Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008

February 27 2008

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February 27 2008
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Ezekiel 2; Daniel 10; James 2

Today is February 27 this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. You are part of a devotional community where we put Christ first and our commitment is to spend time with each other and Time with God every day.


Yesterday I spent half the day on the phone. Lots of phone calls. Dave called to see how things are going. Several salesmen called. I spoke to Marcia about Awana. I called Jay and he called me back, then I called him back. Vicki called to tell me that the new drapes are up over the serving counter. They look great! Bill stopped in to chat for a while. We talked about the work day for this Saturday. I certainly hope we have a good crew out. We really need lots of help. And I spent some time editing Growing Together for the radio. More time needed for that project. In the evening, Susan and I took off to Albany to have dinner with Vic and Barb – a few crew mates from our cruise. We had a good time. And we began talking about spiritual things. I hope this develops even further so I can share Christ with them.

This week’s theme verse. Matthew 5:5-8 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

I’m always hungry! I could eat all day long. Food is good. Good food not only tastes good, but is good for fuel; it makes you feel good and gives you energy to charge into your day. Food and drink is one of the bare necessities of life and one of the enjoyable extravagances as well! We need it to survive, we eat it to thrive. But good chow is not enough. We also need spiritual “food and drink” for the soul. Without a regular fare of the spiritual fruits, veggies, milk, water & power aide, we would starve and shrivel up spiritually. It is almost a surprise that we are told to “hunger and thirst for righteousness” because hunger and thirst comes natural to me. Maybe the reason for the command is that it is far too easy for us to eat “spiritual junk food!” We tend to replace our real needs with other less important stuff. We can chow down on all kinds of meaningless stuff from too much TV, to some good old fiction reading, to social interaction etc… some of this is good, ok and some of it just down right bad. But the problem with all the stuff we cram into our lives is that it was never meant to fill the spiritual void God put there. No matter whether you try to shove love, romance, fine dining, drinking, drugs, money… (you name it) it just doesn’t do the trick. That’s why we are told to hunger and thirst for RIGHTEOUSNESS. We need to crave time with God in prayer and time with God in the Word. We need to pursue a life of godliness. Without it we WILL starve!

Dear Father, I come before you a hungry man (or woman). I am always aware of my hunger, but I am not always so aware that it is cause by a lack of the proper nutrients: spiritual things. Help me to take better care of myself by making sure that I fill my hunger for righteousness by pursuing a daily quite time with you in prayer and in the Word. Help me to realize that worship is one of the most important needs in my life. I want to be a righteous person. I know that to do that I must seek you with all my heart, soul, mind and strength. Please fill me, for I have come to the table to eat! Thanks for your bounty of spiritual blessings whenever I need them!

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