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Barked: Tue Mar 23, '10 6:25am PST 
O Lord my God, I cried to thee for help, and thou hast healed me.
Psalm 30:2 (RSV)

It was around 6:00 PM when our phone rang. “Is this Mrs. Harrah?” a man’s voice asked. When I said yes, he said, “I work at Defined Fitness Gym. Your husband is on his way to Presbyterian Hospital. He collapsed a while ago and asked me to call an ambulance and then to call you. His right leg has turned numb and he thinks a blood clot is cutting off the circulation.”

My heart froze. Larry had recently had abdominal surgery, and the surgeon had warned him to get to the hospital as soon as possible if either leg turned numb. I phoned our daughter, who came at once to drive me to the hospital. When we got there, Larry was already being wheeled into surgery. Soon our son arrived too. The three of us prayed for God to guide the surgeon’s hands.

Larry came out of the surgery okay, and I felt grateful that our family has medical coverage and access to good doctors. But the next day I got to wondering: What about the homeless here in New Mexico who have no health care, no insurance, no medicine, no access to trained doctors or nurses? I felt the need to help, but what could I do?

I made several phone calls and learned there is an organization here in Albuquerque called Health Care for the Homeless. They have doctors, nurses, dentists and psychiatrists who offer care to people with little or no money. The clinic has several sources of funding, but it also accepts donations of money and supplies. Since then I’ve sent a donation every month, and I pray for that clinic each day. Dear Lord, thank You for all health-care workers who tend to the homeless. Hold them and their patients in Your healing care.


By Madge Harrah
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Barked: Thu Mar 25, '10 7:43am PST 
Content Regardless of Your Circumstances
TODAY'S SCRIPTURE
"…I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances"
(Philippians 4:11, NIV))
TODAY'S WORD
It's easy in life to get so focused on our dreams, goals, and what we want, that it consumes us. We can get to the point where we're not going to be happy until it happens! But I've found that if we have to "have something" in order to be happy, our lives are out of balance. When our goals and desires start to frustrate us, when we lose our peace, and we're not enjoying life; that's a sure sign that we're holding on too tightly.
What's the solution? You've got to release it. Freedom comes when you say, "God, I'm turning it all over to You. You know my desires, and You know what's best for me. I'm choosing to trust You and trust Your timing."
When we learn to be content whatever the circumstances, it takes away the power of the enemy. It takes away his ability to frustrate us. Not only that, but by our actions we are showing our faith in God. When you choose to trust in His timing, you can live in peace, you can live in joy, and you can rest in Him knowing that He has good things in store for your future.

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Heavenly Father, today I choose to trust in You. I release frustration over the dreams and desires in my heart, knowing that You know what's best for me. I choose to trust in Your timing because You are faithful and true to your Word. And I will thank You regardless of how things look at the moment through my earthly eyes. In Jesus' Name, Amen
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Today's Power Thought:
Eliminate Little Negatives from Your Thought and Speech.

If a mass of little negatives clutter up your conversation, they are bound to seep into your mind and, before you know it, they will grow into big negatives. To eliminate them, deliberately say a positive word about everything.
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March 27, 2010
Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard,and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
John 12:3 (NAS)

Saturday Before Palm Sunday:

Mary of Bethany

This is the Mary who sat and listened to Jesus while her sister Martha got things ready for dinner; the Mary who cried in anguish when Jesus arrived too late to save her brother Lazarus. But the power of what Jesus did next—bring Lazarus back to life—changed Mary of Bethany forever.

For several days Jesus has been talking about His coming death, and no one seems to be listening or understanding. But Mary understands, and so she anoints him for burial while everyone else expects Him to set up an earthly kingdom. Yet—and here is the magnificent thing—she does the anointing while Jesus is alive, the first to believe that the grave would never hold Him.

All of us need a Mary of Bethany in our lives, someone who believes our darkest hour is not our last. My Mary’s name is Joy—friend, wife and mother of our sons. She didn’t believe the doctors who said that I’d never survive the injuries I’d suffered in an accident. Day after day she sat at my bedside, bringing me the healing presence of Jesus through her unshakable faith. One wedding, thirty-five years, three sons and one granddaughter later, her believing for the impossible continues to amaze me.

