Uncomfortable Application…

For many at Main Street this is Day 3 in the 40 Days in the Word experience.  Others are just beginning, some have yet to commence.  I am so pleased the excitement is building and some of the response I have heard thrills my heart.  God’s people are finding His Word again, ancient and still eerily relevant.

The verse for Day 3 in the Pronounce it method:

For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. Philippians 2.13, NIV

My application:

I am so busy with work, I neglect the truth that the work is not my own, but God in me.  I also must remember that it is His work in others and not my own.

Oddly enough, I was anxious to share God’s message to me for yesterday’s verse…but was too busy to write.  That frustrated me immensely since writing is one activity I enjoy doing.

What kind of things to you enjoy but don’t do because of the obstacle of  “work” or “busyness”?

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About Robert Franklin

Father to six (three boys and three girls, three from the USA and three from Uganda) Husband to one (and intent on staying that way!) Son to Jesus-freak parents. Brother to three great people. Weak, sinful, enemy of God rescued for adoption by grace through faith.
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2 Responses to Uncomfortable Application…

  1. Jeff Herron's avatar Jeff Herron says:

    I had prayed earlier in the week for God to help me have the power and desire to carry out Philippians 1:27. What a joy then that my prayer was answered in Philippians 2:13! It’s terrific to know that I can act from a place of an abundant confidence in God’s work within me rather than a shaky confidence in my own wobbly strength.

    Not sure how to answer your question without more reflection, but I wanted to share this cool example of God speaking from His Word. Rock on, 40 Days, rock on.

  2. Luann Becker's avatar Luann Becker says:

    I have gone through the 40 Days in the Word already and doing it again following day to day with my fellow Main Street family…it has given me such a desire to memorize and keep everyday the passage and experiencing a deep wisdom of how our desire for God immensifies because He is the One that put it there to begin with

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