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Put On YOur own mask before helping others

Ready For Take-Off: Put on Your Own Mask Before Helping Others

September 29, 2019

Should there be a sudden change in pressure, oxygen masks will drop in front of you so you can have oxygen to breathe. The flight attendant warns you to put on your own mask first, and the then help your children put on theirs. Why? Because if you are not secure, you will not be able to help anyone else. There are two messages here, both of which we need to know in our spiritual lives. First: We must be prepared with the Word of God in our hearts and lives first. We cannot be ready to share the Word if we don’t have it first. Second: We must pass that Word on to our children and youth so that they, too, will be prepared to face the cares and pressures of life.

Deuteronomy 6:1-12

Love the Lord Your God

6 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

10 When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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Find YOur Nearest exit

September 22, 2019

Ready for Take-Off: Find Your Nearest Exit

In case of an emergency landing, it is important to know the nearest path to exiting the plane so the flight attendants take a moment to make sure you know where yours is before taking off. Spiritually speaking, do you know where your exit is located? There really is only one…through Jesus Christ who died for our sins that we might have abundant and eternal life. The world offers all sorts of other solutions to the problems of our lives…self-reliance, drugs and alcohol, popularity, wealth…but those paths will only lead to heartache and loss. But through Jesus there is real life…now and for all eternity.

John 14:1-6

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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Turn off your devices

September 15, 2019

Ready for Take-Off: Turn Off Your Devices

When the flight attendant tells you to turn your devices off on take off or landing, it is so the random signals of many devices won’t interfere with the signals of flight control. Likewise, in our spiritual lives there are the influences of the world that can keep us from focusing on the main pursuit of bringing honor and glory to God and on the life in Him we are supposed to live. So lets stay focused on the main thing, our relationship with Jesus Christ, where we will find true joy and peace and strength for the journey of life.

Philippians 3:12-21

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Following Paul’s Example

15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

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