Is
any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise.
... The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
James 5:13, 16 NIV
The most powerful resource
available to the Christian is prayer. We can go directly to God and talk with Him. Often
one will say, "All we can do now is pray." Praying is the first thing we should
do. It is not a last resort of the Christian. It is the first, best and most powerful
thing we can do.
It has been said as: Don't just stand there -- Pray something.
"Prayer, like radium,"
scientist Alexis Carrel once said, "is a luminous and self-generating form of
energy."
Norman Vincent Peale, Pageant
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
November 21
"But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way" (1 Corinthians 14:40),
"for God is not a God of disorder but of peace..." (v.33). There is a
proper time, proper use and proper place for everything.
Paul was addressing the church here, but it applies to the whole of life. Johnson wrote: "Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her
attendants are Comfort, Neat-ness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of
happiness; she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder."
From Order comes a fruit of the Spirit, Peace.
Pat Nordman ©
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"Grieve not the Holy Spirit." - Ephesians 4:30 |
"Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him." - John 12:2
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All that the believer has must come from Christ, but it comes solely through the channel of the Spirit of grace. |
It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune. There are times for each purpose, and each is comely in its season, but none of the trees of the garden yield such clusters as the vine of fellowship.
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November 21 Romans
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Consider the Possibilities When Robinson Crusoe was wrecked on his lonely island, he drew up in two columns what he called the evil and the good. He was cast on a desolate island, but he was still alive--not drowned, as his ship's company was. He was apart from human society, but he was not starving. He had no clothes, but he was in a hot climate where he did not need them. He was without means of defense, but he saw no wild beasts such as he had seen on the coast of Africa. He had no one to whom he could speak, but God had sent the ship so near to the shore that he could get out of it all the things necessary for his basic wants. So he concluded that there was not any condition in the world so miserable but that one could find something for which to be grateful. |
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...and by his light I walked through darkness! JOB 29:3 NIV
Unconditional Love by Pat Nordman
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Unconditional love! Sounds great, doesn't it? To love in spite of instead of spite ...
Unconditional! Who can do this? How can I love this person who has ripped my heart into
tiny bits of hate and resentment? Oh yes, I read and reread that lovely passage from 1
Corinthians 13 when I feel the anger and hate welling up. I have even made a poster out of
the NIV version of Verse 5: "[Love] keeps no record of wrongs" to keep me from
dredging out the old woe-is-me's in times of anger. Send a note to Pat Nordman , the writer of this devotion. |
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