BBD 03.29.21 Loving God More (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

29 March 2021

(During
this Holy Week leading Jesus to and through the cross and to the glorious
Resurrection Day - I am sending a series of devotionals about Loving God More. There
is no better time than this to focus on our relationship with our Lord and grow
in our love for Him.)

Loving God More

You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all
your mind. This is the first and great commandment. - Matthew 22:37-38.

In order
for any relationship to grow it must be cultivated and nurtured. Our
relationship with God requires that we do the same if our love for Him is to
grow. Of course, we need to talk with God which means we not only talk but also,
we listen to what He has to say to us. We also must learn more about God and as
we know more about Him our love for Him will grow. Bible study is essential to
this process of learning more about God and also to listening to what He has to
say to us.

R. A.
Torrey had great energy in service of His God. He was the Superintendent of the
Moody Bible Institute and pastor of the Moody Memorial Church. For five years
(1902 - 1906) he was an evangelist traveling the world and he was dean of the
Bible Institute of Los Angeles (1912 - 1924). He served as the first pastor of
the Church of the Open Door. While serving in these capacities he somehow found
time to write forty books. Torrey found the energy and strength for his service
to the Lord by immersing himself in the Word of God.

A man
once complained to Dr. Torrey that he could not get anything out of his Bible
study and said the Scripture seemed to be as dry as dust. Torrey suggested that
the man take a book of Scripture and read it twelve times a day for a month.
The suggested book of Scripture was Second
Peter. The man said later, “My wife and I read Second Peter three or
four times in the morning, two or three times at noon, and two or three times
at dinner. Soon I was talking Second
Peter to everyone I met. It seemed as though the stars in the
heavens were singing the story of Second Peter. I read Second
Peter on my knees, marking passages. Teardrops mingled with the
crayon colors, and I said to my wife, ’See how I have ruined this part of my
Bible.’ ’Yes,’ she said, ’but as the pages have been getting black,
your life has been getting white.’”

I want
to challenge you to do the same thing! To take up the study of Second Peter reading it twelve times a day for a
month. You could also memorize the little book since it is only 61 verses long
it can be memorized in 30 1/2 weeks memorizing two verses per week. No,
this is not an easy challenge! This is an opportunity to draw closer
to God, to learn more of God, to grow in your love for God in obedience to the
Great Commandment.

May we
all grow in our love for our God!

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright,
Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo, Bailey
and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe Marx; Brandy
and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a stroke; Scott
J.; Clayton T. and Sarah.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist
Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

29 March 2021

(During
this Holy Week leading Jesus to and through the cross and to the glorious
Resurrection Day - I am sending a series of devotionals about Loving God More. There
is no better time than this to focus on our relationship with our Lord and grow
in our love for Him.)

Loving God More

You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all
your mind. This is the first and great commandment. - Matthew 22:37-38.

In order
for any relationship to grow it must be cultivated and nurtured. Our
relationship with God requires that we do the same if our love for Him is to
grow. Of course, we need to talk with God which means we not only talk but also,
we listen to what He has to say to us. We also must learn more about God and as
we know more about Him our love for Him will grow. Bible study is essential to
this process of learning more about God and also to listening to what He has to
say to us.

R. A.
Torrey had great energy in service of His God. He was the Superintendent of the
Moody Bible Institute and pastor of the Moody Memorial Church. For five years
(1902 - 1906) he was an evangelist traveling the world and he was dean of the
Bible Institute of Los Angeles (1912 - 1924). He served as the first pastor of
the Church of the Open Door. While serving in these capacities he somehow found
time to write forty books. Torrey found the energy and strength for his service
to the Lord by immersing himself in the Word of God.

A man
once complained to Dr. Torrey that he could not get anything out of his Bible
study and said the Scripture seemed to be as dry as dust. Torrey suggested that
the man take a book of Scripture and read it twelve times a day for a month.
The suggested book of Scripture was Second
Peter. The man said later, “My wife and I read Second Peter three or
four times in the morning, two or three times at noon, and two or three times
at dinner. Soon I was talking Second
Peter to everyone I met. It seemed as though the stars in the
heavens were singing the story of Second Peter. I read Second
Peter on my knees, marking passages. Teardrops mingled with the
crayon colors, and I said to my wife, ’See how I have ruined this part of my
Bible.’ ’Yes,’ she said, ’but as the pages have been getting black,
your life has been getting white.’”

I want
to challenge you to do the same thing! To take up the study of Second Peter reading it twelve times a day for a
month. You could also memorize the little book since it is only 61 verses long
it can be memorized in 30 1/2 weeks memorizing two verses per week. No,
this is not an easy challenge! This is an opportunity to draw closer
to God, to learn more of God, to grow in your love for God in obedience to the
Great Commandment.

May we
all grow in our love for our God!

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright,
Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo, Bailey
and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe Marx; Brandy
and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a stroke; Scott
J.; Clayton T. and Sarah.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist
Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time constraints
the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org