BBD 12.02.20 Uncertain Times (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this is the 1819^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

02 December 2020

Uncertain Times

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV.

With the year 2020 we have surely been reminded that we could be in the end times, the last days as the apostle Paul puts it in 2 Timothy 3. No doubt we are living in uncertain and precarious times but Americans through our history as a nation could say that:

Ä we were living in uncertain precarious times after 9/11

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the Cold War and Viet Nam.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during WWII and the Korean War.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during WWI and Spanish Flu pandemic.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the Spanish American War.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the Civil War.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during our war with Mexico.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the War of 1812.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the Revolutionary War.

We are living in uncertain precarious times but our nation, our ancestors have faced and gone through difficult precarious times before.

Underlying all those difficult times with wars and pandemics there was another war being fought and it is through the Scriptures that we can understand there has been and is an ongoing spiritual war.

Jesus tells us in John 10:10 about that spiritual war between good and evil when He says: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."

We have a choice as we walk through these times between the evil or the good which Jesus lays out for us there in those words.

During difficult times, precarious times the children of God have always found their comfort, their anchor in the living Words of the Bible. As we are told in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."

We need to remember where is says by "inspiration of God," it is saying that the Words in our Bible are God-breathed. This is the only use in the Bible of the Greek word theopneustos, which literally means "God-breathed." It joins the words theos meaning God with pneustos meaning breath to convey the idea that Scripture is breathed out by God, serving as an extension of God Himself.

The important truth to remember here as we go through our own uncertain precarious times is that the breath of God, the power of God, is still contained in every word in the Bible. Contained, residing in every word of the Bible is the dunamis dynamite power of the living God. The power we need to live through these times we will find in the Bible and in Prayer.

Where do you find safety and security? The greatest security you can have in all the world is to know that no matter what happens in the coming weeks with the presidential election or the pandemic remember that Romans 8:38-39 tells us that no one and no thing can ever separate you from the love of God.

In times like these, Jesus offers safety and security for our hearts and we can find comfort and joy in Christ anytime. We can find peace, comfort, assurance anytime that we turn off the news on TV and put down our phone, tablet or walk away from our computer and refocus on Jesus and spend time in prayer and His precious Word.

Copyright © 2020. 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 22 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 continue to pray for God to touch and bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright, Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Ryan Thomas, Vonnie, Pat S., Evi Porter, Emerald S., Addison, JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; and Jadyn’s Dad.

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 God’s will to be done in the election in the United States that we would be given great leaders who love the Lord.

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. 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: THE BURNING BUSH DAILY DEVOTIONAL ARCHIVE.

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.

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Posted by: burningbushdevo <burningbushdevo@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this is the 1819^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

02 December 2020

Uncertain Times

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV.

With the year 2020 we have surely been reminded that we could be in the end times, the last days as the apostle Paul puts it in 2 Timothy 3. No doubt we are living in uncertain and precarious times but Americans through our history as a nation could say that:

Ä we were living in uncertain precarious times after 9/11

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the Cold War and Viet Nam.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during WWII and the Korean War.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during WWI and Spanish Flu pandemic.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the Spanish American War.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the Civil War.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during our war with Mexico.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the War of 1812.

Ä We were living in uncertain precarious times during the Revolutionary War.

We are living in uncertain precarious times but our nation, our ancestors have faced and gone through difficult precarious times before.

Underlying all those difficult times with wars and pandemics there was another war being fought and it is through the Scriptures that we can understand there has been and is an ongoing spiritual war.

Jesus tells us in John 10:10 about that spiritual war between good and evil when He says: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."

We have a choice as we walk through these times between the evil or the good which Jesus lays out for us there in those words.

During difficult times, precarious times the children of God have always found their comfort, their anchor in the living Words of the Bible. As we are told in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."

We need to remember where is says by "inspiration of God," it is saying that the Words in our Bible are God-breathed. This is the only use in the Bible of the Greek word theopneustos, which literally means "God-breathed." It joins the words theos meaning God with pneustos meaning breath to convey the idea that Scripture is breathed out by God, serving as an extension of God Himself.

The important truth to remember here as we go through our own uncertain precarious times is that the breath of God, the power of God, is still contained in every word in the Bible. Contained, residing in every word of the Bible is the dunamis dynamite power of the living God. The power we need to live through these times we will find in the Bible and in Prayer.

Where do you find safety and security? The greatest security you can have in all the world is to know that no matter what happens in the coming weeks with the presidential election or the pandemic remember that Romans 8:38-39 tells us that no one and no thing can ever separate you from the love of God.

In times like these, Jesus offers safety and security for our hearts and we can find comfort and joy in Christ anytime. We can find peace, comfort, assurance anytime that we turn off the news on TV and put down our phone, tablet or walk away from our computer and refocus on Jesus and spend time in prayer and His precious Word.

Copyright © 2020. 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 22 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 continue to pray for God to touch and bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright, Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Ryan Thomas, Vonnie, Pat S., Evi Porter, Emerald S., Addison, JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; and Jadyn’s Dad.

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 God’s will to be done in the election in the United States that we would be given great leaders who love the Lord.

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. 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: THE BURNING BUSH DAILY DEVOTIONAL ARCHIVE.

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.

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To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org