BBD 08.08.21 Disrupted Plans (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1824^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

08 July 2021

Disrupted Plans

There are
many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand. –
Proverbs 19:21 NKJV.

For this
reason I also have been much hindered from coming to you (Paul’s plans for visiting Rome.). But now
no longer having a place in these parts, and having a great desire these many
years to come to you, whenever I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. –
Romans 15:22-24 NKJV.

Come now,
you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a
year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will
happen tomorrow. – James 4:13-14 NKJV.

Friday afternoon I had just finished preparing the evening
sermon for Sunday and was nearly finished with a bulletin insert when I
received a text message. The text was from my Director of Missions of our local
association of churches. It was a notification that the speaker at our pastor’s
conference that week had tested positive for covid that morning. It had been a
small group around some tables, and I had also visited individually with the
speaker that day.

My plans for Sunday had just been disrupted. My wife and
I and our son have all had the moderna vaccinations. However, from what we are
now hearing it is possible even for those who have been vaccinated to contract
the virus and to spread it to others even when asymptomatic. Out of an
abundance of caution which has been my mode of operation since the pandemic began,
I realized that my plans would have to be changed.

One of our deacons had been working on his first sermon
and I asked him to preach that message Sunday morning and a retired pastor that
is now a member of our church to preach Sunday evening. I know that God has
changed all of our plans and I am looking forward to seeing what God is doing
to do through all of it!

We can look at disrupted plans as being a disaster, or we
can see them as having the potential to be opportunities for God to do
something even better. The apostle Paul says that his plans of visiting Rome were
hindered. I like what Warren Wiersbe says about this: “The vast area of opportunity in other parts of the empire
kept Paul from visiting Rome sooner. He was not hindered from going to Rome by
satanic opposition or physical obstacles, but by the challenge of completing
his work right where he was.”

March 12, 1812 was a horrific day for the work of missionary William
Carey as a fire destroyed years of his translation work and materials for that
work in India. Carey’s response was to review the blessings that God had given
the ministry there and to thank God for all God had done. Carey was able to
duplicate all of the work that had been burned and used it as an opportunity to
improve upon what he had done before. What a great example for us all to
follow!

Have your plans been disrupted? Thank God for all the
blessings God has poured into your life and then look to see what God has for
you now. It may be a terrible awful day, but God has the power to see you
through it and to even bring good out of it just as it says in Romans 8:28. It you are “the called according to His purpose” and “love God” that is what God will do. Let Him!

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
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; Kinsey W; 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; Nannie R.; and Shonda
Hutson.

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@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1824^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

08 July 2021

Disrupted Plans

There are
many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand. –
Proverbs 19:21 NKJV.

For this
reason I also have been much hindered from coming to you (Paul’s plans for visiting Rome.). But now
no longer having a place in these parts, and having a great desire these many
years to come to you, whenever I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. –
Romans 15:22-24 NKJV.

Come now,
you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a
year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will
happen tomorrow. – James 4:13-14 NKJV.

Friday afternoon I had just finished preparing the evening
sermon for Sunday and was nearly finished with a bulletin insert when I
received a text message. The text was from my Director of Missions of our local
association of churches. It was a notification that the speaker at our pastor’s
conference that week had tested positive for covid that morning. It had been a
small group around some tables, and I had also visited individually with the
speaker that day.

My plans for Sunday had just been disrupted. My wife and
I and our son have all had the moderna vaccinations. However, from what we are
now hearing it is possible even for those who have been vaccinated to contract
the virus and to spread it to others even when asymptomatic. Out of an
abundance of caution which has been my mode of operation since the pandemic began,
I realized that my plans would have to be changed.

One of our deacons had been working on his first sermon
and I asked him to preach that message Sunday morning and a retired pastor that
is now a member of our church to preach Sunday evening. I know that God has
changed all of our plans and I am looking forward to seeing what God is doing
to do through all of it!

We can look at disrupted plans as being a disaster, or we
can see them as having the potential to be opportunities for God to do
something even better. The apostle Paul says that his plans of visiting Rome were
hindered. I like what Warren Wiersbe says about this: “The vast area of opportunity in other parts of the empire
kept Paul from visiting Rome sooner. He was not hindered from going to Rome by
satanic opposition or physical obstacles, but by the challenge of completing
his work right where he was.”

March 12, 1812 was a horrific day for the work of missionary William
Carey as a fire destroyed years of his translation work and materials for that
work in India. Carey’s response was to review the blessings that God had given
the ministry there and to thank God for all God had done. Carey was able to
duplicate all of the work that had been burned and used it as an opportunity to
improve upon what he had done before. What a great example for us all to
follow!

Have your plans been disrupted? Thank God for all the
blessings God has poured into your life and then look to see what God has for
you now. It may be a terrible awful day, but God has the power to see you
through it and to even bring good out of it just as it says in Romans 8:28. It you are “the called according to His purpose” and “love God” that is what God will do. Let Him!

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; Kinsey W; 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; Nannie R.; and Shonda
Hutson.

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.

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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
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