainst wrong;
This the blessed promise given in God’s Word,
Doing wondrous exploits, they who know the Lord.
Refrain: Victory! victory! Blessed, blood-bought victory!
Victory! victory! Vict’ry all the time!
As Jehovah liveth, strength divine He giveth
Unto those who know Him—vict’ry all the time!
2. In the midst of battle be thou not dismayed,
Though the pow’rs of darkness ’gainst thee are arrayed;
God, thy Strength, is with thee, causing thee to stand,
Heaven’s allied armies wait at thy command. Refrain: Victory! victory! Blessed, blood-bought victory!
Victory! victory! Vict’ry all the time!
As Jehovah liveth, strength divine He giveth
Unto those who know Him—vict’ry all the time!
3. Brave to bear life’s testing, strong the foe to meet,
Walking like a hero midst the furnace heat,
Doing wondrous exploits with the Spirit’s sword,
Winning souls for Jesus, praise, oh, praise the Lord!

Refrain: Victory! victory! Blessed, blood-bought victory!
Victory! victory! Vict’ry all the time!
As Jehovah liveth, strength divine He giveth
Unto those who know Him—vict’ry all the time!

Thought for Today: Love Adonai, you faithful of his.Adonai preserves the loyal,
but the proud he repays in full.
Be strong, and fill your hearts with courage,
all of you who hope in Adonai. (Psalm 31:24) (Complete Jewish Bible)).

Please pray: That many people in Guinea-Cknakry will come to know Yeshua as their Messiah and receive the fullness of the Ruach HaKodesh.
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The Daily Meditation: "Coming Home" for Saturday, 30 June 2018 from The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Daily Meditation: "Coming Home" for Saturday, 30 June 2018 from The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

DAILY MEDITATION: "Coming Home" for Saturday, 30 June 2018

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In the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), there are two sons: the younger son, who runs away from home to an alien country, and the older son, who stays home to do his duty. The younger son dissipates himself with alcohol and sex; the older son alienates himself by working hard and dutifully fulfilling all his obligations. Both are lost. Their father grieves over both, because with neither of them does he experience the intimacy he desires.
Both lust and cold obedience can prevent us from being true children of God. Whether we are like the younger son or the older son, we have to come home to the place where we can rest in the embrace of God's unconditional love.

For further reflection...
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11: 28-30 (NIV))
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The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, United States Grow Pray Study Guide for Saturday, 30 June 2018 “The fields are already ripe for the harvest” John 4:31-42

The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, United States Grow Pray Study Guide for Saturday, 30 June 2018 “The fields are already ripe for the harvest” John 4:31-42
Daily Scripture:
John 4:31-42
John 4:31 Meanwhile, the talmidim were urging Yeshua, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he answered, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” 33 At this, the talmidim asked one another, “Could someone have brought him food?” 34 Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants and to bring his work to completion. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest’? Well, what I say to you is: open your eyes and look at the fields! They’re already ripe for harvest! 36 The one who reaps receives his wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the reaper and the sower may be glad together — 37 for in this matter, the proverb, ‘One sows and another reaps,’ holds true. 38 I sent you to reap what you haven’t worked for. Others have done the hard labor, and you have benefited from their work.”
39 Many people from that town in Shomron put their trust in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all the things I did.” 40 So when these people from Shomron came to him, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed two days, 41 and many more came to trust because of what he said. 42 They said to the woman, “We no longer trust because of what you said, because we have heard for ourselves. We know indeed that this man really is the Savior of the world.” (Complete Jewish Bible).
Reflection Questions:
Jesus' disciples reentered the scene. No doubt still ill at ease with Samaritans, and “shocked” to find him talking with a Samaritan woman (verse 27), they urged Jesus to eat. He told them that doing God's will, reaping a harvest of willing followers, nourished him in a deeper way than any physical food could. At the Samaritans’ invitation, he stayed on in Sychar for two days.

