As we come to the final month of this year, Pastor Ted Wilson invites you to reflect on this important question: "Have you put God first in your life this year?" As Christians, it's good practice to contemplate how we are using God-given resources. What a perfect time to examine ways in which we can put God first in our lives! As such, we celebrate this Stewardship Revival Week. It is an annual initiative where Seventh-day Adventists around the globe renew their commitment to God as His stewards. It focuses on practical reformation in response to the admonition we have in the book Christian Service, pp. 41-42: "A revival and a reformation must take place under the ministration of the Holy Spirit. Revival and reformation are two different things. Revival signifies a renewal of spiritual life, a quickening of the powers of mind and heart, a resurrection from the spiritual death. Reformation signifies reorganization, a change in ideas and theories, habits and practices…Revival and reformation are to do their appointed work, and in doing this work, they must blend." To help us in this journey, the General Conference Stewardship Ministries Department has provided a downloadable resource entitled "God First." It is available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. You can have it here: stewardship.adventist.org/stewardship-revival-week-2021. This magazine contains seven biblical sermons, helping us focus on what matters most, followed by a call to action. It aims to lead us into deciding to put God first in seven crucial aspects of our spiritual life. In this way, we are guided into developing a relationship with God. This faith-driven journey should become a continual exercise of trust in Him. Think about all that God has done for you. Consider this wonderful promise found in Christ's sermon on the Mount: "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or ' What shall we wear?' For after all these things, the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Matt. 6:31-34). Let's put God first in our lives and reap the blessings God will pour out upon us! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fccgjLh0Rg
Adventist Journey – Yepsica Moreno
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Yepsica Moreno is a U.S. Army chaplain working in Colorado. Moreno earned her business degree in accounting in Colombia, lived in New York, and went on to graduate…Source: https://vimeo.com/652630377
10: Remember, Do Not Forget – HopeSS Video Discussion
You can view an in-depth discussion of Remember, Do not forget in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris. Click on the image to view:
With thanks to Hope Channel – Television that will change your life.
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10: Remember, Do Not Forget – SPD Discipleship Video
This video is produced by the South Pacific Division Discipleship team.
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Ministry Is Helping Indigenous Families in Guatemalas Isolated Villages
Forgiveness—with Consequences
by Loren Seibold | 2 December 2021 | So, once again, this happens: A man[1] in a position of influence and trust does or says something harmful. Something a Christian—much less someone people look up to—shouldn’t say or do. It shouldn’t surprise us anymore. This is a truth about human beings—all human beings: we do […] Source: https://atoday.org/forgiveness-with-consequences/
Inside Story: Japan ~ First-Time Visitor Knows All
First-Time Visitor Knows All
By Eliane Hosokawa Imayuki
Brazilian immigrant Sandra Sato drove straight to a Seventh-day Adventist church in Kakegawa, Japan, to thank God for her newly acquired driver’s license.
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She had promised God that if she got her license, the first place she would go with the car would be the church.
That evening, Sandra joyfully told members of the Tokai Christian Center church that God had answered her prayers to obtain a driver’s license.
“And I’m also ready for baptism,” she announced.
The church members were surprised. They had never seen Sandra until that evening.
Their astonishment grew as Sandra turned to various members and addressed them by name.
“I know many of you,” she said. “I have been watching live church broadcasts on social media.”
Then she told her story. Sandra and her husband, a former Adventist, worked with thousands of other Brazilian immigrants in factories in central Japan.
While discussing religion, her husband had declared that if she ever wanted to worship, he would only accept her attending an Adventist church. She had belonged to another Christian denomination. Intrigued by her husband’s former faith, Sandra had watched live broadcasts from the Tokai Christian Center church. With her husband’s help, she had completed Bible studies provided by Hope Channel’s affiliate in Brazil. Then she had promised God that she would begin to attend church in person if she got her driver’s license.
After a review of the Bible with the Tokai Christian Center pastor, Sandra was baptized. No family members attended the baptism, not even her husband. But her faith has remained strong. At her initiative, a small Bible study group has been established in another city, Iwata, for people seeking to know Christ. God’s word is spreading in Japan.
Read next week about how God is using the small group in Iwata to bless other Brazilian immigrants. Sandra became familiar with the Tokai Christian Center church after watching its online services. Part of this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will go to a project to help many Japanese people, especially young people, learn about Jesus through the Internet. Thank you for planning a generous offering.
Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org
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Friday: Further Thought ~ Remember, Do Not Forget
Further Thought:
“How great the condescension of God and His compassion for His erring creatures in thus placing the beautiful rainbow in the clouds as a token of His covenant with men! The Lord declares that when He looks upon the bow, He will remember His covenant. This does not imply that He would ever forget; but He speaks to us in our own language, that we may better understand Him.
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It was God’s purpose that as the children of after generations should ask the meaning of the glorious arch which spans the heavens, their parents should repeat the story of the Flood, and tell them that the Most High had bended the bow and placed it in the clouds as an assurance that the waters should never again overflow the earth. Thus from generation to generation it would testify of divine love to man and would strengthen his confidence in God.” — Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 106, 107.
Since the founding of Christianity, there has never been a church that has partaken of the wealth and creature comforts that the church in some countries of the world enjoys today. The question is, At what cost? Such affluence surely influences our spirituality — and not for the good either. How could it? Since when have wealth and material abundance fostered the Christian virtues of self-denial and self-sacrifice? In most cases, the opposite occurs: the more people have, the more self-sufficient they become, and the less they tend to depend upon God. Wealth and prosperity, however nice, do come with many dangerous spiritual traps.
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Adventists Welcome Afghan Families to the U.S. with Essential Items
10.REMEMBER, DO NOT FORGET – PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
10.REMEMBER, DO NOT FORGET |
Remembering or forgetting are just the opposite. |
Memory Text:
Deuteronomy 9:7 – Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
Content:
10.0 Introduction
10.1 Remembering the Rainbow
10.2 Concerning the Days That Are Past
10.3 “Take Heed . . . Lest You Forget”
10.4 Eaten and Full
10.5 Remember That You Were a Slave
10.6 Summary
My God bless you today and always.
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