DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26:
LINK FOR SUNDAY'S CHURCH SERVICE
Sorry about the length of this video. The man doing the Facebook Live video
started recording as I was opening up the service. And, for some reason, it
seemed like everyone had problems getting their songs started. My message
is entitled "Who But God Can Do Such Things As These?"
I hope it will be a blessing to you as you watch.
The link is:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1356921727764244&id=100003392900
371DAILY DEVOTION
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WORD OF WISDOM
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its
strength.
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DAILY DEVOTION
Trusting the Unseen
"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the
inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for
a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are
not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which
are not seen are eternal."
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Experienced pilots say one of the most difficult and dangerous conditions
for flying is being completely surrounded by fog or clouds. With no visual
points of reference, it is easy to become disoriented. Pilots report not
being able to tell if they are climbing or falling, or even flying upside
down. Investigators believe that this kind of confusion was responsible for
the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy, Jr. and his wife in 1999.
Kennedy was only rated for VFR-visual flight rules-as a pilot. But the plane
was caught in fog, and crashed, killing all those on board.
It is very difficult for us to move forward when we cannot see the path
clearly. But God calls us to live by faith in what we cannot see. The Bible
and church history are filled with examples of people who simply took God at
His word, despite not having any tangible indication that what He promised
was even possible. No one who has trusted what God said has ever been let
down.
We sometimes think that we would trust God more if He showed us part of His
plan, or if we could figure out for ourselves how things might work out. But
God's plan does not work that way. We have the instruments of the Bible to
follow, and when we cannot see anything else and do not know which way to
go, we must simply follow His Word.
Just because we cannot see God at work does not mean that He is not actively
involved in our lives.
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DAILY BIBLE READING
ObadiahNew King James Version (NKJV)
The Coming Judgment on Edom
1 The vision of Obadiah.
Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom
(We have heard a report from the Lord,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
"Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle"):
2
"Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You shall be greatly despised.
3
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
You who say in your heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'
4
Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
And though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down," says the Lord.
5
"If thieves had come to you,
If robbers by night-
Oh, how you will be cut off!-
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
Would they not have left some gleanings?
6
"Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
7
All the men in your confederacy
Shall force you to the border;
The men at peace with you
Shall deceive you and prevail against you.
Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap[a] for you.
No one is aware of it.
8
"Will I not in that day," says the Lord,
"Even destroy the wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9
Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by slaughter.
Edom Mistreated His Brother
10
"For violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And you shall be cut off forever.
11
In the day that you stood on the other side-
In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
And cast lots for Jerusalem-
Even you were as one of them.
12
"But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother
In the day of his captivity;[b]
Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.
13
You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.
14
You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.
15
"For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
16
For as you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.
Israel's Final Triumph
17
"But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance,
And there shall be holiness;
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18
The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,"
For the Lord has spoken.
19
The South[c] shall possess the mountains of Esau,
And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20
And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As far as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
Shall possess the cities of the South.[d]
21
Then saviors[e] shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
And the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
Footnotes:
a.Obadiah 1:7 Or wound, or plot
b.Obadiah 1:12 Literally on the day he became a foreigner
c.Obadiah 1:19 Hebrew Negev
d.Obadiah 1:20 Hebrew Negev
e.Obadiah 1:21 Or deliverers
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James VersionR. Copyright C 1982 by Thomas
Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.