Take this day to catch up on your reading, pray, and rest in the presence of the Lord.
I delight to do your will, my God,
and your instruction is deep within me.
—Psalm 40:8
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Amen.
Late, family here for a week, so I won’t have a chance to read until late. ❤️
SEEKING UNDERSTANDING… Your comment about the donkey AND the foal and the cloaks and “Jesus sat on them.” made me do a little digging. The notes in my ESV study Bible said nothing, but this was in the notes of my NIV study Bible… “He sat on the cloaks. We know from Mark (11:2) and Luke (19:30) that he rode the colt. Typically, a mother donkey followed her offspring closely. Matthew mentions two animals, while the other Gospels have only one.” Another note referenced (same three Gospels) is/are the demons at the Gadarenes with the herd of pigs. My take on it, might be that Matthew is more detail oriented… which is hard to reconcile with the fact that Luke was a physician. ;-)
And, LAURA DIANNE… I left FB a couple years ago, and so I struggled with joining a group to follow someone’s cancer journey and also SRT. I usually go visit these groups on Sundays (and ONLY to those two groups. I am out of the habit of scrolling through my feed.) Looking outside of those groups just isn’t an option, you know? So maybe the same would work for you? I don’t know. Just thought I would share.
AMEN!! to Rhonda J’s comment!! Hope its OK, to ask for prayer for my own children, as I “see” them scrolling and stare at their phones and I’m not sure how much “time” they spend in God’s Word. I pray that they would “desire” to spend time with our Jesus.
LAURA DIANNE – I agree about the privacy. I felt that way with the SRT facebook page. Not sure I like it…
“Do it with a happy heart” This is something I would say to my children when they were little and I needed them to obey. Wish it was something I came up with, but it wasn’t. I learned it from a parenting class I took at church. Though we read this verse/s earlier this week, our GRACE DAY verse, Psalm 40:8 really spoke to me this morning. NIV says it this way: “I desire to do your will….” A few days ago I commented about me being legally separated an wanting to be divorced, but desiring to be in God’s will more. And I also mentioned that on this side of heaven I don’t understand why especially when there was abuse (mainly verbal and emotional), BUT God….. I want to be in HIS will rather than mine. THIS morning, our Grace Day verse JUMPED out at me “gently” and here is what I heard: “Do this with a happy heart Mari”
I’m taking a DEEP breath…I’m trusting My JESUS. Please continue to pray as this man (who I once called husband) keeps coming around my home (there’s a restraining order) and calls my my mom’s landline, doesn’t say anything, we just hear background noise. (SIGH) BUT… I will still TRUST my God, my Jesus! I KNOW He is with me! AND I’m still going to say, “Happy SATURDAY sweet She’s!!” LOVE YOU ALL VERY MUCH!
Praying for your requests as I read them and ask God to continue to bring them to my mind for the future. These devotionals, Scriptures and comments have been so helpful to me in my journey. I would appreciate prayers for my husband Bob. He is having surgery to have a small skin cancer removed from under his left eye on Monday at 8:40. It should be simple but it’s near his tear duct so praying no problems. Also he has a brain MRI on April 2 to follow up on previous brain tumor treatment. He gets MRI every 3 months. Praying for good results, no new tumors and wisdom for his doctors as he continues his journey. Praying for our family as we all process things differently, especially for our daughter to return to her faith and love for Jesus. Her name is Rebecca. Thanks so much, keeping you all in my prayers.
I love the visual of sewing the Word of God into our hearts! My first thought was, ouch! that would hurt! But that’s the point, isn’t it? It should “hurt” to bury God’s Word into our hearts because it means heart changes, dying to self, molding and shaping. But the verse says I will delight to do your will. The hurt, the pain, the valleys change us, they change our hearts. Reading God’s Word changes our hearts. But delight is the result! It doesn’t make sense and it does make sense!! Because I have lived that. And I know others have lived that. And it is such a delight to live God’s will. I want to sew His Word DEEP into my heart.
RHONDA J I am not on the facebook page. I quit facebook last year because I was able to see things that my youngest daughter posted and it made me too sad. It was my own fault for looking, but I had to take that step for my own discipline. I also enjoy the privacy of this group. I think I have been more willing to share. I hate admitting that, but I think it’s true. I will think about joining SRT in the future. I love you ladies and care about you so much, so I need to examine my own heart and see what is holding me back.