Scholar N. T. Wright asked, “When were you last so excited about something that you didn’t need to eat?” In an hour or less, the woman went from a social outcast trapped in a messed-up life to being “the first evangelist to the Samaritan people.” And Jesus had seen, firsthand, that “here, outside the boundaries of the chosen people, away from Jerusalem itself, there was a spiritual hunger which…was ready to hear what he had to say.”* What excites and “feeds” you most about the ways in which you currently serve God? What would you like to get involved in that might deepen that joy and excitement? How can you begin to plan to make that happen?

Prayer: Lord Jesus, you said that people who hunger and thirst for righteousness are the ones to whom your kingdom belongs. Grow that appetite in me—and then feed and sustain me as I join in your mission in this world. Amen.
Family Activity: Jesus was an incredible encourager. He saw the best in everyone no matter what they had said or done. Read 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17(2 Thessalonians 2:16 And may our Lord Yeshua the Messiah himself and God our Father, who has loved us and by his grace given us eternal comfort and a good hope, 17 comfort your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.(Complete Jewish Bible).). As a family, think of the people who see the highest potential in each of you. Talk about who cheers you on, builds you up and offers you hope. Create a list of those encouraging people in your lives. What characteristics do they have that identify them as encouragers? Find a way to thank those people for their encouragement. Ask how you can be more encouraging to others and live out this quality of Christ. Discuss how can you see the best in people. Pray together, thanking God for seeing the best in you and in everyone. Ask God to help you grow as an encouraging person.
* N. T. Wright, John for Everyone, Part 1: Chapters 1–10. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p. 50.

Read today's Insight by Shannon Greene:
Shannon Greene is the Young Adults Program Director at Resurrection Leawood. She loves to read, drink coffee, write for her blog, and cheer on her favorite baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals.
In the church I grew up in, during almost every Sunday night service we had “testimony time.” During this portion of the worship service, members of the congregation would stand up and tell stories of how God was moving in their lives. These testimonies were the stories of everyday miracles and the “God moments” when we found the Lord in unexpected places.
All these years later, I must confess that I don’t remember much of what my pastor preached on during those Sunday evening services. But I do remember those stories--those powerful testimonies about how God moved within normal people’s lives.
The Samaritan woman certainly encountered the Lord in an unexpected place and in a surprising way: at a deserted well in the middle of the day. Her own story of meeting Jesus ultimately changed the lives of her entire village: “Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman’s word when she testified, ‘He told me everything I’ve ever done’” (verse 39). Because she was willing to share her own story, the lives of many others were transformed.
I believe that stories have the power to change the world. Stories are what soften people’s hearts and turn their minds toward Christ: not compelling arguments or eloquent debates; not mind-boggling statistics or well-researched facts; not even theological truths or principles. At the end of the day, people will remember your story. Your own story may even spark a harvest of eternal proportions.
You don’t have to go to seminary or be a pastor to share your story. Our stories do not have to be full of churchy language or doctrinal statements. Telling your story is simply sharing your truth about how you encountered God. Who do you need to share your story with today?
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The Devotionals from Christ our Holy Way in Crane Hill, Alabama, United States for Saturday, 30 June 2018 "We Are His Inheritance" by Pastor H. Lamar Smith

Pastor H. Lamar Smith

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We Are His Inheritance

"We Are His Inheritance" by Pastor H. Lamar Smith

The Son has been promised by the Father that He will inherit all of the earth (Psalm 2). The Son is also going to inherit a holy people. His holy people are his rich and glorious inheritance (Ephesians 1:18). He is, right now, making His people holy to prepare them to be His inheritance. Think of it, oh believer. Think of it, oh church! We are what Christ will one day get as an inheritance. Does that change the way you think of the kind of person you should be now, preparing yourself for that day when He inherits us, His bride? Be holy! You are His prize!

“Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.” (Ephesians 5:25b-27 (NLT))

Daily Devotionals Text to read: Mark 5:21-43 from Monday, 25 June 2018 through Sunday, 1 July 2018 of The First United Methodist Church at 2111 Camino del Rio South in San Diego, California 92108, United States for Saturday, 30 June 2018.

Daily Devotionals Text to read: Mark 5:21-43 from Monday, 25 June 2018 through Sunday, 1 July 2018 of The First United Methodist Church at 2111 Camino del Rio South in San Diego, California 92108, United States for Saturday, 30 June 2018.
Daily Devotional:

Jessica Strysko

Saturday, June 30, 2018
Text to read: Mark 5:21-43

How was Jesus ready for this unexpected encounter?

How can we be ready for the unexpected opportunities God presents to us?

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Mark 5:21 Yeshua crossed in the boat to the other side of the lake, and a great crowd gathered around him. 22 There came to him a synagogue official, Ya’ir by name, who fell at his feet 23 and pleaded desperately with him, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please! Come and lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!”
24 He went with him; and a large crowd followed, pressing all around him. 25 Among them was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years 26 and had suffered a great deal under many physicians. She had spent her life savings; yet instead of improving, she had grown worse. 27 She had heard about Yeshua, so she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe; 28 for she said, “If I touch even his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Instantly the hemorrhaging stopped, and she felt in her body that she had been healed from the disease. 30 At the same time, Yeshua, aware that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 His talmidim responded, “You see the people pressing in on you; and still you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” 32 But he kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 The woman, frightened and trembling, because she knew what had happened to her, came and fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth. 34 “Daughter,” he said to her, “your trust has healed you. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
35 While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official’s house came, saying, “Your daughter has died. Why bother the rabbi any longer?” 36 Ignoring what they had said, Yeshua told the synagogue official, “Don’t be afraid, just keep trusting.” 37 He let no one follow him except Kefa, Ya‘akov and Yochanan, Ya‘akov’s brother. 38 When they came to the synagogue official’s house, he found a great commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 On entering, he said to them, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead, she’s just asleep!” 40 And they jeered at him. But he put them all outside, took the child’s father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was. 41 Taking her by the hand, he said to her, “Talita, kumi!” (which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 At once the girl got up and began walking around; she was twelve years old. Everybody was utterly amazed. 43 He gave them strict orders to say nothing about this to anyone, and told them to give her something to eat. (Complete Jewish Bible).
Mark 5:21-43
Verse 21
[21] And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.
Luke 8:40.
Verse 22
[22] And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
One of the rulers of the synagogue — To regulate the affairs of every synagogue, there was a council of grave men. Over these was a president, who was termed the ruler of the synagogue. Sometimes there was no more than one ruler in a synagogue. Matthew 9:18; Luke 8:41.
Verse 25
[25] And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
Matthew 9:20; Luke 8:43.
Verse 37
[37] And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
John, the brother of James — When St. Mark wrote, not long after our Lord's ascension, the memory of St. James, lately beheaded, was so fresh, that his name was more known than that of John himself.
Verse 40
[40] And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
Them that were with him — Peter, James, and John.
Verse 43
[43] And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
He charged them that no man should know it — That he might avoid every appearance of vain glory, might prevent too great a concourse of people, and might not farther enrage the scribes and Pharisees against him; the time for his death, and for the full manifestation of his glory, being not yet come.
He commanded something should be given her to eat — So that when either natural or spiritual life is restored, even by immediate miracle, all proper means are to be used in order to preserve it. (John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes).

