God is not a God of confusion, but a God of Peace.
1 Corinthians 14:33 (Life Application Study Bible)
Jesus Tells Us; This world is full of confusion. So many things compete for your attention, school, sports, church, family, and on and on. You are constantly bombarded with more and more interruptions, from the radio, television, internet, your cell phone and iPod. In this world, there is no lasting peace. Life on planet earth has changed so much since I first gave the command to be still and know that I am God. But I have not changed, and My ways have not changed. Come to Me with all your confusion, even if it’s over something small.
Jesus Concludes; Tell me everything. I will still your mind and help you sort everything out. I will take away the confusion and replace it with My Peace.
1 Corinthians 14:33; Psalm 46:10; Luke 10:39-42; Study Notes
Footnotes 1 Corinthians 14:26-40; Everything done in worship services must be beneficial to the worshipers. Every worshiper ought to consider himself or herself a contributor. These principles touch every aspect of the service, singing, preaching, and the exercise of spiritual gifts. Contributions to the service (singing, speaking, reading, praying, playing instruments, giving) should have love as their chief motivation. As you prepare to lead or participate in worship, seek to strengthen the faith of other believers.
Passage Psalm 46:10; He says, “be still, and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Footnotes Psalm 46:8-11; War and destruction are inevitable, but so is God’s final Victory. At that time, all will stand quietly before the Lord Almighty. How proper, then, for us to be still now, reverently honoring him and his power and majesty. Take time each day to be still and to exalt God.
Passage Luke 10:39-42; 39She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. she came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” 41”Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42but few things are needed, or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Footnotes Luke 10:38-42; Mary and Martha both loved Jesus. On this occasion they were both serving him, but they had different ways of showing their love. Are you so busy doing things for Jesus that you’re not spending any time with him? Jesus did not blame Martha for being concerned about household duties. He was only asking her to set correct priorities. Service to Jesus can degenerate into mere busywork that is totally devoid of devotion to God.
Jesus Tells Us is from the Jesus Calling 365 devotions for kids.
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In the Word and the World, we see His Story. Robert Morris
How Prayer Funded the Army at Valley Forge
Then everyone came whose heart was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and they brought the LORD’S offering for the work. Exodus 35:21
When we study the conditions of Washington’s tattered army at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778, we can try to imagine their misery, but it was beyond words. The son of one veteran said,
I have often heard my father, who was one of the number, describe the situation of himself and companions in arms, who after a fatiguing and forced march during an inclement day, many of them in this condition, suffering cold and hunger, and leaving the ground over which they marched, marked with the blood that flowed from their almost naked feet. In this situation, when night had overtaken them, they have lain down on the bare ground, with no other canopy but the shades of the night, with their knapsacks for pillows; and wrapping themselves in their blankets, they have lain down, and awoke covered with snow.
After the defeats at Brandywine, Paoli, and Germantown, the twelve thousand or so soldiers were dejected as they wintered in the snow about twenty miles from occupied Philadelphia. Smallpox and other diseases spread through the camp, and more than twenty-five hundred of them died from illness or exposure. Others deserted. Washington’s army needed $50,000 to survive the winter, but America was broke, and Congress was not forthcoming. It was at this critical hour that George Washington resorted to prayer, as we often see portrayed in the paintings, where he is kneeling in a grove of trees, his horse behind him, pleading with God for help.
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But Washington wasn’t the only one praying. On New Year’s Eve, St. George’s Methodist Church in Philadelphia held an all-night prayer meeting for the soldiers and for the American cause. St. George’s is called “the Cradle of American Methodism” and is the nation’s oldest standing Methodist church edifice. In 1777, it was only a few years old, and on this evening, it was packed with those who had come to pray throughout the night that “God would open up the hearts of the people to furnish the money they needed to pay the troops at Vally Forge, that the Army may be saved.” That prayer was based on the great offering needed in Exodus 35 for the building of the Tabernacle. Then the nation of Israel left Egypt, it entered the desert with lots of gold and silver and precious fabrics, the Egyptians, devastated by the plagues of Moses, had paid them to leave. Now Moses wanted to build an expensive and elaborate worship complex for the nation, the portable tabernacle. He appealed for funds, and “everyone came whose heart was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, brought the LORD’S offering for the work.” That evening in St. George’s, prayers ascended to heaven for people’s hearts to be stirred so that everyone whose spirit was willing, might provide for the cause for their naked, sick, and starving army in the snows of Valley Forge. Among the worshippers that night was Robert Morris, a Philadelphia businessman, who had migrated from Liverpool in 1747 to be an apprentice at a shipping and banking firm. Over the years, he had become a prosperous merchant and an advocate of the Revolution. As a member of the Continental Congress, he had signed the Declaration of Independence. As Morris prayed that evening, a conviction came over him. His own heart must be willing, and he must act at once. Getting up and leaving the service, he went door-to-door, waking his wealthy friends and telling them he had just come from the prayer service, and their help was desperately needed to keep the cause alive. Within hours, Morris had convinced Philadelphia’s richest men and women to donate large amounts of their fortunes to the freezing soldiers of Washington’s army, and within hours, the General learned he would have the provisions he needed. “Morris, with his extensive international fortune, had been able to secure funds through his own personal credit that the fledgling Continental government could not. Washington, exasperated by the states’ inability or unwillingness to support he rabble army, came to view Morris as the sole force keeping his troops on the field.” The all-night prayers at the Methodist Church were answered, and the Revolution Army got their provisions from heaven through Robert Morris. And Morris? Sadly, in the latter years of his life, he ended up personally bankrupt and in debtor’s prison. When Congress passed the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, he was able to declare bankruptcy and reach a final settlement on his debts before his death in 1806.
Source: https://www.robertjmorgan.com/100verses/ page 99