reality of God's word // Wednesday E-Devotion

Moving forward. Not always an easy task for us. Really that is true for everyone. Moving forward may take huge effort for many reasons, yet moving forward is part of life. It is part of God's plan and His best for all His kids. That is us!

Last week I began to challenge our folks at The Community Fellowship to explore Spiritural disciplines and the stuff will help a Christian to grow as God designed us to do. One of those, and most likely the biggest, is getting the Bible into our lives. I love the 'hand illustration' from the Navigators. It shares 5 ways that we put the word of God into our lives.

Those 5 ways are: hear the word (Romans 10:17), read the word ( Revelation 1:3), study the word ( Acts 17:11), memoriaze the word ( Psalms 119:9,11), and meditate on the word ( Psalms 1:2-3). Each one can and will make a huge difference in our thought patterns, in our actions and in what we share. God so designed us to need His word and designed His word to be an important part of our every day lives. Have you allowed God's word to big time get into your life?

In my reading this morning I spent time in Psalms 63, and these thoughts continued to role through my head and heart. As I close, I ask you think about God's word and try to link why the writer of Psalms would say the things He said. Was it beacuse He knew God's word?

Psalms 63 (nlt)

1 O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water.

2 I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory.

3 Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise you!

4 I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer.

5 You satisfy me more than the richest feast. I will praise you with songs of joy.

6 I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night.

7 Because you are my helper, I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings.

8 I cling to you; your strong right hand holds me securely.

May God's word become reality to each of us!

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Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San Antonio, Texas . She was the patient of a doctor by the name of Will Phillips. Dr. Phillips was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people. His favorite patient was Edith Burns. One morning he went to his office with a heavy heart and it was because of Edith Burns. When he walked into that waiting room, there sat Edith with her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young mother sitting beside her. Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way: "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Then she would explain the meaning of Easter, and many times people would be saved. Dr. Phillips walked into that office and there he saw the head nurse, Beverly. Beverly had first met Edith when she was taking her blood pressure. Edith began by saying,"My name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Beverly said, "Why yes I do." Edith said, "Well, what do you ...

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