Wednesday, July 18, 2007
What is the one thing you do not see at movie theater, your favorite restaurant, college games, professional games, concerts or perhaps not even at the grocery store or the gas station?
The poor!
Recently we had 634 families stand in line to receive food, almost all of them obviously needed help. Someone said, “Where did all these people come from? I never knew there were so many people who needed help.”
The answer is that the poor don’t go where a lot of people go. The sad part is that includes the church! If you want to see the poverty, you have to go where poverty lives and goes or invite to your church or your home.
-Lyn Sahr
-Luke 14:12-14 NIV
Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Monday, July 9, 2007
If God changed his communication pattern and started using email instead of prayer, what do think His email address would be?
I am asking? Send your response ASAP.
-Lyn Sahr
-Ps 42:8 NIV
By day the LORD directs his love,
at night his song is with me–
a prayer to the God of my life.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Over the years I have struggled with when things are going difficult, discerning whether God is protecting me from disaster or the devil is preventing me from God’s purpose. I have found this to be a difficult determination, even though I have spent countless hours of prayer for direction and clarification. Then a short time ago I heard someone say something that made sense to me, “The devil always overplays his hand!”
I hadn’t thought about it much sense then except that recently there were some interesting actions that I have observed that were being carried out in haste, with little if any planning and many risks that could affect a lot of people’s lives. So I again ask myself the question, “Is God in this or is this the devil trying to cause further destruction?” And I know that he is capable of deceiving even the best of us. Well, the answer is not mine to know but I hold to the thought, “The devil always overplays his hand.”
Perhaps you are facing things in your life that cause you the same questions. Perhaps you should take the time to think, pray and watch the circumstances unfold. God never overplays His hand, He holds ours and leads us beside quite waters!
-Lyn Sahr
-Ps 23 NIV
A psalm of David.
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
