I hope you were uplifted by starting the new year in God's Word all of last week! Memorizing verses is a challenge the older I get, but it is worth it to be able to pull out His Word when we need it, instead of having to go search for it. In Children's Church our kids memorize a verse each month and can do it so easily...aaahhhh to be young again. I pray that they will continue hiding God's Word in their hearts all of their lives.
Week 2 in F260 we are reading: Job 38-39 - God Speaks to Job, Job 40-42 - What Can Job Say? Creation Shows God's Power, Genesis 11-12 - The Towel of Babel & The Call of Abram, Genesis 15 - God's Covenant with Abram, and Genesis 16-17- Abram & Sarai/birth of Ishmael.
Our Memory Verses are Hebrews 11:6 and Hebrews 11:8-10.
These memory verses make me think of the few times in my life I have had to step out in faith and follow God. When Kevin surrendered to ministry, I told him, just as Ruth told Naomi, "where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God" (Ruth 1:16). I wholeheartedly believe that God calls our WHOLE family when He calls us. When Kevin felt led to different churches, the boys and I knew that meant a lot of change, but we knew with faith in God it wasn't impossible and that the new people God gave us would become our people, our family, our new land where we would grow and prosper. He has never failed. Was it always fun to have transition? Of course not...at first, most people don't like changes in their lives, but we are not called to be comfortable, God wants us to GROW! Like Abraham, God calls each of us, we must choose to obey (or ignore Him), then take action, get up and obey! Only after we take action are we truly in a growing relationship with Christ. If we want to grow as a Christian then we need to be moving forward. One day we can look forward to our city of promise, to our heavenly homes we will receive!...Hopefully, one day it can by said, by faith, the Barnetts obeyed! "By faith, Abraham obeyed."
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11:6KJV
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. Hebrews 11:8-10ESV
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