OUR DAILY BREAD : "NEVER SAY NEVER"

[cimi]

May 29
Saturday


NEVER SAY
"NEVER"

READ:
Acts 9:1-22
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Immediately he
preached the Christ in
the synagogues, that
He is the Son of God.
__Acts 9:20
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While a friend and I walked along the path of the former Berlin Wall, he told me, 'This is one of those 'never say never' places in my life." He explained that during the years when the Wall divided the city he had made a dozen trips through Check-point Charlie to encourage members of the church living under continuing surveillance and opposition in East Germany. More than once, he had been detained, questioned, and harassed by the border guards.

In 1988, he took his teenage children to West Berlin and told them, "Take a good look at this wall, because someday when you bring your children here, this wall will still be standing." A year later it was gone.

When Saul of Tarsus began to attack the followers of Jesus, no one could have imagined that he would ever become a disciple of Christ. "Never. Not a chance." Yet Acts 9:1-9 records the story of Saul's blinding encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. Within a few days of that life-changing event, Saul was preaching in the synagogues of Damascus that Jesus was the Son of God, to the astonishment of all who heard him (vv.20-21).

When it comes to God's work in the most difficult people we know, we should never say "never." _David McCasland
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````````````````````God's power cannot be confined``````````````
``````````````````````To what you think is possible;``````````````
```````````````````So when it comes to changing lives--```````````
`````````````````````Imagine the impossible. __Sper`````````````
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Never say never when it comes to what God can do.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Acts 9:1-9****************

1 Then Saul, still breathing
threats and murder against
the disciples of the Lord,
went to the high priest 2 and
asked letters from him to the
synagogues of Damascus, so
that if he found any who
were of the Way, whether
men or women, he might
bring them bound to
Jerusalem.

3 As he journeyed he came
near Damascus, and
suddenly a light shone
around him from heaven.

4 Then he fell to the ground,
and heard a voice saying to
him, "Saul, Saul, why are
you persecuting Me?"...

10 Now there was a certain
disciple at Damascus named
Ananias; and to him the Lord
said in a vision.... "Arise
and go to the street called
Straight, and inquire at the
house of Judas for one called
Saul of Tarsus...."

17 And...laying his hands
on him he said, "Brother
Saul, the Lord Jesus, who
appeared to you on the road
as you came, has sent me
that you may receive your
sight and be filled with the
Holy spirit."...

19 Then Saul spent some
days with the disciples at
Damascus. 20 Immediately he
preached the Christ in the
synagogues, that He is the
Son of God. 21 Then all who
heard were amazed, and said,
"Is this not he who destroyed
those who called on this
name in Jerusalem....?"

22 But Saul increased all the
more in strength, and
confounded the Jews who
dwelt in Damascus, proving
that this Jesus is the Christ.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

In the early days of the church, and only in the book of Acts,
Christians were known as followers of the Way (9:2; 19:9,23; 22:4;
24:14,22), perhaps influenced by the claims of Jesus that He is the
way to God (Matt. 7:14; John 14:6). __SIM KAY TEE

[lizzie]

Amen With God ALL things are possible.

Love u and miss u sister cimi

[cimi]

Love you too Lizzles:))))))))))))