Wait & hope

Waiting Expectantly

Have you been praying about a situation in your life and found yourself waiting for a breakthrough? Are you wondering why the answer hasn't come yet? Do you feel as though victory is passing you by?

Sometimes when we pray long and hard about a situation in our life without receiving any answers, we just learn to live with it. We go on about our business, wondering if or when God will send the answer. But God does hear those prayers, and He's working out the answers even though we may not know all the details. Our situation can change suddenly, quickly, without warning!

Until then we can either wait passively or expectantly. A passive person gives up, but the expectant person, on the other hand, is hopeful, believing the answer is just around the corner, due to arrive any minute. His belief is not a passive thing. His heart is full of hope, expecting his problem to be solved at any moment. He wakes up every morning expecting to find his answer. He may wait and wait, but he'll keep asking until suddenly, God turns everything around.

Prayer Starter: God, I want to wait expectantly, not passively. I'll keep asking You for my breakthrough, knowing full well that You'll bring it at the right time.

source: day 287 of Joyce Meyer: Promises for Your Everyday Life - a Daily Devotional

Dry bones

Prophet of God, will these bones live?

O Lord, you know.

Speak to these bones.

There's a difference between praying for these bones & speaking to them.

Ancestry

When you become a believer, your ancestors become Abraham,  Isaac, & Jacob.

Ahh, Yiddish

Greetings from the Cultural Center... where [the vendors] have been schelepping & schviting to bring these things to you.

Cracked Pots

God Can Use Cracked Pots

God doesn't require us to be perfect, He made us, and He knows we're human and will make mistakes. Our job is to get up every day and do our best to use the keys He has provided for us. And when we fail, we must get right with God, receive His forgiveness and go on.

Many people feel that God can't use them because they're not perfect, but this is a lie. God (the Potter) uses cracked pots (that's us) to do His work. As Christians, we are containers that God wants to fill with His goodness and light. Then we're to carry that goodness and light to a dark world, sharing it with people everywhere we go.

Don't be afraid of your flaws; acknowledge them and allow God to use you anyway. Quit worrying about what you're not and give God what you are.

As a cracked pot, you can accomplish wonderful things. You can make somebody happy. You can encourage, edify and exhort those around you. You can use your gifts and talents to serve God.

Prayer Starter: God, I may be a 'cracked pot,' but You are the Potter and You can use me for Your purposes despite my flaws. Fill me with Your goodness and light so that I can carry it into the world around me.

Source: day 280 of Joyce Meyer: Promises for Your Everyday Life - a Daily Devotional

Dayenu

Worship is meant to be Aggressive Celebration!  Pour yourself into it!  Dance and shout and jump for joy!

God does exceedingly, abundantly beyond all we ask or imagine... would you be content with an outpouring like in Acts?  Dayenu -- it would have been enough -- and God will absolutely outdo Godself! 

Kids at play

I love these international pictures of happy children playing.  My personal favorite is Myanmar's -- yours?

Thanks to author Patricia Polacco for the find!