Put All Your Trust in Jesus Today

Join us tomorrow night for our Father Son Night with Pastor John Hibbard and his son, Jack. 6:15 PM is dinner followed by a great evening of fellowship, worship and fun. Call for reservations — 732-350-1187.

Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart. Lean not on your own understanding.  In ALL your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

Yesterday was an interesting/challenging day. Little did I know that what you gave me yesterday was going to be so right on for the events of the day …

Our morning prayer list was huge.
Wife of staff member very sick.
Employee still very sick and in ICU – wife very discouraged.
Friend’s dad hanging between life and death
Problems with staff
Daughter sick with bronchitis
Son-in-law dropped 800lbs on his foot — only a small fracture
Dad and his son on the edge.
Low summer numbers for first two weeks of summer
Pastor friend resigned from his church
Pastor friend embroiled over situation very difficult challenge at church

And the list goes on and on. Very overwhelming. Yet I am confident that you have it all under control.

Today is a staff member’s open heart surgery. Humanly speaking it is really hard not to get concerned with how she will do. All three procedures in themselves could be life threatening. But we come and trust you because you are in control and you are more than able to get her through.

The devotional JESUS CALLING was so helpful: Let Me help you get through this day. There are many possible paths to travel between your getting up in the morning and your lying down at night. Stay alert to the many choice-points along the way, being continually aware of My Presence. You will get through this day one way or the other. One way is to moan and groan, stumbling along with shuffling feet. This will get you to the end of the day eventually, but there is a better way. You can choose to walk with Me along the path of Peace, leaning on Me as much as you need. There will still be difficulties along the way, but you can face them confidently in My strength. Thank Me for each problem you encounter, and watch to see how I transform trials into blessings. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:10; LUKE 1:79

I have a choice today — I can fret, worry, come un-glued or I can come to you, fall into your warm embrace and rest, trust and wait expectantly for you to work — not in my strength but in yours. Most of my life I have done it in Bill Welte’s strength. Today I choose to decrease and allow you to increase. thank you for the problems and the challenges. I take my hands off of them and will wait on you.

While writing this my favorite Christian radio station, WBYN was playing this great song by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Singers:

PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN JESUS TODAY,
YOU’LL FIND REST WHEN HIS WILL YOU OBEY.
HE WILL ANSWER WHENEVER YOU PRAY,
SO PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN JESUS TODAY!

JESUS HAS PROMISED TO LOVE AND CARE FOR YOU —
NO MATTER THE PAIN, NOR THE PROBLEM,
HE’LL BE FAITHFUL TO SEE YOU THROUGH IF YOU
PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN JESUS TODAY.

Thanks, Lord, for this power reminder. I can’t wait to see what YOU will do today.

Team YOU: Ezra 6-8; Proverbs 13; John 21

Motivations: God not only plans the length of our test, but the depth of our test. Charles Swindoll

Practice to Remember: Level 1: Philippians 1:9-10; Level 2: Philippians 1:12-18

Powered Up:  If you should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith. Martin Luther