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Aloha, I just wanted to thank you all, so much for the new way you are doing the Daily Devotionals, I love it and it has been such a blessing to me.. Have a blessed week !
Posted by Muriel Louise Williams on Jan 09, 2012, in response to the devotional on
Thursday, January 5, 2012
I' ve read all your messages from my arriving to Hawaii last November and I have been much blessed.Please, keep up the good job. I m sure there very many like me who appreciate it. Thank you pastor Wayne, thank you pastor Andy.
Posted by Carmen Teresa Coronado on Dec 27, 2011, in response to the devotional on
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
As you point out, Pastor Mike, today's passage is much deeper than most people think. It is a wonderful verse to take the time to ponder. Let us go to a quiet place with this verse, and invite our hearts and minds to reflect upon the deep meaning that the Holy Spirit wants us to learn. Thank you for giving us a nudge to do just that.
Posted by Ann Verblaauw on Dec 09, 2011, in response to the devotional on
Friday, December 9, 2011
We try to also use the "presence gauge" of Jesus Himself: "Would I do this thing if Jesus was visibly sitting right next to me?" His Spirit is, after all, right here inside of us believers. Another challenging gauge that helps us is: "Would I want to be doing this, if Jesus came back at this very moment to take us to Heaven?" We miss Hawaii and send everyone our aloha from Virginia
Posted by The Brzostowski Ohana on Dec 05, 2011, in response to the devotional on
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Thank you, Pastor Wayne.
Posted by Ann Verblaauw on Nov 19, 2011, in response to the devotional on
Saturday, November 19, 2011
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II Timothy 4:5-8 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Living a victorious, dedicated Christian life is not easy but rather requires much dedication. I look back in and throughout my life and sometimes even now; the temptations to sleep instead of going to church, to read my Bible, or to pray, the pressures to conform to society, the guts to witness to my coworkers, family members and friends, tithing and giving sacrificially, the pressures of consistently doing what is right, always being a servant to those around me and to my local church, always being aware of your testimony, and always doing that which is pleasing to the Lord. If you think about it those are a lot of things that Christ desires for us to follow. I admire those who have been faithfully serving the Lord now for years because after just 9 years of being saved it can get pretty exhausting. One man that I truly admire is the man in our passage. In our passage we see Paul come to the end of his service and some of his final words.
We see Paul here in our passage claim, “there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.” Paul was anticipating for the Lord to give him a crown for his service and I believe he said this in full confidence. Kind of arrogant do not you think? Well, I do not think so because Paul knew that through it all he had given his all and never held back anything. His dedication to the Lord was so extreme that in Acts 20:24 he says, “But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Just back in verse 19 of Acts 20 Paul talks about how the Jews plotted against him to cause him pain and sorrow but the man responds But none of these things move me. In our present day vernacular it is like he is saying, “Just bring it!” Satan and Paul’s enemies did in fact bring it to Paul with beatings, imprisonments, and persecution but throughout it all Paul says, “I have kept the faith.”
For the Christians who the Lord can say of them that they have kept the faith then for them they can say as Paul said, “there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.” Those who finish the race of life go one more day.
Love you all!
Pastor Mike
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