Timing Matters

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”

-Anna Wintour
The last-second basketball shot that miraculously goes through the
hoop and is deemed null and void upon review because the clock ran
out only a split second before the would-be hero released the
game-winning 3-point attempt. The dream project that gets canceledbecause the deadline passed before it was completed. The chef whose
culinary masterpiece lies in charcoaled ruin because it baked oneminute longer than required.

]]> http://www.tenthdotministries.com/sneak-peak/feed/ 0 http://www.tenthdotministries.com/excuses/ http://www.tenthdotministries.com/excuses/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:51 +0000 Danny http://www.tenthdotministries.com/?p=10016 Excuses

What’s your excuse? We all have them for just about everything. What would your life look like if you stopped making excuses for why you can’t do something and started using that energy to pray and ask God for help?

Ask God to give you understanding into the following passage. Pray that you will stop making excuses.

Philippians 4:19
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

Lamentations 3:26
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Matthew 11:15
He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Revelation 8:1
When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

Psalm 62:1
For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.

Psalm 62:5
For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.

Read the story of Noah and ask God to speak into your life.

Genesis 6
When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

5 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 human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them. ” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Noah and the Flood

9 This is the account of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[d] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[e] high all around.[f] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark —you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

]]> http://www.tenthdotministries.com/story-of-noah/feed/ 0 http://www.tenthdotministries.com/soak-in-the-word/ http://www.tenthdotministries.com/soak-in-the-word/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 07:00:12 +0000 Danny http://www.tenthdotministries.com/?p=9995 “It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.”
— John Piper

Ponder the following verses and ask God to speak into your life. Even though you are small, He has big plans for you!

I find this Jesus’ question fascinating. What would you say if Jesus came up to you in the flesh and said, “What do you want me to do for you?” Notice the blind men didn’t get super spiritual and talk about wanting a deep relationship with God. They didn’t talk about wanting to end world hunger. They simply asked for their sight.

“Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.” (I Peter 1:22)

I love that Jesus shared stories. His stories were powerful lessons into living the life He designed for us. As you spend time reading a few parables today ask:

• How does this apply to my life?
• What is Jesus trying to teach me?
• What am I going to do to align my life to Jesus’ life?