Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Where the Answer Was Theme of the Week: Finding God's Will Wednesday, August 14, 2002
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July/August 200254Where the Answer WasTheme of the Week: Finding God's Will Where the Answer Was Theme of the Week: Finding God's Will Wednesday, August 14
Key Bible Verse: This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you to understand or perform (Deuteronomy 30:11). Bonus Reading:Deut. 30:12-14
Sometimes we don't hear God's call because we're expecting the dramatic. Take John, a software engineer in Dallas who stumbled on a new application for technology in the utilities industry. By day, he consulted with a utility company in Oklahoma City, on-site for weeks at a time, customizing software for the company's applications. By night, he worked on his own software idea.
Once he had a prototype completed, he began calling his network of friends for sources of financing. All the while, he worked under great stress, dividing his attention between the Oklahoma City client, who wanted 50 to 60 hours of his time each week, and his family, who wanted him to get his new venture off the ground so he could stop traveling and be home with them.
One day, at the end of a long discussion about the software prototype, John's advisor-friend asked, "Ever thought about asking that key client in Oklahoma City, who already thinks you hung the moon, if he'd be interested in funding your new software venture?"
The question hit him upside the head like a baseball bat. Indeed, why not? He got back on the plane to go ask. They were. Deal done.
—Stephen Graves & Thomas Addington inThe Fourth Frontier
My Response: I'm learning to recognize God's voice coming through a godly friend like …
Thought to Apply: Faith accepts quiet guidance. Only unbelief demands a miracle. —Source Unknown
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