Daily Bible Reading - Tuesday - November 24th

It’s hard to believe the end of the year is around the corner.  We are just about to finish up reading our bible through in a year, wow, what an accomplishment.  As we finish up reading I really get in my heart that God is telling us it’s time to finish up in other area’s of our lives.  I know for me it’s time to finish up losing weight, I’ve battled it long enough, it’s time to get serious and push on through, to pick up that baton and finish the race I’ve been running.  There’s so many other things God has in store for us but for me finishing up losing weight will be a very major accomplishment because it’s one thing I’ve been doing most of my life.  These last pounds really seem to want to stay, they keep hanging on so it’s time to get them off and go on with what God other things God has for me.  It’s like we are running that marathon and we can see the end in sight so we get that extra burst of energy and off we go, that’s what I really feel God is telling us, or me anyway, to grab the baton and finish the race I started and to cross that finish line standing strong.  Here's a 30min message on Pressing on by Billy Joe Daugherty, who went home to be with the Lord this past Sunday.  This message really spoke to me.  He was only 57 yrs old.  It really shows us how short time is, we really gotta press on and finish the race that has been set before us.  Bec and anyone else that has dial up if you want to watch it just let me know and I'll send you the dvd of it, its a short but powerful message.

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Today’s Reading

Ezekiel 47:1-48:35
1 Peter 2:11-3:7
Psalm 119:49-64
Proverbs 28:12-13

Daily Devotional

"The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)"
(John 10:10, AMP)

Too many people today have a barely-get-by mentality, "Barely able to pay my bills, got an okay job, an okay marriage." Friend, don’t settle there. Jesus came so we could live an abundant life! That means an abundance of joy, an abundance of peace, an abundance of health, an abundance in our finances.

God’s dream is that you not only be blessed, but that you are so blessed that you can be blessing everywhere you go. He wants you to live an abundant life so that it overflows on to the people around you. We should have so much peace, so much joy, so much victory that when other people get around us, they begin to feel it. It affects them.

You may not be seeing it right now, but don’t get complacent and just settle where you are. Begin to declare by faith today, "Jesus came to give me abundant life." "My needs are supplied in abundance so that I can be a blessing to others." As you stay in faith, you’ll see your cir****tances begin to turn around. You’ll see God move on your behalf, and you’ll experience the abundant life He has prepared for you!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

"Heavenly Father, today I release all the cares and burdens that are trying to drag me down. I know that You have a good plan for my life. I will continue in the faith and ask that You breathe Your new life throughout my whole being today. In Jesus' Name. Amen"