Week Eleven, 2025
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6
It happened quickly and was a stupid thing on my part. I was in St. Stephens Cathedral in Passau, Germany, where the largest pipe organ in Europe, with 18,000 pipes, is located. There are also beautiful frescas on the ceiling. With my video camera, I started with the pipe organ and raised the camera higher and higher until I was leaning back, not realizing how far.
Suddenly, my knees gave way, and I fell on my head and was unconscious, having led to a skull fracture and a brain bleed. After an extended time, I awoke in the hospital ICU, surrounded by people in white coats speaking an unintelligible language. At first, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Tragic as it sounds, the story had a good ending. I recovered, but was told by the doctors more than half of all people who have that kind of brain damage don’t survive.
Over the ensuing months of recovery, I thought about why I survived, while many do not. I came to the conclusion that God was not finished with me yet. I still had a ways to walk in my life….. days to serve Him and help others. Without survival, this devotion would not have been written.
“God is not finished with me yet” means that despite current challenges or setbacks in life, a person still has potential for growth and transformation. God is actively working in them and has not completed the process of shaping their life. This is a message of hope and encouragement to keep striving and believing in a better future. This signifies God is still actively working on a person’s character, developing their potential, and guiding them towards their purpose.
We know not how long we have in this life, but God has a plan. Jeremiah 29:11 tells us: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
What does God have in store for you and where do you need to go as you walk through the remainder of your life on earth?
Sometimes True Stories
The most acreage in Florida owned by a single person or entity is some 626,000 acres owned by Farmland Reserve, an auxiliary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Their orange groves, timber land and cow-calf operations is one of the largest in the nation which dominates Florida’s landscape. They earn returns to fund the church’s mission and works.
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And then… there is the fear of the Lord. The great respect. The awe. The knowing of His great strength, His great knowledge, even His great wrath. The knowing of His history, His dependability, His promises, His love. The knowing of this Greatest Gift of all, His Son, who He sent to live and die and live again, is so that we might have eternal life.
As we face the fears of today and tomorrow, whether large or small or somewhere in between, let us not be afraid. For we know that He will never leave us nor forsake us. We know that we are never alone. We know God is in control.
Though I may fear… I will not be afraid, for I know from where my help comes. I will have faith over fear. Marty Stubblefield
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The most effective way to destroy a great nation is to obliterate their understanding of their own history. We must never lose sight that on June 8, 1845, President Andrew Jackson said “That book, the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests.” Newsweek magazine acknowledged on December 26th, 1982, “Historians are discovering the Bible, even more than the Constitution, is our Founding document.”
Quotes You Can Use
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the Truth is still putting on its shoes.
Wisdom begins with understanding, you are a student forever learning. Socrates
No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise, they cannot be exploited.
Older people shouldn’t eat health food. They need all the preservatives they can get.
The leading cause for injury in older men is thinking they are still young men.
God created the first cordless phone. It is called prayer. It never needs recharging; it can be used anywhere, and the line is never busy!!!!
Never forget that nothing is more powerful than prayer, nothing is stronger than faith and nothing is greater than God!!!
People who make you smile on bad days are so important!!!
Once you lick the icing off of a cupcake, it becomes a muffin and muffins are healthy.
If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose being kind and you will always be right.
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus.
No one is harder to reach than a false Christian. John Macarthur
We have a God who not only understands our suffering—he feels it personally.
Jim Denison
Tolerance is important, but equally as important is understanding the background of the other person and how they determine truth. Tony Ferguson
Commit to follow Jesus by willingly surrendering your life to Him while understanding the cost of your commitment. Kevin Baggett
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind. Thomas Jefferson
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