LUNCH TIME DEVOTIONAL: > MY JOURNEY: Sitting in Pizza Hut here in Odessa, Texas , I have been reading some inspirational messages from some of you who continue to bless me with ur prayers and sharing storys of encouragement as I drudge thru more struggles here. Somedays its all I can do get the prayers past my lips for the tears and heartaches of these struggles I am facing. Each day I find a little more encouragement and sometimes even get a bit of a relief. One day this week, I was called out to a tow for a customer about a hundred miles out. Tired, totally frustrated, and laying on 125 degree asphalt here in the 104 degree heat, I sweated and groaned to get thru the hooking up process, once complete, took a bottle of water , drowned my scalding hot face and back to the truck me and the customer go headed 100 miles back to Odessa. As conversation would have it, I began to share bits and pieces, only to discover , He was also a Christian man from Dallas. I shared my testimony with him, and he shared his with me , by the time we made it back to odessa, what started out as a huge frustration for me and him both ended in a great time of two Christian brothers sharing Christ with each other .. Just at that right moment , God places people we need in out path. I truly dont know where I am going to get the physical strength to keep working here in this brutal oil field environment , no the emotional strength to handle these struggles , but with Christ all things are possible... For those of you who continue to keep in touch , pray, write and call, GOD BLESS YOU ALL... Until next time.... Peace love and joy.....Chappy DAILY DEVOTIONAL: Remember the story of The Little Engine That Could? That determined little train climbed the steep hill by chanting positively, “I think I can. I think I can.” And then, as it gained more resolve, it declared, “I know I can. I know I can.” No one would disagree that followers of Christ should think and live in a positive way. But do you ever find yourself depending too much on your own abilities rather than on the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit? In John 15, Jesus explained our need for complete dependence on Him when He said, “He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing” (v.5). Paul reminded us that we “can do all things through Christ who strengthens [us]” (Phil. 4:13), that “the excellence of the power [is] of God and not of us” (2 Cor. 4:7), and that we are “strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man” (Eph. 3:16). Because of God’s power, we can do whatever He asks of us—through Him. We can base our confidence not in our own abilities, but in God’s absolute promises. So, today, with exceedingly more power than the little engine could ever muster, we can say, “I know I can. I know I can—because of Jesus.” God gives to His servants this promise: You’ll not have to face life alone; And when you grow weak in your struggle, His strength will prevail—not your own. —Hess God’s requirements are met by God’s enabling. SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY: Ephesians 3:14-21 A Prayer for the Ephesians 14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:31:21 +0000
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