Michael Harrison's e-devotion

  Pray for the students.  This week and the past few weeks have reminded me of the important investment and incredible opportunity we have to love students.  Every age from the very young to college age students are around us. Choose to be an agent of change and strengthening.  This could be words of encouragement or even some time well spent with students.  Teach them at church.  Shoot basketball with them.  Go to summer camp as a counselor.  Do something to impact the younger generation and support the ministries that work with them. Graduations are happening or have happened.  College students are moving in the work force or getting ready for more study.  High school students are seeing opportunities for college, work or more years of study.  And others are having the joy of summer and such. Pray for these students.  I found an article that encouraged us to pray in some certain ways for students.  Use these as a guide: ...

  Psalm 82:3-4  NLT   Give justice to the poor and the orphan; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute. 4 Rescue the poor and helpless; deliver them from the grasp of evil people. You might be keeping up with things that are going on around the world.  Pray for the peace of Israel and the middle east.  Pray for the nation of Cuba and the unrest and desperate economic situation. My heart is in Cuba and has been in 2019 when I took my first mission trip.  So many people have left a mark on my heart and life.  Friends and ministry partners who are sharing the Gospel in their country.  I am so grateful for God leading me there these 6 and half years. But the situation is grave.  So pray.  As the verses above say.  Pray for the poor, the oppressed, pray for rescue of the helpless and the release from evil or difficult people.   Cuba gets worse daily with the need for food, fuel, electricity and hope.  The Unit...

  Some of the strongest I’ve ever studied and thought through are the ones I share with you today.  They hold truth that will guide us now and for eternity.  They helped shape what I do and what I believe.   As you read through these verses note of what sticks out to you.  It will reinforce what you believe or change it.  Let God speak.   Philippians 2:3-11  NLT Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. 5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. 6 Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.  7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.  When he appeared in human form,  8 he h...

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  Luke 9:43  NLT   Awe gripped the people as they saw this majestic display of God’s power.   Have you ever been stopped by something somewhere and ended up in AWE?  It is one of those moments you didn’t expect, left you inspire, and left you with peace.   I have been there.  Most likely we all have.  I t might be the landscape or sky you notice.  It could have been a story someone shared.  Maybe it was a Scripture you read many times before, but this time was different.  It was something you didn’t expect.   Psalm 65:8  NLT   Those who live at the ends of the earth stand in awe of your wonders. From where the sun rises to where it sets, you inspire shouts of joy.   W atch because God is working.  We will be in awe and long for times of awe.  Unexpected moments of joy.  Moments that seemed to stand still.   Exodus 14:31 NLT   When the people of Israel saw the mighty power that the Lord ha...

  Sunday is always a good day.  Church.  Family.  Rest.  And more.  So today in the e-devotion I share with you some thoughts, quotes and overflow from what I shared with our church yesterday. Psalm 122:1  NLT   “I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” Worship is one of those places, as a pastor, where I get nervous and desire to lead our people in the right direction.  That would be in to the presence of the Lord.  He has a plan.  He is worthy of worship and more. Scripture says in James that those who teach are under a more judgment because of the weight of what they do, and that is why I want to make sure that I share a word from God.  Also the worship service should be full of what leads all of us to worship God. You’ve been there.  It is a special time.  It is an important time.  There is an old saying that reminds me that you only get out of something what you put in to it or ...