Prayer ~ Lord God, I once was lost, but now am found. Help me to find things I’ve lost—they are distracting me from the real job at hand…telling others the Good News about Jesus, my Lord and Savior.
Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won't she
light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds
it? And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say,
'Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.' In the same way, there is
joy in the presence of God's angels when even one sinner repents. Luke
15:8-10
Meditate
on lost and found things…and people in your life.
Just
like that woman who lost a coin in Jesus’ parables about lost and found things,
I lost something recently…my keys. One of my granddaughters lost her glasses.
Hmmm. Keep them on your face, sweety—even if you are hot and sweaty! You don’t
know how important something is until you have lost it! Now what? Pray. Jesus
promised that whatever we ask for in His name we would receive.
Lost and Found!
I lost a key. Pray.
Do you know someone who is lost?
Keep on asking, and you will
receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking,
and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone
who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8
I tell you
the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and
even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for
anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the
Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it! John
14:12-14
People are eternally important. All things will eventually burn up
and not matter anyway, but people live forever. Forever with God or without Him.
It is not importance of finding the keys, the glasses, or the coin, but the
very souls of lost people. Jesus told His disciples and us to go and make
disciples. We are to find the lost and give them the Good News that Jesus is
the Messiah—the King of kings. He is our savior, if we choose to ask Him to
save us from evil and death that awaits those who reject Him. We have the
choice. I choose life with Jesus. I found it!
Verses of Salvation ~ But thank God! He has made us his captives
and continues to lead us along in Christ's triumphal procession. Now he uses us
to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume. Our lives
are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived
differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To
those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to
those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate
for such a task as this? 2 Corinthians 2:14-16
Memory Verse of the Week - Thank you for making me so
wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. Psalm
139:14
Were you successful in memorizing this verse expressing how
creative God was in making us?
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