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FUMCFW Prayer Ministries offers many ways to get connected with our praying community. Recognizing that every person has unique gifts and callings, many of which emerge out of times of struggle and pain, we are here to encourage individual spiritual formation and disciplines that can become powerful influences on all aspects of the life-long faith journey.
We use The Upper Room® Daily Devotional Guide as our FUMCFW Daily Devotional. The Upper Room is a well-recognized resource and model of practical Christianity, accessible in varied formats to help people feel invited and welcomed into God’s presence each day.
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Our Daily Bread Devotionals are written by FUMCFW pastors and include messages of instruction and inspiration. We invite you to take a few moments to read and reflect upon today’s scripture selection and to carry these thoughts with you into your day.
The followers of Jesus witnessed firsthand the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and were filled with the Holy Spirit in their lives.
“You’ll see when your dad comes!” These words, in a way, meant trouble. In a way, they reflected Mom’s frustration at not being able to solve some conflict with one of her children, and therefore, she gave that responsibility to Dad, meaning that the discipline would be a little more severe.
The allegory of the fig tree helps us understand that, just as the tender shoots of the fig tree announce the approach of summer, the signs indicated by Christ will be the prelude to the “consummation of the age.”
The woman loved the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, strength, and mind, and so she gave all that she had.
Jesus observed the wealthy making substantial donations, which, while reasonable, didn’t impress him.
Jesus, when speaking to people, was very practical and direct and sometimes angered some who were around and who generally, by their consciences, were given by alluded and were offended by the things he said.
A rhetorical question is a literary resource used in both oral and written expression.
The scribes were the experts in the Old Testament law. And Jesus had just dealt with a scribe who came to Him, asking which commandment was “most important.”
The scribe acknowledges Jesus’ wisdom, agreeing that loving God wholeheartedly and treating others kindly is more crucial than religious rituals like burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Now, a scribe, an interpreter of the law, comes to Jesus and asks him, in a more friendly tone: ‘Which is the first commandment of all?’ He does not ask which comes first but which is the most important.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)