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The Richard Rohr Meditation: "Economy: Week 1 Summary" for Saturday, 30 June 2018 from The Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

The Richard Rohr Meditation: "Economy: Week 1 Summary" for Saturday, 30 June 2018 from The Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation

From the Center for Action and Contemplation

Summary: Week Twenty-six: "Economy"

June 24 - June 29, 2018

There is no authentic God experience that does not situate you in the world in a different way. You see things differently, and you have the security to be free from your usual loyalties: privilege, position, group, and economy. (Sunday)
What is Western culture’s primary frame of reference? Money and power seem to come first. The dominant system in our society is production and consumption. (Monday)
God is bought and sold more than loved, waited for, or surrendered to. This is why Jesus’ anger (and even destruction of property) was aimed at those selling and buying in the temple. (Tuesday)
Contemplative practice helps me hold the tension of suffering with my responsibility to participate in its healing. (Wednesday)
We are faced with a paradox. On the one hand money is properly a token of gratitude and trust, and agent of the meeting of gifts and needs. . . . As such it should make us all richer. Yet it does not. Instead, it has brought insecurity, poverty, and the liquidation of our cultural and natural commons. (Charles Eisenstein) (Thursday)
Jesus invites us to stand in solidarity with the poor. We must come close to real people who are hurting. We then can amplify their authentic stories of suffering and cries for change. (Friday)
"Practice: Solidarity with Suffering"
For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me. (Mark 14:7)
This verse is often used as an excuse to do nothing about poverty. In fact, Jesus is calling us to live in solidarity with suffering! My friend Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, explains the context and meaning of this verse.

They are at the dinner table with a leper, and Jesus is making an assumption about his disciples’ continuing proximity to the poor. He is saying, in effect, “Look, you will always have the poor with you” because you are my disciples. You know who we spend our time with, who we share meals with, who listens to our message, who we focus our attention on. You’ve been watching me, and you know what my priorities are. You know who comes first in the kingdom of God. So, you will always be near the poor, you’ll always be with them, and you will always have the opportunity to share with them. . . .

The critical difference between Jesus’s disciples and a middle-class church is precisely this: our lack of proximity to the poor. . . . The middle-class church doesn’t know the poor and they don’t know us. . . . So [we] merely speculate on the reasons for their condition, often placing the blame on the poor themselves. [1]

Jim says that “social location often determines biblical interpretation.” No wonder many well-off Christians miss the emphasis on justice, simplicity, and equality throughout Scripture!
Let’s take the meaning of solidarity with suffering even deeper. The outer poverty, injustice, and absurdity we see when we look around us mirrors our own inner poverty, injustice, and absurdity. The poor person outside is an invitation to the poor man or woman inside. As we learn compassion and sympathy for the brokenness of things, when we encounter the visible icon of the painful mystery in “the little ones,” then we’ll learn compassion and sympathy for our own “little one,” the brokenness within.
Each time I was recovering from cancer, I had to sit with my own broken absurdity as I’ve done with others at the jail or hospital or sick bed. The suffering person’s poverty is visible and extraverted; mine is invisible and interior, but just as real. I think that’s why Jesus said we have to recognize Christ in the least of our brothers and sisters. It was for our redemption, our liberation, our healing—not just to “help” others and pad our spiritual resume.
When we see it over there, we become freed in here, and we also become less judgmental. I can’t hate the person on welfare when I realize I’m on God’s welfare. It all becomes one truth; the inner and the outer reflect one another. As compassion and sympathy flow out of us to any marginalized person, wounds are bandaged—both theirs and ours.

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[1] Jim Wallis, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Harper Collins: 2005, 2006), 210-211.
Adapted from Richard Rohr: Essential Teachings on Love, eds. Joelle Chase and Judy Traeger (Orbis Books: 2018), 178.
Image Credit: Oil Slick in the Timor Sea, September 2009 (detail), NASA Earth Conservatory, US Government.
For Further Study:

Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition (Evolver Editions: 2011)
Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, Revised Edition (Harper Business: 1993, 2010)
Richard Rohr with John Bookser Feister, Jesus’ Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount (Franciscan Media: 1996)
The Souls of Poor Folk: Auditing America 50 Years After the Poor People’s Campaign Challenged Racism, Poverty, the War Economy/Militarism and Our National Morality, https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/audit/
Jim Wallis, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Harper Collins: 2005, 2006)

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