- MONDAY -

Good morning forever family,

Jesus is our treasure. All people who have come to a saving knowledge of Christ Jesus will tell you that. Our salvation, the gift of the Holy Spirit, God's written word... Jesus has brought all of it to us. Actually the word "treasure" may even be a bit weak when used to describe Jesus. I love all the parables... especially those regarding the lost coin, treasure, of even a son (prodigal son). 

Joy is the result of finding something important that was lost. There is no greater joy than someone coming to Jesus. That person was lost yet now is found. Yes, even the Angels in Heaven rejoice over that. 

Let's make telling others about the treasure that Jesus is a priority this week!

⁸ “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? ⁹ And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ ¹⁰ In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”  Luke 15:8-10 NIV

Be blessed, be  blessing,

Randy

- TUESDAY -

Good morning forever family,

Ministry is hard. It's not really ever meant to be easy. Jackie and I have been at a particular ministry for 7 1/2 years now and have seen some things. Most of the time it's other people trying to "leave their own mark", that is take over and do things their way... no matter how that may be or look like. Sometimes they even violate Scripture to do it. We have had to stay strong and keep things Scriptural. That works. Staying in tune to God's word will never fail you.

Another thing Jackie and I constantly have to do is to put behind us those events that the enemy throws at us. Even if Satan is using God's weaker people to stop a ministry that helps the weak. We have to put these things behind us and press on for we know God is for us and His plan is to help us personally as well us use us to help others. The goal being to grow closer to God and help others do the same!

God is good... all the time. All the time... God is good!

Paul wrote about continued growth... 

¹² Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 3:12-14 NIV

Be blessed, be a blessing,

Randy

- WEDNESDAY -

Good morning forever family,

I have an app on my phone that allows me to keep track of active wildfires all across America. As of this morning there are well over 60 active wildfires burning in the western US (west of Kansas). In our state of Colorado there are 9 fires burning. In recent days we have lost 4 brave firefighters, about 400 homes, and many hundreds of thousands of acres burned and that's a conservative estimate. God is actively trying to get our attention. As you may know Colorado has become well known for it's horrid sinful government. We have elected the worst of the worst for years now. Men and women who don't even have a clue about morality, or righteousness, or even what a man or a woman is. Enough said. Sorry, I get really stirred up by these issues. 

I must confess at this point I really got triggered this morning by an article I read online. A podcaster, Jennifer Welch, is calling homeschooling "trickle-down stupidity" and is seeking to outlaw it. As I read that I remembered Deuteronomy 6:7 and how we are to teach God's statutes to our children. It seems to me that homeschooling is a tool that can actually help as the public schools certainly have been failing at it. They seem to excel only in teaching untruth.

As I was sitting in a coffee shop yesterday talking with a dear friend another guy came in and started talking about Jude. You know that small one chapter writing just before the book of Revelation. He's been studying it and told how it has opened his eyes. I went there this morning for my study and devotion. That book is full of things we had better start paying better attention to. It is said that a people that forgets their history will have to live it again. That's a scary thought.

³ Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. ⁴ For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵ Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— ⁷ just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.  Jude 3-7 ESV

We have been put on this earth to make a Kingdom difference. God literally gives us a chance to do good to others by showing them a better way to live. That way is Jesus. Only Jesus. By His grace we can really live!

Please join me in praying for America. Now,

Be blessed, be a blessing,

Randy

- THURSDAY -

Good morning forever family,

I was reading Acts 4 last evening refining a sermon for this coming Sunday. I am going to mention the healing of the man born lame we see in Acts 4. Peter and John met God's call at the temple gate and Peter healed this man. Of course the "religious leaders"  arrested Peter and John and asked Peter how and by what name this man was healed. Peter boldly announced the answer in verse 10 of Acts 4. What I'll be mentioning Sunday is Peter's boldness led by the Holy Spirit. What I want to draw attention to today is the absolute truth of verse 12 below...

⁹ if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well, ¹⁰ let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health. ¹¹ He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief cornerstone. ¹² And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among mankind by which we must be saved.”  Acts 4:9-12 NASB 

Only Jesus. He is our only hope for salvation. There is NONE other. That's the truth we need to share with our desperate friends. You know who they are. They are the ones desperately trying to fill their lives with joy by filling their lives with all manner of idols.

Only Jesus can save.

Be blessed, be a blessing and tell them

Randy

- FRIDAY -

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