Job 22:21-23 - "Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you.  Listen to His instructions,
      and store them in your heart.  If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored—"

Mark 4:25 - "To those who listen to My teaching, more understanding will be given. But for those who are not listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them."

2 Timothy 4:3 - "For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear."

1 John 4:5-6 - "Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them.  But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception."

Revelation 2:7 - "Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what He is saying to the churches. To everyone who is victorious I will give fruit from the tree of life in the paradise of God."

I'm sending my best thoughts and prayers that your world is filled with His peace, comfort
and joy.  Maggie 

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Find Your Vision

What a way to start a relationship! When Saul first met the Lord, he became blind, then didn’t have a thing to eat or drink for three days while praying, waiting for God’s next move. The Lord gave a man named Ananias a vision, telling Him to go see Saul and

It’s remarkable what the Lord did in order to heal Saul so he, as Paul, could go on to preach the gospel to the world. It’s remarkable that Ananias was listening and obedient. What would have happened if either one hadn’t prayed? Isn’t it good you didn’t have to find out?

When you pray, God is working! Ask Him today for new vision as you pray for our Troops and nation. And learn to listen so you’ll be ready when the Lord wants you to be an answer to someone else’s prayer.

- Connie Peters

Recommended Reading: Acts 9:17-31

So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”  Instantly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.  Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength.  Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for a few days.  And immediately he began preaching about Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is indeed the Son of God!”

    All who heard him were amazed. “Isn’t this the same man who caused such devastation among Jesus’ followers in Jerusalem?” they asked. “And didn’t he come here to arrest them and take them in chains to the leading priests?”

    Saul’s preaching became more and more powerful, and the Jews in Damascus couldn’t refute his proofs that Jesus was indeed the Messiah.  After a while some of the Jews plotted together to kill him.  They were watching for him day and night at the city gate so they could murder him, but Saul was told about their plot.  So during the night, some of the other believers lowered him in a large basket through an opening in the city wall.

    When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to meet with the believers, but they were all afraid of him. They did not believe he had truly become a believer!  Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and told them how Saul had seen the Lord on the way to Damascus and how the Lord had spoken to Saul. He also told them that Saul had preached boldly in the name of Jesus in Damascus.

    So Saul stayed with the apostles and went all around Jerusalem with them, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.  He debated with some Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to murder him.  When the believers heard about this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus, his hometown.

   The church then had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, and it became stronger as the believers lived in the fear of the Lord. And with the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, it also grew in numbers.