MGD: God Has A Wildcard

Shalom, beloved. You are warmly welcome to today's morning glory devotion.

I am delighted to be coming your way again with

another inspired devotional written by Mr. and Mrs. Kusi from

the Harvest Chapel International, Denyame Kumasi. Let us begin by

sharing a word of prayer. Dear Father, You bless Your

holy name for the gift of life and the privilege

to gather in Your presence. As we listen to Your

word today, please speak to our hearts, renew our minds,

and give us the will to put into practice what

Your Spirit is saying to us, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

Let us kindly take our confession for today from Joshua

Joshua 1:8

chapter 1 verse 8. Joshua chapter 1 the verse 8.

Joshua 1 · chapter mention

This book of the law shall not depart from my mouth,

but I shall meditate in it day and night, that

I may observe to do according to all that is

written in it. For then I will make my way prosperous,

and then I will have good success. Amen. Today's message,

written by Mr. and Mrs. Cousy, is titled, God Has

a Wild Card. God Has a Wild Card. Our scripture

reading shall be taken from Ruth chapter 4, verse 16

Ruth 4:16–17

to 17. Ruth chapter 4, verse 16 to 17. I

Ruth 4:16–17

will be reading from the New King James Version. Then

Naomi took the child. and laid him on her bosom,

and became a nurse to him. Also the neighbor woman

gave him a name, saying, There is a son born

to Naomi, and they called his name Obed. He is

the father of Jesse, the father of David. The Lord

add his blessings to the reading and hearing of this word.

Thanks be to God. Amen. God has a wild card.

God has a wild card. Quite recently, some friends and

I were sitting around a table playing a game of

cards called Uno. As the game went on, I noticed

a quiet strategy. People rarely played their wild cards early.

They held on to them tucked away in reserves. waiting

for the exact moment when everyone else thought the game

was decided. Then, just when the outcome seemed completely obvious,

someone would throw down a wild card, and the entire

direction of the game would change suddenly. This made me

think about how God works when our lives feel completely spent.

There are seasons when we look at our circumstances and

conclude that the story is finished The opportunities have passed.

The losses are too heavy. The damage is done. But

while we are busy calculating the empty hand we are holding,

God still has a card in reserve. Naomi understood what

it meant to have an empty hand. She left Bethlehem

full of hope alongside her husband and two sons. But

life did not go according to her plans. she lost

her husband and her sons. The future she had envisioned

was buried in the dust of a foreign land. When

she finally returned to her hometown, she told her old neighbors,

Do not call me Naomi, which means pleasant. Call me Mara,

because the Almighty has made me bitter. Perhaps you know

that exact bitterness. You might be looking at a failed venture,

a broken relationship, or a fiscal struggle that refuses to lift.

You have run the numbers and they do not add up.

Like Naomi, you have written the final chapter of your

own story and it ends in defeat. But Naomi did

not know what God had in reserve. Hidden in the

quiet loyalty of her daughter-in-law, Ruth, was God's unexpected move.

Ruth would meet Boaz. Their home would welcome a baby

boy named Obed. And that little boy, laid in the

arms of a grandmother who thought her life was over,

would become the grandfather of King David and the ancestor

of Jesus Christ. Beloved, Naomi judged her life by the

painful pain she was stuck on. But God was looking

at the whole book. He's never surprised by your setbacks.

He's not scrambling for a solution to your crisis. Even

when the silence feels absolute, his hand is already moving.

What looks like the final page of your grief may

simply be the space where he reveals his unexpected grace.

Would you trust him today? would you trust him with

the hand you are holding? God richly bless you. Our

memory verse for today is taken from Psalm 71, the

verse 14. Psalm 71, the verse 14. I will be

reading from the New King James Version. But as for me,

I will hope continually and will praise you more and more.

But as for me, I will hope continually and will

praise you more and more. Amen. Let us kindly share

a word of prayer. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you

that you always have a plan even when our circumstances

seem completely hopeless. Forgive us for the times we have

judged our lives by our painful seasons. and concluded that

our story was over. Please give us the grace to

completely trust you with the empty hands we are holding today,

knowing that you are never surprised by our setbacks. Please

strengthen our faith to wait on your unexpected grace and

let your perfect will unfold in our lives. In Jesus'

mighty name. Amen. Beloved, what looks like the final page

of your grief may simply be the space where God

plays his wild card and reveals his unexpected grace. So

simply keep trusting in God. Amen. God richly bless you

for being an active participant all through this week's Morning

Glory devotional messages. Kindly join us again for another episode

next week by God's grace. Continue to stay tuned to

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your way again, stay blessed. Shalom.