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God showed up, let's do the same // Thursday E-Devotion

Psalms 57:10-11 (nlt) --- For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens. May your glory shine over all the earth.

I cannot get over the fact that when we need Him, God shows us with big arms to throw around us a God-hug that will change the direction of our day. His love is real. His faithfulness is to be shouted about. Tell somebody what God has done.

In our church's membership class last night, one of our leaders shared how God showed up in her husand's life to lift and encoruage him. What an awesome testimony to hear? Watching God work is awesome. Let's praise Him and watch Him work.

This morning I was reading some of the daily insight from the kingdom of Blogs and ran across a note from Perry Noble. Someone had blasted him and his church. Perry's response and the response of others of his church leadership hit me, and I want to respond to what I read...

Great Job! The kingdom is big time blessed to have people who are real, just who God made you to be. We are in this thing called ministry and life together, and it is our opportunitiy to make as much of it as we can. It is our honor and responsibility to take as many people with us to heaven as we can. That response reminded me to be careful how I respond. Since God showed up for me, I should do the same for others.

By responding with kindness to those who slap you, we may see even more people won, more doors opened and most definitely more praise to God. Let's watch God work.

Here is my final thought for the day (and God gets the last word):

Galatians 6:7-10 (nlt) --- Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.

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