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MGD: God is Caring Enough

Harvest Chapel International - Kumasi

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  1. Shalon Beloved, you are welcome to today's Morning Glory Devotion.

  2. We are Pastor Indickiness kills in from the Harvest Chapel

  3. International Daniamiko Marsi, and we are grateful to God to

  4. be bringing you another episode of our Morning Glory devotion.

  5. Let us kindly share a word of prayer. Our heavely Father,

  6. We thank you for your end and love and care.

  7. As we listen to your word today, please open our

  8. hearts to receive your grace and to yield to your

  9. divine restoration in Jesus's name. Amen, let us kindly take

  10. our confession for today from Joshua, chapter one, verse eight.

  11. Joshua Chapter one, the verse eight. This book of the

  12. Law shall not depart from my mouth, but I shall

  13. meditate in it day and night, that I may observe

  14. to do according to all that is written in it.

  15. For them, I will make my way prospers, and then

  16. I will have good success. Amen. Today's message is titled

  17. God is Caring enough, God is carrying enough, written by

  18. Pastor and Dickiness Baffo. Our scripture reading shall be taken

  19. from Look chapter nineteen, the verse one to ten. Look

  20. Chapter nineteen the verse one to ten, I will be

  21. reading from the New India translation. Jesus and Zachios. Jesus

  22. entered Jericho and was passing through it. Now a man

  23. named Zachios was there. He was a chief tax collector

  24. and was rich. He was trying to get a look

  25. at Jesus, but being a short man, he could not

  26. see over the crowd. So he ran on ahead and

  27. climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because

  28. Jesus was going to pass that way. And when Jesus

  29. came to that place, he looked up and said to him,

  30. Zacchios came down quickly, because I must stay at your

  31. house today. So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully.

  32. And when the people saw it, they all complained, he

  33. has gone in to be the guest of a man

  34. who is a sinner. But Zakios stopped and said to Lord, look, Lord,

  35. half of my possessions I now give to the poor,

  36. and if I have cheated any one of anything, I

  37. am paying back four times as much. Then Jesus said

  38. to him, today South Asian has come to this household

  39. because he too is a son of Abraham. For the

  40. son of man came to seek and to save the lost.

  41. The Lord add his blessings to the reading and hearing

  42. of this word. Thanks be to God. Amen. God is

  43. caring enough. God is caring enough. Growing up, my mother

  44. had a quiet evening routine before shutting down the house.

  45. She would step outside to the chicken scoop and take

  46. a careful head count. If even one hand was missed,

  47. she didn't simply strike her shoulders and lock the door.

  48. She would get herself ready, step out into the neighborhood

  49. and look around until she found where that stray bed

  50. had wandered. As a child, I wondered why she bothered

  51. over a single animal, But looking back, I see a

  52. gentle reflection of something much grander. Our God is a

  53. caring God. He seeks after us with unconditional love, patience,

  54. and determination to bring us back into fellowship with himself.

  55. Saccios was a joyous beneficiary of God's care. He was

  56. a well known, wicked and oppressive man in his community,

  57. and the people of his days did not deem him

  58. worthy for Jesus to look out for him. Step into

  59. his house, let alone spend the ninth there and dine

  60. with him. Though his image was broken and distorted by

  61. his sinful lifestyle. Jesus did not ignore him. Instead, Jesus

  62. looked up and welcomed him down from the tree, stepped

  63. into his sin, stayed home, and extended God's plan of

  64. salvation and restoration to the household. Similarly, when you and

  65. I drift from God's presence and we become vulnerable, when

  66. our faith falters, or when shame makes us want to

  67. dig into the shadows, God does not lock the gate

  68. and leave us outside. He cares, and so he comes

  69. looking for us. That's exactly what Jesus came to do.

  70. From the guardian of Eden, where man walked away from

  71. the presence of God, right down to this very moment,

  72. the father's heart has always been to bring his wandering

  73. children safely home. Though mankind rebelled against him, he still

  74. chose mercy, grace, and restoration. God is not looking for

  75. ways to destroy people. He's constantly seeking ways to save

  76. and to care for them. Oh how comforting it is

  77. for God to step down into the confusion and dejecting

  78. situations in our lives just to bring us life and hope. Beloved,

  79. God is still seeking to extend his love to people today.

  80. Through his written word and other printed godly literature, inner

  81. convictions of the Holy spirits, spirit great semons, inspired lyrics

  82. and melodies, godly friends, and other media of divine encounters.

  83. God continues to calm and woman to himself. He's commented

  84. not only to your salvation, but also to your spiritual

  85. growth and general wellbeing. Dear one, God cares, and he

  86. cares enough. Would you hack into his nocks and beckoning?

  87. Would you allow him to step into your situation today?

  88. The God who seeks also saves, restores, and establishes. He's

  89. no session for you to punish you. He's coming after

  90. you with grace, mercy, and restoration Like a mastercraftsman holding

  91. booken poettery. He wants to rebuild your life, not to

  92. toss it away. Would you let him near open your

  93. heart today? Admit your wariness and allow the good Shepherd

  94. to carry you back into his care and rest. God

  95. richly bless you. Let us kind of take our memory

  96. verse for today. Our memory verse is taken from Luke

  97. chapter nineteen, the verse ten, Look chapter nineteen, the verse ten. I.

  98. We will be reading from the New English translation for

  99. the Son of Man came to seek and to save

  100. the lost, for the son of Man came to seek

  101. and to save the lost. Amen, let us kind of

  102. share a word of prayer. Father, We thank you that

  103. you are a caring God who never gives up on us.

  104. We are deeply grateful that even when we drifts our

  105. way or hideing our shame, you step into our bookiness

  106. with grace, mercy, and restoration. Please help us to always

  107. open our hearts to your gentle knock, laying aside our

  108. wariness so that we may, because married is safely backing

  109. to your rest like a mastercraftsman. Lord, rebuild our lives

  110. and draw us closer to you every single day in

  111. Jesus' minding name Aimen beloved. Always remember this God is

  112. not looking for ways to punish or destroy us. He's

  113. constantly seeking us out with unconditional love to save, restore,

  114. and rebuild our lives. Gordiously, bless you for journing with

  115. us all through today's morning glory devotion. Kindly join us

  116. again for another episode tomorrow morning by God's grace. At

  117. the same time, stay tuned to Radio ACI today for

  118. more spirit filled content. Stay blessed shalom.