Week of September 25

Waiting on God

Sowing our Prayer… Reaping the Spirit

The greatest lesson a soul has to learn is that God, and God alone, is enough for all its needs. This is the lesson that all God’s dealings with us are meant to teach, and this is the crowing discovery of our entire Christian life.  God IS ENOUGH!

No soul can really be at rest until it has given up dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us. Everything that we have believed in or depended on may seem to be swept away and only God is left – just God, the bare God, simply and only God.

If God is what He would seem to be from his revealing; if He is indeed the God of all comfort; if He is our Shepherd; if He is really and truly our Father; if all the many aspects he has told us of His character and His ways are actually true, then we must come to the positive conviction that He is, in himself alone, enough for all our needs and that we may safely rest in him absolutely and forever

-Hannah Whitall Smith

Monday	Psalm 23
Tuesday	Matthew 6:25-34
Wednesday	Philippians 4:19-20
Thursday	Psalm 146
Friday	Jeremiah 29:11-13
Saturday	Isaiah 25:1-9

There are many voices speaking into each one of our lives: radio, news reports, friends, family, commercials, etc.  The list can go on forever.  What I’ve been hearing from many of these voices includes some of the same phrases: unemployment, jobs, economy, money, hard times.  We are hearing a message of discouragement from the culture around us.  But what is God telling us in the midst of these hard times?   

God provides.  Not only does God provide, but we as Christians should have no worries about the future.  God will provide all we need now and forever.  In fact, when we are able to live with him in the ‘life everlasting’, HE will be all we need, and we will be completely satisfied with his love and grace.

Remember to pray for the Spirit to clarify the mission for Oak Chapel and for the Spirit to give us the power to work in this mission.