[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26

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DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26

MEMORY SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK

Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine
house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not
open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to receive it.

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY

I've started telling people about the benefits of dried grapes. It's all
about raisin awareness

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DAILY DEVOTION

Ten Reasons to Go to Church, Even When You Don't Feel Like It
Day 6


"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of
some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day
approaching."
(Hebrews 10:25)

Last week we looked at:
Reason #1: To Hear the Preaching of the Word.
Reason #2: To Participate in Corporate Worship
Reason # 3. Because Iron Sharpens Iron
Reason #4. To Exercise Your Gift
Reason #5. To Encourage Your Pastor
Today, we are going to look at Reason #6. To Find Godly Mentors

6. To Find Godly Mentors

In the church you'll discover many people who have walked the road ahead of
you. Their wisdom, insights, and even vulnerability to teach you from their
mistakes is one way God provides to help you grow. Titus chapter 2 is a
great place to learn how much God values mentorship. It is His plan for the
older men and women to come alongside of the younger to train them in
godliness, and guide them toward building a life of no regrets. 

When I was newly married I knew I wasn't the kind of husband I was meant to
be, so I looked to men in our church whose marriages I wanted to emulate.
And when I wanted to learn how to be a better dad, again I asked fathers in
our church for help. "I can honestly say that my friendships with these men
is what God used to mold me into the man, husband and father He wanted me to
be"
(Dads Raising Sons to Be Men).

And not only is the church a wonderful place to find amazing mentors, it is
also the place God wants to use you to mentor someone else. With one eye
looking to godly older people for guidance, and your other eye on who God
might want you to mentor, don't be surprised at the opportunities He will
give you. "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love Him" (1 Corinthians 2:9).

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DAILY BIBLE READING

Obadiah New King James Version
The Coming Judgment on Edom
1 The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom
(We have heard a report from the Lord,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
"Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle"):

2 "Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You shall be greatly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
You who say in your heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'
4 Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
And though you set your nest among the stars,
>From there I will bring you down," says the Lord.

5 "If thieves had come to you,
If robbers by night-
Oh, how you will be cut off!-
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
Would they not have left some gleanings?

6 "Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
7 All the men in your confederacy
Shall force you to the border;
The men at peace with you
Shall deceive you and prevail against you.
Those who eat your bread shall lay a [a]trap for you.
No[b] one is aware of it.

8 "Will I not in that day," says the Lord,
"Even destroy the wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by slaughter.

Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 "For violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And you shall be cut off forever.
11 In the day that you stood on the other side-
In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
And cast lots for Jerusalem-
Even you were as one of them.

12 "But you should not have gazed[c] on the day of your brother
[d]In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.
13 You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have [e]gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have [f]delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.

15 "For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your [g]reprisal shall return upon your own head.
16 For as you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.

Israel's Final Triumph
17 "But on Mount Zion there shall be [h]deliverance,
And there shall be holiness;
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,"
For the Lord has spoken.

19 The [i]South shall possess the mountains of Esau,
And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As far as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
Shall possess the cities of the [j]South.
21 Then saviors[k] shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
And the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

Footnotes
Obadiah 1:7 Or wound or plot
Obadiah 1:7 Or There is no understanding in him
Obadiah 1:12 Gloated over
Obadiah 1:12 Lit. On the day he became a foreigner
Obadiah 1:13 Gloated over
Obadiah 1:14 Handed over to the enemy
Obadiah 1:15 Or reward
Obadiah 1:17 Or salvation
Obadiah 1:19 Heb. Negev
Obadiah 1:20 Heb. Negev
Obadiah 1:21 deliverers