BBD 05.03.17 Shut the Door (Classic)

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

03 May 2017

Shut
the Door

Also, many
of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them
in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled
fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord grew mightily and
prevailed. - Acts 19:19-20 NKJV.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to
fulfill its lusts. - Romans 13:14 NKJV.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a
roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith,
knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the
world. - 1 Peter 5:8-9 NKJV.

In Tadley, England someone walking by the HSBC Bank branch early one morning
discovered a strange situation. The bank door was open! The open door was
reported to the police and the bank was quickly secured. Nothing was found to
be missing, and it was not clear how long the door had been left open.

In South Carolina, a home owner left his garage door up while he took care of a
couple of errands. After all, the Claussen community was a safe family place to
live, and he was only going to be gone for about 30 minutes. However, when he
returned, he found that someone had entered through the open garage door, and
kicked in the door from the garage to the house. The burglar did take three
jewelry boxes, one of which contained some family heirlooms.

In these days, and in most places it is wise to shut the door to your house or
business if you will be away for even brief periods of time. An open door is an
invitation to a burglar to enter, and take whatever he can find of value.

Spiritually, we need to also shut the door, because we do have an enemy who “walks
about seeking whom he may devour.” That old devil is constantly
looking for an open door in your life so that he can enter in and “steal,
kill, and destroy (John 10:10).”

The new believers in Ephesus give us an example of shutting the door. Even
though the books that they had used to practice the dark arts were worth a
large amount of money; instead of selling them, they burned them. They shut the
door on their past permanently as they would be unable to afford to replace the
books once they were destroyed. Burning the books would also keep others from
being tempted to use them. You need to do the same thing in your life. If you
are using illegal drugs, you need to get rid of them. Do not keep a hidden
stash in your home somewhere. You need to do the same with alcohol, with
pornography, with Ouija boards, with tarot cards. You need to rid your life of
them permanently.

There are other ways to leave the door open to the devil and to the flesh. We
leave the door open when we refuse to forgive. We leave the door open through
doubt, and unbelief. We leave the door open when we knowingly live in sin. We
leave the door open when we gossip about others and when we mummer against God.
These doors are harder to shut, but they can be closed as we draw near to God (James
4:8a). We move closer to God as we pray, immerse ourselves in His Word,
are faithful in church attendance, and live each day as closely as we can to
God's will for our lives.

If you have been leaving the doors of your life open, you are asking for
trouble. Shut the doors!

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. 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
19 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

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

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 continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

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. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
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.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: www.paypal.me/EdWrather

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

03 May 2017

Shut
the Door

Also, many
of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them
in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled
fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord grew mightily and
prevailed. - Acts 19:19-20 NKJV.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to
fulfill its lusts. - Romans 13:14 NKJV.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a
roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith,
knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the
world. - 1 Peter 5:8-9 NKJV.

In Tadley, England someone walking by the HSBC Bank branch early one morning
discovered a strange situation. The bank door was open! The open door was
reported to the police and the bank was quickly secured. Nothing was found to
be missing, and it was not clear how long the door had been left open.

In South Carolina, a home owner left his garage door up while he took care of a
couple of errands. After all, the Claussen community was a safe family place to
live, and he was only going to be gone for about 30 minutes. However, when he
returned, he found that someone had entered through the open garage door, and
kicked in the door from the garage to the house. The burglar did take three
jewelry boxes, one of which contained some family heirlooms.

In these days, and in most places it is wise to shut the door to your house or
business if you will be away for even brief periods of time. An open door is an
invitation to a burglar to enter, and take whatever he can find of value.

Spiritually, we need to also shut the door, because we do have an enemy who “walks
about seeking whom he may devour.” That old devil is constantly
looking for an open door in your life so that he can enter in and “steal,
kill, and destroy (John 10:10).”

The new believers in Ephesus give us an example of shutting the door. Even
though the books that they had used to practice the dark arts were worth a
large amount of money; instead of selling them, they burned them. They shut the
door on their past permanently as they would be unable to afford to replace the
books once they were destroyed. Burning the books would also keep others from
being tempted to use them. You need to do the same thing in your life. If you
are using illegal drugs, you need to get rid of them. Do not keep a hidden
stash in your home somewhere. You need to do the same with alcohol, with
pornography, with Ouija boards, with tarot cards. You need to rid your life of
them permanently.

There are other ways to leave the door open to the devil and to the flesh. We
leave the door open when we refuse to forgive. We leave the door open through
doubt, and unbelief. We leave the door open when we knowingly live in sin. We
leave the door open when we gossip about others and when we mummer against God.
These doors are harder to shut, but they can be closed as we draw near to God (James
4:8a). We move closer to God as we pray, immerse ourselves in His Word,
are faithful in church attendance, and live each day as closely as we can to
God's will for our lives.

If you have been leaving the doors of your life open, you are asking for
trouble. Shut the doors!

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. 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
19 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

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

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 continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

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. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
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.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

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