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Nicky Gumbel Quote

Posted on February 25, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings.

From Matthew 19:24-26: “‘Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, ‘Then who can be saved?’ But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible.'”

Nicky Gumbel (born 1955) is an English-born Anglican pastor and Christian author.

Trusting in God (Elfchen Series #191)

Posted on February 23, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Navigating Troubles

Faithfulness

Righteous actions

Emerging with strength

God’s river of grace

Goodness

Taking Our Place

Justice

Deserved, but

Kneeling before God

Cross bears every sin

Forgiveness

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Faith’s Lantern

Darkness

Hope hidden

Hearing God’s voice

Rising over every valley

Light

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quote

Posted on February 23, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

From 1 Peter 5:5-6: “And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’ Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time.”

German-born Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident. Many of his writings express the role of Christianity in mankind’s daily lives. He paid the ultimate price for his activism against the Nazi regime during World War II.

Never by Chance

Posted on February 21, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Proverbs 8:1-2: Does not wisdom call and understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand.”

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Never by chance

At life’s crossroads

Precious wisdom

God’s mercy sowed

Listen closely

Righteousness speaks

Treasured wisdom

Hope climbs each peak

Finding knowledge

Straight from God’s voice

Divine wisdom

Cultivates choice

Advice offered

Directs each thought

Trusted wisdom

Faith’s lessons taught

Heaven comes down

Final grace waits

Savior’s wisdom

Calvary’s fate

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From Proverbs 8:14: “I have good advice and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.”

Henry Ward Beecher Quote

Posted on February 21, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

From Proverbs 17:22: “A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was an American pastor and abolitionist.

Times of Challenge

Posted on February 18, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From 2 Samuel 1:2: “On the third day, a man came from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance [extending respect].”

Facing distress

Surging downpour

Waves of darkness

Always, facing more

Confronting fate

Reeling with pain

Enemy waits

Always, comes again

Praying to God

Hearing His voice

Times of challenge

Always, offers choice

Reaching to thee

Grasping His hand

Deliverance

Always, God commands

Reading His Word

Lighting each lamp

Promise rings true

Always, in God’s camp

Finding refuge

Forgiving sins

Redemption breathes

Always, grace comes in

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From 2 Samuel 22:29: “Indeed, you are my lamp, O Lord; the Lord lightens my darkness.”

Father in Heaven (Elfchen Series #190)

Posted on February 16, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Acceptance

Father’s

Love provides

Do not worry

Grasp His righteous hand

Kingdom

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Assurance

Tomorrow

Always waiting

Do not worry

Father’s grace shall address

Today

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Affirmation

Faith’s

Living water

Do not worry

Father’s wisdom nourishes spirit

Enlightenment

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This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.

Oswald Chambers Quote

Posted on February 16, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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The vision of God is the source of patience, because it imparts a moral inspiration.

From Habakkuk 2:3: “For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.”

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher. Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons. Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.

Have You Never Known?

Posted on February 14, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Isaiah 40:28: “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.”

Have you never known?

God’s grace, covering this earth

Have you never heard?

Cold stable, virgin gives birth

Filling heavens with praises

God builds, He provides

Seeding faith with righteousness

His light serves as guide

Have you never known?

God’s Word shares His peace

Have you never heard?

Savior’s love renews faith’s lease

Hearing of Christ’s healing hand

God’s divine plan leads

Empowering man to change

Mercy’s tender reeds

Have you never known?

God’s desire to send His Son

Have you never heard?

Redemption forever won

Lamb of God, in heaven’s wings

God envisions hope

Bridge built between man and God

Savior levels every slope

From Mark 1:38-39: “He answered, ‘Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also, for that is what I came out to do.’ And He went throughout all Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.”

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Navigating Troubles

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Acceptance

Assurance

Affirmation

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