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The Tillamook County Wide Prayer Team.

Local participation is the co-operative effort of more than 30 Tillamook County Churches

First Christian Church • Tillamook Christian Center • First Baptist Church • Living Water Fellowship • Calvary Bible Church • Covenant Community Church • St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church • Rockaway Community Church • God’s Lighthouse • Nestucca Valley Presbyterian • New Life Foursquare • Sacred Heart Catholic Church • St. John’s Church of Christ • St. Alban’s Episcopal • St. Peter Lutheran • Iglesia la Bendita Esperanza • Netarts Friends Church • Tillamook Nazarene • Tillamook Seventh Day Adventist • Bethel Baptist • Hebo Christian Center • Wi-Ne-Ma Christian Church
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Day 14    May 7, 2006

Read:  Psalm 139
 
Reflection:  This became my favorite chapter in the Old Testament, if not the whole Bible. Why? About 20 years ago, Gladys Ahern shared with a class I was teaching at First Christian Church. Her husband, the owner of Ahern's Jewelry near the corner of Third and Main, had died recently. She was troubled and suffering that loss of a loved one, so one night she got up at three in the morning to search her Holy Bible for answers. This was the one. She was a saint, a believer in Jesus Christ, baptized, immersed when she was a youngster. She knew her stuff when it came to Christianity, and certainly in her walk with Jesus Christ. But she shared with the class that she was still troubled. It gave her the peace she was looking for.
At that time in the seventies, the Good News Bible was quite popular, and the reading in this translation (verses 17 and 18) would read "When you go to bed at night, God is thinking about you and when you wake up in the morning, He is still thinking about you." That is so intimate. God, who created all of us, who knows what we do and what we think before we think it, cares so much for us that He never stops thinking about us. Wow. Do not ever think you are alone! Without Christ you have nothing, and with Jesus Christ, you have it all. We can truly praise a God that loves us that much. He knows not only the hairs on our head, but when we stand or sit, our thoughts before we speak them, and HE STILL LOVES US. That puts everything into perspective. When you are down and out, God is Up and In.
When I grew up, culture and my friends taught me that you cannot be jailed for what you are thinking. For job interviews on a college campus, it was not uncommon to dress up for an interview for a job and when you were not interviewing, you could look like a slob. It was a way of making fun of the system, as if the system did not know what you were thinking. The question is: What was I thinking? Well, God knows and HE STILL LOVES ME. It is so easy to get mad at the television every day. I hardly watch any of the usual shows; in fact, I do not any more. One hour of Law and Order (the original); beyond that it is the Food Channel, and Home and Garden TV.
Search me.  Know me. Test me. Do I really mean that? I am glad that God does not give up on me. He will complete the work started, thank goodness. Lead me in the way everlasting. That is my desire. The more helpless I am, the more helpful God is. I put a reference to Psalm 139 on my checks, printed so that someone, somewhere might actually read it. Before this revelation from Gladys Ahern almost thirty years ago, I honestly did not know that there were 139 Psalms in the Bible. And I was teaching it at the time. God knew what he was doing when she shared it with me. I am sharing it with you. God knows why.

 

Adoration:  Praise God that He is all-knowing and all-loving at the same time.


Confession:  Acknowledge and repent of anything God  reveals in us that is not like Christ.


Thanksgiving:  Give thanks for those God has used to speak into your life.


Supplication:   Ask God to complete the work He has begun in you and help you live it out.

Lord, help me be the person You want me to be.  Help me seek You, desire You, fill my mind with Your Word, continually, daily. Help me be changed into Your likeness, to ask WHAT WOULD JESUS DO, for all circumstances. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.
 
Harry E. Hewitt
First Christian Church

 
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