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COTR CG Leaders Week 12 Devotional

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The Shaping of a Worshipper: Both Prisoner and Preserved  Genesis 7-8 Have you ever felt hemmed in by a season(s) of painful trials or circumstances that you felt would never end or turn? My family has experienced this reality for the last 6.5 years. Our granddaughter, Paisley Rae York, was born in July 2012 with a devastating neurological disease called RETT Syndrome. RETT Syndrome consists of 4-5 diseases rolled into one MONSTROUS disease. This disease has left Paisley unable to speak, walk, or use her limbs/hands in a usual manner, as well as a myriad of horrific side issues: complex epilepsy/seizures, severe autism, cerebral palsy like tremors/rigidity and muscle atrophy, heart and lung issues, G-TUBE implant, esophageal and gastric difficulties and scoliosis of the spine. Add to these realities the on-going danger of toxicity in her kidneys and liver due to the 10-12 harsh medications she takes daily to relieve both seizures and a host of other side issues. Pa
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COTR CG Leaders Week 11 Devotional

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Will I Trust God to be God?   Genesis 7-8 A brief warning: You might get “riled” by what follows. The biblical flood account of Genesis Chapters 6-8 will challenge us about who we believe God to be at a basic, foundational level. Do we believe God is who He says He is? Or, do we find our hearts and minds manipulated by the world and Satan’s lies? Does the world’s godless mentality, coupled with Satan’s lies, discount the literal Biblical text, prompting us to reject it and embrace a more innocuous, harmless allegorical meaning instead?   Is “The Biblical Flood” a myth or an allegory meant to teach a moral lesson or is it an accurate historical account of a real event? Ponder this as you pray about your perspective on God:  -        How do we reconcile a “good” God who completely annihilates His creation of people, animals and planet with torrents, upon torrents, upon TORRENTS (a DELUGE) of water intent on destroying everyone and everything to the utmost because of
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COTR CG Leaders Week 10 Devotional

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“Crazy Noah”: Salvation in a Rudderless Box Poor Noah. I bet people thought he’d lost his mind.  I mean, who builds a 15,000-ton, rudderless, flat-bottomed rectangular box in an environment that had never seen rain or vast quantities of water? Only a madman or a faith-filled man obeying His God! Noah’s ark brings to mind an endearing children’s Bible story with plush stuffed animals and a cute toy boat bobbing gently on sea water.  In reality, Noah’s “rudderless box” story is a bit “heavier.”  It underscores man’s depraved sin nature, God’s judgment of that nature, and mercifully, God’s gracious work to set man free.  Although ALL that God had initially created was good, including man, in Gen. 6:5-8, God now grieves deeply over man’s sin “gone-willfully-wild lifestyle,” and God regrets having made human beings. Genesis 6:5-8 (NIV) The  Lord  saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the huma
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