Lord, thank You for the people in who believe even when I can’t.


By Eric Fellman
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Barked: Sun Mar 28, '10 7:22am PST 
March 28, 2010
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?”. . .
Matthew 21:15-16 (NAS)

Palm Sunday: The Cheering Children

After years of walking the dusty roads of Palestine, Jesus decides to take a donkey ride. The crowd opens, coats are spread on the ground to make a carpet, the children chant and the religious leaders rant. Quoting a verse from Psalm 8, Jesus tells the leaders that the children are doing exactly what God planned for them.

These are likely the same children whom the disciples tried to turn away on the road a few days earlier. But Jesus gathered them to Himself, and now they have come with their parents to the festival in Jerusalem and, seeing Jesus again, they can’t contain their joy.

My nephew Richard is a master sergeant in the US Army. When he was assigned to a war zone, where bombs could fall or bullets fly at any moment, he noticed that every time there was a lull in the action, children popped out of their hiding places and began kicking around a soccer ball or chasing one another in a game of tag. All the military might of a great power and a cruel despot could not extinguish the children’s joy.

It was the same with the children of Jesus’ day. The angry religious bureaucrats were just leg-filled robes whom they had to dash around on the way to see Jesus. Why? Because they trusted Him, believed in Him, and not even the Cross the authorities were planning could keep them from proclaiming His kingdom.

Lord, give me the childlike faith to look to You even when all those around me are fearful and angry.


By Eric Fellman
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Barked: Mon Mar 29, '10 7:06am PST 
And they say Christianity is a religion of women and children and weaklings.

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Matthew
Suffered martyrdom in
Ethiopia killed by a sword
2

Mark
Died in Alexandria, Egypt, after being dragged by horses through the streets until he was dead
. 3

Luke
Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to the lost. 4

John
Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome . However, he was miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos . He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos. The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve as Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully.
5

Peter
He was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross. According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he
felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died. Tradition also teaches that Peter's wife was crucified next to him. Peter reportedly called out to her, 'Remember the Christ'
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James
Just The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle
of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club. This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation
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James the Great
Son of Zebedee, was a fisherman by trade when Jesus called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader
of the church, James was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem . The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed
as James defended his faith at his trial. Later, the officer walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome
by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian
8

Bartholomew
Also known as Nathaniel sas a missionary to Asia . He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey .
Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip.

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Andrew
Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras , Greece . After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied
his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew
saluted it in these words: 'I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ
hanging on it.' He continued to preach to his tormentors for two days until he expired.

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Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the sub-continent
11

Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.

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Matthias
The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.
13

Paul
Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment which allowed him to write his many epistles to the churches he had formed throughout the Roman Empire . These letters, which taught many of the foundational doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New Testament.

Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here
are indeed minor compared
to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by the apostles
during their times for the sake of the Faith. And ye shall be hated
of all men for my name's sake.
More Christians are being persecuted NOW than at any other time in history. Pray for the persecuted church at large.


But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22
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The Cleansing
A Lenten devotional for Monday of Holy Week
By Elizabeth Sherrill



And Jesus…drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.—Matthew 21:12

It was an unheard-of scandal! This young rabbi who yesterday had the whole city in a patriotic uproar, today stormed into the very temple precinct itself and created chaos. Doves flapping, men shouting, women scrabbling after the rolling coins. This fellow from Galilee, once again stirring up trouble!

But stirring-up is always what happens when Jesus enters the scene. Monday of Holy Week has its parallel in our individual journey of faith. He comes, and priorities are overturned, assumptions swept aside. The first thing He did on entering Jerusalem is the first thing He does on entering a life: He goes straight to the temple, to the place where we worship, and cleans out whatever is not part of God’s design.

The process is called by many names: sanctification, amendment of life, getting right with God, but the meaning is the same. The recognition that with Jesus in charge, many things we used to do, say, want, are no longer okay. It’s such a common pattern that we’ve come to expect it.

And then there’s the danger in the Monday experience. We think we know what things He wants to get rid of. When my mother was growing up, the list included wearing makeup, reading novels and riding a bicycle on Sunday. Each group, each era, has its own expectations.

