7/6/25 Through 7/12/25

 7/6/25 Through 7/12/25

Sunday

Put trust in God and God alone

Let Him for all your sins atone.

He feeds the flock and tends the sheep

To promise of the Father keep.

As baby at the mother's breast

He offers man such peace and rest

But we must trust His loving arm

To keep us from all evil harm.

He sends us out in pairs of two

To do what His disciples do.

To spread the word, "The Kingdom's here"

And draw the wayward sinner near.

For all have sinned and turned away

And all He seeks until such day

Their life on Earth shall come to close

With final destination chose.

Be not refusing until then

Be not like prideful, wicked men.

Who boast of all that they have done

And lose the Mighty, Holy One.

He longs to comfort, heal, and cure

And longs to make you clean and pure

His mercy does the mighty deed

But first, we must His mercy plead.

Monday

Each holy place is sanctified

By One of whom they crucified

When e'er we bring His presence near

And make the love of Jesus clear.

My home a Bethel for the Lord

A place on which His grace is poured

A place where praise is on our lips

And God, with every gift, equips.

So too, our place of work should be

A place of love and sanctity

A place where all can meet the King

A place where harmony we bring.

A Bethel on the sporting field

Where always to the Lord we yield

We build a Bethel where we go

So all on Earth, the Lord should know.

Tuesday

So often we wrestle as Jacob once did

For many a year, the truth we have hid

We want to be lord of the life that we live

But truth is what only the Master can give.

We have no control of the wind and the wave

But we have all the signs and the wonders He gave.

If these we believe, we should join with His crew

For the harvest is ripe, but the laborers few.

Wednesday

Chosen by God to distribute His food

To all of His children, and none to exclude.

The world must be fed by the Church of today

For many are lost, and many astray.

Through Joseph and brothers, the food was disbursed

By drought, all the world back then had been cursed.

So too, the Apostles in Jesus' day

Would feed with Good News in a spiritual way.

So many are hungry now, even today,

We must not be lazy or just turn away.

For those with the grain must attend to the need

And graciously, all of the hungry now feed.

Oh, help me to answer the clarion call

By doing my part, be it big, or it small.

The food is sufficient that all can be fed

With the finest of Wheat and the Life-giving Bread.

Thursday

No sack for the journey and no extra clothes

Good food and safe lodging the penitent owes

Freely you're given, so freely you give

You're sent to the hungry, so hungry may live.

Advance of his brothers as Joseph was sent

Though evil intended, for good it was meant.

The family is saved by the one they had sold,

His sacrifice turned to the purest of gold.

Your journey directed by hands of the Lord

Through trial and triumph, His blessing out-poured.

We see when reviewing the trials we face

We only survive by His mercy and grace.

Come closer, He beckons when fear fills the air,

He wants but our good and His goodness to share.

Don't worry, for what you are lacking, He gives.

In simple repentance, our worst He forgives.

Friday

Like lambs among the wolves, they went

To Egypt, by the Father sent

Yet prospered in the land of slaves

By trusting in the God that saves.

By acting as the Father willed

Though some are beaten, some are killed

They prosper as a nation strong

Who to the Lord alone belong.

For once encountered, lives are changed

No longer from the truth estranged

All trial seems as nothing now

If we just stay with Him somehow.

Saturday

Fear not, for one day all is shown

But not by sin shall we be known

Repentance is the only key

To set the captive sinner free.

His love so far exceeds our sins

And love is where new life begins

Where love is present, fear will flee

And clear the path for life we see.