BBD 05.18.21 Changing Course (Classic)

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Classic from 2003

The Burning Bush Devotional

18 May 2021

(No devotional was sent Monday
05.17.21 – As many of you know this is a one person operation and I have been
ill for a few days, but now improving. Thank you for your prayers for me and
this ministry!)

Changing Course

Then
Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord,
went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of
Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he
might bring them bound to Jerusalem. As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and
suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and
heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he
said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are
persecuting.” - Acts 9:1-5.

A thief
in the Vancouver area, received a little surprise while trying to make off with
a roll of copper wire. The wire was connected to a generator that was running,
and when the thief tried to disconnect the wire; his shoes were blown off, and
he was burned. He received a 27,000-volt electrical shock. He was found
wandering in a nearby railroad yard without shoes, and with second-degree
burns. The 41-year-old man is recovering from his injuries but will face
criminal charges. According to police, the man is “well known” to
them.

You
have to wonder, if an unexpected 27,000-volt jolt that blows your shoes off, is
enough to make a career criminal change his vocation? Certainly, it should give
him something to think about. Saul, prior to his conversion had an experience
that was just as shocking. Saul was on his way to persecute more Christians in
Damascus, believing that he was serving God in doing so. However, God
intervened in his life. The Bible says, “…suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.” That is an understatement! Because the light, which Saul
encountered, was so bright it blinded him.

Saul
was headed in one direction, and when he encountered the resurrected Christ,
the direction of his life was completely changed. The shock of this encounter
with Christ was so great, that Saul eventually became the apostle Paul, and a
part of the group that he had been persecuting, Paul was not the first, and not
the last, to have the direction of their lives radically changed by a shocking
encounter with Christ. Paul’s life was changed, when he came to understand
that he had been wrong in persecuting Christians, and in his heart committed
himself to follow Christ.

For
some people it might take more than a 27,000-volt jolt to change the course of
their lives. What they really need is an encounter with the living Lord Jesus.
What about you? What would it take to change the course of your life?

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’ Pat S.; 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
Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler
who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana
Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Shonda Hutson
(fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a problem
with her heart.

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
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2003

The Burning Bush Devotional

18 May 2021

(No devotional was sent Monday
05.17.21 – As many of you know this is a one person operation and I have been
ill for a few days, but now improving. Thank you for your prayers for me and
this ministry!)

Changing Course

Then
Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord,
went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of
Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he
might bring them bound to Jerusalem. As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and
suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and
heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he
said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are
persecuting.” - Acts 9:1-5.

A thief
in the Vancouver area, received a little surprise while trying to make off with
a roll of copper wire. The wire was connected to a generator that was running,
and when the thief tried to disconnect the wire; his shoes were blown off, and
he was burned. He received a 27,000-volt electrical shock. He was found
wandering in a nearby railroad yard without shoes, and with second-degree
burns. The 41-year-old man is recovering from his injuries but will face
criminal charges. According to police, the man is “well known” to
them.

You
have to wonder, if an unexpected 27,000-volt jolt that blows your shoes off, is
enough to make a career criminal change his vocation? Certainly, it should give
him something to think about. Saul, prior to his conversion had an experience
that was just as shocking. Saul was on his way to persecute more Christians in
Damascus, believing that he was serving God in doing so. However, God
intervened in his life. The Bible says, “…suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.” That is an understatement! Because the light, which Saul
encountered, was so bright it blinded him.

Saul
was headed in one direction, and when he encountered the resurrected Christ,
the direction of his life was completely changed. The shock of this encounter
with Christ was so great, that Saul eventually became the apostle Paul, and a
part of the group that he had been persecuting, Paul was not the first, and not
the last, to have the direction of their lives radically changed by a shocking
encounter with Christ. Paul’s life was changed, when he came to understand
that he had been wrong in persecuting Christians, and in his heart committed
himself to follow Christ.

For
some people it might take more than a 27,000-volt jolt to change the course of
their lives. What they really need is an encounter with the living Lord Jesus.
What about you? What would it take to change the course of your life?

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’ Pat S.; 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
Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler
who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana
Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Shonda Hutson
(fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a problem
with her heart.

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