Funny...

I came across this joke that has a New England flare...being from Maine, I really appreciated it. Enjoy!

A song leader at a church in New Hampshire was preparing for the Sunday morning worship service. She had planned on playing her guitar, but her electronic tuner was missing. “Maybe I left it in the car,” she thought.
Heading out to the garage, she passed her husband in the living room, watching TV. “Please pray that I find my tuner,” she mentioned out loud, and then asked God to help her find it.
As she searched through the car, she didn’t find anything in the back seat, but then reached under the front seat, and pulled out a can of tuna.
Her husband heard her laughter from all the way in the house and came out to the garage. “Honey,” she chuckled, “the Lord sure answered that prayer – New England accent and all!”

Well, the Bible does tell us in Matthew 7:7 - "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you." Do some ASKing today!

Blessings!

Sincerity

Here is a devotional that I ran across which compliments my message in last night's service from Zechariah 7... Hope it blesses!

“Be sincere... until the day of Christ.”– Philippians 1:10 (NAS)

The word sincere comes from a Latin word meaning “without wax”. In the original Greek it means “sun-tested”. In Bible times merchants sold very fine porcelain that was greatly valued and therefore expensive. Sometimes when it was fired in the kiln tiny cracks would appear. Dishonest merchants would smear pearly-white wax over these cracks, which would pass for unblemished porcelain – unless it was held up to the light of the sun. Honest merchants marked their wares sine cera – “without wax”. That’s a picture of genuine sincerity. No sham, no hypocrisy, no hidden cracks to be covered over.

You say, “How can I live this way?” By keeping your eyes on Christ, not Christians! Paul writes, “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received” (Eph 4:1 NIV). When Paul wrote this he was under house arrest in Rome, yet he didn’t regard himself as a prisoner of the Romans. No, he was a prisoner of Jesus, a voluntary slave, totally in subjection to the Lord. There’s a metaphorical meaning to this word “prisoner”. It can mean “binding as with a spell”. Paul was literally captivated by Jesus Christ! He thought and talked about nothing else. He got up every morning determined to please Him. Some days he didn’t do too well. We all have those days. But the next morning he was up and at it again, more determined and more committed than ever.

Paul’s sincerity wasn’t based on keeping certain religious rules or trying to look good. It was based on a deep love relationship with Christ: “Whatever we do, it is... because Christ’s love controls us” (2 Corinthians 5:14 TLB).

from The Word for Today, February 5, 2008; www.thewordfortoday.com.au