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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

E-mail: A Time for Everything

When God surrounds you with people who speak truth into your life you may receive emails like this at the perfect time:

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A Time for Everything!

The Bible tells us there is a time for everything, seasons for some things, some seasons to say "yes" and some seasons to say "no". God impressed upon me this morning that every day is open season for loving one another, for loving Him, for looking for ways to spur one another on to love and good deeds. So I just wanted to say "I Love You" and I encourage you to approach the throne of grace with boldness to know God in His fullness and to look for ways to be light and salt in a world who so desperately needs to see Jesus through the way we love each other. BE BLESSED FOR YOU ARE!!!! Robert

A Season For Everything By Poh Fang Chia

 March 3, 2015

If you’re like me, you’ve struggled with having to say no to taking on a new responsibility—especially if it’s for a good cause and directly related to helping others. We may have sound reasons for carefully selecting our priorities. Yet sometimes, by not agreeing to do more, we may feel guilty or we may think that somehow we have failed in our walk of faith.

But according to Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, wisdom recognizes that everything in life has its own season—in human activities as in the realm of nature. “There is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” (3:1).

Perhaps you are getting married or becoming a parent for the first time. Maybe you are leaving school and entering the workforce, or moving from fulltime work to retirement. As we move from season to season, our priorities change. We may need to put aside what we did in the past and funnel our energy into something else.

When life brings changes in our circumstances and obligations, we must responsibly and wisely discern what kind of commitments we should make, seeking in whatever we do to “do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31). Proverbs 3:6 promises that as we acknowledge Him in all our ways, He will guide us in the way we should go.

Heavenly Father, give me Your wisdom to know what priorities I need to have at this season of my life. Guide me in all that I do. I only want to bring You the honor You deserve with the way I live.
Commitment to Christ is a daily calling that challenges us.


INSIGHT: The book of Ecclesiastes shows what life is like without God (1:1-2) and reminds us to include Him in our lives (12:1). In today’s passage, Solomon affirms God’s sovereignty over all human life (3:11). He observes that we are time-bound, experiencing between birth and death a complexity of events (vv. 2-8). God is in control of our lives, making “everything beautiful in its time” (v. 11).


Very Respectfully,

Robert


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No doubt, this email encouraged me today, but it motivated me to love and good deeds!  I feel loved by God through my Brother Robert who pleased the Father today.  

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