Hello friends. This might come as a little surprise to you, but I am taking a break. For the next two weeks (more like the next 10 days) I will not be sharing a e-devotion.
Thank you for allowing me to share my ramblings, thoughts, what God is sharing with me. Often these are the things simply flowing through my heart as the days are patterned by our good and gracious God. They most of the time are easy to write and share, but there are times that it is anything but easy.
Let me take just a couple minutes, or lines, and tell you my heart is heavy with all the happenings around our world as of late. We have been crippled by the quarantine due to Covid-19. Now we step even further with the pain of the senseless death of George Floyd which has ignited protests and so much more across America.
I stand in solidarity with my brothers and sisters who have lived with oppression. This applies to my black friends as well as so many others who have gone through horrible things.
Racism is a sin. This past Sunday morning at The Community Fellowship Jammie Redd and I shared our hearts with the church around this is issue. You can watch that service on the church facebook page. Jammie leads Bridge of Hands Ministry which is a work sharing God’s love to those in need of hope and tangible items.
On Wednesday, June 10th beginning at 5:30pm at Albert Harris Elementary School the Martinsville March for Solidarity will be taking place. Local clergy are encouraged to participate. The march will end at the Martinsville Municipal Building uptown with a call to action (rain date is Thursday, June 11th).
God has a plan, and I want to be part of His plan. That is why I will stop, recharge myself and seek God for refreshing over the next several days. Thank you for allowing me to do this.
But I do want to leave you with a passage that is flowing through my mind. The church has a place in the world as the bride of Christ and the proclaimer of hope. The following verses remind us that Christ has called us, and as we follow Him there will be love and unity as an outcome.
Read on…
Ephesians 4:11-15 NLT
Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. 15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.
May God do amazing things in each of us as we choose to focus on and follow Him. Have a great week!
I’m praying for:
Pray for the family of Shannon Jamison as he passed away a few days ago. Pray for Jamie Foley and his family as his uncle passed away. Pray for the family of Skyler Bryant as his funeral is today. Pray for the family of Lauren Monday. Pray for those battling cancer: a friend’s mom, Brian Taylor, Howard Hodges, Jon Morris, Julie Metz, Meredith Spencer, and Jennifer Tatum. Also pray for Mark McCraw, Ellie McMillian, Stephanie Penn, David Gray, Anita Sparks, Anita Martin, Kathy and Danny Wilson, and Kyle Ogle.
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