Good evening, Family! 🤓📖
This week, we praise God for:
💟 The Vega family was extremely grateful to have John at worship service with them. He went through over a month of radiation, and it's now complete. They are grateful and ask the church to pray for continued health. They also thank the Lord for protecting them from a potentially deadly caraccident.
💟 Vanessa's family is grateful that whatever challenges she faces- and she faced a troubling situation this week, that God always grants her what she needs. Her family is grateful for the church family who keeps all of their children covered in prayer.
We are praying for:
🛐 Each and every silent prayer request lifted.
🛐 The Santiago family as they mourn the sudden and unexpected passing of Dennis, brother to Ivan and Mima, who were part of the State Street Spanish Church. May the Lord grant them all strength and courage during this incredibly difficult time.
🛐 Micharen lifted up her family after losing her uncle. She asked that we pray for continued strength and courage for her entire family as the prepare for the burial in the Dominican Republic,
🛐 As many of you know by now, Catheryn and Connor are expecting their first baby, due around Christmas time.🎁 Originally expecting twins, they tragically lost one of the babies earlier in the pregnancy and took time to grieve with their families.
They praise God for reaching the 20 week milestone with their little fighter, and ask the church to keep them and Baby in their prayers.
🛐 Amel; that God would grant him traveling mercies and protection from Covid.
🛐 Astrid's twin brother, who received a tough diagnosis. Astrid is requesting prayer for him, that God might help him turn it around. Please keep him, Astrid and the rest her family in your prayers.
🛐 John's test results; that they come back favorably.
🛐 Healing for Carole's dad.
🛐 Protection over Elijah as he had to return to Florida. May God protect him, especially his little mind, that he won't be negatively impacted by all of this upheaval.
🛐 Healing and protection for Maria's sister, Roberta and their dad.
🛐 Doris' granddaughter, Skylar, and for her entire family.
🛐 Karina and Alejandro as they travel to St. Croix to visit his mom, and then to Grenada for their delayed honeymoon. May God watch over and protect them add they travel, and keep them safe from Covid.
Tonight's Devotional was shared by Kevin, and it's a fantastic motivator 🌚, not only for personal Bible Stuffy, but also for our group Bible Study each Saturday morning at 10 am via the Worship Line! 📖 Thanks, amigo! 😉
It has always stumped me when people tell me they feel stock in their Christian walk, but then tell me they don't spend time in the Word of God. That's like telling me how stuck in your relationship with your significant other, but spend NO TIME getting to know each other. How could you move the relationship forward without that intimacy?
Jesus himself described what spending time in the Word of God would do for each human's spiritual development when He prayed, “ ‘Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth’ ” (John 17:17, NKJV).
That word: sanctify, literally means “to treat as holy,” “to consecrate,” or “to make holy.” The context of John 17:17 suggests the action and transformation of the last meaning. Therefore, Jesus was praying that God would make the disciples, and by extension-US, holy by His Word. In other words, by studying the Bible with the love of God in our hearts, we experience a closer walk with God and more fully reveal the beauty of His character to those around us by the amazing and individually paced process of sanctification, or "being made Holy by His Word."
The truth is we can never feel stuck in our walk with God as long as we are letting Him, through His word, remake us day by day into ALL He created us to be. Don't allow yourself to feel or BE stuck. Get moving into holiness...
Open up and read His word. You'll never be the same!