Sharing our Daily Feast

This page is regularly updated with the personal daily devotions of members of our Ministry Team. They are posted here to help and encourage us as we read God’s Word and learn to listen to Him speak by writing a simple daily journal. For more information see our Bible reading plan. If something you have read has encouraged or helped you, then why not share your own feast with someone else so that they too can be encouraged and helped.

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Keeping out of temptations way

Scripture

‘Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts. 1 John 5 v. 21

Observation. John is encouraging us, reminding us and urging us on in the faith.

Application. I must be alert and sensible not to allow myself to be put in the way of temptation. I’m not likely to commit the ‘big sins’ but ‘little sins’ are still not what you would have us do or be and therefore become a barrier between you and me, giving out wrong messages to those around me.

Prayer. Father God, I know you are forgiving and merciful but please fill me with your Holy Spirit so I don’t drift into anything that would get in the way of my relationship with you. It’s easy to slip into the ways of the world ‘as the norm’ without realising. Help me alwas to be alert to the possibilities.

Chris

Posted Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:55:39 +0000 - View in WordPress

So that your ways may be known

Scripture

May God be gracious to us and bless us

and make his face shine on us— so that your ways may be known on earth,

your salvation among all nations. (Psalm 67:1, 2 NIV)

Observation

God blesses us (v1), but this blessing is not without a purpose (v2).

There is no doubt in my mind that God has blessed me. My family, home, friends, opportunities and responsibilities are all signs of his blessing. There is no doubt in my mind that God has blessed Burlington. The vibrant life we enjoy, the strength of community that we share, the moves of God we have known (personally and together) are all signs of God’s blessing. So that’s verse 1 taken care of. Verse 2 reminds us it is all for a purpose: so that God’s ways and salvation are made known. I am more aware than ever of my responsibility personally, and as a church leader, to ensure that all this blessing results in God’s ordained purpose.

Application

I must be more intentional in my relationships with those yet to know Jesus: finding ways to serve them, sharing meals with them, introducing God to them. I must relentlessly pursue a leadership focus that refuses to let us settle with being blessed but instead insists on us being a blessing so that God’s ways may be made known.

Prayer

Lord, help me to be truly missional. To naturally, in all areas of life, think in terms of being a blessing. May the question ‘Am I blessed?’ be replaced with ‘Am I a blessing?’

Simon

Posted Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:40:50 +0000 - View in WordPress

Serving others

Scripture

“Whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave. For even the Son of man came not to be served but to serve other and to give his life. Matt.20 v 27.28.

Observation.

Jesus was talking to John, James and their mother after she requested that her sons sit one on his left side and one on his right in heaven.

Aplication

I must never forget that everyone is equal in God’s sight. That Jesus came to serve others, not in a submissive, doormat way, but humbly putting others needs before his own, and I should do the same.

Prayer

Dear Father, thank you that you made us all equal in your sight and we are all equally precious and important to you. Help me to follow Jesus’ example and serve others as if I was serving you personally. Amen

Chris

Posted Wed, 04 May 2011 08:37:48 +0000 - View in WordPress