Tag - Get Out

Can I Get Out Of This?

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” O-bservation: These are the words of Jesus in a pathos-ridden prayer to his Father. It happened on the night that soon after He prayed these words He was betrayed and taken toward His eventual crucifixion. His prayer to his Father was, in my paraphrase, “Can I Get Out Of This?” A-pplication: How many times in your life have you been...

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When It’s Time To Give Up And Get Outta There!

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Jeremiah 51:9a We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed; let us leave her and each go to our own land. O-bservation: The land of Babylon had rejected the Lord so thoroughly that the people—neighboring friends and captive Israelis—knew there was nothing else they could do. They said, “We prayed that Babylon would be healed, but she can’t be healed. We’re heading back to our places of abode.” A-pplication: Through the years I’ve loved to fish. I’ve had many great fishing excursions. In fact, on one occasion the fish were biting and a storm...

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