Michael Harrison's e-devotion

Our connection to God is a promise that we claim.  It is based on His love for us and the gift of His son.  There is more to faith than going to church or living right.  In fact those two things are the outcome of our faith. I encourage us today today to remember what calling our to God does to us.  There are some choices we make that change us and the people around us.   Here are a few verses that will help us understand our connection to God.  Take these at the the value of what you see.  Then apply them.  Promises from God and warnings should be held close. 2 Timothy 2:22  NLT   Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts. Simply put, stay away from wrong.  Stay close to God.  Enjoy time with people who know and love God.  Those people will help you stay close. Deuteronomy 10:12...

  There are many different ways to connect.  Today I want to challenge us to think about the ways we choose to connect with the people around us each day.  Connections ought to be strong, or communication that is.  And there are many ways to connect with others. Let’s take a little trip.  Depending on how old you are there has been lots of change in technology.  Take for instance the internet and how we connect there.  Do you remember the dial up connection?  Your computer would literally have to call a number and hear those funny tones, like a fax machine machine, and connect to the internet.  It was very slow. Now there are much faster ways to connect and to stay connected much longer, like all the time.  We even stream movies and content that is huge, and that old dial up connection couldn’t hardly play a short and grainy video. Connections mean a lot.  Again, how do we connect to people?  There are many ways to connect and ...

Prayer is part of our relationship with God.  We are challenged to make this relationship a priority.  Be reminded that God desires to have a close relationship with us.   It is a relationship that is connected, not disconnected.  A relationship based on trust, not mistrust.  It is a relationship that brings us life, not death. It is communication at its height and it is often. Ephesians 1:18  NASB I pray that   the   eyes   of your   heart   may be   enlightened ,   so that you will  know   what   is the   hope   of His   calling ,   what   are   the   riches   of the   glory   of   His   inheritance   in   the   saints , Flooded with light. Connection to God floods us with light. That is what Paul prayed for, and we can pray for the same.  Expect what you pray ...

Stay connected.   Have you noticed that there are some places you go where your cell phone has no service?   There are lots of places around the globe where you cannot connect to the internet or a cell phone tower or one of numerous things that we like to connect to. This past week 8 men from our community, me being one of them, traveled to Spartanburg, South Carolina to help our friends at SonRise Baptist Church.   I even worked.   Our team helped build walls, mud and tape walls preparing them to be painted, worked on some bathrooms and did a few other things.   It was a great 2 day trip with lots accomplished. But one of the things that became evident not long after we arrived is that in the building, where we worked and stayed, there was almost no cellular service.   Even outside of the church cell service wasn’t very good. This turned out to be a good thing.   We all had to disconnect some.   That was good, and that was bad. ...