✝ Daily Encouragement (6/6/24) "Effective Grace"
Published: Thu, 06/06/24
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(Click refresh or reload for current message) Thursday, June 6, 2024 
Winding
Rife Run road
north of
Manheim, PA.
Brooksyne
captured this
view from the
passenger
side.
(Click on photo to enlarge.) "Effective Grace" Message summary: Let us join with Paul and together proclaim, "His grace to me was not without effect!" Listen to our message on your audio player. "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not without effect" (1 Corinthians 15:10).Yesterday I (Stephen) attended a community luncheon and heard a message from Mark Unger, the new executive director of Rainbows End, our local interdenominational youth ministry. Their purpose is expressed, "Our Mission Is To Reach Local Youth With The Life-Changing Gospel Of Jesus Christ". Amen! 
Mark's
message was
focused on
God's grace
and he shared
a portion of
his testimony.
Early in his
marriage he
came home and
found a note
from his wife
informing him
that she
didn't love
him anymore
and was
leaving. Mark
cried out to
God for His
help. God
heard and
answered his
cry and their
marriage was
restored. He
and his wife
have served
the Lord
together as a
married couple
now for 42
years. They
experienced
one of the
effects of
God's grace:
restoration.
Mark has an
old testimony,
a testament to
faithfulness.
While
I was at that
meeting
Brooksyne made
a visit to a
young lady
fighting to
overcome drug
addiction.
She's given us
permission to
share her
photo and
story in hopes
that readers
will pray for
her. Brooksyne
will tell you
a little about
her:
Emily
worked at
White Oak
Display in
Palmyra as a
temp for an
extended
period of
time. She was
a good,
dependable
worker and in
due time was
hired
full-time.
Later on, for
several weeks
she was not at
work. It was
then that I
learned that
she was an
addict, had
relapsed
during a
crisis
situation and
attempted
suicide (not
her first
time). God
spared her
life and I met
with her after
her return to
work about six
to eight weeks
ago.
Just
twenty-five
years old,
she received
Christ as her
personal
Savior while
serving time
in prison (not
her first
time). A team
of Prison
Ministry
workers from
LCBC
(Lancaster
County Bible
Church) led
her to Christ
and discipled
her for
several
months. After
her release
she attended
church some
but needs to
solidify her
walk with
Christ and
find
accountability
in a local
church.
I
gave her the
Life Recovery
Bible and
study guide
last week and
she was
delighted as
that is what
she studied in
the prison but
left it there
for others to
read. Won't
you join us in
praying for
Emily as she
is going to
check out one
(or more) of
the Life
Recovery
Programs in
the Palmyra
area. Pray
that she will
find the one
where she is
challenged to
not only
remain
abstinent from
drugs but she
will wholly
give her all
to Christ and
walk in His
path of
righteousness.
There is a lot
of baggage she
deals with but
God can turn
those ashes
into trophies
of His grace.
She has two
sons, ages 7
and 9, who are
autistic and
non-verbal.
We
pray that like
Mark, Emily
will
experience an
effect of
God's grace,
His
restoration.
She will have
a new
testimony
which we hope
as her life
progresses
will become an
old testimony
as she stays
faithful to an
always
faithful God.
In today's text Paul is sharing his personal testimony. The biographical information we have in the book of Acts and Paul's letters truly indicate that the grace of God made a wonderful change in his life. Today we focus on the phrase, "His grace to me was not without effect". I can imagine when people first heard of the Apostle Paul's (Saul at that time) conversion they shook their heads in disbelief, "Oh, I can't believe he could ever change!" Then years later when Paul shared his testimony and people heard his violent past and persecution of the church, they surely shook their heads in disbelief, "Oh, I can't believe he was ever like that!" Can you think of some people who’ve changed like that? In his own written testimony Paul states, "I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man" and "the worst of sinners" (see 1 Timothy 1:12-17). But the one time persecutor became the persecuted. He who had consented to the stoning of Stephen (Acts 8:1) was himself stoned (2 Corinthians 11:25). Years later Paul was able to declare this marvelous truth, "His grace to me was not without effect". Authentic grace makes a major difference in one's life. Titus 2:11,12 states, "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age." For some the change is more dramatic than others, but genuine grace will always bring about transformation in every recipient. What about you today?
Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13 Stephen & Brooksyne Weber Daily prayer: Father, only through the death of Your Son could we know the full extent of Your grace. Though our sins bring untold loss, Your grace brings infinite gain. Your grace exceeds our rebellion and points us to the Refuge for our weak and sin-filled souls. Thank You, Father! You don't grant a partial pardon, but You extend a full pardon to all who call upon Your name. Your grace is incomprehensible, infinite, and indiscriminate to all of Your creation. Help us to extend grace to others as You have richly extended Your grace to us. Amen. Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources
"Abide"
Watch
on YouTube
Aaron
Williams
For
my waking
breath
You’re
the way the
truth and the
life Brooksyne's note: We recently heard this on the radio and it was new to us. I can't get the tune or thoughtful lyrics out of my mind and forwarded it to several who are going through major struggles. The lyrics drive home the fact that we must depend on Christ from our "waking breath" in the morning to our "last breath" at the end of life as we know it on this side of glory. If you find yourself anxious, lacking peace, or you know someone who might be caught up in fear due to their life circumstances listen to this song and pass it on to those who might benefit. Be
my strength,
my song in the
night Note from Melodie, a local reader: Your "stranger" story brings to mind something that happened to us when our youngest was a toddler. We went to visit relatives down in Texas. My aunt, who was brought up in Pennsylvania went to pick him up and remarked, "He's not strange, is he"? Her son, my cousin, said, "Mom, what a terrible thing to say!" But I knew she meant he wasn't afraid of her. Different meanings in different areas.
Melodie's
story reminds
me (Brooksyne)
of the years
we spent in
New England
(1993-2001).
We had to
adjust not
only to their
accents but
their idioms
sometimes had
different
meanings than
what we were
familiar with,
for instance:
In church one
Sunday I heard
a mother
scolding her
six year old,
"Tommy, don't
get fresh with
me!" In
Northern PA
and the
Midwest where
we had
previously
lived, that
meant, "Stop
flirting with
me" indicating
someone who
had a sexual
interest in
another. (a
peculiar
expression
from a mother
to her son!)
After awhile I
heard many
parents say
"Don't be
fresh with me"
and in that
area "fresh"
means the
child is being
disrespectful! 
Driving
through a
rural section
of Dauphin
County
yesterday
Brooksyne
passed this
interesting
setting, a pig
trying to get
a peek inside
a log house.
(Well actually
they are fake
pigs but it
sure does
catch your
attention as
you drive by!)
Here's
another photo
I took at Ashcombe
Farm and
Greenhouse
near
Mechanicsburg,
PA on Tuesday
afternoon. For
many years I
have been
intrigued by
these old
tractors left
in the field.
My favorite is
one we passed
near the Amana
Colonies in
Iowa. See photo.
We don't know
the story
behind the
sunken
tractor, but
wonder if the
farmer got
stuck one day
and decided he
was done with
farming.
(Click on photo to enlarge) 
This
restored one
room
schoolhouse
along PA Rt
772 between
Mount Joy and
Manheim is now
a meeting
place
sponsored by a
local church.
Many bikes
pass by so
they have a
"Welcome
Bikers" sign
and have
installed a
water fountain
and a bike
repair
station.
(Click on photo to enlarge.)
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