BBD 04.21.16 Are You a Fake? (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1722^nd

Burning Bush Devotional

21 April 2016

Are You a Fake?

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
Be
kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving
preference to one another; not
lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient
in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; distributing to the needs
of the saints, given to hospitality. – Romans 12:9-13 NKJV.

Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. – Romans 12:9 The Message.

The Waffle House in
Fayetteville, North Carolina almost had a robbery. One of the customers hiding in the restroom with her two
children called 911 and said, “We’re in the Waffle House on Reilly
Road, and there’s a guy who’s trying to rob here, and he has a really big gun.” Pretty scary and the robber might have had a successful robbery except for
70-year-old Phillip Brooks who had served two tours in Vietnam. The robber ran up to the cash register with
his AK-47 and demanded, “Give me all the money in the drawer. Open the drawer.” Brooks, who uses a cane, says that he saw immediately that the AK-47 was a fake, “This thing was wood almost all the
way up to the end of the barrel. No trigger guard, no trigger. All the working
parts were missing, so I just told the girls, ‘don’t give him anything. That’s
a fake gun.’” The robber’s response? He pointed the fake gun at Brooks and said, “Well, I’m for real.” Brooks’ response? “I showed him how real I was. I hit him in the nose with my cane.” Other customers helped out at that point, and the robber ran away. (WRAL 04.08.16; MyFox8 04.09.16)

Have you ever tried to fake something? Have you faked you
knew how to do something when you didn’t. I have. In the oilfield, I did not
really know how to operate electronic inspection units when I started working as
an operator. I had been promoted to assistant operator for a company; and had sat
at the console actually operating their inspection unit for about 15 minutes
total, before being hired as an operator for another company. When I was called
as a pastor, I did not really know everything I needed to know to be a pastor;
although I had watched pastors at work, and had served as a deacon for several
years. I guess you could call it on the job training.

Have you ever faked that you liked something when you
really did not like it? Have you ever acted like you loved something when you
hated it? Maybe you haven’t, but some of us have. The apostle Paul in says in Romans 12:9, “Let
love be without hypocrisy.”
The Message puts this as, “Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it.” Paul is saying in effect, if
you don’t have love for others, do you really have the love of God in your
heart? Good question. How much love do you have in your heart? Enough to love
others without faking it?

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

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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 1722^nd

Burning Bush Devotional

21 April 2016

Are You a Fake?

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
Be
kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving
preference to one another; not
lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient
in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; distributing to the needs
of the saints, given to hospitality. – Romans 12:9-13 NKJV.

Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. – Romans 12:9 The Message.

The Waffle House in
Fayetteville, North Carolina almost had a robbery. One of the customers hiding in the restroom with her two
children called 911 and said, “We’re in the Waffle House on Reilly
Road, and there’s a guy who’s trying to rob here, and he has a really big gun.” Pretty scary and the robber might have had a successful robbery except for
70-year-old Phillip Brooks who had served two tours in Vietnam. The robber ran up to the cash register with
his AK-47 and demanded, “Give me all the money in the drawer. Open the drawer.” Brooks, who uses a cane, says that he saw immediately that the AK-47 was a fake, “This thing was wood almost all the
way up to the end of the barrel. No trigger guard, no trigger. All the working
parts were missing, so I just told the girls, ‘don’t give him anything. That’s
a fake gun.’” The robber’s response? He pointed the fake gun at Brooks and said, “Well, I’m for real.” Brooks’ response? “I showed him how real I was. I hit him in the nose with my cane.” Other customers helped out at that point, and the robber ran away. (WRAL 04.08.16; MyFox8 04.09.16)

Have you ever tried to fake something? Have you faked you
knew how to do something when you didn’t. I have. In the oilfield, I did not
really know how to operate electronic inspection units when I started working as
an operator. I had been promoted to assistant operator for a company; and had sat
at the console actually operating their inspection unit for about 15 minutes
total, before being hired as an operator for another company. When I was called
as a pastor, I did not really know everything I needed to know to be a pastor;
although I had watched pastors at work, and had served as a deacon for several
years. I guess you could call it on the job training.

Have you ever faked that you liked something when you
really did not like it? Have you ever acted like you loved something when you
hated it? Maybe you haven’t, but some of us have. The apostle Paul in says in Romans 12:9, “Let
love be without hypocrisy.”
The Message puts this as, “Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it.” Paul is saying in effect, if
you don’t have love for others, do you really have the love of God in your
heart? Good question. How much love do you have in your heart? Enough to love
others without faking it?

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.

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.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for Michelle Abetz, 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
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constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
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