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Future Plans

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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD,
thoughts of peace and not of evil,to give you a future and a hope.
(Jeremiah 29:11, Holy Bible, New King James)

A new year brings hopes and dreams of a brighter future. Both are encouraging, but it takes plans to accomplish individual goals. Now, day five of 2017, I continue to write my goals in a daily planner. Each morning, I mark my accomplishments for the previous day or rewrite the missed goals.

I’ve left blank lines for the plans God has for my future. I can only record them as gratitudes after they happen.

Prayer: Lord, open my eyes to the plans You have for my future. Amen.

Devotion by Violet Carr Moore

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Returns and Renewal

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Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me, (Holy Bible, Psalm 51:10, King James Version).

January is the month of returns and renewal. Returns remove clutter of unwanted gifts, from wrong size to wrong color, to wrong style in exchange for useful items. Lines are long, but the wait is rewarding when the shopper receives a refund or a more desirable replacement.

Renewal is not so easy. It takes strength and courage to exchange a wrong attitude for a right spirit and create a clean heart.

Prayer: Lord, this is a new year—a time to renew my dedication to You. Help me follow the prayer of the psalmist who understood that renewal begins with the heart. Amen.

Devotion by Violet Carr Moore

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Resolution or Commitment

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Chose you this day whom ye will serve…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:15 Holy Bible King James)

It’s easy to make a New Year’s resolution but not keep it because you are your own scorekeeper. Joshua made a critical choice, not a resolution, and he kept it. In Joshua’s final presentation to the descendants of Israel, he spoke of his faithful journeys with Moses. Joshua told of how he pledged his commitment to continue following the Lord. He went a step further. He asked others to make a choice—a commitment. Like Joshua, a decision to serve God is your choice. If it’s only a resolution, you keep score. If it’s a commitment, the Lord will keep score.

Prayer: Eternal God, I thank you for Joshua’s faith. His commitment to follow You is a great example of leadership. I commit myself to follow You today. Amen.

Devotion by Violet Carr Moore

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Our Ministry

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Our Pastor has been teaching from I Peter over the last few weeks, and this verse in chapter 4, really stood out.
As I write these devotions each month, I ask the Lord to give me something to write about that will be a blessing to someone else. It may be a small ministry, but all the Lord requires is that we give our best effort to whatever task He gives us to do.
Little is much when God is in it. If the Lord can use what I write to help one other person, then it is work the time and effort.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you for the opportunity to share the thoughts you have laid upon my heart. May they be a blessing to others.

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Our Blessed Hope

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As an old year ends and a new one begins, we realize that we are getting older, and the time of our departure from this life grows closer. Over the past year, we have seen many friends and acquaintances pass on to be with the Lord. Every day is a bonus that the Lord has given us.
When we think about this, it is such a comfort to know the Lord is in complete control. Whenever He calls us home, we are ready for it. He has given us confidence and a hope that heaven awaits us. What joy it will be to see His face and spend eternity with Him.
Prayer: Lord, I give this day into your hands. Thank you for the hope you have given me.
Devotion by Anne Johnston

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A New Year Begins

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Today a lot of people will be making resolutions, planning to accomplish so much with their life in this new year. Statistics show us that most of them will be abandoned before many days have passed.
As followers of the Lord, our only resolution should be to draw closer to the Lord. From all the things that are happening in our world, we know that His coming draws very near. Our aim and goal is to be ready for His coming and to help and encourage others to be ready also.
Daily prayer and Bible reading are very important if we are stay close to the Lord and live the way He wants us to live. My son encourages his congregation to have “a slot and a spot” every day. Meeting the Lord in the same place at the same time helps us to maintain our relationship with Him.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, we know your coming is close and this could be the year you return. Help us to be ready and to help others to be ready also.
Devotion by Anne Johnston

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Like a Child

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For an answer Jesus called over a child, whom he stood in the middle of the room, and said, “I’m telling you, once and for all, that unless you return to square one and start over like children, you’re not even going to get a look at the kingdom, let…

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Steadfast Fellowship

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And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. (Acts 2:42, Holy Bible, New King James)

This follows the scene of the magnitude conversion of 3,000 people in one day at the Jewish celebration of Pentecost. Apostle Peter had made it plain to those who witnessed the gift of the Holy Ghost falling on believers who had gathered in an upper room that this new covenant was the promise of Jesus.

The new converts were attentive to the apostles’ teaching and prayed together in steadfast fellowship. It kept them strong then. It will keep you strong now.

Prayer: Thank You, Lord, for those who teach and pray with likeminded believers who follow the apostles’ doctrine. Amen.

Devotion by Violet Carr Moore

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