BBD 03.31.16 Save me, O God! (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1707^th

Burning Bush Devotional

31 March 2016

Save me, O God!

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. – Psalm 37:31 NKJV.

For a righteous man may fall seven
times and rise again, but the
wicked shall fall by calamity. – Proverbs 24:16 NKJV.

Ropoto is
a Greek town that has slid and sank out of existence. The town was located on a
hilltop and everything seemed fine until 2012. On April 12, 2012, there was a
landslide which made homes and buildings slide down the hillside. The town is
also sinking a foot or so every year. There are still buildings there, but they
are uninhabitable leaning this way and that. The town’s infrastructure was
destroyed ruining the water system and electrical. About 300 families were
forced out of their homes, some living in very difficult situations at first in
barns. No one in the town wanted to leave their homes, but they were forced out
by the disaster along with the threat of additional landslides. Yorgos Roubies narrates the tragic
story in a documentary which GreekReporter dot com has produced. Roubies says, “The churches, everything was gone, there’s not even a
cafe here. If someone gets sick, they won’t even be able to find a glass of
water. We had never seen such a disaster.”

It is hard
to imagine seeing your home slide down a hill and suddenly having no place to
live. Of course, the town of Ropoto is not the only town or city to experience
disaster. Disasters are a constant upon Planet Earth with mudslides,
landslides, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, sinkholes, floods and
I am sure there are also other disastrous situations. Besides natural causes of
disasters there are manmade causes of disasters including war, environmental,
and other things.

In our lives
we may at times feel as though we are in the midst of a landslide sliding and
sinking deeper and deeper. We are not alone in experiencing this kind of thing
as the Psalmist cries out, “Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to
my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come
into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes
fail while I wait for my God (Psalm 69:1-3).” The Psalmists situation was one that he had
no control of, it was not the result of sin. Psalm 69
is a messianic psalm and Jesus who was tempted at all points without sin
applied verse 4 to Himself (In John 15:25): “Those who hate
me without a cause are more than the hairs of
my head; they are mighty who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully; though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it (Psalm 69:4).”

In other times
this falling, sliding, and sinking in our lives comes about as a result of sin.
In Proverbs 24:16 we see the possibilities for
those who know God are different from those who do not know God. The righteous,
the believers, even though they sin can repent of their sin and rise again to
walk with their God. Once you have repented, storing up
God’s Word in your heart will stop the slide, and will become steps for you to
climb out of the pit (Psalm 37:31; Psalm 119:9,11). The wicked, the
unbelievers, when they fall into sin have no desire to turn to God, they have
no desire to repent and do not rise again.

Whatever the
cause of your falling, sliding, or sinking the way out is to cry out to your
God as did the Psalmist: “Save me, O God!”

Copyright © 2016. 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 websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

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

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Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for Michelle, Justin Lewis
(Sadly, Justin has lost his battle with cancer, please pray for comfort and
peace for his family.), Shane Hall, Reta (my sister), and Beverly (Jeanie’s
sister). Please also pray for Max Boothe, Nathan Reed, Brent Baker, and Tommy
Merrell.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. 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. I am in
need of prayer as I have resigned as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in
Cordell, Oklahoma and am now seeking God’s direction for how I am to serve Him.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1707^th

Burning Bush Devotional

31 March 2016

Save me, O God!

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. – Psalm 37:31 NKJV.

For a righteous man may fall seven
times and rise again, but the
wicked shall fall by calamity. – Proverbs 24:16 NKJV.

Ropoto is
a Greek town that has slid and sank out of existence. The town was located on a
hilltop and everything seemed fine until 2012. On April 12, 2012, there was a
landslide which made homes and buildings slide down the hillside. The town is
also sinking a foot or so every year. There are still buildings there, but they
are uninhabitable leaning this way and that. The town’s infrastructure was
destroyed ruining the water system and electrical. About 300 families were
forced out of their homes, some living in very difficult situations at first in
barns. No one in the town wanted to leave their homes, but they were forced out
by the disaster along with the threat of additional landslides. Yorgos Roubies narrates the tragic
story in a documentary which GreekReporter dot com has produced. Roubies says, “The churches, everything was gone, there’s not even a
cafe here. If someone gets sick, they won’t even be able to find a glass of
water. We had never seen such a disaster.”

It is hard
to imagine seeing your home slide down a hill and suddenly having no place to
live. Of course, the town of Ropoto is not the only town or city to experience
disaster. Disasters are a constant upon Planet Earth with mudslides,
landslides, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, sinkholes, floods and
I am sure there are also other disastrous situations. Besides natural causes of
disasters there are manmade causes of disasters including war, environmental,
and other things.

In our lives
we may at times feel as though we are in the midst of a landslide sliding and
sinking deeper and deeper. We are not alone in experiencing this kind of thing
as the Psalmist cries out, “Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to
my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come
into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes
fail while I wait for my God (Psalm 69:1-3).” The Psalmists situation was one that he had
no control of, it was not the result of sin. Psalm 69
is a messianic psalm and Jesus who was tempted at all points without sin
applied verse 4 to Himself (In John 15:25): “Those who hate
me without a cause are more than the hairs of
my head; they are mighty who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully; though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it (Psalm 69:4).”

In other times
this falling, sliding, and sinking in our lives comes about as a result of sin.
In Proverbs 24:16 we see the possibilities for
those who know God are different from those who do not know God. The righteous,
the believers, even though they sin can repent of their sin and rise again to
walk with their God. Once you have repented, storing up
God’s Word in your heart will stop the slide, and will become steps for you to
climb out of the pit (Psalm 37:31; Psalm 119:9,11). The wicked, the
unbelievers, when they fall into sin have no desire to turn to God, they have
no desire to repent and do not rise again.

Whatever the
cause of your falling, sliding, or sinking the way out is to cry out to your
God as did the Psalmist: “Save me, O God!”

Copyright © 2016. 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 websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

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.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for Michelle, Justin Lewis
(Sadly, Justin has lost his battle with cancer, please pray for comfort and
peace for his family.), Shane Hall, Reta (my sister), and Beverly (Jeanie’s
sister). Please also pray for Max Boothe, Nathan Reed, Brent Baker, and Tommy
Merrell.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. 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. I am in
need of prayer as I have resigned as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in
Cordell, Oklahoma and am now seeking God’s direction for how I am to serve Him.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

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.

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constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
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