Most Amazing God,
There are times in our lives when we experience pain and struggle. There are other times when we are filled with peace and hope. It is difficult to feel Your presence in both. We can be so overwhelmed by the difficulties that we cannot sense Your love. We can also be so euphoric that offering thanks for Your grace is an afterthought at best. Lord, we pray You will forgive us. We trust in You on the mountain top and in the valley. Pour out Your Spirit on us is our plea. Make us one with You and may our hearts be in tune with Your heart as we seek to help and serve others. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN.
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The service for Gailene Squires, Mae Clark’s daughter, is this morning at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel. Please pray for Mae and her family.
Davida Whitsitt is hospitalized and not doing well. Please pray for Davida.
Ron Maphet is having surgery at the Spine Hospital in OKC today. Please pray for success to relieve the pain.
Gene Brintnall is traveling to the Mayo Clinic to have another procedure on his throat later this week. Please pray for Gene.
The scripture for today is Ezra 3:8-13:
In the second year after their arrival at the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their people, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work on the house of the LORD. And Jeshua with his sons and his kin, and Kadmiel and his sons, Binnui and Hodaviah along with the sons of Henadad, the Levites, their sons and kin, together took charge of the workers in the house of God. When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments were stationed to praise the LORD with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, according to the directions of King David of Israel; and they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people responded with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. But many of the priests and Levites and heads of families, old people who had seen the first house on its foundations, wept with a loud voice when they saw this house, though many shouted aloud for joy, so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted so loudly that the sound was heard far away.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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