O Great “I AM”,
You come to as a gentle spirit, providing guidance and direction as we open our hearts. You are the wind beneath our wings, the breath that fills our sails. Help us, O Lord, to navigate through the difficult and stormy times of life. May Your son, Jesus the Christ, be our polar star, pointing the way. We are spiritual beings, O God, in human form. Receive us, we pray, as we seek communion with You. It is in Jesus name that we pray, AMEN.
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Ila Crain has been moved from the OKC Heart Hospital to St. Mary’s rehab.
Thelma Harper, Joan Petersen, Chester Ross, Francis Ferne DeVisser, and Lynn Unruh are all still hospitalized. Please pray for all our hospitalized.
Gene Burkett had shoulder surgery this morning at St. Mary’s hospital. They may keep him overnight.
O.B. Davis goes to OKC on Tuesday for a heart test and there is a possibility he will need and pace maker/defibrillator. Please keep O.B. in your prayers.
Thirteen men will be travelling to Fairview this evening for the NW Area Disciples Men’s meeting.
We have a very good Board Meeting last night.
Goldia Rasmussen’s birthday party is this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Sterling House. She will be 103. All are welcome.
The scripture for today is Genesis 45:16 – 46:4: When the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house, “Joseph’s brothers have come,” Pharaoh and his servants were pleased. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your animals and go back to the land of Canaan. Take your father and your households and come to me, so that I may give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you may enjoy the fat of the land.’ You are further charged to say, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. Give no thought to your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’“ The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons according to the instruction of Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the journey. To each one of them he gave a set of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of garments. To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey. Then he sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Do not quarrel along the way.”
So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. And they told him, “Joseph is still alive! He is even ruler over all the land of Egypt.” He was stunned; he could not believe them. But when they told him all the words of Joseph that he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. Israel said, “Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die.”
When Israel set out on his journey with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there. I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again; and Joseph’s own hand shall close your eyes.”
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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