BBD 06.30.21 The Rollercoaster from Hell (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

30 June 2021

The Rollercoaster From Hell

They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; they found no city to
dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried out
to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.
And He led them forth by the right way. - Psalm 107:4-7a.

Richard Rodriguez has spent the summer riding a rollercoaster for ten
hours a day trying to set a new world record for rollercoaster endurance.
Rodriguez is 42 years old and is a lecturer at the University of Chicago. To
take his mind off of the stomach turning and churning rides in the German town
of Hassloch he says, “I read the
newspapers, I have a walkman, I have my cellphone, so I try to talk to people
and message people during the day. I’ve been on this rollercoaster for quarter
of a year now, so I am kind of anxious for the ending.”

Hard to imagine spending an entire summer riding a rollercoaster! However, some people spend much of their lives on a spiritual
rollercoaster. Paula J. Anderson shares of her rollercoaster ride: “I was brought up in the church, I loved school and was
an honor student. A happy childhood I had. I went astray at the young age of 14
years old. I got pregnant so I decided to get married. I was 15 years old when
my first son was born. I would eventually have four more children out of
wedlock, three girls and one more boy. I didn't understand and couldn't cope
with the responsibilities of taking care of a husband or a child. I strayed
even further away from my family responsibilities and God.”

“At 16, I was introduced to heroin by a neighbor, an
ex-marine. I liked the calm, peaceful feelings it gave me. I became immediately
addicted and started "shooting up" every day. I left my husband and
child to begin a lifestyle of drugs, prostitution, and shoplifting. For the
next 25 years of my life, I never really lived, but only existed day to day in
this human shell. I would do almost anything for my next fix, whenever that
pain and want in my body took control. I jumped from one drug to the next,
whatever was easily available and affordable. Always looking for that numbing
warm feeling that gave me that artificial peace.”

“In a one year period I overdosed and was comatose nine
times! I was sent to the State Hospital and was diagnosed as suicidal and
certified an addict. I've had many serious operations and a finger removed due
to my intravenous drug use. My heart is now damaged from drug abuse. I've lost
everything dear to me.”

“I tried many drug treatment programs without success. I
went on Methadone Maintenance for many years, another addiction, but it was
cheap, legal and it kept me out of jail. I sit in prison today, 42 years old,
and at the end of my five year sentence….”

Paula has been on a wild roller coaster ride but she did find the way off
as she says, “I sit in prison today,
42 years old, and at the end of my five year sentence, a new woman in Christ.
My Lord and Savior has pulled me out of the pit and off of Satan's
rollercoaster of Hell. I have found a new program for my survival: "THE
JESUS PROGRAM". Through him I have that warmth, love and a peace no drug
or man could ever compare too!! Praise the Lord, I was lost but now I'm found,
my faith in him will heal me!”

If you’ve been on the rollercoaster from hell maybe it is time to cry out
to the Lord so, He can deliver you. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved (Romans 10:13).”

Copyright © 1998 - 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
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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 PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Todd
Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; 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; Bill S.; Shonda Hutson;
and Sharon H.

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

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

30 June 2021

The Rollercoaster From Hell

They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; they found no city to
dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried out
to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.
And He led them forth by the right way. - Psalm 107:4-7a.

Richard Rodriguez has spent the summer riding a rollercoaster for ten
hours a day trying to set a new world record for rollercoaster endurance.
Rodriguez is 42 years old and is a lecturer at the University of Chicago. To
take his mind off of the stomach turning and churning rides in the German town
of Hassloch he says, “I read the
newspapers, I have a walkman, I have my cellphone, so I try to talk to people
and message people during the day. I’ve been on this rollercoaster for quarter
of a year now, so I am kind of anxious for the ending.”

Hard to imagine spending an entire summer riding a rollercoaster! However, some people spend much of their lives on a spiritual
rollercoaster. Paula J. Anderson shares of her rollercoaster ride: “I was brought up in the church, I loved school and was
an honor student. A happy childhood I had. I went astray at the young age of 14
years old. I got pregnant so I decided to get married. I was 15 years old when
my first son was born. I would eventually have four more children out of
wedlock, three girls and one more boy. I didn't understand and couldn't cope
with the responsibilities of taking care of a husband or a child. I strayed
even further away from my family responsibilities and God.”

“At 16, I was introduced to heroin by a neighbor, an
ex-marine. I liked the calm, peaceful feelings it gave me. I became immediately
addicted and started "shooting up" every day. I left my husband and
child to begin a lifestyle of drugs, prostitution, and shoplifting. For the
next 25 years of my life, I never really lived, but only existed day to day in
this human shell. I would do almost anything for my next fix, whenever that
pain and want in my body took control. I jumped from one drug to the next,
whatever was easily available and affordable. Always looking for that numbing
warm feeling that gave me that artificial peace.”

“In a one year period I overdosed and was comatose nine
times! I was sent to the State Hospital and was diagnosed as suicidal and
certified an addict. I've had many serious operations and a finger removed due
to my intravenous drug use. My heart is now damaged from drug abuse. I've lost
everything dear to me.”

“I tried many drug treatment programs without success. I
went on Methadone Maintenance for many years, another addiction, but it was
cheap, legal and it kept me out of jail. I sit in prison today, 42 years old,
and at the end of my five year sentence….”

Paula has been on a wild roller coaster ride but she did find the way off
as she says, “I sit in prison today,
42 years old, and at the end of my five year sentence, a new woman in Christ.
My Lord and Savior has pulled me out of the pit and off of Satan's
rollercoaster of Hell. I have found a new program for my survival: "THE
JESUS PROGRAM". Through him I have that warmth, love and a peace no drug
or man could ever compare too!! Praise the Lord, I was lost but now I'm found,
my faith in him will heal me!”

If you’ve been on the rollercoaster from hell maybe it is time to cry out
to the Lord so, He can deliver you. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved (Romans 10:13).”

Copyright © 1998 - 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 PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Todd
Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; 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; Bill S.; Shonda Hutson;
and Sharon H.

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
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