BBD 04.01.16 Are You Cinderella? (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1708^th

Burning Bush Devotional

1 April 2016

Are You Cinderella?

But as many as received Him, to
them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His
name. – John 1:12 NKJV.

And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. – Revelation 19:16 NKJV.
(See also 1 Timothy 6:15)

Then one of the seven angels who
had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked
with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” –
Revelation 21:9 NKJV.

We
remember the fairy tale of Cinderella and the Prince who finds the slipper she
left behind. The slipper only fits the foot of Cinderella who becomes a
Princess living happily ever after with the Prince. In Taiwan, there is now a
beautiful glass slipper church 55 feet tall. It will be used primarily for
weddings. The glass slipper church was inspired in part by the Cinderella
story, but also by another well-known story in Taiwan. In the 1960s a 24-year-old
woman named Wang was to be married, but she contracted the disease known as Blackfoot
disease. The United States National Library of Medicine in an abstract says
this about the disease: “Blackfoot
disease is an endemic peripheral vascular disease found among the inhabitants
of a limited area on the southwest coast of Taiwan, where artesian well water
with a high concentration of arsenic has been used for more than eighty years.” The sad story of the young woman in Taiwan is that her
legs had to be amputated. Her wedding was cancelled, she never married, and she
lived the rest of her life in a church. (BBC 01.15.16)

There are
many versions of the Cinderella story in many cultures of the downtrodden
persecuted heroine being raised up from the lowest of the low to become
royalty. The earliest known secular variant of the Cinderella story was written
in 7 B.C. about Rhodopis. Rhodopis was a Greek slave girl who was raised up
from slavery to marry the king of Egypt. However, it may be that all of these
stories are based on the Biblical story of Esther who won the royal beauty
contest (Esther 2:1-4) to become the queen of King Ahasuerus aka King Xerxes, ruling Persia from 486 to 464 B.C., one of the most greatest monarchs of the ancient
world. This occurred while the Jewish people were in captivity. In this original Cinderella
story God has a plan for this young orphan Jewish woman born in captivity and raised
by her cousin or uncle Mordecai. Through Esther, all of the Jewish people are
saved from the plot by the evil Haman who sought to destroy them.

Esther
must risk her life to save her race by entering the presence of the king
uninvited to tell him of the evil plot by Haman. Mordecai tells her: “Do not think in your heart that
you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain
completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews
from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows
whether you have come to the kingdom for such
a time as this (Esther 4:13-14)?”

If you have received Jesus as your Savior (John 1:12) you have been “born
again” into the royal family of the King of
kings and Lord of lords. You are the Cinderella princess or the
Cinderella prince. Just like God had a great plan for Esther’s life, God has a
great plan for your life. Don’t miss out on God’s great plan! For “who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a
time as this?”

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
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The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
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your addiction that actually work.

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Merrell.

Please pray for an end to the
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prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1708^th

Burning Bush Devotional

1 April 2016

Are You Cinderella?

But as many as received Him, to
them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His
name. – John 1:12 NKJV.

And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. – Revelation 19:16 NKJV.
(See also 1 Timothy 6:15)

Then one of the seven angels who
had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked
with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” –
Revelation 21:9 NKJV.

We
remember the fairy tale of Cinderella and the Prince who finds the slipper she
left behind. The slipper only fits the foot of Cinderella who becomes a
Princess living happily ever after with the Prince. In Taiwan, there is now a
beautiful glass slipper church 55 feet tall. It will be used primarily for
weddings. The glass slipper church was inspired in part by the Cinderella
story, but also by another well-known story in Taiwan. In the 1960s a 24-year-old
woman named Wang was to be married, but she contracted the disease known as Blackfoot
disease. The United States National Library of Medicine in an abstract says
this about the disease: “Blackfoot
disease is an endemic peripheral vascular disease found among the inhabitants
of a limited area on the southwest coast of Taiwan, where artesian well water
with a high concentration of arsenic has been used for more than eighty years.” The sad story of the young woman in Taiwan is that her
legs had to be amputated. Her wedding was cancelled, she never married, and she
lived the rest of her life in a church. (BBC 01.15.16)

There are
many versions of the Cinderella story in many cultures of the downtrodden
persecuted heroine being raised up from the lowest of the low to become
royalty. The earliest known secular variant of the Cinderella story was written
in 7 B.C. about Rhodopis. Rhodopis was a Greek slave girl who was raised up
from slavery to marry the king of Egypt. However, it may be that all of these
stories are based on the Biblical story of Esther who won the royal beauty
contest (Esther 2:1-4) to become the queen of King Ahasuerus aka King Xerxes, ruling Persia from 486 to 464 B.C., one of the most greatest monarchs of the ancient
world. This occurred while the Jewish people were in captivity. In this original Cinderella
story God has a plan for this young orphan Jewish woman born in captivity and raised
by her cousin or uncle Mordecai. Through Esther, all of the Jewish people are
saved from the plot by the evil Haman who sought to destroy them.

Esther
must risk her life to save her race by entering the presence of the king
uninvited to tell him of the evil plot by Haman. Mordecai tells her: “Do not think in your heart that
you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain
completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews
from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows
whether you have come to the kingdom for such
a time as this (Esther 4:13-14)?”

If you have received Jesus as your Savior (John 1:12) you have been “born
again” into the royal family of the King of
kings and Lord of lords. You are the Cinderella princess or the
Cinderella prince. Just like God had a great plan for Esther’s life, God has a
great plan for your life. Don’t miss out on God’s great plan! For “who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a
time as this?”

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 A., 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.

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