DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2018
Our Father in heaven, help us remember that we are always in your loving and trustworthy hands. Strengthen our faith so that we may grow to be more like you. In the name of your son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Job said, “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return . . . the Lord gave
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed
be the name of the Lord." (Job 1:21 (KJV))
For 40 years I struggled with a number of issues — from low self-esteem to drug and alcohol abuse — until one day law enforcement came to my door with a search warrant. After turning my house upside down, they led me away in handcuffs. Before I was arrested, I believed in but didn’t have a relationship with God. That was about to change.
As I began to read scripture, I also began to see and feel God’s love. I had lost most of my family and money and damaged my health due to my addictions. But God never gave up on me. I went back to my childhood church and was welcomed with more love than I had known in quite a while.
Now it is my turn to care for others. Most days I lead and volunteer with recovery groups, a local shelter, a food bank, and various Bible studies. God didn’t give up on me. Instead God helped me to become the person I was created to be.
TODAY'S PRAYER:
For 40 years I struggled with a number of issues — from low self-esteem to drug and alcohol abuse — until one day law enforcement came to my door with a search warrant. After turning my house upside down, they led me away in handcuffs. Before I was arrested, I believed in but didn’t have a relationship with God. That was about to change.
As I began to read scripture, I also began to see and feel God’s love. I had lost most of my family and money and damaged my health due to my addictions. But God never gave up on me. I went back to my childhood church and was welcomed with more love than I had known in quite a while.
Now it is my turn to care for others. Most days I lead and volunteer with recovery groups, a local shelter, a food bank, and various Bible studies. God didn’t give up on me. Instead God helped me to become the person I was created to be.
TODAY'S PRAYER:
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Romans 8:26 Similarly, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we don’t know how to pray the way we should. But the Spirit himself pleads on our behalf with groanings too deep for words; 27 and the one who searches hearts knows exactly what the Spirit is thinking, because his pleadings for God’s people accord with God’s will. 28 Furthermore, we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called in accordance with his purpose; 29 because those whom he knew in advance, he also determined in advance would be conformed to the pattern of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers; 30 and those whom he thus determined in advance, he also called; and those whom he called, he also caused to be considered righteous; and those whom he caused to be considered righteous he also glorified!
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God never gives up on me.
PRAYER FOCUS:
Those who feel hopeless
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God never gives up on me.
Those who feel hopeless
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