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> For more Bible trivia visit the Bible Challenge. Your browser does not support JavaScript. You may take the Bible Challenge at www.biblechallenge.com Title: Filling the Void Announcer: The Bible Minute with Woodrow Kroll on finding fulfillment: Woodrow Kroll: God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to fill the voids of your labors and your loves and your life. When you labor for eternal reward (and not just for temporal gain), when you serve mankind because you love Jesus, when you do in life what brings joy and fulfillment because you're doing it for the Lord not for money alone, then there is fulfillment. There is joy. There is no futility. There is reward, eternal reward. So, if life isn't what you want it to be, maybe there's a missing ingredient in your life. "Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclesiastes 12:13, NKJV). Announcer: Have you asked Jesus to fill your life with purpose? Take the first steps with today's study at bibleminute.org. That's bibleminute.org.
> Receive the Bible Minute as a daily devotional email. The Bible Minute daily devotional is provide courtesy of Back to the Bible. Your browser does not support JavaScript. You may read the Bible Minute Daily Devotional at www.bibleminute.org Title: Want to Fly Away? Read Psalm 55:1-8 Have you ever felt like flying away just to get away from it all? Has life ever been such a burden that all you can think about is escaping? David felt like that one day. That's why he wrote, "And I said, 'Oh, that I had wings like a dove! For then I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, I would wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest"' (vv. 6-8). Now let's be honest. This is a natural feeling. All of us have felt like getting away, just packing our bags and saying, "I've had enough! I can't take anymore! I've got to get away." It's a normal, natural reaction. But it is not a good solution to any problem. We usually take our problems with us. We can go on vacation and enjoy a short respite. But when we return, the battles and burdens are still there. In fact, sometimes when we try to run away, we only make the problems worse. Why does the Lord allow us to go through windy storms and tempests? They help us grow and mature. If we keep running away, we are like children who never grow up. No, we don't need the wings of a dove to fly away. We need the wings of an eagle. Isaiah 40:31 says, "Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles." The eagle faces the storm, spreads his great wings and allows the wind to lift him above the storm. Don't run away. Run to the Lord, and let Him lift you high above the storm. God allows trials to make you grow and mature and become like His Son. The next time you go through a storm, resist the pressure to run from it. Let God use the storm to accomplish His purposes. Receive Prayer, Praise & Promises as a daily devotional email. Daily devotions courtesy of Devotions.org, a ministry of Back to the Bible. Your browser does not support JavaScript. You may read Prayer, Praise & Promises at www.devotions.org Title: Leave the Results with God Author: Elisabeth Elliot Scripture does not promise that obedience to God will always be attended by earthly success and never by difficulties. Someone asked me again last week if I am not bothered by the negative results attending our opening up the Auca tribe to the gospel. "Of course I am bothered," I said. We messengers of the gospel are sinners like the Aucas--God has chosen to work through sinful human beings--and while we offer to them Bread and the Water of Life, which are priceless, we also introduce to them new varieties of sin and disease. We pray for protection from such things--for ourselves and for them. We must do the thing commanded--preach the gospel--and we must trust God for the results. If we wait until we are sure we shall do a thing purely and perfectly, we shall never accomplish the will of God on earth. Negative results are not by any means always the fault of God's messengers. Recall the warnings Jesus gave his disciples when He sent them out to preach the kingdom--they could expect to be rejected, arrested, and flogged. Families would turn against each other. "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword," he said (Mt 10:34 Daily devotions courtesy of Devotions.org, a ministry of Back to the Bible. Your browser does not support JavaScript. You may read the Elisabeth Elliot Daily Devotional at www.devotions.org
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