May 25
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Go out into the world and share the good news with all of creation.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
DAY 1 - DAILY DEVOTION (LIGHT UP) - MAY 25, 2012
May 25
We are blessed to be adding a new daily devotion through our partnership with Katherine Clift of Daily Live Worship.
Light Up
When I was a growing up, we lived in the great state of Georgia in a small town outside the city. In the summertime after dark, fireflies would come out. You could see them everywhere just glowing. They lit up the dark night with all the light that came from them. It was a spectacular sight to see. You knew they were around you because of the light that illuminated from them.
Just as fireflies light up and are seen all around, so should we light up. I love what the Amplified Bible says, Isaiah 60:1 “ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you”!
Is your light shining brightly for Him? Arise & Shine! I’m reminded of the song we sang in children’s church, “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.” Will you let your light shine? Let your light dispel the darkness! His Glory on you brings nations and kings to you because of your light.
Look what Isaiah 60: 2-3 says, “For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.”
I pray that God will radiate His Glory all over you today. Even your shadow as you walk to and fro in this world, will cause men & women, young & old to come to Him because of the illumination of His Glory all over you. Arise & Shine and light up your world for Him!
In partnership with Katherine Clift of DailyLiveWorship
DAY 1 - DAILY PRAYER (MISSIONS) - MAY 25, 2012
May 25
JEHOVAH-NISSI (The Lord our banner),
We thank you for the opportunity to serve you today Lord - as Your people; those who have accepted You as their God, and have taken up a banner to proclaim Your name across this world! Your great name…the name of all names under Heaven and on Earth! Father, as You have called us to be a light unto this world. Let Your one and only Son, Jesus Christ be seen in the faces of each person who serves You in this world. May their hands and feet humbly carry out Your will Lord, and not theirs. Keep the enemy bound from their travels, daily activities, and even from their family and possessions as they serve you today. We ask for your hand of protection for all who go out into this dying world in service to You. We humbly beseech you Father that the seeds that will be planted today might produce luscious vines - and not fall upon harsh ground. That every man and woman in Your service today might praise You from the time that they awake, until the time that they slumber, and that everyone within hearing distance might also seek you today. Lord, we ask that you renew Your Holy Spirit in each of us; that we might walk a righteous path today, and not be lead into temptation. Foster the work in us today, that we might cause the angels in Heaven to be joyous over one sinner who repents, and accepts Your son as their savior. Thank you Father for the plans that You have for us, and the great gift of service that You have bestowed upon us for Your Glory!
We pray this today in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Wally Ziolo
Operation Christmas Child
Columbus Area Coordinator
Serving in Kampala, Uganda today...
DAY 1 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR MAY 25, 2012
May 25
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race" wrote poet Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Born MAY 25, 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was friends with writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott.
He composed some of the best loved poems in American literature, including The Concord Hymn, written in 1837 for the dedication of the monument where the battle at North Bridge took place April 19, 1775.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's most recognizable stanza is inscribed on the base of Daniel Chester French's Minute Man Statue:
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps,
And Time the ruined bridge has swept,
Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We place with joy a votive stone,
That memory may their deeds redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
O Thou who made those heroes dare, To die,
and leave their children free,
-Bid Time and Nature gently spare,
The shaft we raised to them and Thee."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Charles Wallis, ed., Our American Heritage (NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1970), p. 57.
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