But the hallmark of that Monday in Jerusalem was surprise. Jesus knew what stood between people in those days and God. “Astonished” is how Mark describes people’s reactions to that original cleansing, and astonished is how we feel when God’s housecleaning, not the one we envisaged, gets underway within us. Prejudice. Old hurts. A sense of inferiority. Whatever blocks our relationships with Him, out it must go.

“What are You doing!” we cry when the Cleanser strides in.

“I’m making Myself a temple,” He replies.
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March 30, 2010
And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God”. . . .
Mark 12:34 (RSV)

Tuesday of Holy Week: The Seeking Pharisee

Today a group of Pharisees come to Jesus with a series of trick questions, and Jesus amazes them with His answers. But one question seems to come from the heart of a seeker. Seeing how wise Jesus is, a Pharisee asks Him, “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” (Matthew 22:36, NIV).

Jesus answers, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. . . . Love your neighbor as yourself ” (Matthew 22:37, 39, NIV).

We will never know for sure, but I believe this man was among those who Acts 6:7 tells us “believed and obeyed” Jesus’ teaching after the Resurrection.

When traveling in India recently, I met a man from a remote region closed to influence from the outside world. He had been a passionate follower of Jesus since his teens. I asked him how that could have happened.

“My father was a fisherman,” he told me, “and often we would go out on the water and come back with empty nets. Then he would tell me, ‘We will look elsewhere. The fish are there. We just need to find them.’When I told my father I wanted to find God, instead of telling me what tradition to follow, he gave me the same instruction: ‘Keep seeking.’ One day an older friend who had gone to the city gave me a copy of the Gospel of John, and when I read Jesus’ statement, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’ [John 14:6], I had the answer I needed. I have been following Him ever since.”

Lord, let me find You in the confusion of my life today.


By Eric Fellman
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March 31, 2010
And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
Mark 12:43-44 (RSV)

Wednesday of Holy Week: The Giving Widow

In the middle of one of the grandest, most expensive structures of the day, surrounded by wealthy people who move by without seeing her, an unnamed woman expresses her devotion to God in the most practical way: She gives all she has to honor Him. Her gift is for the support of the temple, and it’s likely her few pennies won’t even pay for a worker to polish one of the temple’s sets of gold candlesticks. But that doesn’t matter; she is giving to God.

A friend of mine named George worked for many years to build up a large real estate practice with many branch offices. One day a group of investors came to him with a proposal to buy his business. They offered an incredible amount of money, and George accepted it. On the day he received the funds, he rushed to his bank to open a new checking account. He wanted the name on the account to be “God’s Account,” and the banker balked at the idea. “Who’ll sign the checks?” he asked. “Oh,” George replied, “it’s all God’s money, but He’s let me be the custodian, so I’ll write the checks on His behalf to whomever He tells me.”

George, now in his eighties, is one of the happiest people I know, despite a bout with cancer. His joy doesn’t come from earthly things, but from the commitment he made long ago to dedicate his life and his possessions to the Lord.

Lord, let me give to You out of my substance—be it much or little—with an eye for the needs all around me.


By Eric Fellman
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April 01, 2010
“If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.”
John 3:14 (NAS)

Maundy Thursday: Jesus the Servant

The night of Jesus’ arrest and trial looms large in the Gospel record. It begins with the Last Supper, goes through His agony and arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, to the religious court, and then to the civil courts and sentence of death. The event that moves me most, however, is when, right after the Last Supper, with an argument among the disciples about who would be greatest still ringing in the air, Jesus takes off His outer garment, assumes a servant’s role and washes their feet. Then He gently rebukes them, telling them that they should do for one another what He has done for them.

Shortly after the end of the first Gulf War, Gen. Colin Powell was at a large gathering where he was to be honored for teaching his troops the values that had produced a successful military campaign. Also on the program was Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, then in his nineties, with whom I was traveling. With his keen eye for detail, General Powell noticed that one of Dr. Peale’s shoes had become untied. Without a word, he stepped forward, knelt down and tied the errant lace. Dr. Peale was flustered for a moment, but General Powell eased his embarrassment with a joke. One of the general’s aides leaned over to me and whispered, “Now you know why he wins battles. We’d all go through the fire for a man like that.”

Lord, help me to follow Your example and serve someone today.


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