Hi there!  HAPPY, HAPPY FRIDAY!  I hope you have had a really great week!  Wasn’t the Devotion great today?!  Did you hear God on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1^st when he encouraged us to “not get tired of doing God’s good things because if we don’t give up, we will experience a great BIG bunch of God’s great things at just the time we need it!”? (Galatians 6:9)

I bet that you are a whole lot like me…your weeks are absolutely full of stuff!  And, like me…not all of it is God’s good stuff!  We can get awful busy doing lots of things that waste the time, talent and treasure that God gives you and me for each day!

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In these days of seemingly continuing diminishing returns on so many things like our financial investments, the worth of our home and other possessions or the security of our jobs…God is the only one in the whole wide world promising a great return on what we do with our lives!

SSSSSOOOOOOOO…how do we go about making sure that God’s main thing is always my main thing?

Great question!

I really appreciate you asking!

The easiest way to make sure that happens is to daily “set our hearts and minds on Jesus” (Colossians 3:2).    Well…how do we go about that?  One way is to join me and others in the “UPPER ROOM!  What is that?  The UPPER ROOM is a devotion guide that we use at Indian River City Church to gather all of us together to hear and listen to God talk to us, through his Bible!

It gives God an opportunity to speak his love and truth into each one of us and give us some direction for each day!  It’s a place where we can listen to another person, just like you or me, who has found that God offers his life and words for every situation or circumstance and shows us that following God’s directions will help us through whatever life brings us!

It’s a time when we can talk with him about anything and together ask him to penetrate our happenings and help us find him in the midst of them!  It’s where we can talk with him in behalf of one another and ask him to supply everything every person needs to keep going day after day, week after week doing “God’s good things!”  And…like we heard him say on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2^nd…we can keep going because “if we have faith the size of a mustard seed…nothing will be impossible for us!” (Matthew 17:20)

On those days when our faith and strength are weak and we are ready to give up doing God’s good things, we don’t because others who gather together with us have faith and strength that we don’t have that day and they help us keep going when so much else is telling us to give up and stop!

SSSSSSSOOOOOOO…let’s pool all of our time, talent and treasure and by all the faith we have, invest everything we are and have in everything God is and is doing and show a watching, waiting world what He can do for them!  Our community really needs us serving God’s purpose in simple but significant ways so that God can bring his best blessing to us at just the right time!

Thanks for listening…and doing!