BBD 11.20.14 Doing Good (New)

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The New Pastor's Training Manual is now available for
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which includes how God worked in my life to Call me to Preach and other
material. If you do buy the 216 page eBook please write a review. Thanks! Here
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If for
some reason you do not receive your email version of the devotional please
check the Burning Bush website at www.theburningbush.net for the “Devotional of the Day”
and read the devotional there.

The Burning
Bush Devotional

11.20.14

Doing Good

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we
shall reap if we do not lose heart. - Galatians 6:9 NKJV.

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power,
who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for
God was with Him. - Acts 10:38 NKJV.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For
we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. - Ephesians 2:8-10 NKJV.

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but
the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers
into His harvest.” - Matthew 9:36-37 NKJV.

Lucas
Patchett and Nicholas Marchesi who live in Australia have created a mobile
laundry service for the homeless. They have installed an industrial washer in
dryer in the back of their van. (Yahoo News 11.10.14) A millionaire from Korea
living in Bahrain wakes up before dawn every morning to…clean the streets. He
says he has been doing this for 11 years because there is a lot of garbage and
it makes people sick. (Elite Daily 11.06.14) Mark Bustos a hair stylist in New
York uses his Sunday day off to give haircuts and shaves to the homeless. In
eastern Zhejiang Province of China passers-by banded together to lift a car off of
a woman trapped in an accident. Give, the United States and Myanmar have a 64%
generosity rating, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia also are generous
in their giving (Yahoo News 11.18.14).

Searching
for stories about people doing good things, I quickly realized there are far
more stories about people doing bad things than good things. This points to the
need for us Christians to be more proactive in following the example of our
Lord by going about doing good in every way that we can. I like the motto of Charles Wesley and think that it should be the
motto of every child of God: “Do all the good you can: By all the means you can; In
all the ways you can; In all the places you can; At all the times you can; To
all the people you can; As long as ever you can.”

Sadly,
before many of us can do good to others we need to stop doing bad to others.
Jabez recognized this problem and we are told this in 1
Chronicles 4:10 NKJV, “And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, ‘Oh, that
You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be
with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!’ So
God granted him what he requested.” If you have been causing more pain
than good in the lives of others, pray the prayer of Jabez every day and it
will change your life. If you want to increase the amount of good that you are
doing in the lives of others, pray the prayer of Jabez every day and God will
enlarge your territory empowering you to do more good.

Doing
good things will not save your soul as Ephesians 2:8-10
makes clear; however, we become new creations (2 Corinthians
5:17; Ephesians 2:10) in Jesus to follow His example of doing good. What
is the greatest good that you can do in another person’s life? Share Jesus with
them! There is nothing wrong with the harvest, just a lack of workers.

Copyright © 2014. 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 these 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 have
received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating 15 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.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

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Justin Lewis who is battling cancer. He is a young Christian man with a wife
and two children. Unless God intervenes there is little hope for him. 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.).

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please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
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The New Pastor's Training Manual is now available for
download on Amazon. You can DOWNLOAD for FREE a LARGE SAMPLE (approx. 17 pages)
which includes how God worked in my life to Call me to Preach and other
material. If you do buy the 216 page eBook please write a review. Thanks! Here
is the link: http://amzn.to/1ufa1ov If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

If for
some reason you do not receive your email version of the devotional please
check the Burning Bush website at http://www.theburningbush.net for the “Devotional of the Day”
and read the devotional there.

The Burning
Bush Devotional

11.20.14

Doing Good

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we
shall reap if we do not lose heart. - Galatians 6:9 NKJV.

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power,
who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for
God was with Him. - Acts 10:38 NKJV.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For
we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. - Ephesians 2:8-10 NKJV.

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but
the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers
into His harvest.” - Matthew 9:36-37 NKJV.

Lucas
Patchett and Nicholas Marchesi who live in Australia have created a mobile
laundry service for the homeless. They have installed an industrial washer in
dryer in the back of their van. (Yahoo News 11.10.14) A millionaire from Korea
living in Bahrain wakes up before dawn every morning to…clean the streets. He
says he has been doing this for 11 years because there is a lot of garbage and
it makes people sick. (Elite Daily 11.06.14) Mark Bustos a hair stylist in New
York uses his Sunday day off to give haircuts and shaves to the homeless. In
eastern Zhejiang Province of China passers-by banded together to lift a car off of
a woman trapped in an accident. Give, the United States and Myanmar have a 64%
generosity rating, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia also are generous
in their giving (Yahoo News 11.18.14).

Searching
for stories about people doing good things, I quickly realized there are far
more stories about people doing bad things than good things. This points to the
need for us Christians to be more proactive in following the example of our
Lord by going about doing good in every way that we can. I like the motto of Charles Wesley and think that it should be the
motto of every child of God: “Do all the good you can: By all the means you can; In
all the ways you can; In all the places you can; At all the times you can; To
all the people you can; As long as ever you can.”

Sadly,
before many of us can do good to others we need to stop doing bad to others.
Jabez recognized this problem and we are told this in 1
Chronicles 4:10 NKJV, “And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, ‘Oh, that
You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be
with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!’ So
God granted him what he requested.” If you have been causing more pain
than good in the lives of others, pray the prayer of Jabez every day and it
will change your life. If you want to increase the amount of good that you are
doing in the lives of others, pray the prayer of Jabez every day and God will
enlarge your territory empowering you to do more good.

Doing
good things will not save your soul as Ephesians 2:8-10
makes clear; however, we become new creations (2 Corinthians
5:17; Ephesians 2:10) in Jesus to follow His example of doing good. What
is the greatest good that you can do in another person’s life? Share Jesus with
them! There is nothing wrong with the harvest, just a lack of workers.

Copyright © 2014. 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 these 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 have
received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating 15 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.

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 left hand corner of all of the pages.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
Justin Lewis who is battling cancer. He is a young Christian man with a wife
and two children. Unless God intervenes there is little hope for him. 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.).

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