Jon Dyer Devotions

There are 3 principles that will learn from this young prophet in today’s text that will help us get back our cutting edge.

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God uses crisis in life to wake us up and help us see what truly matters. Naaman would have gone through life trusting himself and all his achievements, but now God brought a halt to this journey – the crisis led him to the God of Israel.

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In her emptiness/nothingness, she went to the Prophet Elisha and she learned something about nothing! She learned what God can do with an empty vessel!

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Today it may be that God is calling you to do something bigger than you can imagine yourself being able to do: an impossible dream.

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The story of Ruth contains at least three powerful principles for STARTING OVER WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE IT:

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As we look at the story of Abimelech it reads like a screenplay written to demonstrate the pitfalls of Human wisdom. To fully appreciate the wisdom God means for us to glean from this passage the question we must ask ourselves is what’s wrong with doing what seems right in our own eyes? There are at least four obvious areas where Human wisdom fails.

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The Israelites saw Gideon as a saviour; Gideon saw the Lord as Saviour and humbly points them to God (8:22-23) and while I wish we could end Gideon’s story on this up-note, his legacy ends with sadness.

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You can really lose perspective if you try to dwell on things that might have been instead of living with and dealing with what is and what could still come in the future!

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Sometimes it may seem like God isn’t doing much in our lives and that we are just walking around some sort of wilderness. But even when to us it looks like there is no direction, God is building us and making us stronger. No time in our life is wasted if we are walking with God. It is essential for us to remember that God is still in the business of building up his people and is at work even in those moments that we seem to be going around in circles.

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Moses’ own sister and brother let their tongues loose and before you know it they were saying things they would later regret. Have you ever done the same? How then do you keep yourself from making a mess with your mouth? Here are some questions to ask yourself before you loosen your lips for criticism.

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