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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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Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.Caterpillars are pretty gross looking and creepy creatures. Even now as I write this devotional sitting down behind my desk I have this tingling feeling like something is crawling up my leg. Caterpillars definitely do not appear to be one of God’s most amazing creatures but overtime and through a period of transformation what was once a gross looking caterpillar will become a beautiful butterfly (according to girls). Now, according to Wikipedia, a butterfly’s wings receive form while in the larva when its skin is under pressure causing the wings to come out from within its own body and sometimes if the caterpillar within the larva cannot handle the pressure it will die. Within our own lives we are put under pressure. Within our own lives we go through periods of stress or trials and it is under these times that will either bring out the best within us or cause us to die spiritually.
Our passage found in Ecclesiastes describes the different times that will occur in our lives and in verse 8 it says, “a time of war, and a time of peace.” In life there will in fact be times of war and times of peace but it is in the times of war that will bring out what is in us. Pastor Surface uses the illustration whenever he goes through the Fruit of the Spirit series of the differences whenever you shake up a coke bottle versus a bottle of fruit juice. Whenever you shake up a bottle of fruit juice it only causes it to get better. As Christians, we will be shaken up. There will be trials and there will be periods where we will be under pressure but how will you react during these times?
In verse 11 it says, “He hath made every thing beautiful in his time.” A great man of God or a great women of God is made overtime. They are made during all the different stages of life. It is not a clear, easy path but one where it is rocky and with bumps along the road but one where at the end of the path is made beautiful in his time.
Stress is a test to bring out the best!
Love you all!
Pastor Mike
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